Masakatsu Sashie was born in 1974 in Kanazawa, Japan where he currently resides. Kanazawa is a city known for rich cultural traditions in arts and crafts. In 2000, Sashie received an MFA from Kanazawa College of Art.
All in Contemporary Art
Interview with Albina Rolsing
Albina Rolsing, based in Germany, is an artist open to exploring and creating different interdisciplinary artistic approaches. Her Art is versatile.
Interview with Lee Shin
Through the years, Lee Shin paintings have been the reflection of her life and passion, covering topics of love, desire, the beauty of men, gender and its power dynamics, solitude, sadness, desperation, and sometimes just of her clowder of cats. She has participated, both domestically and internationally, in diverse individual and collective expositions, in cities such as Taipei, Fukuoka, Busan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, and Venice. She is also an active artist at Tai Hwa Pottery, where she designs and paints various potteries.
Interview with Haimeng Cao
Haimeng Cao is a freelance artist in Los Angeles, and works for game and film industry. His skills focus on concept design and visual development. The media he uses including digital painting, rendering and modeling.
Cheongju International Craft Competition
One of the significant features of Cheongju Craft Biennale, 2019 Cheongju International Craft Competition, plans to receive online submmissions for [Craft Competition] and [Craft City Lab Competition] from May 1 through 31 this year.
Ivan Alifan
This series is an exploration of the modern gaze; of ambiguous figurative paintings that are revealed and transformed within the act of the individuals' views.
Brian Calvin
Brian Calvin's non-narrative yet figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures are developed in the context of a diligent daily practice rooted in questions of shape and colour.
Lisa Ericson
Artist, illustrator, and designer Lisa Ericson paints hyperrealistic images of imaginary animals, hybrids that intertwine species. Previously focused on a body of work that merged mice and butterflies, Ericson’s newest series focuses on the creatures below, painting bright fish against matte black backgrounds.
Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes works in the pure aesthetic style of the Pattern and Decoration movement. Influenced by her native land of Brazil, her vibrant and bold use of color and patterns create work that is as much playful, free and psychedelic, as it is geometric, organized and rhythmic.
Besik Maziashvili
Besik Maziashvili is a Berlin based artist, known for his latest political art installation ‘65 degrees’. He was born in 1975, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Clare Woods
The paintings of Clare Woods (b. 1972, Southampton, UK) are essentially concerned with sculpting an image in paint, and expressing the strangeness of an object. Originally trained as a sculptor, much of Woods’ work is an exploration of physical form. This understanding of sculptural language and a preoccupation with forms in space, translated into two-dimensional images, underpins her pictorial practice.
Marlene Dumas
Born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa, Marlene Dumas studied at the University of Cape Town before moving to The Netherlands in the late 1970s to study painting and psychology. She continues to live and work in Amsterdam.
Zaria Forman
Zaria Forman’s pristine, photorealist paintings of the ocean and remote, icy landscapes are painted by hand—quite literally using her fingertips to render marks in paint and chalk, rather than brushes.
Interview with Christine Marie Nobre
Graduated from Fine Arts School of Versailles, France, Christine Marie Nobre works different technics such as painting, photography and video. She builds something like a small decor with her paintings, mirrors, lights and other things …which she manipulates with her hands. She goes off in search of adventure and on a journey in vastness as well as in infinitely small. Her mean of conveyance is light. She opens up passages to her imagination which become the visitor’s imagination through cosmic as well as spiritual or organic visions. These visions are the exact opposite of space and time.
Alexander Tinei
Alexander Tinei is a Moldovan artist, who has worked and lived in Hungary for more than a decade now. The starting point for all of his works is some photo found in the media. After that he places his chosen characters into a new context, making their bodies unique via vein-like, colorful, stigmatic signs. The details painted with almost anatomical precision are contrasted with often roughly made, abstract surfaces.
Gideon Rubin
Gideon Rubin (b.1973) is an Israeli artist based in London. He received his BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York and MFA from Slade School of Art in London.
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1925. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947, she was awarded a James Nelson Raymond Foreign Traveling Fellowship, which took her to France for a year in 1948-49, and it was there that her paintings moved toward abstraction.
Fantastic Art by Jeong Woo Jae
Jeong Woo Jae was born in Korea in 1983. He has a BA in Fine Art at Chugye University and an MA in Fine Art from Hong-Ik University. Jeong’s paintings are charming and playful expressions of the bond between humans and their animals.
Interview with Makotu Nakagawa
What comes after death? This age-old question has been the cornerstone for many artists over the years. Makotu Nakagawa approaches the subject with intimacy, clarity and graphic representation, depicting his father and his body through numerous stages of life, death and the spaces inbetween.
Milena ZeVu
Milena ZeVu is a Belgrade based artist who’s creative work includes paintings, sculptures, installations and performances. She graduated at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade.