Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Mariaceleste Arena is a Sicilian drawer and painter who works with both traditional and digital techniques. She created several urban regeneration works, collaborations with non-profit associations, published in various magazines and catalogs, exhibited in various art venues. For her, art must always be innovative: it is, in fact, a mental process, and therefore it is always in constant transformation.
Sandy Michel is a black female artist, business owner, and content creator. Her inspirations for her artwork and photography are nature, textures, patterns, the built environment, traveling, historical places, and the sun. Sandy loves the surprise, the unknown, the imperfection of the printing process. She is known for her use of blending colors and matching them with conventional shapes.
Sheila Gomes is a Brazilian artist and designer. For Sheila, art transcends cultures, concepts, ideals, and time itself, connecting us with all that we are. Her purpose is to unveil the new and expand this connection. She has been showcasing her work in a variety of exhibitions, collaborations, and projects, with curated works featuring international books and magazines.
Ko Smith is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His works embrace the complexity of personal histories and examine the narratives and psychological habits that have brought us to our present juncture. Smith's work has been presented and exhibited at NYC venues, numerous art fairs in NY and Florida, and international residencies in France and Italy.
Fiorentina Giannotta has a passion for those subjects which at first sight are trivial supporting actors of the surrounding environment. Her world is inhabited by historical figures or ordinary people, always iconic. Processed in a too colorful space, with industrial paints and brushes for ceramic, they characterize her works in a very original way.
Joas Nebe is a self-taught artist, born in Hamburg but now located in South Germany. By turning his film cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes that "Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer."
Kiki Klimt is a contemporary painter based in Ljubljana. Over the years, she experimented on conceptual art, photography, performance, installation, illustration, and design. In the last years, she is returning to the tradition of painting, developing a unique way of painting based on ancient knowledge, contemporary science, and her own study and experience.
Khaldun Oluwa of Eternal Blackness Art is an Atlanta based oil painter, community builder, and activist. His paintings are suffused with ancient African iconography fused with empowering Black imagery. Painting in a figurative style and integrating surrealist elements, Oluwa's art bridges past and present, proving that we still have much to learn from our collective history.
Clara Lemos built a scientific career working as a cancer researcher for more than 15 years, before approaching painting and deciding to start creating her own art. Clara’s work is an attempt to express her subjective concept of beauty – it takes a great deal of inspiration from her emotional states and the most ordinary and mundane little things. It is about giving context and meaning to all the forgotten details.
Santiago-based, German Bustamante is a self-taught abstract artist. Abstraction has allowed him to express his own spiritual vision of life represented by symbolic imagery that deals with ethereal planes, astral projections, primeval feelings, mental and emotional journeys and other intangible human issues. For him, each painting is a journey into his inner self.
Hamida Ouassini’s work is a questioning on the perception of a world which puts us at a distance from what we think and we see. It’s the perception of harmony emerging from the apparent disorganization of the whole; perception of a structure shaping chaos. Curve and straight lines breathe, then doze off. And the spectator cannot contain this curious need to tell a story.
Deepa Khanna Sobti is a Singaporean national of Indian origin. Deepa's art style is abstract expressionist. The biggest inspiration for her work is nature and the processes of corrosion and erosion. Her art and poetry strongly suggest to the viewer to investigate their present experience to realize what reality actually is.
