All in Contemporary Art

Interview with Itziar Ramírez Elizondo

For her, painting means connecting with emotions and harmonizing them in a kind of deeply spiritual dance that turns a daily moment into something that transcends temporality and leaves its mark on the canvas. She is convinced that the complexity of the emotions and their recognition are topics that her continue to explore, because they largely determine the mystery of happiness and fully life.

Juliet Petrarulo

I studied for 4 years and gained a first degree in fine art on the Isle of Man. The paintings I have been currently working on are a series called 'childhood dreams' and 'childhood memories'. I paint subconsciously dreamlike and creating a story from my childhood capturing images from memory. I'm inspired by colour, tone and texture. The light and elements of nature.

Interview with Caren Akers

I feel that I am very privileged being surrounded by art my entire life. I grew up in the mid west and moved to south Florida with my family. Here I studied both photography and Business Administration where I worked as a corporate Human Resource Director for many years. I am also very fortunate to have a daughter who is an up and coming architect.

Interview with Vita Lukstina

I was born in 1967 and grew up in Russia; I have Latvian and Russian blood. In my childhood I attended children’s art school in Russia. Then I went to Latvia and started to study at the Latvian University, Faculty of Pedagogy, in art department. Later I changed to the Pedagogical department of the Latvian Art Academy and graduated in 1993.

Interview with Orit Sharbat

Orit Sharbat lives and works at Tel Aviv, Israel. She likes to paints with passion and intensity. Her authentic style is marked by expressive, powerful colors, mainly oil or acrylic paint on canvas. Her paintings consist of multiple thick layers of color. At first sight, they may strike you as calm and harmonic, but when studied closely, the veneer of harmony and tranquility soon gives way to a multi-layered rich labyrinth of colors.

Antoine Aizier

Transcribing them in different ways, in a mixture of pointillism, impressionism and surrealism, i work with a black ink pen on paper. (0.15mm tip) All illustrations are only pieces of a story, a journey, which will eventually be understood with all parties. These stories are not insignificant ... Indeed, a little character travels in all these paintings, it is the you, the ego ...

Makotu Nakagawa

The subject of death is often of particular interest and intrigue for artists, and for Japanese photographer Makotu Nakagawa it is something he approaches with particular intimacy and clarity; depicting his late father and his body through numerous stages of life, death and the spaces in-between.

Patricia Borges

Patricia Borges, Brazilian photographer and multimedia artist, graduated in architecture, photography, cinematography and screenplay. Awarded at Florence and Rome biennials. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions around the world and it is part of major private collections.

Interview with Ai-Wen Wu Kratz

I am of Chinese origin. I came from Hong Kong to the U.S. for college education. I received my BFA degree from Fort Wright College, Spokane, WA and my MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI. Along the way, I attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Interview with Paul Paiement

Paiement has shown widely in solo and group shows in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Most recently Palazzo del Bargello, Museo della Balestra, Gubbio, Italy and the Carrousel du Louvre, The Louvre, Paris, France. Paiement’s work has been featured in numerous publications including New American Paintings, Las Toscana (Italy), Corriere dell’ Umbria (Italy), Ouest (France), Art in America, Artillary, ARTnews, Artscene, Modern Painters, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Orange County Register, Artweek, SF Weekly, and the New Art Examiner.