IRIS FLUIDISM

IRIS FLUIDISM

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

In the work of IRIS FLUIDISM, the image does not begin as a contour but as current. Before line, before likeness, before even the face announces itself as subject, there is flow. A chromatic tide moves across the paper, swelling into bands of color that fold, spill, gather, and reassemble into the recognizable architectures of human and animal presence. It is within this tension between dissolution and form that her practice finds its distinctive authority. IRIS does not paint figures; she releases them from the liquidity that already inhabits them.

Rose Masterpol

Rose Masterpol

ContemporaryArtCurator
Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

In the vast terrain of contemporary abstraction, where the language of geometry has been repeatedly rehearsed, dismantled, and reassembled over the last century, Rose Masterpol’s work stands as an act of renewal rather than repetition. Across a career spanning more than three decades, she has cultivated a painterly vocabulary that is both deeply informed by the history of modernism and resolutely anchored in the urgencies of the present. Her canvases do not quote the past as ornament. They inhabit it, metabolize it, and release it into a new field of formal and emotional resonance.

Artist Spotlight - Hana Godine

Artist Spotlight - Hana Godine

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

As a painter, I pay attention to the commonalities between people and the relationships they have with their environments. My artistic motivations and decisions draw from what I know and what I don’t, my own rational and intuitive observations, and preexisting visual and written languages. I think about painting as a space that mediates time and place, bringing together people from a globalized world, and reconciling the past, present, and future into one unified form.

Artist Spotlight - Nadiya Jinnah

Artist Spotlight - Nadiya Jinnah

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Nadiya Jinnah as a “quad-continent” of Indian heritage was born in Uganda, East Africa. In her teens she moved to London to study Art. There she received her graduate, masters and fellowship in painting and sculpture. She found a way to develop a groundbreaking process that allowed her to merge sculpture and painting. She finally fulfilled her dream to move to New York City where she has been living for many years now This blend of varied backgrounds had created what she called “a force of artistic inspiration”. By questioning everything, she found She needed to transfer an infinite perspective of life into abstract Art.

Artist Spotlight - Mio Tahara

Artist Spotlight - Mio Tahara

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

I am Japanese and was born in Tokyo in 1959. It seems that around elementary school age, my art teacher had told me to develop my talent. I only found out about this recently. My mother didn't approve of my drawings. I somehow managed to convince my parents, and entered university without attending much prep school. Musashino Art University is a university that trains artists.

Interview with Ramón Rivas

Interview with Ramón Rivas

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

In Rivismo, the threshold at which lived experience becomes a pictorial gesture does not appear to be a blurred or accidental boundary, but rather a deliberately explored space where awareness is heightened. It is a conscious threshold in the sense that it requires the artist's intention and knowledge of the material, who "listens" to the object before incorporating it into the narrative space of the work.

Artist Spotlight - Britta Ortiz

Artist Spotlight - Britta Ortiz

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

I was born in 1959 in Denmark. While I was in high school, I took a preparatory course for the art academy, because art was already a big part of my life at that time. However, I never applied to the art academy because my parents were strongly against it. Instead, I applied to university and studied medicine. Since then, I have also studied psychology and completed a master's degree in health anthropology because I love learning new things.

Artist Spotlight - Thia Path

Artist Spotlight - Thia Path

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Thia Path, born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and active in Piacenza (Italy), is an artist who has transformed color into an identity-driven language and a distinctive expressive force. After a solid background as an architect and educator, and years of research exploring art, matter, and space, her encounter with the work of Mark Rothko marked a decisive turning point: from that moment on, painting became her absolute territory.

Interview with Sara McKenzie

Interview with Sara McKenzie

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

My painting is less an act of depiction than one of discovery — an inquiry shaped by a life lived between scientific research and visual art. After four decades in biotechnology, where hypothesis, experimentation, and revision were daily practice, I came to understand that rigor and imagination are not opposites but partners. That understanding underpins my work.

Interview with Craig Robb

Interview with Craig Robb

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Sculpture

Part of my artistic practice involves the tradition of using multiples to form or create art. Where I combine several of the same item to make a cohesive piece. The aim is to create a singular object made from many by taking them out of context and transforming them. The altering of an everyday common object into something other than what they were originally intended for. Utilizing the linear visual aspects of the original item in combination to become a dimensional form and to challenge our perceptions and encourage us to see the beauty and potential in the mundane.

Artist Spotlight - Aristi Hadjisavva

Artist Spotlight - Aristi Hadjisavva

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

I was born in the lovely city of Paphos in Cyprus and I am a self-taught artist. I studied Business Administration and Hotel Management but I ended working in our family textiles business. At the age of 28 I started creating art as an internal necessity and a way to communicate my worries for the world and express my psychosynthesis at the time of creation. I am continually experimenting with combining strong colours, trying to express strong emotions through colour on my canvases. My work is an exploration of the human essence in its most stripped-back, spiritual form.

Interview with Lynne Douglas

Interview with Lynne Douglas

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Photography

Lynne Douglas is a Scottish-based photographic artist working from the Isle of Skye and the outer Hebrides, internationally recognised for her atmospheric photography and large-format seascapes. Her practice moves between representation and abstraction, using long exposure and camera movement to create calming yet moody coastal works that prioritise atmosphere over description. Rather than documenting landscape, she constructs immersive visual experiences rooted in light, duration and emotional resonance.

Interview with Jaehee Yoo

Interview with Jaehee Yoo

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

For me, drawing a line is akin to breath meditation. The process of reaching inner stillness closely parallels my creative practice. The tension and shifting emotions generated by short and long breaths condense into images—unspoken states of sorrow, solitude, or even joy. Rather than constructing form through line, I seek to record the places where thought and emotion briefly came to rest.

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