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Artwork byJenny E. Balisle

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Table of Contents Jenny Balisle Ludmila Budanov Sofia Fotiadou Anna Jannack Dimitri Jelezky Mercedes Lagunas Chrys Romboras Ava Bock Lorna Sheepers Sylwia Moron Alana Latiolais

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Jenny E. Balisle â&#x20AC;Š

Fascinated by alternative realities, disorientation, and flight, she combines disparate experiences to create new narratives, perspectives, and theories. The goal is to identify how patterns and symbols of influence impact perception, social behavior, institutions, history, and truth. Mediums are repurposed by altering function to explore identity, ideology, and inequality. As a multidisciplinary artist, Jennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practice incorporates drawings, sculpture, site-specific installations, objects, digital, video, and audio. Inspiration, investigation, research, writing, and discovery dictate the final form.

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Ludmila Budanov Ludmila Budanov's work is as mystifying as it is entrancing. The artist creates colorful and ethereal scenes so skillfully that her work seems to transcend its medium -- almost as if water and smoke themselves are entrapped within her canvas. The Russian artist has a unique approach to the melding of color and form that draws viewers into each work. Budanov has an almost mystical ability to leave a viewer both intrigued by the other-worldly qualities of her works and soothed by the serenity of the waves and movement she effortlessly weaves through each piece.

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Sofia Fotiadou

Painting

to me is a symbolic language, a distillation of experiences,

emotions and spiritual processes transferred to the canvas; paintings often becomes, the inner need of my soul, implemented in an image, without words, expressing my thoughts, desires, dreams. With the detailed depiction and vivid colors, my paintings shows the realistic effect in their technique. My favorite medium is oil paint on canvas, where I can create large to medium sized painting exploring my visual language.

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Anna Jannack I usually find myself wrestling with issues like time and memory. The never ending curiosity to understand how our perception of the world comes together inside our brains hunts me. How does the mind come together? Sometimes it seems as if the mind is a dress with many pockets. Memories seem true and vivid or inaccurate and unreal. How does one differentiate between what is real or not? During this process, I retreat into a world of materials where I get lost in curiosity and exploration...always looking for the answer that sometimes comes and other times, it evades me. I try to make things simple by organizing and clustering themes into lines of inquiry. These lines of inquiry are sometimes open, closed or bifurcating into new lines of inquiry. This is done in an effort to make sense of what I am doing, but sometimes this process complicates things further.

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Dimitri Jelezky I use traditional and experimental techniques to describe surrealistic, mystic themes somewhere between Abstraction and Pop-Art. I love to experiment with contrasts, textures and strive for the unexpected, expressive results. I m Ě creating the space of independent visual ideas by working abstract and figurative.

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Mercedes Lagunas

The phrase “Always look at the bright side of Life”, from Monty Python ́s movie Brian life, its what defines my work.  The connection with high vibration states of the being, such as love, peace, silence and joy is what I search for in life, in order to remember what I already am, but its been forgotten. My love paintings are not meant to be romantic love, but a vibrational experience, from the inside. I donʼt care so much about the themes or the styles, because all is invented already, but to connect with the emotion. My pieces usually have a statement, or tell a story about daily life, reflecting contemporary society, I love to look life with humor, and to see the absurd in many situations. Colors, light, energy, emotion, all that is on my pieces. I strongly believe that my pieces can bring healing to the collector, as well as a beautiful and aesthetic piece of decoration.

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Chrys Roboras

From the very first time I touched paint, I knew that I wanted to do something in my life with it. It was an uphill battle, to be able to conquer it! Experimented, cried, laughed and eventually got to the point where I was able to paint on canvas images that moved me; penetrated deep into onlooker’s souls and touch them. Images that many expressed "I can't get your paintings out of my head." This is what I wanted to achieve and even though at times I feel I do, other times I feel the battle is still uphill. For the last 11years I have painted the following concepts:   "No Man's Land" to "In Man's Land". My first series 'No Man's Land' is about being in between two countries; Australia and Greece. In Australia, I am Greek, in Greece I am Australian. For most of my life, I have known two countries. However, I spent the majority of it in Australia. Born and raised in Australia by immigrant parents, I could not help to have the feeling of not belonging embedded in my subconscious. It may have been my father's words that “one day we would return to Greece”, to his country, his fatherland that evoked feelings of displacement; something that I will never seem to get over. This emotion is something that I carried and carry with me for a very long time and represented in the body of paintings; 'No Man's Land'. I feel that it is also important to be able to recognize the natural need of a human being to find a place to belong to, a place where there is no emotion of "No Man's Land".   Three years later and evolved, 'In Man's Land' took over. This series does not have nomadic people. My figures are yes, at times wandering but have adapted to their surrounding environment and have a less turmoil reaction to their environment. This journey of paintings has settled within me the upsets of identity, belonging and acceptance. The figures are larger and dominant. They no longer hide, or chose not to be seen front on. The figures are proud standing tall. The environment and its landscapes can be dominating but now they seem less intimidating. You can still carry with you the thought of displacement and the emotion of 'No Man's Land,' but 'In Man's Land' has no insecurities of contemplation and doubt, they have softened into having destination and a path to follow. 'In Man's Land' stands stronger and determined to belong no matter where you may be in your life. Taking time, looking down at all I see, open your eyes to a place where we all can belong to no matter... Parallel followed, my two worlds have met, and insist to co-exist, 2 countries, 2 homes together. The paintings softened in color, a little brighter and the figures were large and small. This was a series that lead to the concentration of portraits, a series called ‘Nothing remains the same’ a combination of landscapes, figures and the study of the head. I wanted to know what goes in someone’s mind. It was a new challenge that gave me a sense of relief and tested my technical capabilities. Lastly my new work has brought me to; doing everything I have ever done but adding new materials such as oil sticks, oil pastel and pencil. I cannot express enough how these materials have brightened my paintings and works on paper. It’s been a self awakening experience, in a really good way.

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Ava Bock I fell in love with clear casting resins the very first time I worked with them. All the measured pouring and strict regulation of the preparatory phase, satisfied my controlling nature. However, the unpredictability of the casting and curing phases, appeased the parts of me that are guided by instinct. Each time I go through the cyclical process of prepping, casting, and curing, I create a physical representation of my own internal symbiosis. The essence of this symbiotic relationship is always apparent in my work, even if it's not always my focus. Instead, I choose to meditate on the relationships that my various calculations have with my thoroughly unscientific projections. It's because of this, that the foundational core of my art is more process than anything else. Round or flat, large or small, each piece goes through the same cycles and motions as the piece before it. Yet each transitions into a single fused unique display of unity.

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Lorna Sheepers

My creativity begins with an appreciation for the beauty in the everyday, often reflecting my emotions and memories and interwoven with more idyllic and imagined elements of the environment. Exploring ideas of socialization, personal identity and one’s sense of belonging within a place, I draw inspiration from my experience of living in between countries and continents. I am fascinated by the dividing line between fact and fantasy, and the lingering imprint it has on our lives. Although not obvious, my art is always deeply personal.The presence of birds are often a symbolic overtone with reference to where I find myself. It is s a place of self healing and transformation. My oil paintings are intuitive and come to life through a constant process of accumulation and reduction. I will often linger on a painting, waiting for it to reveal itself and even repaint or remove layers. Through the years developed a series of symbols and marks that make up my unique visual vocabulary, but my latest works have developed into a layered, and more comfortable application.   So many artist and tutors have been impressionable upon me along my journey as an artist and my list of painterly influences includes Odilon Redon, Joseph Stella, Gustav Klimt and Franz Marc to name but a few. I paint from my heart, and it is imperative to me to remain integral to my own voice. My art reflects my current state of self, with references to symbolism, but it has no singular meaning. I believe that to assume that, is as assuming that every person experience the world in the same way.

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Sylwia Smoron

"My passion is to create artworks that perfectly fit into a location - in harmony with the interior design, the room settings and the client’s style. I want to awake emotions - a wow-effect - and give a room an exclusive touch!”

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Alana Latiolais

AlanaKay is an abstract artist who believes in the transformative power of color. Working within the medium of resin, AlanaKay translates the fluidity of emotions, dreams, and memories from mind to canvas. Nuanced details captured in numerous layers of resin allow for a fresh perspective with every viewing. She is known for her signature bold color palettes and strives to empower her collectors and fans through color.

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