Art & Beyond July / August 2016

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Vol. 37 • July/August• 2016

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Giancarlo Flati

FREE FLIGHT. 80 cm x 100 cm

oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

Ariel Gold

URBAN ATMOSPHERE. Acrylic on Canvas, 40" x 30"

Vol. 37 • July/August• 2016

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CONTENTS

In This issue:

In the July/August issue Art & Beyond continued to cover an upcoming and passed events where under our column Point of Interest we published a few articles about Art! Vancouver which took a place in May 2016; Two articles by Vered Galor “Realism to Abstraction” the group show at SNMFA in Las Vegas, NV and “Mother and Daughter Remember” the current group show at City Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV of two amazing artists, Holocaust survivors and educators; “Talking To Hear Our Threads Rattle” An Exhibition of Fiber Based Art at the Conde Contemporary Project Space, Little Havana, FL. In this issue we added a new column Critique where we published a very interesting article

by John Sevigny “The Interwoven Modernism of Darian Rodriguez Mederos” who’s work exclusively presented by Conde Contemporary Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

Cover

Back Cover

Giancarlo Flati

H. Allen Benowitz

Inside Front Cover

Inside Back Cover

Ariel Gold

Gabi Domenig

Art & Beyond is proud to announce the following winners published in this issue.

Congratulations to Giancarlo Flati his artwork “Free flight” won the Front Cover for July/August Online Magazine.

The Inside Front Cover won Ariel Gold for her work "Urban Atmosphere" .

The Back Cover won a wonderful photography by H. Allen Benowitz "Cloud Revelation.

And Inside Back Cover was awarded to Gabi Domenig for her colorful work “Sisters”.

We would like to congratulate those artists who

have been chosen as Publishers Choice Award winners in this issue for their outstanding artwork.

The Publisher Choice Award to be published and promoted in the July/August issue was given to following artists: Natalya Parris, Sandy Den Hartog, Taras Bibilashvili, Anna Maria Giordano, Jimi Lively, Yorka Ralwins, Barbara Walder, Arthur Jacob, Steven Lustig, Kathy Dee, Maruka Carvajal,

Emilie Verhee, Hui-ju Chen (Mickey), Petrea

Noyes, Sarah Granetz with One Page article and Keri Joy Colestock with Two page article.

We thank all of the amazing and talented artists

who participated in the competition and wish you

all great success in your journey.

Publisher Art Director Interview Editor

Mila Ryk Mila Ryk Justin Hoffman Alina Lampert

Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.

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Critique

The Memorable Moments Art! Vancouver Realism to Abstraction

by Vered Galor Mother and Daughter Remember

by Vered Galor Talking To Hear Our Threads Rattle An Exhibition of Fiber Based Art

The Interwoven Modernism of Darian Rodriguez Mederos

by John Sevigny

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Sculpture • Jewelry

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Keri Colestock Steven Lustig Sandy Den Hartog

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Photography • Digital Art

Fine Art

Taras Bibilashvili Maruka Carvajal Hui-ju Chen (Mickey) Sarah Granetz

Ariel Gold Gabi Domenig Giancarlo Flati Anna Maria Giordano Jim Lively Petrea Noyes Natalya Parris Yorka Ralwins Emilie Verhee Barbara Walder

H. Allen Benowitz Arthur Jacob Kathy Dee

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The Memorable Moments from the Art! Vancouver 2016

with Art & Beyond Magazine

The Guests at the Back Aisle.

Artist Runway Show, The Aisin-Gioro Fine Art Gallery.

Art! Vancouver: International Art Fair Art! Vancouver is the brainchild of Director Lisa Wolfin who, with the help of her colleagues, has essentially redefined the contemporary art fair experience to include a West Coast sensibility combined with a West Coast destination aesthetic.

The diversity of subject matter, technique and media represented at the recent second annual event in Vancouver was indicative of a professional sensibility designed to successfully showcase a vibrant and dynamic approach to marketing the cultural production of artists from many different backgrounds.

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by Jim Finlay

as well as sculpture and photography.

A full page colour catalogue accompanied the show with the large majority of participants being self- representing artists, however several international galleries were also included.

The location and timing of Art! Vancouver, occurring adjacent to the cruise ship terminal on Vancouver’s waterfront coincided with the arrival of several cruise ships and offered disembarking passengers an opportunity to experience a unique cultural experience.

Promotional advertising was abundant as evidenced by many participating artist feature articles in local and national art magazines,

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. Jim Finlay. which from a marketing standpoint helped promote exposure for the artists and their participation in Art! Vancouver.

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Andrés Dorigo.

Katherine Stone.

Live Portrait Painting

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point of interest

Realism

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ABSTRACTION

by Vered Galor

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he art world, similar to other fields of creative expression, is subject to changes in style and trend according to the influences of its time and social environment.

The nineteenth century took us from Realism and Impressionism to Post Impressionism, which opened the door to other art movements and experimentations up to the abstractionism of today’s contemporary art. Artists explored the properties of line, plane, and color while reducing the nature of objects, beginning to simplify and abstract them.

Color is used to express emotions and lines are used to express movements.

This enabled the creation of abstracted works that included the critical expression of humanity at the end of World War I. The emerging development of photography at that time affected and changed the artists’ manner of expression to a more analytical and expressionistic approach.

The twentieth century continued to see creative evolutions, with new styles and techniques yielding Fauves with color intensity, emotional German Expressionism, Cubism and break away from ordinary vision – such as Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” and Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase”, all the way to the paintings of Kasimir Malevich whose expression he called nonobjectivity and the pure feeling of perception in “White on White”.

Felice Willat, WATER BEARER

Following came Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art in painting and sculpture through the 1960s. It paved the path to the contemporary approach that is exhibited in the works of the seven artists in this show.

The exhibit at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art addresses the issues and struggles that many art-loving viewers have with Contemporary Fine Art. As a curator, confused art lovers have asked me, “What am I looking at and what am I supposed to see”?

This exhibition, while not intending to perplex, takes the viewer through the spectrum of Realism to Abstractionism, with artworks from various mediums that reveal the contemplative conceptual process. The seven-presented artists’ include works in photography, painting, collage, assemblage and sculptural construction. The pieces bear witness to the process of transformation of imagery, and the different concepts of and personal approaches to the creative effort that goes into conceiving a piece of fine art.

We start with Felice Willat’s photo-realistic work, of which she says, “I like to photograph people going about their lives on their lands”.

In her work, we see pure realism through the medium of photography with the artist/photographer’s personal view and choice of imagery.

Felice’s Zen approach to people, set in their landscape and lifestyle, has a serenity and contemplative sensitivity that entices the viewer to step into the spaces she photographs.

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Lark, ZEN GARDEN Svetlana Toth’s artwork is a process intensive medium, with beautiful layers of enamel on copper. The artwork’s images are realistic with a surrealistic overtone. She bases her theme on archeological findings from the 7th century and called the Permi-Animal style. The work expresses, as she says, “Contrast of lightness and darkness, good and

Svetlana Toth, SPRING

Michael Davies, TIME

Georganne Heller, TIMELESS

bad in the human soul”. The images portray humans and animals in a composition we can only dream of.

Georganne Heller’s artworks are, as she describes it, “Surreal dramas that invite the viewer to the world of her dreams”. Georganne is a theatrical producer and her collages are three dimensional wall constructions, which take us from reality to an abstracted stage mystery. Her artwork reminds us of contemporary art experimentation, with imagery and reality similar to what was done in Cubism and De Stijl, taking us one step closer to abstractionism.

The sculptural kinetic construction of Michael Davies says it all. The human element in the work is recognizable, interesting and funny at the same time as it raises many questions and issues about the human relationship with technology. Michael’s work is autobiographical, as he represents himself in his work as well as humanity as a whole. A self-taught artist, he uses recycled parts very well, and as such puts a smile on the viewer’s face.

Michele Benzamin-Miki, ARCH

Lark's nature imagery covers the gamut from realistic to abstract, making use of a wonderful field of colors and variation of materials.

She works on paper, board, wood, and glass. The work has a meditative feel as she explains, “I encourage the images to appear from my subconscious”. Most of her images are quite abstracted with one tree, a flower, or water, focusing our attention to form and reality while they look heavenly.

The complete textural expressive pieces of Julienne Johnson are the most abstracted artworks in the exhibit. The title of the piece, ”Obbligato”, refers to a musical term and expresses her connection to the world of music that she loves. Art and music have been tied together and both belong to the fine arts. Julienne uses the title and abstractionism to express her feelings about hopes and challenges in life. She creates to make sense and take control of what life imposes on us.

The work of almost complete abstractionism is done by Michele Benzamin-Miki, which presents us with a cut down view of parts of the human figure, extended with heavy black motion and action lines that create an expressionistic look. Inspired by the teaching of Zen, the work, while large, is very powerful in spite of its minimalism. Michele points to the subliminal appeal of her work that she hopes will connect viewers to their lives!

Fine art is not objective, but rather the subjective, soul searching, creative undertaking of the artist’s spirit and soul, both of which contribute to the mode of action. Each of the artists’ statements about their works and thoughts - before and during the creative process from the photography of Felice Wilkat to the abstracted painting of Julieanne Johnson, helps the viewer to understand, enjoy, and appreciate contemporary fine art. www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 11

critique

by John Sevigny

The Interwoven Modernism of

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Darian Rodriguez Mederos

ne could be forgiven for dismissing Darian Rodriguez Mederos' large, technically masterful and tightly-cropped portraits as Cuban-American attempts to rework the photo realism of Chuck Close. Such shallow comparisons have been made in my presence and will surely continue. We live in complicated times when people want easy answers and the high-end of the art market almost seems to intentionally confuse. When confronting a piece of art, the path of least resistance is to look at the visual ancestry to which it intentionally or unintentionally alludes. One example might be Jackson Pollock's debt to Claude Monet, for it was the Frenchman who invented all-over painting, and not Jack the Dripper. In the case of Mederos, comparisons to Close are almost inevitable but they say nothing.

What interests me most about Mederos' work is that it makes him an anomaly. His work does not square with the esthetics of the 21st Century, an age of the sad fossils of ready-mades, neon-and-plastic minimalism and conceptualism with no concepts to back it up.

To begin with, Mederos paints. That in and of itself should not surprise anyone if it weren't for the fact that painting was supposed to have died during the late 20th Century. I was in New York in the late eighties when the movers and shakers threw painting under the bus and replaced it with rocks, metal globs and bars of motel soap lined up on printer paper. That was, of course, always the simplified, Art mag version of the story. Even as minimalist sculptor Carl Andre was doing whatever it is he did when he wasn't plotting to kill his wife Ana Mendieta, painting heavyweights Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Terry Winters were getting themselves into today's art history books.

Mederos also clearly knows his art history, which is rare today. His paintings are heavily informed by a past that goes far beyond Chuck Close. Some of his strongest work, including a 2016 self portrait, draws on several generations of post-Caravaggio tenebrists including Rembrandt, Rubens and Diego Velazquez.

Some of his less nostalgic paintings are just as good. Preserving Father in Time, 2016, shows us an undeniably contemporary man lit elegantly from his right in a crystalline, white light. This is miles away from what Rembrandt aimed to do with his early portraiture, which was to flatter the rich but Calvinist merchant class, in short, people who could afford to commission portraits in a post-Martin Luther Northern Europe. Mederos' portrait gives us a man on the dim, sad end of middle age.

Generally, Mederos handles light and volume with great skill and he lacks nothing when it comes to working with texture and detail. In a number of portraits, however, he drops his focus on the sculptural depth that highlights his best work. As a result, some of his paintings look flat, particularly those in which the subject is set against brighter backgrounds. "Jahzel" is one example. Whether this is an intentional exploration of flatness-versus-depth or a technical area the artist needs to polish only Rodriguez knows. But he clearly has 12 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2016

AUTO RETRATO 2016. Oil on Canvas, 60" x 72"

the technical and historical tools at hand to work the issue out. He already paints better than Lucien Freud did at the same age.

One final thing that sets Mederos apart is that his work necessarily points to the battle between tradition and Modernism, a fight many people believe ended decades ago, and which was mostly misunderstood to begin with. To quote Clement Greenberg, the great art movements of the 20th Century were never direct attacks on the past, but rather, re-examinations of it.

"The avant-garde's principal reason for being," Greenberg wrote in 1968, "is ... to maintain continuity: continuity of standards of quality—the standards, if you please, of the Old Masters."

The idea is relevant to Mederos and his work. The artist was born, raised and trained in a post-Revolutionary Cuba where the Soviet buttressed walls of isolation closed the nation off to contemporary Western thought from 1959 onward, which is to say, the year Mark Rothko backed out of his lucrative commission to decorate the Four Seasons in Manhattan.

Cuban art training remained highly academic and focused on either an apolitical or Russo-centric narrative of art history. Which is not

PRESERVING FATHER IN TIME. Oil on Canvas, 48" x 60"

JAHZEL. Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 60" x 72"

necessarily a bad thing. The best Modernist painters knew what they were doing with pencil or brush, from Picasso to Mondrian, from Joseph Beuys, a greatly underrated draftsman, to Willem de Kooning.

And every artist's view of art history is shaped by historical, social and cultural factors.

But one risk for young artists from such backgrounds is they may never escape traditionalism. They may end up pigeonholed as defenders of a past that is no longer interesting. It is safe to say that Modernism dictates that the past is a critical link to the future. And that's actually been the case for as long as art has existed.

Artists who deal with the past without keeping their eyes on the horizon face the danger of appearing anachronistic, conservative, or the worst thing anyone can be called in the present art market, "old fashioned." "Normal" Norman Rockwell, who was not such a bad painter, was mocked throughout the late 20th Century. Rafael Soyer, a Russian-born New Yorker who clung to 19th Century Social Realism and ignored or condemned the upheavals of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and color field painting, suffered the same fate. Whether Rodriguez will be able to keep one foot in the past while maintaining an eye on the future will be what determines his success or failure on a larger level. It's not that it should be that way. But that's the way it is.

Mederos is a young, powerful painter and a credit to a growing, community of artists in Miami who are competent, promising and passionate. He is damned good now. He will get technically better with time, as everyone does. How the art world receives him depends almost entirely on how he views and approaches his own work in the near future.

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Remember

by Vered Galor

Mother and Daughter

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he ideas for my artwork on the painful subject of the Holocaust came about as I watched my mother, Miriam Shavit, paint and express her life's experiences. She was an incredible artist working in symbolic abstract style. Her artworks vary in their mediums. She did enamel on copper, watercolor on paper, acrylic on wood and paper, and mixed media collages.

Her early artworks recall her memories of the Holocaust. She was a Concentration camp survivor as was my father, Yitzhak Shavit.

As my mother worked, I felt a strong need to react to her images with my own impressions and thus began to develop my own body of artworks on the subject matter. In 1986, I traveled to the town of Preshov in Slovakia where I was born. From the photos I took there, along with old family photos that a neighbor had saved for us, I created collages reflecting the stories my mother told.

Using collage techniques rather than straight photographs, my artworks document my family’s accounts of loss and suffering between 1934 and 1954. It was a time of horrible world turmoil. My work articulates their struggles to survive, recover and rebuild.

I present this difficult subject through story telling between mother and daughter. Both are survivors, but in different and unique ways. The mother went through the hell, and the daughter has no idea how she survived it. The process of achieving this creative narrative has been slow going, and over a period in which I lost both of my parents. They passed away in 2001 and 2005.

My collages are of people and places, which for the most part, either no longer exist or have changed beyond recognition. I portray the lives, loves, and hopes lost by a family that had to deal with painful recollections as they moved on with their lives, never forgetting...always remembering.

The techniques I use are emulsion transfer, scanning and layering in the digital Photoshop program. The layering processes, along with other techniques, to me resemble the way time layers and create the experiences of our lives.

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MOTHER 1933.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER REMEMBER. I have repeatedly used symbolic objects like dried leaves and the parts of a watch as symbols for the passing of time; barbed wire for the Holocaust; and the Star of David for Judaism. I have also used the only two baby photos of me that survived the war in memory of the millions of children who did not survive.

VERONICA 1943. formidable subject, using black and white photography to depict what remains of these horrible places.

Cole Thompson, photographer and friend, beautifully captures the horrors of the story through a unique and spiritual approach to this

I know that the subject matter of the Holocaust is difficult and has been portrayed many times before. I strongly feel however that the current geopolitical environment, rising terrorism throughout the world, and the threat to the existence of the State of Israel, begs another look at the lessons from these horrific times and history.

ASSEMBLY DEATH LINE.

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Talking To Hear Our Threads Rattle : An Exhibition of Fiber Based Art CCPS (Conde Contemporary Project Space) located at 1007 SW 8th St. in Little Havana launches on Friday, July 1, 2016, from 7-10pm, with the opening of "Talking to Hear Our Threads Rattle", a month long group exhibition of fiber artists: Nathalie Alfonso, Griselle Gaudnik, April Hartley, Kyoko Matsuyama, Aurora Molina, Carrie Sieh, and Natalia Schonowski.

CARTOGRAPHIE FEMININE. Mixed Media. Site Specific Installation, Dimensions Variable. Griselle Gaudnik

"Talking to Hear Our Heads Rattle", speaks to the futility of our work, traditionally women's work, work which is never done.

Still, there is a hopefulness in our labor, a societal importance even, in the weaving together of community and family. The individual fiber is woven into the whole. The thread becomes something stronger than itself, fabric, and it is this fabric we use to express ourselves, to tell our stories, of our work, in our work.

A story can be woven with a single strand. Both ugly truths and fleeting beauty are spoken, cut from the same cloth.

Arachne, a mortal woman and talented weaver, challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and craft. Arachne was transformed into an arachnid. Our patron saint, the intricate webs we weave.

Thread is silent. Silently creating, alive at work in the machine."

As part of its mission, CCPS endeavors to promote thoughtful discourse. "Talking to Hear Our Threads Rattle", a project conceptualized by Aurora Molina and S. Conde, offers two such opportunities.

S. Conde, writer and director of Conde Contemporary and CCPS moderates, "A Conversation With the Artists", Friday, July 8th, from 7:00 - 9:00pm.

Kara Acettola, rare book collector, dealer and owner of Little Sages Books, will give a talk entitled "Presence of / Absence of : Thread and Fibers as Oath, Oppressor and Ornament", on Thursday, July 21st from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

The exhibition closes on Friday, July 29th 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

Please contact Stacy Conde at 239.961.0452, or via email, stacy@condecontemporary.com, for further information.

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FIFE. Oil on Canvas, 75 cm x 90 cm

Taras Bibilashvili was born on April 2, 1960 in Zestaponi, Georgia.

In 1977 Taras graduated the Arts School in Tbilisi and the year after began his career as an artist in the workshop of famous artist Professor Zurab Nizharadze. In 1983 Taras studied at the Lakob Nikoladze Arts College and has been participating in many local and international exhibitions since 1985.

In 1994 Taras traveled to Athens, Greece for creative work. There he met famous artist and sculptor Khristos Ksarakaciano, sculptor, the director of modern museum.

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In 2014 Taras began working at the Artist Pablo Picasso Collection in Artist Star Arts Production, in Artist Star Arts Production Gallery and Art-On-Google.

Taras (Davit) Bilashvili (nickname – “Biblieli”) has held many personal and group exhibitions. He is rewarded with many encouraging rewards for his creative work. His many creative works (painting, sculptor, drawing) are included worldwide in both state and private collections. www.taras-bibilashvili.net

SMALL TOWN. Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 36"

Maruka Carvajal is a contemporary artist based in Washington DC. Born in Bolivia, with Spaniard nationality, an upbringing in Brazil, and after several years living as expat in Asia and the Americas, she brings a multi-cultural perspective of the world and sensations expressed through shapes, patterns and her peculiar use of colors and strokes.

She started painting during college in Brazil, where she graduated as an architect, but with the years she followed her true passions and devoted herself to the visual arts in full. She pursued further studies, including art classes at Chinatown Heritage Centre in Singapore and the Art League in Alexandria, VA. As a member of the Foundry Gallery in Washington DC, the Color8art group, and visiting artist at the Torpedo Factory Gallery in Alexandria VA, Ms Carvajal’s

paintings were displayed in several exhibitions at these and other venues. One of her paintings was acquired by the “Writer’s Center” in the city of Bethesda, MD to be displayed in their permanent collection.

Maruka Carvajal’s work is featured in the cover of the “Art & Beyond” magazine edition of March/April 2014 and also in the back cover of the same magazine in the edition of September/October 2014. More recently, in 2015 her work is also featured in the Studio Visit magazine volume No. 32.

Using different shapes, lines, and vibrant colors Ms Carvajal expresses in canvas recollections of emotions, impressions and experiences different cities caused on her. www.marukacarvajal.com

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BLOODY THOUGHT. Acrylic & Mixed-media, 50 cm x 110 cm

create various styles of work. It is interesting to see her work varied from photography, acrylic painting, mixed-media to collage. She hopes to keep being experimental because she believes in trial and error except in the art world, there are no real errors but different thinking and doing with different outcomes. Without experimenting, art is not art. She gets inspiration from all sorts of things in life. She always hopes to learn and create more different kinds of work through her own different kinds of experiences in life. The real goal for art making for Mickey is the art making itself.

Hui-ju Chen (Mickey) Hui-ju Chen (Mickey) graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Even though she has not been using art and design as her main profession, she has kept her passion of making art until today. Along with her teaching job at Shantou University, she always finds time to

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It is logical to have lots of frustration and doubts going through all the phases of creation; however, the most annoying one to Mickey has been about how she should build and keep up with one particular style in order to be a professional artist. It is true but somehow problematic to Mickey because she thinks that art is about taking chances and taking some risks. If she is satisfied with one style, she believes that she loses some very important quality of art, the excitement of experiencing different things in the world.

Therefore, she hopes to throw away the practicality behind certain logic and continues working in different ways and styles. Art making to her is not just a way to express herself but a way to define her existence. www.ratgoofy.com

GONE (TOGETHER).

sarah elyse granetz Sarah received her B.A. in Fine Arts from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. During this time, she spent a semester in Paris, France. What began as a "self portrait" assignment has transformed into My Body Is Not For Sale, a meditative series on the female form through literal impressions of the artist’s actual body. " When I could no longer recognize myself, I knew I had to reclaim what was mine. With color and canvas, I abstracted what I had become into prints, impressions of this person I did not know, until I began to feel like myself again. By acknowledging the wound, I could finally let it heal.

Through this series, My Body Is Not For Sale, I reclaim the way my body is perceived by controlling what you do (and don’t) see. When I first started this series, my intentions were not what they are today; each painting was not a definition of who I was, but an expression of what I could become.

Now, five years later, the impressions are that of repair and renewal." www.sarahelysestudios.com

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Ariel Gold

NEW YORK LUNCH BREAK. Acrylic on Canvas, 48"x48" "My motto for life is to Live Vibrantly. My work has been inspired by my studies in interior design, psychology, color theory and general love of nature. I try to capture these elements in subtle ways." - state Arliel Gold. This allows the viewer to relate to the piece without telling them how they should feel or what they should be seeing. These nonrepresentational abstracts allow the viewer to detach from reality and get lost in the piece.

and feel a sense of beauty, it has served its purpose. In today’s society we feel the need to constantly move, constantly plan and think and solve. Because of this we rarely get to acknowledge or discover. Art allows us to do these things.

It’s sole purpose is to be enjoyed by the viewer in a way that doesn’t require explanation. Ariel thrive in the ability to give people a moment to themselves and enjoy the environment around them.

Textured work changes as daily light hits it. Shadows are created on the work even if only in subtle ways. This allows the piece to transform based on the angle it is viewed. If a work makes the viewer stop, even if just for a second, smile

"Originally from the suburbs outside of Detroit, Michigan, I now reside in San Francisco, California with my husband Eric and daughter Rylin."

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Gabi Domenig

MERMAIDS FLOATING WITH FISHES. Acrylic on Canvas, 50 cm x 150 cm. 2016

MERMAID SLEEPING. Acrylic on Canvas, 50cm x 150 cm. 2016

Gabi Domenig is a through and through figurative Austrian artist. Since her early childhood she was attracted to the fine arts. She took classes in nude painting, color theory, drawing and composition. Especially charcoal, red chalk and pastels on paper and primed wood panels were the medium in the nineties.

After her first show in 1999, when she presented 20 large pastel paintings to the public, she began to paint with acrylics on canvas. The strong and bright colors and the way of working with acrylics approached to her nature.

She tries to capture moments and build up emotional tensions. She does not want to shock, stir up or provoke. The viewer of her images should be touched by a positive energy.

For her art should be life-affirming and beautiful, touching and connecting. A language without words.

She paints mostly with acrylic colors and concerns herself primarily with the representation of man and especially of women. Her characters send out varied emotions such as

pride, pain, love, sadness, loneliness, joy and longing. They are sensuous, strong, vulnerable, thoughtful, dreamy, seductive, promising and cautious. For the most part the figures are located in a particular environment cutout. The expression of the eyes should draw the viewer into its spell and animate him to enter in a deeper communication with the figures in the picture. Flowers, plants, animals, patterns and landscape sections are decorative parts, but are usually situated in the background.

Because of her strong color palette she is assigned to the Neo-Expressionism.

Participation in many international exhibitions in Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, South America and USA. She got 6 Awards in the last 2 years.

Single pieces of painted lampshades and T-Shirt you can also find on her web site: www.domenigartdesign.at

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Giancarlo Flati Fine Art

ON THE EDGES 5.

Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 cm x 60 cm. 2015

ON THE EDGES 1.

Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 70 cm x 80 cm. 2015

Giancarlo Flati was born in Aquila, Italy.

Winner of the Prize Michetti-Museum on 2005.

According to Claudio Strinati* “Flati is an artist endowed with great awareness.

The balance he displays between the spontaneous flow of inspiration and the capacity to reflect on the work produced is a quality seldom found. While he has already been active for a good many years, there can be no doubt about the fact that his work fits in perfectly with the renewal of this new millennium.

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ON THE EDGES 11.

Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 cm x 70 cm. 2015

WONDER HOLOGRAM. Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 160 cm x 120 cm. 2009

results of intense reflection involving a convergence of psychological, metaphysical, technical and spiritual themes.”

It’s the subtle ad deep relationship between primordial Information and creative consciousness that represents the fertile ground and the substance of his artistic experience. www.giancarloflati.com • giancarloflati@hotmail.com

* In “Giancarlo Flati Intersezioni del Tempo”- Matteo Editore 2008.

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fine art

EDUCATION JOB HAPPY HOUR. Acrilic on Canvas, (40+40+40) x 80 cm

Anna Maria Giordano A neapolitan, Anna moved to Gaeta twenty years ago.

After leaving her previous job in 1999, she dedicated herself entirely to the figurative arts.

She started with making and decorating ceramics (such as jugs, vases, plates, tiles....), and afterwards moved almost naturally to painting. Her first painting experiences were strictly figurative, and then, after gaining more skills, she moved gradually to the abstract paintings. She normally uses acrylic colours on canvas, wood or mason wood, but sometimes also mixed media (inclusion of paper, pumice or gauze integrated with the acrylic paint).

"The artworks of the Artist Giordano distinguish themselves by the intimacy concealed behind the represented subjects.

She has succeeded, through a careful and creative research, in creating a personal style and her own visual language, from which express the deeper emotions. So she shows us the complexity of the world and sentiments, originating compositions that have great communicative value. Anna Giordano goes beyond simple aesthetic representation, her artworks investigate new realities through a chromatic language, that underlines the unspoken values of the sign and a pictures dialectic full of poetical emotions".

– Josè Van Roy Dalì, ("Artista nella Storia", 2015).

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"The love of the surreal and the abstract invested the creativity of Anna Giordano that makes use of symbols generally accepted in order to make the viewer better discern the description of the pictorial contents. This goes also with vivid colours that emphasize masterfully the pictorial lines.

The painter, master of sonic and colours, is supported by his talent, impetuous interpreter of his sensitive soul".

– Sandro Serradifalco, ("Eccellenze”, 2015).

"A great skill in transfiguring the abstract, with very good versatility and astonishment aimed at the research of an emotive project. Anna Giordano creates her characterized and symbolic intuitive projections, by superimposing signs and symbols of rich material drawing up".

– Jean Charles Spina, ("1st Grand Prix Côte d’Azur”, 2015). www.webalice.it/amagiord amagiord@alice.it

THE CONTINENTS. Cabernet Sauvignon and Acrylic on Canvas.

TEN FOR AUTUMN. Pinot Noir and Acrylic on Canvas.

Jim Lively is an attorney who left the practice of law to pursue his passion full-time as a contemporary figurative and abstract artist. His works have been recognized in numerous juried competitions and publications. He was named to the 2013 and 2014 list of Art Tour International Magazine’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art (www.arttourinternational. com). In addition, he has participated in several group and a solo exhibitions across North America and in Europe. Jim has published four books containing images of his art including two novels.

Selected 2012 - 2014 Credits • N amed to 2013 and 2014 list of Art Tour International Magazine’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art www.arttourinternational.com

• Selected to represent Southwest Artists and appear in Art Portfolio Magazine, 2014 Northeast Artists vs.

Southwest Artists Edition • Placed Second in the Abstract Category in 2013 American Art Awards for “Layers of Civilization” and First in the Humor Category for “A Second Cup of Coffee” (www.americanartawards.com) • Art and Beyond Magazine, March/April 2014, Publisher Selection for “Butterfly Effect” and “Breach” from the “Red Wine” series of paintings • Art Portfolio Magazine, Editor’s Selection for 2013 Landscape Competition for “Five for Fall” www.jimlivelyart.com • j.lively@sbcglobal.net www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 27

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PIECES OF DREAMS. K3 Pigments on Canvas, 30" x 30" x 2"

Petrea Noyes Petrea Noyes was bont in 1946.

From young age she was studied with Connecticut artist Harold Wolcott during the 1950-1964.

Then she continued her art education in 1965-1967 taking the AFA degree program at the Silvermine College of Art, New Canaan CT. In 1971 she receivese BA from University of Miami, FL Petrea has exhibited in several hundred juried shows throughout the Northeast since 1962 and am currently exhibiting in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine.

Petrea Noyes work is in a number of private and corporate collections including the Marriot Corporation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Colorado State University. www.petreanoyes.com

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RESET No3. K3 Pigments on Canvas, 30" x 30" x 2"

TIN FLOWER (FRONT). Acrylic on Wood and Tin, 10.5" x 3"

TIN FLOWER (BACK). Acrylic on Wood and Tin, 10.5" x 3"

Natalya Parris A large part of my art is inspired by the Russian folk traditions and crafts. During my travels to rural areas when I worked as an engineer and had business trips to construction sites, I acquired original folk art pieces for my collection, visited local museums and talked to people who created this art. But, my art is not authentic Russian folk art; it is merely derived from folk art. It is my feelings about Russian Folk Art: a modern, contemporary interpretation of it. I added my unique artistic style - “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint – Dots.” In this technique, perfectly round dots are overlaid onto sections of a previously-painted picture. To express very powerful emotions, I pile the dots on one another and the dots, like

music notes, interact with the rhythm of the melody - creating emotional counterpoints in a three-dimensional painting. My dots connect my experience making engineering drawings by hand (it was the time when I learned to paint such perfect dots) and the present time, when I use those dots to create my artworks. I have started to teach students Russian folk art and show them, from examples of my own paintings, how knowledge and centuries old traditions of folk art can be used to create modern contemporary art. I often work with a theme and create several related artworks in series. My latest series linked to Russian folk art and Russian history is “Memories of Hillwood.”

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JUMPING INTO FALL. Acrylic on Canvas.

Yorka Ralwins Yorka Ralwins (B. 1965, La Romana, Dominican Republic) began her painting life in 1999 when she opened a gift shop of hand-painted art in South Plainfield, New Jersey and set up her first studio next door where she taught painting to children, adults, and mentally challenged persons. Murals were her love during that period. She was also attracted by decorative and faux painting, which she incorporated into her business as a working painter. Exhibiting her personal artworks was never a consideration as she felt them too intimate to unveil to critics and the public. Moving to Florida changed that. South Florida awoke the artist with a purpose in her, and she was ready to step out of her cocoon.

The figures, strokes, colors, and effects in her paintings are intended to strike an emotional involvement with the piece.

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Yorka intends to arouse memories and feelings, perhaps spiritual, which compel you to pause and wonder what her story is about. She calls it figurative expressionist work which gives her the freedom to set up a contradiction in the viewer’s mind that asks them to reconcile a familiar image with the sometimes unreal surroundings she places it in.

She emigrated from the east coast of Dominican Republic to the United States in 1974 where she lived a number of years in New York City before marrying and moving to nearby New Jersey. She has three charming children and a golden grandson and currently lives in Port Saint Lucie, FL. At the present she is an in-house artist at Studio 17 Highwaymen & Florida Art Gallery in Fort Pierce, FL. www.yorkaralwins.com

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fine art

MEDITATION. Acrylic Tryptic on Canvas, 120 cm x 80 cm

Passion.

Acrylic on Canvas, 70 cm x 70 cm.

emilie verhee Emilie Verhee is a French artist graduated a school of decorative art.

“My painting and my technique is very eclectic because I’m curious to learn. I’m inspired by my feelings, an event or nature. I chose to find my inspiration to go abroad in this paradise that is Costa Rica.” Emilie sais. https://verhee.wordpress.com

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GOLD AND EARTH 2014. CollagenMalerei© on Canvas with 23ct. Gold Leaf, 60 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm

BARBARA WALDER Through the light to the matter My journey of discovery in the artistic use of matter began with the delicate application of pastels. By way of largescale shapes with bold colours in transparent gouache I came to use solidifying acrylic paint and then to my own CollagenMalerei©. This is created layer by layer. Through constant reduction I get answers to my questions about essence and balance.

Palm Art Award 2015 Art Domain Group Leipzig, Germany Recognition Prize The jury awarded a Recognition Prize in special appreciation of the "artistic quality and originality of your submitted works. This award brings the special appreciation of the constant quality of your artistic work to express."

Art & Beyond Magazine Award Inside Cover Winter Print Edition 2015

Next exhibitions: Master class from Alfred Darda Bad Reichenhall, Germany 23rd of August - 6th of September 2016 Art Shopping Carrousel Du Louvre, France 21st-23rd of October 2016 BARBARA WALDER is living and painting in Principality of Liechtenstein. www.barbarawalder.gallery

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sculpture

Keri Colostock Wall Fifures

STOP ALL THE VIOLINCE. Wall Sculpture. PolymerSculpture, 19" x12"

I am a Contemporary Artist specializing in a wide-range of art and styles. My works are described as colorful, thought provoking, unique and original. I currently have artwork online through my website http://www.kerijoy.net/. My artwork is

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also available in galleries throughout Illinois. My wish is to continue to create beautiful but also fun works of art fueled by passion and imagination. l recycle found objects in my pieces so one man's garbage

RUSTY AROUND THE EDGES. Recycled Found Object Sculpture.

WEAVE ME BE. Recycled Found Object Sculpture, 36" x 18" x 12"

is a Keri 'treasure!' The flea markets provide me with the necessary pieces I need for my work. At times I incorporate polymer clay into my piece. My style has been referred to as whimsical, unique and on the funky side like me! In addition to my website to can stay up to date on Facebook.. https://www.facebook.com/keri.colestock

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sculpture • jewelry FLYING-DANCER.

STEVEN LUSTIG Art - Breath - Movement This art is born out of a love of the human form and its natural motion. It is powerful, passionate, and embraces both human and natural forms. Steven was born and raised near the North Shore of Chicago where he began drawing at a age five. In high school he met a regionally known sculptor and began his fine arts education. During that time, Steven was given a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. He became fascinated by what he saw and immediately began to draw directly from the book, changing the course of his life and starting a lifelong study of the human form. Steven received an art scholarship to Bradley University.

He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an emphasis on Biotechnical Illustration. While at the University of Illinois, Steven

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began to work for the Biomechanical Engineering department. His early work combining computers, art, and human motion became the genesis of Steven’s fine art, regardless of media. He would go on to draw, paint and sculpt thousands of interpretations of the human form in his own distinctive style. In 1982 Steven moved to Southern California for the opportunity to work at an Olympic research center focused on Sports Medicine and Biomechical Engineering. Looking to the future, Steve quickly recognized the promise of what computer illustration could bring to traditional graphic design techniques. After seven years of working in corporate presentation graphics, Steven founded BioDesign Communications in 1989. BioDesign was a highly specialized computer graphics company supplying creative illustrations to the Life Science, Medical Device, and Healthcare industries. Steven has produced medical and life science images for companies around the world, and has illustrated four books, completed a series of life science illustrations for the Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Throughout this time Steven continued to draw and sculpt, dedicating his life to the arts. His fascination with drawing the human form continues to ignite his creative talent and provides him with an endless supply of material. Steven currently teaches a stone sculpting class at the Laguna College of Art & Design. In addition to working as an Illustrator and fine artist, Steven has been the Cultural Arts Chair for the CA PTA and a leading art advocate Statewide. For the past twelve years Steven has been a volunteer legislative advocate, recruiting and training parents, running legislative junkets to Sacramento and leading parents in the cause of public education. Steven is a volunteer art teacher at a local elementary school and has taught students art privately. Steven has studied Kenpo Karate and Brazilian JiuJitsu with his son and daughter and practices yoga. He lives in Huntington Beach with his wife and two children. www.stevenlustigfineart.com

PURPLE SPINEY OYSTER SHELL. Spaced with Large Silver Spacers.

Moroccan Sterling Silver Bead is the Focal of the Necklace.

TIBETAN TURQUOISE AND AFRICAN HAND MADE BRASS BEADS from Northern Africa. They used the Lost Wax Technique in doing most of them. There is 3 strands with 2 of them connected the 3rd one is separate. You have an option as to how you wear them. All 3 or 2 or just 1 on its own. Surely a statement piece no matter how you choose to wear them.

Sandy Den Hartog is a Native Californian. She now resides in Lake Havasu City Arizona. Her current home, she and her husband had built for themselves, faces the water with the desert a short distance behind and as a backdrop a dramatic and rather large mountain range. With this view Sandy has taken the time to absorb the impact of this beauty and pieced together jewelry that exemplifies each geographical characteristic, blending them into original jewelry objects.

She is an Award Winning Artist. Sandy has placed in numerous Juried Art Shows throughout Arizona. Her romantic pieces of art continue to be showcased at David Rafaels in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Other distinguished pieces of jewelry designed completely from within her personal workshop are in the James Ratliff Gallery in Sedona, Arizona and Africa and Beyond Gallery in La Jolla, CA. Malouf on The Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a self taught artist. Her jewelry displays both serene and harmonious qualities that have

been regarded as the highest of models.

Her work covers a wide range of Style, from Ethnic, Classic, to Over the Top and Everyday Chic. She refers to herself as displaying "ARTISTIC FREEDOM." Sandy loves to mix everything up. The old with the new, and the big with the small. Although quite versatile in her design she leans toward the large and Ethnic Style. Many of Her Designs are created as she sleeps. She considers them to be her most excellent art pieces.

Gemstones and Artifacts used in her talented designs have been found in her many World Wide Travels. These and and so much more from the nations she has visited, are incorporated into the designs made by Sandy.

Sandy also feels, "If you can't see your JEWELRY from across the room, why bother." sandzibarjc@hotmail.com

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photography • digital art

H. Allen Benowitz

DOUBLE MIMES. Double your pleasure; Americana; Miami, FL. 2015

H. Allen Benowitz, a self-taught photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and a graduate from the Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan, migrated to Miami, FL, in the 1960s, where he currently resides. He enjoys living at his log home in Burnsville, NC, from spring to fall.

As an evolution from the accomplishments of his professional court reporting, legal videography, and videoconferencing career, the camera became a natural segue to photography, awakening an earlier passion from childhood.

Recognition for his work includes a Judges’ Award at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum’s Beaux Arts Festival; honorable mention in the International Kodak Contest; award winner, B/W photography, One Ear Society; winner, American Institute of Architects global competition; honorable mention, five-state juried art competition, Toe River Arts Council, Spruce Pine, NC, September 2015. His work has also appeared at Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL,

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and in the Wynwood and Miami Design Districts. Among numerous publications in which he has been featured are Coastal Elegance & Wealth, The ARTnews, Laurel of Asheville, Art & Beyond, and Art Business News magazines. Two of his visual works of art have been selected for inclusion in the 2014 International Contemporary Artists art book, Volume IX, entitled “An Exploring Journey to Art.” Mr. Benowitz has also been chosen as one of Art Business News’ Top Emerging Artists for 2014, published in its fall edition. In July 2015, his work was on display at the Louvre in Paris. In March 2016, he was presented with six Winner and Nominee Medals in the 9th Annual International Color Awards Competition. Photo subjects include Nature, wildlife, people, architecture, and adventure travel.

His highly acclaimed photo, “Behind the Wall,” received national recognition at Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation’s Holocaust Remembrance Project Awards Dinner in Washington, D. C.

BHUTANESE LANDSCAPE. A village overshadowed beautifully by cloud layers intertwining mountains, Paro Valley, Punakha District, Bhutan. 2014

RICE LADY. Rice paddy; Barahi Jungle, Chitwan Forest, Bharatpur, Nepal. 2014

Mr. Benowitz has been invited by His Majesty, King Mohammed VI, to photo journal his country’s Moussem de Tan-Tan, an annual festival. 20,000 tribesmen and foreign dignitaries met for a cultural and professional exchange mission 500 miles south of Casablanca in the Sahara Desert. The Moussem de TanTan has been declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage for Peace and the Humanities.

Mr. Benowitz has also lectured and exhibited in Florida, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and New York.

Mr. Benowitz returned from Cuba on a humanitarian mission where he photographed “Life in Cuba 2008.”

His recent exhibitions: the Beaux Arts Festival, Coral Gables, FL; Design Gallery, Burnsville, NC; ArtFest Ft. Myers Arts Festival; Las Olas Art Festival, FL; the Toe River Arts Council, Burnsville, NC; Art & Culture Center of Hollywood; Spectrum-Miami; Coral Gables Museum; and Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea, New York City. www.H-AllenArt.com • H-Allen@gate.net www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 39

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WHITE DAHLIA. Digital Art.

Arthur Jacob Jacob reveals the identity of the original image and then through digital manipulation, asks the observer to take a journey of discovery exploring shapes, colors and movement.

Even when his work is easily recognizable, the predominate thread of color, movement and shape still exist. Using a mouse rather than a brush, Jacob hopes that his work results in a powerful medium of expression and communication.

His extraordinary art has received accolades from the Medial Museum in London, England. He is also the recipient of two Awards of Excellence from Manhattan Arts International.

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Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA. He has also been awarded both front and back inside cover placement by Art & Beyond Publications. His many juried and group exhibitions include Best In Show at the Naples Art Association, Naples, Florida.

In addition, Jacob’s creative versatility has propelled his art into many homes and other non-residential spaces. One of his works, Video Display, appeared on HGTV in a segment of Million Dollar Homes. aj@arthur-jacob.com www.arthur-jacob.com

WISHES COME TRUE. Photography

Kathy Dee You could say photography was always in my blood. My father, Vester Dick, was a master photography and owned his own studio in Santa Cruz, California. Although I had a camera and loved to shoot from an early age, I wanted to go my own way and became a writer, earning a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. But, in 2007, I had a trauma that affected the part of the brain used for words and writing. I had to quit my job and struggled to find a new path. I was at loose ends looking for a creative outlet. Then, after a trip to Costa Rica and some reflection, I realized the most fun I had was taking pictures. I loved the medium because I didn’t have to think in words.

Unfortunately, my father had passed away years prior and wasn’t there when I needed a mentor. Although I learned a lot from him, watching and listening to him throughout the

years, I realized there was much I didn’t know. I began taking endless classes. I also studied award winning photographers.

I analyzed my shots against theirs and learned what mistakes I was making and worked hard to becoming a better photographer.

In the past years, I’ve had close to 1,000 photos accepted on stock websites. I love the challenge of doing stock photography where even ordinary objects can result in sales. I’ve won a couple of contests and had many honorable mentions. Photography is a never ending adventure and I’m excited to see where it brings me in the future. I currently reside in Eastern Washington with my boyfriend and a dog named Sela. www.KathyDeePhoto.com

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Gabi Domenig

SISTERS. Acrylic on wooden panel, 84 cm x 59 cm

H. Allen Benowitz

CLOUD REVELATION. From a mountain in Sri Lanka, with a 30-second window, patience and a second opportunity enabled me to capture this rare, heavenly visual delight; Kandy, Sri Lanka. 2014