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An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art

Published by Circle Foundation For the Arts Cover Image Paul Nam
Circle Foundation

Curated by Myrina Tunberg Georgiou

Produced and Published by Circle Foundation for the Arts This is the 5th issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review (SUMMER 2020)

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Index of Featured Artists

CAROLYN ADAMS

LOREN D. ADAMS, JR.

JEAN-LUC AERTS

JESSICA ALAZRAKI

ALBY

DAVID ALTFELD

BILL ANDERSON

CIS BAKKER

ANGELA BANKS

STAS BARTNIKAS

JUDITH DUPREE BEALE

EDEN BENDER

CHRISTIAN BLAU

ROLAND BLUM

JOHANNES BOEKHOUDT

MICHELLE BOND

ADRIAN BRADBURY

WERONIKA BRAUN

ILSA BRITTAIN

ROYCE SEBASTIAN BROWN

BRUNTON

SNEZANA BULATOVIC

KAREN BURNS

ALEX CARRILLO (ALEXATI)

JOHN CASS

PAUL CHRISTENER

EVA COCCO

GARRY CRUZ

NICK DALE

STEPHEN J. DALY

SUE DANIEL

ALICE DE KRUIJS

GEORG DOUGLAS

ANTOINE DUTILH

KRISTEN EISENBRAUN

PAUL G EMMERSON

HENRY FELDMAN

BARBARA FITZPATRICK

MATTHEW A. FLORIANI

KEITH M. FRANCIS

STEFAN FRANSSON FRIEDHARD

BORIS GARANGER

RICHARD GILLES

ORIT GOLDMAN

MICHAEL IAN GOULDING

MARJATTA HANHIJOKI

CAROL A. HANNA

EMANUELA IULIANA HARRIS SINTAMARIAN

YVONNE HEEMSKERK

THOMAS PATRICK HEFLIN

ISABEL HERRERA

EVA LAILA HILSEN

RUTH ELLEN HOAG

NANDA HOEP

JOLIC

HASSAN KALENGA

ROBERT KAMNATNIK

ERIKO KANIWA

BALTHAZAR KAPLAN

KASHAWELSKI

JIYOUNG KIM

HELI KUPARINEN

SYRA LARKIN

BEA LAST

BARBARA LAWRENCE

T. ALLEN LAWSON

MONICA LEE

DIANE LEVESQUE

ANSON LIAW

JAN LOWE

ROB MACINTOSH

PEGGY MAGOVERN

ROBERTA MARROQUIN

KELLY MARSHALL

HEATHER MCFARLIN

SCOTT MCINTIRE

MONICA MENDES

BARBARA MIERAU-KLEIN

KATHLEEN MIGLIORE-NEWTON

MICHAEL MINER

PAUL NAM

MAURICIO ORTIZ

MICHAEL PRICE

QIMJUNGHWAN

JEAN-MARIE RENAULT

JOAN RYAN

HENRIK SAAR

MARIO SALVO

JOEJENE C. SANTOS

RANI SARIN

PETRA SCHOTT

SHIDOKHT SHAHMORADI

EVAN B. SIEGEL

SIGURBORG STEFÁNSDÓTTIR

S. O. SIVERTSEN

ANNE-KATRIN SPIESS

SALIHA STAIB

SUEX

HAZEL THOMSON

DEBORAH TILBY

THUY-LOAN TONNBY

COURTNEY TOWNSEND

JEREMY TURNER

RALPH TURTURRO

HEGE ULLENSVANG

CONSTANCE VEPSTAS

SUSANNE CECILIE WALTHER

SARAH ANN WEBER

SÖNKE C. WEISS

KATIE WILLES

MARIA WOLFRAM

ANDREW PAUL WYKES

MUSTO M. YILDIRIM

YIHUI YUAN

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.

“The 5th issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review includes 115 artists from around the globe working in a variety of media. This issue comes in an undeniably strange time; amidst a global pandemic, soaring political and social unrest worldwide, collapsing economies and a world order whose foundations are being questioned and increasingly re-evaluated. Although it seems that we are currently navigating the darkest chapter of this journey, as history has shown we will come out of it better and stronger. Art has undoubtedly a lot to offer at this time and its function plays a fundamental role in shaping, experiencing and overcoming this crisis. That said, for me, two are the most important functions of art right now. Firstly, art provides a relief -an aesthetic escape for the exhausting reality both for the maker and the viewer. Secondly, artists right now are contributing to a visual chronicle of this important historical moment. In this sense, all art, whether created with the current events in mind or not, gains new meaning and purpose.

I am very pleased to offer to you once again, the following pages, a unique collection of remarkable artworks worth collecting, and the newest chapter in the story of what art looks like today.”

EDEN BENDER

Mixed media on canvas and wooden frame 65 x 85 x 7 cm

CHRISTIAN BLAU

FAKE, 2020

http://www.evacocco.com

Uno Nessuno Porcelain 30 x 15 cm
Coccos • Circle

Light Acrylic on paper 9 x 12 in.

www.sigurborgstefans.is

Untitled Acrylic on canvas 80 x 120 cm
Untitled Acrylic on canvas 100 x 140 cm
Peonies in A Zinc Bucket
Yvonne Heemskerk

ANTOINE

Creation Study, Part 3

https://michaelminerphotography.com

The Art Instinct
MICHAEL MINER
GARRY CRUZ
Solace Oil 26 x 48 in.
A Cowboy and his Blue Horse Acrylic on canvas 57 x 45 in.
Joejene C. Santos • Circle
JOEJENE C. SANTOS

Untitled Acrylic on panel 11 x 14 in.

ROBERT KAMNATNIK
PAUL G EMMERSON

Keith’s work begins with the need to expand or expose an issue that grabs his gut - often this is a reaction to an injustice or a dehumanizing experience. Francis’s work takes a critical view of social, political and environmental issues. Often referencing American history, the work explores the varying

KEITH M. FRANCIS

Claire LVIII
Red Bellied Woodpecker Song and Flight Path
A. Hanna

ANGELA BANKS

Icarus Again & Again

Watercolor and gouache 20 x 20 in.

BLAnderson Artwork
Bill Anderson • Circle Quarterly
BILL ANDERSON
The Lily Count Acrylic on linen 92 x 92 cm
Larkin

“I paint daily in my studio, always experimenting. This piece is smaller than most I do and perhaps because of that it has a compact and purposeful feel to it, reminiscent of some works from the mid-20th century where shapes, color planes and drawn elements combine for a slightly mechanical, somewhat futuristic look. It was that feeling I had, the past looking to the future, that gave me the name.”

Nostalgia Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in.
NANDA HOEP
THOMAS PATRICK HEFLIN

Sequestered Form #4A

Sequestered Form

www.gallery-friedhard.de

Von Blau nach Orange
Carol with Blue Sweater 18 x 22 in.
Woman with Striped Sleeves
on canvas 30 x 24 in.
Royce Sebastian Brown •
Yin and Yang Oil on wood 125 x 170 cm

www.michellebondtheartist.com

The Raft of Fools, 2020

Mixed media on watercolor paper 24 x 18 in.

https://www.emahsin.com/

Emanuela Iuliana Harris Sintamarian

Window In Old Fisherman’s cottage, Fiski, 2014 Watercolor on paper 140 x 117 cm

MARJATTA HANHIJOKI

www.marjattahanhijoki.net

Silk Yarn and Other Things
Watercolor 160 x 120 cm

https://www.stefransson.com

STEFAN FRANSSON
Birch Digital collage 42 x 56 cm
Stefan Fransson

conveying a message in a poetic and articulate way.

Chinese artist Yihui Yuan lives in New York. She received her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of

https://circle-arts.com/hege-ullensvang

SHIDOKHT SHAHMORADI

Today Was The Day

Acrylic on plywood 79 x 122 cm

www.cisbakker.kunstinzicht.nl

Woman with A Swan

HELI KUPARINEN

http://www.elisanet.fi/kupariset/heli/

Heli Kuparinen

https://www.heathermcfarlinart.com/

The Last Iceberg Enamel on canvas 60 x 48 in.

www.evalailahilsen.no

Evan B. Siegel

facebook.com/barbfitzpatrickart

Barbara Fitzpatrick • Circle

Barbara is inspired by the rich tapestry of life in the Monterey Bay Area and paints both on location and in her studio. Her work is characterized by recognized subject matter with an interpretation that synthesizes the essence of the subject with the qualities of abstraction. “I

All spaces are important to Barbara - both negative and positive.

BARBARA LAWRENCE

Masks and Meanings

Five panels of 30 x 40 in.

DAVID ALTFELD

David Altfeld • Circle

International artist, Mario Salvo has coined the stratigraphic spatula technique. Salvo lives in Rome and has around 1700 works worldwide and almost 900 art exhibitions. He often chairs international art events.

MARIO SALVO

www.jeanmarierenault.net

BEALE

JUDITH DUPREE

Collage 16 x 20 in.

Born in Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean and raised in Costa Rica, Central America, these cultures created a reality of true colors and shapes. As an expressionist artist Boekhoudt has learned that his work can be used as a voice for social justice. His work is recognized as cross strokes. Boekhoudt exhibits in galleries, universities and museums all around the world.

JOHANNES BOEKHOUDT

Pasarela, 2020

www.susanne-c-walther.de

Image of Mr. W Oil on paper 42 x 56 cm

Ballycastle Looking towards Carrowmore, 2012 Oil on board (Triptych) 15 x 60 in.

https://www.facebook.com/monicaleeart

Di
Lee
Night Stalker
Charcoal on paper 30 x 21 in.
Adumu
HASSAN KALENGA

www.michaelprice.info |

HENRY FELDMAN

https://www.instagram.com/ilsabrittain/

Dale Photography
Young male lion watches camera over rocks
Photographic print on paper 60 x 80 cm
MARIA WOLFRAM

http://www.oritgoldman.co.il

Weeping Willow Mixed media collage
Girl in Front of Yellow Wall Digital photograph 105 x 70 cm

T. ALLEN LAWSON

Yellow Tulips Oil on canvas D. 120 cm
PETRA SCHOTT

Talking Cup, 2020 Acrylic and ink on paper 48 x 48 in.

Mestre Zanza Oil on linen 28 x 40 in.
Monica Mendes • Circle

Writing on Stone

Courtney Townsend is a photographic artist who draws inspiration added to the depth of her work and a pursuit of spirituality in the physical world. Courtney works in alternative photography processes,

COURTNEY TOWNSEND

Alex Carrillo (Alexati) • Circle

Alex Carrillo aka Alexati (b. 1988) is a Mexican artist whose work is an interpretation of the world and everyday life through theatrical images that explore glamour, androgyny, eroticism, queer culture, autobiographical themes Lempicka, Jansson Stegner, Francesco Clemente, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and photographers like Guy Bourdin, Chris Von Wangenheim, Helmut Newton and Jean-Paul Goude.

ALEX CARRILLO (ALEXATI)

www.instagram.com/alexatiart

Grace Is Mightier than The Sword Oil on canvas 70 x 120 cm

well as F. Drtikol. Brunton is known for portraits of popular Czechs like Milos Forman, Tomas Bata, Vaclav Havel and many others. He is deeply inspired by the female body and spiritualism as well as the concept of Kabbalah. His latest exhibition opened in established galleries in Prague, 2019-20 and was titled “Kabbalah Uncovered”.

www.brunton-foto.cz

Killed by Ego Photograph
Double Dutch Acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 in.
Katie Willes • Circle Quarterly
KATIE WILLES

http://www.dianelevesque.net

Dancing Bear and Savoyard Acrylic on canvas 48 x 40 in.

http://dogsbyja.com

Puppy on Gray, 2019 Oil on board 14 x 18 in.
Jessica Alazraki • Circle
Karen Burns • Circle

Jolic is an abstract artist/sculptor who lives in the Lower Laurentians in Quebec, Canada. She studied Architecture, Graphic Design and Screen Printing on Fabric before becoming an artist. Self-educated, she has been expressing art in many ways and forms for several decades.

JOLIC

Voiles au Vent Acrylic 40 x 40 in.

http://www.illoz.com/liaw

Moments, #03,

www.in-search-of-silence.art

Him and Her Oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm
Ann Weber
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