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.
Zhengyuan Gao, known by his artistic alias Cooper, is an emerging artist with a rich and diverse background. In his paintings, Cooper embarks on a quest to uncover the hidden poetic essence of the episodes he confronted. Through brushstrokes, colours, and shapes, he weaves a tapestry of different kinds of logic, a poetic logic, delicately interlacing the threads of his imagination.
Iona Hassanscott is a 21-year-old artist. She is of mixed Scottish and Egyptian heritage but was born in South Wales, where she currently lives, studying mechanical engineering full-time at university. Iona’s favorite medium is oil paint. Her work is expressive and thought-provoking - inspired by the natural world and the intricacies of human and societal behavior.
M.J. Hinson is a visual artist and professor. Her latest series, Impassioned Emotions, brings color and movement to our positive and negative feelings, allowing the viewer the freedom to have their own emotional response to each piece. Renowned for large-scale murals and acclaimed studio work, she has garnered prestigious honors.
Jemima Charrett-Dykes is an artist whose output is primarily autobiographical, drawing from experiences in childhood and the aftermaths of psychosis as a result of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Using art-making as a therapeutic outlet, Jemima's work often references her past and the traumas linked to her body both physically and mentally.
Roberto Valdez, aka Xango, has an incurable habit. It is to adorn any blank canvas as he sees fit. To beautify or mystify. He paints to express vision, to please and engage the senses. His affair with art began at an early age as a means to escape confined conditions that tethered others. The exploration with the power of the pencil sparked his endless imagination.
Stephen Von Mason strives to make art that creates a response and evokes a desperately needed challenge. His stylized work revolves around showcasing excellence and promoting cultural healing. His imagery has intense color and a sense of emergency indicative of what is needed for rebuilding a cultural lobotomy.
Svetlana Klaise (b. 1978) is a self-taught painter based in Latvia. She experiments with various styles, including abstraction, landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes, to capture her emotional impressions of beauty in the world. Much of Klaise’s work draws from personal memories and contemplations about childhood, family, and nature. She employs thoughtful composition and color contrasts to express meaning rather than pursue photorealism.
Pato Reichler is an Argentinian artist. Over the past six years, she has dedicated herself to painting her own interpretation of the classic stories (Little Red Riding Hood, Butterfly Lovers, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio, and Alicia, among others). Her goal is to get through them to the most childish part that we all have inside, and at the same time, mobilize the viewer with the psychological side of her works.
Working predominantly with oil painting, clay, and photography, artist and social justice advocate Anrike Piel (b. 1993), with womanhood in focus, contributes her perspective on the enduring impact of intergenerational trauma on individuals and society, the plight of refugees, and societal reflections. Her work aims to catalyse change, challenge perceptions, and advocate for a more empathetic world.
Nipun Manda is a multidisciplinary US artist of Indian descent. Art has always been an important part of his life. His paintings incorporate globalization with their own multi-ethnic heritage, believing that paintings convey his rich experience. For Nipun, Art is a universal language that enhances the awareness, as well as the understanding of other cultures.
Daniel Kanow is a distinguished visual and kinetic artist, currently residing and practicing in Telluride. Kanow seamlessly combines various media, including acrylics, oils, canvas, wood, plexiglass, and unconventional tools, to produce works that captivate the observer with their dynamic and contemplative essence.
Noelle Kalom grew up in the dynamic high desert of Taos, New Mexico, surrounded by a community of artists. Some of the ideas that inform her paintings come from early experiences at Taos Pueblo, where she witnessed and began a lifelong appreciation for the power of fire, mystery, ritual, and ceremony. Her abstract paintings embody the intensity and topography of the American Southwestern landscape.
Maitreyee Nimbolkar is a self-taught artist based in Pune, India. Maitreyee loves telling stories of her dreams, thoughts, and experiences through her works. Over eight years, her artistic practice has evolved to create a visual experience, which is very personal for her, it being a manifestation of my lifestyle choices. She works in a range of mediums such as oils, acrylics, watercolour, gouache, mixed media, etc.
Alisa Teletović, 1974, is a prominent and independent Bosnian Herzegovina and Australian artist. As an expressive and figurative artist, she is almost like a visual storyteller of her own life and all its complexities. Drawn to the expressive power of figurative art, believing that artistic creativity is a universal language, Alisa is capable of conveying bad and good emotions in her art.
Patricia Daher (b. 1988, United States) is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, poet, and environmental activist. works are created with the intention of promoting peace through the balance of human societies with the natural world. Daher creates autobiographical paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, and performance works that contribute to expanding the boundaries of Conceptual, New Surrealist, Visionary, and Symbolic Art.
Aleksandra de Pan is a painter of Russian origin currently living in Italy (Florence), which, thanks to its landmark art, culture, and nature, contributed to the further development of her artistic vein. Today, she has received several recognitions from some of the sector's leading critics and has showcased her works at a number of exhibitions, both domestically as well as internationally.
Zain Majeed is a self-taught Chicagoland-based artist and fashion designer. Many of the concepts that appear in his work are centered around politically and emotionally charged themes of ethnicity, religion, mental health, individualism, love, and death. These themes allow him to have an outlet to communicate the vulnerabilities and anxieties that each of these concepts bring about.
Janvi Choksi is a growing visual artist whose work is driven by a profound exploration of abstraction and the emotive power of colour. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, she is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Visual Arts at Emory University. Janvi’s artistic journey is marked by an insatiable curiosity and a commitment to translating personal experiences into evocative visual narratives.
Anna Gaikovich is a contemporary artist who specializes in mixed techniques. She is an artist dedicated to exploring life's contrasts and contradictions through the transformation of artistic mediums and themes. Anna reflects these issues through a unique art creation method known as metacollaging, which involves a mix of non-obvious elements, colors, figurative elements, and abstractions.
