I am a painter, biologist and professor. In that order. I have lived many lives in one. None perfect. I am lucky to be able to paint. Everything else is secondary. I continue and will continue painting.
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Hopper Prize: Spotlight on the Artists
The Hopper Prize has a strong history of supporting contemporary visual artists through their biannual artist grant program. This is a great program that provides unrestricted financial support to working artists of all backgrounds and disciplines. In the Spring and Fall, 5 artists each receive awards, for a total of 10 grants per year. On top of this, support is extended to an additional 30 artists per cycle who are selected for a shortlist.
Interview with Alfaro Carozzi
Alfaro Carozzi is originally from Lima, Peru / New York. She has worked in New York City most of her adult life. During an interview with Design & Fashion, she told us ” I am very interested in psychology. To create a painting I look at the scene from an analytical and psychological point of view. I see many stories within a story and I invite the viewer to engage and create his own story.
Interview with Jane Digby
For over 20 years I have been developing my own painterly language through portraiture and atmospheric scapes. I don't seek realism, but rather a catalyst that will begin a dialogue between viewer, painting and artist. My artworks are a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, nationality and a journey with my own physicality and spirituality. I am obsessed with the painting process, but also enjoy running workshops, sharing my knowledge and passion.
Interview with Attila Mata
Attila Mata, currently residing in Hungary, was born in Hungary in 1953.He always wanted to be an artist, maybe because he has been surrounded by artworks since his early childhood. He chose sculpture over painting as he was better at it and most of the time his teachers praised him for his sculptures.
Interview with Simon Darling – SDarling
Simon Darling is a Danish artist who grew up being exposed to the creative nature of his mother, who were an emerging abstract artist. In a young age he quickly engaged himself in drawing and painting.
“Through my paintings, I unite and express the unexplainable, indefinite and confusing emotions, from the obscure realm of imagination”
David Pallua
For the Italian painter David Pallua, to become an artist was to courageously refute the expectations of others in order to fulfill a personal dream. Not surprisingly, Pallua values integrity and authenticity as the most important aspect of his artwork.
Hye Ja Moon
The latest works by Hyeja Moon can be considered as the landmark that shows her long thoughts in her mind have reached to the starting point of her painting career all the way again. That is “Matisse’s colors and Mondrian’s abstracts geometric.” She titled the works <Compositions of Two Light Sources>. And the two light sources are, of course, Matisse and Mondrian who have long occupied her heart ever. What influences on Hyeja Moon’s work did those two great artists have? Matisse and Mondrian respectively.
Miguel Balbás
Miguel Balbás’s artwork is solid and would stoically withstand any criticism from those who can’t bear for a piece of art to be beautiful, and nothing more. In contrast to proposals of questionable taste and poor content, both aesthetically and intellectually, the work of this artist is a tribute to the perfection of form, from someone whose objective, in his personal as well as professional life, is to make existence more tolerable for the rest of us.
Ming Ying
Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint.
Alexandre Egorov
Alexandre Egorov was born and brought up in St. Petersburg in an atmosphere of the cultural movement of what is known as Russian cosmism This philosophical movement combined ethics and philosophy of the origin, evolution and future existence of the cosmos and humankind, both from Western and Eastern traditions.
Tolmie MacRae
Tolmie MacRae explores the multiplicity of existence predominantly through the medium of video. His works have explored themes of meditation, transcendence and immanence by investigating the flow of light and time on people and landscapes generating visual and temporal abstractions. He plays with opposing ideas and then fuse them together.
BiHop
BiHop parodies the paintings of renowned artists such as Caravaggio, Bacon, Gogh, Lautrec and Cezanne, for escaping from this dichotomous ideology of the subject-object. It shows the intention of de-subjection and de-objection by removing the Sunflowers from the Gogh’s painting and taking away the Apples from Cezanne’s.
Interview with Michael Jiliak
My artistic biography began 11 years ago with training at an art school in Belgium. Before that, I traveled a lot and made a lot of sketches. Then I began to take part in art exhibitions in Belgium, Holland. Later in France and the UK.
Simone Monney
Beyond meditative serenity, Simone elaborates her canvases like musical compositions.
Having started her day with meditation, her mind is free and serene.
Interview with Rostislav Romanov
Rostislav Romanov is a Russian born artist that lives and works in the southeast of England. He is a trained landscape painter that travels and captures nature between Russia and England. He uses his art as a way to understand the world which gives him, a unique soul voice and perspective.
Olan Ventura
Olan Ventura (b. 1976) took up his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the East, which hailed him as Most Outstanding Alumnus in 2007 for Fine Arts and Culture. He has mounted solo and group shows locally and internationally, and has explored themes ranging from identity, technology, popular culture, and more recently the folk Catholic traditions of his native Philippines and its expressions in contemporary life.
Robert Solomon
My name is Robert Solomon and I have been a creator for most of my life. I have a broad education for which I feel is an advantage for any artist. I have explored performance art, automated theatre, installation art, printmaking, sculpture and design. I now make paintings. I live in Philadelphia, PA and Greenwich, New Jersey where I have my studio
Interview with Fant Wenger
In Fant Wenger‘s paintings, nature and technology usually collide in a rugged and momentous way. Not only is the chosen spectrum of colours powerful, the artist also places railway wagons, telephone poles, parabolic antennas or even a satellite in the landscape.
Larry Madrigal
Born: 1986, Los Angeles, California. Lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.