Sergio Murria Fotografía - Street Photography
People tend to be funny and provoke humorous moments without being aware of it, sometimes they provoke funny situations, other times ironic situations, His works are a small sample of it.

Artist:
Sergio Murria

Sergio Murria was born in 1977, in Spain. Previously a computer technician, now he works as a professional photographer.

Favorite Quote

"Carambola a la derecha, Carambola a la izquierda, Carambola en el centro, préstame tres pavos para chile con carne!" Raffael de la Guetto

Matthew Grabelsky
Technically inspired by 19th Century academic and naturalist painters, Grabelsky creates surreal scenes with a staggering degree of realistic detail. The contrast created between the visual verisimilitude of the works and the surreal improbability of their content catches the viewer in a prolonged moment of convincingly suspended disbelief. “These paintings are not intended to be viewed as fantasy or as allegory, but rather as a blend of every-day experiences with the subconscious. They are enigmatic, and create dream-like worlds that invite viewers to form their own interpretations of the imagery presented,” stated Matthew Grabelsky.

Theme
Grabelsky’s works depict couples on subways, often nonchalantly reading magazines or newspapers, but the male figures in these dyads are strange, quasi-mythological human hybrids with animal heads. Deer, bears, elephants, tigers, and everything in between make a suited appearance in rush hour. By contrasting the platitudes of the day-to-day with the presence of the extraordinary and unlikely, Grabelsky stages the unexpected within the most unassuming of circumstances. The appearance of the animal head feels distantly totemic, an archetype for something primordial, ancient, and psychologically motivated. Fascinated by the persistence of animal imagery in mythology and communal cultural imaginaries, Grabelsky superimposes its presence onto his depictions of the contemporary world. For the artist, the animal becomes a manifestation of the inner workings of the hidden subconscious, literally revealing the latent identities and motivations lurking beyond the composure of the human mask.

Artist:
Matthew Grabelsky

Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Grabelsky combines a hyperrealistic painting technique with a surreal penchant for unlikely juxtapositions. Grabelsky graduated from Rice University in 2002 with a BA in Art and Art History and a BS in Astrophysics. Afterward, he moved to Florence, Italy, where he spent four years studying the techniques of classical drawing and painting. Since 2006, He has focused on creating paintings that combine the physical world that people see every day with imagery from mythology and dreams. His work is not intended to be viewed as fantasy or as allegory, but rather as a blend of every-day experiences and the subconscious. His paintings are enigmatic, and they create dream-like worlds that invite viewers to form their own interpretations of the imagery presented. He paints in a highly realistic manner, derived from his studies of 19th-century French Academic painters, and uses this visual language to craft modern narratives. He places his subjects in urban settings: trains, gritty alleyways, and cosmopolitan cityscapes; then introduces a twist to create a mix of rational and irrational elements. His works are often humorous, and it straddles the divide between the serious and the bizarre.

Education

2006 Certificate in Painting, Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy. 2002 BA Art and Art History, Cum Laude, Rice University, Houston, USA. 2002 BS Astrophysics, Cum Laude, Rice University, Houston, USA.

Exhibitions

2019: Jungle Train, Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, USA 2019: Mother & Child, Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italy 2019: Food For Thought, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, USA 2019: La Familia: A survey of the Thinkspace Family, Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, USA 2019: Keep it Fresh, Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, USA 2018: SCOPE Miami Beach, SCOPE, Miami Beach, USA 2018: LAX / PDX, Antler Gallery, Portland, USA 2018: Okuda San Miguel ‘The Multicolored Equilibrium Between Animals And Humans’, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain 2018: The Cat Show, Beinart Gallery,. Melbourne, Australia 2018: Art On Paper, Pier 36, New York, USA 2018: Theriomorphism V, Galeria Kreisler, Madrid, Spain 2017: SCOPE Miami Beach, SCOPE, Miami Beach, USA 2017: LAX / JFK, Spoke Art, New York, USA 2017: Small Works 2017, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2017: Moleskine Project VI, Spoke Art, San Francisco, USA 2017: Flourish, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, USA 2017: Welcome to New Jersey, Jonathan LeVine Projects, Jersey City, USA 2017: Pow Wow Hawaii 2017, Honolulu Museum Of Art School, Honolulu, USA 2016: Best Friends Painted Pets, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2015: SCOPE Miami Beach, SCOPE, Miami Beach, USA 2015: Beyond Eden, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2015: Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2015: LAX / LHR, StolenSpace Gallery, London, England 2015: Rising, Gewobag HQ, Berlin, Germany 2015: LAX / DTW, Inner State Gallery, Detroit, USA 2015: Gumbo, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, USA 2015: The 2nd Annual POW! WOW!: Exploring The New Contemporary Movement, Honolulu Museum Of Art School, Honolulu, USA 2015: LA Art Show, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, USA 2015: La Familia, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, USA 2014: Glow, Galerie Youn, Montréal, Canada 2014: Aqua Art Miami, AQUA HOTEL, Miami Beach, USA 2014: Fresh, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, USA 2014: Exact Science Grand Opening, Exact Science, Los Angeles, USA 2014: The Bridge Between

Rose Freymuth-Frazier
References from a broad swath of art history can be found in Freymuth-Frazier’s solitary subjects. Influences range from Balthus’s discomforting depictions of preadolescence, and the queen of Kitsch, Margaret Keane’s “Big Eyed” children and animals, to the heavy chiaroscuro and technical rigor of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. This unique combination of classicism and pulp results in something of a hybrid between Lowbrow aesthetic and Old Master technique. Cultural references spanning 2000 years can also be found in Freymuth-Frazier’s work, from the Roman sculpture Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 2nd century A.D., to the video 2 Girls 1 Cup. Using a complex language of symbolism like that found in medieval religious icons or the Unicorn Tapestries, the paintings address universal themes such as child development, sexuality, loss of innocence, consumerism, domestication, gender roles, androgyny and body image in our society today.

Artist's Statement
" I paint in oil because of its superior ability to represent flesh and blood. Through painstaking application my leading ladies, theatrically lit and often engaged in some sort of mini-drama, are brought to life. They tell a story that the viewer may recognize, or depict a point of view that may be new to them. Whatever the case, I intend to hold up a mirror in which the viewer finds relevance to their own experience, but I hope not to send them screaming into the river."

Artist:
Rose Freymuth-Frazier

Rose Freymuth-Frazier was born and raised in Nevada City, California - a small gold rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, a private boarding arts high school in northern Michigan. Upon graduation she was awarded a scholarship to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. After completing her training, and a couple of years spent in Hollywood, (which included a stint on a campy, nighttime teen soap opera), Rose turned her attention to her other interest - figurative oil painting. Seeking rigorous, technical training that most schools could not offer she returned to New York City and studied for two years at the Art Students League. After taking a master class at the New York Academy of Art with Steven Assael, she continued her studies in a tradition common to painters of the past, through full-time apprenticeship. Her first apprenticeship was for two years under Assael in his New York City studio and her second was with Odd Nerdrum in Norway, at his farm and studio on the North Sea.

Group Exhibitions

2018: On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City 2018: Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA 2018: 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City 2018: Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City 2018: Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City 2017: Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2017: Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2017: Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ 2016: BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2015: American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015: Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2015: Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York 2015: In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ 2015: Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2015: Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain 2014: Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut 2014: Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY 2014: Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City 2014: Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2014: Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013: 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012: Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010: Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL 2010: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2010: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2009: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009: Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009: Art Chic

2008: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2008: Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 2008: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2007: The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia 2007: SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2007: Art Chicago, Chicago IL 2007: Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2012: Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2010: Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2007: Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October SELECTED COLLECTIONS: The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL

Awards and Honors

Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Odd Nerdrum - Summer Residency Program, Norway, 2005 Frank Vincent Dumond Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club, 2005 Director's Scholarship, The Art Students League, 2003 and 2004 Board of Control Scholarship, The Art Students League, 2002 Interlochen Arts Academy Scholarship, 1996

Gunduz Aghayev - Illustrations
Painter Gunduz Agayev criticizes the problems of today through his colorful illustrations. He focuses on the society, the intolerance that’s settled into the minds of the masses and the consumer’s mentality that’s taking over the world. In his works he touches the problems regarding education, social injustice, human rights, and religious fundamentalism.

Artist:
Gunduz Aghayev

Cartoonist Gunduz Aghayev was born in Azerbaijan in 1981. In 1998-2002, he studied in Azerbaijan State Painters’ Academy. His first exhibition was held in 2004. The second exhibition of his works was held in Baku Muesum Center. His exhibitions were held outside of country, as well. He took part in exhibitions held in Russia (2008), Turkey (2011) as well as the “Friendship” exhibition held by the French embassy in 2002 and international artistry exhibition held in Turkmenistan in 2013. Also he participated in the “Art for democracy” project. As a protest against injustice in his country he turned to cartoon genre and faced strong pressure; he was sacked of all projects. After constant pressure, in 2014 he left Azerbaijan.

Sukhi Barber - Bronze Sculptures
Sukhi's sculptures are intended to bridge the cultures of East and West. Embodying the peace and compositional balance of ancient devotional art, they represent complex philosophical ideas with a simplicity and clarity that renders them accessible on an intuitive level. Exploring themes of hidden potentials, and the transcendence of our limiting view of a solid reality, her work often represents the negative space as being as important as the material itself, implying the dance of form and spirit, a constant state of transformation.

Artist:
Sukhi Barber

Sukhi Barber was drawn, from an early age, to the classical and ancient traditions of art and philosophy, which led her to undertake a traditional sculptural training at The City and Guilds of London Art School. There she gained a firm grasp of figurative clay modelling and life drawing, graduating in 1995 with the prize for sculpture, and a scholarship from Madame Tussauds. After graduation Sukhi traveled to India, captivated by the timeless quality of peace and balance that she found in the art of Asia. Settling in Kathmandu, Nepal, she spent the next twelve years studying Buddhist philosophy and producing sculptures based on the traditional techniques of stone carving and lost-wax bronze casting. Education: 2000 - 2007 Studying, and working, in traditional techniques of lost-wax bronze casting, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal 1996 Apprenticeship in traditional soapstone carving, Mahabalipuram, India 1992 - 1995 City and Guilds of London Art School, Kennington, London Fine Art Sculpture, under Allan Sly 1990 - 1991 Cambridge Arts Tutors, Cambridge, Art Foundation Course

Exhibitions

2019: The Albemarle Relaunch at Pontone Gallery, Albemarle Gallery, London 2019: The Albemarle Relaunch At Pontone Gallery, Pontone Gallery, London 2017: Winter Show - Part II, Albemarle Gallery, London 2016: Installation, Church of St.Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London, UK 2016: Installation, Art Moor House, Moorgate, London, UK 2015: Galerie Artmundi, Place des Vosges, Paris, France 2015: “The Shadow of Ink”, Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw, Poland 2015: Grand Summer Exhibition, Albemarle Gallery, Piccadilly, London, UK 2015: Galerie Gottschick, 30 year anniversary collective exhibition, Tübingen, Germany 2015: 'Sculpture Line' monumental sculpture exhibition, City of Prague, Czech Republic 2015: Gallery Cafmeyer, Knokke, Belgium 2015: 'Selbst' BBK, Stuttgart, Germany 2015: Galerie Hajek, Stuttgart, Germany Dec 2014 Albemarle Gallery winter collective, Piccadilly, London, UK Nov 2014 Galerie Artmundi, Place des Vosges, Paris, France Sept 2014 Galerie Gottschick, Tübingen, Germany (Solo) Jun 2014 Galerie Artmundi, Place des Vosges, Paris, France Jun 2014 Dutsi Galerie, Marseille, France Mar 2014 Wa(h)re Art, Böblingen, Germany Dec 2013 'Art en Capital', Le Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France Nov 2013 '5 Sculptors', Albemarle Gallery, Piccadilly, London, UK Nov 2013 Galerie Gottschick collective, Tübingen, Germany Jul 2013 Internationale Kunstausstellung, Burg Kalteneck, Germany May 2013 'Wisdom and Compassion', Mokspace, London, UK May 2013 Eunique Art and Design Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany Apr 2013 BBK Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, Germany Apr 2013 Kunstmomente in Le Meridien, Edition Strassacker, Stuttgart Mar 2013 Albemarle Gallery, Piccadilly, London, UK (Solo) Nov 2012 Art en Capital', Le Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France Nov 2012 Galerie Roy Sfeir, St.Germain, Paris, France Oct 2012 'Sphäre der Leere' BBK, Stuttgart, Germany (Solo) May 2012 Eunique Art and Design Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany Apr 2012 'The Nude'

Publications

'ZIG ZAG ZEN, Buddhism and Psychedelics', edited by Allan Hunt Badiner, art edited by Alex Grey, 2nd edition published 2015 Cover art: 'I am a Broken Man You can't Break Me, collected works of poetry 1995-2014', by Eric Fischer, published 2014 'Beauty and Emptiness', NY Arts Magazine, summer issue 2011, USA Visionary Art Yearbook 2010 – 2011, Otto Rapp, Visionary Art Network 'The Wooded Pleasure Grounds at Pelham – Trees, Follies and Sculptures in 2010', published by The DeLaszlo Foundation, UK Strassacker Kunstgiesserei annual Calendar, Germany, 2010, 2011, 2013

Awards

2012 Le Salon des Artistes Français, bronze medal for sculpture, 'Art en Capital', Grand Palais, Paris, France 2011 Salon International du Val d'Or, 1st prize for sculpture, Meillant, France 1995 Scholarship prize from Madame Tussauds 1995 City and Guilds of London Art School, sculpture prize

Antonio Finelli - Drawings
Timeless Portraits by Antonio Finelli. Timeless as the refinement of the face portraiture, near and authentic faces of the Fayoum, the elegance of the details of the Renaissance painting already affected by the Flemish and, above all the deep and inner research of the nineteenth century. Finelli, with his forceful mark, practical knowledge and wisdom, illuminates the details of the white hairs and the wrinkled epidermis but hides what he doesn’t want to show. He never gives a context, he never describes; we just catch their eye and their smiles, we feel free to see in those faces whoever we want to and to reflect ourselves in them. Flawless and penciled paintings as instantaneous and essential pictures made with a hard pictorial mark. He doesn’t copy from the past but he belongs to it, or rather he belongs to that academic practice of the past to set free from it. Observing his work, Finelli already frees himself from the past. He doesn’ t try to enter into the contemporary age, he doesn’t imitate. He just draws. Mimmo Paladino for Antonio Finelli

Themes
Antonio Finelli states: “All my drawings have always ‘Self-portrait’ as name, this choice is due to two specific reasons: firstly because even if the word “self-portrait” means the representation of your own person, in the diversity of my drawings there is always a wire that links them and represents me, like the choice of the subjects, the photographic cut, etc. and secondly, because the faces that I draw haven’t to be read by the viewer as a representation of the person drawn; in fact, in my drawings, there aren’t tracks that let identify the name, the age or the provenance of the subject, what matters is the skin and the tracks of time imprinted on it."

Artist:
Antonio Finelli

Antonio Finelli (1985) is a professional artist who splits his time between Rome and Campobasso, Italy. He creates fascinating hyperreal portraits of elderly people that talk about time and the traces it leaves in our lives and faces. Finelli's artistic education started during his Secondary High School Art project at G. Manzù in Campobasso, after that, he moved to Rome to improve his artistic talent in the Academy of Fine Arts. Notable importance for his professional education was the acquaintance and the collaboration with world famous artists : Mimmo Paladino, Enzo Cucchi, Giosetta Fioroni, Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Felice Levini, Giuseppe Penone, Savinio Ruggero, Gianni Dessì, Giuseppe Gallo, Giuseppe Salvatori, Jannis Kounellis, Paola Gandolfi, Stefano Di Stasio, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Bruno Ceccobelli, Maurizio Mochetti, Andrea Aquilanti, Marilù Eustachio, Aldo Turchiaro, Alfredo Pirri...

Personal Exhibitions

2019 – “In Vultu Veritas” Marcello Barbanera curator, Museum Of Classical Art in Rome. 2018 – “Kalós” Aurelia Nicolosi curator, KōArt Unconventional Place Gallery in Catania. – “The Passage of Time” Maria Laura Perilli Curator,Triphè Gallery in Rome. 2017 – “Ecce Homo” Vittorio Sgarbi Curator, Atelier Marcello Tommasi in Florence. – “BocsART”(Artist House), Alberto Dambruoso curator, Cosenza. 2016 – “Pelle” Vittorio Sgarbi and Lorenzo Canova curators, Spazio Cent8anta in Isernia. 2015 – “L’Illusione del Corpo” Lorenzo Canova and Piernicola Maria Di Iorio curators, Aratro Gallery – Archive of Electronic Arts – Laboratory for Contemporary Art in Campobasso. 2014 – “Rendez-vous” Alessandra Tontini curator, Incontro d’Arte Gallery in Rome – “De Senectute” Maria Laura Perilli curator, Triphè Gallery in Cortona (AR). 2013 – “Antonio Finelli: l’Osservatore del Tempo” Franco Fonzo and Roberta Gubitosi curators, introduced by Mimmo Paladino, Web Art Gallery in Treviso. – “Se non la Realtà” curated by “TerraNullius”, Aranciera di San Sisto in Rome. 2012 – “De Passage” (Artist House), introduced by Mimmo Paladino, Abbaye de Léhon in Dinan (France). 2009 – “Studi Accademici” Rosanna Ricci curator, Sadurano Salus Gallery in Castrocaro Terme (FC). 2006 – “Studi Accademici”, Maschio Angioino in Riccia (CB).

Collective Exhibitions

2019 – “Speculum”, Urano Space in Rome. – “XLVI Premio Sulmona”, Polo Museale Civico Diocesano in Sulmona (AQ). – “Open Cluster”, Studio D’Arte Pisani in Rome. 2018 – “La Società della Stanchezza – Dispositio ex Clausione Linearum” (Artist House), Museo Diocesano San Matteo in Salerno. 2017 – “Five”, Catania Art Gallery in Catania. – “Ricognizioni”, BoCs Art Museum / Complesso Monumentale di San Domenico in Cosenza. 2016 – “Anamorfosi”, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Montevergini in Siracusa. – “Pio Alferano Award” (Award of the President of the Jury Vittorio Sgarbi), Castello dell’ Abate in Castellabate (SA). 2015 – EXPO 2015 “Il Tesoro d’Italia”, Eataly Pavilion (expo area), Milano. – “48° Vasto Award”, Stables of Palace Aragona in Vasto (CH). – “Expo Arte Contemporanea Italiana”, Villa Bagatti Valsecchi in Varedo (MB). 2014 – “Reale” Bruno D’Arcevia – Antonio Finelli – Paul Kostabi, Kunsthaus Sottecchi in Messina. 2013 – “Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Di Palermo”, Malfitano Whitaker Palace in Palermo. – “ArtePerOGGI 2013 Award”, Dioscuri Theatre, Rome – Quirinale. – “Revelations in Reality”, 287 Spring Gallery in New York. – “6 + 1”, Incontro d’Arte Gallery in Rome. – “Art Fair Miami Beach”, Miami Beach U.S.A. – “Ritratti d’Autore”, Stelline Foundation in Milano. 2012 – ” ArtePerOGGI 2012 Award” (First classified), Dioscuri Theatre, Rome – Quirinale. – “The ways of art”, Crisolart Gallery in NEW YORK. – “Arte in Fiera Dolomiti Aword” (First classified), Longarone Fairs in Longarone (BL). – “Il Ritratto: Apparenza ed Enigma”, 11 Dreams Art Gallery in Tortona (AL). – “Muri, Metamorfosi e Dintorni”, Laboratory Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. 2011 – “ArtePerOGGI 2011 Award” (Second classified), Dioscuri Theatre, Rome – Quirinale. – “Arteria 2011” Valle Theatre in Chiaravalle (AN). 2010 – “Caravaggio Ombre e Mistero”, O.A.D. Gallery in Rome. – “Saturaprize” (First Classified), Stella Palace in Genova. – “10° Concorso Nazionale di Pittura e Scultura” (Third

Christian Coigny Photographs
Christian Coigny has for the past 30 years developed a career in traditional black and white photography in parallel to his work in publicity and fashion. He works primarily with film and silver gelatin prints. There is no retouching in his work. Beyond the countless advertising campaigns to date (Bon Genie Grieder, Chopard, Hermès, Hublot, etc.), Coigny has more notably been commissioned by Vitra to portray 130 celebrities, from Charles Bukowski to Audrey Hepburn via Allan Ginsberg, Davids Hockney or Dizzy Gillepsie. His artistic practice has already been the focus of no less than six publications and his photographs are to be found in the most prestigious private collections, as well as in museums worldwide. The museum of Lausanne hosted a large retrospective exhibition, featuring 70 of his photographs.

Themes
Men & women Women outdoors Portraits Still life Landscape Reportage Vitra personalities His subjects are immersed in a silent environment carried by a sober yet intelligent composition; Volumes and natural light interact to commend the human body with timeless sensuality. Bon Génie Grieder Commercial

Artist's Statement
"I have always used film. I like the darkroom, the physical contact with my work. I like to know that people see a photo that has not been altered in any way, showing exactly what I saw, despite the fact that it is in black and white and not in color. These are the reasons why I use film and I will continue to do so until the end. " Christian Coigny

Artist:
Christian Coigny

Based near Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva, Christian Coigny has for the past 30 years developed a career in traditional black and white photography in parallel to his work in publicity and fashion. He works primarily with film and silver gelatin prints. There is no retouching in his work. His work is anchored in a classical education and strongly influenced by American painters such as Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keefe or Andrew Wyeth, that he discovered during his 5-year stay in San Francisco. Very rapidly important brands called upon him to transpose his personal mark into their advertising campaigns. The poster advertising campaign for the department store Bon Genie Grieder, between 1975 and 1985 marked his return from the United States. His book of portraits of local artists earned him the Vitra «Celebrities» Campaign. Other photographic projects include work for clients such as Hermès, Krug champagnes, Ferretti yachts and Hublot watches, and for many years he has participated in the creation of catalogues and of publicity campaigns for Chopard jewelers of Geneva. He now devotes most of his time to his personal work whilst exhibiting at various galleries and museums in Europe.

Solo Exhibitions

2017 The Photogallery, Norrvikens Trädgårdar, Sweden 2017 Argentiques, Gallery by Event Particulier, Bruxelles, Belgium 2017 Argentiques, Gallery by Event Particulier, Tournai, Belgium 2015 Christian Coigny, photographies, Musée historique de Lausanne, Switzerland 2015 Le corps à nu, Young Gallery , Bruxelles, Belgium 2015 Paris Photo, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France 2013 On Grace, Paolo Morello Studio Gallery, Palermo, Italy 2005 Galerie Krisal, Carouge, Switzerland 2001 All seated for Vitra, Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, France 1996 Personalities, Museum of Design, Thessaloniki, Greece 1993 State of siege, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 1991 Book Fair, Geneva, Switzerland 1983 Vaudois from here and elsewhere, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 1982 Portfolio Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland 1979 Precious photos, Portfolio Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2016 Maison de la photographie, Lille, France 2015 Timeless, The Photogallery, Gothenburg, Sweden 2013 Le nu, Espace Cyril Kobler, Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland 2004 Paris Photo, Galerie Krisal, Paris, France 2002 Images in the city, Swiss Museum from the camera, Vevey, Switzerland 1995 Like in a mirror. The portrait in the collection of the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 1991 International Book and Press Fair, Geneva, Switzerland 1988 The large Polaroïd room, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 1988 Splendours and miseries of the body, International Triennial of Photography, Friborg, Switzerland 1982 Three nude photographers, Center d'Art Visuel, Geneva, Switzerland 1981 Third International Triennial of Photography, Museum of Art and History, Friborg, Switzerland

Publications

Christian Coigny Editions Ides et Calendes, 2014, 252 pages Christian Coigny book Cover The animal world of Chopard Editions La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2014 178 pages Chopard blanket by Christian Coigny Sittings Editions Prestel, 2000 Photographs Editions Favre, 1990 130 pages Christian Coigny book cover Portraits of artists Editions Favre, 1983 78 pages Portraits of artists by Christian Coigny Ohmmes Editions Favre, 1982 80 pages 96 pages

ISLANDS - Antoine Renault
Antoine Renault's painting suspends time, catches the instant, the souvenir. Not in a nostalgic way, but to dip or dive in. Renault focusses on slow-motion atmosphere, time still on the beach, with a soft sensuality floating. His work constantly plays with the borders of realism. Yet, get closer to the canvas and visible brushstrokes push the reality back, offering space for emotions and echo.

Artist's Statement
" Summer and ocean side atmosphere has always been in my inspiration. Sunny days and short nights, dune smells, slow time on the beach, … To paint this, for me, is like sharing feelings of freedom and happiness because this is just where I feel the best. I have not spent one year of my life without sailing in this bay. And actually all the key moments of my life happened on the ocean side, if not on the beach. After some years working with oil and pastel, I moved to watercolor and eventually to acrylic. I simplified my palette at most, using exclusively the same 4 colors. Light, water, feelings, and some subtle sexiness are what I want in my paintings."

Artist:
Antoine Renault

Born in Nantes in 1963, Antoine Renault is a self-taught painter. His series « Ocean Paintings » brings him international recognition in 2012. Antoine lives between Noirmoutier and Amsterdam since 2014. Between canals and seashores. Antoine went to painting from photography he improved in the 80’s in New York, Keith Haring SoHo, and Edward Hopper Long Island. Back to France, husband, and father of 3, he catches a brush for the first time from his grandmother who discovered the fun of painting at the age of 70. She is the one who initiated him, allowing him to enter this very intimate bubble. Her work was a testimonial of her little pleasures, pictures of her world, while he tried to catch the dune, sunsets and the warm blues of a summer at his dear island of Noirmoutier. It’s in Barcelona, close to Sorolla’s shores for some years, that a passion for light and water develops. Reflections and transparencies become his favorite themes. « Light is my real motivation. Water is my favorite catalyst. Both are the guiding threads of my inspiration ». From then, his work becomes flow, movement, ripple…

Education

Self-taught

Brienne M Brown - Bringing the Everyday to Life
Much to her mother’s indignation, Brienne owned little clothing that was not covered in paint. From a very young age, Brienne showed talent in art and music, but wanted to pursue a career in the sciences. She started her education at the University of Utah as a double major (Art and Chemistry), eventually receiving a BS in Chemistry and finishing with a Master’s degree in 2004. After graduation, Brienne worked in a Toxicology lab. Though she painted some by taking an occasional class, as the years wore on, she realized she wanted more art in her life than a career in science would allow. She was surprised and delighted to find great fulfillment in painting. In fact, it became a necessity. After leaving her job as a toxicologist to raise her first child in 2008, Brienne had the opportunity to paint more consistently. Prioritizing painting and taking workshops from artists she admired paid off. Soon she was not only exhibiting and entering shows regularly, but also winning awards. Brienne holds signature membership status for the National Watercolor Society, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, and Utah Watercolor Society. Her work has been published in Splash 17 Best of Watercolor: Inspired Subjects, PleinAir Magazine, and Watercolor Artist Magazine. Brienne’s passion is watercolor and plein air painting. She has won several top awards in many plein air competitions. “I find beauty in everyday life, the so called ‘mundane’. Ordinary people going about their everyday lives inspire me. I especially enjoy painting en plein air, where each painting reminds me of where I was, of the experiences I had, the sounds, smells, and the people I met. As I try and capture the essence of a scene, my paintings are always more about a moment in time than about a particular location. I enjoy sharing how I see the world.”

Artist:
Brienne M Brown

Education

From a very young age, Brienne showed talent in art and music, but wanted to pursue a career in the sciences. She started her education at the University of Utah as a double major (Art and Chemistry), eventually receiving a BS in Chemistry and finishing with a Master’s degree in 2004. After graduation, Brienne worked in a Toxicology lab. Though she painted some by taking an occasional class, as the years wore on, she realized she wanted more art in her life than a career in science would allow. She was surprised and delighted to find great fulfillment in painting. In fact, it became a necessity. After leaving her job as a toxicologist to raise her first child in 2008, Brienne had the opportunity to paint more consistently. Prioritizing painting and taking workshops from artists she admired paid off. Soon she was not only exhibiting and entering shows regularly, but also winning awards. Brienne holds a signature membership for the Utah Watercolor Society and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. Brienne’s most recent love is painting en plein air, which has also enhanced her studio work. She has won several top awards in many plein air competitions. “I find beauty in everyday life, the so called ‘mundane’. Ordinary people going about their everyday lives inspire me. I especially enjoy painting en plein air, where each painting reminds me of where I was, of the experiences I had, the sounds, smells, and the people I met. As I try and capture the essence of a scene, my paintings are always more about a moment in time than about a particular location. I enjoy sharing how I see the world.”

Select Exhibitions and Awards

- 2017 Solomon's Plein Air Festival: Honorable Mention for "Capt. Brandon Awaits" - 2017 Outstanding Watercolor in the September Bold Brush Online Competition: "On the Boardwalk" - 2016 Outstanding Watercolor in the October Bold Brush Online Competition: "First Flight Out" - 2016 Solomon's Plein Air Festival: PleinAir Magazine award for "My Seventh Heaven" - 2016 Easels in Frederick Plein Air Competition: 2nd Place Award for "Antiques Bridge" - 2016 Wayne Plein Air Festival: Honorable Mention for "Manayunk Morning" - 2016 PWS 37th International Exhibition: 4th Place Award for "Morning Stroll to the Patch" - 2015 Outstanding Watercolor in the November Bold Brush Online Competition: "Morning Stroll to the Patch" - 2015 Easels in Frederick Best Landscape or Town Outside Frederick City Award: "Sharing Memories" - 2015 Camp Hill Plein Air Festival Purchase Award: "Looking Down on River Street" - 2015 Splash 17: Inspirational Subjects for "Discussing Grandpa's House" - 2015 Georgia Watercolor Society International: 10th Award for "Ridge Street" - 2014 Oct/Nov "Best Watercolor" in Plein Air Salon: "Back of Chick's Cafe" - 2014 Outstanding Watercolor in the Sept Bold Brush Online Competition: "Back of Chick's Cafe" - 2014 UWS Fall Member Exhibition (Utah): Award of Merit for "NYC Streets" - 2014 PWS 35th Juried Exhibition (Harrisburg, PA): Merchandise Award for "Tagged" - 2014 Lewsiburg Arts Festival (Pennsylvania): Best of Show for "Discussing Grandpa's House" - 2014 WFWS 39th Annual Juried Exhibition (Arizona) - 2014 UWS Spring Open Juried Exhibition (Utah): Award of Merit for "Evening Stroll" - 2013 UWS Fall Member Exhibition (Utah): Award of Excellence for "Morning Chores" - 2013 Finalist in the June Bold Brush Painting Online Competition: "Discussing Grandpa's House" - 2013 PWS 34th Juried Exhibition (Warren, PA): Honorable Mention for "On the Foothills"

- 2013 UWS Spring Open Juried Exhibition (Utah): Juror's Award for "Mount Olympus" - 2013 PWS Online Member Competition: Honorable Mention for "Downtown Salt Lake" - 2013 AWS 145th Juried Exhibition (New York, New York) - 2012 UWS Fall Member Exhibition (Utah): Best of Show for "Downtown Salt Lake" - 2012 Wastach Plein Air Paradise Competition, Midway Paint Out (Midway, UT): Third Place for "Breakfast at Cafe Galleria" - 2012 Wasatch Plein Air Paradise Competition, Heber Paint Out (Midway, UT): First Place Purchase Award for "Cleofa's Wash" - 2012 Logan's Summerfest Plein Air Competition (Logan, UT): First Place for "He Painted as Far as He Could Reach" - 2012 Ogden 's Art Festival Quick Draw Plein Air Competition (Ogden, UT): First Place for "Ogden's 25th Street" - 2012 Ogden Plein Air Festivel (Ogden, UT): Purchse Award for "22nd Street Trail" - Plein Air Moab '11 Competition (Moab, Utah): First Place Purcahse Award in Watercolor for "Fields of Moab" - 2011 UWS Fall Memeber Exhibition (Utah): Award of Merit for "Jermyn, PA" - 2011 Spring City Plein Air Competition (Spring City, Utah): Award of Merit for "Farmer Gene's Chickens" - 2011 Wasatch Plein Air Paradise Competition (Midway, Utah): 2nd Place for "A Man and His Dog" and 4th Place for "Farmer Tom"

Publications

- Palette Magazine - Plein Air Magazine, Oct/ Nov 2015 Issue, "Plein Air Watercolors: Mixed Grays & Bold Brushstrokes", pg. 60-64. - Southwest Art Magazine, Jan 2019, "Introductions: Brienne M Brown", pg. 68-69.

Alex Krull
The artist Alex Krull paints water. The continuum of her pictorial composition is the contrast between the strict geometry of swimming pools and the organically flowing movement of the water distorting all shapes, straight lines and angles into playful figures, creating a unique complex aesthetic that is not reproducible in reality. Painting however does not have these limitations which is why Alex Krull’s artwork managest o capture these fleeting moments. Fundamental pictoral elements are the random forms, almost ornamental, that are familiar, yet rarely truly perceived. Alex Krulls zeroes is on precisely these multifaceted instances in her paintings, but without wanting to point anything out. She leaves room for one’s own interpretation while distancing herself from any explanantions. "My work has no deeper meaning, I am only concerned with aesthetics. That may appear to be superficial and is intended to be just that.“ Seeing, observing, immersing oneself. That is precisely what it’s all about.

Artist:
Alex Krull

Alex Krull, Jahrgang 1970 Studium der Kommunikationswissenschaft, Psychologie & Kunstwissenschaft, Essen Studium Freie Malerei (SGD), Darmstadt Unterricht an der Freien Kunstschule Köln Privatunterricht bei div. Künstlern (u.a. Christine Reinckens – Kassel, Michael Fieseler – Kassel, Peter Handel – Alpen, Kreis Wesel) Autorin für Kreativ-Magazine Dozentin für Ölmalerei (Farbenlaube / Gerstaecker – A-Dornbirn, Akademie für bildende Kunst in NRW – Düren, Malschule Heinen – Kerpen, u.a.) Gewinnerin des Kunstwettbewerbs „Wasserwelten", artist window Nr. 47, Nov. 2015 Teilnehmerin der Wunsiedler Wasserspiele 2018 (Wettbewerb) Ankauf / Beauftragung durch öff. Einrichtungen (z.B. Carolus Thermen, Bad Aachen) Verkauf ausgewählter Originale und exklusiver Drucke über ars mundi und Kunsthaus ARTES regelmäßige Ausstellungen im In- und Ausland Mitglied beim BBK Düsseldorf Galeriekooperationen und -vertretungen

Ausstellungen

2019 BBK Düsseldorf, Januar / Februar 2019 (GA), 40223 Düsseldorf Alex Krull (Heil) bei den Sylter Kunstfreunden, März 2019 (EA), 25980 Westerland / Sylt Alex Krull (Heil) bei 30works GmbH, Juni / Juli 2019 (EA), 50667 Köln 2018 16. Kunstmeile Rodenkirchen (GA), April 2018, 50996 Köln Huntenkunst (GA), Mai 2018, NL - 7071 MB Ulft NordArt 2018 (GA) INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION, Juni – Okt. 2018, 24782 Büdelsdorf Wunsiedler Wasserspiele (GA), Juni - September 2018, 95632 Wunsiedel „Waterworld“ (GA), August 2018, Kunsthaus 40878 Ratingen Artconnection Aachen (GA), Oktober 2018, 52062 Aachen Artconnection Köln (GA), Oktober 2018, 50667 Aachen Cheap Art Bonn (GA), November 2018, 53119 Bonn 2017 Artconnection Münster (GA), Dezember 2017, 48167 Münster Art'pu:l Pulheim (GA), Juli 2017, 50259 Pulheim Art'pu:l Eupen (GA), Juni 2017, B-4700 Eupen Artconnection Aachen (GA), April 2017, 52062 Aachen 2016 Gemeinschaftsausstellung Alex Heil, Guido Guitarri und Olekseii Gniesyshev Oktober 2016 - Januar 2017, Galerie Timeless Art, 50670 Köln „Faszination Realismus“ (EA), März 2016, Medio.Rhein.Erft, 50126 Bergheim

Naturfotografie Conrad Amber - Bäume und Wälder Mitteleuropas
Years of preoccupation with nature, focusing on trees and forests, studies, discussions and a wealth of experience enable tree experts to share their knowledge and photographs with the world. His books have not only collected concentrated knowledge but also built up a valuable network of experts, projects and scientific works that can be accessed at any time. With his visually stunning lectures, the author and nature photographer delights the curious audience, with his quality of advice he supports companies and private individuals with natural solutions. With its large-format pictures of nature, guests and patients are surprised and accompanied by hotels and health facilities and so some functional rooms become unique spatial experiences.

Artist:
Conrad Amber

Conrad Amber accompanied his father as a child on the hunt, and the interest in nature was aroused. From 1977 he accompanied the Schubertiade Vorarlberg in Hohenems for ten years as a photographer and gained experience there for later photography of the forests of Europe. In 1981 he founded the color arbor and in 2001 KunstKontakt in Dornbirn, both companies that deal with art. In 1985 he founded the KunstRaumDornbirn with Gerhard Winkler and Hans Dünser , on whose board he is active. The love of nature and his passion for photography became his life's purpose after the handover of his company. Conrad Amber is the father of three daughters and lives in Dornbirn. From 2005, Amber began to work as a nature photographer and author and sold his specialist art materials store.] He published two specialist books on trees, forests, and attitudes to nature. Amber uses his knowledge as a consultant for existing trees and tree locations, greening and restoration, natural forests, urn forests ( peace forests ) and green concepts for companies and municipalities. He is committed to the maintenance of old trees, avenues, and riparian strips. As a lecturer, he is active in German-speaking Europe, as well as on social networks. His tree photographs can be found in the Nature Museum inatura in Dornbirn, in numerous hotels, health facilities, hospitals and in specialist magazines, in the Waldzeitung, in books and online platforms.

Education, Exhibitions

Education Fotograf, Naturliebhaber, Baumkenner Exhibitions im Internet auf: www.conradamber.at Buch: Baumwelten (Kosmos Verlag) Bilder in Hotels und Gesundheitseinrichtungen u.a.: BKH St.Johann, Tirol Therme Oberlaa, Wien Therme Kärnten, Villach Hotel Karawankenhof, Villach TauernSpa, Kaprun, Salzburg KH-Bludenz KH-Feldkirch, Augenambulanz, Anästhesie u.a. Forsthofgut Leogang, Salzburg Hotel Mirabell, Meran, Südtirol Hotel Röck, Fiss, Tirol Hotel Kempinski, Jochberg bei Kitzbühel, Tirol Hotel Andreus, Passeiertal, Südtirol Hotel Platzl, München Hotel Hospiz, St.Christoph, Tirol Hotel Das Kronthaler, Achensee, Tirol Hotel Gabriela, Serfaus, Tirol Hotel Burger, Lech a.Arlberg Hotel Rickatschwende, Dornbirn, Vorarlberg BVA Zentrale Klagenfurt

Awards

Medienberichte u.a. in: www.biotope-city.net der Standard Forest Finance Kultur, Vorarlberg Land&Berge ORF Vorarlberg Salzburger Nachrichten Südwest Presse Thema Vorarlberg Tiroler Tageszeitung, Magazin LandIdee Waldzeitung VN

Works by Victor Onyshchenko
Victor Onyshchenko was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine, in December 1977. He Studied at T.G. Shevchenko State Art Secondary School and The National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2017. Currently, Victor lives and works in Kyiv.

Artist:
Victor Onyshchenko

Victor Onyshchenko was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine, in December 1977. He Studied at T.G. Shevchenko State Art Secondary School and The National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2017. Currently, Victor lives and works in Kyiv.

Exhibitions

February 2019. Anniversary exhibition of the Kyiv organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Kyiv. July 2019 - All-Ukrainian Triennial of Painting. Kyiv. November 2019 - International Trial "Wandering Philosophy", Kremenchug City July 2017 - Chernihiv - ("Around us". In the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists). August 2017 - Kyiv - (Independence Day exhibition). August-September 2017- Dnipro - ("The wonderful colors of the Dnieper"). January 2016 - Kyiv (Christmas exhibition). June 2016 - Mariupol (Memorial to A.I. Kuindzhy exhibition). Dec 2013-Jan 2014 - Museum of Arts, Chernihiv.Exhibitions: November 2011 - Gallery 24, Chernihiv. February 2012 - Simferopol art museum, Crimea September 2012 - Molodezhny Theatre, Chernihiv.

Astrid Stöppel - Serie Colorful acrylics
Astrid Dtöppel is a contemporary artist born and based in Germany with a passion for bright pure colors and geometric shapes. Astrid's works are a part of many public and private collections in New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, California, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the UK, France, Spain, Austria, and Germany.

Artist:
Astrid Stöppel

Astrid Dtöppel is a contemporary artist born and based in Germany with a passion for bright pure colors and geometric shapes. Astrid's works are a part of many public and private collections in New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, California, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the UK, France, Spain, Austria, and Germany.

Education, Exhibitions, Awards

Education FAU Universität Erlangen und LMU München Exhibitions: CLIO Art Fair NEW YORK March 2020 ART BASEL MIAMI 2019 with Alessandro Berni Gallery New York - Aqua Art Show 2019 Germany: Show "Viva i colori" overpainted photographs June 2019 CLIO Art Fair NEW YORK March 7-10th, 2019 ART BASEL MIAMI 2018 with Alessandro Berni Gallery New York - Aqua Art Show 2018 Germany: Solo show "Blacklights" - Light Art Festival Weilheim October 2018 Germany/Landsberg "Planet earth and Colorful acrylics" solo exhibition 2th March - 30th June 2018 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn - New York November 2017 Antwerp Belgium "For optimists only" May-Aug 2017 and "Summer show" Jul-Sept 2017 Nassau42 Fine Arts Gallery Paris France "Woman's Essence" April 2017 Germany: Solo exhibition "Colorful acrylics" Aug-Sept 2016 Riccione Italy "EstatArte" August 2016 Bergamo Italy "Heart" May 2016 Cesenatico Italy "Vivere a colori" April-June 2016 Milan Italy "Woman's Essence" April 2016 Rome Italy - Flyer Art Gallery "Joyful colors 4 Christmas" December 2015 Rome Italy - Flyer Art Gallery "International Art Expo Rome" October 2015 London - The Brick Lane Gallery "Contemporary Art" May 2015 Florence Italy - Galleria Merlino Bottega d'Arte "Experiments" November 2014 Weilheim/Germany: Several Solo-Exhibitions 2012-2017

Publication and awards

Publication: 2016 Artbook "Women's Essence" 2016 Internationale Kunst heute 2017 Who's who in Visual Art Awards 2015 Palm Art Award, Happy Art History Prize, Artavita Art Contest 2016 The Artbox Project, Artavita Art Contest Link: http://astridstoeppel.com/ueber-mich/art-awards-2015/

Shop

Saatchi Art: https://www.saatchiart.com/endkreativ

Juan Cossio
Cossio’s principal tool for painting is an airbrush, which sprays the paint onto the canvas and allows for the seamless blending of pigments. This blending allows Cossio to achieve high detail and precision found in his elaborate works. By using an airbrush instead of a standard paintbrush, Cossio changes the function of a tool originally designed to retouch photographs into the primary means of creating a photorealistic image. In each of his compositions, Cossio experiments with the human form and its ability to convey emotion in functional, minimalistic interiors. Many of his works echo those of the New Realism movement, conjuring an atmosphere in which the figure is derived from reality but the other elements are fabricated, obscure, utilitarian yet unexpected. Cossio pares down the environment in which the figure is placed so as to direct all concentration on the figure. Though Cossio works in a hyperrealist style, his scenes are set apart from the reality of day-to-day living. Cossio states, “I create images starting from a contradiction. I am a painter who does not want to paint reality. I want to interpret it with all the means that are at my reach.” His interpretation of reality is one of appreciation for the beauty, the emotion, and the paradoxes of everyday life.

Artist Statement
" For me making art is something inherited, natural. I was always a good draftsman, it´s like breathing. It´s a necessity to express my ideas through painting and to see the world around me with an artistic point of view. Beside is the real aspect: I´m an artist; it´s my job and I have to make a living from this; that´s why I make art. "

Artist:
Juan Cossio

Juan Manuel Cossio was born in Madrid, Spain in 1960. He received academic training in Art and History at the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1980, Cossio worked as a Copyist at the Museo del Prado, where he studied from close observation and reinterpreted classical works of art; studied under Spanish realist Antonio López García; and became a student of Manuel Franquelo, one of Spain’s leading hyperrealist painters from the New Realism movement of the 1960s. Actively involved in the explosive Spanish art scene of the Eighties, Cossío's tireless research and experimentation into pushing the boundaries of pictorial techniques led him to what is now more commonly known as 'New Realism'. Relying on photography as his main means of support and using the timeless airbrush as his preferred tool, Cossío's work continues to evolve through an openness to approach and his continual curiosity in employing whatever new techniques are at hand in order to achieve his unique contemporary aesthetic which look to the female figure as its main subject. Cossio currently lives and works in Madrid and his work has been exhibited internationally in countries such as Spain, Italy, the UK, South Africa, Venezuela, and the US. Habiendo mostrado una temprana vocación para el dibujo así como una gran sensibilidad para la
pintura y la fotografía,Juan Cossío realizó estudios de Bellas Artes en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Activamente envuelto en el fértil panorama cultural que supuso la década de los 80 en España, Cossío desarrolla una búsqueda incesante de experimentación que le lleva a los límites de lastécnicas pictóricas,introduciéndole en lo que que se ha venido llamando como "Nuevo Realismo".Apoyándose en la fotografía como herramienta de registro de la realidad y en el aerógrafo como herramienta de trabajo más adecuada para sus fines.El trabajo de Cossío evoluciona en su contínua curiosidad en utilizar cualquier medio que le ayude a expresar su estética contemporánea que tiene cómo protagonista la figura femenina

Exhibitions

2019.Solo show.La Factoría de Papel.Madrid 2019. Art Revolution Taipei.Galería Art-Bcn.Taiwán 2018.ARCO .Clorofila Digital.Madrid 2018.GABINETE ART FAIR.Clorofila Digital.Madrid. 2018.Collective photography exhibition."The same in rights" organized by Abogacía Española.Madrid 2018.Solo show.R.Alexander Fine Art."Life in abstraction".Atlanta.U.S 2017.Group show.Thornwood gallery.Houston.Texas. 2017.Group show.Galeria K.Palma de Mallorca. 2017."Reality Check".Everard Read Gallery.Cape Town. 2017.Galeria K.LUXEMBOURG ART FAIR 2016.Works at Count Ibex Collection. 2016.Winter collective.Albemarle gallery.London 2016.Group show.S.R.Brennen Galleries.Santa Fe.New Mexico.USA. 2016.Group show.Mary Martin gallery.Florida.USA 2016.Group show.Spanish Art Exhibition.Hangzhou.China 2016.Group show.R. Alexander Art Gallery.Atlanta.USA 2015.Realism 2015.Albemarle Gallery.London 2015.S R.Brennen galleries.USA. 2015.R Alexander Fine Art.USA 2014.Solo show."Debajo de tu piel vive la luna".El Quatre gallery.Barcelona. 2014.Winter collective.Albemarle gallery.London 2013.Participates in Art Palm Beach 2013.Waterhouse&Dodd gallery.London.New York. 2013.Participates in "Salon 2".collective exhibition.Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts.Binghamton,NY. 2013.Participates in Art Wynwood 2013-Miami.Waterhouse&Dodd gallery.London.New York. 2013.Participates in Scope New York 2013.Waterhouse&Dodd gallery.London.New York. 2013.Group show."The naked truth".Plus one gallery.London. 2013."Hyperrealism today"-Museu del Tabac.Andorra. 2013."Lapada".Art&Antiques Fair.Plus One gallery.London. 2013.Group show"The naked truth".Plus One Gallery.Londres. 2013.Group show"Hyperrealism today".Sant Juliá de Lória.Andorra. 2013.Group show."Celebration of 100 years of Everard Read".Cape Town. 2012.Participates in Art Greenwich.Anthony Brunelly Fine Arts.Binghamton,NY. 2012.Participates in Waterfall Mansion Art of New York.Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts.Binghamton,NY.

2011.Collective exhibition.Galerie Archange.Paris 2011.Collective exhibition. Plus One Gallery. London 2011.Collective exhibition."15th Anniversary Exhibition".Everard Read Gallery.Cape Town. 2011.Collective exhibition ."Corpi esposti".Barbara Frigerio Contemporary Art Gallery.Milano. 2010.Collective exhibition "Winter Show" .Plus One Gallery.London. 2009.Collective exhibition "Realism Redefined".Cuadro Fine Art Gallery.Dubai. 2009.Collective exhibition. Plus One Gallery. London 2008.Solo exhibition Albermale Gallery. 2008.Participates in the Fair Art Nocturne Knocke.Belgium 2007.Participates in the Fair "Luxury Please". Vienna 2007.Collective exhibition "Realism". Sammer Gallery 2006.Collective exhibition "The Female Poser" . Sammer Gallery 2006.Works in the "Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes".MEAM of Barcelona 2005.Solo exhibition Sammer Gallery . Marbella. 2005.Participates in the Palm Beach Art Fair. Miami. Sammer Gallery 2005.exhibition Vazquez Kunst Gallery.Holland. 2005.exhibition collective "What is realism?".Albermale Gallery.London 2004.The Spanish Post Office chooses the painting "Nativity" for its reproduction on stamp. 2003.Participates in the Feria DeArte of Madrid .Gema Lazcano Gallery 2003.Collective exhibition "Arcanes Contemporaries" . Clave Gallery 2003.Collective exhibition "Small Format" . Gema Lazcano Gallery 2003.Participates in the Commemorative Exhibition "XXV Anniversary of the Spanish Constitution". Museo Casa de la Moneda 2002.Participates in the International Contemporary Art Fair of Seville .Puchol Gallery . Valencia. 2001.Exhibition Clave Gallery . Murcia 2000. Collective exhibition " Forms and Volumes".Heller Gallery 1999.Participates in the Latin American Art Fair of Caracas .Heller Gallery 1997 .Collective exhibition "Classic and Modern of the reality". Heller Gallery.Madrid. 1997.Works in the Confederación de Cajas de Ahorro de Madrid

WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

-Dubi Shiff Art Collection.Tel Aviv -MEAM:Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno.Barcelona -IBEX Collection.Germany -Sambricio de Guiu.Colección privada.Toledo -Fundación Tejerina.Madrid -Chapter One Restaurant.Dublin

Erik Johansson - Surreal Photography
Johansson’s work springs from a simple thought: a basic idea he’d like to explore or an element of a picture he’d like to create. He starts with a quick sketch, develops a clear idea of what he wants to do, and carefully plans the execution of the image. He shoots every image that goes into a final composition and credits pre-planning before moving to photography for saving time in post-production. However, once he’s on location, he's open to incorporating anything interesting or better than what he’d imagined. While post-production in Adobe Photoshop CC is an intrinsic part of his process, Johansson has been trying to capture more in-camera and then use Photoshop in a more subtle way. This shift bolsters the realism of his surreal images.

Artist:
Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson (born 1985) is a photographer and visual artist from Sweden based in Prague, Czech Republic. His work can be described as a surreal world created by combining different photographs. Erik works on both personal and commissioned projects with clients all around the world. In contrast to traditional photography he doesn't capture moments, he captures ideas with the help of his camera and imagination. The goal is to make it look as realistic as possible even if the scene itself contains impossible elements. In the end, it all comes down to problem-solving, finding a way to capture the impossible.

Education:

Despite a lack of formal training in photography or studio art—or even classroom instruction in Adobe Photoshop—Erik Johansson has become a master at the art of photo retouching in only a few years. His impossible landscapes seem alternately humorous and menacing, trapping their inhabitants in vexing circumstances beyond their control as if they’re witnessing a break in the space-time continuum.

RICHARD T SCOTT - Post Contemporary Figurative Painting
Working between New York and Paris, Richard T Scott is known for his post-contemporary figurative paintings and his writing on aesthetic theory. His work has exhibited at Le Grand Palais in Paris, Palazzo Cini in Venice, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern in Barcelona, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and is part of collections worldwide such as the The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, MEAM, MACS, former British Arts Minister Alan Howarth of Newport, Prince Morad El Hattab, and Robert C. Kennedy PhD. Richard designs coins and medals for the United States Mint under the Artistic Infusion Program. Scott was honored as an Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center.
Scott is known for his classically influenced paintings. Scott's figurative work involves a synthesis of narrative and iconic symbolism and draws upon memories, dreams, and reality. "Whether it is in his portraits, his compositions, or either still in his interiors, Richard T. Scott always tries to produce, on his spectators, a certain effect of strangeness, or at least, something like a feeling of longing. That's why, maybe, his compositions are populated for the greater part with mirrors in which appear, not simply beings just like those who face us - but of real spectres having the function to destabilize our glance while giving the fourth dimension for us to see” - by Frédéric Charles Baitinger, Critic, Artension

Artist:
RICHARD T SCOTT

Richard T Scott is a Contemporary History Painter working in New York. A Georgia native, his work pairs the complex influences of his southern heritage with the conceptual sophistication of the New York art world. Known for his mastery of light and color, his portraits, interiors, and large scale compositions have exhibited across North America and Europe: Le Grand Palais in Paris, Palazzo Cini in Venice, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern in Barcelona, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and are preserved in permanent collections worldwide such as the The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, MEAM, MACS, former British Arts Minister Alan Howarth of Newport, and Robert C. Kennedy PhD. Among many honors he has recieved, Richard has designed coins and medals for the United States Mint, including the Fort Moultrie quarter, presently in circulation, and was honored as an Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. Richard has given lectures and workshops at some of the most prestigious institutions, including the Tyler School of Art, The Florence Academy of Art, The University of Georgia, The Lyme Academy, Laguna College of Art and Design, and the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts. His interviews, writing, and art have been feature on NPR, PRI, and countless national and international publications.

Education

Education 2005-2007 New York Academy of Art, New York,Master of Fine Art - Painting 2002-2005 University of Georgia, Athens, Bachelor of Fine Art - Painting Professional Experience 2014 United States Mint, Washington D.C., Coin and medal design 2009-2010 Odd Nerdrum, Stavern, Norway & Paris, France, Studio Assistant 2007-2009 Jeff Koons Studio, New York, NY, Painter

Exhibitions

2016 Fourth Wall, Paul Booth Gallery, New York, NY 2016 Americana, Galerie L'Oeil du Prince, Paris, France 2015 The Nerdrum School, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain 2015 Syzygy, Hotchkiss Tremaine Gallery, Lakeville, CT 2015 The Artist's Gaze, Sirona Fine Art, Miami, FL 2014 Into that Darkness Peering, Poe Museum, Richmond, VA 2013 Strange Symmetry, Galerie L'Oeil du Prince, Paris, France 2013 Effigies and Idols, Last Rites Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Nocturnes, National Arts Club, New York, NY 2012 Converge, 25CPW Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Art Takes Time's Square, New York, NY 2011 CHIC Art Fair, Paris, France 2011 "O Miroir," Galerie Maubert, Paris, France 2011 L'esthetique, Galerie L'Oeil du Prince, Paris, France 2011 ArtParis, Saatchi Gallery, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France 2010 The Facebook Show, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI 2010 Kitsch Biennale, Palazzo Cini, Venice, Italy 2010 Corpus Hermeticum, New York, NY 2010 Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France 2010 Erotik Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Knut Hamsun, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Mer Enn Kunst, TelemarksGalleriet, Norway 2009 Carnival, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby's, New York, NY 2009 Fall Kitsch, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Master Copies, Galleri PAN, Oslo, Norway 2009 Tribeca Ball, New York, NY 2009 The Metamorphosis Project, Richmond, VA 2008 Kitsch Biennale Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany 2008 Take Home a Nude Phillips de Pury & Company, NY 2007 Art on the Block Oct., Benefit auction, nAscent Art Gallery NY

Selected Collections

The Georgia Museum of Art The New Britain Museum of American Art MEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) MACS (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Sicilia) The Austrian Embassy in Oslo, Norway Robert C. Kennedy PhD Alan Howarth Gary and Margaret Motley Morad El Hattab Dr. Richard Eppes Odd Nerdrum

Troy Brooks
Troy Brooks looks at the contradictions of artificiality through portraits of androgynous women captured at the height of their own private dramas. Presenting them spot-lit, Troy makes them appear almost like film stars, enhancing the suggestion of potent hidden narratives. In this way his women seem somehow prisoners of their own exuberance, beholden to their decadent impulses whilst also lucid enough to perceive their own folly.
“Brooks’s female subjects are not what we might call beautiful in the traditional sense. But these oddly elongated, crystal eyed ladies are none the less compelling to look at. Each one seems to be a piece of a story that writes itself different for every viewer. One can’t help but wonder what lies beneath these contemplative faces... what have they seen?” — SHE WALKS SOFTLY “His surreal portraits of women with elongated anatomies have become signature icons of the new contemporary art scene. Clearly influenced by the dramatic glamour of the femme Fatales of 30’s and 40’s film noir, Brooks’ women stare down the viewer as if taking their measure from within the world behind the frame. They are aloof, yet burning with interior dialogue and seductively demanding the attention of anyone who catches their gaze.” — COREY HELFORD GALLERY

Artist:
Troy Brooks

"Born 1972 in Southern Ontario, Canada. I had no formal training. The only teachers I had were the photographers and lighting technicians of the old Hollywood studio system. I learned how to draw and paint from vintage movie stills. I learned the art of visual story telling from watching those stills come to life in late night movies. I live and make my art in a converted 19th century bank in the historic town of Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada."

Troy Brooks is a contemporary surrealist painter. His work presents elaborate pageantry of female characters observed in allegorical settings. These women play out intimate scenes, usually caught in moments where something transformative has or is about to happen. The ‘women of Troy’ have become distinctive images on the contemporary pop surrealism scene.

Exhibitions

2019: Lucky 13 Anniversary Show, Pt. 2: Pop Surrealism & New Figurative, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles Corey Helford Gallery at LA Art Show 2019, Corey Helford Gallery 2018: Troy Brooks "Skinwalker", Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles Ephemeral, Modern Eden, San Francisco Corey Helford Gallery at Art New York 2018, Corey Helford Gallery 2016 : Dec – Corey Helford Gallery Show (Solo) Aug – Corey Helford Gallery 10th Anniversary Show (Group) July – James Freeman Gallery, London UK (Group) May – 19 Karen Gallery, Australia (Group) April 16 – May 7 Troy Brooks “Veiled Hearts”(Solo) May – Annual Exhibition, 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace (Group) Sept 17 – Oct 8 Femme To Femme Fatale, The Feminine in Contemporary Art Beautiful Bizzarre & Modern Eden Gallery (Group) 2015 : “Smashing Suggestions” Pink Zeppelin Gallery – Berlin, Germany (Group) “Five and Under Show” Arcadia Contemporary – New York USA (Group) “Parabolic” – Red Head Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) “Lost Mitten Society” – Jonathan LeVine Gallery – New York USA (Group) 2014: “Scratch” – Double Solo Show w/R.Kelly Clipperton – TAC Gallery – Toronto, Canada(Solo) “Dragonseed” – Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Solo) “Candy Land” Super Wonder Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) Art Attack- Buddies in Bad Times – Toronto, Canada (Auction) 2013: Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada(Group) “March of the Velvets” – Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Solo) “Summer Salon” – Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) 2012: Galarie D’Avignon – Montreal, Canada(Group) “The Fates & The Furies” – Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Solo) “Summer Salon” – Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) 2011: “Colossus” Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada(Solo) FCP Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) 2010: “Virago” Pentimento Gallery – Toronto, Canada(Solo) FCP Gallery – Toronto, Canada (Group) “Climax” – PWA Royal Theater – Toronto, Canada (Auction)

Joseph Lorusso
Inspired by the expressive power of his medium and its history, Joseph Lorusso produces emotionally evocative oil on canvas paintings. His childhood trips to Italy, where he was exposed to the Old Masters and the country’s rich artistic heritage, sparked his interest in art. He initially studied watercolor painting and later switched to oils, teaching himself how to work with the latter material. He concentrates on urban and natural landscapes and the human figure, rendering his subjects in a naturalistic, impressionistic style. Lorusso is especially interested in painting ordinary people in everyday settings, which he invests with a sense of pathos and mystery. Through his work, he aims to connect to others by conveying universal human experiences. “I believe truly great art serves as a trigger into something deeper within all of us,” he says.
Joseph Lorusso creates landscapes and figurative works. In painting these subjects, He has concentrated on honing his powers of observation, especially as it concerns to color, texture, form and composition. Lorusso’s paintings have been described as warm and dreamlike, places of restful escape with a sense of spirituality, and share timelessness with the works of other eras. The mood and emotion conveyed in Lorusso’s paintings evokes a deep sense of beauty found in the quiet times of daily living. His people are mysterious, lonely, romantic and yet familiar, placed in settings we often see ourselves. Lorusso’s paintings have gained notoriety by their ability to connect with the viewer, resonating in a way that is intimate and personal.

Artist:
Joseph Lorusso

Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966 and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. Born of Italian descent, Lorusso was exposed to art at an early age. Through several early trips to Italy, his parents introduced him to the works of the Italian Masters. Lorusso would look to these influences throughout his early artistic development and they are still evident in his work today. While in school, Lorusso majored in watercolor and considers himself self-taught as an oil painter. He learned to paint by studying the works of master painters, often losing himself in the halls of the Chicago Art Institute during lunch hours, which frequently turned into afternoons of self-study.

Lorusso’s work has been shown internationally and has won numerous awards and honors. He has been featured in American Artist magazine, Southwest Art, U.S. Art, Art & Antiques, The Artists Magazine, Art News, American Art Collector, International Artist and Art Talk magazines. Lorusso’s work is part of many private collections; his work is in the permanent collections of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St.Joseph, Missouri and the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas. Joseph Lorusso is currently represented by McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, Bonner-David Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Newbury Fine Art, Boston, MA, Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC, and Alexandria,VA, Jones and Terwilliger Galleries, Carmel, CA, Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, CO and Saks Gallery, Denver, CO.

Exhibitions

2019: Wine & Art Soirée, Kelly D Kennedy Fine Art LLC, Midland Wine & Art Soriee, Kelly D Kennedy Fine Art LLC, Midland# 2018: Summer Small Works, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles Within the City, Bonner David Galleries, Scottsdale 2016: Chévere, Sirona Fine Art, Hallandale Beach New Work, Saks Galleries, Denver 2015: The Great Holiday Exhibition, Saks Galleries, Denver Spring Exhibition 2015, Saks Galleries, Denver 2014: American Art Invitational 2014, Saks Galleries, Denver Solo Exhibitions: 2019 Artist's Demonstration: Joseph Lorusso, Bonner David Galleries, Scottsdale 2014 Joseph Lorusso August Artist of the Month, Saks Galleries, Denver

Discovering the works of the Impressionists, he gravitated towards the works of Manet and Vuillard. Lorusso searched for similar work of such emotion and soon became an avid student of painting, seeking out and immersing himself in the works of various artists. This path would ultimately lead him to the works of Sargent, Sorolla, Whistler and a whole army of lesser-known yet equally capable painters. Within this group of artists, Lorusso would find a sense of identity. In these masterful works, he saw the power to harness emotion and convey it with power and confidence, yet with delicacy and tasteful restraint. He also saw in these artists the ability to express the "essence” of an object with just a few carefully chosen brushstrokes, creating a visceral and intuitive state of painting.

José Manuel Castro López - Esculturas
A sculptor based in Coruña, Galicia, Spain seems to be defying the laws of nature with his amazing malleable stone sculptures. His works are made out of natural materials like granite and iron oxide, from which he crafts his rock-like formations with folds, wrinkles and flaps as if they were made of clay or skin. Providing some of the stones’ fleshy appearance, one could say they almost appear to be alive. López achieves a magical effort. He doesn’t see rocks in the same way that other people do. Inspired by the mythology of his native Galician culture, he believes that stones are spirits of the land and, as an artist, it is his role to to conjure them. This is carved out of the solid material. He never uses glue. It is a miracle how José Manuel Castro López brings so much life to a stone. “Mi relación con la piedra no es física, sino mágica. Toda mi capacidad creativa va dirigida a establecer con el material una relación vital. Nos respetamos, nos entendemos, me obedece... somos amigos; no es un material inerte, vive, se manifiesta. (My relationship with the stone is not physical, but magical. My entire creative capability is directed to establish a living relation with the material. We respect each other, we understand each other, it obeys me… we are friends; it is not a lifeless material, it lives, it becomes manifest in itself)”. José Manuel Castro López

Artist:
José Manuel Castro López

A sculptor based in Coruña, Galicia, Spain seems to be defying the laws of nature with his amazing malleable stone sculptures. His works are made out of natural materials like granite and iron oxide, from which he crafts his rock-like formations with folds, wrinkles and flaps as if they were made of clay or skin, as if smiling and grimacing human faces are carved out of the solid material. Providing some of the stones’ fleshy appearance, one could say they almost appear to be alive. López achieves a magical effort. He doesn’t see rocks in the same way that other people do. Inspired by the mythology of his native Galician culture, he believes that stones are spirits of the land and, as an artist, it is his role to to conjure them. This is carved. He never uses glue. “Mi relación con la piedra no es física, sino mágica. Toda mi capacidad creativa va dirigida a establecer con el material una relación vital. Nos respetamos, nos entendemos, me obedece... somos amigos; no es un material inerte, vive, se manifiesta. (My relationship with the stone is not physical, but magical. My entire creative capability is directed to establish a living relation with the material. We respect each other, we understand each other, it obeys me… we are friends; it is not a lifeless material, it lives, it becomes manifest in itself)”. José Manuel Castro López

BABATUNDE OGUNLADE
BABATUNDE OGUNLADE OLUWAGBEMINIYI WAS BORN IN SEPTEMBER 23RD 1972, IN LAGOS STATE, HAIL FROM OGUN STATE, GRADUATED FROM FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC AUCHI EDO STATE, WITH UPPER CREDIT WHERE IN MAJOR IN PANITING, IN 2002. AFTER HIS NY.S.C IN KANO, HE RETURNED TO FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL STUDIO, HE HAS PARTICIPATED IN SO MANY GROUPS EXHIBITIONS. "MOST OF STYLES OF PAINTING ARE MOST IN ABSTRACT( A COMBINATION OF BASIC DESIGN AND MURAL.) MERGE TOGETHER WITH AFRICA CONCEPT, WHICH I DEVELOPED BY MYSELF OVER FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, SINCE THE YEAR OF GRADUATION FROM ART SCHOOL( AUCHI POLYTECHNIC AUCHI EDO STATE.), WITH WHAT I SEE IN MY ENVIRONMENT , WITH USE OF GEOMETRICAL SHAPES, WHICH CAN ACHIEVE WITH COLOURS , WITH THE USE OF KNIFE TO CREATE EFFECT ON MY CANVASS , AND HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR OVER FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE PRACTISE , WITH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL SHOW FOR MY CREDIT. BOTH IN HOME AND ABOARD."

Artist:
BABATUNDE OGUNLADE

BORN IN SEPTEMBER 23RD 1972, IN LAGOS STATE, HAIL FROM OGUN STATE

Education, Exhibitions

Education GRADUATED FROM FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC AUCHI EDO STATE, WITH UPPER CREDIT WHERE IN MAJOR IN PANITING, IN 2002. AFTER HIS NY.S.C IN KANO, HE RETURNED TO FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL STUDIO, HE HAS PARTICIPATED IN SO MANY GROUPS EXHIBITIONS Exhibitions SOLO ART EXHIBITION. 2016 '" MADE IN NIGERIA" AT MOORHOUSE ,HOTEL, LAGOS NIGERIA, 2013 " THE ROAD 1 " @ Owiwi Galleria de Arte Afrikakna , Belo Horizonte , Brazil 20013 " THE ROAD 2 " @ AC Minas Associao Commercial E Empersariel de Minas - Belo Horizonte Brazil. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 H.N.D FINAL YEAR EXHIBITION AT AUCHI POLYTECHNIC [NAFASS]. 2003 [SAY YES TO EDUCATION] AT HISTORY AND CULTURAL BUREAU KANO STATE. 2004 S.P.A.N SOCIETY FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS IN NIGERIA AT EKO HOTEL,V.I,LAGOS STATE. 2004 AUCHI HERITAGE [GROUPS OF ARTIST FROM AUCHI]. 2005 2ND[S.N.A]ART CAFE AT NATIONAL THEATRE LAGOS. 2005 ROYCO COOKING COMPETITION [SALON] AT TAFAWA BALEWA SQUARE LAGOS. 2006 CORA BOOKS AND ART FESTIVAL NATIONAL THEATRE IGANMU. 2007 [KONCORDANCE] GROUP OF ARTIST,AT NATIONAL MUSEUM LAGOS. 2008 [A.A.R.C]ART COMPETITION ON DEMOCRACY AT DIDI MUSEUM LAGOS. 2008 ART ON THE MAINLAND AT NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ART AND CULTURE,NATIONAL THEATRE LAGOS. 2008 50 ARTISTS,50 WORKS,50 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF [THINGS FALL APART] AT NATIONAL THEATRE LAGOS. 2009 ART N THE MAINLAND EXHIBITIONS AT NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ART AND CULTURE.LAGOS. 2010 ART CLIQUE GROUPS EXHIBITION [MOMENT IN TIME]AT NIKE GALLERY LEKKI LAGOS , 2010 AFRICAN ART AUCTION 1,AT NIKE GALLERY AND CULTURE LEKKI LAGOS. 2011 AIDA EXHIBITIONAT MARWA GARDEN LAGOS, 2009 ART BAZAR BY ARTZERO GROUP, 2010 ART FOR HEART, EXHIBITION AT MAGODO ENCOUNTER HOUSE,MAGODO PHASE 2 GRA LAGOS. 2010 ART FOR HEART EXHIBITION AT ENCOUNTER HOUSE,MAGODO PHASE 2 GRA LAGOS. 2011 AIDA ART EXHIBITIONS OF GROUPS OF ARTISTS@ RADISSON HOTEL ONIRU ,LEKKI ROAD LAGOS. 2012 NIGERIA BRAZIL CENTRE FOR BUSINESS AND CO- OPERATIVE,EXHIBITION OF YOUNGS NIGERIA ARTISTS @ BRAZIL . 2012 BATSADO ART GALLERY,MAGODO G.R.A,PHASE 2,BY ENCOUNTRE HOUSE. 2013 BATSADO ART GALLERY, MAGODO, G. R. A, PHASES 2, BY ENCOUNTER HOUSE, 2014 THOUGHT IN LINE, EXHIBITIONS OF PENCIL AND INK DRAWING, AT ALLIANCE DE FRANCIAS. ONIKE YABA LAGOS, 2014 VISUAL ARTS SOCIETY OF NIGERIA, ( VASON.) ART EXHIBITION AT MUSON CENTRE, 2014 BATSADO ART EXHIBITION, MAGODO G. R. A, PHASES 2,BY ENCOUNTER HOUSE, 2014 COMING OF AGE, GROUPS ART EXHIBITION, BY VASON, ( VISUAL ARTIST SOCIETY OF NIGERIAN.) 2014 OREZE 2, A ANNUAL GROUPS ART EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES, CERAMICS, IN HONOUR OF HIS, MAJESTY. ( NNAEMEKA ALFRED UGOCHUKWU ACHEBE, CFR, MNI, ) OBI OF ONITSHA, ( AGBOGIDI.), 2015 OREZE 3 ,A ANNUAL GROUPS ART EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES, CERAMICS, IN HONOUR OF HIS, MAJESTY. ( NNAEMEKA ALFRED UGOCHUKWU ACHEBE, CFR, MNI, ) OBI OF ONITSHA, ( AGBOGIDI.), 2016 FACE AND PHASES 4 ,AT TERRACULTURE ,TIAMIYU SAVAGE ,VICTORIAL ISLAND, LAGOS

MY PAINTING AS BEEN USED FOR COVERED BOOK AND MAGAZINE FOR UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOR DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN STUDIES ( UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS - GREAIS ,BELO - HORIZONTE BRAZIL 2013 ). AND SO MANY COMMISSION WORKS OF ART TO HIS CREDIT,AND HIS WORKS CAN BE FOUND BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PLACES. PRESENTLY HE BASE IN LAGOS, RUINING A STUDIO FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS. MOST OF STYLES OF PAINTING ARE MOST IN ABSTRACT (A COMBINATION OF BASIC DESIGN AND MURAL.) MERGE TOGETHER WITH AFRICA CONCEPT , WHICH I DEVELOPED BY MYSELF OVER FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, SINCE THE YEAR OF GRADUATION FROM ART SCHOOL ( AUCHI POLYTECHNIC AUCHI EDO STATE.), WITH WHAT I SEE IN MY ENVIRONMENT, WITH USE OF GEOMETRICAL SHAPES, WHICH CAN ACHIEVE WITH COLOURS, WITH THE USE OF KNIFE TO CREATE EFFECT ON MY CANVASS , AND HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR OVER FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE PRACTISE , WITH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL SHOW FOR MY CREDIT. BOTH IN HOME AND ABOARD.

COMMISSION OF WORKS

1, COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS BY ( PACIFIC HOLDINGS NIGERIA LIMITED.) 2004. 2, COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS FOR PRIVATE HOME BY. ( DR ADEDEJI ADELEKE.) CHAIRMAN PACIFIC HOLDINGS NIGERIA LIMITED, 2005. 3, MARKET SCENE PAINTING. BY ( VICTOR MBA A) U. S. A, 2000. 4, MURAL DECORATION, FOR ( ALAFIA. RETREAT CENTRE.) IFO OGUN - - STATE 5, COLLECTIONS OF ABSTARCT PAINTINGS BY ( MR KEVIN.) ATLANTA, U. S. A, 2007. 6, COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS BY. ( ALANI OGUNLADE.) STATE FARM INSURANCE AGENT, ATLANTA, GEROGIA U. S. A 2008 7, COLLECTIONS OF PAINTING. BY ( DR ADEDEJI ADELEKE.) OF PACIFIC HOLDINGS NIGERIA LIMITED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, 2010 8, COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS, BY NIKE GALLERY 2010. 9, COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS BY ART COLLECTOR AND GALLERY OWNER, ( KAKAFONI ART GALLERY. ) 2015. 10, Collections of Paintings BY ( BATSADO ART GALLERY) TO AKWA - IBOM GOVERNMENT HOUSE. 2011.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

( 1) SOCIETY OF NIGERIAN ARTIST. ( SNA.) ( 2) VISUAL ARTIST SOCIETY OF NIGERIA ( VASON.) ( 3.) ARTZERO GROUPS OF NIGERIAN ARTIST

Andrés Castellanos
Today Castellanos is best known for his urban landscape paintings although he does not like being referred to as a thematic painter. Castellanos says his main source of inspiration are the cities and the people with whom he lives, he aims to capture the day to day life as he sees it. Castellanos tends not to plan ahead when it comes to his next painting, he prefers to wander the streets of the cities he visits until he is struck by the perfect composition, he describes his works are windows into what he sees.

Artist:
Andrés Castellanos

Andres Castellanos was born and raised in Madrid, Spain, in 1956. In this city, he could visit and learn from the great masters present in the world-famous Prado Museum, where he was an official copyist for 4 years, and also gave him the opportunity to study painters like Velazquez, Goya, and Rubens at natural. At 20 he performed a portrait commissioned by the Army Ministry of King Juan Carlos I, which would be followed by others of Ministers and important dignitaries. Although it is in his creative and personal painting where he has achieved major accomplishments. Popular success came to him only in 1985 with "Bus stop", painting awarded and published in the main art circles in his country. That painting's promise was confirmed by succeeding awards, such as National Award Antonio Rincon, purchase C.O.I, and especially the Penagos Drawing Award, the highest distinction of drawing in Spain, being David Hokney the next one to be awarded. He has worked with the best galleries of realism in Spain. In 2007 he made a trip to the US where he met Frank Bernarducci, doing some collaborations with his gallery, as well as in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with M.A.Doran gallery. In 2013 he was invited by the art center of Endicott College, Massachusetts, to perform some improvement studies. Currently, he works with the Gallery Santiago Echevarria (Madrid) and Persterer Art Gallery in Zurich, and he is also involved in acts of Arcilla Foundation. He is represented in major collections in Spain (Museum MEAM), United States, Greece and other countries of Europe.

Academic history:

- Doctor of Fine Arts Faculty of Madrid - Professor of Artistic Anatomy Faculty of BBAA Madrid - IES Drawing Professor Gabriel García Márquez. - Teacher of ratrato, summer courses of the Complutense - Scholarship at the ENDICOTT COLLEGE · Beverly, Massachusetts.

Awards and Exhibitions:

- First Prize in the National Drawing Competition "Antonio Rincón". - Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors of the 20th century. - V Santander Art Fair. - Portrait SM Rey Juan Carlos I - Portraits of Ministers, Eguiagaray, Lerma, Jesus Posada. - Purchase of the IOC for the Lausane museum. - Collective exhibition "Miradas Urbana", Castelló 120 Gallery (Madrid) - First Prize XXV Call Penagos Award. - Painted Faces. Bernarducci Meisel Gallery. New York (USA) - Contemporary Realism 2008 MADoran Gallery. Tulsa (Oklahoma) - Persterer Gallery Contemporary Fine Art (Zürich) - 19th International Contemporary Art Fair. Kunst 13 - Fine Art Zürich 2014 - MEAM Museum (Barcelona) - Contemporary Realist Painting GOSS183. September 2015 - Complete Guide To Painting in Acrylics A QUARTO BOOK 2015 - Winner BBVA Painting Prize 2017 - NEW REALITY · Alicante- Elche - Murcia. Caja Mediterraneo FOUNDATION - PA · Idiosyncratic Monochromes, curated by Lorena Kloosterboer - The Encyclopedia of ACRYLIC Techniques by Hazel Harrison 2018 - "HYPERREALISM". MUSEUM of TABAC (Andorra); Juny to Setembre - 50 Years of Realism- at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Sao Paulo - 現代 ス ペ イ ン 語 の リ ア リ ズ ム "Contemporary Spanish Reaismo" HOKI MUSEUM (JAPAN)

Group Exhibitions

2019: 50 Years of Realism - Photorealism to Virtual Reality at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Plus One Gallery 2018: Hiperrealisme, Plus One Gallery Summer Show, Plus One Gallery 2017: Autumn Show, Plus One Gallery Winter Show, Plus One Gallery 2016: Official Opening Show, Plus One Gallery

Małgorzata Chodakowska
In her graceful sculptures, Malgorzata Chodakowska addresses the longing for inner peace, the search for inner balance - an ideal state that we consciously or unconsciously pursue all more or less. And so one is inevitably enthralled by their creations, which appear to us as soulful, individual beings. The human being - the measure of all things, from the ideal of the Greek high-class to the Renaissance to the present day, this theme has been devoted to whole generations of sculptors. Again and again, stimulating is the choice of motif for the dance as an expression of emotional feelings that communicate about the body language. Chodakowska confronts us with sculptures that appear extremely differentiated in their postures and physiognomies and thus symbolize very different characters. Some appear open and self-confident, while others are fragile and withdrawn, almost melancholy. The faces change as the figures move around, inner states of mind appear even more clearly.

Theme
Her recurring theme is the so-called "Stammfrau" (loosely, "archetypal woman"), usually carved from wood to give a life-sized or slightly larger than life-sized form. She told an interviewer in 2008, "Working with the human form enables me to feel as close as possible to the figure I am working on, and so I have the feeling that this is the form I can best compose sculpturally".

Artist:
Małgorzata Chodakowska

Małgorzata Chodakowska was born and grew up in the heart of Poland, at Łódź, where between 1980 and 1985 she attended the Liceum Sztuk Plastycznyc ("Fine Arts Secondary School"). In 1985 she enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw where she studied sculpture with Jan Kucz. Three years later, in 1988, she moved on again, this time to the Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna, in order to progress her studies further. Her prize-winning dissertation, which she submitted in 1991, was supervised by Bruno Gironcoli.

Education

since 1991 Freelance sculptor in Dresden / Germany 1988 Studies of sculpting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 1980 Secondary School of Arts in Łódź

Exhibitions

Wien, Graz (Österreich), Tokio (Japan), Dresden, Berlin, Radebeul, Zittau, Kisslegg, St.Petersburg (Russland), Stuttgart, Bad Schandau, Pirna, Wernigerode, Ulm, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Winningen, Wroclaw, Lodz (Polen), Großsedlitz, Glauchau, Veksolund (Dänemark), Rottach-Egern

Achievements

2015 First prize and realization of the fountain »Liebespaar« at civil registry office Radebeul / Germany 2011 Award Sculpture »I know it« for the most family-friendly corporation of Dresden 2010 First prize and realization of the memorial »tear sea« at Heide-Cemetery Dresden / Germany in remembrance of the victims of February 13th 1945 2005 Award-Sculpture »The Dreaming« for the Saxon Entrepreneur of the Year 1999 First prize and realization of the sculpture "Sunny Boy" in Radeberg / Germany, Humboldt Secondary School 1996 First prize and realization of the bronze "King and Queen" at Waldheim / Germany, AOK Education center

Xu Ming - Xu Ming
Today, real and fake realism paintings are mixed with each other, Xu Ming's works present a kind of attention worthy of attention. First of all, Xu Ming's oil paintings have a sense of permanence and tranquility. The communication and understanding of pictures is a mutual process, just like words and poetry. Many of Xu Ming's works are portraits, and the characters in the picture are static. "I think, for the state of painting, the painting mentality and life of the author plays an important role. In contrast, mindset is more important," says Xu ming. Xu Ming's paintings have a real illusion. What realism painting needs to be vigilant about is how to grasp the relationship between the reality of life and the illusion of art, which Ming's work reflects well. He has a solid basic skill, based on the use of gray tones, he has made great efforts in the exploration of the oil painting's ontological language. As he said himself: Oil painting, as a painting medium, carries the dream of every painter. Reality and illusory are its wings, which are indispensable. Only by combining the ontology of oil painting with artistic fantasy can we have the value of extraordinary.

Artist:
Xu Ming

Awards

Born in Kaili, Guizhou Province in March 1967, Han nationality, Xu Ming is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, president of Southern Painting Academy, currently living in Zhongshan, Guangdong, professional painter. His works have been published in special editions such as "Chinese Oil Painting", "Chinese Art Museum", "Collection and Appreciation", "Southern Oil Painting", "Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting" and "Chinese Oil Painter".

Exhibitions

1990: The oil painting "Be Waiting" participated in the Guizhou Oil Painting Exhibition; 2005: The print work "Yin Shan Yang Shan" participated in the 17th National Print Exhibition and was collected by the Guizhou Art Museum. In the same year, he was rated as an outstanding artist in Guizhou Province. The exhibition location: Guiyang Art Museum. 2006: The oil painting "Wind and Warm Spring Movement" participated in the 3rd Western Land and Land Art Exhibition in Guiyang Art Museum; 2007: Participated in the 2nd National Lacquer Painting Exhibition; oil painting "Warm Light at the Window" participated in the Lingnan Oil Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of China and won the excellent prize; oil painting "Breeze" participated in the Centennial Zhongshan Art Exhibition held by the China Art Museum 2008: The oil painting "Warm Light at the Window" participated in the 3rd Guangdong Oil Painting Art Exhibition; 2009: The oil painting "Warm Light in Front of the Window" participated in the first National Art Education Academic Exhibition and won an excellent prize. Exhibition location: China Art Museum; 2010: Painting "my school" to participate in the Guangdong Art Exhibition; oil painting "High Noon" to participate in Guizhou Art Exhibition and won a bronze medal; painting "Noon" the Eleventh National Art Exhibition; painting as a "nest" should Germany Official invitation to exhibit in Frankfurt; oil painting "Note" to participate in "Research and Transcend" the second national small oil painting exhibition, exhibition location: China Art Museum; oil painting "Noon 2" to participate in "oil painting art and contemporary society" Chinese oil painting exhibition Exhibition location: National Art Museum of China; eight paintings of the oil painting "Landscape" participated in the "Gao Yuanfeng" Guizhou Oil Painting Macao Exhibition, exhibition location: Lin Zexu Memorial Museum, Macau; was selected as an outstanding artist in Guizhou Province; 2011: The oil painting "I Love

Achievements

2012: The oil painting "Hanzi" participated in the Guangdong Youth Art Exhibition and won the silver prize; 2010: oil painting "Noon" participated in the Guizhou Art Exhibition and won the bronze prize;

Miguel Angel Nuñez

Artist:
Miguel Angel Nuñez

Education, Exhibitions, Awards

Education 1984-1998 Escuela Municipal de Artes Plasticas y Visuales de Maldonado. Con el maestro Carlos Tonelli. 2008- 2009 Fundación ARAUCO Madrid - España Exhibitions PRINCIPALES EXPOSICIONES- Desde 2002 de forma permanente en Galerias de la Ciudadela- Punta del Este - Montevideo 2002 - Ministerio Relaciones Exteriores - Palacio Santos - Montevideo 2003 - Trench Gallery - Buenos Aires - Argentina 2013- Espacio de Arte Roberto Camassmie - Sao Paulo- Brasil 2015- Galeria Sacca & Zilkha- Panamá 2016- Botticelli Art- Alcoy- Alicante España 2016- Galeria Renoir - Buenos Aires - Argentina Awards • 1990. V Salón Departamental Maldonado. • 1991. XX. Salón del interior San José de Mayo. • 1996. XV. Salón Nacional de arte joven. Sala Vaz Ferreira Biblioteca Nacional. Salón de Arte Junta Departamental de Maldonado. • 1997. XXV. Salón del interior- San José de Mayo. Premio Punta del Este del Ministerio de Turismo. • 1998. VII. Salón de la Primavera- Salto. • 1999. XXVIII. Salón Nacional de Arte Joven, Sala Pedro Figari, Biblioteca Nacional. XI. Salón de Pintura Marítima, Club Naval, sede centro. I.Salón de Arte Joven Mosca- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Montevideo. •2000. XII. Salón Pintura Marítima Club Naval- Sede Carrasco. •2001. XXVI. Salón del interior San José de Mayo. XX. Salón Nacional Arte Joven. Sala INJU. • 2002. Salón departamental de Maldonado.- Museo de San Fernando. 2013. Primer Premio I er Concurso Realismo en la Pintura. España 2015. Mención Honorifica mes de Agosto en Exhibition of Art By The World

Cajal paintings
When we talk about hyperrealism, the word photography always appears, but the reality is that each artist works differently, according to their own ideas, desires, and goals. López's work is the search for the perfect work, and in that search the simple copy is insufficient, so his works are a unique creation of various references: combining notes, sketches, photographs, color tests, observation of nature, etc … This is to get the work he has in mind, above and beyond any reference. Composition, as a general base and stabilizing element, has become his obsession, to achieve a harmonious and orderly set; and the color, which in his case takes on special importance, being at times a barrier that can be made almost impassable, a tough challenge that has taken him to the limit more than once.

Artist Statement:
"One day, I decided to change an element of the landscape. Since this moment, it became a kind of obsession the fact of trying to obtain an equilibrated ensemble going beyond the referent; working sometimes with a lot of images for only a painting trusting my intuition, because it is possible to foresee with accuracy the final result". "According to the composition, I usually take profit of closer elements in order to equilibrate the “visual weights” and give more strength and/ or depth to the landscapes. I also usually change or modify some elements, trying to find the ensemble stability. Of course, I also look for a colour equilibrium avoiding as much as possible contrasts or stridencies, which could stray from the attention focused on the important elements".

Artist:
José Manuel Cajal López

Exhibitions

2018 – Q-Gallery. Ootmarsum. Holanda. 2017 – “Algo más que realismo” 2016 – Q-Gallery. Holland. 2016 – Galería Gaudí. Madrid. 2015 – Q-Gallery. Ootmarsum. Holanda. 2014 – Q-Gallery. Holland. 2013 – Plus One Gallery. London. 2013 – Lapada art fair. London (by Plus One Gallery). 2013 – Permanenet exhibition on the MEAM museum. Spain. 2013 – “Algo más que realismo VII” Galería Artelibre. Zaragoza (Spain). 2012 – Sammer Gallery. Spain. 2012 – Galería Rincón del Arte. Granada. Spain. 2012 – Q-Gallery. Holland. 2012 – Galería Mellado. Madrid. 2011 – Q-Gallery. Holland. 2011 – Sammer Gallery. Spain. 2011 – “Algo más que realismo V” Galería Artelibre.Spain. 2010 – Galería Sokoa. Madrid. 2010 – “Algo más que realismo IV” Galería Artelibre.Spain 2009 – Sammer Gallery. Puerto Banús. 2008 – Galería Cuadro. Dubái. 2008 – Galería Mellado. Madrid. 2008 – Petley Fine Art Gallery. Mayfair. London. 2007 – Sammer Gallery. Puerto Banús. 2006 – Exposición colectiva en Feria de Valladolid 2006 – Holland Fair Art. La Haya 2006 – Puro Arte. Vigo. 2006 – Museo del Calzado. Elda. Spain. 2006 – CEU de San Pablo. Elche. Spain. 2006 – Centro Cultural de Petrer. Spain. 2006 – Centro Cultural de Sax.. 2006 – Feria internacional de Arte contemporáneo Marb-Art. Marbella. Spain 2005 – Galería Ra del Rey. Madrid 2005 – Feria internacional LINEART. Gante (Bélgica) 2004 – Exposición de pintura al Óleo: Centro cultural Julio Cortazar.

Cajal has always loved drawing. When he was a child, he used to fill plenty of papers and class notebooks. He felt very comfortable in this way. Regarding the color, it was not the same. He remembers his drawing lessons at school, where children used to use their color pencils without any problem, whereas for him it, was quite difficult to distinguish and to choose the colour to utilize. He finally took the decision to go to the ophthalmologist and after doing the Farnsworth test, was diagnosed with colour blindness. But it didnot stopp him from pursuing his dream.

"One day, I decided to change an element of the landscape. Since this moment, it became a kind of obsession the fact of trying to obtain an equilibrated ensemble going beyond the referent; working sometimes with a lot of images for only a painting trusting my intuition, because it is possible to foresee with accuracy the final result". "According to the composition, I usually take profit of closer elements in order to equilibrate the “visual weights” and give more strength and/ or depth to the landscapes. I also usually change or modify some elements, trying to find ensemble stability. Of course, I also look for a color equilibrium avoiding as much as possible contrasts or stridencies, which could stray from the attention focused on the important elements".

PUBLICATIONS:

-Artículo en: Estrella de Oro. (Publicación impresa) 2010 -Artículo en: Diseño en la ciudad. (Publicación impresa/digital)) 2013 -Artículo en: El imparcial. (Periódico digital) 2013 -Artículo en Foromuseos: Internet 2013. -Artículo en: Menéame. (Periódico digital) -Entrevista para la Universidad de Las Palmas. -Entrevistas para la Politécnica de Valencia, área de restauración.2012

Apooyin Mufutau
Lagos, Nigeria
Mufutau has a strong passion for water, which is why most of his paintings feature sea, rivers, and lakes. Prominent among his works is a series of paintings on Oko-Baba, Makoko waters and other riverine areas in Lagos and Nigeria at large. His interest lies largely in the rendition of ripples and reflections of objects in the water and on the wet ground during and after rain. Mufu incredibly paints the ripples so real to the point of creating an illusion of moving water on his canvas. He has participated in several group exhibitions at home and abroad and has equally executed notable commission jobs while his works adorn many private and public places.

Artist:
Apooyin Mufutau

Apooyin Mufutau was born in Lagos in 1976. He obtained the Higher National Diploma (HND) with distinction in Painting from the famous Yaba College of Technology, Lagos in 2002. Before then he trained under Abiodun Olaku – one of the foremost realist landscape artists in Nigeria. Apooyin has won several awards including the Kolade Oshinowo award for Landscape Artist of the year organized by the Society of Nigerian Artists, Lagos Chapter. He is one of the founding members of Koncordance Art Group and had a stint at the National Gallery of Art (Lagos) between 2004 and 2006. He is a full-time studio artist practicing in Lagos and has had a handful of exhibitions and public commissions.

JRubiales Photorealism
Rubiales is a proper photorealist in the Americana-ised sense, dealing with graffiti'd city streets and vignettes of glossy consumerism. Those in the relevant art-study field can't help but notice Rubiales loving reference or intentional homage to the photorealist great Chuck Close, but his seemingly cynical anti-commercial twist on it plays out in his Beatles set or his Disneyworld set sets his work above and beyond the duty of rational creators of realism.

Themes
"voyeurs" "drops" "still lifes" "vibrated" "the fair"

Artist:
JRubiales

Jrubiales was born in Ontinyent, (Valencia), in 1966. His career in the world of painting began in 1996. Since then he has been trying to make a painting that talks about him, his surroundings and his experiences. It was in inter-Art (Valencia), where he discovered the works of Joan Castejón and Ribera de Berenguer, it is what made him enter the world of figurative painting. From that moment, he sought for art rooms in which this type of painting was given special treatment like Santiago Etxeberria, (Madrid) and Fornara Gallery (Marbella). Finally, He no longer yawned from many of the exhibitions he visited. In 1999, he made his first exhibition (Expo-Arte Gallery, Madrid) where he sold all his art works. Then he has been exhibiting in groups: Lisbon (Current Gallery), Madrid (Expo-Arte Gallery and Mada Primavesi), Valencia (Thema). Art fairs INTERART, Marb-Art, Arte-Ando, ​​Irún (Bilbao), Arte-Sevilla. He currently exhibits permanently at Fornara Gallery.

Artist Statement

"In the 80s, I introduced himself very much in the new cultural movements. He followed Richard Corben (comics), El Hortelano, Ceesepe, he listened to the "Ramones", "The Clash", the "Velvet", etc, to Spanish "indies" groups like "Demolitions, Paralysis, La Mode" etc, I read fanzines, visited museums and art galleries and am less interested in less commercial cinema. Self-taught, it takes me a long time to dedicate myself 100% to the profession of a painter. I thought it would cost me a lot to live from this and for this trade and of course, it was."

Mark Oberndorf Fine Art
Mark Oberndorf's artistic goal is to capture the mood of his subject through intelligent observation and execution of all-natural light effects, alongside faithful rendering of perspective and creative composition. Most recently, his focus has been on capturing communal landmarks in pre-gentrified neighborhoods in Bergen County, NJ, and New York City, before their imminent demolition. These structures are fundamental to the visual history of the county and city but are in danger of being lost forever under the guise of progress.

Cesar Santander - Artist's Statement
"Once I conceive an idea for a painting, I arrange the objects and then use the camera to produce the strongest photographic example of my original idea. Then I paint the photographic image. Superficially, I appear to copy the photograph, but I make many adjustments to the photographic image as I complete the painting. I try to impose my own vision by subtle adjustment of colours, edges and details so that the finished painting is the strongest representation of the original idea." - Cesar Santander

Artist:
Cesar Santander

Born in June 26, 1947, near Cadiz, Spain, Cesar Santander received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1969 and MFA in 1972. He began painting full time in 1980 and has had solo shows in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London, England. He has been painting in a photorealist style of almost 30 years. His specialty is still life objects, toys, antique boxes, and other nostalgic items. Cesar’s photorealist paintings vary in subject matter from food to vintage toys. His donuts and crayon paintings are among his most famous. Cesar is represented by Gallery Henoch in New York City, Plus One Gallery in London, and Gallery Biba on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Education: 1975-77 Florida International University, Florida 1972 Pratt Institute, New York, M.F.A. 1969 New York University, New York 1969 Pratt Institute, New York, B.F.A.

Exhibitions

2020 A Dash of Red, Rehs Contemporary Galleries, New York 2019 Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts at CONTEXT Art Miami 2019, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY at Texas Contemporary 2019, ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY 2019 Five and Under, ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY, Pasadena 2018 Rehs Contemporary Galleries at Texas Contemporary 2018, Rehs Contemporary Galleries 2018 Romantics, Rehs Contemporary Galleries 2005 Plus One Gallery, London, England 2003 Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario 2001 Modernism Inc., San Francisco, California 1999 Modernism, San Francisco, Recent Paintings 1998 Gallery Henoch, New York, Recent Paintings 1996 Bruce Lewin Gallery, New York, Movie Goddesses 1991 Gallery Henoch, New York, Recent Paintings 1988 Sarnia Public Library and Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Toys and Carousels 1988 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, New Paintings 1986 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, Carousel Paintings 1985 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, New Paintings 1985 Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Paintings; 1979-85 1983 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, Paintings of Toys 1982 Nancy Poole's Studio, Toronto, Recent Paintings 1981 Harris Gallery, London, Ontario, Still Life Paintings 1974 Miami Art Center, Miami, Sepia Prints 1972 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Drawings and Prints

"Once I conceive an idea for a painting, I arrange the objects and then use the camera to produce the strongest photographic example of my original idea. Then I paint the photographic image. Superficially, I appear to copy the photograph, but I make many adjustments to the photographic image as I complete the painting. I try to impose my own vision by subtle adjustment of colours, edges and details so that the finished painting is the strongest representation of the original idea." - Cesar Santander

Selected Public Collections

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario Art Gallery of St. Thomas/Elgin, St. Thomas, Ontario Burdines Department Stores, Miami CFPL T.V., London, Ontario Chase Manhattan Bank, New York Clarkson-Gordon Collection, Toronto Connor, Clark, Toronto F.H. Deacon Hodgson, Toronto Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario London Free Press, London, Ontario London Life Insurance Company, London, Ontario Mariposa Communications, Toronto, Ontario Northern Life Insurance Corporation, London, Ontario Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia Sifton Properties Limited, London, Ontario University Hospital, London, Ontario Victoria Hospital, London, Ontatio Walt Disney Company, Pasadena Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Nikolai Pozdneev. Paintings of 1950-1970s
In the 1960s and 1970s life of Nikolai Pozdneev, like many other artists, clearly divided into two seasons: a city period from a late fall through April and countryside period from April to November. Life in the city consisted of putting the customer and works to find new art contracts, Art Show, Artists' Union, contacts with friends and neighbors of the city art studio. Summertime at first of all is creativity, paint from life. Living and working at the "Academichka", Nikolai Pozdneev not only painted many of his best works but also formed his unique individual manner thanks to which his works become a phenomenon in the Leningrad Union of Artists. All the subsequent bright, brief, and dramatic fate of Nikolai Pozdneev was closely associated with the picturesque surroundings of the Academic Dacha and Tver lands. He had lived and worked in the village of Maliy Gorodok in the house of his wife Vera Vasilievna.

Unknown Socialist Realism: The Leningrad School of Painting 1920-1990s - Introduction
It is well known that two principal movements in the 20th century’s art – namely, abstract art and the art of socialist realism – emerged, found their classics and took the shape of theoretical systems not only in one and the same country but also in the same center of European culture. Both movements should be attributed to St Petersburg – Petrograd – Leningrad. It is far less known that both movements fed upon the tradition of Russian art and sprang from the same art school. By the middle of the 20th century Leningrad had become perhaps the only European cultural center to have preserved the world-famous school of easel painting based on the continuous development of age-long traditions of the national and European painting. The history of the Leningrad school of painting spans the period from 1930 through to the early 1990s. Having emerged in the time of hottest discussions on the development of art and art education in the USSR, it became the missing link that allowed for the preservation of national realist painting and provided for its further advance in the epoch of socialism. The Leningrad school proper usually refers to the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the period between 1932 and the early 1990s, including its traditions, teachers, alumni and their art works. In its broader sense, the Leningrad school may also include a number of higher and secondary education establishments closely connected with the Repin Institute as well as the Leningrad Union of Artists in the period between its foundation in 1932 and the early 1990s. All that being true, the Leningrad school should be primarily understood as a unique alloy of personalities drawn from the richest and finest rock containing the least possible amount of impurities that had been searched for in the depths of the country, processed by the world’s finest smelter and cast in the furnace of the epoch.

Artists
About 1,200 artists may be said to belong to the Leningrad school of painting. Approximately 400 of them formed its distinguishing features in different periods and different genres. In the 1930s through the 1950s the following artists were brought up by the school: E. Antipova, T. Afonina, E. Baykova, N. Baskakov, P. Belousov, O. Bogaevskaya, A. Vasiliev, I. Veselkin, R. Vovkushevsky, N. Galakhov, V. Golubev, E. Gorokhova, I. Dobrekova, G. Yegoshin, A. Eremin, M. Zheleznov, V. Zagonek, M. Zubreeva, R. Zakharian, M. Kaneev, E. Kozlov, M. Kopitseva, B. Korneev, A. Koroviakov, E. Kostenko, B. Lavrenko, A. Laktionov, O. Lomakin, D. Maevsky, E. Moiseenko, V. Monakhova, N. Mukho, A. Mylnikov, M. Natarevich, S. Nevelshtein, A. Nenartovich, Yu. Neprintsev, D. Oboznenko, V. Ovchinnikov, L. Orekhov, V. Oreshnikov, S. Osipov, V. Otiev, N. Pozdneev, A. Pushnin, L. Russov, G. Savinov, A. Semionov, V. Serov, E. Skuin, A. Sokolov, V. Teterin, N. Timkov, V. Tokarev, M. Trufanov, Yu. Tulin, V. Tulenev, B. Ugarov, Yu. Khukhrov, V. Chekalov, B. Shamanov, A. Shmidt, N. Shteinmiller, L. Yazgur and many other famous and half-forgotten artists. Basic elements of the Leningrad school – namely, a higher art education establishment of a new type and a unified professional union of Leningrad artists, were created by the end of 1932. However, it took several more years to gather faculty members and organize art education in a new way. In 1934 Isaak Brodsky, a disciple of Ilya Repin was appointed director of the National Academy of Arts and the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Brodsky invited most distinguished painters and pedagogues to teach at the Academy. Education of future painters was based on a thorough study of drawing, composition, painting and art history. Requirements for applicants became stricter; preliminary courses and the so called. For more details please see Historical outline: http://www.leningradartist.com/outline.htm

Art Heritage
It was thanks to their efforts that traditions of the Russian school of painting were preserved and developed. For all problems and faults of the formative years, methods of art teaching and general structure of art education adopted in the 1930 proved very successful. These methods remain relevant up to the present; they are universally recognized as the standard of art education and adopted all over the world. At present paintings of masters of the Leningrad School recide in stocks of major art museums and private collections in Russia and abroud. This school brought up eminent artists whose creative eagerness was akin to that of the old great masters. They were distinguished by the true love for the Motherland. Endowed with many talents, they were mysteriously spiritual and scorned universal mercantilism as the ultimate aim of human kind. Inseparable from the history of its century, this art will be admired by new generations not only for its skillfulness and beauty but also for its dreaminess and revolutionary romanticism, liveliness of its images, historical optimism, sincere belief in the creative and reforming ability of art, and clear understanding of involvement and personal responsibility of the artist for the fate of Motherland and the course of history.

Vladimir Ovchinnikov (1911-1978). Paintings of 1950-1970s
Since the early 1950s works of Vladimir Ovchinnikov has consistently exhibited in Leningrad, All-Russian, and All-Union Art exhibitions, attracting the attention of high culture of painting and a special insight into the world of nature. His leading genre becomes a landscape, main forms – nature studies, and large landscape-painting. In the panoramic landscapes, he has sought to cover a larger space, the image of the set clearly readable plans. Well-known examples of paintings of this period include the work On the Volga(1951),[4] Evening. At the well (1953),[5] Dnieper cliffs (1955),[6] Spring (1956),[7] Along the banks of the Dnieper (1957),[8] and others. They are distinguished by a refined flavor, richness of tone relations, the use of various textures painting. . In 1953, after the show at the exhibition a series of such works carried out in Ukraine, Vladimir Ovchinnikov accepts as a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. Vladimir Ovchinnikov has had a few particularly productive periods, both in quantity and quality of painted works and their effect on all subsequent works of the artist. In 1953–1955 this period was associated with travel to the city of Kanev on the Dnieper River. Delighted with the beauty of the Dnieper banks, the artist painted many sketches, expressing alive, the immediate impression of a majestic image what he saw. These include the work of Before the Rain (1954), Evening on the Dnieper River (1956),[9] On the bank of the Dnieper (1956),[10] A Night (1957),[11] and others. It was during this period known as "Kanevsky" paintings of Ovchinnikov gets its breadth, magnitude, color, and tonality, which subsequently constitute important features of his individual style. According to these features of his works will be unmistakable at the art shows. In the late 1950s, Ovchinnikov had traveled at the lower Volga River and the Caspian Sea. New bright impressions capture him. Southern nature, filled with sun and light, was very close to

Artist:
Vladimir Ovchinnikov

Education

In 1931 Vladimir Ovchinnikov graduated from Saratov Art College and moved to Leningrad, where he entered the Repin Institute of Arts. In 1931-1941 Vladimir Ovchinnikov studied on Painting Department of Repin Institute of Arts, then in Vasily Savinsky Art Studio, then at the Leningrad Institute of Improvement qualification of Art workers. Pupil of Pavel Naumov, Alexander Karev, Rudolf Frentz. More detail info about artist Biography, Career, and Artistic Creativity, as well as Bibliography please see on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ovchinnikov_%28painter%29

Exhibitions

Since early 1950s Vladimir Ovchinnikov participates in exhibitions of Leningrad artists. List of Principal Exhibitions please see on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ovchinnikov_%28painter%29 Among them: * Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951. Exhibition Catalogue. Leningrad, Lenizdat Edition, 1951. P. 15. * Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956. Exhibition Catalogue. Leningrad, Leningrad Union of Artists Edition, 1958. P. 18. * 1917 - 1957. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1957. Exhibition Catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1958. P. 23. * Travelling Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. Murmansk, Leningrad Union of Artists, 1957. * All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. Moscow, Soviet artist, 1957. P. 55. * Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1958. Exhibition Catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1959. P. 20. * Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1961. P. 29. * Soviet Russia republic exhibition of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. Moscow, Ministry of culture of Russian Federation, 1960. P. 60. * Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Exhibition catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1964. P. 29. * Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962. Exhibition Catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1962. P. 20. * The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965. P. 37. * Soviet Russia the Third Republic Exhibition of 1967. Catalogue. Moscow, Ministry of culture of Russian Federation, 1967. P. 42. * The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1968. Catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1971. P. 12. * The Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1971. Catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. P. 13. * Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975. Catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik

Lev Russov (1926-1987). Paintings of 1950-1980s - Portraits
For ten years, Russov created a gallery of portraits that enriched the various types of modern portraiture. In the work on the portrait, Rusov manages to grab the fleeting state of the model, which, with prolonged posing, eludes most artists. He knows how to keep this first impression to the end and convey to the viewer. Therefore, in his works, nature is alive, and this feeling of a lively look of living people is almost the most exciting in the artist's portraits. Along with the expressiveness of the form, the portraits of Russov are distinguished by the depth and psychologism of the images, careful selection, and study of the model.

Still Life
Still-life in the works of Russov is closely connected with the colorful and compositional tasks that the artist set for himself in the work on the portrait. Hence the sharpness and freshness of compositional solutions, the internal dramatic and tension in his works of this genre.

Artist:
Lev Russov

Education

In 1947 Lev Russov graduated of Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad. In 1948-1950 Lev Russov studied at the Painting Department of the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad, pupil of Yuri Neprintsev, Genrikh Pavlovsky. In 1955 Lev Russov was admitted to the Leningrad Union of the Soviet Artists. More detail info about artist Biography, Career, and Artistic Creativity, as well as Bibliography please see on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Russov

Exhibitions

Since the middle of 1950s Lev Russov participates in exhibitions of Leningrad artists. List of Principal Exhibitions please see on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Russov Among them: * Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. Каталог. Л., Изогиз, 1954. С.17. * Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1955 года. Каталог. Л., ЛССХ, 1956. С.16. * Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1956 года. Каталог. Л., Ленинградский художник, 1958. С.21. * 1917 — 1957. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников. Каталог. Л., Ленинградский художник, 1958. С.28. * Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1961. С.35. * Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.34. * Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1980 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. С.22. * Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950—1980 годов. Каталог. СПб., 1994. С.6. * Этюд в творчестве ленинградских художников. Выставка произведений. Каталог. СПб., 1994. С.6. * Лирика в произведениях художников военного поколения. Живопись. Графика. Каталог. СПб., 1995. С.6. * Живопись 1940—1990 годов. Ленинградская школа. Выставка произведений. СПб., 1996. С.4. * Натюрморт в живописи 1940—1990 годов. Ленинградская школа. Каталог выставки. СПб., 1997. С.4. * 80 лет Санкт-Петербургскому Союзу художников. Юбилейная выставка. СПб., Цветпринт, 2012. С.208.

Alexander Shandor
Alexander Shandor is a dedicated Ukrainian painter who has exhibited his work in Ukraine and Russia. From his delicate still lifes to serene landscapes, he creates works marked by a sensory touch and careful hand.

Artist:
Alexander Shandor

Alexander Shandor was born in Ukraine, city Vinogradov, Transcarpathian region in 1981. He studied at the Erdeli College of Arts in Uzhhorod, at the department of metal processing in the studio and under the mentorship of professors Petretsky, Lukac, and Mykhailyuk. Shandor is a Member of many Ukrainian and international exhibitions and Plein air. His works are in private collections, galleries of Ukraine and abroad.

Biography

2015 winter - overall exhibition "Mitets Verkhovyna" Hust city on the day of 50th anniversary Summer 2015 - after the plein-air exhibition of the city of Rakhiv Autumn 2015 - a total exhibition dedicated to the Day of the artist in the gallery "Ilko" city Uzhhorod Autumn 2015 - regional exhibition city of Uzhgorod Autumn 2015 - personal exhibition in the city of Kiev in the Kiev University of Law PMC NASU. Spring 2014 - Exhibition "March 8" town Hust - art gallery. Spring 2014 - after the plein-air exhibition gallery Slavsko "Mahіm." 2014 summer - total exhibition "Mitets Verkhovyna" Gallery in the city Vinohrady -Gallery "Impasto". Autumn 2014 - Exhibition Gallery of the city of Moscow "Art Summer" Autumn 2014 - regional exhibition city of Uzhgorod 2013 - Exhibition "Hutsul year" Ivano-Frankivsk, the exhibition hall in Ivano-Frankivsk regional branch of the National Union of Artists. Spring 2013 - after the plein-air exhibition of the city of Sevastopol gallery "South Hermitage". Autumn 2013 - after the plein-air exhibition of the city of Sevastopol gallery "South Hermitage". 2012 - All-Ukrainian exhibition of plein air "Bukovel" - "Rhapsody sea and mountain" Ivano-Frankivsk, drama theater. 2012 - was admitted to the Youth Union "Transcarpathian artists." 2012 winter - overall youth exhibition city of Uzhgorod. 2012 winter - Ukrainian exhibition "Christmas", Central House of Artists, Kiev. 2011 - personal exhibition of the city Hust. 2011 - participated in the charity event "entrepreneurs Babies" city Uzhhorod. 2007 - was admitted to the Creative People's Association "Artist Verhoviny" in Hust.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions: 2019 winter - exhibition "In search of" Vinogradov Impasto Gallery 2018 summer - Personal exhibition "Polesie and Transcarpathia" - city of Zhytomyr, gallery "Gnatyuk Art Center" 2017 – exhibition "Carpathian Paths" Gallery "Zavalny ARTTsenter, Kyiv, Ukraine 2016 - exhibition "Symphony of the Carpathians" Gallery "Palmgren Madame", L’viv, Ukraine 2015 - exhibition "My Carpathians", Kyiv Law University NAS PMC, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 - Gallery "Art Summer", Moscow, Russia 2011 - Hust Art Gallery, Hust, Ukraine Group exhibitions: 2016 - Christmas exhibition, City Art Gallery, Hust, Ukraine 2016 - exhibition "Spring", City Art Gallery, Hust, Ukraine 2015 - "Mitets Verkhovyna"At the City Art Gallery dedicated to the 50th anniversary, Hust, Ukraine 2015 - Day of Creative Arts exhibition, Gallery "Ilko", Uzhhorod, Ukraine 2015 - Uzhhorod regional exhibition, Ukraine 2014 - exhibition "International Women’s Day", City Art Gallery, Hust, Ukraine 2014 - "Verkhovyna (Highlander) Artist" at the Gallery "Impasto", Vinohradiv, Ukraine 2014 - Uzhhorod regional exhibition, Ukraine 2013 - exhibition "Hutsul’s Year", regional exhibition hall of the National Union of Artists, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 2012 - young artists exhibition, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 2012 - Ukrainian exhibition "Christmas", Kyiv, Uraine

Cesar Biojo
Interested in the way we humans perceive ourselves as a part of the universe.His work focuses on the emotions that we consider as "negative" in our moral system, since, he believes, they confront our human nature making it more latent and visible. Taking as starting point the quote of Jean Paul Sartre, "The gaze of the other makes us aware of ourselves", his work becomes an introspective study of human beings, their conflicts, their nature and existence.

Artist:
Cesar Biojo

Cesar Biojo (1981, Cali/Colombia) holds degrees in Fine Arts and Art History from Florida State University and currently works on a Ph.D. in Art Research from the University of Barcelona. His works are oil portraits created from pictorial resources that are destroyed immediate leaving evidence behind. This way the concept of time is introduced, connotating concepts inherent in the human being such as creation and destruction, the perishable and ephemeral. His work recovers in some cases post-impressionist styles, resulting in a personal language that makes his art project one of the most interesting in the contemporary scene. His work has taken part in a number of national and international exhibitions. He lives and works in Barcelona/Spain.

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Still, Artevistas Gallery, Barcelona Still, Artevistas gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Aydin Büyüktas - Flatland
Photographer and artist Aydin Büyütkaş has created a surreal view of Istanbul using a camera-equipped drone. His series, titled "Flatland", was inspired by science fiction books — especially Edwin Abbott's "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" — that brought wild visions of imaginary worlds to his mind. He decided he wanted to bring them to life with innovative photography. Büyütkaş carefully planned each of these images using a 3D software that allowed him to explore all possible shooting locations throughout Istanbul. Below are the surreal photos, which he said took two months of planning.

Artist's Statement
" We live in places that most of the times don’t draw our attention, places that transform our memories, places that the artist gives another dimension; where the perceptions that generally crosses our minds will be demolished and new ones will arise, these works aim to leave the viewer alone with a surprising visuality ironic as well, multidimensional romantic point of view. "

Artist:
Aydin Büyüktas

Education

Aydın Büyüktaş, who was born in Ankara in 1972, dropped out form Bilkent University Tourism Management Department because it was not his future dream. After moving to Istanbul in 2000’s, he took charge in many awarded movies and advertising drives, while he is working for avant-garde companies such as Sinefekt and Makinefx after having improved himself in the fields of visual effect, 3D, animation and video. He started to give priority to freelance works after his character, which was designed by him in the form of 3D in 2008, gained international popularity. While he interested in Photography, he also has been continuing his academic education at the department of photography of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University since 2012. Turkish photographer and digital artist Aydın Büyüktaş turns the streets of Istanbul upside down in these warped cityscapes that appear to curve infinitely upward and outward toward the skies. While it’s tempting to draw parallels with stunning visuals from the 2010 movie Inception, the artist says his true inspiration is taken from the 1884 satirical novella Flatland that depicts a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. In this series, also titled Flatland, Büyüktaş photographed canals, bazaars, skate parks, and bridges with the aid of a drone and then digitally stitched them together as dramatically inverted spaces without a visible horizon. You can see more of his gravity-defying work on Instagram. All images courtesy the artist. (via Designboom)

EXHIBITIONS

2017: PALACE SOESTDIJK, BAARN NETHERLAND “TRANSFORMATIE” AS FOLLOWERS OF ESCHER WITH ESCHER’S ORGINAL WORKS. “FLATLAND I – II” MATTER GALLERY , TORONTO CANADA “FLATLAND 2” SOLO EXHIBITION PHOTO ART GALLERY, EPSON HEADQUARTER, LONDON UK “FLATLAND” SOLO EXHIBITION AIPAD PHOTOGRAPY FAIR, NEW YORK USA DILLON + LEE GALLERY “FLATLAND I – II” MATTER GALLERY, TORONTO CANADA “FLATLAND” 2016: ART MIAMI , MIAMI DILLON GALLERY , NEW YORK “FLATLAND” MUSEUM FUR GESTALTUNG, ZURICH “FLATLAND – BUILDING WORLDS” FOTOISTANBUL, ISTANBUL “FLATLAND” BOZLU ART PROJECT, ISTANBUL “FOTOTAKSIS – FEAR” BOZLU ART PROJECT, ISTANBUL “FLATLAND” 2015: ART01, ADANA “FLATLAND – BEREKETLI TOPRAKLAR” ARTIST 2015, ISTANBUL “FLATLAND – DIGITAL OBSCURA”

Adam Martinakis
The advent of the new era is coming along with a lot of challenges to human behavior, the perception of time, relations and even arts. A lot of things are changing and others seem to remain the same. Adam Martinakis is a digital artist who has been trying to investigate the new creative duality. His computer-generated artworks employ aspects of photorealism and surrealism to explore the human condition which he says results in a “mixture of post-fantasy futurism and abstract symbolism”. Frozen in space and time, these anthropomorphic models seem to be investigating notions of love, eroticism, bliss and pain, hoping to answer Martinakis’ questions. The artist plans on developing his art and his androids, by incorporating 3D vision and hologram art. Through his beautiful, sensual aesthetic, Martinakis uses his art the way it was intended to be used. As something that brings people together, an expression that moves and touches them.
All artworks are original, unique or very limited, C-prints under original Diasec, glossy Plexi / Alu-Dibond 5+3mm.

Artist statement:
/ Imagining art being a bridge, a connection between the spirit and the material, the living and the absent, the personal and the universal. / Exploring the unknown of light and darkness in a supplementary coexistence that forms the event horizon of the creation. / Composing scenes of the nonexistence, the echo of the living void, immersed in the metaphysics of perception.

Artist:
Adam Martinakis

Martinakis was Born in Lubań, Poland in 1972 and is of Polish and Greek descent. • Moved to Athens, Greece in 1982. • Studied Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Industrial Design in Athens. • Since the year 2000, has been working and experimenting on Computer-generated visual media (3d digital image/rendering - animation, digital sculpture, digital video, new media). •Had been teaching digital arts & design, graphics, interior design and ceramic design in many art institutes. •Member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts. In cooperation with Wanda Print for selected commercial projects. Adam Martinakis currently lives and works in Poland, Greece and the UK.

Exhibitions:

Group exhibitions : 2018 - Unplugged / CI gallery, Luxembourg 2017 - Monitor Fest 2017 / Heraklion, Crete, Greece 2017 - 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival / Postfuture, Athens, Greece 2017 - The Dreamers / Villa Medicea "La Ferdinata - Artimino Contemporanea, Artimino Carmignano, Italy 2016 - Digital dreams / Art Center in Perinnye Ryady, St Petersburg, Russian Federation 2016 - RETHink Art Digital Festival / House of Culture, Rethymno, Crete, Greece 2014 - Vagiti Ultimi III / Ante Mortem", Atri, Italy. 2013 - De fil en aiguille... / Atelier Gustave, Paris, France. 2013 - L’émergence dans tous ses états / Art District, Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris, Paris, France. 2013 - Metaphysical Objectivity in Comparison to Realism / The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston super Mare, UK. 2012 - Transformation - discover the digital world / CI Gallery, Luxembourg. 2012 - Crossing borders - from virtual to real", CI Gallery, Luxembourg. 2011 - Changes / CCNR, Luxembourg. 2011 - Athens Video Art Festival 2011 / Technopolis (Gazi), Athens, Greece. 2011 - The Digital Palette / The Artspace Gallery, Hartford, CT, USA. 2010 - Art & Architecture 2010 - 2011 / Artower Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2010 - EUtopia / CCNR, Luxembourg. 2009 - Rooted / Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg. 2009 - Athens Video Art Festival 2009 / Technopolis (Gazi), Athens, Greece. 2006 - 4 Young Artists / Municipal Art Gallery of Kallithea, Athens, Greece. 2005 - Where is love? / Gallery Psyxari 36, Athens, Greece. SOLO EXHIBITION: 2018 - Espectro / Museo de Arte “López Claro”, Azul, Argentina 2018 - Timeless Tales / CI gallery, Luxembourg 2017 - Nest of Time / Artspace João Carvalho, Alcanena, Portugal 2015 - Metaverse / Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen, Denmark 2015 - Incontro / Pavart, Rome, Italy 2015 - Adam Martinakis / Maverick, Bangkok, Thailand 2014 - Univers Parallèles / CI gallery, Luxembourg. 2014 - Parallel Worlds / Galerie ABF, Prague, Czech Republic. 2013 - Adam Martinakis in Ditto Doors / Ditto TV, London,

Awards and Distinctions

2017 - Winner of the international art competition "HighArt2017", video category, USA 2014 - Listed in Top 10 Digital artworks by Huffington Post UK 2013 - Stellar Art Award - Digital Arts: California - Simply the best 2 2013 - Listed in Empty Kingdom's Top 100 Artists of 2012 2012 - Silver Award - Artlimited "Color and Creativity" art competition 2012 - Excellence Abstract & Design award, EXPOSÉ 10. 2011 - Listed winner of the art competition "Changes", Luxembourg, (CultureInside & CCNR). 2010 - Winner of the international art competition "EUtopia", Luxembourg, (CI & CCNR). 2009 - Art competition winner, "Rooted", Luxembourg, (CI & Galerie Clairefontaine).

Suzanne Heintz - LIFE ONCE REMOVED
Part of the "PLAYING HOUSE PROJECT," a film and photo series confronting the social pressures to conform to the image of a Perfect Life. ________________________________________________ For more information, see www. playinghouseproject.com.

Artist:
Suzanne Heintz

SUZANNE HEINTZ’s work, described as equal parts photography and theater, makes her an unusual Artist. Though trained in Writing, Communication, Painting, Design as well as Photography, the chosen mediums for her personal work are Photography, and Video. Her professional experience as an Art Director for Television has a strong influence on how she works artistically. It taught her that to make an impact, it’s essential to connect with your audience. Since her work is intended for everyone, not exclusively the art educated, she uses mediums that have the most universal appeal. Taboo to most in the art world, humor is her third and most important medium. At the risk of being perceived as a form of “Artertainment,” Heintz employs satire because she feels that it is crucial to the digestion of what might be perceived as a bitter pill – social criticism.

Exhibitions

2015 : “Playing House” Featuring Conceptual Photographer Suzanne Heintz, JoAnne Artman Gallery, New YorkMarch 2015 : Life once removed December 2014 : A single girl's guide to holiday shopping July 2014 : How ask Why ? Tried Being a Bride February 2014: Love is in the Air.

Films

http://suzanneheintz.com/film/

Nigel Van Wieck
For nearly two decades, Nigel Van Wieck has been evolving a distinctive idiom firmly rooted in the tradition of American realism. His small-format oils offer glimpses of classic Americana: racetracks and baseball fields, toy sailboats skimming over a pond, tourists relaxing on sun-drenched beaches. Typically his are solitary figures, often recalling the loners once celebrated by Edward Hopper, and though there is no Hopperesque gloom here, at moments there emerges a vague sense of the ominous. Van Wieck has painted a progression of works grouped into series with such themes as Working Girls, Players, and Dancing. Though visually diverse, all have underscored the disjuncture between modern people’s physical proximity and emotional connectivity; whatever their gender, race, class, or occupation, no matter how intimate their contact may be, these figures do not fully “get” each other. Flowing against this thematic continuum was the large number of portrait commissions that Van Wieck undertook during the 1990s. As one would expect, he became deeply interested in his sitters, who connected closely with each other in the image, or at least with their viewers. These are figures whom we “get,” at least to a certain extent.

Artist's Statement
I always want to capture a “moment in time”, it makes my paintings real and timeless. I achieve this by painting the light; whether painting daylight or the lights of the night, light is familiar to us; it’s like music, it evokes a memory or an emotion, and crystallizes the moment. Vermeer was extremely successful at this; even though he was painting a 17th-century scene, the way he paints light allows today’s viewer to connect to that moment thus making the painting both modern and timeless.

Artist:
Nigel Van Wieck

Nigel Van Wieck is a figurative artist working in the tradition of American realism. His portrayals of America feel as though they’re from another time, even if the content is modern. From an era of romanticism and dreaminess, almost free of time if not for the trappings of culture that carry specific definition. From one side, the painter Nigel Van Wieck (b. 1947) appears to be the proverbial “Englishman in New York,” having discovered Old Master aesthetics and made them his own since 1979, when he immigrated to the U.S. But from the other side, we see the quintessentially American practitioner of contemporary realism he has become during those same three and a half decades. Trippi has been the editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine since 2006. He was previously the director of New York City’s Dahesh Museum of Art, which is devoted to 19th-century European academic art.

Exhibitions

2015 Didier Aaron Gallery New York 2011 Nigel Van Wieck American Realism curated by Elizabeth Michitsch, Brauneis Klauser, Vienna 2010 Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna 2008 Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna 2007 Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch Vienna 2004 Kunsthandel Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna 2001 Beadleston Gallery , New York 1995 The Venice Biennale's Centennial Exhibition, Venice 1993 Fosse Gallery Stow-on-the-Wold 1991 Tatistcheff and Company, Inc, New York 1989 Tatistcheff and Company, Inc, New York 1988 Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London 1985 Germans van Eck Gallery, New York 1984 Tatistcheff and Company, Inc, New York 1983 12 Green Street Gallery New York 1982 Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London 1977 Redfern Gallery, London 1974 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1973 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1972 Majorie Parr Gallery, London 1971 Majorie Parr Gallery, London

Erin Hanson
After graduating from college, Hanson entered the art trade as a professional, inspired by landscapes and vantage points only beheld by the most adventurous. Rock climbing among the brilliantly colored cliffs of Nevada and Utah, watching the seasons and the light change daily across the desert, provided endless inspiration for her work. In these beautiful surroundings, Hanson decided firmly to dedicate herself to creating one painting every week for the rest of her life. She has stuck to that decision ever since and has for the past decade been developing a unique, minimalist technique of placing impasto paint strokes without layering, which has become known as “Open-Impressionism.” As other artists began emulating her painting techniques, Hanson was credited as the pioneer and originator of this contemporary style. Through the years, Hanson has continued to use the outdoors to inspire a huge collection of work. She visits the Colorado plateau every year, backpacking and hiking through areas such as Zion National Park, Canyon de Chelly, and Monument Valley. Other favorite haunts include Paso Robles, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Anza-Borrego desert. Erin Hanson transforms these landscapes into abstract mosaics of color and texture, her impasto application of paint lending a sculptural effect to her art. Her oil paintings stand out in a crowd, bringing a fresh new look to Western landscapes.

Artist:
Erin Hanson

Hanging precariously and horizontally from red sandstone, hundreds of feet above the ground, may not seem like it would inspire the creation of beautiful oil paintings, but that is exactly what happened with Erin Hanson. After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Hanson began rock climbing at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style was consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature. Erin Hanson began painting as a young girl, voraciously learning oils, acrylics, watercolor, pen and ink, pastels, and life drawing from accomplished art instructors. She began commissioning paintings at age ten, and by age twelve, she was employed after school by a mural studio, learning the techniques of acrylics on the grand scale of forty-foot canvases. Two years later, a high school scholarship took her to Otis College of Art, where she immersed herself in figure drawing. Graduating high school at age sixteen and once again demonstrating that she was a child prodigy, Hanson next attended UC Berkeley, excelling further in her studies and creative development and attaining a degree in Bioengineering.

Education

Otis College of Art and Design. Special scholarship program. 1996 Delphi Academy, La Canada, CA. High School Diploma. 1998 University of California, Berkeley. Dean's List. Bachelor of Science. 2003

Exhibitions

2021: ERIN HANSON: COLORS OF CALIFORNIA. Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA. 2018: IMPRESSIONS OF BIG BEND COUNTY. Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX. 2018: CALIFORNIA ART CLUB'S 107TH ANNUAL GOLD MEDAL EXHIBITION. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, CA. 2017: IMPRESSIONS OF ZION. Zion Art Museum, Springdale, UT. 2016: ERIN HANSON’S PAINTED PARKS. Solo exhibition St. George Art Museum. A FEELING OF HUMANITY: WESTERN ART FROM THE KEN RATNER COLLECTION. Mattatuck Museum, 2014. Rockwell Museum of Western Art, 2015. Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, 2015. Museum of the Big Bend, 2016. 2014: LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Philadelphia, PA. Permanent collection. MATTATUCK MUSEUM, Waterbury, CT. Permanent collection. 2014: BONE CREEK MUSEUM OF AGRARIAN ART, David City, NE. Permanent collection. 2013: ST GEORGE ART MUSEUM, St. George, UT. Permanent collection.

Exhibition and Awards

2016 - 2019: COWGIRL UP! Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ. Awards: 1st Place 2-D on Canvas 2018 and Best in Show 2019. 2016 - 2017: THE MOUNTAIN OYSTER CLUB ART SHOW. Tuscon, AZ. THE WOODLANDS WATERWAY FESTIVAL. The Woodlands, TX. Awards: Best in Show, Featured Artist for 2017 and Poster Artist for 2018. 2016: ART SAN DIEGO. San Diego, CA. Awards: Spotlight Artist, Best New Exhibitor. 2016 - 2017: LA QUINTA ARTS FESTIVAL. Juror for painting category. 2015: THE ERIN HANSON ART & WINE TOUR. Paso Robles, CA. ART IN EMBASSIES. U.S. Department of State. 2015 and 2018 SAATCHI ART. Awards: The Year in Review: Best of 2015. WOODLANDS WATERWAY ART FESTIVAL. Houston, TX. Awards: Best in Show for 2015. INDIAN WELLS ART FESTIVAL. Indian Wells, CA. Awards: Poster Artist for 2015. HERMOSA BEACH ARTWALK. Hermosa Beach, CA. Poster Artist for 2015. THE MOUNTAIN OYSTER CLUB ART SHOW. Tuscon, AZ. 2014 WORLDWIDE ART LOS ANGELES, Artavita Contest 1st Place Winner. Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Despina Tunberg. 2014 ERIN HANSON: BORREGO IN COLOR. Tumbleweed Art Gallery, Borrego Springs, CA. Curated by Glenda Garmon. 2014 PASOSCAPES: OILS BY ERIN HANSON. Studios on the Park, Paso Robles, CA. Curated by Sasha Irving. 2013 EARTH, SKY, WATER. Arts at Denver, Denver. Curated by Paula Colette. 2013 LA JOLLA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS. Awards: 1st Place Painting. 2013 BORREGO ART INSTITUTE. Borrego Springs, CA. Curated by Barbara Nickerson. 2013 ART IN THE PARK. Boulder City, NV. 1st Place Painting. Juried by Boulder City Hospital Foundation. 2012 ERIN HANSON: COLORS OF PASO, SOLO SHOW. Paso Robles, CA. Curated by Sasha Irving. 2012 BOULDER CITY FINE ART FESTIVAL. 1st Place Fine Art. Juried by Boulder City Art Guild. 2012 NATIONAL OIL & ACRYLIC PAINTERS' SOCIETY Awards: Best of America 2012 2012: CA 101 EXHIBITION, 2012, Redondo Beach, CA. Curated by Sandra Liljenwall. 2012: ICONS OF THE WEST 2012. Missoula, MT. Curated by Dana Gallery. 2012: DESERT