Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Margaret Asatrian is an Armenian visual artist born in 1994. Margaret Asatrian's art is the reflection of her inner world and vision of life. Her pieces express her identity and help to communicate her feelings with the utmost freedom and sincerity. Throughout the creative process, the artist liberates herself from every spiritual restraint, putting on the canvas her innermost feelings and impressions received from the surrounding world.
Mano Liliya was born in 1989 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She has previously worked and lived in Kyiv, and now she is based in Switzerland. In her artistic expression, the artist delves into the intricacies of duality, probing the coexistence of beauty with peril and the innate dual nature within phenomena. For her, art is a quest for answers to timeless inquiries regarding the nature of beauty, power, and fragility.
Alexandra Efimova is a young French artist of Russian origin. She relies on symbols, the main one of which is the human body, as the main carrier and exponent of symbolic value. The torsos applied to translucent backgrounds emphasize the dual nature of the physical shell, which is at the same time endowed with fierce strength and fragility.
Tâmisa Trommer is an award-winning artist, known for her mixed media delicate botanical signature. Inspired by childhood memories that comforted her during moments of grief, she finds in autobiographical events the inspiration to create floral compositions and bucolic scenes with a dreamy atmosphere, transitioning between figuration and abstraction.
Yi Zhu is inspired by the totem and pottery culture of ancient China, along with the papercutting techniques in the Han Dynasty of China. He utilizes deconstruction and reconstruction to create a new relationship among colors, with the perception of expansion and contraction of life. The creation of emotion from Yi Zhu is to awake the sense of life, empathy and love.
Zhengyuan Gao, known by his artistic alias Cooper, is an emerging artist with a rich and diverse background. In his paintings, Cooper embarks on a quest to uncover the hidden poetic essence of the episodes he confronted. Through brushstrokes, colours, and shapes, he weaves a tapestry of different kinds of logic, a poetic logic, delicately interlacing the threads of his imagination.
Iona Hassanscott is a 21-year-old artist. She is of mixed Scottish and Egyptian heritage but was born in South Wales, where she currently lives, studying mechanical engineering full-time at university. Iona’s favorite medium is oil paint. Her work is expressive and thought-provoking - inspired by the natural world and the intricacies of human and societal behavior.
M.J. Hinson is a visual artist and professor. Her latest series, Impassioned Emotions, brings color and movement to our positive and negative feelings, allowing the viewer the freedom to have their own emotional response to each piece. Renowned for large-scale murals and acclaimed studio work, she has garnered prestigious honors.
Jemima Charrett-Dykes is an artist whose output is primarily autobiographical, drawing from experiences in childhood and the aftermaths of psychosis as a result of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Using art-making as a therapeutic outlet, Jemima's work often references her past and the traumas linked to her body both physically and mentally.
Roberto Valdez, aka Xango, has an incurable habit. It is to adorn any blank canvas as he sees fit. To beautify or mystify. He paints to express vision, to please and engage the senses. His affair with art began at an early age as a means to escape confined conditions that tethered others. The exploration with the power of the pencil sparked his endless imagination.
Stephen Von Mason strives to make art that creates a response and evokes a desperately needed challenge. His stylized work revolves around showcasing excellence and promoting cultural healing. His imagery has intense color and a sense of emergency indicative of what is needed for rebuilding a cultural lobotomy.
Svetlana Klaise (b. 1978) is a self-taught painter based in Latvia. She experiments with various styles, including abstraction, landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes, to capture her emotional impressions of beauty in the world. Much of Klaise’s work draws from personal memories and contemplations about childhood, family, and nature. She employs thoughtful composition and color contrasts to express meaning rather than pursue photorealism.
Pato Reichler is an Argentinian artist. Over the past six years, she has dedicated herself to painting her own interpretation of the classic stories (Little Red Riding Hood, Butterfly Lovers, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio, and Alicia, among others). Her goal is to get through them to the most childish part that we all have inside, and at the same time, mobilize the viewer with the psychological side of her works.
Working predominantly with oil painting, clay, and photography, artist and social justice advocate Anrike Piel (b. 1993), with womanhood in focus, contributes her perspective on the enduring impact of intergenerational trauma on individuals and society, the plight of refugees, and societal reflections. Her work aims to catalyse change, challenge perceptions, and advocate for a more empathetic world.
Nipun Manda is a multidisciplinary US artist of Indian descent. Art has always been an important part of his life. His paintings incorporate globalization with their own multi-ethnic heritage, believing that paintings convey his rich experience. For Nipun, Art is a universal language that enhances the awareness, as well as the understanding of other cultures.
Daniel Kanow is a distinguished visual and kinetic artist, currently residing and practicing in Telluride. Kanow seamlessly combines various media, including acrylics, oils, canvas, wood, plexiglass, and unconventional tools, to produce works that captivate the observer with their dynamic and contemplative essence.
Noelle Kalom grew up in the dynamic high desert of Taos, New Mexico, surrounded by a community of artists. Some of the ideas that inform her paintings come from early experiences at Taos Pueblo, where she witnessed and began a lifelong appreciation for the power of fire, mystery, ritual, and ceremony. Her abstract paintings embody the intensity and topography of the American Southwestern landscape.
Maitreyee Nimbolkar is a self-taught artist based in Pune, India. Maitreyee loves telling stories of her dreams, thoughts, and experiences through her works. Over eight years, her artistic practice has evolved to create a visual experience, which is very personal for her, it being a manifestation of my lifestyle choices. She works in a range of mediums such as oils, acrylics, watercolour, gouache, mixed media, etc.
Alisa Teletović, 1974, is a prominent and independent Bosnian Herzegovina and Australian artist. As an expressive and figurative artist, she is almost like a visual storyteller of her own life and all its complexities. Drawn to the expressive power of figurative art, believing that artistic creativity is a universal language, Alisa is capable of conveying bad and good emotions in her art.
