★★★ Vanessa In RED ★★★
Nayana LaFond resides in Massachusetts where she is a multimedia artivist working in acrylic on canvas, rebar, glass, concrete, and more to create works that challenge what is considered acceptable in society and spark discussions about change. Nayana has also been a curator for over 20 years including chief curator for the Whitney center for the arts and sits on several boards including Artist Organized Art, Be The Change, and the Native Youth Empowerment Foundation among others.
My rebellion has always been to speak my truth through my art.
In indigenous cultures, we believe that spirits can only see the color red. The possible never-ending painting series I began in 2020 is currently up to 90 portraits to raise awareness about the missing and murdered indigenous people’s crisis. Each is a victim, survivor, activist, or family member of someone who is missing or was murdered and they are all painted in black and white with red being the only visible color. I paint them the way the spirits would see them call the spirits home.
This project began as catharsis for personal experiences, as most of my work is. However, it has evolved into being about healing and medicine for my people. Families now come to me and I paint them or they are loved on for free and give them free prints and exhibit the originals to raise awareness and spark change. I always have a queue of at least 30 and don’t see an end for this project in sight. nayanaarts.com for more informatio
★★★ War Crimes In Villages ★★★
Hélène de Tyndare is a French artist of Ukrainian origin.
She was born in what was a pleasant city on the shores of the Sea of Azov called Mariupol. Her taste for painting was expressed very early. She has been trained by Ukrainian painters and she attended art courses in the Arkhip Kuindzhi art school located in Mariupol.
She went to Kyiv University before acquiring experience in engineering and development in Siberia, Ukraine, Italy, and France. After she moved to France in the year 2000 she progressively became fully dedicated to her artistic activity. Her studio was first in the Paris area and is now located in the French Riviera.
Her most recent exhibitions were in Paris, Monaco and Milano.
Then the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia started in February 2022. Among other war crimes against civilians, Mariupol was turned into ruins and death.
As an artist, Hélène de Tyndare has expressed her overload of deep emotions generated by this brutal war through a series of paintings called «Invasion». The paintings presented here include « Besieged Mariupol », « Exodus », « Deportation of Children», « War Crimes in Villages», « Destruction of Cities», « Ecocide, the Destruction of Nature», « From Holodomor to water cutting », « Criminal flag ».
https://aatonau.com/helene-de-tyndare-a-portrait-of-resilience-and-creativity/
LATEST EXHIBITIONS
2019 – Collective exhibition organized by the Arcades School of Art
2019 – Participation in the artist studio’s open-door event and the market of artworks organized by the city of Boulogne-Billancourt
2020-Collective exhibition in the Landowsky Cultural Center, in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt
2021-Collective exhibition at the City Hall of Boulogne-Billancourt
2022 – Personal exhibition « PORTRAITS D’HUMANITE » à la galerie “L’Entrepôt” au 22 rue Millo à Monaco
2022 – Exhibition in Parma Italy at the International Art Forum
2023 – Exhibition in Milan Italy with Mega Art Gallery
2023-Exhibition Art Graulhet sixth edition
2023-Exhibition GlobArt ville Fayence
2023-Exhibition ville Boulogne-Billancourt
I have always practiced painting. After a career as an engineer, I have been practicing my artistic activities full-time for ten years in my studio located in Boulogne Billancourt until 2019 and in Cannes since 2020.
I can now live my emotions through an artistic expression whose originality of style is now well affirmed. My gaze is nourished by the diversity of my past experiences in environments such as Siberia, Central Asia, and Central Europe and my many trips to France, Europe, and North America.
I have my artistic style which I call cartographic expressionism. My works have in common the use of living colors. In the portraits, I try to translate the humanity that emerges from the gaze and the attitude of the model. In landscapes, I reproduce the emotions that particular atmospheres and luminosity inspire in me. The relationship between nature and human beings is the basis of the common reflection that inspires me in these two themes of portraiture and landscape.
For the portraits, my models are either relatives or photographs that have triggered my emotions and my creative energy. The emotions and attitudes reflected in my work are as varied as serenity, wisdom, tenderness, fragility, melancholy, curiosity, empathy, reflection, energy, courage, or pride.
I work on different media (mainly on canvas frames) in different sizes (mainly between 50 X 70 and 100 X 120) and formats (standard, square, figure, landscape, etc.).
Now I work with large formats from 4 meters long and 2 meters wide, both on canvas and on paper
★★★ Waves Concerto ★★★
Carey Conner, a native Austinite, embodies the roles of painter, mother, and educator with profound dedication. Her art is a celebration of nature’s intricate beauty, capturing its essence with unparalleled reverence. Driven by the awe-inspiring moments of sunrises, sunsets, and the ever-changing dance of clouds, Carey often pauses her day to marvel at these natural wonders. This reverence translates into her art, where she zooms into the minutest details of nature, abstracting and exploding them onto the canvas. Her work is a journey into the subtle nuances of the natural world, exploring texture and color to convey the profound significance she finds in each detail. Carey’s paintings are not just visual experiences but invitations to witness nature’s hidden intricacies through her eyes.
I expect my paintings to invoke a feeling, pushing me to experience a single emotion or range of them. I carry inside the memories of landscapes and nature and reinvent them as I remember. In this way, the subtleties become significant, the longing expressed in the line, the rejuvenation in the color, and the memory in the tone. The lines are open as they leave the panel or canvas, suggesting an extension of the mass from whose center I have plucked. The viewer can fantasize about the image’s girth, remember a familiar scene, and understand the abstraction. My art is a vulnerable expression of my connection to the natural world, an intimate dance of memory and imagination.
★★★ Well Stocked ★★★
John was born in Columbus Ohio, graduated from Ohio State, and lived in Southern California for 30 years. Although John learned to draw and paint as a young boy, his degrees are in the computer science field. It wasn’t until 2010 when his wife bought him a large easel and encouraged him to start painting again, that he began to take his art career seriously. Since then John has been selected in over 200 gallery shows and juried contests, including the National Oil & Acrylic Painter’s Society 2014 Best in America show. John’s Carousel Horse #1 was featured in the June 2014 issue of the Artist’s Magazine Competition Spotlight, and he was featured in the ‘Artists to Watch’ section of the Southwest Art March 2016 edition. John’s acrylic paintings have been included in AcrylicWorks Best of Acrylic Painting volumes 1 through 10 and his paintings have been voted FAV15% in Bold Brush on a number of occasions.
I was sitting at the bar at a local restaurant one evening and noticed the cascading reflections from the dozens of bottles of liqueur on the glass shelves. I knew immediately that I wanted to paint the scene. As I started gathering photo references my thoughts coalesced around the idea of glass bottles as precious objects. The shapes sizes and colors of the glass and the liquid inside all meld together to sparkle like gemstones.
I had painted several works that featured reflections in water, but never glass bottles. My goal was to get the viewer to see something more than bottles of booze. Some shiny objects that glitter and sparkle.
★★★ Who Holds The Red Balloon Shall Rule Them All ★★★
Jared Konopitski is an artist living and working in Sacramento, California. Jared works in many mediums; however, he primarily works with acrylic paintings. Jared has worked with many clients such as Art O Mat, Turning Art, Wide Open Walls, and more. In addition, Jared has curated numerous gallery shows and corporate art seminars. In his spare time, he enjoys facilitating art workshops with a focus on early art education. His work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums across the US and internationally, including:
The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Stranger Factory, Algodones, New Mexico
Giant Robot, Los Angeles, CA
Baton Rouge Gallery, Surreal Salon, Louisiana
Jared has had his work seen in:
Adbusters Magazine(2023)
Juxtapoz.com (2018)
PBS Art Showcase television show (2015 – 2017)
The New Yorker (2014)
Color Ink Book (2013)
Papercut Magazine (2013)
Arcana’s Steampunk Originals (2013)
Heavy Metal Magazine (2012)
Catapult Magazine (2012), DisColouring Book (2012)
Penumbra eZine (2012)
And Wow! Cool! Psycho Nurse Calendar (2011)
Awards:
KVIE Art Auction Curator Award – 2019
I am inspired by all things beautifully weird, such as monsters, the bugs living under the rocks, creatures in jars, ghosts, all the nooks and crannies of nature. But I am also inspired by comics, cartoons, noise music and neon anything. So I try to paint the way these things make me feel. Sometimes it comes out fun, sometimes scary, sometimes cute, and sometimes ugly. But I love it all. I prefer painting with acrylics on wood. And after the acrylics are laid down, I love to go over everything with black Ink. The black ink brings out the detail and gives the whole painting a better sense of flow.
★★★ Women On The Brain ★★★
Born in Copenhagen on November 5, 1973, Jasper is an artist who trained herself from the ground up. As a child, Jasper felt the liberation and delight of creating art. He had experience as both a carpenter and a construction architect. He had returned to painting as an expressive, enjoyable, and freeing activity. He became more well-known for his work in 2018 after joining an art club. Major art galleries all around the world have hosted his exhibitions, such as Zenith Art & Fashion, Miami, USA, VAN GOGH Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain, Capital Culture House, Madrid, Spain. He has been featured at the M.A.D.S Art Gallery, Milan, Italy, Artifact, NY, USA, Artio Gallery, NY, USA, HMVC Gallery New York, NY, USA, World of Crete, Greece, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK, and ArtSpace Innovations, London, UK. He is featured online on PLOGIX Art Gallery, London, UK, TRiCERA Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Artavita, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Artifact, NY, USA, HMVC Gallery New York, NY, USA, Singulart, Paris, FR, and Circle Foundation For The Arts, Lyon, FR. He won the coveted International Prize Donatello, Florence, Italy, Top Artists The Protagonists of Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy, Creative Excellence Award 2023, Artistic Excellence Award 2023, Masterful Mind Award 2024, and Honorable Mention Award 2024, Circle Foundation For The Arts, Lyon, FR. A participant in The European Art Guide 21/22, Bellamonti Art, Helsingborg, Sweden, Art Anthology III 2021, Art Anthology VII 2024, Guto Ajayu Culture, Madrid, Spain, Art in America Annual Guide 2023 and 2024, Artifact, NY, USA, Masterful Minds Digital Magazine Vol. 1 and 2, 2024, Circle Foundation For The Arts, Lyon, FR, The Holy Art Gallery Magazine 2024, London, UK. Interviewed in 2024 by Aatonau, Osaka, Japan, and in 2020 by The Magazine of Contemporary Art, The MoCA, LA, USA. He took over the 2020 @10011mag Instagram account for 24 hours, where he shared his personal artworks, experiences, and studio via live stories and posts in NY, USA.
Shapes and colors represent my aspirations, fears, and inner monologues. Instead of praising achievements, I highlight qualities like sweetness, honesty, empathy, and love. My life story is incomplete without love. I came from a world where men are wicked, egotistical, stupid, harsh, and dishonest. Because of them, I transitioned from being a happy, loving person to developing a mental disorder and experiencing feelings of social anxiety and frustration. From a young age forward, this occurrence made me afraid of women. For males, having sex with women is the ultimate fulfillment of their dreams. When love is absent, jealousy and malicious intentions flourish.
I hope that individuals might become more honest, authentic, accepting, loving, and courageous by seeing the parallels between fake looks, living masks, being oneself, and cool performances. The tribal way of life is quite like the loving way of life, yet love promotes harmony, peace, and happiness, and my goal is to bring these things together somehow. I promote liberation, simplicity, tolerance, calm, self-expression, and a love revolution through the iconography of Indigenous people and my sweet, loving artwork. I banish evil and fear, paving the way for love, harmony, and peace so that people are happy and fulfilled in every aspect of their lives.
★★★ Worship – Puja ★★★
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. She is also registered in Marquis’ “Who’s Who in America”, the standard in biographical information. Her paintings have also won awards in a variety of categories including landscape, open, all women, nature, elements, seasons, and abstract.
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 which transcends all borders. Highly individual in her style, her works are described as emotional, mysterious, personal, spiritual, and humorous.
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Jack Farkas has donned many hats: Dean of Gibbs College, owner of Estate Fine Art and Associates, and President of the Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra. His expertise has been sought by numerous art boards and judging panels, where his keen eye and vast knowledge have shaped the landscape of contemporary art. One of his crowning achievements was orchestrating solo exhibitions for iconic artists like Willem de Kooning, which garnered acclaim, with the New York Times lauding it as the “”Coup of the Century.””
Globally recognized for his lectures at leading art institutions such as The Met, the National Gallery of Art, the Louvre, the Prado, the Hermitage, the Uffizi, the Vatican Museum, and the Guggenheim, Farkas has shared his vision and insight into the fusion of art and architecture. His lectures have not only educated but also transformed the way audiences perceive and interact with art.
Known for drawing inspiration from the essence of life itself, Farkas’s works are reflective of emotions, symbols, spirits, and cosmic energies. His creative process is dynamic, allowing the medium to speak and take form organically, whether it’s pastel, paint, or any other medium. Each work is an interplay of color, shape, and symbolism, pushing the boundaries of the medium to convey profound messages to the viewer.
Among his many accolades, Farkas’s works have been heralded across various exhibitions, including the B&O Station Gallery MICA in Baltimore, the Silvermine Biennial, and the Academy of the Arts in Easton, Maryland. His art, collected by institutions such as the Museum of Art Science and Industry in Bridgeport, has been lauded by critics for its unique use of color and form, drawing comparisons to Matisse yet standing apart with its own vibrant identity.
Outside the realm of art, Farkas leads a meaningful life steeped in simplicity and tradition. He owns a small farm, growing much of his own food, making wine, smoking foods, and even crafting cigars from homegrown tobacco. A true Renaissance man, he seamlessly blends his love for fishing, food, and community service into his everyday life. As a devoted Freemason, he holds numerous honors and positions, embodying the values of integrity, philanthropy, and leadership.
Life itself is my greatest source of inspiration. The intricacies of the creative process and the enduring quest to leave one’s mark on the world fuel my artistic endeavors. My hope is that my art will serve as a beacon for those who come after me, guiding them with insights and reflections that make their own journeys more enlightened and less fraught with obstacles.
In sum, my artistic practice is a holistic engagement with the elements of color, symbolic representation, and spatial dynamics. Seamlessly weaving these components together through Life itself is my greatest source of inspiration. The intricacies of the creative process and the enduring quest to leave one’s mark on the world fuel my artistic endeavors. My hope is that my art will serve as a beacon for those who come after me, guiding them with insights and reflections that make their own journeys more enlightened and less fraught with obstacles.
In sum, my artistic practice is a holistic engagement with the elements of color, symbolic representation, and spatial dynamics. By seamlessly weaving these components together through painting, oil pastels, and printmaking, I strive to communicate in the universal language of art. Through this language, I aim to build lasting, meaningful connections with my audience, enriching their lives with the rich tapestry of color, emotion, and symbolism that populate our shared world. painting, oil pastels, and printmaking, I strive to communicate in the universal language of art. Through this language, I aim to build lasting, meaningful connections with my audience, enriching their lives with the rich tapestry of color, emotion, and symbolism that populate our shared world.
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Dana Potter is an artist and educator specializing in two fields: printmaking and digital studies. Recently hired as a Professor of Interactive Digital Studies at the University of Northern Iowa, her students create digital projects to illustrate and inform public dialog. Potter maintains an active, vocal presence in the national arts and printmaking communities. In 2020 Potter received her Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Knoxville, TN. 2019 was a particularly advantageous year for Potter: she organized the first laser-cutter and printmaking-specific portfolio, “The Laser-Printmaker” for the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Dallas, TX; and attended international, inter-media art residencies at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland, and Arts Quarter Budapest in Hungary. Recently Potter’s work has been in both national and international exhibitions “9th International Printmaking Bienal Douro,” Douro, Portugal 2018; “2017 Beyond Printmaking 5,” Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; and “Stand Out Prints 2016,” Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN. Recent solo shows include “Coherent Shadows”, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, 2019; and “Public Information Only” Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN.
My studio is a laboratory where I test biometric and sensory technologies. I’ve worked with eye-trackers, Geo-location mapping, computer-mouse movement recordings, and most recently facial recognition. These technologies translate the physiological and behavioral characteristics of an individual into readable data for a computer. The collected data sets are visually rich for artistic appropriation: Eye-trackers reveal gradient heatmaps; facial recognition uses graphic lines and shapes overtop photographs, and computer-mouse movements create abstract line drawings. I make artworks to reveal what these complex processes look like because they are an invisible presence in our everyday life through touchpoints such as mobile phones, internet connection, and CCTV cameras. Translating these invisible forces into physical objects makes the reality of surveillance feel present and personal. The digital frontier is a capitalist one, social media platforms are the factory farms, and our individual profiles are harvesting grounds for data.
In the recent series, Data Figures, I created a series of screen-prints to investigate the computer vision behind facial recognition (FR), to understand what the computer does to a face. I reinterpret the logical instructions of facial recognition (FR) as artistic prompts for hand-collage and filter photos directly with facial recognition (FR) software called Edge Detection and Gabor Filtering, which are military technologies for identifying figures in video and images. The mixing of facial recognition and other surveillance tools with selfies and group photos tangibly connects social media to its role in surveillance capitalism. In early 2020, a technology company called ClearView AI scraped millions of public sites, including Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo, amassing nearly 3 billion photos for facial recognition, and sold the datasets to more than 600 law enforcement agencies in the US.