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APÉRO CATALOGUE Fine Art Collection Warmth July 2019

Ron Kenedi

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Created by APERO, Inc. Curated by E.E. Jacks Designed by Jeremy E. Grayson Orange County, California, USA

Warmth July 2019 ‘Warmth’ is a collection of art that focuses on affection, sympathy, love, and enthusiasm for life! The work is both abstract and literal in its interpretation of ‘warmth’ and showcases warm colors as well as cheerfulness and excitement!

The work is comprised of drawings, paintings, photography, mixed media, digital, and sculpture both representational and abstract in nature.

Jessica Alazraki The Bathers 3, 2018 Oil On Canvas 60 x 72 in $5,000

Jessica Alazraki New York, New York, USA jessicaalazraki@icloud.com http://www.jessicaalazrakiart.com

Jessica Alazraki I was born and raised in Mexico City and have a bachelors degree in Communications from Universidad Anáhuac. I worked as a creative in advertising right after finishing high school and moved to New York City in 1998 where I worked at various advertising agencies that specialized in targeting the U.S. Hispanic market. At the same time, I was studying at the Parsons School in which I earned a degree in Graphic Design. I also entered other CE graphic design programs at various schools in NYC including the School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union. After becoming a Mom, I quit my job but continued to work as a visual artist. In 2008, I first discovered my passion for drawing and painting. Since then, I have worked with live models helping me to expand my knowledge of anatomical drawing and figure painting. After my first year of studies for a Masters Degree in Figurative Painting (2015-2016) at the New York Academy of Art, I have been preparing my selfdirected body of work that represents my artistic interest, my personality and contributes to creating social awareness. I have exhibited my paintings in the U.S.A. in over 30 groups shows including several Galleries in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island, Poughkeepsie, California, and Philadelphia as well as in Sotheby’s Auction House in NY and various museums like the Attleboro Arts Museum in Massachusetts and the New Britain Museum of America Art. I had two Solo Shows in NYC and have participated in more than five group shows in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico. I have also been teaching young girls— from middle school to high school—with drawing in a private setting.

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Nathan Altier Heart To Heart, 2019 Varnished Acrylic On Gallery Wrapped Canvas 24 x 48 x 1.5 in NFS

Nathan Altier Hedgesville, West Virginia, USA Altierarts@gmail.com http://Altierarts.com

Nathan Altier Junior year of high school, I won first place and received an honorable mention in an art contest put on by the Southern Maryland Women’s League, for two separate pieces, a lithograph print collage and a painting. I was incredibly encouraged and realized at this moment that I wanted to make a living using my talent and doing what I loved. I was accepted at the Maryland College of Art & Design and honed my skills there as an artist, making the Dean’s List every semester until I graduated. After receiving an AA in Visual Communications, I decided to continue my education at the Atlanta College of Art and graduated with a BA in Computer Art. Shortly after graduation I realized that a career in computer art was not my passion, I transitioned to fine art painting, utilizing my computer art background. While I enjoy painting a variety of subjects, and experiment with abstractions and realism, I prefer portraiture. People fascinate me and I love the challenge of bringing out their personalities through my work.

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Sylvia Bandyke Girl Time, 2019 Photography 14 x 14 in Framed $175

Sylvia Bandyke Royal Oak, Michigan, USA sylviabandyke@hotmail.com https://www.facebook.com/bandykephotocollage/

Sylvia Bandyke I have a long-time love of photography but only recently had time to pursue it in a devoted way. My approach is to typically keep an eye open for interesting reflections, light patterns, views of a subject. I look for hidden beauty in everyday life that hopefully may inspire others to do so as well. I enjoy using the collage format to integrate associated images into a cohesive unit that is more compelling because of the embedded story; launched this format in five consecutive years of exhibiting in the Grand Rapids, MI ArtPrize event starting in 2014. Since 2018, my first full dedicated year as a photographer, I have been juried into several art exhibitions as follows: • 23rd and 24th (2018 & 2019) Annual Juried Photography Exhibition of the Dearborn, MI Community Arts Council • Juried Spring 2018 & 2019 Shows of the Artists’ Society of Dearborn (took first place in photography in ’19) • 2018 Pulmonary Hypertension Association International Conference and Scientific Sessions Art Gallery Showcase and Raffle, Orlando, FL • The Muskegon Museum of Art’s 90th (2018) Michigan Regional Exhibition • Crossing Perspective: Finding Similarities of Culture Exhibit at the Dearborn Black Box Gallery, Fall 2018 • 21st (2018) Annual Livonia Exhibition of Fine Arts (MI) • 6x6: Be There, Be Square December 2018 exhibit at the Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA • Iphonography Now juried exhibition of the Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA, January 2019 • Five Points Gallery (Torrington, CT) Small Works Juried Exhibition, February 2019 • Linus Galleries (CA) Fragmented Abstract Art, Blur & Beautiful International Art Calls, Winter/Spring 2019 • Scarab Club of Detroit, MI Gilda Snowden 2019 Memorial Exhibition • Vienna Arts Society (Vienna, VA) 50th Anniversary Treasury of Art juired show and sale, April 2019 • Plymouth Center for the Arts’ Fine Art of Photography 9th Annual Competition and Exhibition, Spring 2019 • APERO May & June 2019 (Harmony & Tone) Catalogues.

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Walt Curlee Old Grist Mill, 2017 Oil On Canvas 16 x 20 in $11,500

Walt Curlee Phenix City, Alabama, USA waltcurlee@bellsouth.net

Walt Curlee I invite you to take a stroll into a slower time, when life was simpler. A timeless world of rolling hills and patchwork farms; where you can almost smell the fresh cut hay and air and hear the sounds of nature around you. I strive to create an enchanting world in my folksy style with a nostalgic feel of good times past.

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Louis Degni Autumn Rain By The Vineyard, Oil On Canvas - Framed 10 x 14 in $900

Louis Degni Citta Della Pieve, Perugia, Italy louisdegni@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/degnilouis/

Louis Degni Born in 1952 in central New York State Louis Degni started painting and drawing at an early age. Teachers advised that Louis should receive some formal training beyond regular school but the expense of formal training was too great. Instead at the age of 16 he apprenticed with and Italian master heavily involved in church art murals and restoration. A few years later Louis majored in studio art, during his early college days, and later Education at the State University of Geneseo, New York, USA. Life circumstances changed and Louis stopped creating paintings for many years. More recently he has returned to his passion of oil painting and finally, there is nothing left to prevent his pursuit of art. Over the course of may years Louis developed this simple philosophy about artistic endeavors: “After years of training and practice I have come to believe that you are an artist until someone tells you that you are not and you actually believe that.” The creative spirit lives in all of us. Only the technical pieces of observation and media usage and control need to be taught. I spend hours looking at water, clouds and flowers before putting brush to canvas. And each time I paint a cloud or a reflection in water on a canvas I feel a great sense of joy. For me painting is both a meditative process and a way to express what I cannot say with words. So wanting to share my view of the world around me, the simple pleasures and the beauty of life are my motivation for painting. Or in other words I paint to express myself and my heart is really in it.”

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Michael Dumas First Born, 2008 Oil 12 x 16.5 in NFS

Michael Dumas Lakehurst, Ontario, Canada natures.studio.inc@sympatico.ca http://www.natureartists.com/michael_dumas.asp

Michael Dumas Education: Humber College of Art 1969 - 1971, & post-graduate studies 1972. Apprentice to master artist Lewis Parker 1972 - 1973. Select Exhibition Venues: Canada: The McMichael Canadian Collection, The Royal Ontario Museum, The National Museum of Canada, Irving Oil, Canada Life. USA: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum,The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Salmagundi Club NYC, Hiram Bleauvelt Art Museum, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, and the Arizona Desert Museum, Spannierman Gallery NYC. International: Suntory Museum of Art - Japan, Mitsukoshi Shinjuku Gallery - Japan, The International Museum of Art Inspired by Nature - England, Qingdao Lan Wan Gallery - China, and MEAM, The Museum of Modern Art - Spain. Select Permanent Collections: Canada: Ontario Provincial Collection, Molson’s Canada Ltd., Irving Oil, The Royal Canadian Mint. USA: Leigh-Yawkey Woodson Art Museum USA, Binghamton University Collection. International: Takamura Museum of Art, Sagano Railway Co. , Imaoka Collection - Japan, Presidential Collection - Ukraine, Int. Museum of Art Inspired by Nature - England, ICBP (received by HRH Prince Bernhardt) - Belgium.

Select Awards: ARC International Salon ( 2 Dual Category Awards), AFC Best of Show & 7 Medals of Excellence, NOAPS Award of Excellence, SAA President’s Artistic Achievement Award, Peterborough Pathway of Fame, Kawartha Order of the Arts, Algonquin Legacy Award, DETC Famous Alumni, Hamilton Centre for the Arts Gallery Best of Show. Select Projects: Canadian Endangered Species - Canada Council Explorations Grant, Projects Beluga, Panda, Swift Fox - WWF, Saving the World’s Birds & Albatross 1000 - Suntory/Japan, Platinum coin set - Royal Canadian Mint, Commemorative stamps - Canada Post, The Antarctic Experience Expedition - Cornell University, Peterborough in Portrait (curator) - Community Living Peterborough.

Curator Review: First Born The refined aesthetic of this graceful painting by artist Michael Dumas, is wondrously harmonious and warm. Two delicate doves have been skillfully painted and beautifully balanced amongst the inviting shadows and fantastically detailed natural elements. Dumas sensitively portrays tenderness and love in this affectionate scene and softly graces the entire piece in a tender draping of luminescent light.

- E.E. Jacks

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Nicole Esposito Emberly’s Garden I, 2019 Acrylic And Oil pastel On Canson Cotton Paper 12 x 18 in $175

Nicole Esposito Exton, Pennsylvania, USA contact@theenchantedeasel.com http://theenchantedeasel.com

Nicole Esposito “I can’t remember a time when art wasn’t a part of my life. As a child, my fondest memories included coloring in coloring books for hours on end, drawing on any surface I could get my little hands on, watching my grandfather sculpt and my aunt paint. Art is in my blood. All those days of “teaching” art to my stuffed animals (elephants, mainly) as a child, became my reality as an adult. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts, I spent almost two decades as a teacher of young children.

Molding the minds (and hands) of little Picassos was my day job. Painting my dreams like Van Gogh was how I spent my evenings…and lunch breaks…and early mornings. Creating whimsical and enchanting art is what makes me the happiest.

Dreamy, magical floral gardens full of abstract blooms and beautiful blossoms. I especially have a passion for adorning the walls of girls rooms of all ages with my imaginative, intuitive florals. From baby girls to sweet sixteens and beyond.

Gardens and gardens of imaginary flowers…here’s hoping they bring you as much joy as I find in creating them.” -Nicole Esposito, Painter

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Mary Golden-Musick The Bask, 2015 Acrylic On Canvas 24 x 30 in NFS

Mary Golden-Musick Paris, Texas, USA mgmcustomart@gmail.com http://www.mgmcustomart.com/yoked-series-portfolio.html

Mary Golden-Musick Mary Golden-Musick is a portrait artist who paints with her daughter Atlas Elizabeth, to capture moments in time. These collaborative pieces form the “Yoked” series. The paintings pair Atlas’ expressive paintings with Mary’s portraits, to create a unique piece of art. Mary chooses a photograph of Atlas that represents that moment in time and paints the portrait in gray scale acrylic on top of Atlas’ creation. Mary and Atlas share a genetic connective tissue disorder. Mary has had 34 surgeries in my 35 years of life, and cannot run and be active with Atlas, but they can go to their studio and create art together. She hopes her work honors the fleeting preciousness of childhood, and reminds the viewers of their own memories.

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Edmund Ian Grant Red Floral, 2010

Original Sold -Giclee Print On Canvas Gallery Wrapped Available - Limited Edition 15/75 44 x 48 in $1,875

Edmund Ian Grant Napa, California, USA edgrant@hughes.net http://www.edmundiangrant.com

Edmund Ian Grant Edmund was born in 1950 in San Mateo California. He is a self-taught painter who for years was an improvisational musician. He lives and paints in the Napa Valley the heart of the California Wine Country. At first, his paintings centered on his musical avocation; over time, his works became more narrative and allegoric evolving into an artistic metaphor for life.

He continues to evolve the imagery and emerge as a storyteller employing his love for improvisation with paint, new media, color, texture, and line. Presently, Edmund is an Internationally collected, award winning artist whose extensive exhibitions over the last 30 years include shows in many USA cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, San Francisco and New York, and International cities – Florence, Milan, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Venice, London and Paris. He has exhibited along with some of the world’s top galleries at many prestigious art fairs including The LA Art Show, Art Aspen, Art Monaco, Concept Art Fair-Miami during Art Basel week and Art on Paper 2019 during Armory art week in New York City. Among his numerous awards is the Leonardo Award, First Prize in Painting, the top honor at the International Biennale of Chianciano 2015 and most recently, Second Prize in Painting at the London Art Biennale 2019. His work is in numerous catalogues, art books and publications including a critical essay by world-renowned art historian and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith. who calls his work “powerful “. Grant has gallery representation in Manhattan, London and Berlin.

Curator Review: Red Floral This brilliant floral still life by artist Edmund Ian Grant absolutely resonates confidence and evokes a beautiful mood of sentiment and warmth. Grant’s artistic vision allows the paint to flow and ebb creating an extraordinarily expressive and balanced composition. A consonance and great harmony has also been achieved in his delicate touches of blue and deep green tones against the rich and radiant reds.

- E.E. Jacks

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Stefania Grasso Last Warmth In The Sun, 2017 Photography 2400 x 1337 px €5.00

Stefania Grasso Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy aktis.a@alice.it http://www.stefaniafoto.altervista.org

Stefania Grasso Stefania Grasso was born in Vercelli Italy in 1977. She is an Italian biologist specialized in Microbiology. She started to photograph in 1990. In 2006 among 1172 photographers she won the 4th price in a nature competition in Valle d’Aosta. Her favourite themes are travel photography, nature, landscapes and arts with photos of churches and monuments. She has gained some prices in contests related to nature and arts and several covers for rewievs, Markos but also fotografare.com, N-photography, Photography Masterclass, Landscape Photography magazine. Some of her portfolios have been selected by CNN and National Geographics Italia. In July a book Himmelblau published in Germany and Scotland will contain other her pictures of Cervino with clouds. Recently some her pictures of mountain donkeys have been mentioned as editor choice for National Geographics. She is available for travel reportages, events and portraitures. From 2015 she collaborates with Valtournenche Administration with photoreportages during various events. She also parteciped last month at the World of Art Magazine Vol 8 Issue 2 for la Biennale di Venezia with Valtournenche pictures.

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Elizabeth Hoage Travel Reliquary, 2017 Copper, Garnet, CZ, Paint, Brass, Train Ticket 2.5 x 5 x 2.5 in $150

Elizabeth Hoage Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA elizabethhoage@yahoo.com http://lizhoage.wixsite.com/gallery

Elizabeth Hoage Making art has always been my passion. My passion ebbs and flows naturally through my life, leading me to become a jeweler by trade. Metal sculpture grew organically from that occupation and spoke to my eye for fine details. As I grow and continue to wrestle with what it means to be a human in our infinite universe, my pieces continue to evolve to express how I feel about my own existence in an ever changing world. The piece I’ve submitted is a small Light Rail train car, the same that I one rode every weekend to a friend’s house. I kept the tickets whenever the conductors forgot to collect them.

When the friendship slowly burned out and we grew apart, I kept the tickets. Now they rest in this piece, a reliquary holding not a piece of religious history, but a part of my own emotional history. A tiny monument to a relationship and a symbol of closure. It is a warm copper color and it reminds me of a warm and happy time in my life.

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Lori Horowitz Xanax In Fur, 2017 Papier-Mache Relief Sculpture And Copper Over Wire Mesh (Back) Burned Copper Wire Mesh With Pigment. 30 x 20 x 11 in

Lori Horowitz Dix Hills, New York, USA Lorihorowitzartist@gmail.com https://www.lorihorowitz.com/

Lori Horowitz Lori Horowitz is a NY native, receiving a BFA in Visual Arts in Painting and Sculpture from SUNY Purchase. Further studies with concentrations in set design and scenic art from Cobalt Studios, NY. She is a multi-faceted artist, with emphasis in sculpture, painting and set design. She has educated students, teaching for six years in theater film and design. Horowitz has created sculpture and multi- media artwork as well as theatrical sets for network TV /theater and feature films. She is currently a member of United Scenic Artist Union 829. Throughout her career, she continued to produce sculptures and paintings showing her work in galleries and museums throughout Long Island, mainly in the NY area and Great Britain.

Lori has served the community as an advisor on the Long Island Arts Alliance steering and educational committees and is currently on the board of directors for the Bethel Arts Council in the Woodstock area. Lori has always dedicated her life to designing and creating art to promote the spread of culture and creative expression through her work. In 2013, she formed a community initiative on Long Island opening a not-for-profit arts space, showing work by under-represented and emerging artists. The gallery showed to work of aprox. 400 artists and had numerous shows and community events. After a successful 4 year run, she closed the gallery in June 2016 to concentrate and explore her own work. She continues to guess curate shows, while creating her artwork, sharing it with the public. She has been showing her work in many galleries and museums throughout the NY area and recently has been featured in international publications, in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris.

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Tricia Hoye Winter Love, 2018 Acrylic 16 x 20 in $475

Tricia Hoye Topanga, California, USA topangatricia@verizon.net https://www.instagram.com/churstongirl/?hl=en

Tricia Hoye Usually needing to describe, develop and paint all sorts of ocean images, Tricia sometimes ventures into the more human parts of our planet.

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Nahid Jaffee Laced In Love-Red, 2018 Acrylic On Canvas $295

Nahid Jaffee Port Hueneme, California, USA nahidjaffeeart@gmail.com http://www.nahidjaffee.com

Nahid Jaffee Nahid Jaffee, was born in Iran, raised in Vancouver, Canada and moved to California at age 16. Nahid’s creative roots stem from live Theatre where she garnered numerous awards for directing and it is here that she learned the art of telling stories. Nahid primarily works with Acrylics and likes to use glazes to give the illusion of oil technique. She is a self-taught award winning artist and currently is a member of Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo California. Her Animal Collection can be seen at her Gallery at the Port Hueneme Animal Hospital in Port Hueneme, CA.

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Jamie Johnson Ghost Ranch Landscape, 2018 Collage And Acrylics 9.5 x 11.5 in $700

Jamie Johnson Gilbert, Arizona, USA craddock.jamie@gmail.com Instagram: artbyjamiej

Jamie Johnson I am a self-taught artist and work with primarily with watercolors and ink; but I am exploring more mixed media work. I don’t want to be constrained by one medium; but let the subject I am painting inspire what medium I use. When I paint, the world around me goes away and I am totally at peace with myself – this is why I paint. I primarily paint people, animals and nature landscapes. I love to look at a photograph of a person and try to interpret and tell their story through my painting.

I also want to push the boundaries of what people consider beautiful and show that we all are beautiful in our own light.

I have a cabin in the Ozarks Mountains in Arkansas and I love to paint the beauty of the mountains and natural lakes, waterfalls, rivers and streams. I like to explore painting on different surfaces. I have completed many paintings on antique book and dictionary pages and love the aged look they add to the paintings. One thing is for certain, being able to explore my art as a second career has made me appreciate every minute of my journey and I look forward to seeing what the future holds.

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Susan Johnson Self Care At The Beach, 2019 Soft Pastel On Art Spectrum Colorfix Paper 19.5 x 13.75 in $350

Susan Johnson Richton Park, Illinois, USA sfjohnsonfineart@gmail.com

Susan Johnson Susan F. Johnson I’ve always loved nature and being outdoors. Whether it’s hiking, biking or just going for a walk. Nature is always changing and giving us something new and incredible to see. What catches my attention first, is the light and how it plays over landscapes and brings color into shadows and highlights or hides the details. My passion for wildlife is why I became an artist. I am a self taught painter in pastels and acrylics. My goal is to capture the individual character and personality of the wildlife faces I paint and place them into environments in which they live, urban or wild. Affiliations Member- Chicago Pastel Painters Member- Union Street Gallery Juried Group shows/ Exhibitions 2018 Moody Prairie Morning, Governor’s State University Gallery, University Park, IL. Perfect Moment, Contemporary Nature, Juried Exhibition, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights. IL. Awards 2001 Spring Morning Izaak Walton Preserve, Honorable Mention, President’s Art Contest & Exhibition, Homewood Art Fair, Homewood, IL. Education Private study under Marikay Peter Witlock, Union Street Gallery. BS, University of Illinois, Retailing , Jewelry Design, studied under Robert Von Neumann.

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Ron Kenedi Give And Take, 2010 Oil On Linen - 24 x 30 in Prints Available Paper $300 / Canvas $500

Ron Kenedi Nevada City, California, USA ronkenedi@hotmail.com http://www.ronkenediart.com

Ron Kenedi Born and raised in New York city, Ron received his art degree at the state university of New York at Stonybrook where he studied with well- known New York school artists and art historians such as Nam June Paik, Lawrence Alloway and Allan Kaprow. After graduation he spent a year teaching drawing at the Mediterranean Institute in Mallorca, Spain. Returning to New York, Ron attended the Art Students League to learn printmaking. He moved to Nevada County in 1971 and has maintained a residence there till today. While continuing to paint, draw and show his work both domestically and internationally, Ron became a leading presence in the Solar Power industry and headed up the N. American operations of three major, global, solar panel manufacturers. Today he lives with his wife and two small dogs in Nevada City.

Curator Review: Give And Take The luminescent quality of light in this glowing piece by artist Ron Kenedi, is both moving and wonderfully connective.

Kenedi’s illustrative narrative and delicate observation of the figures is both sincere and thought provoking. From the daring composition, to the expressive articulation of culture and belief, this unique painting intimately explores communion in an uncommon and distinctively bold voice.

- E.E. Jacks

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Sandrena Koning Exuberance, 2019 Acrylic - Palette Knife 12 x 24 in $400

Sandrena Koning Big Spring, Texas, USA sandrenak@gmail.com https://www.koningartandphotography.com

Sandrena Koning West Texas mixed media artist and photographer, Sandrena Koning creates in both abstract and surreal styles. She works with acrylic, mixed media, sculpture and photography. Her subject matter is drawn from her environment, life experiences, and a fascination for science. Sandrena was born in Anchorage, AK and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. As a child, she was awestruck by eerily beautiful fragments of color and texture amongst the ruins of the abandoned architectural landscape.

From an early age she began combining unconventional materials to create unique pigmentation and composition. Since moving to West Texas in 2015, she has began regularly showing her work in art fairs, annual group shows, juried art competitions and joint artist exhibitions. As of 2019, her work has been published in APÉRO Fine Art Catalogue’s June and July editions.

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Nicholas Kozis Warmth 2, 2019 Mixed Media 17.5 x 17.5 in $400

Nicholas Kozis Redondo Beach, California, USA nkozis@mindspring.com http://www.nickkozis.com

Nicholas Kozis This canvas demonstrates a studies of warmth. The feeling of warmth is sometimes external such as from a light source or internal in which it emanates from a subject. Warmth can also be shown as comforting element or as prelude to an ignition. The method is an inspired brew of ingredients that forms my numerous sources to create my paintings.

Curator Review: Warmth 2 This penetrating portrait, with its soft values, layers of light and intensity, daringly explores the internal. Artist Nicholas Kozis has created this piece in an open and direct style, yet balances this with a mysterious air of introspection. His thoughtful and immensely evocative expression, flows freely with lyrical allusions and absolutely commands the intimate attention of the viewer.

- E.E. Jacks

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Jessica Leigh Focus, 2019 Acrylic On Canvas 20 x 16 x 1 in $300

Jessica Leigh Seal Beach, California, USA jessicaleighartist@gmail.com http://www.jessicaleighart.com

Jessica Leigh Women are uniting with an empowered voice of choice. We are empowered more than ever to speak our truth. The more I align myself with love, passion, purpose and intention, the more I become empowered to be me and connect to a higher creative spirit. I came to believe that when we reach for our own individual light and voice and the messages that we want to convey; we arrive at an authenticity that can be universal. When I entered into the art world with a renewed gusto and decided to speak to my truth unabashedly, I regained my power as a woman, person and an artist. My art is for the viewer so you can create a translation on how it makes you feel.

Curator Review: Focus There is something intrinsically valuable and important about an art piece that is almost sentient. Artist Jessica Leigh’s work shepherd’s the mind to a provocative state and allows a varied conversation to stream between the observer and the piece itself. Leigh’s uncanny capacity to create this intercourse is exceptionally confident. Her unique ability to capture that cerebral, cyclical communion between movement and stillness has most certainly been achieved.

- E.E. Jacks

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Raheleh Mohammad In Spasm Of Delight, 2019 Photography 25 x 25 in $1,800

Raheleh Mohammad Cleveland, Ohio, USA raheleh.mohammad@gmail.com https://www.rahelehmohammad.com

Raheleh Mohammad Raheleh Mohammad is an Iranian born computer scientist who currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. Although she has had her formal education in the engineering discipline (and a Master’s degree as the result,) as a self-taught photographer, she has been doing photography for more than 10 years. Life for her is like a long continuous picture, emerging frames after frames whose she sometimes borrow to hold on to; to appreciate more deeply, and to share with others. Photography for her is a visual experience which allows her to capture the moments that could either convey a narrative or a fading reality in a poetic interpretation. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad in group and solo shows. Art Statement: Are dreams the reflections of reality? What are their effects on reality? Could one become a reality? What is it about them which leaves such lingering impact? Do we all live in an unrealized dream? We sure can wake up from one to reality but is the other way around possible; waking up from the reality into a dream? In my ongoing series “A Borderland of Dream and Reality”, I’d like to challenge the notions of dreams and reality in a photographic-poetic narrative with the hope of uncovering the fascinating, yet hidden stories of human in pursuit of the ultimate search for true pleasure. All pictures are intentionally printed in paper first and the leaves are applied to them later on; Then they are photographed for the final presentation The grainy images represent the ambiguous line between reality and dreams with the natural leaves as symbols of true and organic emotions.

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Jing Ren Ong Faded Heart, 2019 Acrylic On Wood 32 x 30 x 0.2 cm $800

Jing Ren Ong Triang, Pahang, Malaysia info@rooneyojr.com http://www.rooneyojr.com

Jing Ren Ong Rooney Ong Jing Ren is an emerging artist who works primarily in acrylic on wood. He’s best known for the technique of applying paint to a wood surface in order to form a pattern or image. As a living material, it incorporates the organic, irregular forms he has always been drawn to. A 2019 series entitled “UNCONTROLLABLE” shows this warmth world is not what humanity thinks it is. Humanity has been told a massive lie about their own existence, yet so many people suffer blindly. Humanity suffers because of wearing the veils of delusion, the veils of ignorance like I used to wear. Ong Jing Ren wants to admonish others through these series, life is not a competition. It’s a journey and it will be very wise of them if they choose to experience everything and enjoying every bit of it. Have no fear, anxiety, or depression, this is fuel for those negative entities.

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Mallorie Ostrowitz El Tatio Colors, 2010 Digital Photography 18 x 24 in $450

Mallorie Ostrowitz Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA info@mallorieostrowitz.net http://WWW.OSTROWITZPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

Mallorie Ostrowitz Mallorie was born and grew up in NYC. She was fortunate enough to study art at the City University of New York; graduating with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Queens College and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Herbert Lehman College. She began showing her photography in the late 1990’s throughout the United States and has been an elected member of Artworks Gallery in Hartford, West Hartford Art League, Connecticut Women Artists, and now, Voice of Art Gallery. Mallorie has also exhibited at the Worrell Gallery in Santa Fe in 2012 where her photography and Betsy Ranck’s paintings of abandoned buildings throughout New Mexico were the featured show entitled “Elegy New Mexico”. Mallorie has been teaching photography since 2003 and was privileged to be photographer in residence at the Awasi Hotel in San Pedro, Atacama region of Chile, in the summer of 2010. In pursuit of new and unique images, Mallorie has traveled to South America, Europe, Russia and Scandinavia.

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Alex Paat Reunion, 2016 Chalk And Acrylic On Panel 36 x 48 in NFS

Alex Paat Columbus, Ohio, USA alexpaat@gmail.com http://alexpaat.com

Alex Paat Alex Paat is a potter, painter, and maker from Columbus, Ohio. He received a B.A. in Studio Art from Cedarville University.

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Fran Sampson Random Elegance, 2018 Mixed Media On Mounted Board 40 x 30 in $1,000

Fran Sampson Oak Park, Illinois, USA sampsonfj@gmail.com

Fran Sampson Fran Sampson is a mixed media painter that uses uses color, brush strokes, collage material, and texture to create an ambiguous spacial field that moves across rather than into the canvas. She sometimes uses torn word fragments, barcodes, and stamped symbols as stand-ins for humans and elements of society. She creates in her paintings both a sense of frantic movement that references life on a quantum level, as well as the evolutionary movement of life from stardust to beings conscience of their own existence and capable of abstracting that concept. Fran has shown her work at galleries in and around Chicago including the Art Institute Museum, the Koehnline Museum of Art, Bridgeport Art Center, Riverside Art Center’s Freark Gallery, the Oak Park Art League’s Carriage House Gallery, ARC, and Woman Made Gallery. She currently lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

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Hilary Saner Power Couple, 2019 Oil On Wood Panel 36 x 24 in $1,800

Hilary Saner Morro Bay, California, USA hilarysaner@sbcglobal.net

Hilary Saner Why paint? To me, it comes down to trying to live and respond to life, to people, to experience as authentically and truthfully as possible. Painting is prayer – it saves my life day by day, as a meditative and spiritually transformative discipline; the final “object” (or painting) is almost incidental to the long and repetitive journey through the stations of Beginning, Doubt, Failure and ultimately Resolution. I paint on a variety of supports, from canvas to wood, to particle board to heavily worked paper. I often create these supports layer by layer in a series of random, flowing expressive actions look, add, respond, glue, remove, attach; again; again… - before insisting on the painted image on the final surface offered up to the viewer. This is to try to capture and model my sense that this is what life demands of each of us - insistent agency and presence - over and against and informed by its seemingly random, often turbulent flow.

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Ira Stein Sisters, 2018 Oil On Canvas 30 x 40 in $2,500

Ira Stein Los Angeles, California, USA ira@irastein.com http://irastein.com

Ira Stein I can’t do pretty art. If the world needs more seascapes, landscapes, and still lifes - I’m out! My work concerns big issues that are difficult to talk about – sexual and physical abuse, social responsibility and the dumbing down of society. I believe in genetic essentialism – that certain human conditions are connected to a particular gene (or set of genes). This is not a politically correct standpoint, but I ask you, can you think of something that can happen without your genes? You see, my art tells the stories of the relationships between me and my models. Before one brushstroke is put to canvas, I need to know absolutely everything about her. My artistic process requires time and a commitment to paint the unmediated truth discovered during this close relationship. It is an agonizing process but I am compelled to continue asking difficult questions.

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Patricia Edith Mary Thompson Sailing Yacht ‘Sintra’, Moored At Puerto Benus Marina, Marbella, Southern Spain, 2002 Oil On Canvas 17 x 24 in £5,000

Patricia Edith Mary Thompson Bridlington, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom pemt7@yahoo.co.uk http://1create.co.uk/patricia-thompson-fine-art

Patricia Edith Mary Thompson Patricia studied Fine Art at the Hull Art College UK, receiving a full classical training, followed by Interior Design in London and S.I.A.D. Illustrators Studio. Being part of the London Scene in the 1960s and travelling widely, the work displays versatility and originality. Her art genre ranges from Drawing & Watercolor to Pastel and Oil Paintings, working in- situ, and en-plein-air to Narrative Illustration and refined Studio Work. The breadth of her oeuvre extends from loose Impressionism, through to formal Figurative pieces. Her expressive work is well known for its spontaneity, atmosphere and ambiance, created through her unique use of line and color.

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Yumi Yagi Progress 2, 2019 Cotton, Wool, And Pineapple Fiber 27.5 x 26 x 3 cm NFS

Yumi Yagi Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan yumiyagi.fiberart@gmail.com http://yumiyagi.pb.online

Yumi Yagi I am a fiber artist currently based in Tokyo. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Aesthetics and Science of the Arts from Keio University and subsequently enrolled in London College of Fashion, Textile Embroidery. After returning to Tokyo, I learned Japanese traditional ’Yuzen’ and batik dyeing, and also deepened my knowledge of weaving. Through the experience of acquiring these skills, my interest was gradually expanded to natural dyeing, spinning thread, felting and various fibers.

These elements are mingled together in my artwork. My artwork is handmade. All threads are spun out of raw materials such as cotton, wool and pineapple fiber with a spinning wheel. Natural dyes are used for all materials in my work. In addition to hand-woven cotton fabric and handmade wool felt, the surface of the work is embroidered by hand. In my artwork, I often draw inspiration from something intangible and ethereal that is incapable of being described and perceived by the senses although it seems to exist in reality. Warmth in our heart could spread throughout other people and society even though it is an invisible element.

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Ming Ying Visualization Of Reminiscence, 2018 Oil Paint On Cotton 30 x 40 cm POR

Ming Ying London, London, United Kingdom mingying1204@gmail.com

Ming Ying Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). She has been exploring a personal painting language and trying to bring a sense of ‘flow’ into her paintings. These work is a reflection of my memory moment, or rather a record of a period of my life. I painted many fragments of memory of the past in the pictures. Some are transient images and some extracted from unconspicuous objects or small actions at a time. Therefore, these paintings are pervaded with nostalgia and steadiness. I regard these works not only as representative of my memory and my affection of the past, but also as a refection of my spiritual support I had at the time. The two main colors—yellow and black—in the paintings appear to reflect a feeling of warmth and a hope in the despairing darkness. If one takes a good look at the picture, he will feel some common subtle rhythms out of the work. As for the content, all these works cover a period of time I have lived through in my hard time. But When I recall that period of hard time, I find that there is still something warm kept in my memory which I regard as a power that supports me. To better express such feeling, I try to get those in my memory condensed into different pictorial moments.

Therefore, all these painting works act as a portrayal of my past life, not only mentally but also physically. I believe that, If a viewer has the similar feeling or experience as that of mine, he will surely get resonance out of these works. and if so, I will be much gratified.

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Sachi Yoshimoto Luck, 2019 Oil On Linen 33.3 x 24.2 cm NFS

Sachi Yoshimoto Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan sachiyoshimotoart@gmail.com http://www.sachiyoshimotoart.com

Sachi Yoshimoto Sachi Yoshimoto is a Tokyo based self-taught artist who works mainly in oil medium. She loves the warmth that the medium gives to her work. Artistically inclined from a young age, Sachi has worked diligently to bring her art to life. In 2013, after years of amateur work, Sachi decided to pursue her art wholeheartedly. Sachi’s style of work is “true-to-life,” focusing on the breath she finds in organic and inorganic objects. Her vision is to bring life into the objects she’s attracted to in everyday life. Apart from regular art commissions, Sachi often donates certain pieces and commission profits to animal charities she loves. Like her art, Sachi continues to evolve and improve. Her ultimate aim is to have her artistic journey make everyone’s life a little brighter.

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INDEX Jessica Alazraki

The Bathers 3, 2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Nathan Altier

Heart To Heart, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Sylvia Bandyke

Girl Time, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Walt Curlee

Old Grist Mill, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Louis Degni

Autumn Rain By The Vineyard, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Michael Dumas

First Born, 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Nicole Esposito

Emberly’s Garden I, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Mary Golden-Musick

The Bask, 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Edmund Ian Grant

Red Floral, 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Stefania Grasso

Last Warmth In The Sun, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Elizabeth Hoage

Travel Reliquary, 2017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Lori Horowitz

Xanax In Fur, 2017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Tricia Hoye

Winter Love, 2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Nahid Jaffee

Laced In Love-Red, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Jamie Johnson

Ghost Ranch Landscape, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Susan Johnson

Self Care At The Beach, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Ron Kenedi

Give And Take, 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Sandrena Koning

Exuberance, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Nicholas Kozis

Warmth 2, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Jessica Leigh

Focus, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Raheleh Mohammad

In Spasm Of Delight, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Jing Ren Ong

Faded Heart, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Mallorie Ostrowitz

El Tatio Colors, 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Alex Paat

Reunion, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Fran Sampson

Random Elegance, 2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Hilary Saner

Power Couple, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Ira Stein

Sisters, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Patricia Edith Mary Thompson

Sailing Yacht ‘Sintra’, Moored At Puerto Benus Marina, Marbella, Southern Spain, 2002. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Yumi Yagi

Progress 2, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Ming Ying

Visualization Of Reminiscence, 2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Sachi Yoshimoto

Luck, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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