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Marisa Atha
 
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I am a seeker of cultures, art forms, languages, music and general samplings of the plentiful social traditions and interactions within grasp—these pursuits make up the cooperative influences of my art. My most gratifying artistic experience is the basic human connection that occurs: artists simply have the ability to make the intangible tangible…a thought, a feeling, a happening…the brain muddies and mingles much of life’s processes and miracles, and the artist simply waves a butterfly net, and wraps up the catch of the day to present back to the world.
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"City Girls in Heels (San Francisco)"
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"Dolores Tracks (San Francisco)"
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Orly Aviv
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Photographer and new media artist Orly Aviv looks at her art as a form of autobiographical documentation and is particularly captivated by the connection between the medium and memory. Her analytical, emotive works reveal a conceptual drive: for this artist "photography has become a critical medium for research and transcendence, for contemplation." A native Israeli artist, she creates works that bring into question and illuminate unlikely juxtapositions and contrasts observed as a traveler in the world at large.
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"Brazil 205"
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"Jerusalem Girl"
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Aviva Baharav
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"2"
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"4"
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Brett Bell
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Brett Bell’s photographs embody the unspoken dreams and passions that hide behind each moment. In his images, places, figures and objects capture the vulnerable vibrancy of unrealized dreams. Through photography, Bell is able to make these dreams realities. Bell splits his time between Missouri and Brooklyn. His affection for these locations shapes his work. While his images broach the dream world, they also have a tangible, familiar sense of place. This delicate balance between place and imagination allows Bell to capture the subtleties of emotional experience.
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"Girl Reading"
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"Cemetary next to Interstate 44"
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Claire Brewster
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London-based artist Claire Brewster relishes movement and impermanence, exploring subjects commonly considered static that are actually constantly remaking themselves. With insect and bird figures cut out from maps and atlases, Brewster points out the temporary status of nation states, the shifting dimensions of continents and oceans. Lines and shapes naturalized in cartography become strange and arbitrary. Clever titles give a comic edge to her playful creature forms, undermining the self-serious airs that shroud the geopolitical implications of maps.
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"Small Birds Common to Japan: Ocean Currents"
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"Flocking"
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Stuart Bush
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"Untitled III"
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"Untitled II"
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Magda Dini
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Most often, I sculpt with little manufactured items, but I'm drawing (with ink) too and I'm doing a lot of silkscreen printing.
My artworks are most often a work on the material itself. Indeed, I'm testing matérial's work through the accumulation of the same ornamental. The medium is my first concern. For my sculpture, I find the manufactured item, then I test it and after I picture what I could do with it.
For my drawing, it's the superposition of the same ornamental which make the material itself. The accumulation deprives the ornemental of it's first signification and then I can choose a new one. Most often, at first, my artwork seemed to be a girly one, but when we pay attention, we can see a second degree.
I'm working on the fusion of the beautiful and the ugly, on the ambivalence between the apparence and the reality.
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"Sanitary Napkins"
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Rei Dishon
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"Together"
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"Infinity Serenity"
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Heather Mae Erickson
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Artist, craftsperson and designer Heather Mae Erickson springboards her explorations from the intersection of industry and design to generate new conversations in the ongoing dialogue between form and function for everyday objects. Focusing her design process on functional tableware, Erickson seeks to direct the eye, hand and mouth to reconsider consumption as a process. Through tactical reassessments of multiplicity, size, and orientation, the works raise awareness of the situation and spark contemplation in visually stunning, unprecedented ways.
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"Dessert Place Setting"
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"Dessert Compotes"
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Maggie Evans
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A musician from a musical family, Savannah, Georgia-based Maggie Evans portrays the unsettled emptiness of quiet bars in charcoal and pastel works on paper. Simultaneously evocative and expressive, her smoky, gridded interiors recall the musky static of loud and busy bars, and the thick rhythmic pulse of live music. A mist of grey and ochre-tinged fumes haunts each work, creating dreamy impressions of a bustling scene half-remembered, long gone in Evans's deserted barroom scenery of throbbing lines and murky lighting.
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"Slow Night"
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"Two Doorways"
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Josep Francés Anaya
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I used to take part in quick-painting contests in the open air and afterwards, would apply the painting technique to my artwork in the studio. However, once I began participating in national and international painting competitions, I changed the way I painted. It had evolved to constructivism art. In my works, I reflect in large paintings, a series of cities in the world infused with my character. I spend time perfecting details such as windows and shadows so that the oil paintings seem photo-realistic. Blacked out portions and subtle grids make my interppretation unique.
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"Kiew VIII , Ucrania"
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"Kiew XII"
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KX2
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"Stripes X 10"
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"Ovals X 24"
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Adrienne Lesperance
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Adrienne Lesperance’s art explores the theme of the personal quest to find acceptance. Her intricately detailed works deal with such issues as religion, sexuality, identity, and good versus evil. Lesperance’s art has a surrealist bent. She skews literal reality to impart a higher meaning on her subject matter. Some of her pieces are a study of contrasts in black and white, done in Sumi ink; while others explore color with acrylic paint, crayon, and ink.
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"Waiting for Your Wings"
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"My Blood is Toxic"
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Eleanor Lindsay Fynn
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"Gordon Ramsey's Paparazzi Nightmare"
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"Play Room"
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The Love Movement
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"We are the Same Underneath it All"
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"Karma Police"
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Maarit Murka
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The emotionally charged works of Estonian painter Maarit Murka are a subterranean look into one artist’s conception of the world. Completed in oil on canvas with a stark palette, Murka peers into the void and comes forth with resonating perspectives illustrated by masked protagonists, symbols of political obstruction and the individual’s awareness of mortality. The paintings are beautifully executed, predominantly in grayscale with areas of muted color that convey a specific meaning, or focus the viewer’s attention to a particular idea. The depravation of color only heightens one’s awareness in a harsh world and the need to explore the truth behind appearances in order to grasp any semblance of reality. Gradations of light and dark add to the dramatic feel of her work and the subjects are so intense that it is hard to look away.
Murka’s paintings have been featured in several solo exhibitions, including an exceptional show in Paris that highlighted the artist’s post-Soviet roots. She works out of several studios in Iceland, Germany and France.
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"The Last But Not One Painting Before My Grandmother Died at 29.09.2007"
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"Russian"
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Ardan Özmenoğlu
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"Untitled"
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Caterina Pacialeo
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"'Untitled' Image from the Series "Group Think""
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"'Untitled' Image from the Series "Group Think""
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Andreas Papanastasiu
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London-based Greek painter Andreas Papanastasiu borrows techniques from conceptual and installation art. His arrangements of small colorful canvases suggest a minimalist theater, a three dimensional pointillism where each rectangular painting stands for a person, object or surface whose bold color communicates vivid emotions. Papanastasiu gives his miniature canvases a powerful sensuality, his paint application creating textured and swooping forms that flow across each installation. Consequently, his pieces achieve an undeniable presence independent of the component parts' passionate intensity
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"Iron Sea"
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"Drowned in You"
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Berivan Sayici
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"Mother Love 01"
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"Mother Love 02"
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Mariko Sugiura
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"Real Reality - Feminine Image"
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"Aggressiveness - Masculine Image"
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John Weeronga Bartoo
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John Weeronga Bartoo was born in Brisbane, Australia and is an Aboriginal Australian who paints in the tradition of his ancestors, the Kooma people from South Western Queensland. He is guided by their spirits and his heart as he paints in the tradition of Aboriginal dot painting, using a stick and acrylics to conjure swirling patterns on canvas. Convoluted, textural and abstract, Bartoo's paintings tell the viewer age-old stories of his life, his family's life and his interpretations of the Dreamtime Stories.
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"The Myths of Moon Lake"
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"Sequel to Paradise"
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Suhee Wooh
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Suhee Wooh fills space in an amazing way; the resulting imagery reflects universal concepts in an abstract, yet obvious manner. In placement of form, determination of shape size, and selections of line and color positioning, Suhee Wooh's oil paintings achieve a dynamic underlying conversation between structure and improvisation. Creative tension finds solutions, and unpredictable possibilities allow her works to decide when they have achieved life.
Korean-born, but currently based in New York, Suhee Wooh holds two MFA degrees and exhibits internationally.
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"Maximum Strength Pain Reliever"
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"The Shooting Star"
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Steve Yeates
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"Forever"
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"Dynamic Energy"
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Yumiko
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"Grape"
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"Air Plant"
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David Arbus
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British artist David Arbus conveys the grandeur of colossal spaces and ornate structures like epic cathedrals and otherworldly forests. The hyper-real stylized lines and shading of his ink and watercolor forms evoke simultaneously undeniable and unknowable physicality. The effect is not alienating, however, but recaptures the distinctly human reaction these formations elicit. Arbus gives his subjects a sense of form and weight that recalls firsthand apprehension of such monumental shapes, training viewers’ senses to an attuned experience of architectural space.
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"St Paul's Cathedral Interior"
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"Home in the Woods"
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Ulrika Andersson
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"Affektioner I"
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"Affektioner II"
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Anna Druzcz
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Anna Druzcz focuses on "capturing nature as reconstructed by the human hand, where the line between the ‘natural’ and artificial is hard to distinguish or ceases to matter." She achieves this by combining her sure eye for compelling landscapes shot at unique angles with prowess at digitally processing and juxtaposing her imagery so that it is transformed enough to appear otherworldly, yet seamless and subtle enough to suggest a common reality. These are snapshots of an alien realm that is in fact all around us.
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"Landscaping Nature V"
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"In Vitro Complex XIII"
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