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Metamorphosis Exhibiting a wide range of contemporary art, Metamorphosis dives into a vast cauldron of fiery inspiration. We see the humanness behind the form, we find joys, fears, intrigue, and power. There is an expanse of inventive styles, as elemental forms and dynamic figures transform the desire for understanding into action, in the same manner of the early explorers. To make the unknown, known: to see what lies over that horizon.
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Fabrizio Andriani
 
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My artistic leanings and desires began in early childhood. My first influences were Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel and Francisco Goya, in books at home. I was always attracted by the mysticism of these great artists. And of course, I loved the monstrous figures that populated their dark worlds. When I moved to Italy I came into contact with the works of artists like Andrea Pazienza e Tanino Liberatore, who also influenced me. After studying at the Liceo Artistico de Pescara, I started painting with acrylic at the di Belle Arti di Genova. I became fascinated by the power of colors and the mix between traditional painting and more contemporary influences. The color contrasts in my works became stronger and I started using metallic, fluorescent and phosphorescent colors. Now I paint with felt-tip pen. This allows me to approach in my art the colors and lights which mark contemporary life and vision.
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"Cathodic Portrait 11"
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"Cathodic Portrait 09"
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Chritch
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My Art is instinctive. I like immersing myself in my internal world, letting appear the images and the feelings which guide my creation, always surrounded by music. My work invites viewers to uncover the mask of appearances, decode the complexity of the human soul. My Painting is unplanned, creation beginning directly on the canvas, which becomes a space of free expression where colours, shapes and thicknesses produce an abstract composition. The characters emerge from the composition, locating themselves dimensionally, influencing my palette. I enjoy using different techniques, including most recently mixed media. I use fast-drying acrylic in successive thin layers, and glazing and transparency to give the desired effects of depth or light, sometimes together with collage. Afterwards I try to analyze my paintings, giving titles in my role as spectator with a critical eye and many questions. The thin intersecting straight lines and figures with closed eyes are my signature.
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"The Blue Eye (diptych)"
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"Shisha Lounge (triptych)"
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Emin Guliyev
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While I am a professional sculptor I also like working in other fields of creative arts; drawing painting and graphics. I usually work without a model and I am trying to reflect in my work the fullness and beauty of form in the space. My method is closely connected to my life impressions. My paintings are done with simple confident lines accomplished without corrections. Generally all my works, whether they are sculptures, paintings or drawing, are done with much warmth and inspiration. My definition of real professionalism is harmonic integrity of an artist and his works; when the artist’s mood and emotions are in complete accord with the form they are expressed in
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"Corrida"
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"Alone in the Big City"
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Joo Han
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Keenness and tolerance, concentration and indifference, hate and generosity commonly reside together within the images of my imagination. I commonly use the senses exaggeratedly expressed and the harmony within them. Using contemporary colors and creating sarcastic objects are my favorite methods. These techniques have been directly or indirectly influenced by Korean traditional folk painting.
As an artist, I find myself looking at every element in my artwork which is continually crashing into the outer world, with generous and affectionate eyes so that I can eventually plead for them through the artwork. From that point, my journey to the outer world really begins.
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"The Song 1"
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"The Conversation"
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Michael Indorato
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I was first captivated by the concept of infinity when my Kindergarten art teacher asked me to create a line that never ended. Infinity comes from nothingness, and grows into a breathing living presence, beautiful and mysterious. My life and art embody the constant struggle between order and chaos. When painting, I wrestle with myself, finding good and evil, light and darkness, always reflecting upon the battle between them. My works still flow from that eternal well of infinite possibilities, reminding that we are all trapped within the confines of infinity. What matters is what my art says to your heart and soul. To understand it, look at it from the place of childhood, before your sense of logical order dominated the vastness and majesty of the stars. It’s the place where the divine lives. I am Michael Indorato and I will change the way you perceive.
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"Floral in Vase by Window"
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"Abstract Wild Flowers"
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Marcela
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For me a canvas is a place where the unknown meets the known. My pallet is highly saturated with little or no mixing. I avoid rule-following, especially the rule about ‘staying on one side of the color wheel’. I feel complete freedom and enthusiasm when I paint; any conscious mental process diminishes the fun for me. My inspiration comes mainly from within; my internal impressions at the moment of connection between me and the blank surface, not from outside objects or preconceived ideas. It is a release, an internal exploration and the acceptance of what I create as it presents itself. I can only guide it, my personal journey in search of myself.
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"Deran"
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"Topar"
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Brian Reed
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After years of struggle, I have arrived at a very intimate understanding of art. Human expression, to me, is a journey of change and metamorphosis. It is both a feast and a famine, a force of liberation and a theater of depravity. In the past eight years, I have used art as a mirror of my internal emotional process, to paint with broad, brilliant strokes my own process of coming to terms with suffering and frailty, and to celebrate the healing properties of art within the world. In my work, I combine rich mythologies and folklore with my personal experiences to illustrate the kindred bond that all cultures, regardless of time and civilization, share — the struggle to grapple with themes of violence, sexuality, death and afterlife. My art allows me to embrace the human heritage of myth, faith and suffering and to translate this understanding into an engaging visual experience.
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"Diptych: Feeding the Gods Hearts (Right)"
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"I Love U = No HIV"
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Marina Reiter
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My art is about the interconnectedness of things, our complex interactions and relationships, six degrees of separation, and celebration of everything that unites us and pulls us apart. The joyful colorful creatures that I paint are very much the “learning, playful souls” that Richard Bach wrote about. We enter this world to reach out and connect. We are not bound by space and time. We fly for the sake of flying; we live because we love life. We touch, we teach, and we learn from one another. Sometimes these connections are happy, sometimes quite odd, but that's what makes life colorful, joyful and beautiful.
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"All the Creatures Big and Small"
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"So Deep and Tempting is the Dream"
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Jane Sandes
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The multidimensional sculptures I create are the product of my comprehensive investigation of geometry as viewed through the variables of lines, contours and volume. Although I emphasize cubes, triangles and circumferences as components that shape my art, I explore these components within a improvised geometry aimed at dismantling their original forms. The materials I apply to my sculptures - resin and chemical components – enable me to create sculptures that can be either opaque or crystalline (transparent). Thus, I give viewers the chance to read my pieces dynamically. Furthermore, the sculptures may admit the passage of light – this additional technique provides viewers with the ability to interpret my pieces through an additional variable that enriches and deepens the visualization of my work.
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"Pearler"
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"Abstract Red"
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