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Subodh Maheshwari was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, North India where she learned folk art and classical music. She passionately believes:
“In the threshold of my life, my present is the window to the past and a key to the future”.
She acquired her degrees and studied art at Agra University, California State University of Fullerton, and the University of California Irvine. Subodh has won numerous awards, including the regional Fellowship Award at UCI in 1986, the Bharat Gaurav Award in India in 2015, and the 60 Masters Award in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Her paintings have also won awards in a variety of categories.
Subodh has participated in many shows, both nationally and internationally, including the fourth Cosmopolitan Exhibition in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and Asiamania! 2018 in Seoul, the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea, NY, the Indian Art Festival in 2014, and several years at Art Expo in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
Subodh is a diversified artist who enjoys telling stories through her artwork, whether it is through landscape, flowers, or abstract art. Her art is a fusion of Eastern symbolism and Western composition, influenced by 16th and 17th-century Rajasthani and Mogul art, and accented by poetry, passages, and phrases in Hindi, Sanskrit, and English. She admires Georgia O’Keeffe for her floral influence and Frida Kahlo for her courage. Whether it is the serene beauty of nature, her spirituality, or the current political climate, she finds inspiration. Having a life shared between India and America, she sees the beautiful similarities, like love that transcends all borders. Highly individual in her style, her works are described as emotional, mysterious, personal, spiritual, and humorous.
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For Lynn Morgan, creating art is an integral part of her philosophy of being consciously aware of the world around her. Lynn has been creating art all of her life. Upon her retirement from the corporate world, she decided to reinvent herself as an artist, and that’s what she did. Lynn’s works are inspired by the sights and sounds of her travels to various parts of the world.
Lynn has a BS in Education and an MA in Human Resources Management. She ultimately became a single mother, so the ability to support her daughter became the driving force in her life, although painting remained a hobby. She tried flying a plane, playing guitar and piano, playing golf, SCUBA diving, and sailing, but she always came back to painting.
Lynn painted with acrylics and watercolors until she was introduced to pastels. She was hooked on the brilliant color that clings to the tooth of the paper. She has studied with Miroslav Antic, Terri Ford, Casey Klahn, Jen Evenhus, Aline Ordman, Tony Allain, Melinda Cootsona, and Jenny Nelson. Her style continues to move toward more abstraction in both landscape and figurative works. The latest in this evolution is her portfolio of an exciting collection of abstract and non-objective works in oil and cold wax.
Lynn is a signature member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), the Artists Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Florida Artists Group (FLAG), Women in the Visual Arts (WITVA), and the Martin Artisans Guild. She is a juried member of the Pastel Society of America. She exhibits both locally and nationally and has won awards at several exhibits. Lynn was represented by GalleryVibe in Naples, FL, and she has taught pastel and abstract classes and workshops at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta, FL.
Before I begin a painting, I already have an idea in my head about my intention. That idea may be inspired by one of my travel adventures or just an initial idea. Since color is my primary passion, I will select a color palette based on the intention and what colors I am in love with that day. For my abstract oil paintings, I begin with a very loose wash of acrylic paint to cover the canvas. For my oil paintings, the process is the completely intuitive application of paint with a brush or more often, paint mixed with cold wax applied with a palette knife, or line work using oil sticks.
When I think the painting is complete, I leave it on the easel until the next day, when I will undoubtedly see adjustments or additions that need to be made. I will study the piece and ask myself a series of questions about design and composition. Does the work convey the intention I had in mind? Does it convey the emotion I felt when I imagined the idea? Are there any areas that need “something”? Depending upon my response to these questions, I will then make further adjustments or declare it complete and sign it.
Fancy Nancy
Angela Ruth D’Agostino, an artist, can also be seen on other worldwide websites such as saatchionline.com, behance.net, and useum.org. Currently, her work is being shown at Las Lagunas Gallery in Laguna Beach, California, USA, in memory of International Overdose Awareness Day, which falls on August 31st of every year. Angela Ruth D’Agostino is a painter.
PLEASE ENJOY … it is well with my soul.
Disneyland California, Mickey Mouse, Matterhorn, FrontierLand, TomorrowLand, Space Mountain, Tinkerbell, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, It’s a Small World, Tea Cups, Haunted Mansion, Robinson Caruso’s Tree House, DixieLand Band, Fireworks, Parade, Magic Castle, E Ticket, Submarine Ride, Autotopia, Dumbo, Sky Ride, Tom Sayers Island, Sky Ride, Mad Hatter, Cinderella, Donald Duck, Goofy, Main Street. Walt Disney.
My family of origin always valued creativity and self-employment; we were all working-class people. My interest in painting and drawing started at a very early age. For a life lesson, I learned in kindergarten that I could hold a brush in my hand and stand at an easel. It was so satisfying to be able to express myself in a positive way without using words, and the sky was the limit. I found creating a visual example for another person was an economical way of communicating. It was quick. I was born and raised in California. When I was younger, in school, I spent time traveling to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. I loved to absorb the experiences of life in far-away places. And traveling through other exotic lands that were so different from my own culture shaped how I interpreted my life and new ideas. This privilege of traveling gave me a deep appreciation for art as I witnessed it in the everyday life and depth of people from around the world. I reveled in being a complete tourist. Upon returning home to California, I incorporated these memories of time spent away into my artwork. It is a simple and powerful strategy for me that I draw on to create my artwork. I trained at WVOC to become a graphic commercial artist after high school. This is where I learned to paste up and lay out advertisements, corporate point-of-purchase signs, logo design, photo retouching, airbrush, hand lettering, illustration, along with other tools for the trade. I worked as a commercial artist for several years before returning to school at LCAD to study figurative painting and drawing, color theory, 3D design, mixed media, photography, and so on. Around that time, I began to show my paintings in group shows and solo shows, locally, nationally, and internationally. My work is being collected. It now has evolved primarily into paintings on canvas, wood, or metal, although I will sometimes feel the need to utilize other mediums too (installation or large wall spaces for mural work) as needed for a more specialized result. It all depends on what I think will work best to successfully achieve a particular result for a project. Each work starts with me imagining something beautiful and something unique that I am able, with the tools I have been given, to produce. All the work is one of a kind and original and can take days or even years to complete. It depends upon when I feel that I have done my best. And when I feel that I can walk away from it, that I know it is complete. This current set of flower paintings on the hardboard is a reminder of Spring. Spring is promised. I can still remember walking through the flower market in Holland, in the dead of winter. It is still on the walls of my mind. It is a remembrance of how bitter and painfully cold the winter season is and can make me forget about the memory of flowers. When you see a flower…what does it mean to you? It means to me that we’re loved, don’t forget, still loved! …it is promised.
Fanette Island
2023 Laguna Art Gallery Show
2021 NYA Art Center NYC
2019 Agora Gallery NYC
2017 Governor of Ohio art show, 2 paintings
2017 Fusion Art Gallery in California second place
2017 American Professional Artist League Show
2012 Dairy Barn Show in Athens Ohio Athens Voices Show
2013 Kennedy Art Museum Butterfly Show Athens Ohio
2012 Baker Center Multicultural Gallery Show at Ohio University
1983 Ohio University Graduated with BFA in Fine Arts with a focus on painting
1978 Graduated from Athens High School with outstanding senior in art award
I refer to my paintings as a weaving together of layers of paint. I am drawn to organic shapes and colors. Nature has a healing effect on the viewer. If I can capture a little of its beauty I am grateful. I like the viewer to feel as if they can jump into a warm and inviting lake, or sea or see a mountain far off to inspire them.
Fanfare
Marlene Siff was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. She was an art honors student at the eponymous High School of Music & Art (now LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center). She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College where she studied with Richard Lippold, William Baziotes, and Raymond Parker. Ms. Siff was also elected to Kappa Pi, the prestigious Honorary Arts Society.
Marlene Siff’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Katonah Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Mattatuck Museum, the Attleboro Arts Museum, Columbia/Barnard University, the University of Texas, the Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Eastern Kentucky University and The Capitol building in Washington D.C.
Ms. Siff’s work is also in the permanent collection of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury CT, the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport CT, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., and in the Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell University. Her work can also be found in many private collections, including the collection of Ronnie Heyman, MoMA’s board of trustees President.
Since 2015 Marlene has been juried into 126 competitions throughout the United States and has won 38 awards. Marlene Siff works in her home-based studio in Westport, CT.
I am concerned with communicating a sense of harmony, balance, order, and spirituality.
Every day we are confronted with the fragmentation of our non-linear lives, trying, as in a puzzle, to make the pieces fit together to make sense of it all. My paintings work on paper, and sculptures depict imagery of personal and global events and psychological issues. They are a reflection of the world we live in, expressed through geometric shapes, color, light, space, texture, edges, and movement, each interplaying with the other and engaging the viewer to participate.
The multi-dimensionality and multi-layering of my work reference what one must uncover to penetrate the illusions of reality to reach the mystery and essence of the soul.
In my former body of work entitled Elements of Peace, I embarked on a series of white paintings (in addition to the black paintings and paintings in color) that abandoned my signature bold palette. The white paintings pay homage to people who have been affected by war. White is soft, quiet, spiritual, unadorned, and full of infinite possibilities. My intention was to create an architectural space for rest, retreat, connection, reflection, and identification.
The love of my family, gardens, ballet, music, and a profound interest in world issues have always found their way into my work. In my interactive body of work 7 Finely Tuned . . . I have decided to formally bring back color and embrace music.
Fantasma
Karen Safer, a native Angelino, is an internationally exhibited, award-winning photographic artist and poet with a musical bent. Her passion for art began when given a camera and crayons at age three and was immersed in California’s visual language. A lifelong traveler, she has explored over 230+ countries & territories, embracing both the exotic and the unexpected. Influenced by her father’s black-and-white photography and her mother’s insatiable curiosity for knowledge and travel, her inspirations range from ancient Assyria to the conceptual works of Cindy Sherman. She began as a painter before discovering photography in college, earning a master’s degree in art (UCLA & CSULB) and building a career in design and architecture.
With 14 solo exhibitions and participation in over 600 shows, she has received more than 580 awards, including the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, PISPA, TIFA, reFocus, and Exposure One. Her work has been featured in 180+ publications, such as LENS, Dodho, ArtTalk, ArtTour, One Eyeland, and Spotlight. She has exhibited in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Venice, Florence, Barcelona, Budapest, Dubai, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo, Zurich, New York, and Los Angeles. Her work is held in numerous collections, and she is a member of many organizations, including LAAA (825 Gallery), LACP, etc. A self-described “romantic old soul” with intellectual cravings, she navigates the digital world while remaining deeply connected to art’s timeless essence. She embraces color but venerates black and white, realistic and abstract.
“I am a ‘romantic old soul’ with intellectual cravings now living in a Digital World.”kjs
I’ve always been an artist. My passion for art and photography began early in my teens. I embrace the natural world and man-made as well. I am influenced by everything from the ancients to Cindy Sherman, and while I embrace color, I revere black and white, realistic and abstract. I am a student of the universe, history, art, architecture, music, literature, and all the arts.
I got a camera and some crayons as a kid,
journeyed along a path in life – far from what I’d expected,
moved from youth to middle age,
did some work, had some fun, got high, got low,
and just continue doing it – never tiring of the next visual surprise.
– Life is still a mystery, after all. – kjs
My Motos: “A photographer has the whole world, big or small, to capture.” kjs
“And, wherever I am in the world, it is my favorite place!!” kjs
Farts And Other Pleasurable Hassles
I’m a multidisciplinary artist born and based in New York City. I was exposed to an absurd array of dramatic and visual arts growing up, perhaps triggering my perception of the world in expressive rather than logical ways. A lot of the darkness we face throughout life targets the deepest parts of ourselves, and to me, many of the deepest parts of myself are bound to my childhood. So, I’ve become interested in exploring adult concepts through a playful lens.
It’s strange being alive these days and that’s quite inspiring. There’s a lot to think about, there’s a lot to feel about, but there’s even more to do. My works may offend, they may inspire, perhaps even disappoint, but hopefully, they’ll provoke something, anything. Be it internal or external; a thought or action.
Pulling from the experiences I’ve gathered in my nigh quarter century spent alive, I aim to investigate the worlds within and around me through camp, sarcasm, and humor. And as a young queer white woman, my goal isn’t to endear myself or explain myself but to simply bear myself. The pieces I create are attempts at illustrating a thought or feeling or experience I’ve found fascinating, and typically have to do with mental health, femininity, queerness, and privilege. I hope to shine a light on the unremarkable in a remarkable way; the things we take for granted are often the things least explored.
Fashions Dirty Secret
Anson Liaw is an accomplished illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Upon graduating from the Communication & Design Department’s Design Advertising Program at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University), his illustrations have become an integral part of numerous projects, spanning magazines, book publications, corporate communications, packaging, and advertising.
Anson’s illustrations embody a critical viewpoint, addressing a wide spectrum of subjects, including social, political, and cultural issues, and lifestyle matters.
Drawing inspiration from everyday life, personal memories, and imagination, he skillfully combines various elements to construct new and unexpected meanings. His work sparks discussions, encouraging viewers to engage, appreciate, and discover something new about the world every day.
Anson’s talent has garnered recognition and accolades from prestigious organizations such as American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (SILA), Applied Arts Magazine, and 3×3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, among others. His illustrations have been featured in renowned publications and exhibitions worldwide, including Luerzer’s Archive and “Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective,” Third Edition by Alan Male (Author), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in the United Kingdom.
Throughout his career, Anson has collaborated with a diverse range of clients, including Time Magazine, McDonald’s, The New York Times, Nestle, and The National Ballet of Canada, to name a few. Additionally, he shares his love and passion for the arts by teaching at OCAD University and Virtute Innovation Academy in Canada, nurturing the next generation of creative minds.
I feel I am useless as an artist when I am happy. Pain is what creates my artwork. The painful experiences that people go through as they journey through life in the world around us from childhood to adulthood which in many ways is full of chaos and hardship are what sparks and motivates me to possess my objectives to make purposeful artwork that hopefully generates meaningful and fulfilling empathetic connections to people. As I observe and interpret the world around me combined with creating my artwork, I discover time and time again true beauty lies within the darkness and that sometimes nightmares are the birthplace of some of the best ideas for an artist.
Fast Friends
Kylo-Patrick Hart is an award-winning photographer (Budapest International Foto Awards, European Photography Awards, Global Photography Awards, Golden Shot International Photography Awards, London Photography Awards, Pollux Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, etc.) and chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas, USA). He received his formal training in digital media arts while a student at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, with additional instruction provided by offerings of the Maine Media Workshops and Santa Fe Workshops. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous cities throughout the United States and in several countries abroad.
Photography has been my passion since early childhood. My motivation is to discover and capture the beauty, even when it is not always readily self-evident, that surrounds us continuously in all areas of our everyday lives. I believe the finest images are those that are serious yet playful, aesthetically appealing yet a bit quirky. As both an artist and an admirer, my favorite photographs tend to be ones whose contents speak loudly for themselves, even when it is not immediately clear exactly what they are saying. They seek to inspire their viewers to wrestle with their intriguing content and, as a result, ponder various aspects of our surrounding world in new and unique ways.