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 6th issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review (Spring 2021)
FRONT COVER
Andrew Binder - www.andrewbinder.com
BACK COVER
Linda Reymore - www.lindareymore.artcall.org
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Jessica Alazraki
Christine Alfery
Eva Antonini
Kathryn Bagwell
Angela Banks
Judith Dupree Beale
Tamera Bedford
Danielle Bewer
Andrew Binder
Lizl Bode
BOGDAN
Symona Colina
Lynn Creighton
James Cross
Lisa Cutler
Antonio D’Antini
Sue Daniel
Lyn Darlington
Anina Deetlefs
David Dejous
Jieyu Deng
Gabriella Di XX Miglia
Bob Doucette
Paul G. Emmerson
Pascal Fessler
Elizabeth Frank
Orit Goldman
Harry Goldstrom
Andrew Han
Camille Hannah
Lindalee Holmes
Cheng Hsien Hsieh
Dana Ingesson
Dita Jacobovitz
Bryan Jennings
SiYang Jiang
Michael Jicha
JOLIC
Todd Jones
Lukas Kandl
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Paul Kenens
Jill Krasner
Jürgen Krass
Lize Krüger
Aneta Kvedaraviciene
Deborah Maris Lader
Kathy Leader
Index of Featured Artists
Monica Lee Léonce Lemmens
Christian Leroy
Huaqi Li
Cheng Liao
Anson Liaw
Rob MacIntosh
Maximilian
Jody McCool
Taleh Mirkazim
Timothy Mulligan
Gabriele Musebrink
Chie Nakano
Maj-Britt Niklasson
Olivia Patricia O’Neal
Leon Oks
Thomas Pramhas
Igor Eugen Prokop
Gerhard Rasser
Linda Reymore
Cheryl R Richardson
Matthew W Robinson
Kimberlee Rocca
Julia Romano
Mitch Rouse
Yelena Safronova
Stefanie Schairer
Petra Schott
Eva Silberknoll
SILVIYAR
Lee Bordon Smith
Abbey Stace
Bernd Steinert
Jerry Steingraeber
Kaat Stieber
Aga Szydlik
Dina Torrans
Louis van der Linden
Maija Vanhatapio
Vladinsky
d.W. Whitfield
Andrej Wilhelms
Marcus Wolak
Hsiung Yu
Farnaz Zabetian
Simona Zecca
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.
Intro by the curator
“The 6th issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review includes 94 visual artists from around the globe working in a variety of styles and disciplines. 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 a dark 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 from 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.”
Myrina Tunberg Georgiou CFA Director
Portrait Study 2.23.21
Digital painting, acrylic paint, torn paper, digital composition 20 x 16 in.
“My work is a combination of new and traditional media. I create most of my work by digital painting or drawing, often combined with tactile elements using traditional mediums such as acrylic paint, watercolor, tempera, papier-mâché, ink, photography, etc. as well as less traditional components such as tape, torn paper
ANDREW BINDER
Portrait Study 3.31.21
Digital painting, acrylic paint, torn paper, tape, digital composition 20 x 16 in.
“I am creating a visual language with wasteful commodities that allows for social critique that raises provocative questions of our consumer society. I am looking at our history and practices through our use of house paint. Through my sourcing of mistints and discarded house paint, I bring attention to these paints as they are
Disinterred
Mistint house paint 18 x 12 x 3 in.
“Mine is an experimental process that is driven by the serendipitous interactions of oppositional materials. The images eschew narratives and rather investigate matters of a temporal and tactile nature as well as scale, color and light. Each is a meditation on time and the mystery, spaciousness and rich
ABBEY STACE
Calypso Mixed media 36 x 48 in.
of an elder Dard woman
Aga is a documentary photographer based in the USA, whose work focuses mainly on cultural preservation and environmental conservation, exploring heritage sites, indigenous tribes, and rituals. She is passionate about exploring the world and immersing herself in diverse cultural settings. Her tribal photography is focused on understanding and documenting the rich cultural heritage of various tribes and their rituals in the context of the modern and traditional knowledge of cultural evolution. She actively supports human rights and various conservation efforts. www.agaszydlik.com
AGA SZYDLIK
Portrait
Photograph
Nature in a Bowl
Acrylic, mediums and plaster on canvas. 60 x 60 in.
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.
on turning dead material, as hard rock or soft matter as plaster and clay, into something vivid. Greek history over the millennia offers a wide range of impulses. Heroism beyond human limits and multitudes of mythological actors
The delight I enjoy hopefully
www.bildhauerwerke-ak.de
Falling Icarus Acrylic resin 105 x 51 x 45 cm
The B-day Oil on canvas 43 x 59 in.
“As a Mexican woman living in New York City, I feel it is my responsibility to open up a dialogue about immigrants. My work intends to bring Latinx life into contemporary art by celebrating the culture and highlighting family values. The narrative shows interior domestic scenes surrounding tables.
JESSICA ALAZRAKI
www.jessicaalazrakiart.com
Bright colors and decorative patterns are very characteristic of my works; in my oil paintings, portraits are always in the foreground and close to the viewer. Intense brushwork provides unique character
Mezcal Oil on canvas 43 x 59 in.
The Lesson Oil, paper, charcoal on canvas 48 x 36 in.
“The human form is the foundation of my art. Working in different styles gives me the opportunity to express both the dignity as well as the ludicrous that is present in all of us. In the multi-dimensional qualities of human
KATHRYN BAGWELL
Bagwell •
“I would summarize my ideal artwork in four words: imagination - spirituality - technique - comparison. As an like every pregnancy, mine also goes through three phases: conception, gestation, childbirth...which is not free
ANTONIO D’ANTINI
Discussione Oil on canvas 55 x 55 cm
Tamera Bedford is a mixed-media artist notable for her practice and the nature of her diverse subject matter. Her work is a visual representation of her respect for the natural environment and the us to the limits of the earth’s exterior, beyond to planetary marvels, and, in similarity resonating beauty, deep into the interior worlds of organic and cerebral life.
TAMERA BEDFORD
Tamera Bedford • Circle
www.angelabanks.co.za
“As an artist living within a complicated socio-political situation in South Africa, I love to escape it all by creating my own world within and the element of an animal companion allows me to enter into an imaginary scenario where symbols, context and relationship hint at possible narratives within these paintings to an audience allows them also to escape the harsh realities of today’s world and to experience if only for a short while,
The Broken Breeze Oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm
Hopscotch Ceramics 107 x 183 x 5 cm
“My ceramic work seeks to cut through the layers of conditioning and reconnect to the joy of the child within. It can be understood as conversations between pattern and color, order and exuberance. The result is a satisfying compromise: there’s harmony in containment, but it’s the color, the emotion that has the last word. Material-
DANIELLE BEWER
www.daniellebewer.com
Danielle Bewer
Illogical Conclusion
33 x 22 x 7 cm
“My practice explores the use of objects and imagery as foundations of storytelling. The works investigate our relationships with objects, materials, and physicality; and how these elements relate to our cognitive and corporeal experiences of perception and our surroundings. The role of play is integral to my work; both as an
JAMES CROSS
www.james-cross.co.uk | Instagram@jamescrosss
Jesmonite
“Creating art with lines, building them up from the abstract into a cohesive, realistic portrait is my passion. My art follows the age-old crosshatching technique, which I have honed and adapted into my own unique style. Monochrome art with its simplicity is a powerful medium
LIZL BODE
Woman on Crate Ink pen on paper 70 x 60 cm
“This small watercolor is one of several created in one painting session where calm music set fully developed. I create art to keep my life meaningful. I believe we all need to experience
JUDITH DUPREE BEALE
Urchins
Watercolor and ink on paper 14 x 11 in. www.jdbeale.com
https://www.symonacolina.info
Reclaiming the Sacred Source: Fushia Cast bronze 12 x 10 x 10 in.
“I have studied, participated in and led Native American transformational ceremonies for forty years. They have informed my life and my sculpture. As a tribute to the awakening of sexually traumatized women in the transformational ceremonies, I have formed in clay (then bronze) the
LYNN CREIGHTON
Just Saying I Love You
Acrylic and watercolor 40 x 30 in.
“I call my work conceptual abstraction. The process of isolating, separating certain parts of reality from all other things is abstraction. Expanding this abstraction, helping it grow into something wonderfully unique is what my work is all about. This uniqueness in my work comes from how I personally express myself. It is a one-of-a-kind
CHRISTINE ALFERY
Christine Alfery • Circle
Vestida de Mar Bronze 80 x 50 x 20 cm
Campground Closed Archival pigment print, Hahnemuehle sheet 17 x 22 in. Lisa Cutler •
“In my ‘Memory’ series, I try to show the fragility of the world we live in. The photos force us to conjure up scenarios of playgrounds full of children and restaurant parking lots full of cars and people. Without people as a reference, these images stand as monuments to another time. As with Easter
LISA CUTLER
“I’m a passionate wildlife nature photographer and digital artist from Australia. I enjoy capturing moments of our wildlife to create my unique artwork. The photographs are my
LYN DARLINGTON
Cosmic Ancestry / Panspermia Cycle
Acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm www.bogdansartwork.com
“I believe that art is a form of energy and the artist’s role is to materialize this energy, to give it shape. It’s a kind of a stream of information that passes through the artist as if through a portal. I am an intuitive artist and when the the time is not enough, and I often paint several pictures simultaneously. I never force the moment or the nature of the process. I let the pictures happen and resonate. Most of my artworks are abstract and when I work I aim to combine colours and nuances which ‘’love each other’’ in such a way that the painting would echo beautifully. I perceive myself as
BOGDAN
Courage Oil over acrylic base on gallery-wrapped linen 48 x 36 x 1.5 in.
acrylic background) and on each I left a border of uncolored linen as a natural frame, extending around the edges. Having the courage to walk through a door is part of life, as is the ability to overcome your
www.suedaniel.com
Conquest Oil over acrylic base on gallery-wrapped linen 48 x 36 x 1.5 in.
Slide (Distortion Series)
“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, screen-printed and scenographic media.
www.david-dejous.com
Acrylic on canvas 146 x 114 cm
On Becoming Adam
attention to detail. I explore adversities, mistakes, failures and relationships by asking how these experiences might cultivate human growth and spiritual enlightenment. I am currently working on combining portraiture
ANINA DEETLEFS
Mixed media on canvas 124 x 94 x 4 in.
Jieyu Deng
“I
www.gabrielladixxmiglia.com
Boy 4 Oil on Plexiglass 14 x 11 in.
“I make it my job to take in the barrage of input from the world today and amalgamate it with art history, pop imagery and my http://bobdoucette.com
BOB DOUCETTE
Bob Doucette •
When Joy Slips In Oil on canvas 24 x 12 in.
Lucy Oil on canvas 24 x 12 in.
www.paulgemmerson.co.uk unseen organic protrusions slowly enveloping communities and the world order only to be repelled by the regular shape of ideas, rigid science and technologies. Thinking tentatcularly is to think collectively, to create
PAUL G. EMMERSON
“My artwork is about introspecting human relationships, or rather non-relationships, mainly solitude. It is expressed by opposing organic vs nonorganic, light vs darkness, using archetypes, Greek mythology, biblical stories and working in chiaroscuro atmospheres where light rips its way through darkness thus symbolizing optimism. I use a restricted color palette and strong contrasts for a more austere, dramatic effect but also because I’m colorblind.
Art, as I perceive it, is a complex relation between the artist’s expression and what he is, what he thinks he is or
The Daughter,2017
Acrylic on canvas 160 x 100 cm
Spirit Stag, 2020
Carved fallen aspen, found oak, acrylic paint, steel stand 27 x 32 x 12 in.
“I’m a wood sculptor from the southwestern United States. One of my guiding principles is to walk lightly on the planet. I use sustainable and reclaimed materials. Each year I visit an aspen forest
www.elizabethfrank.com
ELIZABETH FRANK
“Art is DNA for me. I conceive an idea and arrive at the work platform full of passion. Working with wide memories, I do not dig. I leave air and spaces. I challenge myself with materials. I’m in love with the
https://circle-arts.com/orit-goldman
forms have a profound impact on me. I get great enjoyment out of making functional items that people can use in their everyday life. The connection from potter to user should not be
MARCUS WOLAK
Marcus Wolak @ Etsy
Wood Fired Chawan 9.5 x 12 cm (550 mL)
Marcus Wolak •
“I follow the basic instinctive principles of color and shape to express my psyche. The subject of anxiety and nightmares has been prominently featured in my paintings as I still struggle with my demons. My paintings represent my observational study of colors, patterns and
Lucid Nightmare: Lost Mixed media 48 x 60 in.
Relating to a virtual form of tactility, my artwork seeks to engage the viewer immediately in an aesthetic of the
CAMILLE HANNAH
www.camillehannah.com
Venus in Furs Oil and bronze dust on polyester silk 180 x 150 cm
“Based in Park City, Utah, I am an abstract artist who is drawn to the energy of color and texture. I paint primarily with acrylic and use a variety of materials to create texture. My tools consist of scrapers, squeegees, paper towels,
LINDALEE HOLMES
https://lindaleeholmes.smugmug.com
Dawn Acrylic 36 x 36 in
Street Watercolor 26 x 38 cm
“My creative philosophy is to pursue truth, goodness, beauty and love, and to improve the body, mind, and soul. Creation is not only to heal yourself, but also to move and relax the audience. The pace of life in modern society is getting faster and faster. It is possible to slow
CHENG HSIEN HSIEH
Facebook@Hsieh Cheng Hsien
Cheng Hsien Hsieh • Circle
Zolpidem, Goddess of the Night and Sleep
Digital media and texture similar to these painting styles. This series is based on Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. I gave the gods and goddesses pharmaceutical medication names. This image is
MICHAEL JICHA
Story beyond the Horizon Watercolor 52 x 31 cm
Dana Ingesson’s paintings are an expression of her feelings, life experiences, and emotional maturation. Working primarily in watercolor, she creates dreamy color palette and gestural brushstrokes is a conversation with her audience; drawing from her intellect, emotion, and intuition. Ingesson wants to inspire the viewer to acknowledge and engage with their own beliefs, emotions, and subconscious.
DANA INGESSON
www.danaingesson.se
Dana Ingesson • Circle
Where the Clouds End Watercolor 54 x 40 cm
https://www.ditasart.com
“The corporeal existence including the appearance of human beings and the artwork itself, are momentary things, like the color of rust. The rust is easily stereotyped as the process from hard to frangible - it’s a typical process of impermanent
La Malattia Plaster and iron powders 35 x 16 x 60 cm
“I am constantly inspired by the landscape. The blurred lines, the smoothness of blended colors, the movement and marks, the hidden and mysterious of things most of us see and ignore every day. I’m drawn to the light and weather, capturing a moment in time I often relate to human emotions. It’s about the light on places known or
BRYAN JENNINGS
https://www.bryan4art.com
Light Oil on canvas 34 x 34 in.
Marina On The Gulf Mixed media 18 x 24 in.
“Making art is my way of communicating. I share my story through my paintings, using watercolor, acrylic, oil, ink and collage to create my art. I weave my tales in bold colors and symbolic motifs; broad swatches of paint serve as background for my narrative. I hope my art inspires — or sparks a secret memory; perhaps transport my
JILL KRASNER
www.jillkrasnergallery.com
Tribute to
“I was born in Prague, the city inhabited by the spirits of Rudolf II, Arcimboldo, Kafka and many others who left their indelible marks there. My painting is somewhere between surrealism and the fantastic, between the strange and the magical. What matters to me is to show paintings in front of which the attentive spectator will settle down, enter into communion, take his own waking
LUKAS KANDL
Mon Cygne bien aimé -
Lohengrin Oil on canvas 195 x 130 cm
Lukas Kandl •
Une perle par jour pour Judith - Tribute to Caravaggio Oil on canvas 195 x 130 cm
Femme cible Oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm
“Based on an idea and improvising photo sessions, I look for surprising images that appeal to me for some reason. I edit or combine elements that show me a personal direction. I add and leave
PAUL KENENS
paul.kenens1@telenet.be
The Shadow of my Nose Oil on canvas, aluminum frame 100 x 200 cm
20 degrees - 341 sec
Sheet steel welded and rusted 45 x 13 x 9 cm
such as circles, rectangles or triangles. I often try to get by with as few basic shapes as possible. The sculpture shown here consists of the same rectangular steel sheets welded together. There is a certain lightness that one
www.haus-kunst-13.de
“My
The Undertaker’s Songbook Color lithograph on Rives BFK 22 x 30 in.
“In love with drawing on stone and copper, I’m primarily a printmaker, but one who forms migrate on threatening waves of cloud and sea, using their senses to navigate.
Abstract No. 118
Acrylic on canvas, mixed media 105 x 200 cm
“I was born and live in Lithuania, Kaunas. I earned a Master’s degree at Klaipeda University. Inner freedom is very important to me, this is why my work is so energetic. Colours are used boldly and you can see the contrasts brought up for expressive work. In my paintings, I have positive thoughts, a desire to convey joy to
ANETA KVEDARAVICIENE
https://www.anetakvedaraviciene.com
Genesis
Monoprint collage 20 x 16 in.
realized through my art process that I was primarily talking about the environment’s struggle to survive. I found that I could convey these distressed feelings through mixed media and collage work. Alternating layers
“In my paintings I try to convey my thoughts and emotions, which can be a struggle but also a challenge. My inspiration comes from occurrences in daily life, people I meet, mix of cultures, contrasts spotted in nature or cities, architecture. What touches my heart, I translate on my abstract expressionist layered
LÉONCE LEMMENS
Léonce Lemmens • Circle
age. In such a world, human beings are confronted with the duality of virtual vs reality, which is a contradiction of human existence. Especially around the virtual existence there are multiple
Puzzle Oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm
Reaching for the Stars
Charcoal on paper 50 x 35 in.
“Specialising only in charcoal and graphite, my style of drawing emphasizes the details and textures of the subject matter. Through my work, I hope to portray the beauty of wildlife animals. Hopefully, it will inspire people to appreciate and
MONICA LEE
www.facebook.com/monicaleeart
Monica Lee •
representation with symbols that underline the abject side of this triangular trade. The slaves of yesterday or the
CHRISTIAN LEROY
www.leroychristian.com
Fleur de Lys
Acrylic and oil on fabric with gold leaf 80 x 100 cm
Studio Oil on linen 148 x 184 cm
Observation 24 x 36 in.
“I am a photorealist, I enjoy putting all the detail I can into my paintings. It might look like a photo but up close every stroke is visible. I enjoy painting any subject matter and over the years have been admired for my diversity. I was once labeled a wildlife artist but got myself out of that box by painting anything from seascape to
Finding Peace from within during Dark Times
Pencil, ink and digital and 9 x 12 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 from childhood to adulthood — which in many ways is full of chaos and hardship — are what sparks and motivates me to possess my objectives, empathetic connections to people. As I observe and interpret the world around me combined with creating my artwork, I discover time and time again that true beauty lies within the darkness and that sometimes nightmares are the
ANSON LIAW
www.liaw-anson.format.com
Chalk pastels on archival print-making and drawing paper 20 x 30 in.
Heart Smart
Le Poids de l’Arrogance
Acrylic on hardboard 120 x 80 cm
“To me, being an artist comes from a deep-rooted necessity. It’s a natural way to transform your emotions, fears and desires into a concrete object like a painting. It’s the representation of an idea, using a language made up of images — much of it channeled directly from my subconscious, with little in my favorite way to spend my time, to be alone and to be able to visit my inner world. Since arriving in Paris, I’ve started a new series of artworks representing pre-adolescent boys; an age when the games and innocence of childhood give way to adult thoughts and concerns. That phase when boys turn into
https://maxartparis.wixsite.com/maximilian
Maximilian
JODY MCCOOL
Elvis as a Young Man Oil on copper 5 x 6 in.
TALEH MIRKAZIM
Marina Light, San Francisco Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 in.
clarify the information, then build a nontraditional composition such as a vertical landscape. Using bold and vibrant colors, I capture unexpected and heightened sensations like temperature, and the effects of the color
TIMOTHY MULLIGAN
www.timothymulliganfineart.com
River Dock Shadow
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 in.
Gabriele Musebrink • Circle Quarterly
Peaceful Sign No.7
Manufacturing edition, Fresco-limestone, pigments on handmade paper 30 x 30 cm
“In the series ‘Peaceful Sign’ I follow the question what is it about peace inside of us? Why is it so hard to really be at peace inside oneself? What can we do to bring this peace into consciousness again and to cultivate it?
GABRIELE MUSEBRINK
www.gabriele-musebrink.de
Peaceful Sign No.12
Manufacturing edition, Fresco-limestone, pigments on handmade paper, frame 30 x 30 cm 85 Circle Quarterly Art Review 6 • Gabriele Musebrink
Looking Ahead II
Watercolor, gouache, crayon, monoprint 26 x 42 cm
“Engaged in arts for many years and attempting different techniques, I ended up with mixed media, watercolor and gouache with the enormously wide range of possibilities it offers. I have since created and continuously do lots
GERHARD RASSER
www.blickfang-gerhardrasser.com
Terremoto, 2011
Mixed media 100 x 81 cm
The blue cabinet represents our deep-seated ground, solid and stable. However, when a powerful force strikes and shakes its foundation, we are all at the mercy of nature. Our lives are fragile and we need to cherish every
CHIE NAKANO
www.chienakano.com
Chie Nakano •
“I have a continuous interest in masks and their mystique, from ancient multi-cultural forms, purposes and meanings, to a modern rendition like sunglasses. Are we transformed or unseen behind a screen? What is revealed? This inspired my series called ‘Shades.’ What can one comprehend without seeing the eyes. Currently,
OLIVIA PATRICIA O’NEAL
Vera Wang Shades Oil on hand-prepared linen 86.3 x 52 cm
“I paint for the satisfaction of the created work. It is important for me that my audience, in a very simple, perhaps old-fashioned way, gets pure enjoyment and pleasure from viewing and living with my paintings. This speaks to the power of
LEON OKS
www.leonoksart.com
Dream Oil on canvas 30 x 24 in.
Thomas Pramhas was born in 1966 and studied at the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz (1990-96). He then worked in the advertising and media industry as well as a lecturer for several years. In 2014, Pramhas began work as a freelance artist.
THOMAS PRAMHAS
Bette Davis Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
“I am a London-based artist intrigued with combining different materials and mediums. I intuitively project a collection of fragments of conscious and subconscious images as symbolic elements and hidden messages resonate through my work. Mysterious and enigmatic, often the narrative unfolds over key elements. I hold a BA Hons in Art. I have exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and my artworks feature in private collections
Amber Lotus
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 x 5 cm
Flowers and Animals but where are the Bees
Acrylic on canvas 91 x 91 cm
“I paint with three mediums; watercolour, chinese brush and acrylic and have developed a sequence whereby I can practice these mediums separately and independently but also as companions to each other borrowing ideas, rules, skills and blending ultimately to a rich fusion with happy results. I spend a long time thinking, a very slow and deliberate process of preparation. I hope that my landscapes
CHERYL R RICHARDSON
Instagram@cheryl.richardson.art
Cheryl R Richardson •
Changes of State (Landscape 68)
Digital collage 100 x 100 cm
“The landscape is transformed according to how we experience it. It is a cultural container that registers, in its multiple element constituencies, a history of the world. The landscape is a superposition of moments that contribute to the construction of an exhaustive history of that place. Perhaps the most exciting is to recognize that there is not a single reading of the territory but that this succession of
JULIA ROMANO
Preservation Brief 44
Acrylic on canvas 50 x 48 in.
“Deconstructing architecture, suburban spaces, cityscapes, and places of public gathering, I paint layered compositions that strive to make sense of the economic and social history of ‘place.’ Attracted equally to the aesthetics of grandeur, craft, and visual blight, I erase the hierarchy of beauty and rowhouses with vinyl siding, or the detritus from a temporary shelter merge and metaphysically communicate on the picture plane. Structures have anachronistic conversations in dream-time. I www.matthewwrobinson.com
“I am an Iowa-based multidisciplinary artist focused on process and mundane media rejuvenation. Architecture, scrap wood, metals, foils, painting and mixed media work of all sizes are my sketchbooks of sorts. I lose myself in abstracted landscape shapes and bold color combinations, as
KIMBERLEE ROCCA
“Sharing
“I paint the beauty of diverse, yet unifying human experience, focusing on emotions expressed in faces, gestures. I delight in the freshness of a color mixing with another. A lot of times I mix colors directly on the canvas; adding, subtracting, layering paint, inviting you along to observe the image emerge. The play of light and shade, colors,
YELENA SAFRONOVA
https://www.safronova-design.com
https://www.safronova-design.com
Oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm
Landscape B, 2020
Acrylic and pencil on Yupo paper 68 x 51 cm
public space. In my abstract paintings, I am using color as an initial point. My observations about relationships and behavior between several materials, as well the relationship between persons is my never-ending source
STEFANIE SCHAIRER
Stefanie Schairer •
Landscape A, 2020
paper
abstract way. I search for freedom, lightness, liveliness and intensity. It inspires me to create an unseen world with its magic and its secrets visible. It inspires me to make people question their
PETRA SCHOTT
Instagram@petra.schott.art
Passers by Oil, oil sticks, graphite on handmade paper 10 x 75 x 0,2 cm
Petra Schott • Circle
Introspection VII Oil, oil sticks, graphite on handmade paper 105 x 75 x 0,2 cm
“I am a visual artist and photographer in love with the sewing machine. My career began center of my artistic work. It stands alone or is the canvas of my mixed media, where I combine photography, colours and textile techniques. With my artwork, I tell stories of
EVA SILBERKNOLL
Woman Smoking
an emphasis on ink, pastel, watercolor and oil paint. Art for me is what gives my life meaning and purpose, and a sense of connection to the world and the past.
LEE BORDON SMITH
Ink and oil on canvas 22 x 28 in. Instagram@leebordonsmith
Go and See Oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm
“Stories of political power and day-to-day politics do not particularly interest me. There are approach much more fruitful. My pictures are not simple to read. Already in their technical realization, they are too complex for easy access. Whenever I realize that a picture is
BERND STEINERT
https://mitglieder.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de/bernd-steinert
Bernd Steinert • Circle
photographer who weaves the worlds of surrealism and noble Dutch art into her images. Mixing her broad set of creative skills with an internationally acclaimed background in theatre and costume design, her photos are assembled with vast craftmanship. Kaat’s works of art resemble tableaux from the Dutch Golden Age, a rich realm of paintings and a constant admiration of surrealism adds
Dutch Blue 2 Digital photograph
conversation with each other and together determine the product result. The painting is built up layer by layer in the tension between representation and its rendering until the image is correct. So that you can show images of
LOUIS VAN DER LINDEN
www.louisvanderlinden.nl
“I have always been particularly focused on the expressiveness of the gaze. Currently, I am working on a series of portraits of women who show feelings of loneliness, sadness and melancholy in their gestures and expressions. The series is called “Heartbreak Hotel”, like the famous song by Elvis Presley. Each work, a room. Each room, a brokenhearted woman.”
Simona Zecca • Circle
within the artist. Humanity and its personal inter-relationship and that of the space it inhabits is relevant within these works. The interpretation so
www.davidwwhitfield.com
Untitled Acrylic 100 x 70 cm
Untitled Acrylic 100 x 70 cm
“My imagery points to ideas about our belief systems, environmental consciousness, personal and planetary
DINA TORRANS
Danby Imperial marble on charcoal granite 50 x 55 x 20 cm
Dina Torrans • Circle
Acrylic, oil 90 x 90 x 2 cm
“My themes evolve around Nordic nature; its textures, colors and lights. I will pick out what’s vital and thought-provoking, digest and rebuild an abstract story, in order to present nature in a new form for the viewer. It
MAIJA VANHATAPIO
https://maijavanhatapio.fi
“In my work, I look for things through the process of painting. I try to bring things together that don’t really belong together, to organize set pieces into a whole. These things can be reminiscent of parts of reality, but they only become real in painting.
ANDREJ WILHELMS
www.andrejwilhelms.de
Tyrax Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Andrej Wilhelms
Multiple Effects (X) Acrylic on canvas 145 x 121 cm
“ ‘Multiple Effects (X)’ brings together birds and beasts, rare treasures, and power machinery. These symbols project revelations and imaginations about the unknown. I want to create hope and bring positive energy. Emotions and struggle, stories of life, beyond the shaking of language, create a certain
HSIUNG YU
Wind Patterns
Silver Gelatin print 10 x 8 in. harrygoldstrom.com
“My artwork is about photographing the tranquility of nature and the fact that I revel in spending time at these places of grandeur. My photography represents not only how I envisioned a given scene, but also my attempt to convey the emotion felt while making the photograph. Hopefully, some emotion will be evoked within and pondered by the viewer. Perhaps then the work will have served some meaningful purpose.”
HARRY GOLDSTROM
“The women in my paintings mirror the image of all eastern women from the part of the world where I come from. These women are a perpetuation of old and deep tumors that have been engrained in an eastern woman like me. A woman who from birth is in a struggle with social
FARNAZ ZABETIAN
www.farnazzabetian.net
An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art
Published by Circle Foundation For the Arts Cover Image Linda Reymore