Foxy Lady by Rusudan Khizanishvili
Rusudan Khizanishvili Influenced by great artists such as Gauguin and Cezanne, young Georgian painter Rusudan Khizanishvili deftly utilizes color and a unique way of handling oil paint to create her figures and their often-intricate abstract backgrounds. As a figurative artist, Khizanishvili says that “it is really very important to make art that tells a story.” Her sketchy, stark brushstrokes add inherent drama to each piece, lending her
Frandy Jean frandyjeanart@gmail.com
1-864-FRANDYJ
subjects an intensity that reaches beyond the frame, grabbing the viewer with their haunted eyes and almost animal-like facial features.
BOOTH #266
Balet by Agnese Melbarde
Agnese Melbarde Latvian artist Agnese Melbarde has a wide
Risking My Life for My Son in Haiti by Frandy Jean
range of mediums under her belt, as she’s
Frandy Jean
studied and worked in interior design,
A survivor of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the young artist Frandy Jean moved
environmental art, architecture, graphic design,
from Haiti to the U.S. just a couple years afterwards and has been operating a gallery of
and painting. That breadth of experience lends
his own in New Jersey since 2013. “I use my art to promote the lives of people who struggle
a richness to her acrylic paintings, which boast
in an effort to make a better life for themselves and their family,” Jean shares, “people who
audacious applications of bright color and
may not get the respect they deserve from society.” He especially highlights children and
often a sense of daring or confrontation in the
“machanns,” or market ladies of Haiti, in his work, aiming to promote the value they bring to
faces or bodies portrayed. Her unapologetically
his native culture. Whether depicting a dreaming young boy or a fatigued maid or market
direct renderings of modern culture force
worker, Jean infuses each piece with an aching realism and a call for awareness and hope.
viewers to think, as they practically shout out from the walls with chromatic vigor.
59