Artist Spotlight - Hans van Wingerden

Artist Spotlight - Hans van Wingerden

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Mixed Media

I (un)borrow images and recompose them. This concerns representations of concepts that are regularly discussed in our contemporary visual world, but through manipulation, context-alienation, an associative reference yield a new visual meaning. Since then (1995) I have made conceptual work with various subjects to address a critical note with regard to human functioning. In addition to the technical integration, it also gave me the inspiration to shape my intellectual objective. In this, applications of electronics, LED and neon light are also included as a possibility to achieve visual expression.

Artist Spotlight - Melissa Lohr

Artist Spotlight - Melissa Lohr

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Photography

My photography is a depiction of how I see the natural world and all the mystery it holds. Sometimes bright and colorful in its beauty or dark and ominous, but beautiful just the same. Although I do feel that I'm more drawn to what exists in the shadows. A dreamlike entity that resides at the fringes of perception, a mystical presence that dances between reality and imagination.

A Space Oddity: In Conversation with Artist Will Wilford

A Space Oddity: In Conversation with Artist Will Wilford

Frances Crossley
Contemporary Art, Interview

In Will Wilford’s ‘The 11th Hour’, the artist’s exploration of ‘human absence’ – a theme that remains a source of constant exploration –  is wholly realised. Long, tapered tree trunks eerily pierce the horizontality of the compositional space. Wilford beautifully renders the distinctive shapes and lines of a palm tree’s trunk in his subtle personification of their non-human form.

Artist Spotlight - Gary Aagaard

Artist Spotlight - Gary Aagaard

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

As a traditional, non-digital painter (just oil on canvas), I’ve been commissioned by many publications from The New York Times to The Village Voice. Since 2001, I’ve concentrated on gallery work with an editorial, satirical slant..... essentially larger oil paintings with conceptual content reminiscent of my illustration years. Lampooning politicians, pundits or spiritual leaders who specialize in alternative facts, manufactured outrage, false equivalents, convoluted conspiracy theories and tunnel-visioned tribalism (whew) is my form of protest and provides a satisfying outlet.

Artist Spotlight - Stefan Fransson

Artist Spotlight - Stefan Fransson

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Digital Art

Stefan Fransson, a contemporary artist from Sweden, is known for his innovative approach to artistic expression, skillfully combining digital collage, sculpture and organic forms. His works embody an intricate layering of abstract compositions, characterized by the interplay of soft tones and sharp contrasts, enhanced by transparency and depth. This unique blend results in visual structures that invite the viewer to explore themes such as space, memory and perception.

Susan N. McCollough

Susan N. McCollough

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Susan N. McCollough’s art matters because it insists on freedom. Freedom not as chaos, but as disciplined openness to the unknown. Each canvas begins as a site of possibility, and through her labor of love, her brushstrokes, her colors, her embrace of space, it becomes a site of revelation. She reminds us that art is not about depicting what already exists, but about bringing into being what has not yet been seen.

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.

Makotu Nakagawa

Makotu Nakagawa

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art

The subject of death is often of particular interest and intrigue for artists, and for Japanese photographer Makotu Nakagawa it is something he approaches with particular intimacy and clarity; depicting his late father and his body through numerous stages of life, death and the spaces in-between.

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.

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