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Nira Chorev
DUNES III. Mixed Media on Paper, 22" x 30" oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry
Nancy Ney
KARA GIRL. Photography
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CONTENTS
In This issue:
Art & Beyond is proud to announce the following winners published in this issue.
Cover
Back Cover
Nira Chorev
Charles Malinsky
Inside Front Cover
Inside Back Cover
Nancy Ney
Galina Kovshilovsky
Congratulations to Nira Chorev, her artwork “Dunes III” won the Front Cover for July/August Online issue. The Inside Front Cover won artwork by Nancy Ney, "Kara girl". The Back Cover won the artwork “He Had Yet to Learn” by Charles Malinsky. And the Inside Back Cover was awarded to Galina Kovshilovsky for her artwork “Horovod”. The Publisher Choice Award to be published and promoted in the July/August issue was given to following artists: Natalya Parris, Barbaras BilderKunst, Stephanie Holznecht, Kirsten Nash, Jenni Souter, Sara Swan, Lynn Zubal, Silvana LaCreta Ravena, H. Allen Benowitz, Nicholas Teetelli, Elize, Barry Gordon, Regine Legler, Eva Montealegre, Izabel Raa, Jane Serebrenikov and Felice Willat with One Page article and Linda Kunik, Barbara Nathanson, Lark Larisa Pilinsky and Eugene Vishnevsky 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.
Congratulations to all!
Announcement
Fine Art Nira Chorev
Charles Malinsky
Lark Gallery
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Elize
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Barry Gordon
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Galina Kovshilovsky
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Linda Kunik
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TBarbaras BilderKunst
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Regine Legler
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Stephanie Holznecht
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Eva Montealegre
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Kirsten Nash
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Barbara Nathanson
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Natalya Parris
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Lark Pilinsky
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Jenni Souter
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Izabel Raa
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Sara Swan
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Eugene Vishnevsky
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Lynn Zubal
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Jane Serebrenikov
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Silvana LaCreta Ravena
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Felice Willa
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Publisher Art Director Editor
Mila Ryk Mila Ryk Alina Lampert
Art & Beyond published 8 times a year. Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues. Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other
Photography • Digital Art Nancy Ney
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H. Allen Benowitz
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Nicholas Teetelli
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Nira Chorev
FOR YOU FOR US. Mixed Media on Paper, 22” x 30” NIRA CHOREV was born in Boston MA (1952) and was raised and educated both in United States and Israel. In 1970 Chorev graduated from Vocational High School, Tel-Aviv, receiving a Diploma in Fine Art, and in 1974 she graduated from Israel’s Art Teachers College, receiving a BA. In 1974 Chorev was accepted to the School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA), Boston, MA to the second-year level. She received her Diploma from SMFA in 1975. She studied with King Coffin (Drawing), Jack Clift (Silk Screen), Bill Flynn (Drawing), and Henry Schwartz (Painting). In her Fifth-Year, as a post-graduate, she majored in Silk Screen and Drawing. As part of her studies she was selected to be a teaching assistant. Chorev also won a fifth-year scholarship which she used to return to photography and merged it with the artwork she was doing at that time - painting landscapes on large canvases from a bird’s-eye perspective, looking for the contrasting forms in color and the positive and negative shapes. In 1978 she received her Post-Graduate Degree from SMFA and returned to Israel. 6 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
In 2008 Chorev returned to the United States to continue her art education at the Continuing Education Program and Workshops at the School of Museum of Fine Art in Boston. She studied with Bill Flynn (Drawing) and Robert Siegelman (Experimental Figure Drawing). Today Chorev is a full time self-employed artist working in fine art and mixed media, based in Brookline, MA. “Using photos to capture moments as memories, the photos I take are the trigger to the landscapes I create from them, the continuing connections between me and nature, the positive and negative shapes that remind us of how things were before man changed nature.” Her artwork has been exhibited in: The Royal School of Art London (1988); Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (1998); Studio Gallery, Irvine, CA (2009); Grossman Gallery/SMFA in Boston, MA (2010); Art Takes Times Square, NYC (2012); Post Office Gallery, North Truro, MA (2016). Chorev’s work is also in the collections of The Royal House, The Hague, Netherlands and The President’s House, Jerusalem, Israel, and private collections in Israel, Europe and the U.S. nirachorev.wordpress.com
Charles Malinsky
BUT HERE AT LEAST NOTHING BUT CONTENTMENT. Oil on Canvas, 56" x 45". 2001
CHARLES MALINSKY is an internationally acclaimed Canadian painter. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in countless publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him of one of the most
dynamic figurative painters working in the 21st century. He has been officially designated as a "Canadian Cultural Entity". Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com
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Nancy Ney
OLD LADY BARACOA. Photography.
As one of New York City’s most sought after advertising and lifestyle photographers for decades, Nancy Ney has won multiple industry awards, including a Clio. In 2013, her artistic focus shifted and Nancy honed her craft to a fine art, and began traveling the world photographing special situations and unique themes that interested her. Humanity portraits set in exotic geographical regions as well as natural landscapes that possess a singular sense of beauty have become her hallmark. Nancy’s unique talent for capturing special moments that reveal the essence of a person’s character or situation is achieved by her fresh perspective, and spontaneous approach. Countries recently traveled to include Bhutan, Cuba, Costa
Rica, Ethiopia, Galapagos, Iceland, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, and northern and southern India. Images of other cultures and landscapes across the world have garnered numerous awards for Nancy — most notably first prize in the 2016 International Photography Awards, Family of Man competition. She was also recently chosen to exhibit at the Coral Gables Museum Show: Capturing Coral Gables. Nancy spends her winters in Miami, and is an exhibitor in many of South Florida’s Fine Art Fairs. She is also acclaimed for her many showings on Fire Island, NY, where she maintains a summer home. www.ratgoofy.com
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Galina Kovshilovsky
INTROVERT. Acrylic, 18" x 16". 2017
Inspired by art, acting by heart, sending ocean love to people of earth. Galina makes Kombucha! ... and she knows that she makes things happened. Galina calls herself as a wonder and traveler in Time and Space. She was born in Kaluga, Russia - the city where the grandfather of rocketry, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky lived and invented the rocket theory. Galina's art work " Eye of Fertility" is the reflection of the Big Bang eruption, 10-43 seconds, where the universe begins with a cataclysm that generates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy the universe will ever hold. For an incomprehensibly small fraction of a second, the universe is an infinitely dense, hot fireball. The prevailing theory describes a peculiar form of energy that can suddenly push out the fabric of space. At 10-35 to 10-33 seconds a runaway process called "Inflation" causes a vast expansion of space filled with this energy. The inflationary period is stopped only when this energy is transformed into matter and energy as we know it.
She believes that we all belong to this hot fireball. Over the years, Galina's master degree in Computer Science transformed into her passion to high technology, where her knowledge utilized for the digital media services in entertainment industry. Galina is saying - "Keep wonder and imagine traveling to Chernobyl",the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in history, to capture the abandoned city on the river Pripyat and the Chernobyl ( dark side of reality) nuclear power plant. "Chernobyl" - Reality of humanity and nature struggling to survive in the abandoned and poisoned land. Galina and her family are Chernobyl survivors. Having escaped from the Soviet Era, they are n ow living in Los Angeles, California. They developed a powerful passion and love towardsnature. They are mindfull and environmentally conscious, and the memory of these lost lives on. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 9
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MASS AND POWER 3 . Mixed Media on Cardboard, 30 cm x 24 cm. 2018
the lyrical abstraction of Corpora and Burri’s matter) and, in particular, the great German tradition, charged with imposing emotionality and idealism, above all in Wols’s “gestural expressiveness of feelings”. Without ever forgetting the dry graphic lesson of Grosz’s art, with his clear and emotional expressionist signs, Barbara ‘hurls’ colour on the canvas and ‘creates’, thanks to these decisive gestures, which overlap and stratify. The colours seemingly move on the canvas so that we can almost identify the artist’s state of mind. The stratified chromatic succession of abstractions becomes a sort of conceptual succession of the idea in dynamic movement. Colour as pure and absolute emotion, landscapes of mind and spirit, in a palette full of matter, made up of oils with a variety of materials (such as earth, salt, gravel, etc.), thus creating depth and fugues, adagi or mossi, as in a dodecaphonic musical orchestration that moves out beyond the canvas. Dr. Prof. Giampaolo Trotta, art critic, Florence, Italy
Barbaras BilderKunst The lyrical abstract work by German painter, Barbara Walder - who currently lives and works in Liechtenstein - undeniably forms part of the consolidated twentieth century vein of Art Informel and conceptual painting. Indeed, on observing her art works, we immediately perceive some of the most important European artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century, including the afore-mentioned Art Informel, Abstract expressionism and Lyrical abstraction. This linguistic definition of the artist allows Barbara’s painting to be defined as Concrete art, with the term “concrete” corresponding to “figurative” and she presents a form of figuration where references, fragments and ‘clues’ are combined with the gestural magma of an emotive brushstroke. It is a European version of action painting, together with a Vedova-style expression portrayed in existential turbulences, where her colours gain a symbolic Freudian meaning. Thus her abstract and expressionist brushstrokes do not only contain the American expression of action painting, as in Pollock's drip painting or in Rothko's colour fields, but also reflect a European influence (Mathieu and Vedova’s gestural signs and 10 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
International Artist and Award Winner Participation | Exhibitions 2018 Switzerland | Lausanne ART FAIR 2018 UK | London, Royal Opera Arcade Sicily | Palermo, Museum Monreale curated from Dott. Prof. Arch. Giampaolo Trotta Liechtenstein | visarte. Liechtenstein Triennale 2018 2019 Romania | Cuerta de Arges Publication Presentation | “chrysó epidrasi” | Vol.1 Barbara Walder is living and painting in the Principality of Liechtenstein www.barbarasbilderkunst.gallery
WINTER COMES TO AN END. Acrylic, Tempera and Latex Paint on Canvas, 36” x 48” x 1.75”
Stephanie Holznecht Originally from England, I now live in Wisconsin, USA. I started out my artistic obsession doing pen and ink drawings of animals and people. Moving from realism to an abstract artist was prompted by some workshops I took and continue to take. I find abstract art much more freeing that realism, and it opened the door to a slew of emotions and ideas I didn’t know I possessed. Now I find, for me, it is important to create my existence as a human being full of pent up emotions. As an abstract artist, I view the world from different angles. It is now a way of life for me. So many sensations are represented by every little detail I see. Painting allows me to expose these feelings on the canvas. It becomes a time for quietude, where I can relax and forget the world outside of my studio. My present style encompasses the use of acrylic and other mixed media, such as gold and silver tempera, India ink, fluid acrylic and latex paint. I work on large canvases most of the time. The larger canvases allow me to get more emotionally tied to my paintings, creating a sense of harmony for me, allowing me to feel exceptionally invigorated as I work. Each painting feeds from the next, making for a very creative work atmosphere. Working in this style, I have begun to produce
some interesting paintings that show a different side of me, exposed to the elements. The finished piece is a complex creation of mixed emotions, coming together to form a cohesive piece of art. Each title I create is specific and emotionally binding to me. I want the viewer to see this as only my perception. The observer should draw their own conclusions. I have exhibited at many venues throughout the USA and the world. To name a few: New York, Miami, Chicago, Sacramento, Providence, Portland OR, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Laguna Beach, Ventura, Madison, and Baton Rouge, and overseas in Dubai, New Delhi, London, Florence, Venice and Milan. I have won many awards, including a Merit Award at an exhibition in Baton Rouge, a Bronze Award at an exhibition in London, England. First Place at an exhibition in Florence, Italy and Best in Show at an exhibition in Chicago. My work is installed in corporate and private collections worldwide. www.scholznecht.com • sholznecht@gmail.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 11
fine art MY FUNKY VALENTINE. Acrylic on Canvas.
Kirsten Nash KIRSTEN NASH (KNASH) is an award winning Canadian musician, a touring and session multi-instrumentalist and singer, as well as composer/lyricist. She has had her poetry published in literary reviews, has written two rock operas that were staged in the United States and Canada and has recorded three albums of her own music. Throughout the span of her musical career, Kirsten has always created art, focusing her incredible energy in the past several years on painting. She celebrates humanity and nature in her art, in her tireless search for beauty in the soul of the world and people around her. Seeking to give perspective, to inspire emotion and remind us of our connection to the earth and each other, Kirsten is honoured when she is often told that her audience “feels” her work before they really see or hear it. Kirsten and her paintings were featured in the Spring 2016 and 2017 editions of “Arabella”, the premier Canadian Art, Architecture and Design magazine, (http://www. arabelladesign.com/current_issue.htm) “International Contemporary Artists, Volume XI”, (http://www.incoartists. com/Vol-XI/index.html) and has had featured articles in Vancouver magazines “Fresh”, “Home”, the American magazine, “Art and Beyond”, as well as the European art book, curated by Salvatore Russo, “The Best 2016 Modern and 12 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
Contemporary Artists”. She has participated in Art!Vancouver since it’s inaugural year in 2015, and was represented by the Novem Fine Art Gallery at Red Dot Miami 2016/17 and at the New York Art Expo in 2017 and her painting, “Peony Ride” was used for the Park and Buzz jewelry box, which was included in the famous 2017 Academy Awards “Everyone Wins” gift bag. In 2017 Kirsten’s work was also exhibited at the DMF Gala at the Hotel Hermitage in Monaco, the Princess Grace Academy during the Monaco Grand Prix and an exhibition at the Gallerie Carre Dore in Monaco that featured two of her paintings, including “Drama Queen” in it’s window. Kirsten has been represented by the newly opened Boheme Gallery in Saskatoon, Canada, Novem Fine Arts in the recent New York Art Expo 2018, and as always had a fantastic time hosting her own booth at Art Vancouver 2018! Celebrating humanity and nature in her tireless search for beauty in the soul of the world and in the people around her, Kirsten seeks to give perspective, to inspire emotion and remind us of our connection to the earth and each other. www.kirstennash.com
STARFISH. Acrylic on Paper, 11” x 14”
GARDEN AT MIDNIGHT. Acrylic on Paper, 11” x 14”
NATALYA B. PARRIS Natalya B. Parris express herself and view of the world through color, color combinations and shapes. When she creates abstract art, she feels completely free. There is no taboo of what colors she can choose or combine, or what technique to use. She applies whatever seems right at the moment or whatever new ideas are coming up in the moment of inspiration. When she paints, she feels like a flying bird. She wants people who views her art to feel free and happy as she does when she paints, whether they are considering buying it or just want to look for a moment. Very often when viewers see her paintings they ask, “How did you do it?” But, she always lets them guess because one of the purposes of her artwork is to encourage people to exercise their imagination, fantasy and ingenuity. When they guess, they also sometimes come up with the ideas for paintings or for new paintings techniques that are useful to her as well.
may mix together or dry at different times. These factors could create a picture different than what she painted or planned and add excitement and element of surprise to her artist journey. This is why every piece of her abstract art is unique, and even she, who knows a lot of tricks, secrets of colors and acrylic paints, cannot create exact duplicates of her paintings. They are inimitable, but they are all united by the fact that they came from her heart, love and soul.
After Ms. Parris have finished painting the artworks, they have life of their own. During the process of drying, acrylic colors
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ODE TO VAN GOGH & OPHELIA. Mixed Media With Watercolor, 12” x 18”
jenni souter I paint the chapters of my personal life. I am very connected to the living world as an empath and lightworker. I love my life, nature and I’m very spiritual, believing everything happens for a reason. My creations identify the painter as someone that sees their organic life as beautiful, natural, symbolic, and at times tumultuous. Similarly, I am knowledgeable and have a deep appreciation for the painting Masters and their techniques to which I pay homage. In the “Ode to Van Gogh and Ophelia” painting, the viewer would say ”I see water,” but then wonder “Who is Ophelia?”. After researching that Ophelia is the woman who died in the water, they look at the art again to see that it is from the angle under the water looking up through the water. The viewer continues to analyze and wonder why the art was made like this, as if to say that the artist felt like she was drowning in life at times. This was after a suicide of a loved one. 14 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
Finally, the viewer interprets my symbols as in the surreal painting: “Ode to Frida Georgia & Madonna”. It is more than a blood red full moon, bleeding iris, bleeding hearts, fog and pinheads. It’s more than a flower, as the main shape takes on Madonna dancing among men beautifully with hearts on stage and in the spotlight. The viewer may spot the clues and have an aesthetic experience as they discover it symbolizes a pained artist telling of a past broken relationship hidden under the guise of a larger than life beauty. It is in the portrayal of significant events and experiences for my personal life, through my paintings, that I attempt to offer hope and comfort to those who are suffering in silence. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenni-s-7409b243 jen24kalb@yahoo.com
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GROTTO. Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 40" Swirls of white, aqua, pink, taupe and gray forming an undersea scene.
NIGHT WAVES. Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 40" White and pale pink swashes and arcs on a midnight blue
Sara Swan For about a decade, I focused my art on the timeless genre of the female figure. This perfectly suited my natural instinct to draw with curved and undulating lines, using pastel on paper. Beginning in the fall of 2016 I began to experiment with abstraction, using both oil and acrylic on canvas. The common thread between my figurative work and these newer abstract paintings is in the use of curved lines and shapes. I intentionally use these elements in most of my new paintings, to capture and embody a strong sense of the feminine. www.saraswan.com 16 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
MOTHER'S SHOES. Acrylic on Canvas,
Lynn Zubal “Mother’s Shoe’s”
I am an artist who began studying art when I was about seven, comic books brought inspiration to begin drawing. I continued my studies in college. I have been known to capture a person in subject matter as a portrait. These shoes are my mother’s garden shoes which she would never throw out. She was a character. During my mother’s life she fought and gave a new meaning to the word “Hero” being a single mom. I painted these shoes to show the struggles my mom went throughout her life, and the wear and tear cancer brought causing her death. The harshness of color surrounding the shoes represent the desert which she lived in and sunniness of heaven where she is today. The emptiness of the shoe’s mean’s she is gone. These are my Mother’s shoe’s. chew.ru@hotmail.com
JOHNSTOWN, PA. Acrylic on Canvas. When I went back home to visit family I always stayed with my Aunt, her home was the central headquarters for everyone when they came to visit. My Aunt and I would always have hot dogs at the Coney Island Restaurant. She and I were very proud of small businesses which established the character of the town and the quaint home- like quality they brought. Very much America. I have been known to capture a person’s portrait in a subject matter. The painting “Johnstown, PA” is my Aunt, hometown charm with the strength of independence. The Coney Island Restaurant was your neighbor who brought a smile to your face, personal, sociable, just like my Aunt. www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 17
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GREEN NECKLACE. CRJ63 SD1 POMPEII COLLECTION. Artist’s artworks fragments embedded on resin beads forming a 20 inch chain with Argentium Sterling Silver Clasp. The Pompeii Collection is a group of beeswax jewelry inspired by the history of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The jewelry consists of leftover fragments of some of my large encaustic paintings belonging to The Pompeii and Brides of Herculaneum Series, encased in resin, metal and sometimes, leather. No two pieces are the same. They are unique expressions of my vision of confidence-inspiring beauty.
The inspiration behind my jewelry pieces comes from my paintings. Here is an example of one of my pieces that inspired necklaces like the GREEN NECKLACE: THE BRIDES OF HERCULANEUM: VORTEX, encaustic and resin on panel, 24 x 24 inches
Silvana LaCreta Ravena My wearable art collection is a group of beeswax-based jewelry inspired by ideas and concepts behind my large encaustic paintings and collages. The jewelry is created with leftover fragments of some of my large encaustic paintings, encased in resin, metal and sometimes, leather. No two pieces are the same. They are unique expressions of my vision of confidenceinspiring beauty. www.silvanaravena.com 18 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
photography • digital art LAVENDER-DAISY SPLASH. Celo, NC. Photography
The trademark of his work is depth and texture. “Depth,” with a goal of drawing one’s eye into the picture, where the moment was captured; and “texture,” which gives him a visceral pleasure, highlighting varying objects’ multifaceted shapes and shades of light, bringing a still image to life. Each subject he captures is motivated by passion. Recognition for his work includes honorable mention, International Kodak Contest; winner, American Institute of Architects global competition. His work has also appeared in galleries in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina. Among numerous publications are The ARTnews, Laurel of Asheville, Art & Beyond, Art Business News magazines, and 2014 International Contemporary Artists art book. Mr. Benowitz has also been chosen as one of Art Business News’ Top Emerging Artists for 2014. In March 2016, he was presented with six Winner and Nominee Medals in the 9th Annual International Color Awards Competition. His photo subjects include Nature, wildlife, people, architecture, and adventure travel.
H. Allen Benowitz H. ALLEN BENOWITZ, self-taught photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and graduate from the Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan, migrated to Miami, FL, in the 1960s, where he currently resides. He spends time at his log home in Burnsville, NC. Mr. Benowitz has been invited to Morocco by His Majesty, King Mohammed VI, to photo journal his country’s Moussem de Tan-Tan festival, declared by UNESCO a World Heritage for Peace and the Humanities. He is a repeat Selected Nominated Finalist - International Color Awards Photography Masters Cup Competition; Awarded Special Recognition in the top 50 of the 2014 Juried International January Art Competition by Art Quench Gallery, titled “A New Beginning.” More recently, his work has been on display at the Louvre in Paris, the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, and Spectrum-Miami/Art Basel, Miami, FL. Published: National Geographic “Your Shot.” 20 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
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BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY IV. Near Linville Falls, NC. Photography
COLOR BURST. Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper
Nicholas Teetelli NICHOLAS TEETELLI is both a published and international award-winning fine art photographer. He was born in New York City and grew up in lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. During the late 1960s, and into the 1970s, the Village was a hotbed of culture and the arts. During this period, Teetelli was introduced to art and photography, developing an interest in what would become his lifelong passion. While he took some photography courses in college, Nicholas Teetelli is primarily self-taught. Spanning the last four decades, he has learned, developed, and honed his skills independently, becoming an avid and serious amateur photographer who has recently turned professional. Although he lived and grew up in New York City, he has spent many summers in the Greek islands and has traveled to many other places in the world. He continues to travel extensively in pursuit of the perfect photographic image. During each journey, with camera in hand, he records much of what he sees, sharing the impression of his mind’s eye through composition, light play, and shape and design. His photographic portfolio is diverse: it includes landscape, architecture, portrait, flora and fauna, underwater, and street photography.
He has recently brought his portfolio to the public eye and, in short order, has had more than one hundred of his photographs juried and invited into exhibition at dozens of galleries and museums across the United States, receiving many awards for this work. He has won awards in international competitions in Moscow, London and Tokyo, a featured artist at major art shows at Art San Diego, Spectrum Miami, Artexpo New York, has private gallery placements in Vienna, Austria and Bologna, Italy, as well as being the only photographer to be featured on Royal Caribbean’s Azamara ships in their Artwave shipboard galleries. He almost exclusively uses Leica cameras and lenses which yield superior results for him. He has recently added a Hasselblad medium format camera to his bag. www.teetelli.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 21
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LIFE DREAM 4. Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 40". 2017
enough, to let the spectator feel the energy put in the depth of the canvas, transforming the perception of the picture in his own art act. As I search and develop my own style, I look at works done by Russian avant-garde artists, Tatlin, Larionov, Malevitch and Kandinsky. The ideal of highest expressiveness of shape, color and spiritually fulfilling for me are the paintings of Russian icon painters Dionisij and Rublev, where pictorial surface gets properties of portal between physical world and exquisite spheres. The only way I see being a true artist today: the way of experiencing the spiritual world and its expression by available earthly materials. Meanwhile, I don’t limit myself to abstract painting. Nowadays, the real and objective world as impacted by the information technology phenomenon is developing so quickly that it’s possible to express it only with short figurative cues and quotations. In summary, I understand art as a comparison of immediate and eternal, short and infinite, corporal and imperishable, trying to understand earthly reality in context of the Universe.
Elize I understand art as the universal language of communication and as a way of emotionally experiencing the metaphysical reality. I imagine the future in which personal creativity would be the natural way of living and the physical environment would become the creation material and/or medium. As an artist, the bases of my artwork are sculpture and objects. I see ceramics as the ideal material nowadays. Clay – is the smoothest and the most congenial material for me, perfectly universal and it allows for creating the ultimate form and color blending. Clay’s structure is most similar to human nature. During the burning processes, the dark, wet, organic portion is burnt away and the stronger, clearer substance remains. Same goes for the human spirit. In order to grow stronger in the right way, it should emerge out of all earthly tests with honor. Next to ceramics, I embraced painting. I was captivated by the canvas space and at this juncture in my vocation, the search for harmony of color and texture is my main focus. Most of the time, I find abstract painting extremely fascinating. I try to fill my paintings with expressions strong 22 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com LIFE DREAM 3. Acrylic on Canvas, 48" x 36". 2017
EXOTICA. Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 30" . 2018
PICNIC. Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 30". 2018
Barry Gordon Barry Gordon's art is characterized by the use of vibrant colors and whimsical forms that grow out of recognizable human, floral or animal shapes. The tone is often humorous and the message frequently one of social satire or political commentary. Speaking of his own work, Gordon says, "I try to achieve a kind of musical counterpoint between color, design, composition, optical abstraction and fantasy." His works contain representations and permutations of musicians and music making; biologic and organic forms; social institutions and social relationships. His drawings and paintings center around three broad categories: perceptions of self or others;
social relations between self and society, between couples and within small groups; epics and concepts. Gordon's imagery provides a broad repertoire for the viewer's mind to draw on from his/her own experiential base to impressionistically develop his/her own conceptual/visceral "holistic perception" of a scene, a feeling an experience. What follows is an instantaneous recognition not necessarily analytically or consciously understood--ending in a reflexive interactive smile derived from the pleasure of the journey. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 23
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LICIVITELLA D'AGLIANO. 3 Layers, C Print on Acrylic Painting on C Print, 45" x 60" x 2.5"
This work is the culmination of over ten years of developing the strong connection between the land, environmental issues and the human condition, with the human condition and its psychological ramifications finally taking precedence in the work. It is also a fulfillment of a dream to combine photography and painting in the same image, influenced by the work of Fabian Marcaccio. It’s interesting for me to examine my journey in terms of painting and photographic 24 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
content and how my emotional, psychological state and feelings began creeping into my work. This current body, entitled “Disconnect” is about the disconnect I feel in the world and in my life. Taking photographs of walls and natural objects from all over the world was the inspiration for this body of work. From the walls of San Severino prison in Cuba to ancient walls holding
SAN SEVERINO #1.03. Acrylic Painting on C Print, Mounted on Panel, 22.5" x 30"
up the gigantic head statues on Easter Island to the walls of an Italian medieval town and many places in between, I was fascinated by the abstract compositions that I saw close up. These old walls with their layers and layers of rock, paint, and whatever else was there seemed like people, with layers and layers of experiences composing the whole person. They seemed a metaphor for the persona that we present to the outside world-the wall that we show to other people.
Cutting out part of the photograph and painting that section accentuated the disconnect between the persona we present and the multiple selves we are underneath. At first glance, one sees a whole perfect image. Upon closer examination, the disconnect is obvious. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 25
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DREAMS OF YESTERDAY. Ink, Watercolor, 11" x 15". 2018
REGINE LEGLER Regine Legler was born in Berlin, Germany during the last days of World War II. Her first exposure to art was a dark, brown door her mother allowed the family to draw on with chalk, which Regine did frequently. Everything was a canvas, including her schoolbooks, which lead Regine to her first commission; being asked by her fellow classmates to help them with their homework assignment to draw Napoleon. Regine’s formal education in fine art started at age 17 when she enrolled at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt/Main Germany. There she began a two-year study of figure drawing, portraiture, landscape and still life under Walter Hergenhahn, a student of the renowned Max Beckmann. Later, she underwent three years of intensive study in oil painting, acrylic and watercolor at the Freie Academie in Mannheim, Germany. In her early years, Regine drew and painted scenes of dreams and emotional situations in a style called Fantastic Realism. Then, in 1994, her interest shifted to wildlife and American Indian scenes. Today, Regine’s style has evolved from Fantastic Realism to a more realistic and personalized technique to create a very bold look and tone to convey strong emotions. Regine holds juried membership at Women Painters West, Southern California Women Caucus of the Arts, Venice Art Forum, and has taught college-level classes at Santa Monica College and the Fashion institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. GRAZING. Ink, Watercolor, 11" x 15". 2017
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DEEP ONE. Oil and Bronze on Canvas, 44" x 70". 2016
Eva Montealegre Montealegre’s art education emerged under the tutelage of abstract painter, Robert Kingston. She previously studied graphic design at West Valley Occupational College and Pierce College Art Department. She is a recipient of the Puffin Foundation Grant for her performance art piece: Portrait of the First Woman. This unique project featured inner city youth dancing to improv classical music in front of Montealegre’s painting titled Higgs Boson, inspired by the Peter Higgs theory, depicting the creation of the universe. The ballet students used ribbon, fabric, and hand-created headpieces to produce a 3-D experience of asteroids, comets and nebulas portraying that first moment in time and essentially bringing the painting to life. Professional choreographer, Beatriz Vasquez, her dance troupe and Montealegre performed with the youth. Montealegre’s gallery debut was at Long Beach Arts, where Lady Starskull Ponders the Cosmos was awarded a prize. Since then she has exhibited her work widely at many California galleries including Since then she has exhibited her work widely at many California galleries including bG Gallery, Beyond the Lines at Bergamot Station, Blue Bird Art House, Modern Art Gallery, Orlando Gallery, TAG Gallery and Verve Gallery. Beyond the Lines at Bergamot Station, Blue Bird Art House, Modern Art Gallery, Orlando Gallery, TAG Gallery and Verve Gallery. Her work has also been shown at Art Raw Gallery in West Chelsea, NY. In addition, she has auctioned her paintings at the Orange County Center for Contemporary
DEEP TWO. Oil and Bronze on Canvas, 44" x 70". Art to raise money for water wells in Haiti. Other successful fundraising ventures with Montealegre’s paintings include CRLA and HeartTouch. Montealegre has continued to win prizes for her paintings and her works are featured in several publications including Art Takes Time Square and Creative Voice in UniteWomen.Org. Montealegre’s museum presentations of her painting, Deep Vein 3, include the Picture Foundation international exhibition titled I Have a Right and MOLAA’S Women’s Festival.a. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 27
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Barbara Nathanson
RED AND GREY. Diptych, Acrylic on Tar Paper on Wood Panel, 63” x 49”
Barbara Nathanson uses art as a means to express her reactions to her environment. In this way what you see is akin to the emanations from a sound box where the acoustics of sounds, life circumstance, 28 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
and landscape have combined at one moment in time. The subject matter is not the subject. The process is often as important as the result. She has recently included with her abstract, tactile paintings, more objective work, but the impetus is the same. Just as each person responds differently
SPRING. Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 36” x 24”
to music, Barbara expects each viewer will respond differently to what they see.
art. She has exhibited widely across the United States and in 14 countries, on 5 continents.
Barbara studied with Marvin Hardin at California State University, Northridge where she obtained her MA degree in
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Lark Pilinsky
COLORFUL MORNING. Acrylic on Canvas, 15" x 15". 2017
Born in the remote mountains of central Asia, where her father was a geologist, and surrounded by wild nature, beautiful minerals and semi-precious stones, Lark (Larisa Pilinsky) developed from her childhood intimate relationship with the world around her. "Nature for me is alive, tender, joyful and suffering, she tells 30 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
me about her feelings and helps me to share mine through art and poetry. She gives me energy, inspiration and healing when I feel physical or emotional pain.” Using her unique style, composed from meditation and intuition, Lark brings subconscious reflections of nature into her art, inviting viewers to experience its healing powers.
UNEARTHLY LANDSCAPE. Mixed Media on Canvas, 48" x 36". 2007 BIRD IN PARADISE. Acrylic on Board, 4.5" x 4.5". 2017
From the beginning of her art career, Lark’s art caught the attention of art lovers and gained recognition from art jurors including LA Weekly critic Peter Frank, Sweeney Art Gallery director Tyler Stallings, Santa Monica Museum of Art director Lisa Melandri and MOCA curator Alma Ruiz. Articles about Lark's art and achievements were published in the Painting World and Immigrant Magazine, the Art-to-Art Palette Journal and Online Art Magazine "Crave" describing her work and career. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 31
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INFINITY. Oil on Canvas, 8" x 12"
Through my paintings, I wish to help others experience an essential spiritual awakening and find integrity and inner harmony, to hear the heart at much deeper levels and recall the Song of the Soul. I would like to help individuals to establish the connection between oneself and the soul of our planet, Gaia, and with the plant and animal kingdoms, as well as outer space and stellar systems. With my art, I would like to provide the environment and settings for work with certain states of mind and energies, worlds and creatures, to help transform negative patterns, find inner balance and confidence in oneself, and to develop greater intuition and human consciousness. My aim is to awaken, inspire, harmonize, and fill hearts with joy and a sense of beauty and the sublime.
Izabel Raa A Russian-born American artist, Izabel Raa, a true world citizen. She travels around the world a lot and spends quite a span of time in India and other spiritual sacred places of power on the planet, where she meditates and gets the inspiration for art and life. She likes to paint in different places on the planet Earth during her travels. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com 32 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
THE DANCE OF LOVE. Oil on Canvas, 18" x 18"
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Eugene Vishnevsky (GenVish)
THE FOOL. Ink on Paper, 18" x 24". 2017
Eugene Vishnevsky (GenVish) was born in 1960 in the city of Kiev, Ukraine. In 1990 he immigrated to Israel, and then to Canada. Eugene has lived in Los Angeles, California since 1993. According to the artist, his style, black and white 34 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2018
symbolic primitivism, appeared in 1985. While growing as an artist, GenVish was greatly impressed and influenced by art of Heieronymous Bosch, Pavel Phylonov, Marc Chagall.
THE FEAST. Ink on Paper, 24" x 18".
THE COCKROACH IN THE HEAD. Ink on Paper, 18" x 24". 2017
In 1997 I began the body of work called “Visual Coding of the Archetypes on the Basis of the Bible and the Biblical Mythology”. I use symbolic primitivism to present biblical images in a unique and unprecedented manner, similar to the ancient Chinese tradition of telling stories in the form of pictures rather than words. My exposure to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes, brought forth a series of drawings that reconsidered the raw imagery of icon painting in the context of unconscious reflexive narrative, the kind Jung proposed, that lies at the very back of our brains and motivates us invisibly. I am drawn to cultural archetypes, symbols and motifs that recur in all forms of mythic and fabulistic discourse and in some way bind all of the arts - literature, theater, fine art, dance and music. I have sought to make overt the presence of these archetypes in my own art, not propagandizing for or illustrating Jung’s theories but simply manifesting them in the process of telling tales and setting scenes. Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 35
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GONE WITH A WIND. Etching, 9" x 5.5". 2014
Jane Serebrenikov Jane Serebrenikov’s narrative graphical art works reflect her deeply lyrical and uniquely poetical vision. All her life she was interested in visual arts and has grown up on fairy tales. She combines magic, vivid imagination and a sense of humor in her art works. She is also inspired by the art of Mark Chagall, Reno Magritte and Gabriel Pacheco. Jane has been taking part in several exhibitions. She sold her artworks nationally and internationally. Her art works featured on electronic billboard on Sunset Streep and appeared in City News. Jane’s work is in collection of Los Angeles City College as well as numbered private collections throughout the world. She makes aquatint etchings. This is where the plate is immersed in acid and the lines and tones are achieved when the acid “bites” the areas which have not been masked. Then color is applied manually and the artwork is printed on printmaking press. Each print is unique. Jane was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Los Angeles in 1995 with her family. She graduated from college as a graphic designer, holds AA degree and continuous to work in a printmaking studio.
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THE LOVERS. Etching, 10" x 9". 2011 Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com
TURNIPS. Photography, 12" x 14"
Felice Willat Felice Willat is an award-winning travel photographer and publisher, whose images from Burma, Morocco, China, Vietnam and Argentina, capture the beauty of the human landscape across cultures. Willat's photographs have been juried into the Los Angeles Center for Photography, Photo LA, Photo Independent, TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, the Brand Library, Glendale, CA, and numerous other venues across the United States and in London, UK and Italy.In 2010, Felice won First Prize, for her Travel images in the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs’ annual juried exhibition. In 2009 Felice published The Quiet Between, Song of Burma, a book of photography and poems. Felice sees her camera as providing a sense of time expansion and stillness. She says, “I could capture a moment, something sacred or commonplace, an unconscious gesture, a tattered clothesline, a red plastic pitcher, or a worn prayer book. I like to leave the familiar, travel to far-away places, and find the gift of really being present.” Presented by LarkGallery larkgallery.com
WOMAN WITH POT. Photography, 16" x 14". 2018 www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 37
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HE HAD YET TO LEARN. Oil on Canvas, 47" x 61". 2016