Lizard King
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, New York 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. As an artist, his 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. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous cities throughout the United States and several countries on four continents.
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.
London Cauldron
Karen Safer is a photographic artist, writer, documenter, and poet with a musical bent. As a native Angelino, she was given a camera and crayons at 3 and exposed to dominant California motifs: light, palm trees, ocean, music, and vernacular architecture that helped define her left-handed aesthetic. Fortunate to begin a life of travel as a pre-teen, it shaped her love of the exotic paired with an eye for the “beautiful” and formal; subsequently she has traveled and photographed in over 230 countries. She was influenced by her dad who developed black & white photos in their back washroom and by her mother’s thirst for knowledge and travel.
She received a master’s degree in art from CSULB and UCLA. Her career includes design and architecture firms; she is the principal of ArtFocus International. Initially, she began painting and printmaking alongside the study of art and architectural history before wholly embracing photography with influences from the ancients to Cindy Sherman.
Not sure if behind or ahead of the times, she has been in over 10 solo shows and 140+ juried and group exhibitions, most lately in London, Rome, Glasgow, Zurich, Budapest, Athens, Prague, Barcelona, Hawaii, Canada and from California to New York winning Talent, Merit, and Honorable Mention Awards.
She is a member of several art and charitable organizations. And is a self-described “romantic soul” with intellectual cravings, currently residing in Playa del Rey.
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.
I am a child of the universe and a citizen of the world who was born in Los Angeles where I spent summers up and down the coast of beautiful California, Canada, and Mexico before flying off to other parts of the planet. My passion for photography really blossomed while working on my architectural thesis thus, indulging both my passion for architecture and visual image. Still learning and stretching the boundaries as I go along.
Lonely Birch
Mark Weller is a full-time lens-based artist from Waunakee, WI who – as a storyteller – explores and analyzes the fourth dimension, time. In the past 3 years, he has participated in over 100 art museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the US (plus Toronto and London) garnering many awards. In his early years, he honed his storytelling skills by making documentaries in Alaska which led to his becoming a senior producer for news and public affairs at Madison-based PBS Wisconsin for 13 years. Many of Weller’s stories were broadcast nationally on PBS. In 1993 Mark Weller became president and CEO of a telecom firm that specialized in placing fiber optic cable at schools and libraries in rural Wisconsin, bridging the digital divide. Now in retirement, Weller pursues his art with passion and continues to tell stories about issues that need to be highlighted, such as global warming, the preciousness of water, and the value of wetlands and prairies. His aesthetic is rooted in the likes of Wood, O’Keeffe, Cox, and Benton. Each of these Midwest-born artists has influenced Weller by their interpretation of nature and the landscape, and the ability to use shapes to convey feeling, mood, and atmosphere. With their influence, Weller creates art of the land of this birthright and of the land which he loves.
I am a lens-based artist who is influenced by Claude Monet. Monet and his like-minded compatriots turned the art world upside down and created modern art by challenging the status quo and launching impressionism. I use nontraditional photographic methodology to create nontraditional photographs. Examples are radical focus shifts while photographing fireworks creating singular designs. Or stacking 100 images over several minutes to show the effects of time on a pending storm. Or inducing extreme camera movement over a long exposure to create an abstract design. My art uses lens-based instruments to create something new and alien. My images wrench the viewer outside of familiarity and gain meaning at the boundary between experience and nonconformity. Consider the quandary I explore. Why limit our visual universe to what we see only in the moment we see it? Are my images more authentic and accurate? And to what end? How we see things fundamentally influences our perception of our surroundings, our attitudes, our understanding of who we are, and how we fit into the cosmos.
Long Time
Andrew Chalfen is a visual artist and musician living and working in Philadelphia. He has been featured at two solo shows in 2023 thus far. His work has appeared at many exhibits nationally and in and around Philadelphia, PA, such as at the Abington Art Center, The Hoyt Center, the Delaware Contemporary, Viridium Gallery, and many Philadelphia locations via his art collective Inliquid. His work has appeared on book jackets and rock album covers. He is the recipient of several awards and is the winner of the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Mid-Atlantic Regional for 2018 and his piece “Vibration Lands” was displayed at SCOPE Miami during the Art Basel/Art Miami fair.
Artist and musician Andrew Chalfen is fascinated by patterns, and how they ripple, radiate, refract, bloom, interact, cluster, construct, and deconstruct. His works allude to aerial views, cartography, architectural renderings, musical notation, urban densities, and other natural and man-made patterns, while not literally being any of those things. Rather, his pieces reflect his psychological states during their creation, a kind of topography of thought and mood as he works through various aesthetic themes that have long held his attention. Shapes often spill out over edges, suggesting unseen continuations beyond, while others seek containment. His recent mixed media work with painted dowels focuses on connections, intersections, and layers, a non-representational way of depicting how we relate to the world and one another.
Chalfen’s process mirrors that of his songwriting and music arranging. He utilizes the repetition of a small selection of formal elements, subtle variation, the timbre of the color palate, rhythm, and a combination of randomization strategies and intentionality. Every work is a process journey, in which he refines elements that grab him from previous pieces, and then pushes into unknown territory with experimentation and risk, always iterating. He follows his instincts, deviates from them when necessary, and trusts the process to guide the work to a successful outcome and maybe even a breakthrough or two.
Viewers may not know what to focus on first, becoming overwhelmed and subsequently absorbed in the details. The experience is reminiscent of mediation. Certainly working on these pieces in the studio is a meditative, flow-state way of being, where Chalfen can take his time to think about and explore through art-making themes of nostalgia, anxiety, play, musicality, fragility, impenetrable data, accelerating planetary chaos, and physical and psychic fragmentation.
Look
Jolie Nunez (She/Her) is a mixed media and collage artist. She has been doing art since 2010. Her inspirations include feminism, riot grrrl, and comedy. She writes and publishes her own zines, which she has been doing for over 25 years. And has written several art books. Some of her work appears in the first issue of the art magazine “All She Makes”. She also has some art that appears in the Netflix movie “Moxie”. She runs an Etsy Store with her husband Jamie. They sell zines, books, t-shirts, pins, patches, feminist art, and lots more.
Portfolio: https://www.pinterest.com/TheJolieNunez/
Jolie Nunez is a big comedy fan and tries to use humor in a lot of her art. Sometimes the goal is to make people laugh but sometimes the message is meant to inspire or empower them. She is Latina and also a feminist and she tries to represent people of color and present feminist issues in her work.
Look And Be Yourself
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.
Look At Me
GIPAHO is inspired by Mother Nature’s beauty, shapes and colors; catching those moments with her camera; converting and creating art pieces in any kind of materials. Working with Clay, Fiber, Glass, and Metal allows her Intuition and Soul to express her creativity the fullest. She is very grateful for her gifts implemented- once, when GIPAHO was created.
Exhibitions in Honolulu/Hawaii:
GIPAHO was selected in several group shows @ “THE ARTS AT NARK GARAGE/HNL in 2022
FIBER HAWAII -“IN, OF Or ABOUT FIBER” – Downtown Art Center /HNL,- Juror Amos Kotomori 06/2022
“Contemporary Photography in Hawaii 2022”- Juror Katherine Love- 07/2022
“ON THE WALL” – Glass Fusion Collective Hawaii- Hawaii Pacific University 01/2022
“Inspiration” – Downtown Art Center- 10/2021
Interview with Olelo Channel Producer Lisa Coen: “Artist of Hawaii”
https://olelo.granicus.com/player/clip/82288?view_id=18&redirect=true&h=877f659d6c25f83f3f90da34d6349376
The color PINK represents for me being in touch with my inner child, peace/-joyful; sharing smiles & honest laughter, dancing spontaneously when feeling so… PINK is associated with universal love for oneself and others- walking on our Life journey here on Mother Earth-TOGETHER.
Look Who Is Watching
Seattle-based artist Li Turner is a figurative painter and printmaker who explores social issues with both seriousness and wit. Her watercolor images and observations embrace an encyclopedia of injustices and dilemmas, but always with gentle deprecating humor. Topics range from every day to profound, touching on sexism, racism, poverty, pollution, and a host of other inequalities.
Having grown up in a small New England town that was isolated from much of the world, Turner won her first art show at age 12, for a drawing of her grandparent’s home in Mapleton, Maine. Through her teen years, she continued to draw while studying ballet and modern dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Turner moved west to attend college where she studied dance and social services and earned a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree from the University of Utah. She also studied art and sculpture at the University of California at Berkeley.
As she solidified her own visual style and voice, Turner was influenced by Robert Colescott, Gene Gentry McMahon, and Jacob Lawrence. At first glance, Turner’s paintings present the viewer with something beautiful and interesting. As the viewer is drawn into the painting, Turner’s imaginative narratives tell a story and provide a viewpoint, for the observer to be pulled into the painting in their own individual way, eliciting personal life experiences.
Turner’s art is held in the public collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, DC, the University of Washington Medical Center-Roosevelt, in Seattle, Washington, and the Portland Contemporary Arts Gallery, in Oregon. Her work has been exhibited in many cities and countries including; New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Montreal, as well as; Scotland, China, Bulgaria, and Denmark. Turner continues to exhibit regularly throughout the United States.
I am a painter and printmaker, who explores social, political, and environmental issues. Often my work explores the dilemma of conscience, the shock, and helplessness we each experience upon being confronted with life’s incongruities and conflicts. Though my aim is to reveal my own personal views, my work hopefully, is universal in its comprehension. I enjoy staying off the beaten path. Through its narration, my creative works take on a somewhat complex and at times whimsical nature. This mix allows me to deal with weighty concepts while allowing for a gentle approach.
Looking Ahead I
Born in 1958 in Höchst on Lake Constance and an art teacher for almost 30 years Gerhard Rasser has been working since his youth with various artistic techniques of oil, watercolor, and pastel painting and with various graphic styles including Chinese ink painting and calligraphy. Even when he was studying architecture and art history, the art practice subjects particularly made his heart beat faster.
Due to his life path – through my commitment to children, cooking, and art education – the last few years have made it possible to really stick with it and quickly develop his artistic expression. He was also encouraged by numerous international awards, several exhibitions, an art book, and other artistic projects.
For many years Gerhard Rasser occupied himself with different techniques of art, including oil- aquarelle- and pastel- painting as well as graphic styles, Chinese ink painting, and calligraphy. He especially likes one of the ideas from Chinese tradition: to understand emptiness as a room. The combination of different techniques is characteristic of his pictures. Frequently Gerhard Rasser creates a lot of little worlds of illusion, in which the observer is invited to take a close look. Often the humans recognizable as silhouettes are on a search. Birds play a major role. They both stalk us from above and remind us of the absolute freedom that we will never achieve. The sun too has two meanings: sometimes it appears as a warming and hopeful element in this setting reminding us of our fugacity and then again it seems cold and distant, a bit like stuck. Trees as well are on the one hand a symbol of life, on the other one of fugacity, especially when they are pictured only with their torso, like a skeleton. His work is supposed to make people think and pause just like my themes melancholy, fugacity, threat, loneliness, desire, and hope – all very emotional topics. Once a friend of his characterized his work as follows: “Your pictures always tell a story and hold a secret.” … and that’s his intention.