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I am an artist from east Tennessee. I have been doing art since I was 6 years old. I went to the University of Tennessee and studied fine arts. In 1980, I went to Porsche Automobiles as a designer in Germany. I moved to Central Florida in 1983 and became an architectural illustrator and freelanced for over 25 years. I live back in east Tennessee now and am further pursuing my art career.

I am a traditional artist and am enthralled with extreme detail. There is so much to derive from exploring the intensity of the detail of an object, subject, or scene. I hope to take one into the exceptional world around us through the intensity of detail in my work.

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Recent exhibitions included work at the Art Box Gallery/Zürich, Switzerland; Biennale Artbox Expo, Venice, Diversia international group exhibition, Toronto, Canada, Nudus Exhibition & Publication, Toronto, Canada, Plantarium International Exhibition & Publication, Toronto, Canada, SWA – Art Invitational, Southwest USA, MvVO Art Exhibition, New York, Art Metropole Europe, Barcelona, Spain; The Extended Body, International Art Exhibition, London, UK; Art Box/Eduardo Lira Art Gallery, Miami; Art Expo, Zürich, Switzerland; Art Box, Basel, Switzerland; Art Box/Stricoff Gallery, New York; The Scarab Club for artists, Detroit; The Brooklyn Art Library, New York.

Recently, my work has captured the interest of collectors in North America and Europe.

I have been an adjunct instructor of visual art at colleges in Canada and the USA and am currently instructing at College for Creative Studies, Department of Precollege & Continuing Education in Detroit, Michigan.

Prior to my fine arts career, I held executive-level positions in advertising and communications as an art director and illustrator in Canada and USA working on Fortune 500 businesses. Today and into the future, I am totally committed to continuing my gallery work and the education of visual artists.

Influenced by German Expressionists, I am a 2D artist using simple tools like pastels/markers/pencils, and paper product surfaces to create emotional connections and journeys.

My focus is on capturing spirit through the tools of drawing & encouraging viewers to complete each image with their own thoughts and dreams. My work’s message is in the viewers’ search for individual meaning through my subject. I’ve always seen the act of drawing as more than mark-making or visual notation, but rather a conversation and shared experience with those who witness it. My drawings often are human or botanical studies and constructed from an emotional search for content and structure rather than sight measurement and light management.

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New Jersey based artist, April Cooper also known as Art by April, loves to create art. Cooper depicts images of black culture in art because representation in this world is a necessity. Currently, she working hard on an art series named “Ghetto to Trendy” where she shines a light on inequality issues. Items or specific parts of black culture that black people have been put down for or even called ghetto for, have been mainstreamed and have been deemed trendy when white counterparts have taken them on.

As an artist, I try to inspire others about the beauty of black women, black hair, and black culture. As a teenager my mother did hair and I was in contact with many of the black women in our community. I got to witness the transformations of hair and the pride of the black woman daily. They leave my mother’s chair holding their heads high, wearing the new hairstyle like a crown. I am truly enjoying the process, I connect to my art and I see myself in every piece I create. In my community, I see the culture of the hustle every day and I portray this in my art.

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Commitment and keen interest and openness not only to painting but also to the unknown within me, which inspires constant renewal. I can’t wait to see what creative expression comes through me. I like perfect details, but I can’t resist sloppy, unpredictable movements either. With these interesting abstract motifs, I dissolve the regular lines of oil paint. I bring change to my work with different structures. I break the rule of giving way to something new. My goal with my abstract paintings is to show the door behind which the invisible, the always and omnipresent, becomes visible.

With my published paintings, I provide visual nourishment for the viewer. That’s why I think it’s important to convey beauty and harmony with my creations and to keep my expression simple and obvious. I am fascinated by the miracle of creation, the invisible, volatile matter of a man who is able to feel, think and create.

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Since starting oil painting in 2018, she has combined abstract backgrounds and figurative figures to represent stories and emotions. Her Asian cultural background and experience in multiple fields of art practice give her works a different kind of charm.

This series of oil paintings is an analysis, a summary, a diary, and a confession. For me, creating art is a process of self-knowledge and excavation. Through art, I refocus on feelings and emotions to create a connection to the world around me. Time passes, and many factors influence who we are. Over our lifetimes, people experience similar struggles, regrets, and moments of relief. With every choice, there is loss and gain. Sunlight always comes with shadows, and every cloud has a silver lining. Art provides me with an opportunity for non-verbal expression and communication about these ideas. Each person is a unique part of this world. I want to cherish this uniqueness in myself and others. The graduate program has enabled me to explore my inner mental activity more than ever before. Although I paint specific individuals, I am also recording the impressions, feelings, and abstract stories that swirl around them.

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Early art education at Chicago’s Art Institute on a high school scholarship began Katy Bishop’s pathway to use the arts to enhance others’ lives and her own. At the Art Institute, she worked in oil, pastels, watercolor, and charcoal.

After college graduation, she became part of creative teams, producing films for many years. She produced some independent feature films, directed a TV series, and produced hundreds of national TV commercials. She found these years to be quite rewarding creatively and received some major TV commercial awards.

She also explored other creative outlets – directing theater, acting, ceramics, jewelry design, photography, and script writing. She won the Houston Festival award for a children’s feature film script. But none totally satisfied her creative needs.

She had been working with acrylics and had ventured into encaustics. When a friend introduced her to alcohol inks, Katy found her expressive medium.
In 2021, Katy finally began showing her artworks publ

I create my artwork to communicate feelings and ideas that cannot easily be expressed well in words. Dreams, emotions, and memories are often considered abstract and lacking in comprehension. Abstract painting gives me the opportunity to create emotional and physical artwork that someone else can repeatedly enjoy.

As I explore the use of light and shade through color and movement, I recognize that the control we all want to exert in our lives is often paired with uncontrollable growth and change.

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Vera Gierke is an artist who grew up in New Jersey, has lived in Michigan, Indiana, and Rhode Island, and seasonally on Nantucket. Living in Rhode Island, she engaged in a range of Continuing Education classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and worked with a few local artists. From having taken a variety of classes, Vera expanded her vision and found that the various areas of art interrelate, support, and broaden each other. She joined the Providence Art Club where she explored a variety of art classes: acrylic, oil, watercolor, drawing, printmaking, photography, photoshop, and collage. Through these classes, Vera discovered a fascination with paper collages and has made them her favorite form of art. Her work is not abstract, rather she looks for a way to make an image or object different than what is expected, to add interest through the material used for the collage.

In speaking about her collages, Vera calls them A Fanciful View of a Realistic Subject. She describes them as more than what initially meets the eye.

“Something catches my eye, a scene, an image, a photo, and I begin to transform it in my mind into a collage, imagining how I would design the new work, what I would want to incorporate into it, and what I want the new art to express. The collage is made of pieces of paper, chosen not only for color and interest but also for the relevance and comment that it brings to the collage subject itself. I love taking one form of printed material and converting it into an entirely new image.”

I want my art to be appreciated up close just as much as from a distance. From a distance, the collages create a charming or interesting picture, but there’s more to it when fully appreciated up close. I invite the viewer in for a closer look, whereupon he sees how the pieces of paper relate to the collage and the subject of the art.

“I want the viewer to continue to explore, to discover more in the collage.
The art is intended to be viewed and appreciated up close as much as from a distance.”

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Through experimentation and innovative techniques, Nitin Kakkar creates wondrous abstract paintings that address the transformative qualities of music. After years of listening to music and developing his sense of taste, he studied art at Sarah Lawrence College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art where he began drawing and painting.

His work is inspired by the classic sounds and visual appeal of vintage electric musical instruments and sound equipment.

I am an innovative abstract artist who draws inspiration from the rich history of popular music and its connection to the natural, contemporary, and post-contemporary world. My work focuses on the emergence of electric musical instruments, rock ‘n’ roll, and avant-garde music, placing emphasis on their influence and evolution. By manipulating and layering acrylic paint, I strive to develop a visual language that mirrors the artistry and complexity of musical expression and instrumentation.

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Tom decided at a very early age to pursue some type of vocation in the field of visual arts. During elementary and high school, he took every art class that was offered and studied several books on drawing. In 1970, he received a BFA degree in Studio Arts from Loras College, Dubuque, IA, and in 1972 he did post-graduate study in Creative Photography at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

He worked as the Staff Artist for the Telegraph Herald Newspaper in Dubuque, IA, and as an Art Director for Associated Litho Printing Company in Minneapolis, MN. He has taught Adult Education classes in Drawing and has also been commissioned to do many portraits over the years.

Tom has been active at the Hopkins Center for the Arts and was instrumental in its creation in 1998. He was the President and one of the Charter Members of the Hopkins Area Arts Association, which was responsible for programming at the HCA during its first five years. He’s also exhibited at and been active as a member of several local arts organizations and galleries, including The Minnetonka Center for the Arts, The Minnesota Artists’ Association, and The White Bear Lake Center for the Arts and Artistry Gallery, among others.

Tom has been living and creating his artwork in his home studio in Minnetonka, MN for 45 years. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally and he has won several awards in these exhibits, including First Place and Best of Show.

The subjects of my images are almost always people. I believe it’s those other souls we encounter during our lives that make it more interesting and enriched. I intend to capture some of the character and dignity that is a part of every person. We all have our individual hopes and dreams, and we each find our own path to self-expression. It’s these personal aspects of our humanity that I try to convey with my art.

It could be said that I do portraits, and that would be accurate. However, I try to create something more than a likeness. I try to show something about that individual’s personality, or perhaps capture a feeling of their situation at that particular moment in time. When I’m successful, the viewer is able to connect with the image in some way, without actually knowing the subject.

The purpose behind all of my images is to instill in the viewer a feeling that goes beyond the subject matter. My goal is to create something within the image that is universal and timeless.