Born 1968, Stuttgart, Germany. Lives in New York, NY.
All in Painting
Interview with Kana Hawa
What is a barrier you as an artist overcame? Is there anything that enabled you to develop your work as an artist in your life?
As an artist, I don't have much trouble expressing myself. Because I've absorbed a lot of things, and I've always expressed them as art, and my expression has always evolved. The problem with my activities as an artist is how to get people to see my work. I'm not rich, so I needed some ingenuity to spread my work. We've solved them by using the Internet effectively, but it's not perfect yet. We will have to continue to deal with those problems.
Interview with Elly Cho
Elly Cho has exhibited around the world and holds numerous awards. Her art explores the intersection between nature, the environment and human behaviour, across various mediums including mixed media, video and performance art.
Interview with Fina Ferrara
Fina Ferrara is a mexican performer and video artist. She has been invited to perform in MARCO Contemporary Art Museum, MUNE Museum, EL CENTENARIO Museum, and FAMA Contemporary Art Fair in Monterrey, Mexico.
Maria José Cabral
I was born on 30 January 1993 in Lisbon where I live and work. In 2014 I graduated in Sculpture from the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon and in 2018 I completed my master’s degree in Painting by the same University.
Interview with Chrice MAYOUMA
Chrice MAYOUMA is a French contemporary painter born in Brazzaville, Congo in 1985.
Passionate about painting and drawing since his childhood, he is an unconventional and self-taught artist who did not follow a classical academic path.
Having done his artistic education at home, he has always drawn from his daily experiences to work on his creations as a diary.
Interview with Angelo Vanoni
Angelo Vanoni was born in Daverio, a municipality in the province of Varese. After attending the Brera Academy he moved to Florence, Rome, New York. He currently lives and works in Bologna.
Interview with Gloria Keh
DID YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU WANTED TO CREATE RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING?
Yes, the concept may be clear in my mind, and ideas may be there but I believe in the process of the becoming of the work. If I get out of the way, and stay quiet enough to tune in to my inner being, I then see the work unfolding with different eyes. There is great wisdom within us, so why not work together with this innate wisdom, than against it?
Interview with Jae Young Park
Jae Young Park was born in Korea in 1973 and graduated from Sunhwa Arts Middle School and Kaywon Arts High School. He also holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Chung-Ang University.
From 2003 to 2021, he had 15 invitations and solo exhibitions. In addition, he has received several special awards. 2021 London Art Biennale “Painting Award”, 2021-2020 Aesthetica Art Prize/Future Now: 100 Artists Selection, KNOT Award Excellent Artist Selection, CICA Museum of Art 'Korean Young Artist Selection, Korean Art Award (3 times), Special Exhibition Art Song Eun Art Award, Received the Seoripul Art Award, and participated in famous groups such as Hangaram Art Museum, Sejong Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, and Seoul Arts Center. In 2007, the work sold out at Christie's in Hong Kong.
It was also exhibited and sold at 2020 SCOPE NY, 2019 Asia Contemporary Art SHOW, 2019 ART ASIA, KIAF2007, DOORS ART FAIR 2015 and 2018, and Affordable Art Fair Milan.
Interview with Russell Pulford
Russell was born and educated in England, he now resides in Australia. After many years of promises Russell finally became a full time artist in 2015. He finds inspiration for his work from our landscapes and the many natural wonders that they contain. Russell usually works with acrylic paints using palette knives. He is an environmentalist, he hopes that his landscape painting is a connection for people and reminds them of the importance of protecting and caring for the environment.
Ming Ying
Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint.
Her recent works mainly reflects a kind of collision between reality and unreality that can happen in the everyday world, such as when listening to music or seeing something familiar that creates a mental image. Such collisions intersect with daily experience. She is interested in the sense of such collision which is produced in a delicate relationship of contradiction and harmony in painting.
Interview with Kallista Ivanova
What are your ultimate career goals?
My main career goal is constant work, this is a creative process, this is the creation of new works of art, this is the creation of new artistic images. When I create new works of art, I live, for me it is a sign of life.
Interview with Chan Suk On
How do you go about beginning a new piece? Do you have an idea already in mind, or do you start working with materials or sketches to find the departure point?
Improvisation is a mode of creation, without any sketches, making artworks based on feelings. Choosing background paper and test the lighting to take a shot. After finishing the work, I will look for different people, such as relatives, classmates and friends to see their reactions and opinions. The process of sharing works is very interesting, they have different backgrounds and professions. Sometimes I will accept the opinions of others and modify the work. Originality is very important.
Interview with Nandan He
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
I would describe myself as a combination of conflict, but I enjoy the vibe of it, it makes me think about the relationship between me and the world all the time. I guess I will describe my artwork as a vague flowing cognition of illusion. Art to me is a life time project, I’m not in a rush, and yet to have a conclusion.
Interview with Pato Reichler
Did you have an idea of what you wanted to create right from the beginning?
I always knew what I wanted to create. I was always passionate about classic stories, but I wanted to give them a twist. I try to show the psychological part that all these stories have and demonstrate that, no matter how old the stories are they are still very current. In my opinion, that is why people are attracted to my work because one way or another they identified themselves with it.
Interview with Petra Stefankova
Petra Štefanková studied graphic design and film and TV graphics in Bratislava and Prague, and she took a short course at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts London. She has worked on advertising, editorial, animation and publishing projects for the University of Udine in Italy, Lynda.com, Microsoft Games Studios, Orange, The Guardian, The Economist, Popular Mechanics, Dialogue Review and Future Music. She collaborated with VooDooDog Animation in London on the animated title sequence for the Hollywood film Nanny McPhee 2. She is an author, designer and illustrator of books Moje malé more, Don't take my dreams from me, Čmáranica a Machuľa. Petra Štefanková is a winner of many awards, such as Channel4's 4Talent Award 2007, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic Award 2019, the Artist of the Future Award 2020, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Her works have been published in many publications and exhibited all around the world.
Interview with Aaron Cristofaro
What is the meaning or creative inspiration for your work? We’re curious what the narrative or story is to what you are producing?
The meaning of my portraits is to carry on the traditions of the old masters and to try to display emotion and different feelings in my artworks. I guess the narrative of my artworks like the portraits is to achieve a likeness that is inspired by the old masters although original.
Interview with Beryl Jazvic
My artworks are a series of paintings of people. I often focus on the eyes to help emphasize the emotions and to enhance communications between the viewer and the piece. Each painting has its own story to tell, and the faces, the texture, the emotions, and the artist helps to tell that story. I enjoy painting in the expressionist style but with the ultimate control of the brush strokes and surface texture.
Interview with Patylene Arts
There are lots of ways to express art, with music, painting, sculpture, dancing, theater, and etc. Nature itself is the most perfect art that exists. The sound of the birds singing, the sound of the sea, the wind blowing, we reproduce with the music; a variety of incredible colors, thousands of shades, light, shadows, we reproduce in the painting; the movement of the seawater, of the leaves of the trees, we reproduce with the dancing.
Interview with Elena Dobrovolskaya
Elena Dobrovolskaya is a New York-based Russian-trained artist working in Contemporary Realism style primarily in oil and pastel. She exhibited broadly in the US and Europe, including New York, London, Paris, Lisbon, Venice, Rome, and Milan. Elena was awarded International Prize “Artist of the Year 2019” during Mantova ArtExpo in Italy, Velasquez Prize in Barcelona, and Leonardo da Vinci Prize in Florence in 2020.
Her art was published in French, Italian and British magazines (House&Garden, GQ, Aesthetica) as well as in “We Contemporary 2019” art volume in Italy, “50 artists to invest in” art catalog in 2020 and “Trends in Art: Insights for Collectors” in Great Britain in 2021.