All in Painting

Jeong-Ah Zhang

Jeong-Ah Zhang

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

In the shifting constellation of contemporary art, Jeong-Ah Zhang emerges as a singular voice whose works transcend categorization. Though most often celebrated as a painter, her practice extends far beyond the canvas into photography, sculpture, and hybrid experiments that defy medium in pursuit of philosophical inquiry. Born in Seoul in 1966, Zhang’s life trajectory has been marked by a restless search for truth, a profound questioning of existence and non-existence, and a commitment to creating art that resonates beyond the surface of reality. Her oeuvre is a sustained meditation on breath, time, and the paradox of being, a space where visibility and invisibility coexist, where creation and extinction are not opposites but cyclical companions

Giora Carmi

Giora Carmi

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

To enter the recent work of Giora Carmi is to stand before a practice that is, at once, playful and deeply metaphysical. His paintings, executed in watercolor, gouache, pencil, and other intimate mediums, are not simply images placed upon paper. They are meditations made visible. They unfold as maps of inner states, constellations of color and line that seem to trace both the subconscious and the act of becoming conscious.

Elke Bügler

Elke Bügler

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

To enter the world of Elke Bügler is to encounter painting as both an act of surrender and of assertion. It is an art that begins in the void on the blank, unyielding surface of the canvas and moves forward not by premeditated strategy but through an unfolding dialogue between hand, pigment, and surface. Her approach resists linear narrative and predetermined form; it is, in her own words, “non-specific,” and yet this very refusal of the literal opens a field in which emotion, intuition, and thought may find their most direct articulation.

Artist Spotlight - Subodh Maheshwari

Artist Spotlight - Subodh Maheshwari

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Subodh is a diversified international artist who tells stories through landscapes, florals, abstracts, miniatures, and symbolic art. Her art fuses Eastern symbolism and Western composition, influenced by 16th and 17th century Rajasthani art, accented by poetry, passages, and phrases in Hindi, Sanskrit, and English. She admires Georgia O'keeffe for her floral influence, and Frida Kahlo for her courage.

Barbara Palka Winek

Barbara Palka Winek

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Barbara Palka Winek occupies a singular place in contemporary art because she resists reduction. She is neither purely abstract nor purely figurative, neither wholly formalist nor narrative. Instead, she inhabits the in-between, the interstitial space where body dissolves into color, where cosmos enters form, where paint becomes both material and metaphysical.

Amartya

Amartya

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

To stand before the canvases of Amartya (Joëlle Zioga) is to encounter a field where material facture dissolves into an atmosphere of apparition. In her “Blue Collection,” a body of work she confesses is closest to her heart, color is not merely pigment but ontology: a register of being that presses beyond the retinal into the metaphysical. Blue and green, her chosen chromatic poles, are not incidental hues but coordinates of psychic orientation, elemental substances through which memory, dream, and infinity are refracted.

Maria Aparici

Maria Aparici

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Maria Aparici’s oeuvre invites us not merely to look but to undergo an experience, a confrontation with the layers of truth that painting, when honest, can still uncover. Her canvases remind us that painting remains one of the few languages capable of resisting the anesthetizing effects of modern life. In a cultural moment obsessed with surface, Aparici’s work insists on depth; in a world that celebrates speed, she slows vision down to the viscosity of oil paint. Each brushstroke seems to demand accountability not only from the viewer but from the history that shaped our eyes.

Artist Spotlight - Sezin Aksoy

Artist Spotlight - Sezin Aksoy

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

My work explores the transpersonal: states of consciousness that move beyond the boundaries of the individual and into the shared spaces of spirituality, memory, and the natural world. I see art as both a healing practice and a symbolic language — one that allows us to translate emotions, intuitions, and experiences that cannot be captured by words alone.

Artist Spotlight - Guido Pierandrei

Artist Spotlight - Guido Pierandrei

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Through vibrant tones, layered surfaces, and the fluid dialogue between water and pigment I explore the reality of matter and “what lies beyond its veil”. Reality, to me, is a stratified space. I’m drawn to the most subtle, distant layers — the ones that whisper rather than shout — My work is an attempt to open doors within consciousness, to find entry points into these hidden dimensions.

Artist Spotlight - Orna L.Brock

Artist Spotlight - Orna L.Brock

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Orna L.Brock, a visual artist & a fine art photographer was born in Jerusalem, Israel. Her long lasting career includes exhibitions in Israel and across the globe, showcasing her work in both group and solo shows. Notably, her solo exhibitions have been featured at prestigious venues such as The Bar-David Museum of Jewish Art in Kibbutz Braam, Israel, and the “Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum” in Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuochad, Israel.

Artist Spotlight - Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk

Artist Spotlight - Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk’s work radiates poetic elegance, shimmering with peace, joy, and a celebration of life. Rooted in the rich tradition of Viennese Art Nouveau and shaped by her early studies of modern art in Paris, her compositions fuse vibrant color, harmony, and striking contrasts. Critics have described her art as “elegant and poetic”—a visual dialogue reflecting the divine essence of humanity.

Pu Wei

Pu Wei

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Born in Kunming, Yunnan, and trained in the classical material intelligence of ink, water, rice paper, and mineral pigments, she has taken the language of Chinese brush painting and submitted it to a radical re-reading through Dzogchen Buddhism and Yogācāra philosophy. The result of her ongoing project, named The Color of Surupa, is less a style than an epistemology. It proposes that abstract painting need not stop at the revolution of form; it can move, as Pu insists, toward an awakening of consciousness.

Daniel McKinley

Daniel McKinley

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

The art of Daniel McKinley unfolds within a paradox. It is at once confined and boundless, meticulously constructed yet open to infinite interpretation. In his oil paintings, walls and windows, stairs and corridors, cities and interiors coexist in an ambiguous geometry of mind and space. To enter McKinley’s world is to move through layers of perception, to navigate not only physical structures but the architecture of consciousness itself. His paintings, rigorous in composition and rich in atmosphere, engage the viewer in a dialogue between presence and absence, the seen and the imagined, the finite and the eternal.

Artist Spotlight - Beate Blume

Artist Spotlight - Beate Blume

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Beate Blume is an internationally recognized contemporary painter who explores themes of harmony, beauty and emotional transformation in her art. She has received numerous international art prizes and awards that underline the quality of her self-taught art. Blume‘s paintings are a powerful testament to the transformative power of artworks inspired by an interest in personal growth and finding inner meaning.

Artist Spotlight - Richard Michelle-Pentelbury

Artist Spotlight - Richard Michelle-Pentelbury

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

I've an impassioned sense of the symbolic and metaphysical, and imbue my work with esoteric images. I may deploy different styles and techniques to suit the many translations one makes of life. My preferred medium is with oil glazes, and I try to integrate (at the risk of sounding pompous) the multiple holons of our metacognitive realizations. My paintings are intended to elicit curious questions, rather than to provide explicit answers.

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