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.
Marcelo Pedrozo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lover of the abstract, he combines the color palette with emotions and moods of mind to create his art pieces. He Marcelo Pedrozo visualises different states of mind to create his artwork, based on the game of colors and textures, as well as using different elements such as spatulas, rolls and even hands.
Olivia De La Rosa is a cubist and surrealist artist from Spain with a profound connection to synesthesia and quantum physics. Her pieces delve into the concept of time as a relative force, embracing the idea that time can feel flexible. De La Rosa's work is a profound exploration of the complex relationship between time and existence, an ephemeral moment frozen in eternity.
Anastasia Vazquez de Miguel is a contemporary-traditional artist from the vibrant city of Miami, Florida. Her artistic journey was influenced by the rich cultural heritage, blending the colorful tapestry of Russian and Spanish roots. With a profound belief in the arts for expression, she explores themes related to thoughts, emotions, nature, and fantasies to express the soul with different mediums and connections from individuals and cultures.
Risa Koyanagi is a versatile artist from Japan and an amateur philosopher contributing to peacebuilding. Philosophy, art, and peacebuilding are the three main pillars of her work. For her, it is essential to be able to see the true nature of the subject matter with a keen eye for observation, to continue to question society and to take action without being constrained by artificial frames of nationality, race, and age.
Turner is a self-taught artist, born in Alba-Iulia, Romania, and currently bases in Los Angeles, USA. Bianca Turner's art is deeply inspired by nature, its vivid colors, and the societal issues surrounding her. She sees art as "the definition of infinity," and her work explores the continuous transmutation of the evolving essence of life and nature. Visions and words turn into colors and textures to create new narratives in this dimension of infinity.
Peggy Peiting Huang is a multidisciplinary artist pushing the boundaries of creative expression. Born in Taipei, she is currently based in London. At the core of Peggy's artistic narrative lies a compelling exploration of personal identity intricately interwoven with the dichotomies of traditional and contemporary Taiwanese culture, offering viewers a glimpse into the nuances of her heritage and the ever-evolving cultural landscape that shapes her worldview.
Arão Pinto, born in Brazil in 1979, is an artist who loves the splendor of color and specializes in abstract art. Of course, his origins also play a role in his works. The rainforest with its abundant colors and sounds, nature in its almost lavish abundance, animals, are all reflected in the exuberant colors and dynamism of his paintings and influenced him and his work.
Aishwarya Krishnan is a Bangalore-based painter and illustrator with roots in Kerala. Her works primarily revolve around scenes from her time growing up in India, often paying homage to her cultural heritage and family history. Most painted scenes are from nod to the artist’s family background as well. Coming from a long lineage of painters, including Raja Ravi Varma, she intends to bring an impressionist take to Indian scenes.
Natalia Pechenkina is an interior painting artist from Russia. She employs a diverse range of contemporary techniques in her work, such as bar-relief, sculptural and volumetric painting, mirrors, FluidArt, and epoxy resin. Natalia's art draws heavily from the natural shades of her region, with the foundational colors mirroring the scenic landscapes of Siberia.
Darío Berterreche is a visual artist and painter from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He sees his practice as an act of faith, of absolute surrender, towards an infinite becoming. Starting from the unexpected and from the movement that every improvisation proposes, the works are generated, giving rise to whatever chance determines. His inspiration comes from the natural environment that surrounds him.
Viktoria Adkozalova is a Ukrainian artist. Her creations traverse the enigmatic realms of the Universe, capturing the essence of existence and the relentless march of time. Drawing parallels with the String Theory, her works postulate that the tiniest of particles – the strings resonate to sculpt our cosmos. Every brushstroke seeks to unravel a world of emotions, attempting to bridge the chasm between the artwork and the beholder's soul.
Lavia (Yanzi) Lin (b.1995) is a Berlin-based abstract artist and live painting performer from Shanghai, China. Lavia’s art invites the viewers to enter an imaginary dream-like world with visual sounds and harmonious colours. She takes strong conceptual references from music and sounds to create expressive abstract soundscapes. Her works are often inspired by and moved by the imagined organic shapes and shifting sounds of jazz.
Carmen Aztibia is an Argentinian artist, based in Buenos Aires. As an active walker, she observes her surroundings, aware of the vitality that each city has today, from which she takes references. The landscape is also a strong trigger in her poetics. Tightening the boundaries between the self-referential and the collective, her work seeks to reflect on being in society, on exchange as human beings, and on how we collectively inhabit geography.
Antonia-Maria Platzer is a Italian multi-disciplinary artist and designer currently based in Berlin. The main interest within their practice involves creating a cosmos of their own in which they can manifest a colorful safe haven for their inner child or, as they like to call it, a ‘revolution for softies’, based on real-life experiences as well as research-based symbologies, theories, and storytelling from around the world.
Pamela Scherson (1994, Mexico City), AKA La Changa Pachanga, is a tattoo artist and street artist based in Mexico City. In her artistic practice, La Changa is consistently drawn to capturing aspects of pop culture through the lens of her inner child's ignorant perspective. She prioritizes spontaneity and embraces intentional mistakes, aiming to shed light on the unconventional beauty found within ignorance.
Born in Cameroon and raised in Lebanon during the civil war of 1975, Katia Aoun Hage moved to the United States, where she resides with her husband and three children. Her life is filled with music, poetry, writing, translation, painting, and running a publishing company, Elyssar Press, in Redlands. Katia loves to collaborate with artists and writers.
Olumide Egunlae is a painter and art educator based in Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa, whose works celebrate and treasure his African traditions, backgrounds, values, and culture. He focuses his paintings on the local eccentric and ordinary rites of his people and portrays what his ancestors have built for average African communities. He finds the beauty in them and translates them into his colorful and beautiful paintings.
Nataliia Kutykhina is a painter, originally from Ukraine. In her work, the author explores the world around her, events, history, science, and philosophy; all facets of our universe are interesting. Every day she discovers something new in art. There are no boundaries in creativity, and each creation conveys not only the world of the artist but is also an integral part of our world, like a grain of sand is part of a vast desert.
Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.
Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993 - Turin, Northern Italy) is a contemporary artist whose background is linked to sensitive factors. Alberto works with acrylics, self-made natural pigments, sprays, oil pastels, oil, and more unconventional mediums and supports, both in painting, sculptures, drawing, and private or public wall paintings, continually seeking a bridge between the abstract and the figurative approaches.
