A Like Artist Vol.2

INTERVIEW | Aishwarya Krishnan

INTERVIEW | Aishwarya Krishnan

Aishwarya Krishnan is a Bangalore-based painter and illustrator with roots in Kerala. Her works primarily revolve around scenes from her time growing up in India, often paying homage to her cultural heritage and family history. Most painted scenes are from nod to the artist’s family background as well. Coming from a long lineage of painters, including Raja Ravi Varma, she intends to bring an impressionist take to Indian scenes.

INTERVIEW | Faith Sycaoyao

INTERVIEW | Faith Sycaoyao

Faith Sycaoyao is an artist who gleams as a prodigy and resonates with her 19 years of vivid existence in the realm of fine art. Born in the Philippines in 2004 to a Filipino-Chinese heritage, her self-taught expertise encompasses 40+ art forms/techniques, making her an unprecedented young figure in the contemporary art landscape.

INTERVIEW | Melissa Allegories

INTERVIEW | Melissa Allegories

Melissa Allegories was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, with ancestry in the Dominican Republic. Melissa's artwork is a mixture of creative writing with allegorical representations. Her artistic style has been subconsciously influenced by and developed out of boundless ideas drawn forth from American culture, universal themes, and an openness to foreign ideology.

INTERVIEW | Natalia Pechenkina

INTERVIEW | Natalia Pechenkina

Natalia Pechenkina is an interior painting artist from Russia. She employs a diverse range of contemporary techniques in her work, such as bar-relief, sculptural and volumetric painting, mirrors, FluidArt, and epoxy resin. Natalia's art draws heavily from the natural shades of her region, with the foundational colors mirroring the scenic landscapes of Siberia.

INTERVIEW | Lavia (Yanzi) Lin

INTERVIEW | Lavia (Yanzi) Lin

Lavia (Yanzi) Lin (b.1995) is a Berlin-based abstract artist and live painting performer from Shanghai, China. Lavia’s art invites the viewers to enter an imaginary dream-like world with visual sounds and harmonious colours. She takes strong conceptual references from music and sounds to create expressive abstract soundscapes. Her works are often inspired by and moved by the imagined organic shapes and shifting sounds of jazz.

INTERVIEW | Pavel Shynkarenko

INTERVIEW | Pavel Shynkarenko

Pavel Shynkarenko is a forward-thinking, meta-modernistic artist and entrepreneur who explores the fascinating intersection of technology and human creativity. By delving into meta-modernist ideas, oscillating between opposites like irony and sincerity and subjectivity and objectivity, Shynkarenko's work transcends traditional artistic boundaries. In making new art, Pavel also experiments with AI language models.

INTERVIEW | Carmen Aztibia

INTERVIEW | Carmen Aztibia

Carmen Aztibia is an Argentinian artist, based in Buenos Aires. As an active walker, she observes her surroundings, aware of the vitality that each city has today, from which she takes references. The landscape is also a strong trigger in her poetics. Tightening the boundaries between the self-referential and the collective, her work seeks to reflect on being in society, on exchange as human beings, and on how we collectively inhabit geography.

INTERVIEW | Sofiya Bokareva

INTERVIEW | Sofiya Bokareva

Sofiya Bokareva is a young talented multidisciplinary artist who positions herself as an artist integrated into several different directions - sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, and design. Sofiya combines her creative work with curatorial activities in the field of art, holding the position of Associate Director and official representative at Art-Prime Gallery.

INTERVIEW | Paulette Gutierrez

INTERVIEW | Paulette Gutierrez

Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.

INTERVIEW | Alberto Ballocca

INTERVIEW | Alberto Ballocca

Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993 - Turin, Northern Italy) is a contemporary artist whose background is linked to sensitive factors. Alberto works with acrylics, self-made natural pigments, sprays, oil pastels, oil, and more unconventional mediums and supports, both in painting, sculptures, drawing, and private or public wall paintings, continually seeking a bridge between the abstract and the figurative approaches.

INTERVIEW | Silke Wolff

INTERVIEW | Silke Wolff

The pop-art fine artist Silke Wolff opens a secret, supernatural universe with her metaphysical graphics.Through her widened consciousness, which she has been developing for 20 years of daily meditative practice, she is able to perceive this sphere of existence. Such unique situations she catches with oil pastel drawings in sketchbooks. From these ideas, her series arise, which she creates as digital collages and complete with texts.

INTERVIEW | Ja

INTERVIEW | Ja

Ja is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles whose work portrays raw emotion and contemplation through the human form. Inspired by the connection between emotions and body movement, her work captures the complexity of the human experience. Through the use of abstract figurative compositions, Ja's use of the body as a communicative vessel enables viewers to gain insight into her inner world.

INTERVIEW | Marika Mihalache

INTERVIEW | Marika Mihalache

Marika is a visual artist based in Barcelona with a diverse background in design, illustration, and painting, giving her a holistic vision of the creative practice. In her work, she is interested in the never-ending journey of unlearning, erasing, and rewriting what one would define as identity. Her pictures invite viewers to dive into their innate curiosity and sense of wonder while encouraging exploration and (self) reflection.

INTERVIEW | Lola Yiting Zhang

INTERVIEW | Lola Yiting Zhang

Lola Yiting Zhang is a concept artist specializing in the entertainment industry. Her unique perspective and sensibility empower her to extract design inspiration from the most unexpected sources. She's always on the hunt for the bizarre and often overlooked elements in nature. Lola's design aesthetics are deeply rooted in her fascination with exploring the untamed beauty of unconventional forms.

INTERVIEW | Alex Bonsanthy

INTERVIEW | Alex Bonsanthy

Alex Bonsanthy is a self-made artist. But he considers himself to be a late disciple of Van Gogh and an unofficial bastard of Picasso. He likes the impression of colors and forms in either realistic or abstract paintings. His artworks should transmit magic and creative energy using expressive colors and forms. He is a fan of Free Art and uses Geometry as a method to abstract the forms and lines of reality.

INTERVIEW | Roberto Sabatini

INTERVIEW | Roberto Sabatini

Born in Italy, Roberto Sabatini was raised in a family of photographers. While he was influenced by their choices, it wasn't until recently that Roberto adopted photography as a visual art. He is not only interested in showing beauty but also in evoking concepts and emotions. His works range from representational to abstract within this realm. In his recent works, he is focusing on reinterpreting famous artworks and exploring motion blur.

INTERVIEW | Niko Pazzaglia

INTERVIEW | Niko Pazzaglia

Niko Pazzaglia, Ph.D., is a London-based researcher, educator, and artist specializing in Photography, Performance Studies, and Gender. Niko's art practice draws on fashion, pop culture, literature, philosophy, and contemporary art to investigate issues that range from media representation, consumerism, and the beauty system to practices of subjectification and exploitation of bodies, especially in the context of gender.

INTERVIEW | Juan Sebastian Diaz

INTERVIEW | Juan Sebastian Diaz

Juan Sebastian Diaz is a Colombian artist, based in Bogotá. His work takes viewers on a virtual journey through time, technologies, and occult forces, raising questions about contemporary relationships with the image. His body serves as the medium and he engages in a dialogue between performance and media arts, with a focus on constructing critical readings of image production and reproduction in contemporary contexts.

INTERVIEW | HXNNXBLE

INTERVIEW | HXNNXBLE

Traversing the world, studying long-lost civilizations, team HXNNXBLE found multimedia art as the perfect conduit to present ancient wisdom in a futuristic format. After producing and teaching in Hong Kong for six years (2016-2021), HXNNXBLE currently lives and works nomadically, promoting HXNNXBLE and Aetherealism as their contribution to the world.

INTERVIEW | Marius Morkūnas

INTERVIEW | Marius Morkūnas

Marius Morkūnas, a creator of the young generation, was born in 1976 Lithuania. His works exude minimalism, single strokes, and stylized lines intertwined into a whole. In his work, the artist likes to paint the ships and seaside, where he himself comes from, to convey the fragility of the sea reeds and the breath of the wind. The majority of the artist's works have water motives, space, and undulations.