All in Contemporary Art

Interview with Per-Inge Isheden

Per-Inge Isheden was born in a small countryside town in the middle of Sweden. He started painting while still a child, inspired by his mother who was an amateur artist.He studied at the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm 1957-61.After working 13 years as an art teacher, 1961-74, he started his career as a professional artist by creating a science fiction cartoon for adults. As a professional artist he has regularly showed his works at galleries and art fairs in Stockholm and other places in Sweden, in Berlin, Copenhagen and London. 2018 he will exhibit in Vienna.

Interview with Daria Domnikova

Daria Domnikova is a designer, artist, illustrator and a maker of all things beautiful and useful. She was born in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and immigrated to Canada to pursue education in design and art when she was 18. She’s been working as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer since graduating from Ontario College of Art and Design University with a Bachelor’s degree in Illustration and is currently living and working in Toronto, Canada.

Bo Song

When I was younger, I never attended any art academies to learn how to paint or draw, mainly because I never really had an interest in the arts. It was not until I got married and had children that I suddenly decided to take up painting. In 2008, I enrolled in an arts academy program at the Hyundai Department Store Culture Center. At what I then considered to be the relatively late age of 40, this was my first ever experience in learning how to paint.

Interview with Jan Zhou

I grew up in Shanghai in the 70s and 80s. We didn’t have many choices at the time. My studying was limited to classrooms and text books. The first time I was exposed to art was attending an art history lecture while I was studying the mechanical design in college. It marked a turning point in my life. Immediately, I was drawn to art as a means of self-expression and I started to learn drawing and painting. It was then that my artistic talent was recognized; I made up my mind to be a fashion designer because I thought that would be the more pragmatic choice.

Interview Hasti Sardashti

Iranian born artist living in London. She is always on the move. Moving through time & spaces through body & mind. Making art is for Hasti an attempt to stay in here & now -a vital practice to maintain stability, calm and fluidity in daily life. Making art is for Hasti like belonging to a place, having a home , like having a space where she can connect to the most genuine of herself and her immediate existence.

Interview with Jennifer Pazienza

The daughter of Italian immigrants, Jennifer Pazienza born in Newark, New Jersey, began making art as a child in her mother’s kitchen. She earned a Bachelor of Art Education at the William Paterson College of New Jersey and completed a Master of Art Education in 1985, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education in 1989 at the Pennsylvania State University.

Interview with Ira Stein

Ira Stein is a trained artist, a Vietnam veteran, former commercial airline pilot, and a renown jeweler. With such an interesting and varied personal background, his works convey a well-rounded, multi-dimensional and inventive interpretation of the world surrounding us. His sculptures, mixed-media collages, and figurative paintings all provide a glimpse into the psyche of an artist grasping with the notion of genetic essentialism viewed from the perspective of the troubled, the vulnerable, and the erotic nature of the human condition.

Helga Palasser

Helga Palasser is an Austrian sculptor skilled in working with a great variety of different materials. Starting her career with an apprenticeship for sculpting in Bad Kleinkirchheim/ Austria in 1989, she has always been attracted by the possibility of going abroad with her work. Since then she has travelled to many different places around the world, leaving her sculptures in California, Zimbabwe, Nepal, France, Germany and Denmark.

Stavros Ditsios

Stavros Ditsios first solo exhibition was at the early age of nine years old in the Town Hall of Panorama in Greece where he was awarded the prize. He studied Fine Arts in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he graduated with Distinction (1997-2001 ). Among his tutors was professor Umberto Borella.

Lise Couture

Born in Canada and moved to Northern Ireland in 2002, Lise had never aspired to be an artist; she wasn’t one of those kids who dreamed of painting for a living, but Art found her in the most unexpected place. Inspired by a Canadian artwork that had long- fascinated her, and which proved to be a turning point in her life, she started learning to paint, attending various Irish artists’ workshops, during which she discovered she enjoyed painting so much that she embarked upon studies in an intensive art programme.

Interview with Howard Harris

A Denver Colorado USA native, Mr. Harris has lived and worked in Kansas City, New York and Boston before returning to Denver to establish an integrated direct-marketing company. For over 35 years, he has been a practicing designer and marketer working with the understanding that design is defined as art that you do for others. Since retiring from the direct-marketing world Mr. Harris is now focusing on dimensional photographic fine art. Mr. Harris shows in galleries across the United States and Europe.

Interview with Patricia Gagic

Patricia is an accomplished International Contemporary Artist and award- winning Author. She is the President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprises Inc. represented by Art Production NYC agency, the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Ontario, Artworld Fine Art in Toronto and F@CEC in France.