Classic Asian style gets a modern makeover thanks to Alicia Falcone.  Part Zen and part mod, the paintings uphold the rich traditions of the Far East while resonating with a contemporary audience.

Prominent Chinese characters ground the paintings in the works of the East.  They simultaneously are themselves a work of art contained within the context of a larger painting.  Falcone personalizes these character renderings through playful brushstrokes.  More figurative imagery, such as someone meditating, continues the Chinese theme. Red paint, emphatically used in much of Falconeʼs work, harkens back to the symbolic colors found in China.  What distinguishes Falconeʼs paintings from more classic oriental works is her modern approach.  She evokes the minimalism of the 1950s and ʽ60s by painting grids and circles.  Her bold shapes and stark contrasts in color position the paintings in a contemporary sphere, regardless of their subject matter.

Falcone, born in Argentina, was an attorney before moving to Singapore where she spent seven years. Alicia currently resides in Florida working as a Feng Shui consultant, interior decorator and artist.

Jorgen Rosengaard, a Danish world traveler and explorer, attempts to touch the untouchable. His uncommon landscapes of dark, rich acrylic colors, climax in a horizon that's just out of reach, as if the beautiful mountain in the distance is something on the tip of one's tongue, residing on the edge of memory, binding the horizon of the imagination.

The horizon is often at the top of the canvas, far away, with so much land and so little sky. In the foreground is a layered, controlled chaos of color, an intimidating agriculture to be revered and at once questioned. Traveling, to Rosengaard, seems an ultimate, profound expression, and has influenced his work to an unlimited degree. The lens of the artist as explorer or even hunter (as he has referred to himself), is immediate even though the canvas may express a yearning and reaching for what is beyond reach and expression. Sometimes, in his meditative yet urgent paintings, that untouchable horizon seeps into the foreground, and our world is that much richer.

A former science fiction and fantasy writer, Ronaldo Rodinsky’s imagination and curiosity about the future are at the center of his magnificent depictions of the universe. Giving new meaning to the “mind’s eye”, he creates much of his work in a trance, allowing his internal rhythm and intuition to guide him. His work, which he describes as futuristic realism, is ripe with possibility and explores the theme of a limitless existence. Rodinsky’s cosmic landscapes are beautiful to behold. His use of bold, bright colors attracts the viewer’s eye much like gravitational pull. His strokes create harmonious movement and an electric, pulsating energy. While many associate the universe with the unknown, Rodinsky’s work illustrates the vastness of opportunities that lay beyond the limits and boundaries we often create for ourselves, which many viewers will find remarkably liberating.

Ronaldo Rodinsky was born in the Hague district of the Netherlands. He looks forward to his work being well received in the United States and abroad.

An artist with the soul of a dancer, Karin Perez’s vividly hued geometric paintings reverberate with the sonic energy of the modern cityscape.  Each of her works focuses largely on architectural subjects, which when combined with her evocative choices of bold colors and words strengthen the urban themes that are influenced by her interests in the rock, hip-hop, and R&B music and dance subcultures.  Perez works primarily in acrylic on canvas, occasionally adding photos and collages to the large format depictions of contemporary metropolises.

Born in Israel, Karin Perez first channeled her abundant creative energy as a professional dancer. After garnering international acclaim in her second career as a graphic designer, the artist came to realize her true passion for painting and her work is now widely collected and exhibited throughout Europe.  Although the cityscapes that sprawl across her canvases are primarily fictional, she draws endless artistic inspiration from her daily observations in Paris France, where she currently resides.