Fine Art Publication
December 2020
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DECEMBER 2020
Josh Stein
Placed Artists
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26
58
68
2nd Place
1st Place
3rd Place
Honorable Mention
Janye Foster
Donna Garcia
Josh Stein
Nina Zdanovic
FROM THE CURATOR
Thank your for your interest and support of APERO. APERO is a monthly published fine art catalogue for established and emerging artists to participate in a juried and curated fine art publication. APERO is dedicated to showcasing fine art created by artists from around the world. Our goal with APERO is to help bring artists, art patrons and people together to enjoy an intellectual experience through the presentation of art. Please enjoy this month’s featured artists and their inspiring creative works. - E.E. Jacks
FEATURED ARTISTS
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Jessica Alazraki
40 Patricia Kluwe Derderian
12
Luis Ardila
42
14
Karyna Aslanova
44 Jessica Leigh
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Nan Brall
46
18
Jackie Clark
48 Dorothea Nortje
20
Massimiliano Esposito
50
Paula Prager
22
Jayne Foster
52
Simona Rukuižaitė
24
Tony Gangitano
54
Petra Schott
26
Donna Garcia
56
Randy Sprout
28
Stefania Grasso
58
Josh Stein
30
Igor Grechanyk
60
Angela Suto
32
Corrie Gregory
62
Luyang Tian
34
Tricia Hoye
64
Darilynn Tipton
36
Rebecca Katz
66
Erhan Us
38
Heun Jung Kim
68
Nina Zdanovic
Jennifer Landis
Victoria Likholyot
Jessica Alazraki Snack Time on Blue | 20020 Oil on Canvas | 42.5 x 59 in $3,200
New York United States of America
Jessica Alazraki jessicaalazraki@icloud.com jessicaalazrakiart.com
About Originally from Mexico City, Jessica Alazraki is based in New York City. Her oil paintings are a celebration of Latinx life in the US and aim to highlight family values. Narratives are interior scenes of ordinary life. Bright colors and decorative patterns are very characteristic of Jessica’s work.
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Luis Ardila The Battle of the Parties and the Intervention of the Cherub | 2017 Oil on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1 in $9,500
North Carolina United States of America
Luis Ardila luisgermanardila@aol.com ardilaart.com
About My work has an expressionist-symbolist style and I use mythologies from eastern and western civilizations. Syncretism is the combination or fusion of different beliefs, philosophies, mythologies or religions, emphasizing an underlying unity that allows an inclusive approach to other faiths. Syncretism commonly has expressions in art and culture that can join together. I use Syncretism to develop patterns that reveal how our current culture opens itself into its different art’s functions to reflect our way of living, hopes and mistakes.
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Karyna Aslanova Seeing Your Sunrises | 2020 Digital Photograph | 24 x 16 in POR
Kyiv Ukraine
Karyna Aslanova karynaaslanova@gmail.com aslanova.myportfolio.com
About Karyna Aslanova is a Kyiv-born Ukrainian multimedia artist, director, and photographer, and although photography is her principle medium, Karyna also uses video, painting and illustration, and poetry to further her exploration into a multitude of subjects. Karyna’s art photography projects often use other-worldly imagery to reflect modern social issues, with a vague but familiar base note perceptible through a haze of the strange and incongruous.
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Nan Brall A Rising Dream | 2020 Hand Cut Paper | 19 x 23 in $1,200
Florida United States of America
Nan Brall nlbny@aol.com instagram.com/nanbrall
About Nan Brall was born in 1950 in New York City. Its abundance of world-renowned museums and galleries was an early influence on her engagement in the art world,and their accessibility allowed Nan to viscerally connect with the city’s creative life. After a move to New England in 1985, Nan was fortunate to be enrolled at the Silvermine School of Art when they initiated their first classes in heavy steel sculpting. It was here that she began, for several years, a studied examination of weight, form, and construction. Sometime later a health diagnosis, which covered almost a decade, would demand a different life and art trajectory. Paper became a new found medium, with its fluidity allowing for the continuing exploration into design without the confines of weight.
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Jackie Clark Life Boat | 2020 Oil | 36 x 40 in $1,900
New York United States of America
Jackie Clark jackie4photos@yahoo.com jackieclarkartist.com
About Jackie Clark, is a New York based fine art painter, residing in Manhattan, NY. She enjoys traveling in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions to paint the landscape, and is a familiar participant in many of the plein air competitions throughout the region. Also a portrait and figurative painter, Jackie won the honored award of Best in Show in 2018 for her painting Big Sister at Yosemite National Parks Annual Museum and Gallery Exhibition. Jackie studied extensively with master painters, Frank Liljegren, David Leffel, and Mary Beth Mckenzie. Other areas of study within the field of the arts include, photography, scenic painting and design, and the decorative arts.
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Massimiliano Esposito La Nouvelle NormalitĂŠ | 2020 Acrylic on Hardboard | 120 x 80 cm $2,000
France
Massimiliano Esposito maxyoga69@gmail.com maxartparis.wixsite.com/maximilian
About Maximilian (Massimiliano Esposito) was born in Milan, Italy, on December 17, 1969. He started painting as a child and despite his art school training, he has maintained an instinctive approach to his work, letting his subconscious dictate his subject matter. The recurring figure of a preadolescent child, neither male nor female, lends a coherence to this free-form universe. Since moving to Paris, France, in 2012, his work has focused on that unripe phase of human existence when gender is still undefined and sexuality has yet to be expressed. The melancholy and reflective characters he portrays are experiencing the often difficult and painful transition from childhood games and innocence to the first upsets of adolescence and adulthood.
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2nd Place Jayne Foster Gold Earrings | 2020 Monotype Printmaking and Mixed Media | 18 x 18 in $1,500
California United States of America
Jayne Foster jaynefosterstudio@gmail.com jaynefosterstudio.com
About Jayne comes from a non traditional background for an artist in that she originally studied and practiced as a fashion designer. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in fashion and textiles at Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication before attending the Royal College of Art, from where she gained her Masters degree in Womenswear Design. At the Royal College of Art, she explored a multitude of art and design techniques, focusing on drawing, illustration and textiles. Whilst working as a fashion designer in London she continued to study printmaking at Central St Martin’s School of Art and Design, where she discovered the etching press and embarked upon a new approach to her work. After moving to California in 2012, Jayne focused on her love of printmaking, studying the technical.
Curator Review Gold Earrings Artist Jayne Foster, fully embraces the freedom of expression with her unordered and liberated style. Her highly innovative brushwork, placement of edges and printed elements, captures a unhesitating impulse. Foster deliberately questions what a ‘portrait’ can represent and is refreshingly unhindered by traditional ideas. She succinctly articulates this, in ‘Gold Earrings’. - E.E. Jacks
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Tony Gangitano Pondering in Isolation | 2020 Acrylic on Canvas with Copper Wire | 20 x 16 x 1.5 in $800
California United States of America
Tony Gangitano tgartstudio@gmail.com tgartstudio.com
About Originally from Brooklyn, Tony received a Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture with a minor in Fine Art from the UGA, worked in New York City / San Diego. After Independent study in many countries, Tony worked as a sculptor in Rome then studied Stone Carving at Studio Sem and Bronze Casting at Tommasi Foundry, both in Pietra Santa, Italy. Back in California, he pursued a MA at SDSU. There he explored less traditional materials, which he incorporated into more conceptual sculptures and site-specific installations. Tony’s work has been exhibited in group and featured artist shows in Europe and the United States. He is a creative, conceptually oriented mixed media sculptor whose current work is fresh and exciting, incorporating thoughtful concepts with both traditional and new materials
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1st Place Donna Garcia Swarm | 2017 Archival Pigment Photographic Print | 35 x 2 x 27 in NFS
Georgia United States of America
Donna Garcia donna@donnagarcia.com donnagarcia.com
About Donna Garcia is lens-based artist whose work illustrates a semiotic dislocation that has been organically reconstructed in a way that gives her subjects a voice in the present moment; something they did not have in the past. Her images rise above what they actually are and become empathic recreations in a fine art narrative. She often utilizes self-portraiture with motion to provide an indication of the other in her work; a surplus threat to the perpetuity of our modern day grand narratives in defining elements like gender and race. She has an MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and she is a 2019 nominee of reGENERATION 4: The Challenges of Photography and the Museum of Tomorrow, Emerging Artists to Watch.
Curator Review Swarm Suspended in movement within the constraints of the image itself, ’Swarm’ reveals the raw inner qualities of its subject. The soft, subdued edges and color of the figure, contrasts against the assertively abstract and specious, tentacle-like filaments, giving the work a sense of multi-layered meaning. This singular piece communicates in a brilliantly distilled manner and boldly configures the internal, externally. -E.E. Jacks
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Stefania Grasso Loneliness | 2020 Photography | 20 x 30 cm 5,000â‚Ź
Piedmont Italy
Stefania Grasso infonikonista77@gmail.com stefaniagrasso.it
About 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, BBC, National Geographics Italia, World of Art Magazine, Vogue, Wild Planet Photo Magazine. Recently she was included into Art Award Book with Vercelli 800 years of St.Andrews Basilica.
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Igor Grechanyk Pilgrim | 2020 Bronze Sculpture | 17.3 x 6.3 x 25 in POR
Kyiv Ukraine
Igor Grechanyk igor@grechanyk.com grechanyk.com
About Igor Grechanyk has been passionate about art and drawing from early childhood. He attended the Art School, and the State Art Institute in Kiev, graduating in 1984. Grechanyk’s genius lies in his ability to give form to the abstruse. His works seek to map the collective unconscious, drawing inspiration from esoteric doctrines and ancient mythology. The artist brings forth inner, mystical elements of his creatures. His multifaceted images demonstrate a profound level of artistic skill. Igor Grechanyk has exhibited worldwide and has sculpted large, public monuments commissioned in Ukraine and abroad. He is the recipient of numerous Ukrainian and international awards. Recent works include a portfolio of 2D digital art, often based on his sculpture images.
Curator Review Pilgrim A beautiful yet solemn spatial experience, can be felt in the dark, curved edges and brooding tones of this ruminative sculpture by artist Igor Grechanyk. Grechanyk’s eloquent and melancholy portrayal of a wanderer atop an emaciated steed, elucidates on his defining title and one can not help but be palpably connected to this interpretive circumstance. This moving work manifests the personal reflections of the artist and adeptly leads the viewer into introspection. - E.E. Jacks
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Corrie Gregory Make Me A Match | 2020 Oil on Dura-Lar | 11 x 14 in POR
California United States of America
Corrie Gregory corrie.gregory@gmail.com corriegregory.com
About Corrie Gregory’s work lives on the border between dreams and nightmares, where chance and control collide. She explores Jungian themes from the deep preconscious, themes that have appeared in fables around the world for hundreds of years and which continue to resonate today. Her animals take on human characteristics and her humans, children all, exhibit animal parts, drawing a mystical connection between us and our animal nature. The characters in Gregory’s work sprout roots, float in the air, or do both. Her creatures are innocent and perplexed, sly and savvy, or passive and subject to the whims of nature, but never victims of their fate. Gregory makes trouble at her studio in North Hollywood CA, where she lives with her husband Jeff, her dogs Max and Minnie and her garden.
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Tricia Hoye Trust | 2020 Acrylic | 20 x 16 in $375
California United States of America
Tricia Hoye topangatricia@verizon.net instagram.com/churstongirl
About Recently retired, Tricia has been able to paint in various genres and walking on the beach with her dog is one favorite thing to do: Looking for interesting images to take back to her studio, many to be completely changed is her other favorite .
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Rebecca Katz Moondance | 2020 Acrylic on Canvas | 53 x 36 x 2 in POR
California United States of America
Rebecca Katz rebecca@rebeccakatz.com rebeccakatzart.com
About I’m enamored with color, texture, atmosphere, depth and the interplay of light. Eyes wide open, I take what I see and explore it in an ever-changing process of visual notation. It’s absolutely my way of staying completely present in the world. I work in acrylic and graphite, using many layers of glazes to achieve the luminosity of the atmospheric quality in my work. My paintings are asking viewers to step into a world of possibility, mystery, magic and atmosphere and to be transported through color and light and texture.
Curator Review Moondance There is most certainly a mesmeric quality to the evocative work of artist Rebecca Katz. Her ability to transport the viewer into her surreal and ethereal articulation of nature, is truly masterful. Katz goes above and beyond the texture and tint to create harmony in her work and wondrously conveys light and atmosphere in a meditative manner. Katz’s tranquil and tonal skyscape, brilliantly displays the pure poetry of her artistry. -E.E. Jacks
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Heun Jung Kim Portrait of the Artist’s Mother in 2020 | 2020 Photography | 60 x 80 cm POR
London United Kingdom
Heun Jung Kim heunjung.kim@network.rca.ac.uk im-creator.com/free/heunjungkim/a
About Heun Jung Kim is a London-Seoul-based fine art portrait photographer. She is an alumni of Royal College of Art, London receiving a Master’s of Photography degree 2019. Studying architecture for her background degree led her to discover photography. However, since she started creating photographic art, ‘people‘ have always been the subjects in her cameras. While working on portraits she found the beauty of exploring humanity, and it became her motivation to visualize their sensitivity in her images. Recently, She received 3rd place from the 2020 Independent Photographer “people” and had a group exhibitions at the Photo Oxford Festival, 2020, UK; 2021 Special exhibition of the Korea Arts Promotion Agency, Korea; the Art-Zone 42 Gallery, Greece ,2019; the Photo Place Gallery, USA.
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Patricia Kluwe Derderian Grandpa’s Presence | 2020 Acrylic and Charcoal on Raw Canvas | 24 x 24 in POR
Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Patricia Kluwe Derderian patikdartist@gmail.com patikd.com
About When I paint I let my feelings guide me while I play with color, letting the energy flow and the painting tell me what it wants to be. In my series of cities the real subject is the people, very loosely represented, but the real creators of the place with their energy and movement. In 2020, while our cities were empty, I stayed at home and went looking through my memories for that feeling of joy, that vibration‌ What came to me were these precious childhood memories‌ at the same time, so strong and so faded away. What lasts is exactly what matters to me. That feeling, that energy you feel when you are with someone without the details and diversions our eyes can see.
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Jennifer Landis The Light Within | 2020 Acrylic/Texture Medium on Canvas | 30 x 30 x 1.5 in $950
Texas United States of America
Jennifer Landis jenlandis72@gmail.com composedchaosart.com
About Jennifer Landis is a self taught acrylic artist. As a nature lover, she is inspired by the beauty of sky, water, and earth’s metallic minerals. Using nature’s own color palette with added pops of color, she attempts to capture the beauty of the world around us, or the great beyond, in abstract form. Jennifer’s artwork has a flow that is often described as “calming” to the senses. Her hope is that her artwork conveys a sense of wonder and inspiration to others. Currently, her artwork focuses on heavily textured mixed media abstracts. Jennifer is an Austin resident and is represented by Adams Galleries in Lakeway, Texas. Her work has been exhibited in multiple local businesses and galleries throughout the greater Austin area.
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Jessica Leigh Untitled | 2020 Acrylic on Canvas | 48 x 48 x 2 in POR
California United States of America
Jessica Leigh jessicaleighartist@gmail.com jessicaleighart.com
About I am a Studio Arts graduate of Loyola Marymount University. I hope my art empowers people. I appreciate the people who have inspired me. My art is for the viewer so you can create a translation on how it makes you feel.
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Victoria Likholyot Some in Blue | 2020 Photography | 90 x 60 cm POR
Ukraine
Victoria Likholyot maxandiza@gmail.com instagram.com/victoria_liholet/
About Born in Kharkiv (Ukraine) in 1985. Graduated from the School of Philosophy V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2007.
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Dorothea Nortje Urban Darwinism | 2020 Oil on Canvas | 1000 x 1200 mm POR
Western Cape South Africa
Dorothea Nortje dorette.nortje@yahoo.com facebook.com/DorotheaNortjeArt
About Born in 1988 in Lichtenburg, Dorothea Nortje’s journey to the art world starts in the small town of Bronkhorstspruit where she spent her childhood days. Nortje quickly showed great promise as a budding artist while studying art in high school. Since then, she obtained a diploma in Fine Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology in 2010. Her palpable passion for nature combined with a requited spiritual element earned her an apprenticeship with well-known South African artist, Anton Smit. Here, Dorothea perfected her adroitness in painting and sculpture. Working from her home studio in addition to part-time studio work with renowned artist, Lionel Smit, Dorothea Nortje is speedily establishing herself as an upcoming artist.
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Paula Prager Coming Out of Covid | 2020 Acrylic on Canvas | 30 x 40 in $600
California United States of America
Paula Prager papscorp@aol.com PaulaPragerDesigns.com
About Most biographies include where one has studied, what shows they have participated in, special recognitions and accolades. My own biography has been full of the above mentioned references; however, there comes a time in one’s life when all this seems not so important when one considers where one is right now. Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present.” For, certainly, all my past experiences as an artist, partner, mother and grandmother have made me the artist I am now.
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Simona Rukuižaitė Untitled | 2020 Oak Apple Gall, Basalt | 3 x 3 x 3 cm POR
Vilnius Lithuania
Simona RukuiĹžaitÄ— s.rukuizaite@gmail.com instagram.com/s.rukuizaite/
About Visual artist born and based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Graduated BA and MFA degrees in Monumental Arts (fresco and mosaic) in Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her creative practice is based on creating a close relationship with organic materials; their selection process and arrangements creates a narrative, which arises from intertwining the story of the object with her own personal insights. Simona works with experimental painting and mosaic techniques, which often gain a form of an installation; searching for interdisciplinary expression while playing with the aspect of materiality.
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Petra Schott Honouring the Waters II | 2020 Oil and Oil Sticks on Canvas | 100 x 100 x 4 cm 1,300€
Hesse Germany
Petra Schott petra.schott@gmx.net petra-schott.de
About My works revolves around visions, ideas and emotions in past and presence in a figurative-abstract way. The human figure or landscapes often are my transmitting medium which I use in an abstract manner. In my pictorial presentation I search for freedom, lightness, liveliness and intensity. I work with strong oil colours applied layer by layer. I love the texture of oil and the depth of the space created. I like working with lines, sometimes condensed into drawings or writing, used as a sort of compass and structuring element. In the works submitted here I work with themes around the subject of water. I show the power and liveliness of water, its importance for our life and its ever refreshing nature.
Curator Review Honouring the Waters II The blurred edges and almost turbulent aspect of this piece, calls to mind a rousing sea. Artist Petra Schott has thoughtfully composed a beautifully compelling work in masses of pastel color and neon sparks. Her painterly flourishes and stimulating gradients are deeply resonant and diffuse all tension. Schott’s energetic and enigmatic paintings, give the feeling of encompassing some flourishing truth. -E.E. Jacks
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Randy Sprout Back Canal Venice | 2020 Oil on Panel | 6 x 6 in $450
California United States of America
Randy Sprout r.sprout@att.net randysprout.net
About Randy Sprout began his art career in 1964 at the University of Iowa earning his BA in printmaking. Before entering graduate school, he served as a 1st Lieutenant on the DMZ in Korea. He moved to California in 1969 where he graduated with a MA and an MFA from UCLA in painting. Randy worked for LA County Museum of Art restoring priceless art works. He has taught printmaking and painting at USC, UCLA, UCLA Extension and Pierce College. He co-authored the book “Innovative Printmaking” 1977 Crown Publishers, New York. In 2004 he gave a sold-out lecture to Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles with a re-creation of Synchrome Kineidoscope performance, a machine he helped work on with Stanton MacDonald-Wright in early 1970. He recently won the “Best Artist Over 65 Award” from Plein Air Magazine.
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3rd Place Josh Stein #MA141 Silent Scream from the Quarantine Days I (It Is What Is Is) | 2020 Metallic Acrylics on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1 in POR
California United States of America
Josh Stein steincreates@gmail.com steincreates.com
About Josh Stein is a lifelong multi-mode creative artist, musician, writer, professor, and adult beverage maker. With formal training in calligraphy, graphic design, and color work; more than two decades as a researcher, teacher, and writer in cultural analysis in the vein of the Birmingham and Frankfurt Schools; and a decade and a half as a commercial artist and designer for multiple winery clients; he brings his influences of Pop art, Tattoo flash and lining techniques, and Abstract Surrealism and Expressionism to the extreme edge where graphic design and calligraphy meet the Platonic theory of forms. The resulting metallic inks and acrylics on canvas delight and perplex, moving between the worlds of solidity and abstraction.
Curator Review #MA141 Silent Scream from the Quarantine Days I (It Is What Is Is) This unusual and visually emphatic work by artist Josh Stein, explores societal isolation in a dynamic and captivating manner. Stein’s expressive approach, dauntlessly interprets his surreal reality in vibrant colors and loose contrasting strokes. From the mouthless faces, to the partitioned windows portrayed, this disunited yet connective painting, impacts. - E.E. Jacks
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Angela Suto Emptiness | 2020 Oil on Board | 27.5 x 40.5 in $1,000
Western Hungary Hungary
Angela Suto angela.artiste@gmail.com angelasuto.com
About Angela Suto is a Hungarian artist. She was studying in a private art school in Hungary. She is painting cityscapes mostly with oil. Her artworks can be found in many collections in all around the world from Australia to the Falkland Islands. She is working with art galleries based in New Jersey and Vienna too. She is a passionate traveler, animal-lover and humanitarian. “My goal is to show people that cities are not just crowded places, every city is beautiful in its own way. We can find this beauty in the rhythm of the traffic or in the play of shadow and light in the street.�
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Luyang Tian Lost and Found | 2020 Digital Photography Printed on Selected Fine Art Paper | 13 x 19 in POR
Jiang Su China
Luyang Tian seraphlia1212@gmail.com seraphlia.com
About I am a San Francisco based fashion and commercial photographer.
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Darilynn Tipton 2020 | 2020 Oil on Panel | 12 x 16 x 2 in $350
California United States of America
Darilynn Tipton artbydarilynn@gmail.com darilynn.art
About The goal of my art is to take your mind off the world for a moment. I’ve been oil painting since 2012, after 25 years as a professional makeup artist. My subjects are mostly still lifes and landscapes, with a bit of a pop art feel. I’m inspired by the California feel of Wayne Thiebaud, the landscapes of Turner, and the still lifes of Chardin. I live near my hometown of Fullerton, California, where I’ve had a few solo shows, including three months in the foyer gallery of Fullerton Museum. I’ve also been part of group shows in Fullerton and San Diego, and have won awards at the OC Fair.
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Erhan Us No Future | 2020 Metal, Acrylic on Canvas | 50 x 70 cm POR
Ankara Turkey
Erhan Us art@erhanus.com erhanus.com
About Conceptual artist and author. 1987, Ankara. After Bilkent University TH Management; he was granted to 25+ local and international / honorary awards, with respect to his eleven NGO presidency and marketing projects. Participated in 70+ exhibitions in 20+ countries. He continues his studies on Sociology & Philosophy at Istanbul and Anadolu Universities. Us is a member of Photographic & Visual Arts Federations, whose book Digital Prestige was published in ‘18.
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Honorable Mention Nina Zdanovic Quarantine Diaries: Brewing Coffee | 2020 Oil on Wood Panel | 40 x 40 cm POR
Vilnius Lithuania
Nina Zdanovic ninazdanovicart@gmail.com ninazdanovic.com
About My name is Nina Zdanovic, originally from Vilnius, and currently based in Tokyo. I do figurative paintings and abstract ink drawings. I believe that humans don’t live in an objective world. The reality that surrounds us always reflects what we are going through. In my work, I explore how our memories, thoughts, and experiences affect how we perceive reality. I am searching for the intersection between the real and mystical, between the inner and the outer worlds. I attempt to make my artwork look as if it is a snapshot of a mundane real-world setting, but some of the fragments are magical, absurd, or simply random. These odd elements infused with mythological or allegorical meanings are projections of our psyche and are meant to draw attention to the mismatch between our inner perceptions.
Curator Review Quarantine Diaries: Brewing Coffee A masked and gloved figure stands by a stove in a plain interior, giving no distractions, allowing the viewer to focus on the gaze. This solemn and simplified impressionistic work by artist Nina Zdanovic, is both stirring and straightforward. Zdanovic’s beautiful ability to portray and bring to life a mundane moment of reality, is absolutely exceptional. -E.E. Jacks
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INDEX
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Jessica Alazraki | Snack Time on Blue | 20020
12
Luis Ardila | The Battle of the Parties and the Intervention of the Cherub | 2017
14
Karyna Aslanova | Seeing Your Sunrises | 2020
16
Nan Brall | A Rising Dream | 2020
18
Jackie Clark | Life Boat | 2020
20
Massimiliano Esposito | La Nouvelle NormalitĂŠ | 2020
22
Jayne Foster | Gold Earrings | 2020
24
Tony Gangitano | Pondering in Isolation | 2020
26
Donna Garcia | Swarm | 2017
28
Stefania Grasso | Loneliness | 2020
30
Igor Grechanyk | Pilgrim | 2020
32
Corrie Gregory | Make Me A Match | 2020
34
Tricia Hoye | Trust | 2020
36
Rebecca Katz | Moondance | 2020
38
Heun Jung Kim | Portrait of the Artist’s Mother in 2020 | 2020
40 Patricia Kluwe Derderian 42
Jennifer Landis | The Light Within | 2020
44 Jessica Leigh 46
| Grandpa’s Presence | 2020
| Untitled | 2020
Victoria Likholyot | Some in Blue | 2020
48 Dorothea Nortje
| Urban Darwinism | 2020
50
Paula Prager | Coming Out of Covid | 2020
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Simona Rukuižaitė | Untitled | 2020
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Petra Schott | Honouring the Waters II | 2020
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Randy Sprout | Back Canal Venice | 2020
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