An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art
Curated by Myrina Tunberg Georgiou
Produced and Published by Circle Foundation for the Arts
This is the 4rth issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review (FALL 2019)
FRONT COVER
Holly Wilmeth - www.hollywilmeth.com
BACK COVER
David Dejous - www.david-dejous.com
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GARY AAGAARD
ILONA ABOU-ZOLOF
EMIKO AIDA
HOUDA BAKKALI
PAMELA BECKER
IRENE BELKNAP
ANDREW BINDER
R. GEOFFREY BLACKBURN
THORSTEN BOEHM
KORNELIA BOJE
GIORGIO BORMIDA
IOANA BOROS
ADRIAN BRADBURY
JESSICA BURKE (J.B.)
HAIMENG CAO
CLARACARAT
JOJO COMMANDAROS
LARRY CORBETT
BARBARA CRIMELLA
ELEONORA D’ERME
KRISTOFER DAN-BERGMAN
DAVID DEJOUS
JOCELYNE DESCHAMPS-KUS (JIDEKA)
PAUL DETTWILER
GLORIA DI MODICA
DONELLI J. DIMARIA
CARLA J FISHER
SUSAN FITZSIMMONS
FONG FAI
INEZ FROEHLICH
CARIN GERARD
MICHAEL IAN GOULDING
EDMUND IAN GRANT
AUDUN GRIMSTAD
MATIKA HALLEDAY
HOWARD HARRIS
RONNA S. HARRIS
LYNETTE K. HENDERSON
IBRAHIM JALAL
HYUN JUNG JI
MICHAEL JICHA
JERRY JORDAN
JØRAN JUVELI MARSTRANDER
KOMILBEK KABILOV
RONALD KATZ
SHUNSUKE KAWASAKI
BARRY S. KORNACKI
BEA LAST
ERIK LAURAEUS
GABRIELL
GAETANNE LAVOIE
DEBORA LEVY
JINGFENG LI
ANSON LIAW
SUSAN LIZOTTE
MONICA LONCOLA
TAGE LUNDIN
DITA LUSE
HUI MA
ANN JAMES MASSEY
CLAUDIA MAYER-MALLENAU / CMM
KAREN NAIM
JOHN NEWCOMB
MIUMILKOEOE
FRANCIS O TOOLE
LEON OKS
WAYNE PAIGE
TSELET SHAVIT PARNAS
IRENE PÉREZ
NEELA PUSHPARAJ
ERA - ELVIRA RAJEK
ROLAND REINERT
OTO RIMELE
JOE M. RUIZ
STEFAN SCHIFT
GRETA SCHNALL
SANDVIA
CORRINA SEPHORA
LAILA SHARMEEN
MERJA SIMBERG
LILIANA STAFFORD
LUANA STEBULE
BERND STEINERT
VICTOR STEVEN ROSENBERG
KEIKO SUGITA
TIMKA SZOKE
REGINE TEMMEL
JAN TEUNISSEN
WILLIAM H. THIELEN
MARGERY THOMAS-MUELLER
SILVIJA TREICE
SCOTT TROXEL
MARION TUBIANA
POL TURGEON
JENNY VAN GIMST
CONSTANCE VEPSTAS
MAYSUM
SINCLAIR WEBSTER
LAURA WEINDORF
NAOMI WHITE
HOLLY WILMETH
MICHAEL HARRIS WILSON
MIKOLAJ WLODARCZYK
TRACI WRIGHT MARTIN
WENDY YEO
YEON GYUHYE
SHU YU
MEET THE CURATOR
Born 1986 in Athens, Greece, Myrina Tunberg Georgiou grew up on the island of Crete. After graduating high school she moved to Athens to attend the National University of Greece and study Methodology, History and Theory of Sciences. Next, she moved to Santa Barbara, California to study Studio Art at SBCC. Deeply inspired by Professor, Department Chair and sculptor Ed Inks she further pursued an education in Art History and Studio Art. After earning a degree in Design & Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute, Myrina continued to be involved in the San Francisco Bay Area art community working for a variety of art institutions, museums, and galleries. In 2011, she co-founded Kitsch Gallery, an experimental art space in the city’s vibrant, Mission District, which housed 12 artist studios and a gallery space where she co-directed a variety of visual and sound art exhibits. In 2012, Myrina moved from California to Paris, France where she did freelance design work for galleries and publishing houses. Since 2014, Myrina has been living in Lyon, France.
After a decade of experience working in galleries and art institutions in the USA, Greece, and France, in 2017, Myrina created Circle Foundation for the Arts. Inspired by the variety of practices and perspectives in contemporary art and with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of art and culture as an integral part of our social and political lives, the Foundation functions as a platform publicizing the work of remarkable artists around the world.
“When curating a new project, whether that is a magazine or an exhibition, my goal is to create a dialog between the pieces which results in an open-ended discourse. This poetry between juxtaposed works of art transcends the context of a particular project’s content. It, in turn, provides a symphony that appeals to the general purpose of art and artist; that is to see, to feel, to point to, to express, to communicate, in a contemporary society which is extremely prosaic and literal.”
“I always urge the viewers to spend time with each artwork, examining the technique, examining the material, circling the edges of the piece, following the visual lines toward the point of emphasis and taking that extra slow moment to feel; to be confronted with. For me, the point is not understanding or evaluating something, but simply listening to what each work might speak to you. And if you like what the work is telling you, go ahead, take it home with you!”
- Myrina Tunberg Georgiou Art Director
Giclée print 84 x 62 cm
“I am interested in the re-presentation of the real through abstraction that allows for different interpretations to be made by the viewer. The root of the image may come from observation but equally, it can also be a discourse between form, line, and texture. The way in which the image is ordered, how all the elements are combined and arranged, clearly becomes the driving force. Art, to me, is about evoking a response to our world and sharing that vision.”
ADRIAN BRADBURY
Newgale
Birch, acrylic, spray enamel, MDF, lacquer
“I predominately work with wood as my base medium, due to its strength, dimension and organic nature. The inherent texture of wood combined with paint and other man-made materials allow me to explore the concepts of old and young, worn versus new, organic versus man-made and the past versus the present and future. I look to capture a sense of time in my work and often combine the feeling of different eras within a single piece. I see this as a direct parallel with human life, as we too grow older and interact with other generations, both younger and older.”
SCOTT TROXEL
Quiet Children 15 x 23 in.
“When I was 10 years old I left Korea alone to go to New Zealand for school. I stayed at one of the dormitories since I had no family or friends there. After that, I moved from one boarding school to another in many countries time, due to the absence of family and friends, my own loneliness, and language barriers. At that time I thought
My paintings feature factory pipes, faceless children, waterfalls, and tangled lines to express my repressed behavior from school supervisors, my cultural barrier, and the absence of family. The process of creating images about my childhood allows me to keep asking questions. I go back to my past and stare at my young self. And
HYUN JUNG JI
hyunjung0807@gmail.com
Depression Pool 15 x 23 in.
“My paintings synthesize realism and abstraction. The still-life window scenes focus on documenting the play of exterior light upon interior objects. The glass panes distort reality, bending and twisting the light around rendering each glass pane and bottle into its own little abstract painting. However, when the viewer steps back, what he or she observes is the window’s framework structuring and organizing the composition into a realist perspective of an exterior window scene.”
RONNA S. HARRIS
My Head Falls On... Mixed media installation
“I am a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I currently live and work. My drawings, sculptures, and installations are inspired by alchemy, cultural aesthetics, and ecological systems. My work involves exploration re-sensualize an increasingly mechanized, computerized, and mass-produced world.”
JOJO COMMANDAROS
Magic Room
Organic and acrylic paint 60 x 80 cm
“I discovered my ability to transfer my thoughts and sensitivity into painting and started to focus on abstract work. This journey of discovery was most exciting to me. My paintings are created spontaneously; my expression of personal interpretation of those structures, such as wood, stone, metal, concrete and most importantly “Freedom”, are incorporated in my work in a liberated manner, free from conventional norms.”
CLARACARAT
Lovers I / Love Affairs
Mixed media, collage 110 x 160 cm
“Inspired by events, architecture, nature and the people met during my voyages my art centers around a variety of topics that stem from these experiences. Ranging from human relationships and emotions to gender, religion and pop-up culture my art varies from silently showing moments of privacy from the perspective of a voyeur to provoking thought and inspire or even just be, art being just art and nothing else.”
CLAUDIA MAYER-MALLENAU / CMM
SANDVIA
A Nightmare Dressed as A Daydream Graphite on Arches Hot Press 32 x 22 in.
Dance with Me II
Fine art print on AluDibond 30 x 45 cm
boje@korneliaboje.de
“I work to reveal the paradoxes within images, considering their equivocal nature and their ambiguities. I like to draw upon the confusion between the various codes of representation associated with painting, photography, and drawing, but also with photocopied, documentary and scenographic media. The resulting images raise issues of authenticity, realism and illusion.”
DAVID DEJOUS
Dimitri Oil on canvas 65 x 50 cm
PAUL DETTWILER
‘painter of the light’, I want to emphasize that, for my expression and communication with the observer, I do not need the material world because my fundamental topic - the painting motif - is the light itself.”
OTO RIMELE
O-2
Wood, acrylic and oil color, wax 145 x 65 x 8 cm
“My perception of the world is enlivened by exaggerating nature’s beauty. I balance classical realism with contemporary art to create paintings that are imaginative, not strictly lifelike. I want people to engage rather than simply view— to feel as if they can wrap their hands around a piece, sink into it and still be held up. My qualities, with elements of femininity, softness, and sensuality.”
CARIN GERARD
Gardenia Swirl Oil 72 x 84 in.
on personal remembrance sequences that connect with each other at multiple levels. Among other things, the horizon serves as a synonym for impressions of vastness, abstract and non-abstract representation, but always remain objective in their perception.”
Horizon VI Mixed media 78,5 x 53,5 cm
Fox Muse Oil on canvas 18 x 24 in.
zeroed in on editorial work and soon scored assignments at publications like slant... essentially larger oil paintings with conceptual content reminiscent who specialize in alternative facts, manufactured outrage, false equivalents, convoluted conspiracy theories and tunnel-visioned tribalism (whew) is my form of protest and provides a satisfying outlet.”
GARY AAGAARD
Gary Aagaard
Blinded by Delight Redux Oil on canvas 30 x 20 in.
Gary Aagaard
Trumpcula: Old Habits Die Hard Oil on canvas 20 x 10 in.
Aagaard
with current events; things that weigh heavily on my mind have to come out on canvas. The same holds true I will create a visual poem for a whimsical story. Art takes us places in our mind where we might not venture otherwise. It enriches our experience.”
LARRY CORBETT
Dissolution Portrait 1
Digital media 24 x 18 in.
Recently, I have been interested in the concept of creation and destruction within the artistic process, abstraction. I create my work by digital painting, digital collage and/or photo manipulation, which I often combine with other elements I’ve made using traditional mediums, such as acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, etc. as well as with non-traditional elements such as tape, torn paper and coffee stains. I combine these various
Binder
Disintegration Portrait 1
Digital media 24 x 18 in.
“My artwork focuses on images of individual animals, in relationship to each other and within the context of various types of environments. The work is expressive while maintaining structural accuracy in animal others present a deeper view of the nuanced relationships that exist between animal and environment, spaces, and predator/prey relations found within the recesses of human nature. In some of my latest works, I have focused on animals and their vulnerability for survival due to the results of climate change, pollution and other contemporary environmental threats. At this point in time, I believe that these are the greatest concerns for humans and animals alike.”
Dogs with Tar Pits
Acrylic on canvas 17 x 24 in.
Lynette K. Henderson • Circle
LYNETTE K. HENDERSON
My Life Oil and acrylic 24 x 30 in.
Self-taught and multidisciplinary artist, from an early age Gabriell developed a passion for the portrait that lasts for more than 50 years. Pencil and events including national and international exhibitions, competitions earning prizes, distinctions, three Academic titles in Quebec, France and Italy.
GABRIELL
“ The ‘Majolica’ half bust is a symbolic, a woman. It is a metaphor to achieve its end through the molding of clay, forged with water and seductive colors. It tells of intimate things, describes inner pain, the spasmodic search for hope, the evolution in the search of the light for excellence... A cut represented with a red line describes the wound and cuts the
Majolica
Clay 28 x 40 x 18 cm
Pink Ginger Watercolor on paper 12 x 16 in.
“My watercolors are created as spontaneous splashes of color in which I begin to delineate shapes and add detail. lift one’s spirits and bring a smile to most folks’ faces. I paint on paper, canvas and also on clay board. I have had
NEELA PUSHPARAJ
White City
Digital media 5078 x 4790 px
“My focus is on photography with extreme digital editing processing. This means that I create pictures and graphics from architectural, natural and abstract subjects with often surreal components. My favorite themes are frontal compositions. For me, art is a form of expression that allows the artist to express and represent their preferences, their condition, their thinking and their feelings. The viewer will then love the artwork for similar reasons.”
GRETA SCHNALL
Come, Black Bird.... Found object assemblage
“Ravens and crows are associated with wisdom, intelligence, magic as well as death and the dream of shoes which
once said, “He, who has eyes to see, sees everything in everything.” Art is my way to see and to create a new vision.”
ERA - ELVIRA RAJEK
ERa - Elvira Rajek
“It
MIKOLAJ WLODARCZYK
“I am interested in nature. Flowers represent beauty and the mathematical in nature, through the number of petals, the arrangement of seeds with the Fibonacci sequence and so on. It is a mysterious connection to
objects, juxtaposed in sometimes unexpected ways, asks for the viewer’s interaction. An enigmatic element that meaning. The portrayed image, the viewer’s history, and inference create the experience.”
IRENE BELKNAP
Homage To A Circle Oil on linen 47 x 48 in.
“My involvement with photography started when I was in high school. It continued with my military service where I was fortunate enough to become a Photographers Mate in the Navy. I had the opportunity to work in a such a great length of time that I will be able to pass on my negatives to my children and grandchildren.”
Red Panda VII
Digital photograph 11 x 14 in
Peace And Love Oil on canvas 58 x 40in.
“My aspiration is to express passion and the range of emotions I experience while painting. Interaction with my important that my audience, in a very simple way, draw satisfaction and pure pleasure looking at and living with my art. This is the power of art: to overcome the problems and realities of everyday life, offering a hopeful view.”
in Autumn
Hong Kong Artist, Wendy Yeo graduated from the Slade School of Art. She has had solo shows at Ashmolean Museum and Wolfson College and exhibited in Hong Kong, Istanbul, New York, Venice, Rome, Mantova, Vienna, Berlin. Her works are in the public collections of Slade School, Ashmolean Museum, Yu Kyung Museum (S. Korea), Hong Kong Museum of Art. Wendy combines traditional Chinese brushwork with the western individuality of expression.
wendy@wendyyeo.com
Whirlpool
Acrylic on canvas 76 x 61 cm
“I am an evolving artist on every level, and my home is not simply geography but how I see and then uplifting atmosphere with the belief that beautiful environments raise the level of thought and health while igniting the heart -- thus making a positive difference in the bigger vision.”
PAMELA BECKER
spaces and I use it to create a sense of silence and solitude. The shimmer of lights and shades reveal or obscure space and emphasize patterns. And patterns capture. Observing the patterns one can get distracted, lose oneself or quite contrary, experience moments of awareness and forget about time.”
Lingering scent of Acacia Oil on canvas 100 x 130 cm
Dita Luse
Two Hawks Oil on panel 18 x 24 in.
“I want to put you into the scene - have you explore its spaces, and feel like you are actually there. I want you to new to discover. The tight detail and glazing makes this possible. With looser more ‘painterly’ work, you are stopped at the surface of the painting.”
R. GEOFFREY BLACKBURN
Look Forward Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in.
“Abstract art is a reality that does not exist, a product of thought, momentary feelings, and music melody... all that could be my inspiration to create. Artists’ works are often guide my path. I use the rhythm of calligraphy and color strokes to create my work.”
“My characters carry a natural, special beauty. I love to display the facial mimicry that I spice with natural charm. I like dreamy childish themes that are both visionary and realistic, facile, and we can go anywhere because nothing is impossible. I work in a pop surrealistic style.”
SZOKE “
Timka Szoke
Digital illustration 30 x 30 cm environments, earth, literature, cinema or music are frequent key elements in my work.”
IRENE PÉREZ
Automeris Io, for Yayoi Kusama
Charcoal, acrylic, and mixed media on archival paper 16 x 24 in.
counterparts in modern pop culture and throughout history. This parallel is being explored in my series, to the inclusion of colorful mixed media components from pastels and paints to paper and photo elements.”
TRACI WRIGHT MARTIN
tracimartinstudios@gmail.com
Traci Wright Martin • Circle
“My painting is an act of transmission, the expression of my inner music, a composition mixing sounds and silence, colors and tonal hues, movements and rhythms. This inner pulse, transmitted by the hand, then becomes visible material: the quintessence of my being. My paintings are my joy and my sadness, my memories and my dreams, my laughter and my tears, my serenity and my pain.”
La Source Bleue Acrylic on paper rubbed on canvas 50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas 20 x 24 in.
catastrophe and tragedy. The painting is about fragility and impermanence.”
SUSAN LIZOTTE
La Vie, 2018 Oil 200 x 146 cm
paintings and got the feeling that I recognized and now knew that artwork can catch hold on life.” - Stig-Åke Stålnacke, International Art Critical Association, IACA kontakt@tagelundin.se
TAGE LUNDIN
“I work with brushes and acrylic colors on linen or cardboard, in both large and small sizes. My fascination with artistic action stems from the desire to utilize the push of positive energy, to paint pictures in a very personal style and to produce expressive and dynamic atmospheres. My abstract paintings arise without conceptional submission, inspired by nature and the elements, they are the result of my intuition.”
STEFAN SCHIFT
stefanschift@web.de
Sans Titre
Acrylic on canvas 80 x 80 cm
Schift
Schöpfebachtal (The Soft Overcomes The Hard)
“I appreciate nature not just with my eyes, I perceive it with my whole body and allow it to transform the inner me into motion. My wish is to have a positive effect, be heard somehow, awaken a desire, recall the knowing, that we are a part of nature... Perhaps the painting could be a door to whatever is behind the apparition of things, even if I paint this apparition itself.” info@regine-temmel.de
Acrylic, gesso on canvas 120 x 100 cm
Roses of Light Acrylic on canvas 65 x 65 cm
canvas as well as paper mediums. My work is sought after by those wanting to experience my connection with nature. My bold use of color has become my signature. I use the landscape to gain inspiration, interpreting my surroundings and conveying my deep connection with nature.”
MATIKA HALLEDAY
SISU / Theme, Finnish Movies, 2019 Ink and acrylic on canvas 130 x 110 cm
“I question humanity and try to convey my feelings and emotions through abstraction. The working process have been interested in old movies and music lately as a theme for my works. The naming of my works carries a message which plays an important role for the viewer in understanding my thoughts and intentions.”
MERJA SIMBERG
No.02
“My work focuses on contemporary prints and illustrations with an emphasis on shapes, minimal have to limit my appreciation for art to one style/period.”
IOANA BOROS
Untitled No. 903 (Fever Pitch), 2018 Acrylic on canvas and felt 60 x 48 in.
“My work is about extremes and the tension that is created when opposites are thrust together. and death, control, and rigidity. Color is entirely about emotions. If one does not trust them, they can have a profoundly negative effect. To embrace them leads to a positive integration into one’s self.”
WILLIAM H. THIELEN
Lizzy Graphite and digital media 40,33 x 56,93 cm
“I’m an illustrator and designer based in Italy. My passion is to create beautiful images, often inspired by fashion and beauty. To me, art is a sort of research, something that makes you think about life and problems in a different way. The purpose of art today is to let people be able to communicate in every form and language and to connect similar souls.”
“I am living in the United Kingdom. For many years my art included theatrical projects, together with 22 solos and 34 shared exhibitions in Europe, England, and the USA. In Art School and Academy of Art, I received instruction on points. However, I think amongst the most important things are creativity, original thought and a deeper understanding coming of immortality. The idea behind artworks is important to me.”
The World According To Sheba Oil on canvas 36 x 24 in.
“I’m inspired by an inner muse that stops me in my tracks and compels me to create an image of whats before me. My work harkens to a dreamlike sense of recollection. to my intimate space of observation.”
MONICA LONCOLA
Luna Grace Oil on canvas 38 x 38 in.
Monica Loncola • Circle
Time Capsules from The Anthropocene (1) C-print 16 x 20 in.
“Capitalism
Inner Child Series 1 and 2 Sculptures in variable sizes
in our grown-up environment, our emotional projections... these have always been a part of ourselves. And they have been waiting for us to discover them, comfort them, let them help us become a better person who understands oneself better or should you continue hiding their existence until you forget and lose yourself? This is the question I would like to bring out to the audience.”
Le Pieghe Dell’Anima Amarillo, 2019
Concrete and painted iron 30 x 30 x 28 cm
where I currently work and live. My work focuses on connections between us and nature. My latest research is titled “The folds of the soul as a landscape.” I explore the sense of place analyzing the idea of the soul as a place of internal and external tension of the self and how the idea of the soul can be translated and integrated with the external environment. In particular, I focus on how we can relate to each other thanks to the “profound silence” of nature, truly connecting us to its natural order.”
BARBARA CRIMELLA
ANN JAMES MASSEY
ajmassey@annjamesmassey.com
Ann James Massey
“Uzbek Miniature Art is one of the most interesting genres in the centuries-old history of Oriental Art. Painting in miniature traces its use in poetry books where artists depicted scenes described in the books. The tradition which is mostly represented on paper but also on some materials such as leather, dried pumpkins, lacquer boxes, and jewelry. Owing to preserved works, historians were able to describe many of the details of life in the master miniaturists. As one of the leading Oriental miniaturists, I took part in restoration of ancient books of http://unique-artist.net
Spacescrap
Digi-image on canvas 50 x 60 cm
Erik Lauraeus, MFIAP, from Finland, has developed a technique derived from mathematics, photography, and
ERIK LAURAEUS
Lake Dream
Digital collage 16 x 21 cm
“Here I am, but where did I come from? And what was I then? Where have I been? Where am I going? Who made me...and why?”
- Paul Gallico,
KEIKO SUGITA
No.585
Time of Nobody
Houda Bakkali is an international visual artist and creative director based in Barcelona, Spain. Her artwork has been exhibited in Paris, Madrid, Cannes, Lorca, Biarritz and Barcelona, among other cities. Her techniques and creative process have been recognized by different institutions, international magazines, and her work has won numerous awards from most major design and digital art competitions.
HOUDA BAKKALI
Houda Bakkali • Circle
“My
MICHAEL JICHA
CONSTANCE VEPSTAS
In Giorgio Bormida’s works, the photographic approach fades in favor of an extremely poetic use of the image, which somehow recalls painting, as it leads the viewer’s eye right to the heart of a complex imagination, densely embedded with suggestions and experiences.
GIORGIO BORMIDA
From the Shroud Series 2019
“My practice is process led. Currently, I am exploring drawing in its broadest sense using recycled materials to create sculptural drawing forms. The edges whether ripped torn or cut are vital to these installations acting as placement relationship and location. These works allow for interpretation, conversation, and dialogue.”
Stradivarius
Fiber 20 x 21.5 x 2 in.
creation, these Tyvek envelope pieces commanded special treatment. As the concertmaster, I attempted to encase their magic inside the single, wrapped, encompassing line. The shadows immediately echoed with the encore performance.”
CARLA J FISHER
Still Life with Apples and Jug with Green Algae Oil on board 50 x 70 cm
scenes in a lifesize scale. I create mostly still-lifes with representations of fruit and other objects placed on a dark background and creating a somewhat mystical atmosphere which allows me to maximize the effect of light.”
JAN TEUNISSEN
Teunissen
Still Life with Cloisonne Vase, Wine Glass and Lemons
Tribute to Isoe I Oil on panel 45 x 45 cm
“I try to remove the pure form from the object by starting only by looking at it. I call this “the art of seeing”. Realism is not realistic painting but a way to let the painter communicate with the object and at which point, I am giving the object its soul back, meaning it has to be painted perfectly.”
JENNY VAN GIMST
jenny.vangimst@telenet.be
Jenny Van Gimst • Circle
Knifes Oil on panel 80 x 80 cm
jenny.vangimst@telenet.be
Tribute to Isoe IV Oil on panel 45 x 45 cm
Van Gimst
Two Figures Oil on linen 65 x 70 in.
aggregate of compartmentalized spaces incorporating still life motifs. Referencing our current environmental crisis painterly manner. A subtle yet noteworthy moment is the pentimenti of the third hand. The painting expresses my sensibilities and interests, in art history and natural history, merged in the creative process.”
RONALD KATZ
mind often. Here as a basis, I am starting with a blank canvas. I have explored the perception of space in other have in common is that they offer the viewer a way to question what we call reality.”
KRISTOFER DAN-BERGMAN
Anson Liaw •
Blame It On Me
Chalk pastel and charcoal on archival printmaking paper App, 20 x 30 in.
“I feel I am useless as an artist when I am happy. Pain is what creates my artwork. The painful experiences that people go through as they journey through life in the world around us from childhood to adulthood which in many ways is full of chaos and hardship are what sparks and motivates myself to possess my objectives to make observe and interpret the world around me combined with creating my artwork, I discover time and time again that true beauty lies within darkness and that sometimes nightmares are the birthplace of some of the best creative ideas for an artist.” ansonliawillustration@rogers.com
ANSON LIAW
Born Evil
Chalk pastel and charcoal on archival printmaking paper App. 20 x 30 in.
“I painted this work just after the terrorist attacks in France and wanted to depict the violence using the warm colors that soften the image. My aim is to draw thoughts and feelings of everyday life. I paint current events in their beauty as well as in their darkness, creating constantly new themes and paths.”
Checkmate
Acrylic on paper 30.5 x 22 in.
“Art is remedy poking and prodding the narcissism of censorship and the status quo of “accepted” thought. My paintings are discovery allowing my intuition to dominate. The pertinence is embracing something beyond an intellectual understanding yet using my reason to push the work to new boundaries. An improvisational musician for many years, I have now emerged as a storyteller extemporizing with paint, new media, color, texture, line and idea.”
EDMUND IAN GRANT
Edmund Ian Grant •
Out of the Bottle Oil and acrylic on canvas 50 x 23 in.
“I am a creative and conservation artist, who absolutely enjoys producing pleasing artworks. My aim is to help improve the well-being of people and inspire them to incorporate art into their lives. Imagination and creativity are part of me which goes with a deep respect for our natural environment. I often experiment with different shapes, tools, locations, and materials to create textures and show imagined motions.”
mohawk2010@hotmail.co.uk
MICHAEL HARRIS WILSON
MARGERY THOMAS-MUELLER
Diptych 1
Graphite and India ink on Yupo paper 40 x 52 in.
hatred and cruelty in the never-ending struggle for the leftover scraps tossed from the table of our so-called “betters.” It is a manifestation of ideas and impressions taken from the beauty of everyday life.”
JERRY JORDAN
A Vibrant Thing Oil on canvas 30 x 40 in.
clothing store) gives an ironical twist to what the model is not wearing.”
DONELLI J. DIMARIA
Pinup #2 Oil on canvas 24 x 48 in.
disappearance, has minor details, has no personal involvement, it is general and distanced. It brings more of a state of mind than a physical image becoming very personal and involved altogether. Choosing a limited color scale, surprisingly, brought me and my works a sense of expression and freedom.”
KAREN NAIM
karen.holistic.art@gmail.com
Naim
“I work from memories of charismatic encounters with people, animals and landscapes, in Africa, Flanders, the where I learned from observing our Art Master working. At university two fellow students persuaded me to
SINCLAIR WEBSTER
Mary Oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm
Monsoon Sunset over the Tianzi Mountains
Acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 in. The original painting and Giclée prints are available.
travel all over the world. I painted this piece while the monsoons were very painted the Tianzi Mountains in China. I realized once more that as serious as I am about painting, ‘humor’ is hard-wired into my being and my art.”
VICTOR STEVEN ROSENBERG
victorart@centurylink.net
Victor Steven Rosenberg • Circle
Power of Colors, Holli Festival
“To me, this piece displays how small events in our lives can sometimes be cheerful and sorrowful but collectively, they are what gives us hope to keep moving forward. This piece is made of an arrangement of colors that in the end show us the big picture of our existence.”
TSELET SHAVIT PARNAS
Green Zeppelin
Jøran Juveli Marstrander / Juveli Foto & Design
Photographic print on 6 mm acrylic Variable sizes
“It is what I can achieve with only the camera that touches me the most about photography (Photoshop only used as a darkroom). I am using one long exposure, time and movement to create my own magic. This technique with many variables makes it impossible to repeat the same motif more than once, a quality I greatly appreciate. Through for the viewer’s own imagination.”
Golden Abstract
media 8 x 11 in.
say? I don’t care if you think I’m a freak. I’d prefer to say, I’m eccentric, quirky, and unique in every way!”
ILONA ABOU-ZOLOF
Ilona Abou-Zolof •
“Capturing the moment of transience and preserving the beauty of the imperfect - that is the purpose of my work.”
INEZ FROEHLICH
Broken Wall
Acrylic on canvas 80 x 80 cm
Oculus Maximus
Digital print on aluminum with acrylic overlay
movement, and space. My dimensional photographs recreate the perceptual experience, with its dynamic nature and hidden complexities. I use a single image printed on aluminum and acrylic. The resulting visual phenomenon infuses
HOWARD HARRIS
We
Are Used to Giving Meaning to Things
Digtal media 67 x 36 cm
audiences may not have a full understanding of the artist’s thoughts. When you make changes in the composition, audiences give new meanings to the artwork.”
“My work is an examination of the space in between our waking minds and the subconscious. The moment in time captured in my paintings should have an ambiguous tension that leaves the viewer unsure of the outcome. border between structure and disorder in themselves and awaken their imagination.”
JOE M. RUIZ
“I paint nature. I paint Korea’s spring, summer, fall, and winter. I also paint portraits that are part of nature. Painting comforts me. I am currently working on
away from reality. ‘If you are not afraid of your dreams, they are not big enough,’ someone said. My works emerge from within through thoughts and perceptions. In doing so, I allow myself the freedom to make it into a statement with the imagination.”
ROLAND REINERT
The Island II Acrylic on canvas 70 x 90 cm
Debora Levy
Malkia
Pastel 40 x 50 cm
Sephora • Circle Quarterly
Recycled guns and gun barrels, forged steel 18 x 35 x 9.75 in.
“Iron ore. The rusty red strata that run through the earth as veins of blood. For centuries, it has been smelted Through heating the metal of guns and forging it, altering the material’s molecular structure, I am, in essence, setting the metal free through transforming these weapons of violence into something new.”
CORRINA SEPHORA
Corrina
X
Mixed media on paper 24 x 36 in.
who cannot write • To indicate a particular point on a map, diagram, etc. • As a symbol for a kiss in letters, etc.
• A person or thing unknown or unrevealed • The Roman numeral 10 • Christ: used also in combination as in Xmas • In chemistry, the symbol for Xenon • In mathematics, an unknown quantity • A sign of multiplication
• An abscissa
City Rig System Digital painting and 3D render
Gourmandise/Gluttony Oil monoprint, gouache, graphite, varnish and digital 40 x 53,5 cm
likely strongly disapproved. As for most of my work, this endeavor has become a journey into my own shadow, a piece that already exists. I don’t create these beings but reveal them and every new apparition transforms me.”
Colère/Wrath
Oil monoprint, gouache, graphite, varnish and digital 27,5 x 44,5 cm
Der Kindersoldat
Drawing, hatching technique, watercolor, airbrush on paper 72 x 51 cm
“My work deals with man, with all their facets, the existential question, the mystery of the human being. The strongest driving force for my work is the blatant discrepancy between my wishful thinking of a desirable world in harmony, beauty, and innocence and the often found reality in the form of violence, alienation, and abuse. Inspired by myths, fairy tales as well as ideological or “pseudo-religious” ideas, this creates visual languages of indirect meaning.”
Thorsten Boehm Art
Schlaf Kindlein Schlaf... Drawing, hatching technique, watercolor, airbrush on paper 73 x 50 cm
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Thorsten Boehm Art
“Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.”
- Mark Rothko
SILVIJA TREICE
Deconstructed I
Mixed media on gessoboard 9 x 12 in. lauraweindorf@gmail.com
“My art is inspired by the effects of geological processes on manmade structures sitting alone in the surrounding landscape. Its the juxtaposition of the natural environment and the marks within a more random, even messy composition.”
LAURA WEINDORF
Laura Weindorf •
Deconstructed II
Mixed media on gessoboard 9 x 12 in
Deconstructed IV Mixed media on gessoboard 9 x 12 in
Kejia Girl Ink, pen on paper 56 x 86 cm
A Woman In A Phoenix Robe Ink, pen on paper 54 x 81 cm
Beautiful Bengal
Acrylic on canvas 122x 81 cm
This is my mantra of peace and serenity in this world of unrest.” sharmeenlaila@gmail.com
LAILA SHARMEEN
Laila Sharmeen • Circle
Dattay Datadvam Damyata: Shantih Shantih Shantih Mixed media on paper 140 x 81 cm
Untitled Watercolor on paper
“Creating painting, sculpture, and product design.”
SHUNSUKE KAWASAKI
tamagoniko2002@yahoo.co.jp
Becoming Photograph
“My work is inspired by my love of nature; nature that surrounds and connects me deeper to my soul’s yearning, healing, and awakening. These images touch on my personal journey of my soul’s awakening. There is a simplicity to life I yearn to be able to re-awaken in myself through my photography using primarily found natural objects. My hope is to evoke through my images a sense of recognizing the beautiful sacred dance of life and death and all that comes in between.”
HOLLY WILMETH
Holly Wilmeth •
director for New York for Time, Inc. and the New York Times. I have had several shows in CT and NYC.
JOHN NEWCOMB
Gossip
Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in. John Newcomb •
Demagogue
Acrylic on canvas 60 x 36 in.
into my art along with a skewed perception of contemporary society.”
WAYNE PAIGE
Neglecting the Obvious while Taking A Celestial Plunge
Paradise Lust 2
Watercolor on paper 35 x50 cm
“I have always been interested in the human body and different forms of intimacy. It is personal and private for the individual, but at the same time, a universal experience. The desire of getting close to someone, to belong to someone, is the same across countries and cultures. With highly saturated colors, the viewers will have a chance to peek into their unconscious desire and fantasy.”
An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art
