3-13, 2026
ABDA FAYYAZ
The Search Within (Red) 1 Dubai-based artist Abda Fayyaz works in hand-drawn abstraction built through repetition and mark-making, with a practice developed over twelve years across the UAE and internationally. The Search Within (Red) is a dense, meditative acrylic on canvas in which layers of fine, rhythmic marks accumulate into a surface that shifts and flickers as you look at it — a painting about sustained attention, and what becomes visible when you slow down enough to really look.
ABDA FAYYAZ
The Search Within (Red) 1
ALIA AL BAZEI
Alia AlBazei's Shedding the Veil is a painting that stays with you. A figure dressed in flowing white, their back turned, is wrapped in bold crimson ribbons bearing Arabic script and the effect is both beautiful and deeply moving. AlBazei asks us to consider what it means to carry language, culture, and identity on your body, and whether that weight is something to be borne, celebrated, or gently set down. Rich, restrained, and quietly powerful, this is storytelling through paint at its finest.
ALIA AL BAZEI
The Architecture of Worry
JOANNA PEGIER
Stream your dream: Unseen 1 Polish visual artist Joanna Pęgier works across digital painting, oil, and photography, and has exhibited from Warsaw to Paris, Miami, and New York. Stream your dream: Unseen 1 is a luminous digital painting printed on Dibond, part of a series drawn from the energy of dreams and the urban life of New York City vibrant, glowing, and alive with a quality of light that feels both otherworldly and immediately recognisable.
JOANNA PEGIER
Stream your dream: Unseen 1
Digital painting (printed on Dibond)
LEA KARVALA
Rhythm of Spring Finnish artist Lea Karvala works at the intersection of abstraction and subtle figuration, building paintings through intuitive layering and gestural speed. She has exhibited across Europe, Japan, and the Americas. Rhythm of Spring is an acrylic on canvas built in multiple layers, its structure emerging from taped sections and the colours revealed between them, finished with loose green splashes that carry the restless, renewing energy of the season.
LEA KARVALA
Rhythm of Spring
NICOLE BRUCE
Luz Born in Costa Rica and trained at the Florence Academy of Art, Nicole Bruce hand-models in clay before casting in bronze, treating the human body as architecture. Luz is a monumental bronze figure — nearly two metres tall caught in a moment of ascension, arm extended, the surface retaining the imprint of the hand that made it. It is a sculpture about illumination: the body as both weight and flight.
NICOLE BRUCE
TEODORA NIKOLOVA
In my mind Bulgarian artist Teodora Nikolova works in acrylic and mixed media, building richly layered canvases that move between painting and sculpture. In my mind is an 80 x 80 cm acrylic on 3D canvas — a work that lives up to its title, pulling the viewer into an interior space where colour and form push and recede as though thought itself were taking shape on the surface.
TEODORA NIKOLOVA
In my mind
ZENABI PIXELS
The joy of creation Chilean-French architect and artist Cristobal Ibanez, working as Zenabi Pixels, has exhibited from Santiago to Sydney and Paris. The joy of creation is an acrylic on canvas dominated by warm, luminous yellows a dreamlike composition where forms drift and dissolve in a surreal space guided by intuition rather than logic, capturing the feeling of an idea unfolding freely before it hardens into anything fixed.
ZENABI PIXELS
The joy of creation
GINA PAN
Self-trained watercolorist Gina Pan centres women from folklore and mythology, blending Eastern and Western influences from Klimt to classical Chinese sculpture. Butterfly Lovers reinterprets China's beloved legend as a sapphic love story, the two women embracing as butterflies and lotuses — symbols of rebirth surround them. Painted in watercolour and gold ink with colour pencil, it is a work of great delicacy and quiet conviction.
GINA PAN
Butterfly Lovers
ZAZA HERZET
Maskerade – Where Light Finds a Crack Belgian artist Sandra Herzet began her practice after a 24-year career in IT, building an intuitive mixed-media language from modeling paste, acrylic, bister, and charcoal. Maskerade reflects on the constructed self the masks shaped by expectation — and the fragile moment when they begin to loosen. Lighter passages emerge through the dense surface like fractures, small openings where something more honest starts to show through.
ZAZA HERZET
Maskerade – Where Light Finds a Crack
Modeling paste, acrylic, bister
FULCO
Uruguayan artist Fulco works through the body and matter, building layered oil paintings where tension, symptom, and connection take visible form. He has exhibited at ArtExpo New York and Berlin. Tensión is a concentrated oil on canvas in which a figure is caught in a form that no longer fits — not falling, not breaking, simply insisting. It holds the particular discomfort of being out of place in one's own skin.
FULCO
Tensión
ANA REMOK
Ana Remok is a contemporary abstract artist recognized for her LIGHT CODES series, where gold, geometry, and layered symbolism converge into a visual language exploring awareness, transformation, and the unseen dimensions of human experience.
Unfolding a New Reality is a large-scale mixed-media work in which luminous geometric forms assemble into a symbolic figure alongside a small meditative presence in the lower corner — a subtle reminder that transformation begins within. Every shape and symbol within the composition carries a deeper meaning, reflecting themes of consciousness, inner balance, perception, creation and the invisible forces that shape our reality. Through texture, geometry, and layered abstraction, the work invites contemplation of the relationship between the inner self and the world we create around us.
Rooted in both intuition and precision, Remok’s work bridges contemporary minimalism with emotional depth, creating pieces that feel both timeless and deeply human.
ANA REMOK
Unfolding a New Reality
GABRIEL REIS
This artwork is one of the largest Gabriel has created, at 120 cm × 90 cm, and is probably his favorite painting among all the work he produced in the past year — the year he began painting seriously. In this piece, he used a technique he had never attempted before, one that no one had taught him. It came about by chance, presenting him with a problem he had to think through carefully, finding a solution that would bring the work to the outcome he envisioned and desired.
GABRIEL REIS
Swamp Thing (BogDweller)
Acrylic on canvas
VALENTYNA ZHYTNYK
Ukrainian artist and gemologist Valentyna Zhytnyk fuses painting with her jewellery practice, embedding natural stones and materials into sculptural art objects. The voice of light combines acrylic paint, artistic plaster, natural citrine, and dried Ukrainian wheat stalks — a quietly luminous work rooted in cultural memory and the symbolic language of growth, abundance, and inner light.
VAL
BLURR
Ryan Mitchell, working as BLURR, is a mixed media artist from Aotearoa based in Melbourne, Australia. He explores mental health and self perception through expressive figurative and abstract work. 'MigraineSelf Portrait' is a large soft pastel and acrylic work in which the face is deconstructed and refracted across multiple emotional dimensions, moving from monochromatic restraint into and explosion of red and blue - a portrait of identity under pressure, and what it looks like when the mind is pushed to its limit.
BLURR
Migraine – Self Portrait
OLENA KRAVTSOVA
Ukrainian artist Olena Kravtsova spent 25 years as a teacher and linguist before turning to art, developing a distinctive practice in paper mosaic colouring and printing all her paper by hand. PasoDoble is a vivid mixed-media work that channels the passion and philosophy of the Spanish dance, its interacting colours as charged and physical as the dance itself.
OLENA KRAVTSOVA
PasoDoble
DAN KNEPPER
If I Could Walk On Water Ohio-based artist and former art teacher Dan Knepper has won national and international recognition for his realist paintings of America's last wild landscapes. If I Could Walk On Water is a quietly stunning oil on canvas of a preserved pocket of nature in his hometown — still water, reflected light, the particular silence of a place that has been left alone. It is the kind of painting that makes you want to stand very still.
DAN KNEPPER
If I Could Walk On Water
ZENA DABBOUS
Lebanese-Canadian artist Zena Dabbous works across painting, drawing, and murals, with work in permanent collection at Kuwait's Museum of Modern Art. Into the blues/print 1 is the first in a silkscreen monoprint series made through an exploratory process watercolours and pastels pushed through the screen, resulting in a field of shifting blue tones and distant abstract shapes that feels both accidental and completely right.
ARMANDO G. ALMAGUER
Abstract Retired engineering executive turned fulltime artist Armando Almaguer works in watercolour and gold pen, celebrating the complexity of women who resist easy definition. Complicated Woman Abstract presents a dual-faced figure in swirling colour with gold linework — a visual affirmation for anyone doing the deep, often messy work of becoming fully themselves.
ARMANDO G. ALMAGUER
AS-T
Vienna-based Polish artist AS-T places the human face at the centre of her practice, exploring identity, emotion, and transformation in acrylic, oil, and structural materials. Fragments of Identity is a mixedmedia work in which a face emerges from layers of script and trace — half concealed, half revealed — as though identity were an archive that is never quite complete, always being rewritten.
AS-T
Fragments of Identity
ANNA JAMES
Be here now British artist Anna James creates abstract paintings that function as contemplative spaces, drawing on fine arts training and time in Harland Miller's studio. Her work has been featured in Vogue and Architectural Digest. Be here now is a large acrylic on canvas of shifting blues evoking a boundless seascape layered, atmospheric, and genuinely still. It asks you, in the simplest possible way, to be present.
AN
ALAN J MORIN
American artist Alan J. Morin works primarily with fluid acrylics, deliberately incorporating craquelure and crazing to provoke and instill a statement on the divisiveness pervasive within the many aspects of culture, politics, spirituality and society as a whole. He has exhibited widely across Massachusetts, and internationally in Rome and Madrid. Originally inspired by a visit to the American southwest, Earthquake in Death Valley symbolizes the vulnerability and fragility of all we hold dear.
ALAN J MORIN
Earthquake in Death Valley
AURELIE FERRARA
Born in southwest France and trained as a lawyer before returning to art in 2018, Aurélie Ferrara works exclusively in graphite pencil the tonal variations between clay and carbon giving her work its particular depth. Regard de Lys is a small, precise portrait in which a woman with freckles holds a lily between her lips, her gaze cast slightly backward. A pencil grid remains visible in the work, preserving the handmade soul of the drawing.
AURELIE FERRARA
de Lys
Regard
JOHN PATRICK WINFREY
rt can Be Anywhere Los Angeles-based fine art photographer John Patrick Winfrey quit his job to pursue photography full time, developing a practice around turning overlooked surfaces and angles into something worth stopping for. Art can Be Anywhere is a photograph of cracked pavement in the no-parking zone of a Disney World car park red paint on wet ground under a street lamp, noticed and kept. It is exactly what the title says it is.
JOHN PATRICK WINFREY
Art can Be Anywhere
IRENE AGAPION
North Carolina-based artist Irene Agapion has worked full time from her art showroom at the International Home Furnishings Market for six years, with work shown at Red Dot Miami and Art Expo New York. Gene & Cyd is a bold, glossy acrylic on canvas inspired by the chemistry between Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse in Singin' in the Rain romantic, exuberant, and painted with the kind of joy that is impossible to fake.
IRENE AGAPION
KRISTINA ALEXANDERSSON MALMBERG
Being I Swedish artist Kristina Alexandersson Malmberg works across photography, painting, graphics, and sculpture, and has exhibited at the Florence Biennale and with Itsliquid in Venice, Barcelona, and Rome. Being I is part of her series The many faces of being — ice sculptures placed in a stream to melt and reappear, photographed in the process. It is a meditation on impermanence: form that exists only because it is always disappearing.
KRISTINA ALEXANDERSSON MALMBERG
Being I
JACK FARKAS
11. 11. 25. Jack Farkas holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, with sixteen solo shows and over eighty group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale. 11. 11. 25. is a large oil pastel on cotton paper drawing on the energies of the late fall and Advent season, its vibrant rhythmic forms channelling what Farkas describes as the interplay between spirit and colour luminous, dense, and full of feeling.
JACK FARKAS
11. 11. 25.
MARIIA CHARUTA
Allergic Kyiv-born, Toronto and Miami-based painter and filmmaker Mariia Charuta works in acrylic with distorted forms that reflect her experience as an immigrant navigating a modern world that collapses distance and demands constant presence. Allergic is a small, charged canvas exploring the pain of trying to rescue someone who was not asking to be saved the harm that can come from love shaped by our own beliefs rather than another person's actual need.
MARIIA CHARUTA
BENGT LINDEN ART
Swedish artist Bengt Linden has shown work in Stockholm at Stockholm Design Week and the Affordable Art Fair, and in Venice and Dubai. In his series The Art of Collision, he draws on the techniques of art history's great painters and transforms them into a visual language that is entirely his own. Masters Encounter places Picasso at the centre of that collision — a fearless, energetic acrylic in which homage and invention become genuinely indistinguishable from each other.
BENGT LINDEN ART
Masters Encounter (Picasso)
Acrylic on canvas
MCFLY
The face Hamburg-based artist Vasco de Oliveira, working as McFly, began painting at eight and sold his first work at thirteen, coming up through the Hamburg hip hop scene alongside musicians, DJs, and street artists. The face is a large acrylic on canvas an abstracted face rendered as an internal interpretation of personality made outward, formalistic and nonrepresentational, with the raw visual confidence of someone who has been doing this for a very long time.
McFly
The face
LAURA BURUIANA
The Other Me Franco-Romanian artist Laura Buruiana is a PhD-holding international concert cellist — 1st Prize, Young Concert Artists New York who has brought that same precision and emotional intelligence to abstract painting. The Other Me is an acrylic on canvas that captures the duality between her public persona as a disciplined virtuoso and the liberated painter within, painted with bold palette knife work and gold accents, each stroke treated as a musical gesture.
LAURA BURUIANA
The Other Me
Details:
60 x 50 cm
Acrylic on canvas
MARK VOGEL
Pennsylvania-based artist Mark Vogel works in the tradition of Op Art, influenced by Julian Stanczak, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Josef Albers, building geometric abstractions through carefully applied layers of colour using masking tape. September 4, 2023 is a 34-inch square painting made of 4,096 individual coloured squares a Pointillism Grid that explores how small units of colour blend into a shimmering, optically active whole.
MARK VOGEL
September 4, 2023
JUSTINE ROSENZWEIG
Windsor-based artist Justine Rosenzweig trained at UAL Central Saint Martins and works in photographic mixed media, using a volatile process that courts failure and produces organic, ethereal images. Nathalie is part of a series about embracing uncertainty — the image delicate and slightly unsettling, ebbing and flowing as you look at it, revealing more or less of itself depending on how much you allow your mind to look past what it assumes to be real.
JUSTINE ROSENZWEIG
Skylines
MIGUEL BAENA
Walls Of Marrakech, Franco-Colombian self-taught artist Miguel Baena has lived between France, Morocco, and Spain, and his practice is deeply shaped by that cultural layering. Walls of Marrakech, is a large mixed-media painting in which memory of stone, light, and wind, -- evokes the poetry of ancient surface touches by time where every crak and stain holds fragment of memory — dissolves and reforms across the surface. It breathes with its own rhythm, a meditation on transformation and the beauty that emerges from disorder.
MIGUEL BAENA
Walls of Marrakech
CARLOS ABRAHAM
Cubo telon Lebanese-Mexican architect and photographer Carlos Abraham has exhibited across Mexico, Argentina, Belgium, and Barcelona, with work in the permanent collection of the Mediateca INAH in Mexico. Cubo telon is a photograph of the human figure in geometric dialogue with fabric and space — precise, sensuous, and deeply attentive to the beauty of the body as a formal subject.
CARLOS ABRAHAM
Cubo telon
ALEKSANDRA ZAKA
This work explores the difficulty people face in confronting the core of their problems. Often, the truth is visible but too painful to accept, and so it becomes easier to deny or escape from it. The painting combines symbolic figures, fragmented scenes, and surreal elements that can be interpreted in many ways, allowing viewers to find their own reflections within it. Sometimes the piece reveals aspects of a problem that people may not have even considered before—like missing puzzle pieces that suddenly fall into place helping them see their struggles in a new light. Whether the challenge relates to beauty standards, addiction, pressure in school, or other personal battles, the work invites each person to confront hidden parts of their reality and to recognize the truths they may have overlooked.
ALEKSANDRA ZAKA
Denied Truth
Details:
50 x 36 cm
Paper, pencils, pastels
ÇAĞRI BARIŞ KASAP
Turkish Associate Professor Çağrı Barış Kasap teaches interface and visual design at Doğuş University and brings that rigorous visual thinking to his digital art practice. Marching 2 draws on Kandinsky's visual vocabulary fractured geometries, chromatic tension — and projects into it a procession of human figures: not soldiers, but metaphysical travellers, archetypes on a spiritual journey through a path that only reveals itself as it is walked.
ÇAĞRI BARIŞ KASAP
Marching 2
CLÁUDIA MARQUES
Portuguese psychologist Cláudia Marques came to art through her clinical practice, finding in creation a form of meditation and collective healing. Each piece contributes to a cycle of research, wellbeing and inclusion through art. 24 is a mixed-media work in clay and acrylic on canvas in which a golden geometric structure underpins an image of openness space and time held within a form. It is a small, quietly profound work about what lies behind the surface of things.
CLÁUDIA MARQUES
FLEUR OPTEKAMP
Australian artist Fleur Optekamp has maintained a creative practice for over 25 years across New York, Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore, and is currently represented by West End Art Space in Melbourne. Earth Drifting 1 is the first of a mixed-media triptych series in which watercolour backgrounds painted while travelling are threaded together with collage lines within the paintings continuing into the collaged elements in direct response to the exhibition theme of interconnecting lines.
FLEUR OPTEKAMP
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