Garden Dance
Michael Hartstein was born in 1946, in Los Angeles, California. His early interest in art began in grade school. While studying drawing and painting, art became a vehicle in class for learning about the life and culture of Mexico and South America. From that moment on, he was excited to use art as a medium to express the inexpressible beauty in life.
Michael has been painting for the last 50 years and is working out of his studio in Westlake Village, California. He has always enjoyed creating paintings about nature. From his early childhood, he studied every art book that was out there, learning art techniques from famous artists. His education in art has been in classes at The Art Center, Long Beach University, and Santa Monica College. His paintings have evolved over the years to an impressionistic style. In his love for nature, he likes to use bold colors, and textures and create a feeling of movement. Many paintings have water elements. Also, there is a lot of excitement and passion that he brings to his work. As he explores the subject that he wants to paint, he peels away the different layers to get to the essence of the subject.
Over the years Michael has sold many paintings and exhibited his art all around Southern California.
The theme of my artwork is: Bring Nature into Your Home. My paintings reflect some aspects of nature. I paint in an impressionistic style. I like to use bold colors that sometimes become more important than the subject matter. I like to create work that has fewer details.
I would like viewers to use their imagination to draw their own conclusions about what the painting means to them. My goal when someone views my paintings, is to stimulate awareness of how nature enriches our lives.
Garden Iris
Suzanne Johnson is an American figurative sculptor/ painter trained in a classical atelier in France. Nuanced emotions of inner resolve are embedded as a theme within her work. Suzanne’s artworks have been featured in numerous International galleries and group exhibitions, and permanent collections in Singapore, France, Hong Kong/ China, Mexico, and France. Her bronze sculptures range from life-size busts to monumental figures. The following are recent Monumental commissions.
in their respective permanent collections: “ A Veteran”, Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, Angel Fire NM, the National Museum of Marine Corps., Quantico, Va. and The Bishop International Airport, “The Violinist”, Flint Institute of Music, “A Monument to Labor”, City of Flint Municipal Center, “Professor Bell”, Kettering University, Michigan, “Vivaldi’s Angels”, Monumental Bas Relief Stone Panels for the Chapel of Angels, Michigan. Suzanne’s current sculpture commission is a life-size bronze sculpture of “Major General George Owen Squire, WWI an inventor”. Johnson’s Paintings have had the distinction of appearing in collectors exhibitions amongst such notable artists as Cindy Sherman, David Hockney, Keith Haring, and the work of the late Edward Steichen, a photographer. Suzanne is a member of the National Sculpture Society, the Sculptors Society for the Public Arts, The Portrait Society of America, the Allied Artists of America, The American Artists Professional League, and American Women Artists.
Oil painting holds an intensely intimate space for my expression. Words come slowly to me. Painting and sculpting have always felt like my first language. Through these mediums, I intuitively voice my thoughts and emotions onto the canvas or clay, only then do I feel the clarity to use words. Reaching inside myself while I explore color, texture, glazes, design, and my subconscious ideas to navigate the world of human complexities.
Garden Morning
I am a self-taught artist. My style has been honed over the years. I infuse figurative art with a passion for the subject, as well as lightheartedness and humor.
“When looking at my work makes the viewer happy, I consider it a success”.
With an affinity for the Old Masters, especially French artists like Boucher, Fragonard, and Manet, Carol Johnson’s bold use of color, exuberant pattern, and expressive style lends a unique twist to both her original painting and her recreations of iconic images.
This shows most clearly in her adaptations that bring new life to Old Masterworks.
Joy is the hallmark of her paintings. Johnson’s vivacious color and fluid strokes draw the viewer into the “present” of the subject, creating a timeless quality to her paintings.
Garden Of Adiden
Gabriela Kramer was born and raised in San Diego, California. Her home(s) was a hub of many faces, cultures, and colors. Colors were always dominant in her life. Early on art was a big part of Gabriela’s life. Her mother taught her how to paint and plays a big influence in her art today. At the age of 18, she moved to Tel Aviv on her own to explore different terrain and life.
Gabriela plays with different mediums in her art, she paints abstract, playing with composition, colors, collage, and mixed media. At the end of 2022 Gabriela and her husband relocated to Brooklyn, New York where they reside today.
Since moving to New York her art has been influenced by urban gardens. At the end of 2022, she relocated to Brooklyn from Tel Aviv. It has been a huge change in energy and atmosphere. Her paintings are influenced by the urban gardens that fill up different corners of the city. Part of this transition is also connecting back to her family and roots, especially her relationship with her mother, who taught her how to paint. She paints abstracts and uses different mediums from, crayons, watercolor, acrylic, spray paint, and much more. Gabriela loves to use household tools in her painting.
Garden Of Happiness
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, I recall gravitating toward color and texture from a very young age. Art became a vital means of expression and communication. Without really understanding the power of art, I was cognizant that reimagining my world in a colorful and whimsical way brought me a deep sense of happiness and purpose.
I describe myself as a lifelong creative and self-taught artist whose work employs a combination of collage and acrylic painting with color and texture an integral part of my signature style.
My goal is to take the viewer from how they usually see the world to one in which color can infuse new energy into the ordinary and elevate mood. It is a world that is influenced by my colorful tropical surroundings where magnificent gardens, created with bold and evocative colors, can emerge simply from a daily practice of taking a brush, paper, and glue to canvas.
The relationship between artistic elements and mood has always been a driver for my colorful and positive imagery. I view my art practice as a creative journey and rely heavily on the ability of color and the act of creating art to see me through new challenges. It is my ultimate goal that the viewer will internalize that positive energy as well.
I employ a creative process that combines the logic of piecing together collage materials with the freedom of intuition as a guide. The application of paper, paint, and other mediums allows me to achieve a textural and tactile experience, with color serving to evoke feelings and emotions that convey the positive spirit that I work to infuse in the art I create.
Gate
Susan D’Amato is a visual artist whose work focuses on contemporary drawing practice. She is the recipient of national and international awards and has exhibited her work across the United States and internationally. Her drawings are in the curated registry of The Drawing Center, New York, NY, and were included in The Drawing Center’s LineAge; fall selections 2005 exhibition and featured in its accompanying publication, Drawing Papers 55. In 2005 she received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellowship in Drawing/Works on Paper. Her work has been supported by numerous residency fellowships including Yaddo, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, The Ragdale Foundation, The Millay Colony, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others, and has been awarded and published in national and international exhibitions, journals, periodicals, drawing texts, and gallery catalogs.
My current drawing project, Collective Body explores visual and conceptual correspondences between the body and universal forms. Large- and small-scale drawings depict specific body parts—eyes, nipples, tongues— as metaphors to contemplate human identity. As I construct drawings, I am aware of the tension within an image when it straddles representation and abstraction: the thing that appears to be known, then confused, then known again. Subtle considerations to surface texture, light, and contrast, transform the body into vast landscapes that transcend the corporeal. This vacillation renders the drawings accessibly enigmatic to examine complex yet connected relationships between the physical and the ethereal, the personal and the trans-personal, and the intimate and the infinite. Through these interactions, the work offers an expanded sense of the self, while questioning that which is referred to as relational, identified, or imagined.
Gate Of Heaven – Galactic Star Burst
John Calabrese received his BA in Art from Catholic University, Washington, D. C., his MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, and his Ph. D. in Comparative Arts from Ohio University.
He is Professor Emeritus of Art at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, where he taught Art History, Aesthetics, History of Film Noir, the Art of Alfred Hitchcock, and was in charge of the Studies Abroad Art History Program, which he initiated in 1994. He has published articles on Paul Klee, J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”, and “The Trouble with Harry”.
Delicate nuance of value and texture becomes a tool in conveying powerful, dramatic statements about earthly beings who are not afraid to wonder, think, dream, and take that one step beyond.
The inhabitants of the cosmic atmosphere appear at odds with their surroundings (many of which are actual, specifically named astronomical objects). This is the result when the merely earthly confronts its unavoidable connection to the awe, mystery, and majesty of the heavens.
However, when fragile earthly beauty confronts sublime heavenly beauty, the earthly is reverently and silently humbled.
Gateway To Consciousness
Currently, I work as a full-time digital artist. During my doctoral program, my artwork focused heavily on the use of glitches to portray trauma, however, this shifted with my spiritual awakening five years ago. Today, my artwork focuses on spirituality, primarily portrayed through the use of bold colors, sacred geometry, as well as the energy I place into each piece. For me, art is joy, so when I create, I hope to bring this joy to others.
My artwork is influenced by my Asperger/autism. Being on the spectrum helps me create my artwork and finally after many years- I see it as my ally, not something that defines and limits me. Art allows me to communicate the beauty and joy that I see and feel, but can’t always fully convey in words. Through autism, I see and interpret the world as brilliant, with bold colors and shapes, almost like a kaleidoscope. Through these colors and shapes, I find meaning as well as translate my joy. This is what my artwork is and who I AM.
Autism is the vehicle that helps me create and encode my artwork. My Divinity shows me the codes, colors, and shapes to include in each piece, and I act as a translator. The artwork itself is not two-dimensional, even though my printed pieces are 2D. Rather, each work acts as a holographic projection, which allows those who are willing and choose, to accept and learn the codes that were created. The purpose of this is to help reawaken humanity’s light, and as
Gateway To The Cosmos
The artist behind Naori, Yuliya, is an abstract artist who was born in Kazakhstan. She spent her college years in Beijing, China, earning a degree in Business Administration. During her college years in Beijing, she had the opportunity to explore Asia and was particularly fascinated by the spiritually charged places she visited, such as the Angkor Watt in Cambodia, temples of Siam Reap, Laos, Kuala Lumpur, monasteries and temples in China.
In 2013, Yuliya relocated to the United States, started her own business running a personal shopping agency and launched a lingerie brand. At the same time, she pursued a Master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. During this time Yuliya discovered the power of colors and shapes in affecting the mood of the viewer, even having a healing effect. She incorporates these techniques in her art to create pieces that deeply connect with the viewer.
Yuliya’s art is a combination of kineticism and color therapy, abstraction and spirituality. Her pieces are infused with a sense of spirituality, taking inspiration from philosophy, nature, music, sacred geometry and quantum physics. Yuliya’s work has been recognized for its interdisciplinary nature, engaging various academic disciplines, including philosophy, mathematics, and the natural and social sciences.
Yuliya’s passion for art has taken her on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth, and she hopes that her artwork will inspire others to find their own path towards inner peace. Her pieces are infused with a deep sense of connection to the world around her, drawing inspiration from philosophy, nature, music, sacred geometry and quantum physics. Yuliya’s work has been exhibited in various galleries across the United States and has received critical acclaim for its beauty, depth, and resonance with the human experience. Her art invites viewers to contemplate the mysteries of the universe and engage with something larger than themselves.
At Naori, we believe in the transformative power of spiritual connection and inner harmony. Our mission is to inspire individuals to enter a state of profound self-awareness and enlightenment. Through our art and collaborations, we aim to create a community of conscious individuals who meditate, trust their intuition, and continuously strive to become the best versions of themselves.
“Gateway to the Cosmos” is a journey into the vastness of the universe, where the mysteries of existence unfold in cosmic grandeur. This artwork immerses the viewer in a deep, celestial landscape, with dark, swirling clouds that radiate from a central point, evoking the profound and infinite nature of the cosmos.
At the center of this cosmic expanse lies the Naori symbol, a guiding light amidst the darkness, representing the connection between the individual soul and the greater universe. The symbol serves as a beacon, illuminating the path through the enigmatic clouds, drawing the viewer closer to the heart of the cosmos and the essence of their own being.
The dark, rich tones of the clouds convey the depth and mystery of the universe, suggesting the unknown and the unknowable, yet also the potential for discovery and enlightenment. As the clouds spiral outward, they create a dynamic sense of movement, as though the viewer is being pulled through a vortex into the infinite reaches of space.
“Gateway to the Cosmos” is not merely a visual representation; it is an invitation to explore the vast inner and outer worlds. It challenges the viewer to contemplate the connection between the microcosm and the macrocosm, and to consider their place within the grand tapestry of existence.
This piece stands as a powerful symbol of exploration and expansion, urging the viewer to step beyond the familiar and into the unknown, where the possibilities are as limitless as the cosmos itself. Through this gateway, one is reminded that the journey to understanding the universe begins within and that the cosmos is as much a part of us as we are of it.