Interview with Alan Beckstead

Interview with Alan Beckstead

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Interview

My paintings reflect SF Pride participants from 2010 forward. They represent a period when California Proposition 8 was overturned and the Supreme Court opened up the rights to marriage for all 50 states. It was something I never imagined would happen in my lifetime A true celebration of the progress for equality. Every Americans’ dream and rightful expectation.  The works also capture the sadness but solidarity from the Orlando Pulse tragedy.   A reminder that in many ways we still face the same intolerance from the 70’s.

Interview with Grant Gilsdorf

Interview with Grant Gilsdorf

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Photography, Interview

Grant Gilsdorf is an Ohio based contemporary realistic narrative painter who has harnessed his exquisitely rendered realistic paintings into a visionary storytelling device that combines images of carefully crafted beauty existing within a brutal and gritty reality. His dark, tension-filled works mirror the narrative-driven experience of viewing a feature film, and leave the viewer contemplating their symbolic significance.

Interview with Diamante Lavendar

Interview with Diamante Lavendar

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Photography

I am  an author and artist.  I’ve won awards for both my art and my writing. Since I was a young child, I’ve loved books and art which has carried into my adult life.  I’ve always enjoyed the symbolic and visceral attributes of being an artist.  I believe art is something one is born with-a desire to create visual pieces from intellectual/emotional attachments and observations. I see all forms of art as being expressed offerings from the artists themselves; a way to help understand and empathize with things of an intellectual and spiritual nature in the world around us.

Eriko Kaniwa - SENSEGRAPHIA FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

Eriko Kaniwa - SENSEGRAPHIA FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Photography

Born in Tokyo. Eriko Kaniwa is a Tokyo based fine art photographer.  After graduating from university, she worked as a producer at a major Tokyo television station before studying photography independently. In addition to exhibiting photographs in individual and group shows and continuing to work as a photographer, she has explored alternative education, cognitive science, depth psychology, and art communication.

John A. O’Connor was born in Twin Falls, Idaho in 1940.  He studied art with Greg Kondos at Sacramento City College, with Fred Schmid at California State University, Sacramento, with John Golding at Mexico City College, D.F. (now Un

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Interview

John A. O’Connor was born in Twin Falls, Idaho in 1940. John has had 36 solo exhibitions of his paintings, including a number of retrospectives, and has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions. He has received numerous awards and honors including a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, and several State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. His work is included in a many public, university, college, corporate and private collections nationwide.

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art

Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied at Kalamazoo College in Michigan (B.A., 1992) and at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal (1990–91). She received an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997.

Interview with Juana Reimers

Interview with Juana Reimers

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview

Juana Reimers works in the tradition of graffiti and urban art, on canvases, wall surfaces, art on construction. The luminosity and the graphic structure of the images, which give life and unorthodox color combinations, are striking. The artist succeeds in sharpening the viewer's view by seemingly moving the picture motifs further and further out of a multitude of planes, zooming in and out. The complexity of the composition invites one to read into, even to dive into another reality, in which joy, cheerfulness and unconcern, as well as the firm belief in the good in man, appear boundless.

Interview with Kokil Sharma

Interview with Kokil Sharma

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview

Kokil is a London based artist who has been involved in art since a very early age. She grew up in India, where she participated and won numerous awards and competitions. Her initial art training was mainly focussed on the facial anatomy but she later developed her skills, practice and awareness of the built environment by pursuing a degree in Architectural Technology at the University of Westminster in 2008. She worked on many Architectural projects in the Education, Retail and Housing sector but decided to revert back to her studio practice and continued painting expressive portraits and figures.

Interview with Danny Germansen

Interview with Danny Germansen

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Video Art

Danny Germansen (Born 1976) is a filmmaker and video-artist who was raised in a dysfunctional family in a little town on the west coast of Jutland in Denmark called Ribe. Playing music most of his teenager years, Danny first started to work with video and film at the age of 21. His main body of work are inspired by a life with disability, depression and mental breakdown. 

Williams Delabona

Williams Delabona

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Williams Cesar Delabona was born in Brazil, in the one small city called Fernandópolis, in 1963. From a very young age, still a child, he already revealed his drawing skills, being awarded in some competitions during the school years. As a teenager, he painted his first oil paintings and also his intriguing T shirts, with paintings that evoked a certain mystery, within a thematic that stays the same until the present.

Rikke Line Andreasen

Rikke Line Andreasen

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Rikke has drawn and painted since she was a little girl - simply because she could not help it.
She have been taught at the following schools. Billedskolen (Copenhagen 1995-96), the art academy Escola de la Massana (Barcelona 1996-97) School of Fine Art (Aarhus 1999-01) .The last seventeen years Rikke have worked almost exclusively full-time with her paintings. 

Interview with Da Vynci

Interview with Da Vynci

ContemporaryArtCurator
Photography, Interview, Contemporary Art

Davy aka Da Vynci, originally from a small town in Belgium, Liege. Began photography in 2012 with a self-educated approach after his studies in a school of art (training of advertising executive/copywriter). His main artworks speak about a "lost world". This one speak about place removed , removed object, isolated from the modern world and the rest of humanity, in a protected enclave of history. Which brings us to a certain glory and nostalgia for the past and makes us think about some excesses and errors of the modern world.

Interview with Cliff Tseng

Interview with Cliff Tseng

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Interview

Born in 1974 in Taiwan, I studied art at National Taiwan University of Art, I has had solo and group exhibitions in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and China. I create the first series “ In-between”  in 2002, the second series “Out of the window”  in 2006 and now “The beginning of life” start in 2013. My art was nurtured by Eastern background, the pursuit of inner spiritual calm of Eastern art, while Western art pursues satisfaction in terms of external appearance. I try to make a perfect match between the spirit of Eastern art and the materials and form of Western art to create my own style.

Leena Mertanen

Leena Mertanen

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Photography

Leena Mertanen (b. 1986, Finland) is a self-taught fine art photographer who examines various aspects of humanity, culture and femininity in her distinctive, often staged self-portraits. She uses herself as a model in her absurd, dark, humorist, emotional works making personal universal, combining often unexpected elements and purist technical know-how to various different ways of thematic approach to modern photography. Drawing inspiration from all kinds of cultural history including fashion, music, films and literature, her style is filled with pop cultural references and intellectual psychological analysis on the human condition. 

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