Sarah Buckius (b. 1979 Urbana, IL) is an artist and educator living in Northern California. Her recent creative work is situated at the cross-section of women, technology, and lens-based media. In her latest series, Hidden Mothers: Re-& Enactment of Emotional Labor, Buckius proposes that the emotional labor mothers perform actually reveals much about their identity – their ingenuity, inventiveness, commitment, and emotional labor and strength.
INTERVIEW | Claudia Aguilera
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but presently living and working in the heart of Fort Lauderdale, USA, Claudia creates visually compelling portraits through bursts of vibrant colors. Using alcohol-based inks as a medium, Claudia highlights her characters with striking backgrounds and vibrant colors reflecting the beauty and fluidity of the inks - crafting pieces almost impossible to ignore.
INTERVIEW | Samira Debbah
Samira Debbah is an artist, painter, and sculptor based in Morocco. Her work is an interpretation of everything she is and what she connects with the most in life, especially her sentimental side. She likes to create art that allows the spectator to create a debate between him and the work. She doesn't limit herself to just one style or concept. She likes to play with shapes and nuances to create a unique combination.
INTERVIEW | Victoria V
Born in Ukraine and based in Vienna, Austria, Victoria V has incorporated influences from Eastern European aesthetics and a Western approach in her art practice. Interested in ancient symbols and mythology, she combines an intuitive yet expressive manner with contemporary influences, planting Kandinsky’s and Itten’s theories on form and color impact.
INTERVIEW | Paulina Bilska
Paulina Bilska is a Polish artist, currently based in Italy. Her first experience as an artist started in 2020, during the pandemic when she felt the need to express her feelings through something. atural patterns, colors, lights, shadows, and flower bouquets are her main source of inspiration. They are the ideal combination of vibes where you can try to find your own.
INTERVIEW | Emily Saurack
Emily Saurack is an American artist and photographer, based in suburban Westchester county, New York. During the Covid pandemic, she joined a photography group and continued to share her vision with anyone interested in peeking through her lens. Emily's work has been displayed nationally and internationally.
INTERVIEW | Philippe Chevalier
Philippe Chevalier (whose artist name is Philoxerax) is a French digital artist. Combining his skills as a programmer and an artist, the materials for his new works are mathematical formulas and dimensionless geometric objects called fractals, which he assembles, superimposes, interweaves to obtain new compositions, images never seen before, which evoke those tiny and secret worlds.
INTERVIEW | Isamu Shimada
Isamu Shimada is a professional painter from Japan. For 45 years, he has worked as a professional oil painting abstract artist. He graduated from Musashino Art University Junior College and studied under Professor Makoto Terao at Keio University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and won numerous awards in France, Hungary, China, Austria and Spain.
INTERVIEW | Céline Sicard
Céline Sicard is a contemporary French artist. All her projects have in common the desire to surprise the visitor with unexpected visions that invite to a poetic or shifted journey. She borrows from various techniques to create contemporary masks as an intuitive artist. All her pieces have a ceramic base, but also incorporate basketry to create an interface between art and nature, between the useful and the useless.
INTERVIEW | Louise De Buck
Louise De Buck, based in Brussels, finds her inspiration in post-apocalyptic films from the 80s and 90s and in horror and mysterious movies soundtracks. This component is evident in De Buck’s works, which often depict female subjects mostly represented naked and with intriguing and mysterious looks.
INTERVIEW | Aggelina Tsoumani
Aggelina Tsoumani is a Greek artist, tattoo artist and graphic designer. Her latest project is about the relationship between the human body and colour patterns through printmaking. She started examining this relationship when she noticed the diversity of colours reflected via different printmaking techniques. Her interest focuses on the creation of printmaking ‘textiles’.
INTERVIEW | Marie Wuithier
Marie Wuithier is an autodidact artist born in Reims (France) in 1990. Inspired, curious, and sensitive, Marie likes to offer herself the freedom to imagine and create without codes but her feelings, taste, instinct, and careful balance. She likes to sprinkle glitter on life to reveal its true emotional richness between contrasts, sensitivity, and magnificence.
INTERVIEW | Shir Beck
Shir Beck is a painter and dancer, based in Eilat. Before approaching paintintig, she studied flamenco. Her works have been exhibited in Eilat, London and the USA. Her oil and acrylic paintings reflect the city of Eilat, the sun, desert and sea landscapes in its immediate surroundings. Her use of brushstrokes is reminiscent of the flamenco moves.
INTERVIEW | Brigit Kovax
Brigit is a Hungarian-born painter living and working in London, UK. Brigit forms universal themes to cover more than one answer to a question or aspect of a topic. She already visited the themes of the light within, human completeness, and more. Recently, the theme of the cycle of life and mortality became her interest to focus on her current series.
INTERVIEW | Ivan Suvanjieff
Ivan Suvanjieff is a multifaceted artist and painter. His most recent solo exhibition, "Quanta Dada", was created by the Monaco Arts Association in partnership with the City of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat and held on the French Riviera in June of 2021. He is also an activist, a musical and literary icon, an award-winning filmmaker, and he has been nominated 17 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
INTERVIEW | Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius
Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius is a high-end, South African artist who has been living in the Sultanate of Oman for the past ten years. She is a process artist. Sharmaine reates blueprint, mixed media drawings of her dreams. Then her work gets photographed, and she uses kaleidoscopic computer software to produce digital art copies of the original work.
INTERVIEW | David Fleshman
David Fleshman is an American artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a painter and digital designer, his artistic work has an important place in today’s art world by merging both traditional and digital artwork in one cohesive style. His work is inspired by Alan Fletcher, Herbert Bayer, Max Miedinger, Irina Furman, Paul Cezanne, and Wayne Thiebaud.
INTERVIEW | Moti Bazak
Moti Bazak makes use of recycled materials to create thought-provoking, often abstract images inspired by the existential aspects of modern life. Moti has started off with sculpture and wall art, currently embracing traditional photography and digital art. Moti grew up in Israel, where he first began developing his self-taught style. Since then, he has won several awards and had his work exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Israel.
INTERVIEW | Taline Balian
Taline Balian works primarily with portraits. Social media requirements are being represented in her practice by aesthetically attractive faces when seen from far. When closely looked at, these livid faces convey a disturbing feeling of loss of control and glitches, the cracks of the virtual world, and its illusion of perfection. Drained out, most of the Human Faces‘ expressions and facial muscles are fading away.
INTERVIEW | Felipe Farme D'Amoed
Felipe Farme D'Amoed was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in the US for the past ten years. In his sculpture, the artist uses plastic and rebar to torture the trunk blatantly. By suffocating the piece, impeding it to breathe and recover, he transfers agony to the offender. Asphyxiation kills all living beings. In each confronting medium, the artist elucidates our concern for the soul and place in the world.