Art & Beyond April Issue 2019

art&beyond Vol. 59 • April • 2019

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MARKET. PROMOTE. SUCCEED.

Nicholas H. Teetelli Fine Art Photography

ARCTIC FJORDS II.

oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

Terry Kruse

CELESTIAL TANGO. 34" x 50"

Juried Exhibition

and

Publishing Opportunity

Call For Artists

Homage to the Russian Avant-Garde AN EXHIBITION ABOUT FREE EXPRESSION, CREATIVITY AND LIBERTY

18th Annual Russian Arts and Culture FESTIVAL will take place in the month of May 2019.

Homage to the Russian Avant-Garde Exhibition will start on the third week of May and the Artist's reception will take place on Sunday, May 19, coinciding with the grand event of the festival.

Deadline March 30, 2019 Homage to the Russian Avant-Garde, organized by LarkGallery, NFP Rullywood and co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood’s Russian Advisory Board in collaboration with Art & Beyond Magazine. In our exhibition we want to show creations of artists that continue the traditions of the Russian Avant-Garde.

The exhibition will be held under the auspices of the Annual Russian Cultural Festival of the City of West Hollywood, which will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your talents and be seen by thousands of people.

This exhibition gets wide coverage in statewide and local media, including video footage. Press Releases and other information about this exhibition will also be sent to all relevant art magazines and newspapers.

Aside from the exhibition during the Annual Russian Cultural Festival, which participants will be chosen through juried competition, the works of the selected artists in this international exhibition will also be displayed on the website of LarkGallery.com and featured in the special juried issue Homage to the Russian Avant-Garde of the Art & Beyond Magazine.

The juror for the Homage to the Russian Avant-Garde Exhibition and Art & Beyond Magazine special issue is a prominent art critic

Peter Frank, Associate Editor of Fabrik Magazine.

https://larkgallery.com/submissions.php

Summer Print Edition Magazine To be promoted at the

Art Santa Fe 2019 in addition to the regular distribution to galleries, museums and art consultants

Apply Now!

Deadline May 21, 2019

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Vol. 59 • April • 2019

art&beyond

CONTENTS

Cover

Back Cover

Inside Front Cover

Nicholas H. Teetelli

Paul Ygartua

Terry Kruse

Inside Back Cover

Point of Interest

Joselino Margarejo

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The Intrepid Artist

Joy Peirson

25

by Kathy van Gogh

Larry Roberts

26

The art connection

6

Ron Simmer

27

by Vered Galor

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Fine Art • Photography Art Vancouver Exhibitors

Ibeabuchi Ananaba

Announcement Art & Beyond invites all published artists to apply for the upcoming Summer Print Edition Magazine to be presented at the Art Santa Fe July 18-21, 2019

Nicholas Teetelli

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Fine Art • Photography

Nancy Bechtol

30

11 12

Nira Chorev

31

Hui-ju Chen

32

Stephanie Holznecht

34

Ibeabuchi Ananaba

Terry Kruse

Paul Ygartua

Jodie Blaney

Simone Buck

Shelley Brookes

Elizabeth Cross

Sneha Desai

Michelle Fedosoff

Paul Gravett

14 16 17 18 19 20

Devon Govoni

36

Diamante Lavendar

37

Herbert Hermans

38

Igor Prokop

39

Haghtanak Shahumyan

40

Evelyn Walg

41

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Deadline May 21, 2019

Publisher Art Director Editor

Mila Ryk Mila Ryk Alina Lampert

Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.

Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues.

Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other

Entry Form to apply to be published in the Art & Beyond Online magazine is available at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/ab-online-entry/ Membership Program application is available at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/membership/ For any additional information please contact Mila Ryk at mryk@art-beyond.com

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point of interest Chapter 2

The Intrepid Artist

I

f you walked into her house, you would know immediately that an Artist lived there. Not one inch of wall space was unadorned. Even the ceilings floated away with cherubs in cloud-filled blue skies.

On this day, there were several large canvases strewn about the kitchen, all in various states of incompletion.

You just knew they had to order dinner in because there certainly was no space in which to prepare a meal!

Travelling further into the home, you would see a pottery studio replete with a large kiln, pounds of clay and jars of glaze. Adjacent to that was the sewing room where there were real designer-style cutting tables that were 3 feet high and 5 feet wide, not just one, but two of those babies! What was once an office now served as yet another painting studio – state of the art computer equipment surrounded by tubes of paint in every imaginable colour that you could ever dream of barely contained in multiple drawer carts.

However all of the laughter and joy was coming from the living room. There were three women all working in harmony. The smallest one, petite in every way, had a pallet knife in her hand and was studiously applying thick layers of black oil paint to her almost finished Tiger. The other, tall and model-thin wearing a cream tank top and pink shorts was dancing to the 70’s rock and roll dominating the conversation, paintbrush in one hand, wine in the other. The Matriarch was moving back and forth between three pieces she was working on simultaneously – a dab here, a splash there, a squelch everywhere – she used many tools including her fingers.

Photographer ADAM GIBBS.

Nandibull Art. Artists ARYAN & PRIYA JANGHU.

It was an all-together sublime tableau of art in and of itself as they all prepared for Art Vancouver.

Chapter 1….in our February 2019 issue of Art & Beyond Artist MOHAMMAD REZA ATASHZAD. 6 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

by Kathy van Gogh

ABOUT From April 25th to 28th, the fifth-annual Art Vancouver international art fair will be taking over the Vancouver Convention Centre, bringing together artists from around the world at its cornerstone exhibition. Celebrating the fair’s emphasis on diversity, this year’s theme is appropriately titled “Uniting Nations through Art,” and will showcase contemporary pieces that are representative of over 20 different countries.

“Art Vancouver has been gaining worldwide awareness for the past 5 years, bringing together people from all over the world to celebrate art,” shares Lisa Wolfin, Director, Art Vancouver. “Everyone should be able to experience the joy of an art fair, being surrounded with inspiration in a room full of creators and creations. It really brings people together. ”

In addition to viewing the exhibits, attendees can look forward to a speaker series, artist demonstrations, and art workshops, giving both the novice and professional artist the chance to learn something new.

ART VANCOUVER Opening Night.

Projects Gallery artist FRANK HYDER.

Interested in attending Art Vancouver?

For tickets or more information about the Art Vancouver show, please visit

www.artvancouver.net

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point of interest

The

by Vered Galor www.veredgalor.com

Art Connection

AT THE GATE OF HELL. Watercolor on Paper. By Miriam Shavi.1980

A

rt in all its forms connects us to our history. Besides being the legacy of humanity it teaches us about our past. Hopefully we learn from it, to change, correct and not repeat it. Art is made to help portray and tell about our observations, impressions, and emotions as we see them, live them and are affected by them.

The art connection for me personally was the close relationship I had with my mother through our art. My mother, Miriam Nivash Shavit, who was a Holocaust survivor, saved my life when I was a baby by leaving me behind, when the Germans caught my parents in the fall of 1944. I in turn saved hers by giving her a reason to survive. As she used to say, she made it one day at the time, thinking about me, out there, needing her.

Mother started to make her artwork in the 1960s with the guidance of an artist and a family friend. The artwork about her time during the war came soon after she began to create. The Holocaust body of work is not large, but the artwork is powerful and expressive. She made 19 pieces and never went back to the subject matter.

Mother was an incredible artist working in symbolic abstract style on many surfaces. She started with enamel, which is a powdered glass on copper 8 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

YADELL VILLAGE 1944. Digital Photographic Collage.

By Vered Galor. 2019

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 1943.

Digital Photographic Collage.

By Vered Galor. 2019

sheet. Then she proceeded to work on any material she could find and with any media available. She painted on paper, canvas and wood and even on an old refrigerator door. She used oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media. The last media she did were collages made by adding photographs to her paintings. Mother created until the day she died at the age of 89.

The ideas for my artwork on the painful subject of the Holocaust came about as I watched my mother work and portray her life's experiences during the war. In 1986, I traveled back to the town of Preshov, in Slovakia, where I was born. I took photos of the city, my parents’ homes, the school my father attended and the country where we spent five years, moving and hiding, trying to save our lives. I used these photographs, with old family photos that a neighbor had saved for my parents, to create collages reflecting the stories I had heard my parents tell.

I chose to use the collage media because of the process which is; putting together images, photographs and various materials, in creating the artwork. I did the collages with the digital process of layering and blending photos using different levels of transparencies. The collage media technique resembles life experiences that are being layered in our mind and soul though our lives. I expressed myself emotionally, psychologically and visually in the images I formed, describing and recalling, the family I didn’t get to know.

HELPLESS HANDS. Acrylic on Paper. By Miriam Shavi.1984

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Ibeabuchi Ananaba

NO MORE EMPTY PROMISES (4). Ballpoint Pen on Archival Paper, 44" x 50". 2019

Born in Belgium in 1976, Ibeabuchi grew up in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria. His interest in art began at age 3, as he witnessed his elder brother recreate comic characters. He studied Fine and Applied Arts at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria where he majored in Painting and graduated with Distinction in 1999.

Issues that affect contemporary living largely influence his art.

He enjoys using interdisciplinary approach for his art creations in his search for new experiences.

He is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Collections.

He has exhibited numerously in Nigeria, South Africa, U.S.A., London and Israel. His works are published in MASTERS OF WATERCOLORS (Planeta Muzyki), Finland - 2018, THE VILLAGER (HOW AFRICANS CONSUME BRANDS), Published byTracey McDonald Publishers, South Africa. – 2018, FASHION ILLUSTRATION AFRICA – A NEW GENERATION (Shoko Press, London. - 2016) amongst many others.

Ibeabuchi lives and maintains his studio in Lagos, Nigeria. www.ibeananabart.com • ibeananaba@yahoo.com

WHO GOES 1ST? 2. Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30". 2018 www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 11

Terry Kruse

XANADU. 50" x 35".

TERRY KRUSE is a Canadian artist inspired by the colours and intensities of nature. She paints from the heart and produces lively and fascinating abstracts without the use of a paint brush. These compositions bloom with lines, tones and colours that blend in unique ways and have a warmth that compliments today’s modern interiors. While Terry uses a limited palette, her unique method creates unlimited tones rarely available in an art store.

The process involves the manipulation of canvas with intuitive and controlled pouring of acrylic paints, usually requiring several pours, each affecting the viscosity of the proceeding layers. This layering changes the palette, creating vibrant colours with rich hues while showing tremendous movement and depth.

Terry states: It is when I let the paint flow and blend that I am truly able to express the joy and freedom I was missing in other forms of art. Pouring helped the composition evolve 12 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

KAIROS. 52" x 34".

AMBROSIA. 54" x 42".

SERENDIPITY. 46" x 38".

in a choreography between me, the artist, and the paints.

With freedom of movement comes an overall satisfaction from a disciplined aesthetic balance. Magically, I am able to create a visual texture with elements, fine lines and blending that can’t be created with a brush.

These paintings are large and fit well in today’s contemporary homes that act as a backdrop with their high ceilings and plain walls. Each piece speaks differently yet the overall impression is of warmth and happiness, echoing the emotions Terry feels when creating these bold canvasses. And because of her distinctive method each piece is truly one of a kind, both exclusive and unrepeatable. art@TerryKruse.com • www.TerryKruse.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 13

Paul Ygartua An Original Creator

BROKEN CITY. Acrylics on Canvas, 4' x 5'

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SPIRIT MASK. Acrylics on Canvas, 3' x 5'. (Top left) INCANDESCENT. Acrylics on Canvas, 3' x 5'. (Top right) U-TURN. Acrylics on Canvas, 3' x 3'. (Bottom right)

Paul Ygartua is an international artist – an original creator producing remarkable work.

He is a painter and muralist with bases in Canada, France, Spain and England.

www.ygartuaoriginals.com

Jodie Blaney Canadian landscape artist JODIE BLANEY is an Active Member with the Federation of Canadian Artists and received visual arts training from Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She has participated in numerous art workshops, exhibits and events across the Vancouver Lower Mainland. Key influences include artists Lawren Harris, A. J. Casson and Emily Carr, and Cubist expression as reflected in the works of Picasso, Cezanne and Braque. Over the past decade, Jodie’s recognizable painting style has won praise from collectors who are drawn to her vibrant colours, rhythmical compositions and strong forms. Jodie was recently recognized as a “Top Artist to Watch 2018” in the Summer issue of ArtTour International magazine. Her work is collected in Canada and abroad and she’s completed many private commissions.

Jodie paints from her home studio gallery in Delta, BC. Visitors welcome by appointment. www.jodieblaney.com • jodieblaney@gmail.com

TOFINO GETAWAY. 36" x 48"

NOVEMBER HIKE. 24" x 48" 16 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

Simone Buck

UNTITLED. Acrylic on Canvas, 32" x 32"

Born 1971 in Germany, Simone holds a MFA in Graphic Design and has worked successfully in the corporate world for over 20 years. Some of her childhood years were spent in West-Africa, from an early age on the only constant in her life was change, in order to cope with the changes of the external world, she started to create her own imaginary inner worlds that she would retreat in.

For quite some years now she has chosen to life semi-isolated in the stillness of the Canadian Wilderness, surrounded only by nature and animals' spirits and living self-sustainably off the land. She is now a committed full time artist and is teaching expressive art and pottery.

according to whatever wants to be expressed in the moment creativity strikes. She prefers to work spontaneous and almost never premeditates what is going to happen on the surface.

Even though her art draws on shapes, colors and other elements of the natural world, it is an examination of the human spirit, the interconnectedness of all things being and her paintings often represent an expression of the soul. Her paintings have a very dynamic component to it and vibrate on a high frequency.

She frequently travels into other realms through shamanic journeying and retrieves some of the imagery used in her art from these other realms. www.coldsnap-studio.ca

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Shelley Brookes

BATTLE OF SOMME 1916 After the Carnage WW1 Deadliest Battle in History!!

I Am an Artist!

I just realized this the other day. I celebrate creating and I beg any viewer to realize that the potential is inside everyone. To find pleasure in an image that looks back at us from a board or canvas is a witness of creation. We all can tap into the wave of existence, and find our beauty, or at least what our eyes find pleasing...

I believe it’s an artist responsibility to show the public the horrors of the world, not just paint pretty pictures. It used to be the artist that started a War, or at least ended one! I want to end War! I’ve decided that I no longer will paint pictures without a message. I will paint epic photos of WAR and its destruction. I will show how it has affected our lives, and how it could possibly affect our future lives.

Find a cause, be a true artist! Don’t paint a picture just to match a bedrooms colour scheme.

Paint a masterpiece! maxthekatt@hotmail.com Instagram: shelleybrookesvisualartist 18 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

NAPALM GIRL.

Elizabeth Cross

I AM ADDICTED TO YOU. Acrylic on Canvas, 48" x 60"

Elizabeth Cross is a Vancouver based artist. She has exhibited her work throughout Vancouver and Seattle (Art! Vancouver, Lillian Art Gallery, Monika's Art Boutique, Hollyburn Country Club, Lynn Hanson Gallery etc.). She has also participated in "live" painting competitions throughout Vancouver.

Elizabeth loves to paint large colorful and playful, flowers, faces and abstracts. She has been painting as a hobby for the last 30 years. It was only recently, that Elizabeth went "public" with her work and she has decided that she cannot let this passion just sleepily exist in her any longer. Throughout the years, Elizabeth has taken art classes at UBC and welding classes at BCIT. She is one of those people that has both a "science" and a "crazy artsy creative" side and has loved to explore both over the years! Painting for Elizabeth is a complete addiction and she is happiest when she is painting and in the "zone". Time flies and nothing else seems to matter when she is painting. She even dreams of painting and what to paint next.

She works with acrylic paint and uses various brushes, gels,

modelling paste and sparkles to add texture and interest to her pieces.

Elizabeth is a "hopeless dreamy ridiculously loving" romantic and a lot of her paintings are named with LOVE and PASSION undertones. Her paintings are vibrant and the movement of the subject is apparent. Elizabeth uses bright reds, pinks, yellows and greens. She also uses black and white for special contrast pieces.

Most of her work is quite abstract which is purposeful. She wants the viewer’s eye to work to fill in the blanks and imagine the movement that each piece depicts.

Life is so short and very precious, so take the time to enjoy the beauty and art around the world. Even the simple curves of a flower petal or raindrop.

Hopefully when you see some of Elizabeth's work, it will fill you with happiness, joy, LOVE and PASSION. Just a little piece of heaven. www.elizabethcross.ca www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 19

Sneha Desai

RAINBOW PEACOCK. Acrylic on Canvas (using metallics, neons, and heavy gloss acrylic gel), 24" in x 30"

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INTO THE MOUNTAINS. Acrylic on Canvas (using metallics, neons, and heavy gloss acrylic gel), 12" in x 36"

MYSTERIOUS TREE. Acrylic on Canvas (using heavy gloss acrylic gel, modeling paste, and burlap rope for the blue flowers on the artwork), 12" x 36" IN PERFECT HARMONY. Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas (The Shiva figure along with the props are sculpted using gold leaf), 24" x 30"

Everything is art and art is my passion. I express my love for life by leaving my handprints and essence in each and every one of my creations. Feel free to create as you are creatively created.

— Sneha Desai

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Michelle Fedosoff

DEER LAKE IN PINK. Printed on Metal.

Michelle began her photography career 20 years ago after she came home from a grizzly bear viewing tour in Northern British Columbia.

After watching the majestic bears fighting over salmon and being in awe of the rich green forests, she purchased her first digital camera and now takes it everywhere.

After the birth of her son, the direction of her photography changed from wildlife to children and sports photography. Years later it changed again to street photography and landscapes.

Michelle currently is focusing on bringing the beauty and interest of her world and what she sees to others, expressing her artwork in many ways by printing on metal, canvas, and bamboo. www.michellefedosoff.photo

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WINTER MOUNTAINS. Printed on Metal.

Paul Gravett Fine Art Photography

LUMIERE 1 & 2. Photography, 24” x 36” (each image)

SAINT JEAN. Photography, 24” x 24”

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Joey Cruz Margarejo

THE JOY OF KRISTEL. Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 16"

JOEY CRUZ MARGAREJO was originally from the Philippines, a self taught artist who were greatly influenced by his best friend an artist too, Joey moved to Canada in 1997 first in Montreal, Quebec and now base in Edmonton Alberta, Joey mostly works are abstract in acrylic and always believes that as an artist we all need to be FREE, I love it also when people take a deep look at my works and asked "Is this Art?" jomaricm@yahoo.ca Instagram: iamjomari 24 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

Joy Peirson

YALETOWN VIEW. Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 36"

WATER TAXIS ON FALSE CREEK. Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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Larry Roberts

RUN WITH NATURE. Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 18"

FROM THE BEGINNING. Acrylic on Wood Panel, 48" x 48"

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Ron Simmer

BIG BIRD.

RON SIMMER works in the area of Vancouver, BC mainly with found objects and materials, He searches for discards that speak to him with the promise of sublime creations that will amaze, tickle, surprise or give pause to think. He enjoys the mental game of taking consumer rejects and making the mundane and common into the unique and spectacular. Since we live in a world in which almost everything is commoditized it is his challenge to repurpose consumer products into the unusual, amazing and funny.

Ron attempts to take people back to their childhood by creating large scale toys and colorful birds and animals. Often his art is created to be an interactive physical experience and incorporates optical illusions. He works with groups

celebrating human creativity and spirituality, contributing art to local festivals and events. On occasion he joins forces in collaborative projects with engineers, technicians, designers and other artists to create large scale exhibits.

Simmer is active in support of local art societies. Ron is an executive member of the Sculpture Society of BC and is head of ReVision, the nonprofit society of Vancouver BC area artists devoted to creating art from recycled materials. He is also director of the Burnaby Arts Council. Ron’s inspiration comes from his background – commercial fisherman, steel fabricator and UBC Librarian. www.ronsimmer.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 27

fine art

Nicholas H. Teetelli Fine Art Photography

NICHOLAS TEETELLI is both a published and international award-winning fine art photographer. He was born in New York City and grew up in lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. During the late 1960s, and into the 1970s, the Village was a hotbed of culture and the arts. During this period, Teetelli was introduced to art and photography, developing an interest in what would become his lifelong passion. While rooted in New York City, he also called Europe home throughout his early years.

Nicholas Teetelli is primarily self-taught. Over the last four decades, he has learned, developed, and advanced his skills independently, transitioning from serious amateur to professional photographer.

He travels extensively throughout the world, and during each journey, with camera in hand, he records much of what he sees, sharing the impression of his mind’s eye through composition, light play, shape and design.

His work is often juried and invited to exhibition in galleries and museums all across the United States, and receiving awards and recognition in international

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As a fine-art photographer from New York City, Nicholas Teetelli has spent the past four decades advancing his skills and winning awards both at home and abroad.

He travels the world capturing a diverse portfolio including landscapes, architecture, portraits, flora and fauna, underwater, and street photography.

juried competitions, in such places as Moscow, London and Tokyo.

His work is often also featured at major art shows like Art San Diego, Spectrum Miami and ArtExpo New York as well at European galleries in Vienna, Austria and Bologna, Italy. He’s also a featured artist on Royal Caribbean’s Azamara Ships in their Artwave shipboard galleries. www.teetelli.com

ARCTIC FJORDS II. Photography.

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fine art

Nancy Bechtol

PSYCHE PINK GREEN.

Artist, Independent Filmmaker, Photographer, Educator, Media Consultant with a history of 40 years as an artist, filmmaker, inspired educator, American Press Association Photojournalist and long-time Chicagoan. Early influences of the Hairy Who/Chicago Imagists, and as a student of Don Baum. Later mentored by Phil Morton, founder of the Video/Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her art and films have been in local, national, and international venues ranging from museums, to galleries, to social networking sites and underground locations.

Awards /Recognitions Midwest Regional Fellow National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award-Media, Arts Neighborhood Arts Program Artist at Lathrop Homes, CHA City of Chicago. Dept. of Cultural Affairs. American Video Conference Award sponsored by the American Film Institute Billboard Magazine, Tokyo International Video Festival, CoCurator with John Stillwell, of 15 minute openings of CityArts Office Gallery. Chicago Cultural Center. Special Merit Award in Experimental Video Art, American Registry of Outstanding Professionals, Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV) Independent Producer 1986-current, Chicago Society of 30 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

WOODS PSYCHE 2.

Artists (CSA), former President/Director and former curator of RawSpace. the ARC Gallery Chicago current Affiliate. www.absolutearts.com/nancybechtol

Nira Chorev

CREATION 1. Mixed Media on Paper, 22”x30”

1952 Chorev born in Boston MA, raised and educated in the United States and Israel, receiving graduate and postgraduate degrees from School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA. Today Chorev works in mixed media and fine art, based in Brookline, MA. She uses photos “to capture moments as memories”, which trigger the landscapes created, continue the connections

between the artist and nature, and “remind us how things were before man changed nature.”

Her artwork has been exhibited around the world and is in privet collections in Israel, Europe and the U.S, her artwork is at the Center for Israeli Art at the Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel. nirachorev.wordpress.com

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Hui-ju Chen (Mickey)

SHOOT. Mixed Media, 20cm x 20cm HUI-JU CHEN (MICKEY) graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Even though she has not been using art and design as her main profession, she has kept her passion of making art until today. Along with her teaching job at Shantou University, she always finds time to create various styles of work. It is interesting to see how her work has varied from photography to acrylic painting to mixed-media to collage. She hopes to keep being experimental because she believes that, in the art world, there are no real errors but different thoughts and processes with different outcomes. Without experimentation, she feels, art is not art. She gets inspiration from different aspects of life. She always hopes to learn and create different kinds of work by making use of her own different life experiences.

It is normal to have lots of frustrations and doubts as one goes through the phases of creation. For Mickey, the biggest frustration has been the temptation and pressure to build and keep up one particular style in order to be a professional artist. Though it is true that a dedication to one style may enable one to come a little closer to perfection in that style, Mickey feels that art is about taking risks. If she is satisfied with one style, she believes that she loses a very important quality of art--the excitement of experiencing different things in the world.

Therefore, she hopes to continue working in different ways and experimenting with different styles. Art making, for her, is not just a way to express herself but a way to define her existence. www.ratgoofy.com 32 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

BROKEN. Mixed Media, 25cm x 20cm

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Stephanie Holznecht

WHIRLWIND. Acrylic, Fluid Acrylic, Tempera and Latex Paint on Canvas, 30" x 24"

HAVING A MOMENT. Fluid Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 30"

I obtained a BA in graphic design and fine art at UW-Whitewater, working for many years as a graphic designer and art director. After years of working in realism I finally began to make abstract art my full time profession. Abstract art freed me from the restrictiveness of realism and allowed me to be more expressive and expansive with my paintings.

I work primarily in mixed media paint, painting in two different styles simultaneously.

I use four to five canvases at a time, allowing for a very creative work atmosphere.

This permits me to get more emotionally tied to the paint, creating a sense of harmony that leaves me feeling exceptionally invigorated as I work.

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LIVING ON THE EDGE. Acrylic, Fluid Acrylic, Tempera and Latex Paint on Canvas, 50" x 40"

LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS. Acrylic and Latex Paint on Canvas, 40" x 30"

I have exhibited all over the world and extensively in the USA, including: New York, Miami, Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Los Angeles; and Italy including: Milan, Venice, Florence, Palermo and Rome. To name a few, I have won Best in Show at an exhibition in Chicago IL, Juror’s Choice in Sturgeon Bay WI, Merit Award at an exhibition in Baton Rouge LA, First Place at two Italian exhibitions in Florence and Milan, plus a Merit Award for Arte Palermo, and Bronze Award at an exhibition in London, England.

I invest in the creation of a piece of art to convey what I have inside: my thinking, my emotions, my life, my essence and my soul. It’s also a way I can reach my own desires and essential demands out of life.

When I create a new piece of art, what I feel smoothly becomes real. Once my creativity is ready, my vision becomes clear and flows out onto the canvas.

The inspiration that I take from experiencing life creates a feeling that continues to inspire me. I don’t think, as an artist, that is something I could ever lose. www.sholznecht.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 35

fine art

Devon Govoni SORROW. Mixed Media Sculpture, 15"

ANNOYANCE. Mixed Media Sculpture, 14"

DEVON GOVONI is a licensed mental health counselor and a board certified art therapist in the state of Massachusetts. She is also a doctoral candidate at Lesley University within the field of expressive arts therapies. Devon specializes in oil and mixed media painting, sculpting, and photography. She has been a part of many art exhibitions and has contributed artwork to several magazine and book publications, all nationally and internationally. www.devongovoni.com 36 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

Diamante Lavendar

HURT. Digital Art.

DIAMANTE LAVENDAR is an award-winning author and artist. Her art has been featured in numerous online galleries and has won many awards including Best Of Show and Honorable Mention from Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery, Publisher's Choice Award from Art and Beyond and Special Merit and Special Recognition from Light, Space and Time Art Gallery. Diamante has also been awarded 3rd, 5th and 6th place in the category of Digital Art from the American Art Awards 2017 and she placed 3rd in the American Art Awards 2018 in Manipulated Photography.

Diamante is inspired by nature, spirit and emotion. She enjoys all types of creativity including painting, drawing, digital art, photography, mixed media and fractal art.

She is the creator of a group entitled Emotive Art on Fine Art America and enjoys featuring other artists and authors on her blog at http://www.diamantelavendar.com. www.diamante-lavendar.pixels.com IN THE MIND OF A CHILD. Digital Art. www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 37

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Herbert Hermans

CROSSING BRIDGES. Oil on Canvas, 90cm x 90cm HERBERT HERMANS was born in 1947 in Voorburg in The Netherlands.

Since the end of the 80s, Hermans has been a passionate painter and he owns an atelier in the historic city center of Gouda. His work consists mainly of oil paintings, with his major theme being industrial and cultural heritage. Hermans has followed different courses in acrylic, water media and oil painting, starting in 1985 at the Dutch Art School SKVR in Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

The last decade his work mainly is concentrated to oil paintings.

The main theme of his work is industrial and cultural heritage.

Sources of inspiration for his paintings are abandoned and often ruinous buildings. He records these often before demolition by photographs and sketches.

DEMOLITION HOUSE. Oil on Canvas, 60cm x 80cm Use of colour and use of light make his paintings special events. Dark disconsolateness is changing into light and warmth. Regularly he adds characters into his paintings who provide another or 38 • Art & Beyond • April 2019

an extra dimension to the image, like brides, monks and observers. The tension in their relation is sometimes nearly tangible.

Besides the oil paint for the top layers he mostly uses acryl paint as ground-colour or priming. In several paintings he has used gold foil, acryl modelling and glazing gel.

Herbert was nominated in 2014, 2016 and 2018 for the title for the Dutch title 'Painting of the year’.

He won the title 'Artist of the Month' in April 2017 and in October 2018 he won the 2nd price of the professional jury at the Annual Dutch Art Fair in Amsterdam.

Hermans has had exhibitions in eight countries in Europe, in the USA and China. His works have been published in many art books and his artwork has been published and sold worldwide. berthermans.kunstinzicht.nl

Igor Prokop

BLACK STEM CELLS FROM AN ALIEN. Acryl on Canvas.

IGOR PROKOP was born in Budapest in 1953. He graduated from the Teacher Training College in Eger as a teacher of Biology and drawing in 1978. Igor also studied design at the University of Applied Arts.

Igor studied and worked in New York, Heidelberg, Auckland and several other places around the world. Everything is connected - nothing is meaningless. It does matter how you live, what you create, if you are going to have children, and what you are going to leave to them and their children as well.

It does matter how much enlightenment you achieve! Every one of us has his own inner world made out of experience and personal learning within the system.

“I want to preserve the past and to design the future. I want to protect the universal systems and I would like to protect

the teachings of those that have thought me everything: The Organon by Aristoteles; Holbach, On the Road by Kerouac; Jack London, Arnold Gehlen, Stephen Hawking and several other teachers from art, music, history and even from the internet. They all became guides on my way.” – Igor Prokop.

“Our world permits no further mistakes. United mankind can solve its problems. We must work together! This is my final goal, the inspiration for my pictures: To create tolerant, creative and cooperative systems that are heading toward a spiritual unity. Everyone must learn and teach at his realm, everyone must learn to work together with the power of art.

For it is only possible to compare the power of art to that of nature herself” stated Igor Prokop. https://www.saatchiart.com/account/profile/98903 www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 39

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Haghtanak Shahumyan

UNPLEASANTNESS. Oil on Cardboard, 18.9" x 27.6"

WINDMILL. Oil on Canvas, 49.2" x 55.1" HAGHTANAK SHAHUMYAN, one of the contemporary Armenian modern-art painters was born in 1944 in Yerevan, Armenia.

The first steps of his professional development were done in 1961 in the studio of well-known Armenian sculptor Ara Sargsyan, where he studied till 1963.

From 1962-67 he studied at the department of painting in the Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts & Theater. After graduating he became a member of the Union of Painters of Armenia.

Heading an administrative position in the municipality of Yerevan for more than 14 years (working as a chief painter of the capital city from 1976-1989) he continued to create new masterpieces and participate in the republican and international exhibitions. He had more than 37 personal exhibitions in Armenia, Poland, Norway, USA, France, Spain, Australia etc…

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Evelyn Walg

OUR WAY. Acryl on Canvas, 30" x 48"

SUMMER. Acryl on Canvas, 36" x 36"

EVELYN WALG is a Venezuelan artist of Dutch origin who resides in Miami. Walg is an international artist with worldwide exhibits in Venezuela, South Florida, New York, Shanghai, Boston, Tel Aviv, Lima and Vienna.

She creates individuals with no identity but with clear personality, they are in motion but not alone. Walg prefers to use heavy texture and bright colors. Her little individuals walk, run and jump on her canvas with the idea of representing happiness, friendship and harmony amongst us all." http://evelynwalg.com

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Ibeabuchi Ananaba

DIFFERENT LEAGUE. Acrylics on canvas with footwear installation, 72" x 48". 2018 ©Ibeabuchi

Paul Ygartua

TRANSFORMATION. Acrylic on Canvas, 4' x 5'