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Sidney Eileen

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Sidney is a California native, raised in the picturesque Wine Country of Northern California. The beautiful Sonoma County Coast and its farmland was a rich palate of inspiration for Sidney as a girl growing up beside her beloved pets. Sidney’s love of animals naturally afforded her an artistic muse. She attains with pencil what many cannot with a photograph. She can give a sense of being or soul to her art. The eyes of her dogs seem to laugh back at you, cats stare inquisitively out of the paper, and the furry friends of our lives are immediately recognizable. Her early love of horses lent her to hours of enthusiastic sketching as a child. This has given her an ability to capture the magnificence of these animals on paper with ease. Through her fantasy and wildlife art, Sidney strives to bring her artistic subjects to life. She gives the viewer a glimps into some fantastic world where animals walk as people, and dragons fly through the skies. The deer looks as though it’s ready to dart back into the woods at a moment’s notice, and the wolf stares off into the distance as though deep in thought. When Celtic artwork captured her attention, she dove into it with the same attention to detail and passion for spirit that she gives to her animal art. Through these ancient design styles, she captures the essence of each animal, depicting the graceful beauty of a hummingbird, the strength of a bull, or the spirit of a stallion. The styles of the designs are inspired equally by medieval illuminated manuscripts, Bronse-Age archaeological finds, and the world around her.

Lionel Martinez

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Lionel Martinez A life long resident of New York, Lionel Martinez was born in Brooklyn in the late 1940’s. After Brooklyn Collage he moved to Manhattan in the 1960’s. Lionel Martinez began his media career as a New York underground filmmaker. Several of his early works are still listed in the Film Cooperative catalog. He has worked on various aspects of documentary commercial and industrial film productions. Currently he works in independent television and Internet production. He is the author of seven books; three of them are popular histories. His photographs have appeared in “The Time-Life Book of Century – the 1960’s”, “The History of the Irish in America” and “Fire Engines in America” to name a few. In the 80’s Purple Barge For Photography featured two one-man shows of his works. Recently he has had a one man show his new digital imaging works at the Andrews Building Management gallery, was a participant in the spring Washington Heights Art Walk and part of the NYC Expo Artists digital group show. In 2006 Lionel was a featured artist in the North SoHo Art Show and was in the Photo Show at Gallery 402. Four of his documentary photos were included in the permanent Tribute WTC Visitor Center exhibition.

Kristen Watson

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Kristen has been making Art since her youth, spent partly in Ohio and Virginia. She recently graduated from the University of Vermont summa cum laude with degrees in Psychology and Studio Art. Kristen considers herself a generalist, but as of late has been most enamored with black and white photography and traditional darkroom processes. She also paints and draws. Kristen is considering a Masters in Art Education, but for now is taking time to enjoy life after almost a decade of part-time school and a full-time career in medical device sales. She and Dave, her husband of almost three years, enjoy outdoor adventure, movies, public radio, social activism and playing with their two kitties, Lily and Mikey. They reside in South Burlington, Vermont.

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Marilyn Fenn

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Born: Cleveland, OH Lives and Works: Austin, TX Marilyn Fenn has been creating art in one form or another since early childhood. In 1985, she returned to college to study fine art, graduating in 1992 from the the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with several of the famed Chicago Imagists. She has continued her studies with fellow SAIC alumnus Noel Robbins of Robbins Studio in Austin, with New York painter Charles Wildbank at a workshop in Tuscany, Italy and most recently with Austin painter Andrew Long. Marilyn has exhibited her work in numerous juried and invitational group and solo shows, and given art demonstrations, classes and talks. She is an active member in several local artist organizations, including Austin Visual Arts Association and TexasWax/Austin. Marilyn's work is collected in private collections across the country and abroad. Currently, Marilyn works primarily as a painter, working in oil, acrylic and encaustic. For the past two decades, Marilyn has explored a variety of subject matter ranging from representational landscapes and still lifes to vibrant abstractions -- and many points in between. Their common thread is an unerring sense of color, and a constant celebration of how paint inhabits a surface.

Gary Millard

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Jonathan Peters

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I grew up in Houston and now live in Austin. I love to do art.

lauren acton

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2009 CONTEMPORARY VOICES 69TH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION Woodmere Art Museum Chestnut Hill, Pa. March Edge Gallery Group Show Phila., Pa. March Philadelphia Society of Art, Literature and Music (PSALM) Overbrook, Pa. June Invitational Florence Biennale, Firenze, Italy December 2008 The FUEL Collection Group Show Phila. Pa. December Barnstone Gallery Group Show, Phoenixville, Pa. November Harrisburg Art Association Invitational 4-person Show Harrisburg, Pa. October Tori Collection Solo Show Malvern, Pa. June Distortion Arts Group Mocha Café Phila. Pa. June Goggleworks Art Center ’Natural World’ exhibit Reading, Pa. May Main Line Art Center,’The Art of Living’ Group Show Bryn Mawr, Pa. April Immaculata College National/International Juried Show West Chester, Pa. February Harrisburg Art Association Invitational Solo Show March 2007 Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Va. August Homeworks Gallery, Featured Artist, West Chester, Pa. June Invitational at Chester County Arts Association, West Chester, Pa. April Hardcastle Gallery, Featured Artist Centreville, De. April Main Line Art Center ,The Art of Living Group Show Bryn Mawr, Pa., March Immaculata College National/International Juried Show West Chester, Pa. February 2006 Gallery Bellaria Holiday Show, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe, Pa. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists, Conshohocken, Pa. Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico 2005 The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of The State, Harrisburg, Pa. Sabine Rose Gallery Tri-State Juried Show, Doylestown, Pa 2004 Montauk Artists Association, Winner of two-person show Montauk, NY Rendez-Vous Gallery, solo show, Leesburg, Virginia 2003 Chester County Art Association 19th Annual Juried Show West Chester, Pa. Laredo Arts Center 11TH Annual International Juried Exhibition **Winner 2nd Place, Laredo, Texas Gallery Victoria, The Finals Of Artscape, Naples, Florida 30th Annual Yellow Springs Art Show, Chester Springs, Pa. Impact Artists Gallery, National Womens Exhibition, Buffalo, N.Y Washington and Jefferson College 35th Annual Juried Show Washington, Pa. 2002 Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mill Pond House, St. James,New York Reading Public Museum, National Juried show, Reading, Pa. 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. Cape Cod Art Association New England Exhibition, Barnstable, Ma. Schoharie County National Small Works Exhibition **Winner Honorable Mention, Cobleskill, New York Wayne Art Center 2002 National Spring Exhibition, Wayne, Pa. Associated Artists of Winston-Salem National Juried show, North Carolina Private Collections in Monaco and The United States

Terry Golletz

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A.O.C.A. 1981 B.A. (Fine Arts) 1981 B.Ed. (Vocational Art) 1991

Henk Klinkhamer

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The spirit must blow. He who beholds the paintings, drawings and objects of Henk Klinkhamer sees the evidence of an indefatigable passion. His unbridled inspiration is clearly perceptible with every stroke of the brush. Art in it’s archetype, art as passion. To reflect at times, is the watchword. Henk Klinkhamer is a perfectionist who strives for the ultimate harmony of colour and form. By fighting the matter he escapes from the material. So he finishes the limits. Possibilities apear to be endless, endless like the surroundings of his residence Hillegom, called “the spiritual grounds”. The ideal soil for growing tulips. Henk Klinkhamer sees the Dutch tulip- or bulbarea as a great source of inspiration. Together with fellow-artist JAS (1945-2002) in 1989 he declared the bulbarea to “Art Territory”. An inmense work of art, created by human hands, that at all cost must be preserved for prosperity. It’s his enormous fantasy, the world existing in his head, which takes shape in his art. One thing is always centrally eminent; it’s about touching the hart of the viewer with a work of art. The ultimate emotion of a impassioned painter.

Tom Brownold

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Studied Photography at Prescott College, in Prescott Arizona with Jay Dusard, Frederick Sommer, 1974 thru 1976 also during that time at the Apeiron Workshops in Photography during the winter months of 1974 with numerous guest photographers from NYC. Continuing education in Photography since Graduation at the Ansel Adams Gallery Photography workshops, and the Santa Fe Photography workshops. Currently working as a Commercial Freelance Photographer based out of Flagstaff, Arizona, shooting Landscapes,Portraits, Editorial, Stock for the International Market Place as well as Locally.

Paul Smedberg

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Born early in my life, I expanded to my present size. I make art because I must. Since a transformation of style five years ago, my work has come to inhabit that rare intersection of prolific and unexhibited. I did just receive a 2008 individual artist grant from the Indiana Arts Commission.

Kuanita Murphy

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Born and reared in Georgia where she currently resides.

Brett Amey

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Brian Petroski

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jc norton

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My work explores the interface between two art forms: the art/sport of bodybuilding and the training that creates the athletic physique, and the art of photography. My subjects are seriously committed to the refinement of the human form through training, diet and life style. In the studio, I work with the subject to make images that are the raw material for subsequent digital work to achieve aesthetic objectives. The objectives range from highly abstract to narrative such that some images are pure studies of the physique, while others place the physique in an interpretive context. Digital alteration ranges from minimal through photo-collage. With the exception of the portraits, most of the works are not primarily intended to be viewed as pictures of particular individuals. Rather, the physique is presented as an object of beauty, quite apart from the personality of the individual who inhabits it. I was honored to have a piece accepted for the Nude International 2004 and two accepted in the 2007 show and have worked with a number of models in portfolio development.

Krishna Woerheide

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joan myerson shrager

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I've been a computer artist for the past 12 years after having used conventional materials for many years before. Making art, working in the arts, teaching, lecturing, volunteering in art are what I do. I am glued to my computer everyday making new work.

Carol Steinberg

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Steinberg has exhibited nationally in numerous galleries and museums. She has taught drawing, design, and painting at Los Angeles City College, Cal State University at Northridge, and Otis Evening College. She earned her MFA at CalArts and BFA and BA from Cornell University and has received scholarships from art programs around the country. Her work has been published, won prizes, been listed as an LA Times “Best Bet” and chosen for Eddie Murphy’s film Daddy Day Care, as well as other film and TV projects. In the fall of 2008, a dozen of her paintings appeared on the award winning TV show House in an episode about a painter with a disturbing vision problem. Critics have said “Steinberg can really paint with confidence and swagger…She paints in volumes and in strong personal tonalities of mood and color. Vibrant blues, greens and purple, raw, unpainted canvas, erotic or banal, the compositions express a balance of strenuous oppositions…Even a brilliant bathroom portrait takes on an atmosphere of carnival brightness.”

Lar Matre

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Picked up a camera at the age of 12 ... haven't been able to put it down.

Roshan Houshmand

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Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian-American artist who was born in 1961 in the Philippines. She was raised in the Philippines and Iran. Her MA and MFA are from Rosary College of Illinois Graduate Program in Florence, Italy, (1983, 84) and her BA is from Bennington College in Vermont where she received awards for outstanding work and leadership in the arts (1982). For several years she studied with Julio Alpuy, a preeminent member of the Atelier of Joaquin Torres Garcia, founder of Universal Constructivism. Ms. Houshmand has been exhibiting her work for over two decades in Europe and the USA. She is a 2005 recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant and a 2006 grant recipient from the US State Department for the exhibition “21st Century American Women Artists” at the US Mission to NATO in Belgium. Her work has been included in “Totem” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, “Evolving Perceptions” at The National Press Club in Washington, DC, and “21st Century American Women Artists” along with the works of Kiki Smith, and 6 other artists at Truman Hall, Brussels. (http://nato.usmission.gov/dossier/Women.asp). In 2007 Houshmand’s physics-inspired paintings were featured on the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s website in commemoration of their sixtieth anniversary (www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp), and in SYMMETRY, (www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499) the joint Fermilab/SLAC physics publication. These works are also featured in the April 2008 edition of COSMOS magazine. Houshmand's work has been published in the Fall 2008 issue of STUDIO VISIT MAGAZINE, published by The Open Studio Press. Roshan Houshmand’s work is in private collections in Denmark, Spain, UK, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Costa Rica and the United States and in corporate collections in Cyprus, Denmark and Spain. She has taught and lectured at Penn State University, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Winchester Graduate School of Art and La Massana in Barcelona. Currently she teaches at the State University of New York in Delhi, New York (SUNY Delhi).

Diana Weems

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Ian O'Phelan

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Ian O'Phelan (b. 1982, a Pisces) hails from Toledo, OH. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati, where he pursued a Frankenstein curriculum of fine art and graphic design classes. O'Phelan's work mines the past for stories and imagery that find resonance in the culture and news of the present day. Connecting this sometimes divergent exploration is a consuming love of drawing, manifest in his meticulous use of line.

Rafael Santiago

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Majored in Photography at FIT, currently working on photography and collage.

Svetlana Rabey

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Caitlin Karolczak

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Born 1984 in northern MN.

david porfirio

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Susan Olij

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Indonesian born Susan Olij is a full time artist living and working in Singapore since 2000. She has lived most of life between the UK and the USA. This formed her influences of east and west in a hybridization of culture, identity and language. Her work is abstraction that combines the hybrid panmixia influences with science and concept of consciousness

Gabriel J. Shuldiner

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Justin Reddick

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I was born in Victoria, Texas in 1980. However I was raised in Littleton, CO however it was not until a five-year stance in Fort Collins did I find "the painter" quietly residing inside me. While there, I learned of culture, music, friendship, loss and love. On the other side of things I discovered a passion to expose that of what is most vulnerable to people. For me, the process of art making is a way to document, create, and release "visual diaries" as they pertain to my life and the world I see around me. Beyond my personal narratives, my work tends to concentrate on social as well as political issues. I often rely on my impulses in order to fully engage the process, resulting in a rush of emotional improvisation. Today I am living in Pueblo West, CO where I share a home with my wife Jandalyn in hopes of showing my art to as many watchful eyes this life has to offer.

John E. Stallings

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Cindy Stallings

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Samantha Lord

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Samantha-Jane Lord Born September 1971 Perth, Western Australia Raised in Melbourne and Victoria from 1973 Since 2002 living in Sydney, New South Wales Samantha Lord studied Fine Art and Graphic design at Swinbourne from 1985 - 1989 and from there she moved to study Graphic Design at Latrobe 1990 - 1991. When half-way through she realised Graphic Design was becoming computerised and the talent for creating and drawing in the way she enjoyed, was a thing of the past. Struggling to decide her direction, she fell into sales. In 1993, along with the support of the organisation she was working for, Samantha started painting again part time. She left the company in 1995 and practiced painting full time for the first time. To her surprise she was invited to join an exhibition. This to her was to be the gauge whether her natural talent was good enough, as she's predominately self-taught. It was a good gauge, Samantha sold all paintings on offer. In 1996 Samantha was commissioned to paint the 'Marvellous Melbourne' series. A metro pop art collection that included a celebrated piece of Melbourne's first Formula 1 Grand Prix. Since then she has embraced the artist's life, and in 2001 Samantha moved to Sydney to be with her partner. With the encouragement and support of people and businesses, Samantha's infectious persistence, passion and vision has seen her paintings throughout Australia with plans to exhibit overseas in the next 12-months. Her ability to capture not just her own but other people's lives and ideas, transforms art into an exciting experience on canvas. Her pieces take you on a journey in many different directions via a kaleidoscope of thoughts and ideas, colours and techniques. Her striking collections have been embraced by serious art collectors, which include members of the Belgian aristocracy Themes / Collections Introspection Abstract Australia Eye on the Land Australian Landscapes Pop Art Metro Landscapes Caustic Corporate Collections Portraits / Nudes Introspection & Eye on the Land Collections is a close look at flora, shapes and designs of the landscape expressing a strong love for Australia and its countryside - the richness of its colours and humor of the harsh land, seeing beauty in simple things. All these paintings have rich layered colour, depth with the brush, hand and knife sculpturing the paint and mediums across each canvas. Aussie Pop Art Metro Landscapes & Caustic Corporate Collections: puts on show the joys, frustrations, indiscretions, coloured moments and naughtiness of everyday life from our city to the beaches. Mainly figurative work, Samantha catches the actions and reactions of everyday life seeing the simple things in great detail and a different perspective of the big city life. Some her Caustic Corporate works have created quite a stir in contrast to her other works containing a dark yet humorous way of looking at corporate life. Other Services and Art Products include: Commission paintings for business or pleasure. Live painting for events or conferences. Limited edition prints. Complete consultation packages. Custom designed premium wines. Annual exhibitions. The Nude Experience - Portraits Samantha Lord 2007 " Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." - Leo Tolstoy "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist, Philosopher "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Writer, Art Critic

Clara Johnson

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Anton Hoeger

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Anton Hoeger was born on 30.10.1956 in Munich.

Paul White

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Paul White is a visual artist currently living in Melbourne Australia. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Sydney in Sydney Australia and his postgraduate degree at CalArts in Los Angeles California. His artistic practice is multi disciplined, incorporating at times elements of drawing, sewing, installation, painting, sound works and found objects.

Deborah Jack

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Deborah Jack received her M.F.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is an artist whose work is based in photography, painting, video/sound installation, and text. Her work deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, re-memory, landscape and hurricanes. She has had residencies at Lightwork and Big Orbit Gallery Summer Artist in Residence. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund of the Netherlands Antilles. She was a fellow at The Photography Institute-National Graduate Seminar and has published two poetry collections. Her work is part of the Lightwork Collection, the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University, and the collection of the Island Government of St. Martin. Her art has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally with recent shows at the Jersey City Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. Deborah Jack is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.

Xela Galili

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The "light of the World" I perceived 1971 in Salzburg/Austria. After spending 15 years of Youth in Bad Gastein I was moving to Salzburg City in 1986. Already in my earlier Youth I felt the smouldering ember of my artistic desire, waiting for one breath of air to ignite the passion burning within me. The increasing pressure to compete in the corporate world lead me in July 1995 to Australia from my native Austria. Here amongst the chatter of cicadas and the cry of the Kookaburra the ember ignited. It was the realization of my need to express myself through painting. After my return to Austria it continued and started to burn. My predilection for wild animals I found on the 6 months journey in South Africa in 1996/7. There my first exhibitions followed. The urge for new inspiration has brought me in March 2000 in the caleidoscopic world of Amsterdam where the Yin Yang completed. After a short break in 2003/4 I am now back to neW roAds. With pride I see myself autodidact with no formal art school influence and express my artistic feelings without compromising style, design or technique. It is my desire that the enthusiasm engendered in my pictures will ignite a flame of passion in the heart of the observer.

Eugene Parnell

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Eugene Parnell is a Seattle-based artist who creates installations and interactive works that navigate the mental geographies of childhood and the politics of Natural History. Plumbing the depths of memory, desire, and childhood experience, he recreates the mental models of the natural world that we all hold in our heads, in all their disturbing hilarity, and exposes the cognitive dissonance between the way we think the world is, and the way that observation shows it to be.

Ilena Lescaut

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ILENA LESCAUT Born in 1966 in Bucharest / Romania Living in Paris / France since 1989 * * * After an MA in German language and civilization at Sorbonne Paris III, she wanted to enrich her personal experience through a commercial training course at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris, followed by a third cycle of commercial specialization at the Business Management Institute of Paris Sorbonne I. in order to build an invisible bridge between the world of letters, art and business. She has been painting since she was a child. At the age of seven, she designed the drawings of an animated cartoon titled KALEIDOSCOPE which was presented on the big screens of cinema halls in Bucharest. For her drawings, Iléna Lescaut received the Jury's special prize. As a teenager, she took drawing classes with a professional of the Beaux Arts Institute in Bucharest. She took classes of Art-history in Paris and actually she prepares a Diploma in order to work also as an Art-thérapiste. In her paintings, she loves to play with colors, shadows and light, geometrical lines and symbols, letting her imagination project the everyday details, objects or places surrounding us. She blends various techniques and often uses miscellaneous materials. Her work is at the borders of figurative and abstract art, thus her painting can be called « abstract figurative ». * * * EXHIBITIONS - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris – CPSS/Advancia, April 2005 - STUDIO 28, Paris, September 2006 - Eglise St Pierre-St. Paul, Colombes-Paris, June 2007 - To follow : Lille (France) and Paris (France) in December 2007, Germany in 2008 (Berlin and Leipzig), itinerant exhibition in Romania (2008), exhibition in the United States (2007/2008) OTHER WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS 1/ Book published in 2006 – literature, ethnology and folklore : « On Wings of Fairy Tale » (Sur les ailles des contes) – three stories in three languages (French/Romanian/English) : translation of some of the texts from Romanian into French and illustrations by Iléna Lescaut ; Demiurg Publishing House Iasi/Romania. 2/ Book of fiction – in 2006 : « Through the Window of Time » (Par la fenêtre du temps) - 15 short stories in French published within the 11th Summit of Francophony held in Romania in 2006, Demiurg Publishing House Iasi/Romania. 3/Book of art – in 2006 : Participation with three poems written in French by Iléna Lescaut as an introduction to the photographic art book by Noël Giamarchi : « The Third Eye – Look within to See the World that Comes from Without » (Le troisième oeil - Voir en soi pour voir le monde), published within the 11th Summit of Francophony held in Romania in 2006, Demiurg Publishing House Iasi/Romania.

Wim Heldens

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BIOGRAPHY The Dutch painter Wim heldens was born in 1954 in Sittard, in the south of the Netherlands. He showed an obsessive fascination with drawing from an early age and when he applied to various academies, he already had an impressive body of work. Nevertheless, his unusual talent was not recognized and he was not admitted. Disappointed, but still determined, he applied to the Kunstacademie in Frankfurt Germany in 1974 and was immediately accepted. But when the good news came, he had just moved to Amsterdam and decided that, he had proven his worth, he preferred to go his own way. Making a living from portrait commissions, Heldens developed this genre as a means to explore the human condition. While around him the modernist revolution was gradually being accepted as a general norm, Heldens explored renaissance techniques and three- and two-dimensional form, including abstract structural patterns (the influence of abstract notions of form is always very close under the surface). Also, the treatment of light by masters of Dutch 17c painting like Vermeer, Terborch and Nicolaes Maes held his fascination. He began to be asked regularly for exhibitions in galleries in the Netherlands. Various trips to Italy in the seventies were a great stimulation; the greatest impression from these years was the psychologically dramatic work of Carravagio. The discovery of the art world in New York opened a new field of stimulation and experience. In the period 1990 – 95 Heldens divided his time between New York and Amsterdam, easily mixing in the exciting American artistic community where he, within a couple of months, saw his work on show at the Henoch gallery in SoHo, later to be followed with exposure at the Ganymede Gallery and the Open Studio PS122, both in NY City. The wide variety of different trends – from abstract via pop art to photo realism – which he saw in the East Village, where he had a studio, gave him the inner freedom and confidence to pursue and further develop his psychological realism. He viewed his personal style as a possible way forward after modernism had lost most of its credibility. He painted various portraits in commission, among others for the collector Raymond Saroff, who possesses an impressive collection of American native art. In 1995 Heldens participated in the exhibition ‘Representation represented’ in the Arnot Museum in Elmira (NY) together with Janet Fish, Gregory Gillespie, Paul Cadmus, Claudio Bravo and Michael Leonard, where Heldens’ contribution drew much attention. From 1995 onwards, Heldens increasingly focuses on Amsterdam where he found his canvasses more and more in demand. In 1998 he decided to move away from portrait commissions to be able to concentrate upon a more versatile expression of human drama in contemporary life. Over the years, the psychology behind his work gradually became more complex and ambiguous, Claire-obscure more striking, contrasts sharper – all along with a continuously developing technique. His paintings found their way into private collections in the Netherlands, England, Germany and the USA, and into collections of the Academic Hospital and the ING Bank in Amsterdam, the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten , the City Council in Sittard and The Arnot Art museum, Elmira New York. Heldens is one of those artists who know from the beginning what they want to do. For him, painting is a psychological analysis, a narrative of inner life and experience. His realism, which is rooted in renaissance painting but never a stylistic pastiche, gives form to the human condition in modern life.

rafael montoya

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Mischa Jovanovic

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1970 Mischa Jovanovic, son of a military officer and a librarian, was born in Beograd where he spent his two first years. 1972 Due to political and economic circumstances his parents emigrated to Switzerland, Uzwil/SG. 1985 At the age of 15 Mischa Jovanovic began his apprentices hip as a structural engineer with architect Adolph Blumenthal at Flawil. He was first introduced to art in the gallery Arte Nuova at Flawil. 1986 Mischa Jovanovic painted his first pictures in his father’s garage. His training was autodidactic and his special interests were American artists of the 20th century and German art after the second world war. 1990 The size of his paintings increased to such an extant that he moved into his first studio in a former textile factory at Flawil. 1999 Mischa Jovanovic moved to Thalwil/Zurich to be closer to Zurich’s art scene. He created his work still in his studio at Flawil.

Alexander T. Oleksyn

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Lisa Lorenz

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Lisa (Lariviere), Lorenz was born in Montreal, Canada and has been drawing and painting exuberantly since childhood and her talent expands over many years. She studied graphic design and advertising at Concordia University and then pursued a career with a major railway for 9 years. In 1996 she moved overseas with her husband and started painting again taking several painting classes and workshops in Europe and Asia. She has been living overseas for over 11 years and has lived in Basel, Switzerland, Seoul, Korea and now resides in Copenhagen, Denmark by the sea which she loves. She has traveled extensively and her travels opened her eyes to many interesting and memorable places that words alone can not express. Painting her impressions is her way of remembering and sharing such colorful memories. Lisa is an artist who uses a radiant palette to create her colourful and stylized paintings. Her work is characterized by lively imaginative compositions with juxtapose arrangements of ideas, images, exaggerated perspectives and her strikingly effective use of colours. Her joyful, bright compositions all evoke in us a sense of happiness and a smile. Her paintings are guaranteed to brighten up your day. Over the years, her colourful and illustrative style of painting has grown and become more creative, vibrant and distinct in style. Her work hangs in private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. She is currently working towards her next exhibition.

virginia gascon

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Nick D. Vladulescu

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Vincenzo Lucio Mattaliano

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STEFANO FANARA

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Stefano Fanara born in Favara (AG), Italy 11-02-1963. I was drawn to art as a child. Began with painting, first with tempera, then acrylics, china, oils, and water base paint…The techniques used were diverse as were the numerous mentors who imparted the most varied artistic and cultural experiences. At the same time, there were many acquaintances with personalities in the field of art within the region of Sicily, of which several have become close friends. In 1989, I transferred to Modena where I began my career as an elementary school teacher. Gifted at experimentation and applying new techniques in the fields of painting and photography, I also became interested in dance, meditation, and theatre. In the past few years, this search for other means of expression has allowed me to work with noted personalities in the field of theatre and painting. 1995- 1996 – Cecar Brie – ARGENTINA – Theatre and Painting; 1996 – Alfonso Sant’ Agata – ITALY – Theatre; 1997 – Francis Pardeilhan – U.S.A. – Theatre and Painting; 1998 – Prashant – Italy – Painting; 1999 – Enrique Vargas – COLOMBIA – Theatre and Painting; 2005 - Jane Champion - Australia; Cinema. 2006 Fusako Yusaki – Japan; Cinema. 2006 Alan Parker -U.K.; Cinema. 2007 Giuseppe Tornatore;cinema. Other works done contemporarily along with the experiences listed above as well as my work as teacher, and theatrical, photographic, and pictorial, experiences. In April of 1999, I collaborated with Columbian director Enrique Vargas on a research project called “Memoria Del Vino O I Giochi di Dioniso” produced by Emilia Romagna Teatro. The process of the research has brought into realization of a new show that debuted in Bologna and global preview in June of 2000. The collaboration had facilitated the collaboration of the creation of the stage design. In 1998, I collaborated with a group of colleagues in an experimental work based On several meditative techniques that were transposed into the artistic field. The finalization of the work at the end of the year 2000 had inspired a book edited by the publishing house “Urra” and is titled “Meditazione e Arte” (Meditation and Art). The project was initiated by an encounter with the American writers Wadut and Waduda, authors of the book “Alchemy and Transformation” also edited by Urra. During the project, the press relative to the subject, Flash Art Italia, and the Italian television network, RAI 2, became interested by writing articles, reviews and broadcasting of T.V. programs. The work, which continued until 2001, became a means of introspection in which the experience of the truth within and the expression of its beauty flowed together becoming a pulsation, a yin and yang, two wings for flight. The meditation experience in the past few years has brought me in contact with the various levels of my inner being, and painting has allowed me to express these sensations directly. The paintings during the years 1998- 2001 were the fruit of self- experimentation, exploration, inner transformation, healing, and reorganization of the softer inner levels. The work on meditation before and the paintings after had provided a form of analysis of my inner being, an inner travel based on energy. The creative act was inspired by spontaneity of lines and signs. Work was based on the emission of energy, energy that flowed into a single track where every sign is that what it is. I never tried to connect the lines of energy and signs all together, never trying plan or construct an imagine; I left them to accumulate sign on sign, shade on shade. Within this process, I still continue in that mode of not planning, not defining; the objective is that of creating a process of which the action is not toward a beautiful art work but to create a contact between the hand and the energy of the Cosmo. Allowing the energy to move means allowing the hand to move without any mental control, seeking the state of being of an empty channel, entering into a state of all that which is unknown, and having faith of the unknown; this is a key point to my paintings, having faith that something will happen without knowing how and without controlling anything. All the signs I leave freely often end up organizing themselves by themselves by way of unpredictable patterns which are newer, more beautiful, more interesting, more mysterious, than those usually planned. With meditation, my sense of space and time have changed. From the exterior aspect of my paintings, one can intuit the present compressed in space and time. The techniques of meditation experimented have distracted my sense of self from all that I had learned to be important and indispensable for survival. This conviction is becoming more and more a part of me, almost as if it were a certainty to last forever as a part of my wardrobe. Observing my works that have taken me toward this change, the fruit of analysis on deeper levels, I seem to intuit a sense of mystery as if my curiosity has increased towards the things occult- mystery, hidden or obscure feelings. This curiosity has almost helped to remind me of who I am. It has been a stimulus for growth and expansion and has allowed me to begin to remember what is my true nature. With the meditation experience, my paintings have changed 360 degrees. The temporal projection has changed. I feel as if now, more than ever, I am being projected into the present. All of this has allowed me to project myself into the present future, to expand myself, and to have a sense of anticipation for certain events. It seems that my paintings now are projected in more directions. In the past, they were unidirectional. I asked for a response, and I threw myself only in one direction. I was reluctant to try other possibilities for the sake of pictorial coherence. In reality, I had no idea of all that was at my disposal. Meditation has brought me towards the present, towards awareness of not knowing what the next moment will bring, regardless of the accuracy with which one can plan a work of art. From the years 2001 till 2003, emerged a desire to search for a synthesis between painting and language. A necessity has now grown within to saturate entire surfaces. A certain necessity has evolved to explore, almost like a surgeon, the fragments of life and transport them in a vast way throughout my life. I have felt the necessity to abandon myself towards the instincts of my origins, in search of antique stencils, and the possible equilibrium between nature and reason.

Jean Cazals

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French freelance culinary <a href="http://www.food-photographer.eu" target="_blank">photographer</a> since 1995 based in his London studio & contributing for magazines worldwide .Shooting as well advertising and over 70 cookbooks with major restaurants and prestigious chefs. With a style that is a footprint of his pictures being graphic, moody with soft light and always with props matching a perfect food. Jean is treating food more like a still life, an object. His love of food and travel did push him to play with that medium to any lenght. Jean is always on the look out for a new book project on various culinary themes. At the moment exploring urban landscsape with a painting like feel. Different from food but still a control graphic approach. Previous to that he shot portraiture for 10 years of musicians, actors, media people architects etc... for the like of magazines and exibitions worldwide. His approach was very quirky, always putting people in the least possible situation. 'The time limit I had wasn't enough to pretend to show an emotion as strong as seing them accepting to go to the limit of their character within a short time. Each portrait commission was always in relation to an event in direct relation with the text or the request ' A two years period (1993-94) where he tackle commercials for TV. He did a BA(hons) in Visual Communication in London as well as studing art before that. <a href="http://www.jeancazals.net" target="_blank">Jean Cazals</a> lives in London but was previously based in Paris and Geneva, as well as being travelling a lot.

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