Painting

INTERVIEW | Qinying Cai

INTERVIEW | Qinying Cai

Qinying Cai was born in China and specializes in emotionally evocative oil paintings. Her artistic journey, rooted in childhood as a refuge from dyslexia, has evolved into a captivating exploration of classical artistry. As a talented storyteller, Qinying Cai invites viewers to connect and feel the common threads of our shared human experience, as well as reminds us of the fleeting nature of emotions and life experiences.

INTERVIEW | Misha Waks

INTERVIEW | Misha Waks

Misha Waks refers to themes related to ecology, women's rights, and minorities. He is inspired by current events, news, and images from the internet, press, and television. He explores topics related to the concepts of post-nature and the Anthropocene. He uses various means of expression; among the most important are painting, sculpture, installations, performance, and video.

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 | Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung

INTERVIEW | Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung

Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung is a Hong Kong-born interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago. In her latest taxidermy painting series, Cherry endeavors to bridge Eastern and Western culture by blending the concept of European Vanitas paintings with Gongbi painting, a traditional ink painting skill that she learnt in Hong Kong. This body of work discusses the power dynamics between human beings and nature. 

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

Jackie Jiang is a Chinese Designer and Multi-Media Artist whose work often features a unique blend of traditional paper-making techniques and contemporary ink and acrylic artistry. Through her evocative works, she masterfully merges Eastern artistic traditions with Western influences, forging a path that celebrates cultural heritage while embracing the spirit of innovation.

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 | Kameron Walker

INTERVIEW | Kameron Walker

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.

INTERVIEW | Tony J. Smith

INTERVIEW | Tony J. Smith

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.

INTERVIEW | Germán Muñoz

INTERVIEW | Germán Muñoz

Amidst the vibrant landscapes of Querétaro, Mexico, Germán Muñoz is a painter and product designer whose narrative transcends borders and disciplines. Germán Muñoz invites the world to traverse the multi-dimensional landscapes of his creativity, a journey marked by the interplay of engineering precision, artistic expression, and the enduring bonds forged in the crucible of shared artistic endeavors.

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yang

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yang

Xinyi Yang is a young potential artist and interdisciplinary designer. Her paintings, which combine ancient East Asian poetry beauty with the reflection of contemporary philosophy, primarily feature oil and watercolour, exuding vitality as they continually explore light within darkness, specifically reflected in the relationship between people and the environment.

INTERVIEW | Hadeel Alzoubi

INTERVIEW | Hadeel Alzoubi

Hadeel AlZoubi is a contemporary artist based in Toronto. Her artistic journey is a constant exploration of mediums and techniques. She thrives on pushing the boundaries of artistic expression by incorporating a diverse array of materials. Ultimately, Hadeel's art is an invitation to transcend the chaos of modern life and find solace in the simplicity of her creations.

INTERVIEW | Delphine Cuelenaere

INTERVIEW | Delphine Cuelenaere

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.

INTERVIEW | Michail Parlamas

INTERVIEW | Michail Parlamas

Michail Parlamas is a Greek painter, based in Athens. He studied in London at Central Martins College of Art before returning to Greece. Michail’s portraits are trapped between the physical and the digital world. He obsessively devotes himself to depictions of asymmetrical patterns with the aim of exposing and eventually familiarizing the public with diversity and non-conventional beauty.

INTERVIEW | Raine Storey

INTERVIEW | Raine Storey

Raine Storey is a Canadian visual artist based in London, England. Storey’s work combines her Fine Art and Art History degree with her ‘higher education’ at the ‘school of hard knocks’. It is the latter that led her examination into why she creates. Storey aims to contribute to the renewed identity of raw materials. The artwork recycles and preserves historic waste, including London’s House of Parliament restoration, to place back on the walls.

INTERVIEW | Via Li

INTERVIEW | Via Li

Via Li, a painter based in Cupertino, CA, is passionately dedicated to capturing the intricate emotions of women and addressing the daily challenges and injustices they grapple with. The artist employs women as conduits for exploring emotions as a tangible form of energy. Via's paintings possess a dual nature—simultaneously tenderly beautiful and poignantly compelling.

INTERVIEW | Ryan Tesluk

INTERVIEW | Ryan Tesluk

Ryan Tesluk is an Oakland and LA-based interdisciplinary artist and storyteller. Ryan Tesluk's art provides viewers with honest, unadulterated content that triggers a plethora of emotions. While many individuals may be uncomfortable with what they see, the fact that some may feel such discomfort when looking at his paintings means Tesluk is doing something right.

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

INTERVIEW | Jessalyn Finch

Jessalyn Finch has been a visual artist since 2009. Post-pandemic, Finch continued to focus on the conceptual work of body perception and voyeurism. Her body of work combines large-scale drawing and sculpture to investigate our experiences and perceptions of the human body. Her current work explores body dysmorphia, identity, and sense of self. The themes are meant to be a catalyst for discussion and connection through shared experience.

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.