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Andrew Binder

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I'm an artist currently residing in New York City. My work could be described as a form of Dark Symbolistic Expressionism. It is inspired by many things including: history (antiquity in particular), mythology, humanism, atheism, spirituality, the occult, paganism, fetishism, existential thought and fascination with the darker impulses of human nature. It begins with a mostly photographic base and then is manipulated, distorted or rearranged and sometimes combined with drawing, painting or other methods and then filtered by digital means, to create an art that expresses what is within rather than without. http://www.andrewbinder.com

Torsten Gripp

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Fine Art Portraiture and Nudes in a very painterly, often surrealistic style combining photography, painting and digital imaging. Torsten Gripp, listed in Adobe´s Photographers Directory, now does portraits using modern digital photography, along with his paintings in both Ateliers in Wesseling and Cologne. A view of his work at: www.atelier-gripp.de

Jacob Goldberg

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See my work at www.jacobjgoldberg.com

Jacqueline Lorenzo

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Rein Nomm

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I am an artist and visual explorer who uses the camera to capture new and often experimental visual ideas. My work has evolved from recording the beauty and variety of the external world as it presented itself to creating my own photographic subjects, as evidenced in my recent “Folds in Space” and “Fluid Moments” series. My work embodies the stylistic undercurrents of Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada, Conceptual Art and Minimalism; as well as reflecting my Northern European roots and the influences of a formal graduate education in art history and philosophy. My photographs have been displayed or published by a variety of organizations including: the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the BBC Collective Gallery; Boletin del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico (PH 60) in Seville, Spain; Green Hills Literary Lantern, Detroit Free Press, File Magazine, Flak Photo, the permanent collection of the Meteor Photo Gallery, and the Agitatto Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, which also represents my work throughout Europe. I have been honing my photographic skills and aesthetic sense for over 35 years. I have worked as a professional photographer, off and on, for the past 18 years, undertaking assignments as diverse as architectural photography, executive portraits, special events and product packaging. I also have taught art history, philosophy and logic at various colleges and universities in Michigan and was chairman of the Humanities department at Duns Scotus College in the 1970s. I have two Masters degrees, one in Humanities and the other in Philosophy from Wayne State University. I was born in a displaced persons (DP) camp in Augsburg, Germany of Estonian parents, and I immigrated to the United States in 1950. I grew up in Detroit and currently live in Plymouth, Michigan with my wife.

barbara vasic

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Zul Albani

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Born in Selangor, Malaysia (1965).

Kim Shelton

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Victor Mavedzenge

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Born in 1974 in Zimbabwe

Nicola Cooper

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For over 25 years, I have worked with handmade paper to create abstract and representational "paperscapes" using the Japanese Torn PaperCollage technique known as Chigiri-e. My work has been sold to private collectors in Canada; Japan; and the UK. I have offered workshops through schools and community education programs and on an individual basis in Canada and the UK. I am currently exploring the use of Acrylic Monotype with my handmade paper and plan to further my understanding and use of the language of art through self-directed study.

Andy Frenkiel

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Kelly Biggs

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Hello, I'm 28 years of age and live in the New Forest, England. I first got into encaustic art a few years back and since then have improved my technique and gained more interest in working with wax and other medium. My website shows my gallery which includes a lot of my past work, new work and works in progress.

Mona Lisa A.

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Mona Lisa Aspiras, from the Philippines, was born and raised in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of a retired economist of the FAO/UN and artist-painter. Mona Lisa holds a B.A. in Interdivisional Studies/Psychology from Virginia Wesleyan College, a diploma in Computer Programming from ECPI, and an Associate degree in IT/Internet Specialist from Tidewater Community College. While in Rome, Mona Lisa was introduced to art and studied basic elements such as color theory, perspective, line, form and design while also exploring etching and silkscreening under the guidance of her high school art teacher, Mr. Dennis Cigler, an American painter. She then furthered her studies by taking a certificate course in Figure Studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) di Roma under the tutelage of Professors Avanessian, Ballestrelli, and Berdini. Later in Virginia, she took several art classes such as Visual Arts Foundation, Drawing I and II, Three-Dimensional Design, and Computer Graphics I and II at Tidewater Community College and Virginia Wesleyan College. In Rome, Mona Lisa has exhibited with her mother at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Philippine Embassy to the Holy See (Vatican), and the Spanish Cultural Center. In Virginia (Norfolk and Virginia Beach), she has exhibited in occasion of events such as the Philippine Centennial and Philippine Independence Day at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Harrison Opera House, MacArthur Museum, Filipino-American Student Cultural Center of Old Dominion University, and the Huff, Poole, and Mahoney Lawyers Building. Mona Lisa was a member of the Chesapeake Bay Art Association, Tidewater Artist Alliance, and Chesapeake Bay Watercolorist Society. In the spring of 2004, she has participated in the juried exhibition "Spring Fling" at Studio 107 in Norfolk, VA, the Spring Members' Show at TCC's Roper Fine Arts Center also in Norfolk, and the TAA Members' Show at the Barry Robinson Fine Arts Center at Virginia Beach. She paints in acrylic, tempera, watercolor, pastels, and would like to experiment more with oils when time permits.

nicolas sauliere

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I was born in Sarlat ( France ) , in the Dordogne region in 1967. Very early in my life, I sensed that the historical heritage and memory born by this so peculiar land had a special ringing in me. I reckon this is where my going into art finds its roots, as well as this organic relationship to life I invest through the use of oil painting and pigments.

Cristina Longo

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Primary I work with painting and sculpture. Born and raised in Spain, I graduated from Arts and Crafts School at Salamanca, Spain. Soon after I moved to Stockholm, Sweden, there I attend the Royal College of Fine Arts and the College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre. Up to date I have had my most important exhibitions in Stockholm, but also shown works in Madrid, Montreal, Chicago and New York.

Annunziata Fiumi-Loosli

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Annunziata Fiumi, born 1946 in Passignano at the Lake Trasimeno by Perugia in Italy, was shaped by the beauty of her home-lake and the nature very early. One in her proximity managing, today famous artists, whom she observed with the mark often and alertly, just as miscellaneous art-courses have motivated her to it, itself, to develop her own, very lifelike style in the landscape - and nature-art. Her family moved in Switzerland as she was a young girl. In her leisure time, she devoted herself to the art and the further education as well as the study the old Italian masters and the modern art. Already with 22 years, her landscapes excited the interest of the present public at a showing of Italian artists living in the foreign countries. 1971, Annunziata married a Swiss and accompanied her husband for several years to Algeria. These years have influenced her artistic sensitivity strongly. After different residences, the couple established itself 1980 near Thun in Switzerland. finally Annunziata could develop in this beautiful surroundings with her art itself in stillness. So, various works were created in the divers techniques as watercolour, tempera, gouache and oil. In Italy, she displayed her pictures of landscape and flowers several times and achieved emotion and acknowledgement in her birth-country. 1984, she also displayed in home-mountain and Ãœtendorf in the canton Bern. 1990, she became together with other known artists, under it representatives of the movements born in Italy "Ipermanierismo " and " Pittura Colta ", Arduini, Baragli, Civerchia, Castelli, Fumagalli etc, as selected representative of the current Italian representational art to show some of her works in a exhibition over contemporary art from Italy in Burgwedel at Hanover. In the spring 1991, also the french speaking swiss people could enjoy themselves on the occasion of a showing near Lausanne at her flowerspictures, Landscapes and for the first time abstract art. Her works were subsequent to see in a bank in Bern for some months. In December 1991, Annunziata Fiumi took part in a community-showing in the gallery Kyburg in Thun. The press of her " winter-picture " was impressed there.

vanessa garcia

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For more info see: www.vanessagarcia.org and www.thekrane.com Vanessa Garcia is a writer and visual artist working in various mediums. She writes for The Miami Herald, is a playwright and is currently working on a book of short stories and a new series of paintings, among other projects. Garcia, an “American-born Cuban,” is currently living in her native Miami, after seven years of living and working in New York City. Her writing traverses the thematic scope of exile and Diaspora, as well music, art, urban development and the growth of the American city. Similarly, her paintings, which meet somewhere between abstraction and figuration, are also about the place where past and present meet. Like the cities she has lived, worked, and traveled through, her visual art is both nostalgic and innovative. From portraits of Celia Cruz to paintings of mythical winged creatures and harlequins; from self portraits to photographs and mixed-media collage - the work exudes memory and desire, present and past, translating all of those layers into a visual language.

paul mercier

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Rachel Morris

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I became a photographer by accident; I was trying to be a writer at the time, and image capture was pleasurable procrastination. I learn new things every day, and sometimes have to relearn the next, but one thing I know for sure is this: a piece is not 'ready' until it has its own inner vitality somehow. The music for Paintography is 'La Femme D'Argent' by Air. The music in Lomoland is Talvin Singh's 'Light-Disser'. Read the Haikurnals while listening to 'Pharaohs' by Tears For Fears (with added BBC Radio 4 goodness). FilteredInk is accompanied by 'Promenade Sentimentale' from Vladimir Cosma's soundtrack for 'Diva'. The music with Venezia is 'Adagio' by Eleni Karaindrou. A writer, photographer, artist and teacher, I am widely published in the law and policy field (both articles and books), and have three degrees including a PhD in Law. Between 1998 and 2003 I co-founded, edited and contributed to the magazine 'Traveller's Times'. My first book, 'Gaining Ground: Law Reform for Gypsies and Travellers', was launched at the House of Lords in May 1999. I now live in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I work with EarthRights International. My picture of Carhenge, Nebraska won The Guardian's 'Send Us A Snap' competition in March 2004. Six of my photographs were chosen to appear in InsideOut magazine's 'Faces of the World' slideshow in March 2005. Two of my photos appear in the booklet accompanying every LSI Fisheye camera sold throughout the world. I was the 2005 AbleStable Award winner, with my 'paintograph' entitled 'Beaten'. My writing and photography have been published in, among other places, the Journal of Law and Society, The Guardian, Legal Action, ChildRight, Education Law Update, Tolley's Communications Law, AN Magazine, InsideOut, Contours, and the book 'Korea Up Close'.

Dylan Farrell

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Jeremy Deveraturda

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Freelance Illustrator, 9-5 @ a major publishing company as a Retoucher

Victor Agius

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Victor Agius, b. 1982, holds a Degree in Art from the University of Malta. He resides and works in Gozo, Malta. His work includes both sculpture and painting, and is keener on ceramic sculptures, abstracted landscapes and abstracts paintings. His personal exhibitions have recently been held in Baveno, Italy, in Florence, Italy and locally at the b’art Art Gallery in Sliema, Malta. Apart from his solo exhibitions, the artist has a number of art pieces forming part of prestigious permanent museums around the world. Amongst others a ceramic panel is permanently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Domenican Republic and another of his art works is found at the Musee de Civilasations de l’Europe e de la Mediterranee in Marseilles, France. He also took part in international group shows which include one held in July 2007 at the Centre Culturel Christiane Peugeot, Paris, in France. He has also won international awards, the most recent being ‘Il Giglio di Firenze’ which was awarded to him for his fervent artistic vision, despite his young age. His works were also acquired for the Office of the Prime Minister in Malta, the Italian Embassy in Malta and form part of numerous private art collections worldwide. Victor Agius is known for his use of colour and sturdy brush applications, which make both his sculptures and paintings immediately identifiable. His paintings have been said to ‘literally bristle with colour and give a sense for luminosity’. Art critics have referred to Victor Agius as ‘young and enterprising’, ‘talented and intrepid artist who is fired by an inner urge and the necessary enthusiasm to make a success story out of his works’, ‘though at the initial stages of his career, shows a good aptitude for painting and has a confident application of the brush’ and also as ‘one of the best prospects of emerging talents from Malta who at his young age has already made inroads into foreign institutions.’ Victor Agius exploits his work as a medium to incite a transmission of energy through which he seeks to compel the audience by his process of experimentation and self-discovery.

Guido CORAZZIARI

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Pavlos Mayakais

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Born 1958 in Upstate New York, Pavlos is a mixed-media artist who has merged his love of handwoven shibori with encaustic painting to create contemporary abstractions. His work is "ready to hang" on cradled artboard. He teaches workshops at International Conferences & Craft Centers: Dyeing with Shaving Cream, Cross-training for Textile Artists, and Extreme Makeovers for hand-weavers. Early summer 2008, he will be moving to the NYC beach front community of Arverne by the Sea.

Jonelle (Perritt) Pendle

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I grew up in southeast Michigan, known as the "thumb", and loved making art as far back as I can remember. I studied fine art and art history in college, earning myself a BFA in 2007. During my years at university I worked in the art studio's main gallery and slide library and was also president of the Visual Artists Society student group. In May 2009, I moved to Canada to live with my husband and am currently attempting to take the Ontario art world by storm.

Richard Horton

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tom dailey

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My development as an artist has taken many turns through out my life, from almost non existent to prolific; my connection with color, line and texture has been there. At age 40 I began a serious quest to find my artistic "voice". I read and I studied and I owe many thanks to many guides. I have now arrived at a place where I must join in with the choir and raise my own voice in celebration of ART. My most recent works have been in the genre of "color fields and abstraction". The work is influenced by Rothko, Frankenthaller, O'Keefe and others. I bring into my own; details of color, line and texture. I join the music with a underlying rhythm that whispers of an understanding of the spirit from an ancient past.

Robb Siverson

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Robb Siverson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in the winter of 1977 and it was in college where he discovered the medium of photography. Starting out with an inexpensive 35mm outfit, Robb has grown into using strictly large and medium format cameras. A wide variety of imagery and subject matter makes up a vast array of his imagery, yet he still prefers black and white silver halide processes over digital imagery. He processes and hand prints all of his photographs in his darkroom studio. Robb currently lives in Fargo, North Dakota

Chico Harkrader

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Harkrader is a mid-career professional Virginia artist who works in a city center studio. His work is represented by Aaron Gallery in Washington, DC, Edge Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, and Pamela Jean Gallery in Roanoke, VA. Online, his work appears on YouTube, artists.de, Saatchi, and Artist Space-Irving Sandler’s artist files. Curator and former Smithsonian research fellow, Anna Fariello, wrote, “Harkrader’s abstract expressionist images…display a wonderful sense of movement that contributes to a feeling of fluidity and energy…and allows the viewer to visually penetrate the painting by implying depth within the composition.” Writer and art representative, Cynthia Hinkle, wrote “…his paintings impart an immediate visual excitement and emotion.” Harkrader’s bibliographies include, NeoImages, 2008; Studio Visit, Open Press Studio 2008, Art In America, Sourcebook to the US Art World, Annual Guide, Artist Index, Summer 2006; Letter, Anna Fariello, Director, Curatorial InSight, 2004; Piedmont Style, “A Glimpse into the Life of a True Artist, Cynthia Hinkle, 2004; Catalog, “Reflections on the River”, Radford University Art Museum, 2002; Catalog, “Artemis XIII,” Artemis/Artists & Writers, Inc, 1990, and others. Harkrader’s exhibitions at Aaron Gallery, Washington DC, one of the top 10 cities in the world to view art, witnessed DC collectors acquiring his work. Edge Gallery in Philadelphia sold 6 painting in 2009. His solo exhibition at Virginia Tech University in 2005 was very successful and culminated in university purchases of three Harkrader paintings for their permanent collection. He has had solo exhibitions at the Staunton Fine Art Center, the Bluefield Fine Art Center, and the New River Valley Fine Art Center. He has been in group exhibitions in other Eastern U.S. museums and galleries including O. Winston Link Museum, Radford University Art Museum in Virginia and the Sawtooth Center of Visual Design in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His work is in public and corporate collections. These include AECOM for two large commissions for their corporate lobby in 2009, Central Paper Company, WI; Salem Orthopedic Association, NC; Montgomery Museum, VA; medical and architectural firms, and many private collections from Alaska to Australia. Harkrader attended the historic Mountain Lake Symposiums and Workshops. These historic conferences led by foremost artists and critics included Kuspit, Cage, Kass, Greenberg, Finster, Miller, Sonnier, Thiebaud and others. These symposiums and workshops provided valuable insight from a rare assembly of experts. Harkrader’s Mountain Lake drawings and notes captured from life on location provides a view from the audience perspective. Most recently Harkrader attended the Web Flash Festival & Conference, hosted at the Centre Pompidou, Paris France, 2007.

Nicola Parente

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Abstract - Contemporary Artist Nicola Parente creates expressive abstract paintings from his studio in Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life. Working in a variety of media and formats, Parente engages the viewer in dialogues regarding the universal phenomenon of human encounter. Parente’s new series, “The Edge of Urban Time”, examines our human encounters with the urban environment. Inspired by the re-gentrification of metropolitan communities, his art defines the intersection of daily urban life and the timeless multi-cultural celebration, with red as the symbolic color of the heartbeat and life of the city. His paintings capture the fluidity and static elements of the urban matrix, referencing the architectonic images, reflections, and rhythms of its landscape.

Eric Jackson

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Mark Gualtieri

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b. 1972 Pittsburgh, Pa Studied painting under my father at early age. Studied graphic design at Colorado Institute of Art 1995-96 Studied Art and Art History at Shippensburg University 1997-99

Gessica Hellmann

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I am a designer, fine artist and I currently research the relations between art, sexuality and corporal expression. My works reflect my concern in helping fight any kind of social discrimination, especially sexual prejudices. I believe that art is able to sensitize people's hearts for the futility of all forms of social discrimination. For that reason, I am dedicated particularly to produce and expose the best available representations of corporality and human sexuality. You can check the first results of this research and my portfolio at http://www.gehspace.com. You can contact me any time by phone: (+5521) 8101-1892 or mail: geh@gehspace.com

Jeff Gould

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Jeff Gould has been an illustrator and graphic designer for over 20 years. He graduated from the University of the Arts and currently runs his own freelance business. Art 4 Hire has been in business since 1998 providing people with quality artworks that include portraits, murals, illustration, graphic design, advertising, packaging design and anything else you can think of. Contact him at jgould@art4hire.com

cliff Speaks

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Zé daLuz

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I live and work in New Orleans, Louisiana. I was born in Chicago, Illinois and have also lived in Seattle Washington and New Jersey.

Jim Haldane

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Matthew Davey

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Katherine Bianca Clark

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Nicola Carvell

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Nicola Carvell - Artist's Statement Having emerged from a background in painting, my main concerns when making work are form, colour and the over-processing of these elements. I see my practice as having grown outward from the flat painterly surface into physical space to confront the viewer. Being immersed in the current rock music and related alternative fashion scene in London, I absorb the aesthetic statements being circulated. I process much of this imagery digitally where colours and forms can be 'turned-up' to exist as concentrate-becoming plastic rather than illusory. From this I hope to create expanded paintings that can be considered visually and experienced physically. Ultimately, I see my work as a forwarding of current youth culture. Whilst embracing its seductive enamel, I endeavor to simultaneously reveal it's dark underside through the process of mutation as neon colors, sprayed outlines and dynamic forms chemically interact upon the surface. Biography Nicola Carvell is a London-based artist whose work deals with youth culture and its fearless outlook toward the future. Emerging from a background in painting, Nicky moved onto develop a more sculptural outlook at Goldsmiths, culminating in 9ft high steel lightning bolts at her degree show in 2006. Now at the Royal Academy of Arts schools, her work sits between traditional disciplines, instigating bold and inventive forms through both digital and painterly means. She has shown in various group shows around London and curated an exhibition of 20 young Artists entitled Powderlux in 2006, which was concerned with plasticity and the over-manipulation of colour and form, for which an electronic soundtrack was also produced. Seeing music as the central stimulation to her practice, she has designed various album covers for independent artists, fabricated stage banners and photographed bands live. Her work has also been published in Super Super magazine. From this experience, she feels that the lines between art, design, music and fashion are becoming increasingly blurred and this cross-fertilization provides an exciting new approach to making art. Believing that “the private view night of a show is the only part worth going to,” her work embraces social interaction through means such as showing in unconventional spaces, as this breaks the ideal of the ‘white cube’. Rather than the viewer simply regarding the distanced art object, an immersive environment is invoked where a more direct response is encouraged. www.nicolacarvell.co.uk info@nicolacarvell.co.uk tel: 07910 261 623

Adriela Sakamoto

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Olga Zeltser

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Adam Brooks

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Adam lives and works in Winnipeg. He grew up drawing superheroes, cats and comic books until he discovered oil paint and the work of Philip Guston, Francis Bacon and Van Gogh. In 2002 he graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree in Painting. He has since produced five short movies, one CD, and a body of work on canvas and paper. His work has been exhibited in The Winnipeg Art Gallery, <SITE> Gallery, The Royal Art Lodge and various film festivals. In February of 2007 Adam wrote and recorded the popular internet song "Britney Spears shaved her head Tonight."

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daniela montanari

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cesar meneghetti

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C&Eacute;SAR MENEGHETTI is a Brazilian-Italian visual artist and filmmaker based in Rome. His work is centred on social issues, migration and the concept of borders, political, social and individual edges, the interaction with people and media between the North and South hemisphere. He uses the cinema medium as well as film, video, photography, painting and installation in art to give images a new approach to the world. Through the mix of various technical supports he uses these electronic/digital instruments to extract and isolate frames of reality and re-elaborate them in a new context. He has shown his artwork in more than 39 countries around the world and has made about 60 films and videos including 2 feature films, 5 documentaries, 53 short films and experimental videos. In the last 23 years he had received 59 awards, prizes and scholarships for his work.

Nicole Hands

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Boris Novak

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On 30 September 1954 in Prague, the baroque capital of Europe, Boris Novak was born. As young boy Boris and his family moved to the historic Croatian city of Split, one of the bases of a secular Roman culture. When he was 24, too liberal and therefore too vulnerable, he and his life companion and love of his life Zeljana Bura turned their backs on Yugoslavia and fled to free western Europe. They have settled in Utrecht in the Netherlands where he is still living today. With the unlimited support of Zeljana, the cultural influences of these three places are crucial for forming Boris Novak's expression as an artist. As an unbeatable optimist in his work he celebrates the the existential joy of daily life. Growing up in Prague, his intellectual and liberal family were frustrated by the eastern block limitations, but cultivated dreams of an humane and rightful society. The overwhelming beauty of the city and cultural inputs were an indelible influence to Boris development. In the first few years as young boy in Split, Croatia it was difficult for Boris to find his place as an foreigner, but things soon changed when Boris got into school for Applied Arts. This school was the best thing could happen to Boris. He made new friends, fine and sensitive young artists with wide open hearts,a &quot;gift from god&quot; as Boris describes them and that period of his life. Soon this group defined itself as a Pop Art artist group which worked and exhibited together in the city. His second study in Split was interrupted in 1978, his long desired flight to freedom led him to Utrecht, in the Netherlands he and started his studies at the Art Academy. Five years later he graduated as an Graphic Designer. After graduation followed period of much painting, experimenting and exhibiting. In this period Boris developed different styles. An example is the realistic work ' people in mosaic ' with which he reaps a success during a number of expositions ' Imprisoned body ' in Italy (1983). Boris most recent topics 'organic surrealism' as you can see number of its examples on these pages in the section &quot;Conception&quot;. After birth the of his first child Boris decided to change emphasis and work as a graphic designer. Now that his children are growing up it looks like Boris' urge to paint is impossible to contain. The new works are created, the ideas are stronger, more pure, more essential than ever before.

Tony Pinfold

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Welcome and thank you for viewing my artwork… As you can imagine during my 23 years as a visual artists much has changed to the point that the work I create today would not have even been possible when I started. I have always believed that art is one of mans greatest freedoms which all can enjoy both as spectators or creators. The older I become the more passion I have for what I do, not to mention amazement at the way each work evolves in front of me. I spend many hours digitally fusing art work and photographs that I have created/taken together to produce the images you see on this site. It is my hope that my work touches the viewer on both a visual and spiritual level, as my aims are to question and address much of the human condition, touching on historical, psychological and religious topics. All the Art on this site is available either as Limited or Open Edition Prints produced in my own studio using a large format printer.  I do this so I keep control over my work to ensure each piece is produced to the highest quality standard possible. I hope you find the time on this site to be both thought provoking and spiritually uplifting and return often to see my new creations or purchase a piece for your home or work place.   T.W.Pinfold -  Artist www.imagefusion.co.uk

Paul Brewster

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Born in Sunderland, England, Paul Brewster grew up in the 1960s and 70&rsquo;s living close to the dramatic coastline of Durham and Northumbria. His stringent upbringing was a close knit affair where the boundaries between groups however were as distinct as the clear boundaries between land, sea and sky. After a three year spell in his first job, combining work in the lumber mills on the banks of the River Wear, felling trees in the forests of Northumbria and erecting fences and crash barriers on Britain's motorways, Brewster studied painting for four years at Sunderland Polytechnic - graduating in 1985 and in 1994 completing his masters at Northumbria University. He remained in the North-East during this time where he shared a number of studios in Villias Street, the infamous Bunker in Sunderland and in Newcastle at City Studios. In addition to national and international exposure since his first exhibition in 1988, he has been accepted on a regular basis for the BP Portrait Awards exhibited annually at The National Portrait Gallery, London. In 1995 and 1997 he was short-listed for the prestigious First Prize and was awarded a commendation on each of these occasions. Representation by E1 Gallery in London in the late 1990&rsquo;s and an appointment at Cambridge University meant a move in 2002 closer to the capital, where, in addition to part-time teaching, he worked with Trilogy Laser Craft in Huntingdon. During this period he began a number of new projects including a move into video and developed techniques utilizing the company&rsquo;s state-of-the-art laser equipment. Seeking fresh inspiration Brewster moved to Poland in 2004. After three and a half years living and working in Warsaw and a short spell in Bialystok, he moved back to England in the Spring of 2008 and now continues to develop his practice further from his current base back in his native North-East of England where he aims to complete work for exhibition in Hamburg sometime next year. Throughout his professional career Brewster has continued to have both solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections throughout the UK, USA and Europe.

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