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.
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.
Eriko Kaniwa is an international award-winning photographic digital artist based in Tokyo and the creator of Sensegraphia fine art. Sensegraphia is a conceptual redefinition of photography, in which the visual aesthetics of the photograph are used to develop and express the sense of nature that enables us to recognize that humans are a part of nature. She creates digitally enhanced abstract artwork as well as fine art photography, based on her unique philosophy.
Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Pei Wu studied architecture and art before going to the UK to study jewelry at Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture, and Design. Having a background in architecture study, her way of working is relatively intuitive and intimate. Relative to the general perception of architecture design, her works are more organic and curved, also intentionally focused on feeling and emotional expression.
江峰 Jiang Feng performance works have been presented at various venues, including Itinerant Performance Art Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, "Thinking Its Presence" conference hosted by the University of Arizona, Exponential Festival, Dance Research Forum Ireland, HOT! Festival at Dixon Place, New Work Series at Tada! Theater, Gibney Dance, La MaMa Galleria, Waxworks at Triskelion Arts, BAAD!, Hudson Guild Theater, and Odyssey Dance Theater in Singapore.
Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. She assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles. Fascinated by the interaction of materials with different feels and auras, her sculptures can be described as experiments that try to investigate the internal energies of various matters and how they affect each other.
As a woman with four children, home birthed two of the four, and homeschooled all through high school, Karen Ghostlaw's creative output inspires others and provides a platform for creative and independent thinking. This daunting task came with more rewards than sacrifices, and Karen found that sacrifice leads to growth. She found herself again through her photography, looking at herself, a study that started twelve years ago and continues today.
Federico Alcaro is an architect and artist. He approaches the graphic representation of dystopias with an architectural connotation to critically represent some phenomena of modern society. The images are always quite critical and provocative in the form of dystopias with an architectural connotation full of symbols and icons. Federico Alcaro’s biggest influences and inspirations refer to names from both architecture and art world.
A descendant of Afghani transplants to the Netherlands, Pirzad quickly mastered the ability to occupy the contrasting worlds of life both in and out of his home. Much of his work is a reflection of the artist’s revelation of defining his own reality. Pirzad reflects on realizing societal and ancestral influences on his existence. Following an epiphany of these influences’ impact on his existence, Pirzad used his art to analyze and deconstruct the results of his previously prescribed reality.
Vian Borchert is an expressionist artist. V. Borchert considers all her artwork to be visual poems. For the artist nature is very essential and plays an important role in her life. Thus, V. Borchert is a nature lover - mother nature is her sanctuary and her ultimate solace. Borchert is an avid nature observer. Through contemplating upon nature, the artist reaches her inner peace and attains moments of zen.
Doug Winter is a fine art and editorial photographer focusing on social awareness working in both abstract and representational photography. He is best known for his large-scale abstract photographic images on dye-infused aluminum panels. "I'm a curious perfectionist," he has said. "The work is inspired by light and reflective colors in nature.
Born in Valladolid, Spain in 1958, currently develops his artistic activity between the cities of Córdoba and Denia. His work develops from dialogue as an inescapable formula for the common construction of possible realities. His art vision considers the subtlety of language and the synthesis of meanings as essential characteristics for an energetic and peaceful expression at the same time.
Anne Wölk, German artist currently lives and works in Berlin. She is a figurative painter whose artistic work stands in the tradition of realistic contemporary artists Vija Celmins and Russel Crotty. Committed to an attitude of reskilling, Wölk uses traditional methods and materials. Her paintings predominantly show us night sky scenes with deep and open galaxies. By quoting Spacetelescope images and digital photography resources, Anne Wölk tests the margins between art and reality.
