Mother III
Deborah Zavon lives and works in New York. She earned a BA at New York University College of Arts and Sciences. She studied with various prominent artists at NYU, The New School, Visual Arts, The New York Academy of Art, the National Academy of Design, and the Arts Students League, where she is a life member. Her work has been shown in print, including in the Art Students League catalog, and in virtual and physical galleries and various other venues, and is held in private collections. Physical venues include the Gedelsky Gallery, MD, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, Art Students League Red Dot shows, Postcards from the Edge, Shelley’s New York, Gensler Portrait Exhibit, etc. Virtual sites include the Art Students League, Allied Artists of America, Morgan Library Portrait Competition, LIC Artists Organization, and J. Mane Gallery: honorable mentions, Bronze awards; Grey Cube Gallery: merit award, honorable mentions. She has been presented with several additional awards and commendations over the years.
“As a child, I found joy in rendering the world around me. That feeling of exhilaration has grown through the years. I find expressing an emotional response to a living subject to be fulfilling and rewarding. In doing so, I lose myself and I learn about myself at the same time.“
I am in cahoots with my pencil
I am fascinated by the ability to simulate different textures and surfaces with only a simple pencil. That I can cause the eye to see hard, soft, rough, smooth, glass, water, leather, wool, wood, skin, and hair consistently amazes me. To be able to create emotion, express sadness, happiness, and wonder, and change a frown to a smile just by moving my pencil constantly surprises me. I want to keep pushing us to see what more we can accomplish. I consider my medium my collaborator, creating of world of our making.
Mother Nature
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.
Mother Nature
I have been painting and drawing for as long as I can remember—it’s always been at the core of who I am. The journey has been both rewarding and challenging, but it’s one I wouldn’t trade for anything. My art career began with Martin Lawrence Galleries, which, at the time, was based in Van Nuys, California. Since those early days, I’ve worked with several art publishers, and my serigraphs and giclees have been printed and distributed around the globe, reaching collectors and art enthusiasts far and wide.
I have lived in many places and travelled to over 30 countries. This has always fueled my creativity. I now live in South Africa along the Whale Coast. I continue to paint and create, and South Africa is so full of inspiration. I continue to work with Liberty Puzzles in Colorado, where they use my images for their high-end puzzle company. I continue to show my work, and I am now in three galleries in South Africa.
List of Recent Art Shows
2025 Art Fusion Gallery, Hermanus, South Africa
2025 Cover of Hook Magazine, of the Hudson Valley in New York. Spring edition.
2025 Artwork on the new TV series Dexter Resurrection, filmed in New York City.
2025 Home of Visual Art, Knysa Waterfront, South Africa
2025 Milkwood Gallery and Framer, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Ongoing show.
2024 Moving to South Africa
2023 Hudson Valley Art Association, Old Lyme, CT 90th Annual Juried Exhibition, June 23-August 10 SECOND PRIZE
2023 Rhode Island Watercolor Society 2023 National Watermedia Show, May 13-June 23, THIRD PRIZE FOR PRAGUE
2023 HMVC Gallery, NYC “Women Group Exhibition” March 1 -31
2023 Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Spring Break, February 25-March 24, Online only. THIRD PRIZE FOR TOSSA DE MAR.
2023 Rhode Island Watercolor Society – “Winter Blues” online exhibition, January 27th
2023 Art-Fluent- online exhibition “Wanderlust” January 27, 2023
2022 Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, NY November 12, 2022 – January 8, 2023, Solo Show – EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER MONTH
2022 Two Alices Cafe, Cornwall, NY September – December 2022 Solo Show – EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER MONTH
2022 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN from September 16 – October 16, 2022. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD.
2022 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA From July 23 – September 16, 2022
2022 The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT from August 11- 28, 2022
2022 Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Montgomery, NY “Leave a Mark” from July 1-August 28, 2022.
2022 Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, View Arts, Old Forge, NY August 6-September 25, 2022
2022 The Delaplaine Arts Center National Juried 2022 Exhibition May 7 – July 10, 2022
2022 Rhode Island Watercolor Society “Vision 22” National Juried Show, February 16-April 1, 2022 HONORABLE MENTION
2022 Woodwalk Gallery, Door County, WI – Magical Mysterious Tour – March 1- April 30, 2022 – SECOND PLACE
Creating art is my passion and is the core of my being. I continue to explore encaustics and oils, silk paintings, and watercolors. I thoroughly enjoy expressing myself through my art, and I hope others enjoy seeing my process and the end result. I love color and detail, busy, crazy cities, and calm nature with animals.
Mother Nature And Then There Were Sunfowers
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Cheuk-Lam Cheung’s journey into the world of art has been driven by a lifelong passion. With a background in engineering, Cheuk-Lam brings a unique perspective that fuses precision with creativity, deeply influencing her artistic expression.
Art was her sanctuary growing up, a realm where she could explore and convey her innermost thoughts and emotions. This enduring love for art led her to come to the United States to pursue formal studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Here, she honed her skills and embraced her potential as an artist.
Cheuk-Lam’s work has garnered recognition from the Academy, with selections for the prestigious Spring Show in both 2022 and 2023. These opportunities allowed her to share her vision and connect with a broader audience, reinforcing her belief in the transformative power of art.
As she continues her artistic journey, Cheuk-Lam remains committed to exploring new techniques and pushing the boundaries of her creativity. Her goal is to create art that resonates with people, offering them a moment of reflection and connection in an ever-evolving world.
As a painter, I am driven by a deep passion for traditional art. I love exploring different themes, from still life and figurative work to landscapes, each offering a unique opportunity to convey my artistic vision. Using various mediums, including oil, gouache, pastel, and watercolor, I experiment with different techniques to bring my ideas to life.
I have a particular fondness for using diverse brush strokes and vibrant colors to convey different feelings to the audience. My goal is to evoke emotions and create a connection between the viewer and the artwork. I believe that through this connection, art can touch a part of us in unexpected ways.
My biggest dream is that my art resonates with people. I strive to paint something personal because it allows me to relate more deeply to the work and show more of my feelings. This personal connection enhances the authenticity of my art, inviting viewers to see and feel the world as I do.
Through my journey, I remain committed to pushing the boundaries of my creativity, continuously exploring new techniques and themes. My hope is that each piece I create offers a moment of reflection and connection, allowing the viewer to experience the same sense of wonder and emotion that inspires me every day.
Motion
I hold a Doctorate in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a Masters Degree in Philosophy from SIU-C, and English from Eastern Illinois University. I am a 61-year-old survivor of oral cancer living in Danville, Illinois, who suffers significant complications from surgeries and radiation. As I cannot generally attend festivals, I rely on online submissions to showcase my work. I also was once a reporter for the Danville Commercial News, but my PTSD made it very difficult to write. I took up painting and digital photography to express what I can no longer write about. I taught philosophy for 28 years, 18 years of which were full-time before my inability to swallow or speak for any length of time forced me to retire. In the last few years, I have taught art and film as well.
I have been shown in at least 10 galleries in the U.S., such as Hawaii, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, and Rhode Island.
I also have been shown in at least 10 online galleries.
I love abstract painting and digital designs. I love to paint, but also have lately taken to digitally manipulating “bad photographs,” structuring the image so that there is an unironic tension in the work between the beautiful and the distressing. This tension is found in all my works – an otherness with a desire for itself (to put it philosophically). This calls into question the artistic object and reference since I drain the referential content of photographs. My influences include Modernist Art – Rothko and Pollack especially – Pop Artists, and the rather unclassifiable Gerhard Richter.
Mountain Range
37-year-old visual artist, specifying in resin artistry.
Use of rich pigments, accompanied by natural stone and the reflective surface of the resin.
Mountains Of Change
“I have spent my life creating safe spaces for patients to reveal themselves and in turn, painting has given me that safe space to reveal myself”
The body is my medium. I see/ feel/ know the body as something that gives me inspiration. As a physician and artist, it is the language with which I am most comfortable. Studying Fine Arts at NYU during the late 60s was a time fraught with political movements and my training as both a painter and printmaker quickly combined using figurative expression to speak to the politics of the time. Gradually I embraced not only the political but the personal and global questions of loss, turbulence, and suffering as well as triumphs and change. Painting the figure has evolved from a deeper appreciation of the hidden, the emerging, and finally the spoken sensuality of all bodies. I continue to observe and appreciate how helping people achieve health and wellness is an amazing gift and I take that positive energy and throw it into color, movement, and form. Medicine and art for me continue to be intimately connected as the body speaks sometimes directly and sometimes through innuendo but always revealing an inner joy and strength. My art simply is my visceral voice- the organic appreciation of the inner and visual collective self.
My process involves drawing from models, photos, or sculptures and then painting sections or parts to become a different whole. My language is the human body from which I approach my work both as a physician and as an artist. I am driven by symbolic parts of the body such as the spine and breast and inevitably those symbols unfold in most pieces. My pallet is drawn from the landscapes in which I live- both Colorado and Mexico and these colors inspire my work. Music as well is an essential part of my process and lyrics often are part of what affects my art, particularly the words of Leonard Cohen, Lila Downs, and Corinne Bailey Rae.
In these times of climate crisis, I have tried to expand my work to combine landscape and figurative expression as a way to both recognize and celebrate the earth and recognize the critical impact we are creating. So in participating in this exhibit Hello Tomorrow it is my hope and optimism that global warming and climate change will be addressed with the urgency it needs.
Movement II
I hold a Doctorate in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a Masters Degree in philosophy from SIU-C and English from Eastern Illinois University. I am a 61-year-old survivor of oral cancer living in Danville, Illinois, who suffers significant complications from surgeries and radiation. As I cannot generally attend festivals, I rely on online submissions to showcase my work. I was also once a reporter for the Danville Commercial-News, but my PTSD made it very difficult to write. I took up painting and digital photography to express what I can no longer write about. I taught philosophy for 28 years, 18 of which were full-time, before my inability to swallow or speak for any length of time forced me to retire. In the last few years, I have taught art and film as well.
I love to paint, but also have lately taken to digitally manipulating “bad photographs,” structuring the image so that there is an unironic tension in the work between the beautiful and the distressing. This tension is found in all my works – an otherness with a desire for itself (to put it philosophically). This calls into question the artistic object and reference since I drain the referential content of photographs. My influences include Modernist Art – Rothko and Pollack especially – Pop Artists, and the rather unclassifiable Gerhard Richter.
Moving Closer To One Work
Gary Trente, a talented artist living in Manhattan, was born and raised in Salt Lake City and Orlando, respectively. From a young age, he exhibited a natural talent for drawing. In the 3rd grade, an employee noticed Gary’s artistic ability, which led him to explore his passion in more depth. Following his high school graduation, Gary graduated from The Atlanta College of Art, where he learned how to think in artistic terms and understand an artist’s intention when creating art.
Later, Gary attended The New York Academy of Art in NYC, where he enrolled in the graduate program. Through his attendance at the academy, he learned about composition, the golden section, and the human form. Gary described the school as an institution that provided him with all the necessary tools needed to create great art.
Shortly after graduation, Gary started working at MOMA as an education department employee. He was involved in multiple programs, including the Family Films Program and the Artist Displaced Persons initiative. In his early art career, Gary also worked as an artist assistant, director of Gallery Juno in NYC, and a director of the Barbara Gillman Gallery in Miami Beach.
Gary’s work has been recognized worldwide, and he has exhibited his drawings in countless galleries around the world. Additionally, his artwork is included in many esteemed collectors’ portfolios. In recognition of his talent and skills, Gary was invited to be an artist in residence at the Bakehouse Complex in Miami, FL.
Gary’s artworks are celebrated for their exceptional quality and his unique artistic perspective. Always pushing boundaries, Gary Trente is one of the most distinguished and accomplished artists living in Manhattan today.
As a New York City artist, my work serves to capture the vibrancy and energy of this incredible city. My drawings reflect the gritty reality of Manhattan, using charcoal to evoke the rough textures and hard edges of the urban landscape. But as I’ve continued to develop my artistic vision, I’ve also begun to embrace color like never before.
There’s something magical about the contrast between the gritty gray of the city and the playful pops of color that can be found all around us. I’m fascinated by the idea of New York City as a wonderland of color, full of vibrant shades that would feel at home in a Wes Anderson film or the iconic dream sequence from “The Wizard of Oz.” My pastel-colored drawings and colored pencil work are an attempt to capture this feeling, to suggest that the city is a canvas waiting to be brightened with new hues.
Ultimately, my work is about celebrating the magic of New York City. From the grit and grime of its streets to the colorful moments that make it such a special place, I’m always looking to find beauty in the chaos. Through my art, I hope to share this unique and endlessly inspiring city with others.