Contemporary Art Curator

Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Painting to me has been a spiritual journey for over 50 years. I have to my credit more than 300 paintings of oils on canvas. My genre of art is photo-realism, expressionism and hyper-realism. I am particularly passionate about preserving Nature and my intention and purpose is to bring awareness to the beauty of the environment we live in so that we as human beings take action to preserve and appreciate all aspects of it: Through portraits of people, birds and animals - I bring out the true essence of their personalities and immortalize their moments.

Nov 26

Nov 26 Interview with Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo

Contemporary Art, Interview, Illustration

Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo, born in Jerez de la Frontera, is a grotesque, tragicomic, and unapologetically absurd alter ego of his creator—a surreal mix of Andalusian roots, cosmopolitan wanderlust, and obsessive curiosity. His art is naïve, conceptual, and intentionally imperfect: flat perspectives, rudimentary techniques, and unpredictable outcomes give each piece kitsch, personality, and grotesque charm. Inspired by eccentric people, peculiar anecdotes, and the absurdities of life—from Holy Week processions with freshmen balanced on doors, to goat-bleating classmates, to the chaos of global cities.

Nov 26

Nov 26 Interview with Ursa Schoepper

Contemporary Art, Interview, Photography

The beauty of experimental art lies in the fact that the value of an idea cannot be mathematically calculated. Digital resources operate according to the code of "either/or." However, playing with an artistic idea is not computable. Creativity and innovation follow a both/and principle. The photographic artist as constructor is a creator, not a draftsman, not a graphic artist, not a copyist. As a phantom of light, photography becomes the bearers for an artistic vision. Image skin, artificial skin, forms the blueprint for another possibility.

Nov 26

Nov 26 Interview with David Poyant

Contemporary Art, Interview, Mixed Media

David Poyant is a contemporary embroidery artist whose work transforms the traditional craft of needlework into a powerful form of visual storytelling. Entirely hand-sewn, his pieces merge fine-art composition with the intimacy of textiles, creating richly textured worlds one stitch at a time. Beginning his artistic life later in adulthood, Poyant brings to his practice a deep sense of reinvention, memory, and lived experience. His decades as a cobbler and craftsman inform the patience, precision, and tactile sensitivity that define his work today.

Nov 23

Nov 23 Interview with Lon Levin

Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

My work pokes at that uneasy space between structure and entropy — what I like to call “controlled chaos,” because frankly, that’s what life looks like when you take the training wheels off. Every piece is its own little ecosystem, humming along with its own rules, moods, and mischief. I’m fascinated by how order crawls out of disorder, how meaning sneaks in through the cracks when forms, colors, and movements collide like they’ve had too much coffee.

Nov 22

Nov 22 Artist Spotlight - Frank Gonzales

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.

Nov 22

Nov 22 Interview with Margaretha Gubernale

Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

The figures allude to the practice of spirituality, to love of nature and humanity. Dialogue with God expands thought and the senses. The strands of light in my paintings symbolize forces, for example, the sun with its warmth and growth power, and the moon with its effect on water, especially on the sea with its ebb and flow, and on births, since humans are largely composed of water.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Artist Spotlight - Jocelyn Hobbie

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.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Artist Spotlight - Katinka Lampe

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.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Artist Spotlight - Naomi Okubo

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.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Paco Pomet

Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .

Nov 21

Nov 21 Peter Doig

A leader of his generation, Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who was able to propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. In a time when new techniques were dominating and when painters and painting, in general, were considered quaintly anachronistic, he forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting landscape vistas.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Guy Yanai

Israeli oil painter Guy Yanai captures peaceful moments featuring architecture and plants. Often merging indoor and outdoor perspectives, Yanai presents placid scenes devoid of human figures. Instead, scraggly houseplants and open doors and windows act as visual focal points, suggesting the presence of human life that may have potted the plant or propped open the door.

Nov 21

Nov 21 Interview with Tina Mader

Painting, Contemporary Art, Interview

Tina Corrales-Mader is an American artist born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
She began her love of visual arts at a very young age mesmerized by Mexican folk art all around her. Growing up, Tina quickly recognized that colors, shapes, forms, music, and creativity is such a basic necessity and she needed to embrace it in any form.

Nov 17

Nov 17 Artist Spotlight - Eva Berler

Contemporary Art, Photography

My engagement with photography has rekindled my relationship with both nature and my inner world. My work revolves around nature, urban settings, macro subjects, abstract forms, and fine art photography. Rather than seeking out the extraordinary, I am drawn to the hidden, quiet, and often overlooked aspects of daily life. I seek to uncover beauty, wonder, and poetry within the ordinary, shaping what I call "my little mundane world."

Nov 16

Nov 16 Artist Spotlight - Ash Arash Bigdeli

Contemporary Art, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Ash Arash Bigdeli (pronounced: âraš, IPA: [ʔɒːˈɾæʃ]) has been working as a jeweler, sculptor, and later as a prop and set builder in the film industry across various countries since the 1990s. With over three decades of experience in wood carving, jewelry-making, pottery, and sculpture, his artistic journey has resulted in the creation of many large and small 3D forms and sculptures, some of which are held in private collections or featured in public art projects worldwide. Since 1992, he has participated in four solo exhibitions and eleven group pottery and sculpture exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.

Nov 14

Nov 14 Artist Spotlight - Sukey Camacho

Sukey Camacho It’s a self taught Artist and, She is Born in Mexico and Currently living in United States of America. Studied Classical European Art for 4 years at a private school in Sofia Art Academy in Dallas Texas and now she’s winning a Multiple International Awards with the most prestigious Elite Certifications Titles and with the most highly degree Diploma from the Royal court of the “ Duke "of Chania, Greece. And she’s was selected for the important award and recognized Globally for ”Art Legend of Our Time”in the prestigious Art Contemporary Art Collectors Magazine.

Nov 10

Nov 10 Marcelle Mansour

Art Review, Contemporary Art, Painting

Marcelle Mansour’s contribution to contemporary art extends beyond her technical achievements. Her oeuvre embodies a new model of artistic consciousness one that merges intellect with intuition, individual expression with universal message. In a cultural climate often dominated by irony and detachment, Mansour reasserts the sacred function of art: to restore wonder, to provoke reflection, to heal. Her work invites viewers to look beyond surfaces to perceive with what she calls “the third eye,” that inner faculty of vision capable of discerning the invisible truths beneath appearances.

Nov 8

Nov 8 Artist Spotlight - Hans van Wingerden