All in Contemporary Art
Jimmie’s paintings and drawings reflect photographic realism. He has taught Art, computers, & mathematics in colleges & high school for 48 years. He taught for Drury University for over 25 years, Southwest Baptist University for 30 years, Southwest Missouri State for 5 years and High School for 38 years. Jimmie donated over 2,000 artworks to charities. He likes to do religious drawings & paintings, because he feels he has received his multiple talents from God.
Jing Wu is a visual Artist and Creative Director whose practice explores the intersection of tradition, technology, and absurdism. With a background in art and creative industries across London, Berlin, and Shanghai, his work blends hand-drawn with digital art processing to create visually striking and conceptually layered pieces.
Babenko is a Belgian visual artist of Ukrainian descent. He grows up in an environment permeated with Soviet propaganda. Socialist realism reigns: stately art depicting Soviet reality in its most heroic form to portray the ultimate dream of communism as the governing regime. During his early school years, Babenko keeps a scrap book with the latest news from the newspapers Izvestij and Pravda. He spends his after-school hours in drawing school, where he is named the best painter, draftsman and lino-cutter. His artistic talent will continue to play a crucial role in his life: on the one hand to escape reality and find peace and quiet, on the other to decipher reality in all its complexity, in and through the creative process. Using gouache he makes wall newspapers in which he incorporates his experimental photos.
One image – one mission. What does my image have to do with Francis of Assisi (Francis of Assisi is considered the patron saint of animals, the environment, and ecology. In the prayer “Canticle of the Sun,” which the saint wrote in the 13th century, he described animals as brothers and sisters of humans and expressed gratitude to nature, its phenomena, and wonders.) with my picture or series of pictures? 800 years! On the 800th (this year-2026) anniversary of his death, my picture was chosen as the cover for a book entitled “Animal Worlds of Art.”
Mika Furuya is an illustrator whose practice centers on visual storytelling informed by culture, memory, and emotional resonance. Born in Tokyo and based in New York, her work reflects an ongoing dialogue between her Japanese roots and contemporary urban life, exploring themes of identity, connection, and quiet observation.
Howard Harris is a Techspressionist artist who has long been fascinated by visual perception and design. The Denver, Colorado, USA native earned a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and a MID (Masters Industrial Design) from Pratt Institute in New York, studying with internationally renowned design theorist Rowena Reed Kostellow.
Hiromi Watanabe, also known as Yuriko, is a contemporary Japanese artist from Tokyo. She specializes in spontaneous watercolor paintings on paper, deeply and intimately expressing her inner emotions. Celebrated for her distinctive sense of color, she demonstrates exceptional skill in watercolor croquis. To date, she has held 18 solo exhibitions and participated in over 130 group shows, presenting her work internationally in four countries.
Gayle Printz, the World-renown Founder of Modern Abstractionism, turned the contemporary art world upside down with an intensity comparable only to the paintings she creates. Based in the United States, Printz achieved professional success practicing law in New York City and Atlanta following a distinguished academic career at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Law. But it was not until May of 2020 that Printz picked up a paintbrush. Hoping to bring life back to a world plagued by the pandemic, Gayle Printz soared to international fame by creating a revolutionary new style of visual expression articulated through an unprecedented artistic language never before heard. Printz’s paintings speak a uniquely universal language in a voice that embraces our communal soul, making Gayle Printz’s unmatched contributions to the art world historically enduring.
My art is a dialogue between psychology and painting — a space where inner conflicts, fears, and existential questions take visual form. Drawing on psychoanalysis and Gestalt therapy, I explore identity, time, and the fragile boundary between illusion and reality. Each work reflects an emotional experience — despair, anxiety, temptation, or the search for self — embodied through vivid contrasts of light, shadow, and symbolic imagery. My goal is to reveal what is usually hidden and to give voice to the invisible and unspoken aspects of human existence.
As a visionary artist, I embark on a transformative journey to unravel the profound depths of the human experience. My artistic practice is a symbiotic dance between imagination and reality, where I strive to transcend the limitations of the tangible world and explore the infinite realms of possibility. My art should captivate the viewer so that they can get lost in the vast horizons of the present. What triggers me to create a painting are the emotions I want to pass on, which is also why people might identify with my works. Instead of letting myself or my art down on the spectrum of political or elite thoughts, I want the viewer to find truth when decoding my works. The layers I aim at are way above that and deal with consciousness and the highest off all. LOVE
Nathalie Gribinski is a French-American abstract artist born in Algiers, raised in Paris, and now based in Chicago. Originally trained in law, she transitioned to the visual arts after moving to the United States, studying fine arts and graphic design before establishing her studio practice.
I see my work as a parallel system of coded information. The flowers, the forms, the textures—they are not just images but systems of meaning, built through labor, through repetition, through the body’s engagement with the canvas. They are a kind of financial metaphor: not in numbers, but in the way they accumulate, resist, and hold value in a different form.
When the creative moment arises, the process unfolds freely, instinctively, and without preconceived planning. The assembly happens spontaneously, guided by an inner rhythm made of gestures, pressures, and resonances. Structure is not imposed; it emerges naturally, like a score taking shape directly within the material—through the same approach with which I have always composed my musical pieces or written the lyrics of songs and poems.
The research method adopted by Luca Marovino is that of direct confrontation with the material. There is no defined project, no model to follow and develop, but it is the stone itself in its natural split form that suggests the creative process. The tension linked to the spontaneous act bears witness to the mood of the moment, an indelible trace of the experience acquired and the thought matured.
Dana Ingessons paintings is not to be looked at but to be experienced - to stand in front of it and hear whispers of colors, cracks and silence. Dana Ingesson's art invites a quiet conversation – where color, form and mood together weave stories that have no beginning or end.
In the last three decades, Standa has been creating wall-mounted, cast resin, and aluminum sculptures combined with canvas and gold leaf, and I have been exploring the computer as an art tool for creating digital artwork. All his life, he has loved to create art full of emotions and feelings, "soul," with the satisfaction of fun. He is also interested in the balance and composition of colours and objects rather than the items' reality.
Samantha Louise Emery is an interdisciplinary artist from England and Canada living in Türkiye. Emery’s exploration of humanity’s complex interconnection within the biodiversity of life has been aided by her residence in these countries. She visually maps these networks through conceptual abstract paintings and her practice of combining self portrait photography, hand and machine embroidery with hand sewn sequins and beads, and paintwork onto canvas.
My name is Francesco Casolari and I'm from Bologna, a city in Northern Italy. I began engraving at the age of 6 under the guidance of my maternal grandmother, who is a painter. My first plates were drypoint, then around 12 I began etching. Immediately after high school, during my first years of university, I was noticed by galleries in my city and began to have my first exhibitions.
(María Aparici (Valencia, Spain) studies at the School of Applied Arts in Burgos and later moves to the USA where she completes her training, graduating in interior design from the New School for Social Research of New York (1988-1992). Back in Madrid, she continues to study painting with Amadeo Roca and finally obtains a Master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University (1998).
Ashley Gray is a UK-based digital artist known for his emotive, concept-driven works that blend 3D with digital painting. His practice explores themes of identity, memory, and the psychological landscapes of human experience. Drawing from his Masters in Computer Games Art, Gray utilizes advanced 3D techniques to create atmospheric environments, often blurring the line between realism and abstraction. His work invites viewers to connect deeply with the emotional undercurrents of his visual storytelling, where symbolism and mood take centre stage.
