27TH MAY | Athens Open Art

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INDEX 1. ARTISHBYMJ - CONTEMPORARY ARTIST 2. K KANIA 3. MARYAM SEHHAT 4. MAYUKO ONO GRAY 5. LEILA SAMARI 6. STELLA JAE 7. ETHAN DESANTIS 8. MICHEL DEVANAKIS 9. YIANNIS FOULIAS 10. STELLA WHALLEY 11. KATASHA ROSE 12. TOLGA AKBAS 13. MOMAS 14. LIVA KATHARINA VOIGT 15. STELLA WHALLEY 16. EVA SOLO ART

ARTISHBYMJ - CONTEMPORARY ARTIST IG: @artishbymj Mary-Jo Adjetey, alias ArtishByMJ, is a contemporary artist, data analyst and manager of a candleshop living and working in Accra, Ghana. Born in 1992, she spent her early years drawing over her bedroom walls, before eventually going on to study Math and Art at Syracuse University. She also then went on to obtain a MSc. in Data Analytics from the University of Warwick, U.K. During this break from traditional art making, she continued to hone her creative skills as a graphic designer. She has since decided to pursue art professionally and returned to painting during the COVID-19 quarantine period of 2020. Her current body of work is representative of African motifs and female forms, ranging from the abstract to representational all used to explore varied themes including stereotypes and cliches, relying on both serial work and singular pieces with an implied connectivity.

K KANIA k-kania.com K Kania fascination with natural world and crystallisation processes was born after first view through a microscope lens. She now uses the intricate process to express deep feelings from within. Currently exhibiting in London, Nottingham and Sheffield.

MARYAM SEHHAT sehhatmaryam@gmail.com 21.01.1982 Iran Arts and Architecture Tehran University Bachelor of Arts in Painting 2006 In 2017 she went to Austria to continue her education in Vienna University. She had some painting exhibitions in Iran and Austria. She also makes short animations for festivals.

In her paintings she tries to show the physical and mental relation between humans and the environment around them in a metaphoric way.

MAYUKO ONO GRAY IG: @mayuko_ono_gray Mayuko Ono Gray is a Houston Texas, USA based artist whose main medium is graphite drawing. Born in Gifu Japan, she was trained in traditional Japanese calligraphy in her young childhood; later in her teenage she was trained in classical Western drawing. After graduating from high school in Japan, she moved to the U.S. She earned her MFA in painting from the University of Houston main campus in 2007. Her works are represented

by Hooks-Epstein galleries in Houston TX, USA and Galeria 910 in Oaxaca Mexico, and her works have been exhibited internationally in solo and several group exhibitions in Japan, Mexico, Germany, Italy, UK among others.

LEILA SAMARI IG: @Leilasamariartworks She went to the art university in Tehran in 2001, bachelor in Graphic design.

In 2016 she has got admission from Vienna university and came to Austria in 2017.

In Iran and in Austria also another countries she had some group and solo painting and illustration exhibitions. She writes stories and poem and makes for some of them animations.

These animations were successful and was screening in some festivals around the world.

STELLA JAE IG: @stella_yanzi999 Stella Jae is a pop surrealistic oil painter. Her work embodies a fusion of techniques, experiences, and styles. She travelled globally for over 15 years apprenticing in many art forms in countries across the globe. She completed formal training in Fine Arts in the US, Spain, and China. These experiences shaped her artistic work and her character.

The years spent in Asia left a deep impression on her work and her knowledge of Mandarin frequently appears in her paintings. The cultures she studied are fundamental and inexhaustible sources of inspiration. Her work aims to translate the traditional into a contemporary tongue. Her work has been exhibited in the US, China, Egypt, and Greece.

ETHAN DESANTIS IG: @ethphotography17 Ethan is a 17-year-old artist from England who shoots landscapes and conceptual photography. The project on display here is titled ‘The Lost Boy’. ‘The Lost Boy’ is about Ethan’s fears of becoming an adult and entering the real world. These photos were made as a result of being an anxious and vulnerable teenager who was weary of what lies Infront of him. Throughout the series you can see a gradual shift of emotions portraying how he’s battling these anxieties in real life. Ethan wants you to view these images through the eyes of your adolescent self just before you entered adulthood.

MICHEL DEVANAKIS IG: @micheldevanakis.art Michel Devanakis is a contemporary painter living in Greece. He defines himself as a "Restless autodidact, adventurer and traveller", making art to live and share his own moments of wonder and happiness!

As he puts it: - "I wouldn’t be able to judge myself as having a specific influence other than being mostly attracted to realism. “Labels” make me feel uncomfortable as I believe people would expect me to create again and again in a certain way. I try to protect my freedom and the spontaneity to create whatever I want, as I want it, allowing myself to be entertained and for you to be surprised.”

YIANNIS FOULIAS IG: @foulias_ Y. Foulias is an expressionist visual artist.

Interested in human figure, face and parts. Currently working on 3 colours.

Studies, 2002 - 2005 UoAth , graphic design.

Solo exhibitions: The garden of Eden , 2002, Aenaon gallery, Athens Face to face, 2003 , mikro polytechneio, Athens Red gaze blue thoughts, 2005, Aenaon gallery Linears, 2012, Aenaon gallery.

Selection of group shows: Larissa from above, 2016 , Katsigras museum, Larissa Sin as portrait, 2019, chili art gallery, Athens

TOLGA AKBAS IG: @ostothek The artist is interested in urbanization and changes in our environment with urbanization in his productions. While working on the destructive nature of humanism, he expresses the helplessness of other living and non-living beings against humanism. At the same time, the artist tries to create a new way of seeing by showing different time periods on a single photograph, using a technique he calls "process photography" to break the boring nature of photography.

MOMAS IG: @momasart When he was still a child, he realised his need to communicate and express feelings, images and words through the use of art. He was fascinated by the fact that he could interpret the world through making something beautiful and creative, so he always fell back on his imagination to create and decorate areas and carried his paper and pencils to do so. While growing up he was looking for more ways of expression. He worked with photography, took orthophony lessons, acted in amateur theatre, wrote his one and only play and of course, he continued creating paintings and decorating walls. This is his passion and he still does it for people who have honoured him by asking him to do so, relying on his own aesthetic as a reference.

LIVA KATHARINA VOIGT IG: @livathelazy Growing up in Germany and Mexico taught me that the western capitalist and consuming mentality is not the only way to approach life. Finding truth, acknowledging my privilege to travel, soaking in all possible influences and sensations and listening to the most diverse opinions I can is what I approach in my process of self growth. The line between understanding and anticipation is fluid. How can we be sure that what we mean will trigger what we want to express in the other person? I want to explore what gets lost between the sender and the recipient, where feelings start to be uncertain and projection starts. My Name is Liva Voigt and I work and study in Leipzig, Germany.

STELLA WHALLEY IG: @ stellawhalley Stella Whalley is a Fine Artist from London. Her practice covers a variety of medium, applications and materials with particular interest in drawing, printmaking and painting processes and site-specific installation. Whalley studied at Central St Martins and worked professionally at various publishing intaglio studios.

She pursues ideas from her personal experience and from a feminist point of view.

Inspiration has come from experiencing different cultures on residencies in Japan, Italy and Portugal.

Notable shows include the EMPIRE 11 at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017, which travelled to the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca Mexico 2019. The Nakanojo Biennale Japan 2015, Wilson Gallery Cheltenham 2014. ’Digital Responses’ Victoria & Albert Museum 2002, book launch ‘Tokyo Tales’ the Whitechapel Gallery 2007. .

EVA SOLO ART IG: @eva_solo_art Artist Eva has recently been working in a technique of gouache, tempera.

Her top priority is the emotional state she lives through while working on her paintings.

The crucial importance of those feelings and emotions can be easily seen in her works.

As with any other artist, Eva’s burst of passion can be characterized by extra expression being transferred to canvas or paper.

Peacefulness and ease, on the other hand, are being designated by mild colors and slight vibrations of light.

Diverse coloring and rich palette used in paintings emphasize the sincerity of the artist’s intentions.

Her concept of painting is “the priority of objectlessness”, which releases a free flow of emotions, feelings, passion, or peacefulness. And those, in their turn, have been always intriguing viewers throughout the century.

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