Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
My work looks to display strength through fragility; to explore man’s relationship to the natural world as a symbol of his own inner world. I do not paint people as individuals but as symbols of humankind - a mere element of the larger whole.
The subject is often swallowed or hidden by its pictural environment; truncated or erased with a swipe of the brush. The face and the eyes, the commonly named windows to the soul, are turned away or masked, turned towards an inner world that can never be wholly communicated to another, despite a shared depth. Paradoxically, the discovery of this inner world comes when personal identity is let go of. Through the loss of the personal comes the universal.
Falk von Schönfels (#fluctibus) is a Munich based artist and mostly creates acrylic paintings and fine drawings with pigment markers. He has just recently published a little book with German poetry and illustrations (ISBN: 978-3-945296-66-0). At the last exhibition at Gallery Weltraum in Munich he showed 72 crazy drawings in black and white and one acrylic sisyphus-picture.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Krovblit’s work is influenced by his interaction with the everyday world. His interpretation and response to the common is intriguing and thought provoking – his art engaging, personal and relevant.
Alix GHANADPOUR, born in 1969 in Tehran, is a French painter of Iranian origin. He is known for his post-contemporary figurative paintings of committed and percussive realism. His early exile, his commitment in the french Foreign Legion, his atypical career gives a particular meaning to the representation of the world that he offers us.
Emmy winner Alberto Mielgo works and lives partially between Los Angeles and Madrid, Spain. Born and raise in Spain he entirely dedicates his life to painting and working in the animation industry, the two disciplines that he equally loves. His paintings are a journal and an observation of his life . A pseudo realistic personal interpretation of people or places.
Rodrigo Etcheto is a contemporary fine art photographer based in Olympia, Washington. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Rodrigo studied mathematics before discovering his love for philosophy and photography. His work evokes a moody and contemplative atmosphere heavily influenced by the lush natural beauty of his environment which he further accentuates with careful black and white compositions.
Ruud van Empel. 1958 Breda, The Netherlands. Ruud van Empel works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Born and raised in Barcelona, Roger Vilà is a young multidisciplinary artist mostly focused on the fields of acting and painting.
Selection of recent works by Montréal-based artist Alexandra Levasseur.
Jonathan Viner (b. June 1976) is an American painter based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Working primarily in oils, he fuses a deep respect for the tradition and craft of painting with an appreciation for the dynamic pluralism of current art practice. His conceptually ambiguous, precisely articulated hybrids of portraiture and narrative assert the right of the artist to exceed prevailing institutional conventions in pursuit of highly individualized artistic vision.
Born in Sevilla, Spain, Tania Alvarez immigrated to the United States with her family in 1983. After receiving her BFA in 2005 from Pratt Institute, she continued her studies in Barcelona, Spain, earning a Postgraduate Degree from Elisava School of Design in 2009, and completed her MFA at the New York Academy of Art in 2017.
Jana Brike was born in year 1980 in Riga, Latvia. She has studied academical painting in the Art Academy of Latvia and received M.A. degree in year 2005. Her work has been exhibited internationally in professional venues since 1996 while she was still a young teenager, and since then she has had 13 solo exhibitions and nearly 100 other projects and group exhibitions all over the world.
Casey Gray lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Gray graduated with a BA from San Diego State University in 2006, and continued on to complete his MFA in 2010 at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Born in Jinan/Shandong, China in 1984. Now lives and works in Germany.
Internationally renown as the Queen of Double Eyes, Alex Garant studied visual arts at Notre-Dame–De-Foy College just outside Quebec City. After graduating in 2001, she ultimately settled in Toronto, Canada.
Fabio La Fauci’s work, often inspired by Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and oscillating between abstract geometry and organic reality, escapes all attempts at artistic classification. His works’ intrinsic plastic ambiguity enables a transformation, the passage from one form to another form and from one meaning to another meaning.
Alejandra Atarés (Zaragoza, 1987) studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, widened her knowledge in Bristol and deepened her studies in Art and Design at the Massachussets College. She started to exhibit her work in 2009 and she participated in several group shows and four solo shows in Barcelona.
Reiner Heidorn is a german neo-expressionist, lives in Germany next to Munich. If you ask the Weilheim artist Reiner Heidorn about his understanding of himself as an artist, he will say: “Painting to me means literally pushing oil paint across the canvas, shaping it in such a way that, with or without figuration, the result is a harmonious pictorial whole that does not show an artist’s characteristic manner and, without any specific artist’s hand, covers the surface, the way a tree trunk is blanketed by the elements.” Heidorn’s work is characterized by a freedom in his approach that is perhaps only available to the self-taught.