Interview with Karima Al-shomely

Interview with Karima Al-shomely

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Mixed Media

I achieve a balance between documentation and abstraction by approaching visual ethnography as an interpretive process rather than a mere direct of reality. It helps me uncover what already exists as a foundation for the documentation phase, which forms the knowledge base of the work. In this phase, I am committed to prolonged observation, immersion in the cultural context, and the collection of images and visual materials as evidence of lived experience, while respecting the privacy of the place and the people and their symbolic meanings.

Interview with Charlotte Baqai

Interview with Charlotte Baqai

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

My creative process is absolutely an excavation of my internal landscape on all layers, mental, emotional, physical and spiritual in that given moment and to use the archaeology reference, some things are easier to excavate than others depending on how many layers it is buried beneath. This is reflected in my work, the deeper the emotion, the memory or experience, the more layers of paint, the more activity and energy is required to achieve the release.

Interview with Iyad Almosawi

Interview with Iyad Almosawi

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Iyad Almosawi is a versatile and talented artist with award-winning works across various genres. He masterfully blends technique and vision in his paintings, sculptures, murals and installations, exploring inner energies and emotions. His murals, which bring color and life to public spaces reflect his love for nature. Through his art, he transforms spaces, making them accessible and inviting for people to admire and engage with.

Interview with Petra Mattes

Interview with Petra Mattes

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Most of my chosen canvases and surfaces are conscious decisions. It begins with the size of the canvas and then the structure. This decision is very important. The painting process is a constant making of choices which influence, enormously, the result. Sometimes I struggle with the surface and ask it what it wants. To work against the surface is contradictory. For example, I chose a very plain canvas surface for the painting -love- , as I wanted the black color to drop down on it, to express the fluid existence of love. According to the philosopher Heraclitus, “Everything flows…”

Rose Masterpol

Rose Masterpol

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Rose Masterpol is an artist of considerable importance. Her paintings do not imitate the world. They reorganize it. They reveal the underlying patterns that shape experience. They invite the viewer to slow down, to recalibrate attention, and to discover the richness that exists beneath the surface of perception. Her three decades of creative exploration have culminated in a body of work that speaks with remarkable authority and poetic intelligence.

Aleksandra Ciążyńska

Aleksandra Ciążyńska

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Aleksandra Ciążyńska’s paintings, then, are not simply artworks. They are instruments of perception, catalysts for attentiveness, and invitations to dwell more meaningfully in the world. Her talent lies in the rare ability to make viewers feel that the world is worthy of wonder and that they themselves are capable of perceiving that wonder. Her contribution to contemporary art is already significant, and her trajectory promises even greater impact. She is an artist who restores faith in the power of painting and demonstrates, with impressive clarity, that art remains one of society’s most profound tools for illumination and renewal.

Gustavs Filipsons

Gustavs Filipsons

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Gustavs Filipsons stands as one of the most compelling abstract artists of his generation: a visionary whose works vibrate with psychological force, whose textures carry the weight of spiritual inquiry, and whose commitment to originality has forged a language entirely of his own. His paintings, layered, dynamic, eruptive, meditative, form an atlas of interiority, a testament to the enduring power of abstraction to reveal what the rational mind cannot grasp.

Interview with Karel Vereycken

Interview with Karel Vereycken

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Born in 1957 in Antwerp, Belgium, Karel Vereycken graduated from the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels and trained in engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, where he obtained a certificate of passage « with distinction. ». Today, in France, he concentrates on writing about art history, producing audio guides and of course watercolors and engravings. In France, as a member of the Fédération nationale de l’estampe, he confirmed his technical mastery at Atelier63 and continued to perfect his skills in the Montreuil workshop of Danish engraver Bo Halbirk.

Interview with Fari Ali

Interview with Fari Ali

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Painting to me has been a spiritual journey for over 50 years. I have to my credit more than 300 paintings of oils on canvas. My genre of art is photo-realism, expressionism and hyper-realism. I am particularly passionate about preserving Nature and my intention and purpose is to bring awareness to the beauty of the environment we live in so that we as human beings take action to preserve and appreciate all aspects of it: Through portraits of people, birds and animals - I bring out the true essence of their personalities and immortalize their moments.

Interview with Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo

Interview with Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Illustration

Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo, born in Jerez de la Frontera, is a grotesque, tragicomic, and unapologetically absurd alter ego of his creator—a surreal mix of Andalusian roots, cosmopolitan wanderlust, and obsessive curiosity. His art is naïve, conceptual, and intentionally imperfect: flat perspectives, rudimentary techniques, and unpredictable outcomes give each piece kitsch, personality, and grotesque charm. Inspired by eccentric people, peculiar anecdotes, and the absurdities of life—from Holy Week processions with freshmen balanced on doors, to goat-bleating classmates, to the chaos of global cities.

Interview with Ursa Schoepper

Interview with Ursa Schoepper

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Photography

The beauty of experimental art lies in the fact that the value of an idea cannot be mathematically calculated. Digital resources operate according to the code of "either/or." However, playing with an artistic idea is not computable. Creativity and innovation follow a both/and principle. The photographic artist as constructor is a creator, not a draftsman, not a graphic artist, not a copyist. As a phantom of light, photography becomes the bearers for an artistic vision. Image skin, artificial skin, forms the blueprint for another possibility.

Interview with David Poyant

Interview with David Poyant

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Mixed Media

David Poyant is a contemporary embroidery artist whose work transforms the traditional craft of needlework into a powerful form of visual storytelling. Entirely hand-sewn, his pieces merge fine-art composition with the intimacy of textiles, creating richly textured worlds one stitch at a time. Beginning his artistic life later in adulthood, Poyant brings to his practice a deep sense of reinvention, memory, and lived experience. His decades as a cobbler and craftsman inform the patience, precision, and tactile sensitivity that define his work today.

Interview with Lon Levin

Interview with Lon Levin

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

My work pokes at that uneasy space between structure and entropy — what I like to call “controlled chaos,” because frankly, that’s what life looks like when you take the training wheels off. Every piece is its own little ecosystem, humming along with its own rules, moods, and mischief. I’m fascinated by how order crawls out of disorder, how meaning sneaks in through the cracks when forms, colors, and movements collide like they’ve had too much coffee.

Peter Doig

Peter Doig

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

A leader of his generation, Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who was able to propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. In a time when new techniques were dominating and when painters and painting, in general, were considered quaintly anachronistic, he forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting landscape vistas.

Artist Spotlight - Toyin Ojin Odutola

Artist Spotlight - Toyin Ojin Odutola

ContemporaryArtCurator

Toyin Ojin Odutola was born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1985, and later moved with her family to Alabama. In 2007 she was selected to attend the Norfolk Summer Residency for Music and Art at Yale University and continued her studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She then earned her master’s degree in Painting and Drawing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2012. She currently lives and works in New York.

Guy Yanai

Guy Yanai

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art

Israeli oil painter Guy Yanai captures peaceful moments featuring architecture and plants. Often merging indoor and outdoor perspectives, Yanai presents placid scenes devoid of human figures. Instead, scraggly houseplants and open doors and windows act as visual focal points, suggesting the presence of human life that may have potted the plant or propped open the door.

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