As a visual artist, my works are not intended for personal enjoyment alone but to explore complex issues of international politics, economics, war and peace, and state and international relations through the language of art. These works are not only part of the international political landscape but also an objective reflection of the current realities of people's lives.
In my work, my desire is to bring the viewer into a space where they become open to the forces of imagination and spirit. I believe Art can transform us. I believe art can take us to a new awareness, create new sensations, and form. For me, the act of painting is an act of spiritual practice. I enter the painting with body and mind, searching for the images as I wander through the canvas, pickup my guitar, play piano or sit down to write. I am a conjugated artist, working across poetics.
Reinhardt Takeo Hollstein is a Seattle-based mixed-media artist renowned for pioneering the fusion of traditional painting with interactive technology. Born in Salina, Kansas, in 1961, he relocated to Seattle at a young age and developed a passion for art early on.
Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 47 years as a pioneer in digital imaging and digital sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 80 solo and 260 group exhibitions, including “Corinne Whitaker: Digital Mindscapes” at the Monterey Museum of Art, “Corinne Whitaker dot Uncom” at the San Bernardino County Museum, “No Rules” at the Peninsula Museum in Burlingame, CA., and “CyberSphere” at Stanford University.
The seemingly chaotic application of lines (cross hatches) is intentional, I'm trying to follow in line of the post divisionist paintings, creating a unified fabric of the plane, modeling with parallel hatch marks would go against this, and would make it more of a plastic approach, and would emphasize the distinction of background foreground. In short I'm trying to arrive at impressionistic use of ink as the medium with surreal or symbolic mindset.
My goal is to make artwork that is so beautiful it cuts to the heart of what is true, to create art that is of this moment, but exists as something timeless. It resonates with the person viewing the work as real although it is not quite realistic. It has meaning, although that is not specifically stated because of its use of color or symbolism, or imagery.
After almost three decades of creating art instinctually, I realised my method has a long tradition called Surrealist Automatism. I had finally found a home in Art History. The simple act of putting myself aside and see what wants to be created, has led me on a long creative journey.
Katerina Stavrou is a contemporary visual artist based in Larnaca, Cyprus. She began her academic journey in 2007, studying Visual Arts at the University of Salford, and later graduated with distinction in Fine Art (BA Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011.
My artistic practice spans prints, oil paintings, and sculptures—ranging from portraiture and life studies to relief and abstract works. It is driven by a continual investigation into how life’s experiences shape emotions and thoughts over time. In my prints, this is explored through abstract lines; in my paintings, through colour and texture.
Jocelyn Hobbie is a visual artist based in New York City known for her brilliantly painted canvases of attractive young women in introspective states. She creates a situation of inadvertent voyeurism with the viewer drawn into circumstances where personal judgment becomes subsumed by an overall mood.
Katinka Lampe paints portraits. Or at least, you can clearly recognise the representation of a person. Yet, this is not the main motive of the painting. The portrait merely serves as reason to make the painting. The portrait is the imagery concept. Her paintings greatly appeal to the beholders.
My work is about taking reference from various sources including books, the net and photos to comprise and create my own imagery. By creating my paintings through reference or made up elements, there becomes a play between artificiality and realism.
In her painterly practice, Naomi Okubo develops beautiful and seductive images that mask darker themes relating to her adolescence and that are connected to greater problems and inconsistencies in society.
Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
Toyin Ojin Odutola was born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1985, and later moved with her family to Alabama. In 2007 she was selected to attend the Norfolk Summer Residency for Music and Art at Yale University and continued her studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She then earned her master’s degree in Painting and Drawing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2012. She currently lives and works in New York.
Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare, Romania) graduated in 2001 from the University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania.
Anne is a Brazilian visual artist who studied Fine Arts at the University of Belas Artes de São Paulo. Her work is distinguished by a unique ability to capture emotions, blending restlessness and tenderness to create vibrant and expressive paintings. Since childhood, art has been a defining presence in her life, profoundly shaping her creative journey.
Neo Rauch's paintings are characterized by a unique combination of realism and surrealist abstraction. In many of his compositions, human figures engaged in manual labor or indeterminable tasks work against backdrops of mundane architecture, industrial settings, or bizarre and often barren landscapes.
Rebeccah Klodt stands as a beacon in today’s artistic landscape. Her work is not just relevant; it is necessary. It reminds us that art, at its best, does not tell us what to think or feel. It gives us the space to remember that we already know. In every brushstroke, every textured fold of canvas, and every mirrored glint, Klodt leaves us not with conclusions, but with the courage to keep asking beautiful questions.
In the fluid, ever-redefining world of contemporary visual art, few voices carry both the weight of philosophy and the poetry of form quite like Jeong-Ah Zhang. Born, raised, and based in Seoul, South Korea, she emerges not just as a painter, but as a profound existentialist who uses canvas, color, and symbol as portals to metaphysical dialogue. Her work defies the binary of image and meaning, instead functioning as a continual meditation on what it means to see, to feel, to exist.
