An interdisciplinary artist working mainly in painting, drawing, and photography. Todd Jones is currently living and working in Columbus, OH. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and double majored in studio art and psychology at Florida State University. His work adds a visual dimension to psychology through his artistic process.
Rashid Johnson (American, b.1977) is a sculptor and photographer who works in a wide range of everyday materials, including wax, wood, steel, brass, shea butter, ceramic tile, and such found objects as books, records, VHS tapes, live plants, and CB radios.
Gitana Vaicyte grew up in Lithuania, but for the last 15 years have been living and working in London, where currently she is in her final year (BA) studies of Fine Arts at University. For a long time prior to that, painting was Gitana´s personal hobby.
Adriana Gotowiecka was born in Poland, where she lived and studied until mid-90s. As a child, Adriana found immense pleasure in painting and drawing.
For Moniker’s Eighth Edition, the fair will map the creation and transformation of urban contemporary art, marking the pivotal moments that shaped each era’s evolution through a carefully curated programme (presentation) of exhibiting artists.
El Gato Chimney
Born in 1981 in Milano, Italy, currently lives and works in Milano.
Karla Castillo was born in Mexico city 1977.
Her work’s combine photography, drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture and arquitecture. One of the main subjects on her work has been the forest, where she perceives stillness, beauty, strong and low noises, that can guide you from a pleasant state of mind to a frightening mood. She deconstruct landscapes like the forest, ocean, etc., to create a new way to express the conflict among space, nature and mankind.
Daniel Rich was born in 1977 in Ulm, Germany and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Rich’s meticulous acrylic paintings of the built environment are devoid of human presence, and explore the way architecture and urban space reflect our lived experience and political and social structures.
Born in Ukraine, based in Paris. Studied photography in London College of Fashion and gradually shifted her focus on art, while keeping photography as a tool to capture visual information around.
August Vilella creates oil paintings by means of a surreal-intuitive method. Thanks to this method and without using any previous sketches or ideas, he tries to give shape to his past and future through the subconscious mind.
Some years ago, an animated short directed by the indie filmmaker Sam Chen was released. “Eternal Gaze” is a journey through one of the most important artists (or one of the greatest, as said in the premise of the movie) of the last Century: Alberto Giacometti.
Dave Bopp’s (1988, Basel, Switzerland) colorful works with acrylic resin paint on aluminium leave the viewer disoriented and wondering.
Jonathan Wateridge's paintings are elaborately crafted 'non-events' that have the trappings of a real occurrence but for the most part are entirely fabricated.
Jörg Galka-Teisseyre spent his childhood and youth in the German city of Paderborn, where he was born on 16 of august 1962.
Casey Weldon is an american artist born in southern California now based in New York, where he works as an illustrator. Weldon is known for the use of melancholy and humor into his pop-surrealist view.
Raised in Los Angeles, Andrew Hem’s illustrative paintings bridge disparate aesthetic influences as well as cultural touchstones and sensibilities.
Joel Rea was born in 1983 and graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003. He has exhibited his paintings through out Australia for the last 13 years featuring also in notable overseas exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Ryan Heshka was born in Manitoba, Canada, and grew up in Winnipeg. Fueled by long prairie winters, he spent a lot of his childhood drawing, building cardboard cities and making super 8 films. Early influences that persist to this day include antiquated comics and pulp magazines, natural history, graphic design and music, movies and animation.
