You never know what Krie Alden will create next. The former actress paints, draws, writes poetry, makes music and sculpts. When she first turned to art, instructors, friends and fellow artists often told her she was trying to do too much. One teacher at the Art Students League of New York even said, “I think you’re disasipating your creative energy.…
Uprooted from Cuba as a child, and brought to Miami via Spain in 1983, Andres Conde, an expressionist painter with pop tendencies, mitigates the feeling of displacement by merging images from popular American culture with historic examples of Cuban iconography. Conde chooses subjects representative of the dichotomy of strength and vulnerability, generally exemplified by women, whom he frequently depicts as…
Patricia Zenklusen designs her wooden sculptures in an unconventional way. She explains, “I work exclusively with the chainsaw. I am fascinated by the challenge of creating something delicate with this tool. It interests me how much elegance I can bring into a figure. At the same time it should stay noticeable, where the limits of this technique are. ” Physicality…
Nicole Furman’s Artist Statement: Attempt to define myself within the context of a society which limits me, measures me, feeds me with limitless information that I am forced to swallow, and categorizes me. I seek for myself behind words, behind culture, behind time, and behind femininity… …and, to take advantage of the opportunity the art world gives me, because unlike…
This large-scale original painting spans 178 square feet and is symbolic of Nan’s journey as an artist. It is a visual representation of her inner desire to show people what goes on in her head as well as her desire to stand up, stand out and show people that she is capable of creating whatever her mind conceives, and at…
Sylvie Dage’s painting technique requires that she let go of achieving perfection. She does not paint with a brush or a spatula, both of which would offer her too much control over the outcome. She paints with a stick from which she let the paint drip onto the canvas. So she cannot predict exactly how the paint will land on…
Surekha Sadana:“A distinctively meditative experience is the trademark of my paintings, since I draw inspiration and focus from the highly spiritual way of life in which meditation; yoga and music play an important role.” surekhasadana.com
Born in Berlin, Germany, Martin Schreiber and his family immigrated to the US to escape war-torn Europe. He enjoyed a long and successful art career as a commercial art director and as a passionate creative geometric artist exhibiting in NYC; Miami; Boca Raton; Dallas; Montreal, Canada; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Through subtle changes of color and intensity, his hard-edge band…
Jordan Matter: “My photographs attempt to make the ordinary extraordinary. I take everyday situations and add a twist. My emphasis is on celebrating life, and my images tend to be bright and joyful.” jordanmatter.com
Humberto Benitez: “My figurative work has been built around the idea of drawing attention to moments and movements rather than personification, and I believe this gives the work a more personal quality for the viewer. It allows the viewer to take the reins of how they could interpret the pieces by not having to sift through identities: in this way,…
