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Collective Exhibition
Collective Exhibition
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Meral Akyuz
 
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Since 2007, my work has involved personal, emotionally-driven concepts in which certain cliché notions imposed on women are interwoven. My work addresses angst regarding gender roles, subtle abuse in relationships, finding a place in society and also includes the constant questioning of my own identity as an adult female. These themes are brought to life in abstract, encaustic paintings using mixed media, such as thread, ink, stitching, and layers of various papers I have collected. With this, I end up creating a visual struggle between the physical beauty of the piece and the ugliness inherent in the concept.
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"Turn Your Eyes from the Window"
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"7 Train to Queens"
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Bonaventura Anson
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I have always thought that art is something very important, not only at the moment we live but above all in the course of history. Cultures have been known through the history of art. To be a painter is, itself, a privilege. But to be an artist is higher. For someone to become an artist, apart from having good technique or earning a living from it, it has to be vocational. Art is in very high percentage about sacrifice, vocation. Artists must be rich in knowledge of different disciplines, techniques, skills, to radiate feeling and make the message comprehensible. At this point I myself am interested in expressing a strong feeling of freedom, to combat societal slavery. My symbol of freedom is the cloud, for what can be more representative than that?
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"De Nuvols I Estaques 2"
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"Serie Simbiosi 1"
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An Bogdan
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My art work focuses on our existence as human beings, on our beauty, on our power, on our peaceful and exquisite essence. No tragedies, no pain, no fear, no enemies, just love. Real love. As my tools I can use a pencil, a brush, a piece of everlasting present, a pixel or a vector. Love, freedom, beauty and imagination are my inspiration. They help me to create a pleasure instant, an instant to enjoy. La raison est démodé... luminous imagination is the way. Subjugation is unnecessary, and when the old boundaries fall then the real life begins
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"Once Upon a Time She Was an Animal"
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"Formentera"
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Patricia Brintle
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Patricia Brintle’s acrylic paintings are completely at ease with themselves. Her careful application of color is intentioned but uninhibited, resulting in free, inviting images that recall tranquil summer afternoons or soft evening breezes. Brintle includes just enough detail in her work to give viewers a sense of place and mood, but her main focuses are vibrant colors and expanses of luminously open-ended paint. Whether painting portraits, landscapes, or a marriage of the two, Brintle presents sublime moments that seem to emerge out of relaxed narratives. Her work emphasizes the importance of the present; the gravity of the moment transcends any past or future.
Originally from Haiti, Brintle merges both her Haitian heritage and her experiences with the United States landscape in her paintings. She intimately understands the joys and hopes that occupy each moment and the unimpeded, poetic mood of her paintings grows out of this understanding. Patricia Brintle currently lives and works in New York. Her award-winning paintings have been exhibited both privately and publicly in New York and Florida.
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"Serena"
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"Ti-Jean le guitariste"
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Jenifer Carey
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My curiosity about life has led me, in art, to experiment with many methods of plastic expression. But whether I’m working in oil, sculpture or print, it’s all a way of sharing my zest for life, of capturing the instant. Matisse, who has been a major influence in my work, said that a great modern conquest has been the secret of expression through colour. It is precisely this secret that I use with oils, combining my intuition, quick strokes and my transgression of the limits of drawing to achieve expressivity in my paintings, to capture the moment. I reflect the person rather than their likeness. The subject matter of my work is inspired by my passion for beauty, and shaped by my imagination and personal experiences. My daily journey of discovery and rediscovery offers me fresh inspiration to contrive and to share.
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"The Jazz Quartet"
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"The Fishermen Collecting the Nets"
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Virgi Dall'Aglio
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In my artistic production the need to communicate is fulfilled in abstraction, which is possible because it is linked to my inner search. My style develops from within me, and users are invited, to use their own sensations on an intimate trip that may conduct them to different mental spaces. I often use signs in my work, adding levels of meaning, and color balance is very important to me. I work in a woody basement where I feel free to experiment with my ideas and with various materials - acrylics, paints, etc. From this starting point come stories and introspection, all presented to my audience and contained within their own dimension.
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"Looking for Blue"
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"Where"
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Elise Fargnoli
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I choose to use the boldest and brightest of colors and corresponding, intricate floral patterns in my art, because my work is about youth and youth is constantly evolving and discovering. As one would infer, each painting tells its own individual story- an expression of innocence and youth. The paintings are representative of what we desire in life, and the feeling of being invincible. It is not a representation of reality but rather of the passion that captures the essence of youth. It’s an expression of something we only experience once, and can never get back again. Though story and subject matter may vary, the overall theme for the series will always be the same. I want my art to accomplish a sense of intense feeling- feeling spontaneous, feeling young, and feeling warm about life.
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Debra Fitzsimmons
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Cultural, political and social issues have always been important topics in my artwork. The “NARROWED” series considers the cultural implications of US educational policy. How a society defines learning reflects its core values. Current US educational policy defines learning by children’s ability to memorize absolute short answers and take recite-back tests. Could a nation of people, reared in this practice, become famous for responding best to short headlines and infamous for ignoring depth? The “Narrowed” works were constructed in multiple layers of collage, stains, text and painted images. They are intended to encourage the audience towards thoughtful consideration of the issue.
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"Perfect Scores/Perfect Children"
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"Not Everything that Counts"
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Lizzy Forrester
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Working in oils and acrylics, Lizzy Forrester’s landscapes are characterized by a timelessness of place, capturing the marked endurance and beauty inherent in nature. Her creativity was set free by her adoption of Buddhist philosophy and spirituality, which has infused her with the wisdom and peace that permeate her work. Colors are harmonic and serene, rich in hue and yet subtle in tone, and the interplay of light and shadow gives the images an Impressionist feel. Composition brings a balance to her work that’s almost ethereal, but her choice of subject keeps the images firmly grounded on Earth. Although rhythm and movement create a flowing energy in the paintings, its motions are subdued, recalling the poignant tones of the classical music she uses as a springboard for her art.
Living and working on the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain, Forrester’s art has recently taken a poetic turn, as she has begun exploring the connection between prose and art, seeking to transcend the “barriers” inherent in words and language.
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"Garden Gate"
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"Almond Blossom"
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Kristina Garon
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My major focus is creativity. In abstract paintings I can express my creativity without limitation of a theme, subject or style. My abstract paintings reflect my love for vivid colors. I have also recently begun incorporating intricate details into my work, so that viewers can constantly find kaleidoscopic scenes of figures, faces, animals and architectural forms. I find it very spiritually rewarding to explore my creativity and be able to bring to canvas what lies within me. Through the creative process I realized that the possibilities for artistic expression are endless. My canvas is a playground where I can let my inner world create my outer word. It is an inner journey of discovery and exploration of the gift I am blessed with. I use it to spread positive energy and joy. I love it!
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"Farm by the Lake"
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"Eruption of Volcano"
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Kenji Inoue
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Creating volatile tableaus that straddle the line between surrealism and abstraction, Kenji Inoue's visual dynamos are a potpourri of forms, styles, themes and moods that appear to shriek from the depths of our collective subconscious. These artistic detonations defy thematic categorization, as Kenji explodes expectations as well as icons (sometimes literally), in order to yield his distinctive visions. Eruptive bursts of energy serve as Kenji's visual theme, turning even the most benign of nature's processes into its own Big Bang. Alternate personas, rips in consciousness and archetypal mental processes are often manifest as mutating serpentine entities, engaging in titanic alterations or stratospheric battles. Kenji's work is not all fantasy, however, as his choice of using the form of the explosive burst has its organic parallel in natural processes here on earth, from crystals to flowers to tree limbs.
This dialogue about explosions and destruction, as well as psychological and aesthetic transformation, contributes to the visceral complexity one feels experiencing Kenji Inoue's otherworldly paintings.
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"Tokyo Johnny Guitar"
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"Oriental Kiss"
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Jeff Jackson
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The only enduringly interesting subject for me is the female figure. Biological and psychological considerations aside, the figure is infinitely variable, from the body itself which changes shape as it moves and rests to the light and shadow that play across its surfaces. I draw in a somewhat academic fashion because for me depicting the female figure as accurately as I can is not only a challenge but an exercise which never ends. Composition of these figure drawings is another issue entirely. Overlapping compositions, accidental in school years ago, are now deliberate and conscious efforts to present the figure both realistically and abstractly simultaneously.
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"L1020163"
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"L1020356"
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Tyice Natasha
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Artists are often asked why they paint. I paint because my soul needs to paint, and because it moves me into a space of creative stillness that no other thing can quite give me. My time spent living in Japan and South Korea influenced some of the colours, shapes, and vision in my work. Asian art is so beautiful and lyrical, almost like a Haiku poem. That mildly influenced me to add a poetic phrase to each piece that I am painting. I do not plan the image; neither do I choose the outcome. I simply paint in movement, to music. I want each piece to become visually poetic and lyrical to the viewer, so that the poem or phrase, title and colours used, together become one poetic piece.
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"Singing With The Water"
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"Rebirth"
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Truong Ngoc Chinh
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I paint using a multitude of styles, but I tend towards a impressive effect, produced by my combining classical and modern styles. Originally I was greatly influenced by Van Gogh, but as time has passed I have taken inspiration from many other artists as well, including da Vinci, Monet and Picasso. I have learned from them and through my own efforts and dreams, never having attended an art school. Yet despite this lack of formal education, I have never had doubts about expressing myself through paint, and I have found great joy and pride in my explorations into the world of art.
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"Being Saved"
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"Modern World’s Sinful Nature"
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Trinidad Pino
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In the beginning of my career, after completing the program at the Fine Art School, I broke with the academy and followed a concrete expressionist style. Later, in the USA, I continued with my childhood “lei-motif”: insects, flowers and “fauna”. In brief, I began to focus on Nature, God’s book. I worked with a variety of mediums - for a while, watercolor or tempera on paper. I also produced works with mixed media, but my preference is for oil on canvas, though I also work in acrylic from time to time. I present an optimistic view of nature, showing its beauty and sharing the happiness it brings me with my viewers.
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"Hypnotic"
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"Fruit Link"
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Igor Eugen Prokop
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I am Hungarian but my art cannot be restricted by geographical boundaries. I have traveled round the world and know: it is small and fragile! My inspirations are being on the road, observing and painting off the experiences imbued and seeing them revived on the canvas. I love the sea, the grass in the meadows, animals, and the animate and inanimate world; the material. Am I a narrow-minded materialist? No, definitely not. The spirit is non-material but the material is the worldly realization of the spirit. I studied Biology and drawing and wandered the world. I devoured beauty, the wonders of nature, got to know men and myself. I perceive the world through the eyes of a scientist and an artist and try to interpret and reproduce it.
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"Seawheel in New Zealand with a Baby Whale"
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"Butterfly's Birth"
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Steven R. Hill
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I’ve had formal training in both music and art, enough to recognize very important similarities between the two disciplines. Musical harmony, tempo and interpretive themes are not unlike the relationships I use to explore concepts and ideas, with some visual sensibility, as a painter. Finding abstract possibilities within a representational subject, excites me far more than faithful reproduction, as does pushing the limits of light, color and textures to explain my subjects. A lot happens between initial ideas and finished paintings, especially if the piece takes a left turn when maybe I expected a right, and that’s all part of the song. Ultimately, I believe that people have a yearning for beauty inside them, and I try to address that part and encourage it through my work.
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"Summer Evening, Fisherman Bay"
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"First and Last Chance Tavern"
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Vladimir Rusinov
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I live and work in the Ukraine, where I was born. I got married here, and later my wonderful son and daughter were born here as well. Because of its continual presence in my life, it has had an abiding effect both on me and on my work. When I was younger art was a way of expressing the energy within, the quicksilver in my veins. It is also true, though, that I prefer to work in peace and quiet, in my little workshop where I can be with my thoughts and ideas. The result of all this is that I am convinced that each successive piece is better than those that have gone before, as I and my work continue to improve together.
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"Dedication to Rubens"
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"Vakhanalia"
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Amitabh SenGupta
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My painting is a dialogue between man and nature, as symbolized in the evolution of script. This process is the intent of art explored on canvases. My ‘Inscriptions’ may appear ancient, or belonging to the present, or as having signs and symbols from other cultures – they are symbolic and are timeless in space. There are many important influences in my work, from my eventful life, from the culture I grew up in, with its emphasis on myth, and from the cultures I have visited and come to know. I am continually engaged in a search for form. Mine is pure painting, reflecting the chemistry of my life and thought processes.
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Vladimir Shestakov
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As an artist, I am a member of professional associations of France and Russia, and have a special art education. I work in various genres of arts: painting, drawing, poster, conceptual author's genre, poster-aphorism which appeared and developed very actively in Saint Petersburg before the REORGANIZATION of the USSR and raised burning social questions. At the same time I practiced symbolic painting, and unlike the official art, I worked in subjects connected with the CULTURAL HERITAGE, religion and the country's history, its difficulties and the destiny of GULAG people. I visited and painted these sacred places. While organizing exhibitions, I have plunged into the life of another world which gives new ideas for creativity and emotional charge. And as a free artist without borders, I continue my creative search for my place in the modern art world.
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"Unmasked"
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"A Fashion Show Along the Sea"
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Pedro Garcia Socorro
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My artistic inclination is spread amongst the works of the Dutch Masters and the Paris school, but without ever becoming a really strong affiliation to any one school. Therefore, my own artistic process is varied, with toned canvases, different grounds, impasto, transparencies, sometimes a tonal arrangement rather than a color harmony, or vice versa. This is my own way of transforming my work day into a less boring and more varied one, through plenty of experimentation. My palette is rich in different colors. I like to use opaque and luminous colors (those like the Impressionists) and to modify and enrich them with the old Dutch master traditional earthy and transparent colors. I also use traditional or modern mediums, depending on my aim.
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"Landscape I"
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"Montauc Lighthouse"
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Carmen Sotuela
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Since my childhood in Leon, Spain I have lived in contact with nature, contemplating the miraculous four seasons change. My desire to capture the life of these idyllic landscapes in my paintings has only increased. I explore the gaps between reality and fantasy in mountains, trees, grasslands, rivers, flowers, gardens... I employ symbols that make us reflect on social problems, and always show hope for a better world, as part of my essential quest for love and coexistence among people. Painting has been in my life the encouragement that transforms overcoming adverse events, discovering greatness in everything around us. Through my artwork, I try to convey my feelings. My intention is for the viewer to be moved by the joy and beauty in my work.
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"Camino de un Mundo Mejor"
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"Chopos en el Bierzo"
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Molly Wright
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My work is pretty straightforward. I love color and the play of light. I paint subjects that appeal to me because of the feelings they evoke in me. Sometimes it is their beauty that attracts me, at other times it is the challenge to get the scene I see in my head down on the canvas. I often include figures in my scenes because they give an emotional quality to works that cannot be obtained otherwise. I like the viewer to relate to these people in some way. That makes the piece personal to them as it is to me. I enjoy painting a myriad of subject matter. I think this keeps my work fresh.
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"On The Line"
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"Tying One On"
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