Sublime Sanctum The power of art lies in its ability to communicate to us from an emotional and inspirational perspective, providing a respite from day to day activities to connect with hidden layers of conscience. Sublime Sanctum features artists who explore the metaphysical through their individual styles of expression, an astounding range of painterly effects including both brash, exciting palettes and soothing, nurturing environments.
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Gabriela Epstein
 
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Instantly disarming and wonderful to behold, Gabriela Epstein’s painting features gentle, layered brushwork that engenders a soothing atmosphere perfect for viewers’ contemplation. Drawing inspiration from her native Mexico, the importance of color is the vanguard of her style and in concert with concise line-work, saturates her painting with a sense of emotion and drama. She has a magnificent knowledge of composition as well, often working in diptychs and triptychs, Epstein’s work is identifiable for her supple, geometric configurations.
Born in Mexico City, Epstein is a self-taught artist, drawing her artistic inspiration directly from life events and transmitting them through an exceedingly individual style of painting. “Everything I know, do or express in a canvas is a result of my own personal experience,” Epstein explains. She has educated others in the arts for the last ten years, sharing her ideas about painting while learning from others’ perspectives has been a very positive influence in her artistic life. Epstein lives and works in Mexico City.
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"Centro"
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""Escenas" (Scenes)"
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Tamar Greenfeld
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Tamar Greenfeld touches hearts directly with the magical depth and softness of her palette. Upon close examination, a glimpse of a face, a bird, a flower or butterfly teases one’s eye, but their discovery is more of a lovely gift than a reason for the painting’s existence. By painting in layers for the illusion of transparency, Ms. Greenfeld replicates life’s universally abundant, but hidden, beauty.
Growing up in Russia, Tamar Greenfeld’s luxuries were fields, gardens, and animals, which are now part of her delicate dreamscapes. She is able to capture nature’s healing powers onto canvas quite expertly! Her goal is that their tranquil, spiritual purity brings relief and hope to others. Ms. Greenfeld received degrees in Teaching and Psychology, and has pursued an art career since 1997. Tamar Greenfield’s extensive exhibits in Israel (with each show dedicated to a different subject) have been successes, establishing her sublime style as one in which Monet himself would have found comfort and admiration!
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"Goddess of the Sea"
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"Fly with Birds"
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Martin H. Leff-Cinthus
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Martin H. Leff-Cinthus is an artist of great depth and wide-ranging interests. An assortment of influences can be seen in his work, including that of Greek and Roman antiquity, Asian woodcuts, and of Pablo Picasso.
He has, however, gone beyond mere affectation to create fantastic narratives and describe metaphysical dramas through a sophisticated understanding of posturing, symbolism, and color. Leff-Cinthus adapts his style to his subject matter, drifting effortlessly between statuesque figures and bizarre otherworldly creatures. His line-work can be powerful and reverberating in some works while being subdued in others in favor of nearly sculptural treatment of forms. At 79, Leff-Cinthus has had a long and varied journey in the arts. He is a musician, composer and playwright; he attended Brooklyn Museum Art School, Cooper Union and was awarded the Max Weber Scholarship at the Art Students’ League in New York, all preceding his 30-year career as a textile designer. Martin H. Leff-Cinthus lives and works in Queens, New York.
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"Reclining Nude Metaphor 3"
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"Reclining Nude Metaphor 1"
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Agnieszka Opala
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Polish painter Agnieszka Opala has developed an original visual iconography throughout her work. Her oil and acrylic paintings have until recently been rooted in representation, evoking Expressionism and Art Nouveau with a child art aesthetic shaping the whole. Her recent works, however, are significantly pared down and distorted. These newer paintings are in part or completely abstract, with flourishes of Art Nouveau still discernible in their ornamental details, and Expressionistic overtones in their brushwork and distorted perspectives.
Using this hybrid iconography, Opala transmits personal emotions, and intensely subjective experiences. The mixing of styles in her works is amplified by strong lines that seem to dissect many of her recent canvases into multiple plains. It's as though, through the fragmenting of her paintings, Opala seeks to communicate multiple and opposing versions of the same subject. In doing so, we rediscover relatively common feelings and situations through the lens of her specific style, windows onto the endless variety of human experience and interpretation. Agnieszka Opala’s works have been on display in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia and the USA.
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"Waiting for You"
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"Lonely"
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Samasta
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Samasta’s luminous paintings of bold color, abstracted shape, and frenetic movement portray a sense of energy that reverberates with the artist’s unique and passionate spirit. Fueled by his intense love of art, color, and composition, Samasta paints and repaints his canvases, an artistic process that produces works that are often laden with numerous layers of acrylic. As he repaints, Samasta seeks compositional balance and perfection and through the act of painting, he embarks on an artistic journey that is at times frustrating and confusing, but as he reaches an artistic breakthrough, he emerges fulfilled, as if coming out of a tunnel. Although Samasta’s works are not literal or biographical in theme, they are each imbued with his personal love of art and function as his own reflection.
A native of Italy, Samasta regularly exhibits his colorful abstractions throughout North and Central America and Europe. Samasta currently lives and works in both Tuscany and Costa Rica.
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"Composizione 1"
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"Composizione 2"
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