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INTERVIEW | Chris Arnold

INTERVIEW | Chris Arnold

Chris Arnold is a Chicago-based contemporary artist and illustrator. Currently, his work is focused on environmental expressionism, with notable collections featuring animals, botanicals, and landscapes. He is inspired by the beauty of nature and champions its conservation. Influenced by the vivid aesthetics of comic art from his youth, his paintings embody bold colors and dynamic linework characteristics.

INTERVIEW | Wen Liu

INTERVIEW | Wen Liu

Wen Liu is a Chinese-born artist and interaction designer currently based in Beijing, China. With over a decade of experience in the United States and Europe, she brings a diverse cultural perspective to her practice. Wen's artistic journey revolves around exploring connections between individuals, nature, and environments, through sculpture, painting, and installation.

INTERVIEW | Madison Higginbotham

INTERVIEW | Madison Higginbotham

Madison Higginbotham, known as Mads, is a self-taught painter based out of Vancouver, Canada. She naturally gravitates towards portraiture and figurativism. She believes it’s the most captivating subject to paint. With its inherent mutuality, even the most mundane moments can be portrayed as powerful and beautiful. She looks at these moments as if time has slowed and the perfect soundtrack has been applied.

INTERVIEW | Jiaming You

INTERVIEW | Jiaming You

Jiaming You is a painter and installation artist based in Chicago. You utilizes found imagery and photos taken by themselves to construct scenes of bodies in non-existent scenarios as an attempt to critique the limiting nature of social norms in depicting individuality and uses their experience and positionality as a non-binary immigrant as a source of knowledge and site of exploration to the confines of social norms and the distribution of power.

INTERVIEW | Art Sokoloff

INTERVIEW | Art Sokoloff

Art Sokoloff is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, UK. His research and projects center around the creation of structure-based abstraction. His current work is being made around the influence of rules applied in the crafting of game-like experiences. Taking on both the role of the rule-setter and the participant, Art is involved in the process of making "situations" (strict conditions with clear rules) and their subsequent resolutions.

INTERVIEW | Wenxu Zhao

INTERVIEW | Wenxu Zhao

Wenxu Zhao is an illustration artist, born in China and currently living in New York. Her work focuses primarily on invention and fantasy. Her artwork and paintings are inspired by her daydreams, her discovery of beauty in life, her self-reflection, and her views on certain aspects of life. Her purpose is to express her emotions and thoughts while also bringing beauty and warmth to the rush and chaos of modern life.