Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.
Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.
Delphine Cuelenaere is driven by curiosity in both subject and method. The technique of woodcarving gives her the opportunity to be surprised by the material. Open-minded departures from the unknown and a radical openness to not knowing what will come are the essence of her artistic process. Slowly and unpredictably, scenes emerge in which voyeur and protagonist, spectator and artist, intertwine.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving image and installation artist, currently based in Baltimore (USA). work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, Pan’s work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population through sculptures and videos, appropriating everyday life scenes based on her semi-fictional writings.
Kameron Walker encapsulates figurative portraits that convey feelings and demonstrate true expressionism through self-identity of black culture and awareness. His ability to narrate his work primarily pinpoints that of a storyteller, best describing his work as refined, critical, and explosive in which he tends to focus on creating unique concepts ingeniously that enable his work to express his emotions courageously.
Tony J. Smith is a long-time Graphics Arts professional and self-trained artist. His paintings explore the human and ordinary side of life. He evokes a variety of emotions with each piece, allowing the observer to feel a new sense of connection. A perpetual student of life, Tony now works full-time on his art and artist opportunities.
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.
Varvara Sosedova is a Russian artist, based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Varia Stern’s practice is the result of an interdisciplinary exploration of historical and contemporary phenomena. Using ancient oriental philosophical practices, she explores the human connection to the world, exposing historical and cultural parallels in history. She uses the techniques of symbolism and creates the interpenetration of different cultures by mashing them up.
Art took hold of Ofer Shomron at the advanced age of 60. Recurring dreams about colors flowing around him convinced Ofer to embark on a new path. He is an avid colorist. He loves color and exploring color and likes to place strong, expressive colors side by side. His curiosity about the world is the motivation and energy for his artistic quest. He mostly paints in oil and occasionally uses a mixed technique.
Maria Petroff is a self-taught figurative artist living between two countries: Russia and Canada. Maria defines her artistic style as critical realism. She likes to paint people who marked our history, whether they are politicians, scientists, artists, philosophers, or fictional characters. The artist gets inspired by today’s world events, trying to thoroughly study the other non-official side of the story.
Pepe Hidalgo’s style is figurative and abstract narrative. His figurative is not related to realism, and it is created from his imagination. Art has allowed him to “free himself” and express himself without prejudice and to dare to do what he feels without expectations. In his work, he mixes his knowledge of astrology, mythology, history, life, and experiences.
Yihan Wang is an illustration student at the School of Visual Arts, focusing on children’s books and book illustrations.
Yihan mainly discusses psychological problems in our society and uses wild animals and insects as symbols to concrete human mood. In his series of watercolor, he uses animals and kids to analyze the psychological burdens of kids in today’s society.
David Moješčík, aka MojDa, belongs to the middle generation of Czech sculptors. In his work, he deals with figurative sculpture. He uses all the advantages of sculpture in terms of material, allowing him to vary his sculptures in many positions, poses, and postures. He uses his own approach and handwriting in these subjects, but he often likes to work with hidden symbols or a greater or lesser degree of irony and exaggeration.
Liza Odinokikh is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Saint Petersburg. She works in various media, including painting, graphics, and objects. Liza addresses the themes of personal identity and introspection. Through the practice of emotionally figurative therapy, dreams, automatic writing, and other techniques of working with the unconscious, the artist finds evidence of the possibility of influencing and controlling her consciousness.
Allan Linder is a prolific, award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience producing a wide range of artwork using multiple mediums and subject matter. He fabricates paintings, drawings, digital artwork, mixed media artworks, and sculptures, using a variety of materials and substrates. His recent work Cityscapes are a collection of hand-painted artworks scanned at high resolution and digitally painted.
Farras Abdelnour’s fine art explores the serenity of sparsity and the absence of clutter, be it visual, acoustic, or mental. By and large, his work is influenced by his mathematical background. He uses photography as a contemplative medium. In his quest for emptiness, he composes abstract, sparse images that evoke a subdued mood, a sense of nostalgia.
Ramon Omolaja Adeyemi is a Nigerian artist, based in Manchester, UK. He works with oil on canvas by exploring several issues that are dear to him. He does portraits, landscapes, still life, and figures. His inspirations are from scenes witnessed around him. With eyes on a great deal of fine detail or complexity, his style is fit to convey the most intricate scene to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
Rafael Triana is a multidisciplinary artist. He was born in Cuba, but currently works and lives in Paris. His latest series, PARALLEL, is a series of digital illustrations that respond to current human relations issues. This series addresses the difference, opposites, and social inequalities and seeks a link to connect to contemporary times. He sees his art as a defense mechanism against reality to combat the circumstances of life.
Oleg Tsyba is a Russian artist and doctor. He started creating his artworks four years ago, and since then, painting has become his main passion. In his artworks, Oleg explores the form in its primary manifestation. Most often, the subject of his work is ancient mythology. These themes are always relevant to Humanity - they tell us about love, sex, passion, and death. And they inspire Oleg to create.
Jim Green is an American artist, working primarily with digital art. He treats the computer mouse as a paint brush and pencil and the computer screen as a blank canvas to create virtual paintings that brings into question the value of traditional painting versus digital mark-making, particularly at a time when so much art is being produced using technological and printing processes.
Jonathan Frübis, who goes under the name of SKETJET, is an illustrator and designer based in Mannheim/Germany. He creates interior art, murals and individual office design pieces for numerous corporate clients. Apart from that, he spends his remaining time painting classical contemporary art paintings, with motives that show private moments from his life and people that are close to him.
Datis Golmakani is an Iranian painter and cartoonist, born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1985, and currently based in Wiesbaden, Germany. As an artist, time and place have never affected him, and what's considered important is the commitment to create form and uncertainty in principles. He's looking for moderation and jumping from romanticism to better understand the depth of content.
Olivier Larivière believes art is not just embellishment or the representation of outward appearances but rather is an essential act that reveals the inward significance of things. He sees his work as a window to the life-giving mystery of who and why, and what we are. His work depicts the epiphanies and wanderings of fallen heroes, magnificent losers, ordinary misfits, pulling the narrative thread of incongruous or absurd situations until it breaks.
