All in Interview

Interview with Aomi Kikuchi

Aomi Kikuchi is a creator of innovative fine arts inspired by Buddha’s Philosophy, impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering of all life. She started her career as a fashion designer, and she has a professional Yuzen Kimono Dyeing skill with about thirty years career. While she has a strong obsession with silk fabrics, she tries other materials, which have femininity and fragility such as fiber, goose down, cotton flower, glass, and film. Her artistic practice has been expanding from two-dimensional work to installation, sculpture, and film work. She received BFA from Kyoto University of Art and Design, and MFA from Pratt Institute.

Interview with Beast

Established 2009, Beast has produced more than 200 urban installations in more than 40 cities across Europe, United States and Japan. With his ironic and provocative collages, Beast deconstructs well-known faces of politics and the world of entertainment, recreating scenarios to the limit of veracity. At the beginnings his distinguished mash-ups, framed in gold and freely placed on the streets, have quickly attracted the attention of media, challenging the urban audience to question the truthfulness of the information, in a continuous play of references between the real world and the ideal world proposed by the artist.

Interview with Gina Plunder

Gina Plunder is born in Romania, now she lives and work as a visual artist in Rastatt, Germany. She graduated at the University in Bucharest and in Freiburg /Germany. She is member of the GEDOK- German and Austrian Artists association and BBK- federal German artists association. Since 2004 she is lecturer at the Country Academy of Art and Theater Castle Rotenfels. Since 2006 Director of the Art Centre - Bildungschance Rastatt, an education Association for schools Pupils.  

Interview with db Waterman

I assemble original photography, assorted papers, acrylics, oil, charcoal, ink and pencil in my works. The variety of resources I am able to use has proved indispensable to me. The biggest challenge the collage medium posed was its unforgiving lack of transparency. Finding a way to replicate the effects of transparency afforded by paint, especially water colours, was “a large victory” for me . The preparing labor shows through in my collages; layer upon layer of material remains visible in the finished pieces. 

Interview with Rawan Ita

Rawan Ita is a Detroit based artist of Babylonian descent.  She was a full-time graduate student studying architecture, an intern, hairstylist, and volunteer.  On January 20th, 2017 all of that changed.  She was walking across a lot and was hit by an SUV.  As a result, Rawan lost much of her physical capabilities and life, as she knew it, had changed.  Injuries involving her spine, musculoskeletal, and nerves left her weakened and hurting.

Interview with Irene Hoff

For self-taught Dutch artist Irene Hoff, the world is out of balance which can be seen in the human & environmental challenges we are currently faced with. She craves a world where compassion, intuition and harmony are key elements for living. Irene’s art is filled with hope and inspiration that encourages viewers to become aware of their feelings and beliefs, making space for their true self.

Interview with Edmund Ian Grant

 Edmund was born in San Mateo California in 1950 and presently, lives and paints in the Napa Valley. He is an Internationally collected, award winning self- taught artist whose extensive exhibitions over the last 30 years include shows in many USA cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, San Francisco and New York, and International cities – Florence, Milan, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Venice, London and Paris.