Painting

INTERVIEW | Felipe Farme D'Amoed

INTERVIEW | Felipe Farme D'Amoed

Felipe Farme D'Amoed was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in the US for the past ten years. In his sculpture, the artist uses plastic and rebar to torture the trunk blatantly. By suffocating the piece, impeding it to breathe and recover, he transfers agony to the offender. Asphyxiation kills all living beings. In each confronting medium, the artist elucidates our concern for the soul and place in the world.

INTERVIEW | Shilowska Pretto

INTERVIEW | Shilowska Pretto

Through the representation of otherworldly creatures and realms, Shilowska found a doorway to constantly reinventing her reality. A way of defying the paradigms set upon her regarding ethnicity, place of birth, gender, physical appearance, social status, and age. Through her work, the artist looks forward to the spectator to dream and engage with the message in their own unique way.

INTERVIEW | Katarina Čelebić

INTERVIEW | Katarina Čelebić

Katarina Čelebić is 24 years old artist from Podgorica, Montenegro. Her paintings are very expressive and based on emotions and intuition.In her creative process, she lets things happen spontaneously. Her inspiration usually comes from dreams, emotions, people she meets, spontaneous events, and every detail she finds motivate her to put it on paper.

INTERVIEW | Carol Camp

INTERVIEW | Carol Camp

Carol Camp is a Brazilian visual artist, currently based in São Paulo. She works mostly with photography manipulation, video art, paintings, and poetry. With her art, she attempts to make the now - not the idea of it, but its intricacies - tangible. Using bright colors and pure black, she investigates the contrast between the so-clear now and the ever-fading past.

INTERVIEW | Lee Musgrave

INTERVIEW | Lee Musgrave

Originally from Perth, Australia, artist Lee Musgrave currently lives and works in the US. He favors a visual language that explores the shallow picture plane and is abstract as well as representational. Musgrave is intrigued by images that blur the border between the virtual and the real. He specializes in abstract photography, for which he has received several awards.

INTERVIEW | Francesca Falli

INTERVIEW | Francesca Falli

Francesca Falli is an Italian painter and mixed media artist. Her works are inspired by Pop Art painters with revisions, experimentations, provocations. Her ability to experiment led her to create an innovative way of 'artistic work', where painting and decoration are contaminated by the opportunities of the new digital technique. Continuous research leads her to the production of the "Pollage" series.

INTERVIEW | Caterina Carraro

INTERVIEW | Caterina Carraro

Coming from user experience design, Caterina has extensively studied human perception and sensory interaction (particularly the visual and cerebral variety). As she is fascinated by the study of perception and stimulus processing in immersive human-interface experiences, she decided to ask questions about the future of co-existence on our planet.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Lamona

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Lamona

Rebecca Lamona is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In her works, she mainly uses photography and painting. She defines her work as "pieces of memory", that she creates mixing analog photography and painting, to partially remove elements from the photograph. Lamona's work aims to leave identifiable traces, trapping the memories and transforming them into matter.

INTERVIEW | Mariaceleste Arena

INTERVIEW | Mariaceleste Arena

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.

INTERVIEW | Sandy Michel

INTERVIEW | Sandy Michel

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.

INTERVIEW | Shee Gomes

INTERVIEW | Shee Gomes

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.

INTERVIEW | Ko Smith

INTERVIEW | Ko Smith

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.

INTERVIEW | Joas Nebe

INTERVIEW | Joas Nebe

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."

INTERVIEW | Kiki Klimt

INTERVIEW | Kiki Klimt

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.

INTERVIEW | Khaldun Oluwa

INTERVIEW | Khaldun Oluwa

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.

INTERVIEW | Clara Lemos

INTERVIEW | Clara Lemos

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.

INTERVIEW | German Bustamante

INTERVIEW | German Bustamante

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.