Calligrapher and fiber artist Han Cao repurposes old photographs by stitching brightly colored flowers and landscapes directly onto each black and white image.
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.
Alisa Godin
I am a Russian artist, based in Madrid. I am curious about the nature of human being. I believe we are all a pieces of something bigger than we can even imagine. I believe sons of angels and demons, sons of the stars, water, fire; young souls that are born from the Mother Nature — are walking among us in a human bodies. So, my last collection is about the souls who were born from a fire, curious about what is a life in a human body like, what is a love in a human body like...
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.
Samuel Rodriguez
Samuel Rodriguez is based out of San José, California and has had his work shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, galleries and in editorial publications. For a number of years he was self-taught through the graffiti scene, until he later decided to expand his studies by pursuing a Bachelor in Fine Arts at California College of the Arts.
Interview with Danny Johananoff
Danny Johananoff resides in New York. Having spent over 50 years in photography, he started to exhibit his work only by 2018. He held exhibitions in NY, Miami, Rome and Milan with further exhibitions scheduled in London and Barcelona.
Anita Naukkarinen
Born in 1986. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Teppei Takeda
Japanese artist Teppei Takeda uses the trompe l’oeil technique to recreate the act of painting in the form of abstract portraits. The completed paintings are anonymous, rather than of a specific person, and are meticulously put together through highly detailed paintings of gestural strokes
Cian McLoughlin
A selection of paintings by Dublin-based artist Cian McLoughlin. Largely focused on portraiture and urban landscapes, McLoughlin’s series “Tronies” offers up abstract reinterpretations of paintings from the Flemish Baroque and Dutch Golden Age.
Miho Hirano
creates detailed portraits of her human protagonists, who avoid direct eye contact with the viewer. Hirano’s women stare off into the distance as fish and butterflies swarm and flower blossoms and vines seem to grow from the figures’ hair.
Hopper Prize: Artist Grant Winners
Recent Grant Winners: Recipients of the Hopper Prize
Interview with Bo Mi Jo
Korean-born, New York-based artist, Bo Mi Jo believes in and practices the concept of ‘The Power of The Present,’ whereby she translates the fleeting moments of a fast-paced life into still spheres on a tranquil surface to create a peaceful and calm clarity.
Interview with Ryszard Miłek
Ryszard Miłek lives and works in Poland. He has presented his art at more than 150 individual shows and participated in more than 140 collective exhibitions in Poland, Europe and the USA. He is a member of the Polish Pastel Artists’ Association, a member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers and an honorary member of the Pastel Society of America, NY.
Interview with Mary Manchin
I create beautiful macabre pieces to make you rethink the past and how it is perceived. Almost all of my photos are original images from the early 1900s that I collect from estate sales and oddity shops around Los Angeles. I scans my found photos to preserve the original then photo manipulate and digitally paint them in Photoshop to make them a past you've never seen.
Orlanda Broom
Orlanda Broom has exhibited regularly in London and Internationally since completing her MA in 1997. Her paintings have been selected for curated shows and competitions including Threadneedle Prize, NOAC, BEEP, Griffin, London Group and the RA Summer Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited at James Freeman Gallery, The Contemporary London, Griffin Gallery as well as in galleries in Cape Town, Portugal and Paris.
Joanne Nam
"I was born in Korea and spent most of my childhood in the middle of a forest. Most of the subject matters of the paintings I created were from those memories in the forest. However, I avoided reproducing simple images of the memories, but I wanted to express the impression of them. The visual images of memories in my head are vague and most of times hard to tell, but the feeling of it is the thing that lasts. If you look at my painting and feel something from it, that is what I tried to convey." - Joanne Nam
Kallista Ivanova
Kallista Ivanova is a fresh name in modern art. Her literally shining canvases for four years managed to see the world, but rather the world saw the work of this artist. Callista does not try to catch the viewer’s attention with outrage, obscenity, or anonymity.
Randi Matushevitz
Randi Matushevitz is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. She received her BA from California State University Northridge, and her MFA in Painting from the University of Miami. She has exhibited in galleries, museums and art fairs in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Caracas and Xalapa, Mexico. Her work has been featured in the Riot Material, Whitehot Magazine, Huffington Post, Art and Cake, Diversions LA, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Jacob Brostrup
Jacob Brostrup (Born .1973). Lives and work in Odsherred, Denmark and Barcelona, Spain. Within the last 10 years, the work of Brostrups has placed itself in the field of semi-realistic painters in Denmark. His works are coloristic, vibrant and the many details grab the viewer and plunges him in the vivid paintings.
Jesse Nusbaum
Jesse Nusbaum, a sculptor from Connecticut, is best known for creating realistic bronze animals. “I strive to replicate the actual subject,” explained the artist during a recent interview, “utilizing micro-detail encourages an intimate, close-up view.” Nusbaum’s commitment to fidelity is displayed in a unique technique he developed to highlight surface details.