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FEATURED ARTIST: TRAN TUAN

Art | May 24, 2023

Tran Tuan was born in Vietnam in 1961, he is a distinguished Vietnamese painter whose artworks have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. Inspired by Eastern spirituality, his abstract pieces appear at first to be wholly minimalist and contained. However, they contain striking intensity and vibrancy, primarily achieved through a vivid colour palette and layering techniques. In conclusion, the Art of Tran Tuan provides each viewer with a glimpse into his innermost thoughts. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: SO YOUN KIM

Art | May 22, 2023

So Youn enjoys practising abstract paintings in the style of what she calls postmodern contemporary abstract expressionism with an emphasis on intellect from her education and creativity from her talent. So Youn remembers her childhood when her mother took her to the Picasso special exhibition in Seoul, Korea Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: XIAODIE HUANG

Art | May 20, 2023

Featured Artist Xiaodie Huang Originally from China, Xiaodie Huang now resides and operates professionally in Los Angeles, making this vibrant city her home. As a child, she was afforded the chance to delve into numerous subjects, with music and art courses playing a pivotal role in her development. These early educational experiences ignited her passion for design and set her on her current path. Upon concluding her high school education in China Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: MALINA WIECZOREK

Art | May 17, 2023

Malina Wieczorek has been painting women for several decades. These acts can certainly be included in the so-called conceptual art. The figures of the women she creates are reflected as if in Venetian mirrors, unaware of the observation to which they have been exposed and, in a sense, condemned. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: JIM KESSLER

Art | May 9, 2023

Jim Kessler was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent his youth traveling with his family to multiple national parks and remote areas throughout the western United States. During this time, his parents, having serious interest in such photographic masters as Steichen, Stieglitz, Curtis, Adams Weston & Cunningham Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: YAN YAN

Art | April 28, 2023

Yan is an accomplished interdisciplinary designer whose work centres on critiquing and interpreting the social landscape through the creation of artefacts and narratives that incorporate critical thinking. Her works encourage viewers to reflect on their own experiences through a systematic and hypothetical lens. She earned her MFA in design from the California College of the Arts and is currently a Product Designer at Captiv8. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: MICHAEL MUTSCHLER

Art | April 25, 2023

Featured artist Michael Mutschler "I am an expressionist at heart. I am a child of post-war Germany where we lived in a septic surrounding, at home, at school, in public: Any kind of affection, dedication, or passion was suspicious. Expressionism and somehow surrealism have been the most important influences when I started at the art academy in Stuttgart late 1960s. The visual language of expressionism allowed me to express myself completely. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: AMBRETTA ROSSI

Art | April 23, 2023

Ambretta Rossi was born in Cremona but now she lives and works in Turin. She has always been interested in different kinds of artistic and artisanal creations; she mastered watercolor painting, which she feels is very suitable for her personality, but she also utilizes techniques of charcoal and chalk. She has attended Pinetta Gramola’s classes in the past. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: ULRICH PERRET

Art | April 21, 2023

Born on 01/21/1943, married with two daughters, graduate mathematician and PhD in philosophy (Adorno). Permanent professional activity as a mathematician and in IT. Some years before the onset of deafness some public concerts as a singer with art songs by Strauss, Wagner and romanticism and the honour to be accompanied by a conductor of Wiesbaden Opera. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: ANTOINE BECOTTE

Art | April 19, 2023

The artistic journey of Antoine has started during his studies in visual arts in Sherbrooke Quebec. His curiosity and his desire to make an impression pushed him to continue his studies in the world of graphic communication at Université Laval in Quebec city. Read more


JAMES LEE BYARS

Art | April 16, 2023

James Lee Byars (b. Detroit, Michigan, 1932 - d. Cairo, 1997) was one of the most renowned American artists from the 1960s, whose work combines motifs and symbols from eastern cultures, such as Nô theatre and Zen Buddhism, together with his profound knowledge of western art and philosophy. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: NIGEL MAJAKARI

Art | April 13, 2023

Nigel Majakari is a visual artist and founder of Ca’lyah, a design company based in Copenhagen and London. Ca ́lyah brings together award-wining designers with traditional artisans to enable inclusion and opportunity for craftspeople in underserved communities. Read more


GIAN MARIA TOSATTI

Art | April 10, 2023

The artistic practice of Italian artist Gian Maria Tosatti (b. Rome, 1980; lives and works in Naples) focuses on the concepts of collectivity and memory in their historical, political, and spiritual dimensions. Tosatti’s projects are the result of long and detailed research, and taking inspiration from the visual arts, performance and architecture, he creates sculptural works and large site-specific installations. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: SOUAD HADDAD

Art | April 7, 2023

Souad Haddad is a Lebanese Artist holding a Bachelor degree in Business Management from University Saint Joseph, Beirut and a Diploma in Event Management and Innovative Marketing from EMDI, Dubai certified by City & Guilds, London. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: REBECCA WILKINSON

Art | April 5, 2023

Bex Wilkinson’s formal art education began at The Art Institute of Chicago, continued at Pitzer College in California, and moved coasts to Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she received her BA. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: KATJA LÜRHS

Art | April 3, 2023

Katja Lührs is an artist born and actually based in Germany, she grew up in Munich. At the age of eighteen she was discovered as a model and worked for fashion magazines at home and abroad. As an actress she also appeared in various feature films. She received training as an author - keyword: vegan nutrition - and journalist, was a presenter on public television, and worked as an art and jewelry designer. She completed training as a speech and hypnosis therapist, and is also a medically certified yoga teacher. Read more


MODERN LOVE OR LOVE IN…

Art | April 2, 2023

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is the next major group exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Curated by artistic director Katerina Gregos, it launches the museum’s winter-spring exhibition cycle, which focuses on digital technology and its influence on intimate human relationships. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: GLORIA KEH

Art | March 16, 2023

Gloria Keh, an artist based in Singapore, is very passionate about raising funds for charities through her art. Drawing her inspiration from Mother Nature, literature and poetry, Gloria finds freedom, contentment and inner peace through her art. Painting is a spiritual practice for Gloria, who particularly enjoys art journaling and creating mandalas. She was born in the Chinese astrological year of the dragon, the year being 1952. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: JACQUELINE POITEVIN

Art | March 15, 2023

Jacqueline Poitevin was born in the Autumn of 1948, on a farm where there was a watermill, in the area of the "Châteaux de la Loire". She grew up in an environment of fields and meadows near a river called "Indrois". Read more


FEATURED ARTIST : LEONARDAS TURAS

Art | March 11, 2023

Leonardas Tūras is a Lithuanian artist born in 1982, his educational background is composed by experiences such as a Master of Visual Arts at the VDU Education Academy and a Bachalor Degree in Audiovisual Arts -obtained at the Music and Theather Academy of Lithuania; member of both Lithuaniana Artist Association and Eurasian Union of Artist since 2019, Leonardas’s artistic creation is a splendid expression of Contemporary Art Read more


Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of…

Art | March 7, 2023

"The Abakans were a kind of bridge between me and the outside world. I could surround myself with them; I could create an atmosphere in which I somehow felt safe because they were my world." Magdalena Abakanowicz Tate Modern offers a rare opportunity to explore an extraordinary body of work by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz known as Abakans. Made of organic materials such as horsehair, sisal and hemp rope, these complex three-dimensional forms broke new ground for art in the 1960s and 70s. Bringing together 26 of these radical works for the first time in the UK, the exhibition presents a forest of towering sculptures, enabling visitors to explore their ambiguous forms and earthy scents. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: ATOM HOVHANSESYAN

Art | March 3, 2023

Atom Hovhanesyan is born in Yerevan, Armenia and he was a New York-based artist working in oil and ink. Atom refined and continued developing the post-divisionist technique. His creations attempted to tell a story or a path that the eye would take through the painting. Read more


Featured Artist: Nhlonipho Mchunu

Art | March 2, 2023

Nhlonipho was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in the heart of the Zulu kingdom. From an early age, he demonstrated an innate artistic talent that drove him to explore the art of his cultural roots and to reimagine it for the modern world. Read more


FEATURED ARTIST: PERSIA BEHESHTI

Art | March 1, 2023

Persia Beheshti Is half-Persian and half-New Zealander, but she was born and raised in Dubai. She studied in London and then she moved to the US, where she gravitated towards filmmaking and working in film production. She started to develop her directing practice in New York, directing short-format films ranging from documentaries to music videos. Read more


Featured Artist: Graziano Ferrari

Art | February 22, 2023

Graziano Ferrari was born in Milan in 1958. His aptitude for drawing and painting is revealed early on, but many years will pass before it turns into a passion and becomes a profession. In fact, it was only at the time of his university studies that he made the decision to devote himself full time to painting. Supported by his family, who understood his need for him, he began the difficult path guided solely by the desire to find his own language that would allow him to bring out those contradictions that he was grasping and that he felt he had to clarify and denounce. Read more


Featured Artist: Julie Reby Waas

Art | February 13, 2023

I was born and raised in New Jersey and currently live in Miami, Florida with my husband. I have 3 adult sons.​ I have been drawing since I was a little girl. I would mindlessly draw on the margins of papers during class, during meetings, while on the phone or anytime I ​wanted to relax. Throughout most of my life, I never thought of myself as an artist. I thought of myself as someone who liked to draw, but never as an artist who liked to draw. Read more


Unsupervised – Refik Anadol

Art | February 12, 2023

The Museum of Modern Art announces a special project for the winter season, "Refik Anadol: Unsupervised". On view from November 19, 2022, through March 5, 2023, this major installation will feature three new digital artworks by Refik Anadol that use artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art from MoMA’s collection. Read more


Featured artist: Ryan Muchen Wang

Art | February 10, 2023

Ryan Muchen Wang is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. His film and video work often use a mixture of fiction, documentary and experimental genres to examine the place, displacement and the contradictory nature of memory. Read more