A series of abstract, impressionist photographs which explore the world of tropical plants living behind glass.
Winnie Truong
Winnie Truong is a Toronto based artist working in pencil crayons on paper to produce large scale portraits that challenge our ideas of beauty and discomfort.
Barbara Egin
Barbara Egin is above all interested in people, and depictions of women constitute a major part of her oeuvre. Her female protagonists are not struggling to emancipate themselves, however, nor are they to be understood as sociocultural gender constructions. They are at once confident and uncertain, strong and vulnerable.
“IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT DYING” An Interview with Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele
Between May 24 and June 10, OJ hosted the first duo exhibition of two young Italian artists, Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele, entitled “It won't only kill you, it will hurt the whole time you're dying". Monia Ben Hamouda and Michele Gabriele are both artists based in Milan,IT. We came together with the artists to talk more about themselves and their upcoming show in OJ.
Venice Biennale 2017: Instagram Blockbusters and Must-See Pavilions
"Faust" by German artist Anne Imhof has long hours of few-seconds-videos on Instagram. This fractioned narrative hides unutterable sensations: a prison-style fence surrounds the external area, leading to the strained experience even before the actual performance; the pavilion reverberates frightful echoes, imperceptible by microphones; the internal structure is times bigger and higher than the lens can reveal but the numerous visitors contribute to claustrophobia, just to point a few elements that an insider can describe.
Femke Hiemstra
Originally an illustrator for Dutch magazines, pop surrealist artist Femke Hiemstra's works became so elaborate that she then turned her hand to fine art. Within her paintings she portrays a Grimm-esque world, where highly detailed animal characters are set against dark, surreal settings.
Nicola Kloosterman
Nicola Kloosterman (Johannesburg, 1976) is an analog collage artist from the Netherlands who works with found imagery. Her subjects vary from fragmented female figures and faces to landscapes, nature and abstracts made with coloured paper and textiles cut from fashion magazines. Her collages explore concepts of (in)visibility, perception and feminine power.
Tom French
Tom French is a highly collectible and well-regarded British artist whose powerful monochromatic canvases are driven by his efforts to engage with the subconscious, and a rigorous pursuit of truth.
Eva Rossi-Kivimaki
'My art is an expression of how the mysteries of life affect me, the materials direct me to which mystery, the night sky, joy, birth, nature and energies that surround us, the "the Cosmic Loneliness", serenity, peace, love...' -Eva Rossi-Kivimakii
Paola Pivi
Paola Pivi was born in 1971 in Milan, where she studied at the Milan Art Academy out of a desire, as she puts it, “to learn to draw.” Pivi’s work quickly took a conceptual turn, using photography, sculpture, and performance in multimedia works that also frequently include collaborations with both people and live animals.
Mary Saran
As Buddha found importance in the interconnectedness of all things, Mary´s work strives to connect personal emotions and philosophy creating a balance that stems from that interconnectedness, that lack of absolutes. These colorful organic universes are created and resemble astronomical clusters of mass or craters, the way matter accretes in space. The goal is to have her viewer share a glimpse into these magical free flowing and yet structured compositions that become trapped on the canvas.
Albena Hristova
Albena has been painting all her life; it is what she does. For her everything starts with seeing. Nothing rings more true to her than “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. She feel s that her mission is to help you open your eyes and your imagination to all the beauty around us. Your hectic life might make it hard to see it at first, but is it so wonderful when you finally do. She is here to help you see it through a new set of eyes.
Liz Barber Leventhal
My paintings are layered bursts of energy that record experience. Blending nature in the here and now with memories or past experience. Shape ,form and line fall into a sea of emotion. A shape appears first as a reflection, then drifts into volumetric configurations. At once capturing the sense of nature with movement and light creating an artistic metaphor both opaque and airy, thick and organic.
Tsuruko Yamazaki
Tsuruko Yamazaki
Born in 1925, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan. Lives and works in Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan.
Manuel Gracia
Manuel Gracia (Madrid, 1964), lives and works in Madrid. Master in Contemporary Art by the IArt Superior Institute, his artistic approaches are understood in an intimate space where intuition, emotion and musicality are related to analysis and reflection in a self-referential sense.
Alain Biltereyst
Alain Biltereyst (b. 1965, lives and works in Brussels) continually draws attention to the innate beauty of practical designs, such as a manhole cover, fence design or airplane tail logo. Working primarily on thick panels, there is an attention to layering and repetition as well as an affinity for certain motifs of color and shape.
Super stars at Sotheby’s Milan Spring Sale
The Sotheby’s Italia Modern and Contemporary Art auction didn’t disappoint the expectations, with a sale total of € 14.176.250 and almost every lot sold.
Jules de Balincourt
Jules de Balincourt is a French-American contemporary artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his abstract, atmospheric paintings with saturated colors, blurring the line between fantasy and reality
The UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema
The UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema, sponsored by Farhang Foundation and hosted at the Billy Wilder Theater, will be screening contemporary Iranian films over a two week period beginning May 6th. And as a tribute to the canon of artistic achievements by the late contemporary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami there will be Los Angeles premier screenings of Life and a Day, Ten, and Take Me Home. Supplementing this tribute will be the showing of 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds, directed by Seifollah Samadian, which reveals the behind-the-scenes of the creative process of Kiarostami, who helped revolutionize contemporary Iranian film in the 1970s.
Rodel Tapaya
Rodel Tapaya was born in 1980, in Montalban, Rizal, Philippines. He broke out in the art scene by earning the coveted top prize in the Nokia Art Awards competed among artists in the Asia-Pacific region which allowed him to pursue intensive drawing and painting courses at Parsons School of Design in New York and from the University of Helsinki in Finland prior to graduating from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts.