Onna
Sonya Berlovitz designed costumes for over sixty productions at the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune between 1980 and 2008. She designs costumes for The Moving Company, collaborating with them on productions at The Guthrie Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Jungle Theatre. Productions elsewhere have been at Children’s Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, The New Victory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Wilma Theatre, and History Theatre. In 2015, her designs were selected for the exhibit Costume Design at the Turn of the Century 1990 – 2015 at the Bakrushin Museum in Moscow, Russia.
As an unconventional artist who consistently pushes boundaries, she has received numerous awards including a The Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Costume Design award, Costume Society of America Best Costume Design Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grant, McKnight Theatre Artists Fellowship, and participation in World Stage Design in Toronto in 2005. In 2007 and again in 2011, her designs for The Miser and The Deception were chosen for exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial.
Ms. Berlovitz has exhibited her costume renderings and mixed-media artwork, which includes collage, paintings, and textile art, at The Sabes Jewish Community Center (MN), Fairfield University (CT), The Textile Center (MN), USITT Theatre Design Conference (Toronto), and Frank Stone Gallery (MN). In 2023, She had a solo exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, called Red, Artwork and Costume Designs of Sonya Berlovitz.
My artworks are inspired by personal experiences, resulting in intimate and universal storylines. The collages, which incorporate a variety of textures and hues, pay homage to family craft traditions such as machine and hand embroidery, appliqué, and patchwork. My artworks are visually lively and dynamic, made with a colorful immediacy, spontaneity, and directness; they live in the moment. My artwork’s subjects promote dialog between the past and present, drawing inspiration from a vast vocabulary of contemporary images and historical materials.
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James Hartel, A.W.S. American Artist. (b1951-)
His preferred mediums are Watercolor, Gouache, and Acrylic on paper, board, and canvas. His career, for the most part, has been focused on emotional and psychological expression, versus the academic and technical, as he is fundamentally self-taught. He lists his influences as many and diverse, including Albrecht Durer, Aubrey Beardsley, Paul Klee,
Ralph Steadman, Frida Kahlo. While extremely proud of all of his accomplishments, listed are a few of the most notable: Invited to be a part of a Group show, Surreal Fantasy, The Hansen Gallery, 70-72 Wooster Street, 1976.
The Following year, juried into the American Watercolor Society show in 1977.
The Liberty of London Gallery Regent at Carnaby Street, with its Watercolor, “Heartstrings” 1987
Solo show, The L Cafe, 189 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1993.
In 2019 accepted as a Signature member of the American Watercolor Society, with his painting Color Wheel.
In 2020 The Racine Art Museum purchased his painting “Gravity” for its permanent collection.
There are times in our lives when we need to make critical decisions that will alter the way we feel and what happens to us, or most importantly, our futures…
We hope that we make the right decisions based on everything we’ve learned. However, what ultimately happens is our inner child appears to make these important decisions about, Custard and Pizza instead of salad and protein, a solid sedan vs. a used Ford Mustang or Cadillac Fleetwood! This I know for a fact!!!
Oogaga
As a photographer/digital artist living in the Coachella Valley (originally from Malaysia & Canada), I enjoy capturing snapshots of nature, architecture, and socio-culture that express a realistic representation of natural beauty, identity, and diversity from my perspective while conjuring up deep emotional, mental, and spiritual connections.
Exploring modernistic contemporary photographic art has allowed me to combine my photography with digital techniques to go beyond the traditional form. I love experimenting with lighting, exposure, tone, angle, texture, and scale to highlight unique features and natural vibrancy from a raw subject capture to a refreshed art form. As I develop my craft, I also aim to broaden my photography to include abstraction and even surrealism while preserving a photographic eye.
My photographic artwork has received multiple awards in both national and internationally-juried exhibitions, online & book publications in, (and a TV newscast with KESQ in Palm Springs), US, Canada, Germany, and France (Paris), and Hungary (Budapest), including a “Winner” and “Finalist” in the Budapest ArtBIAS 2 International Exhibition (June 2024); 1st Place “People’s choice” award with Desert Art Center (Nov. 2024); Finalist Award: Blue Space’s “Representation v. Abstraction – 2024”, June – July 2024: “Best in Show” (2023) & “Exhibition Finalist” awards (2024, June 2025) at Fusion Art, two “Bronze Award”s & “Artist of the Month: (Oct & July 2023) with Camelback Gallery, and multiple “Honorable Mention”, “Special Merits” and “Recognitions” awards in 2023 and 2024 with Light Space & Time, Teravarna galleries). Locally, I have exhibited at the Artists Council Center, Palm Desert; Desert Open Studios 2024, 2025); Desert Art Center, Palm Springs; and currently with the Living Out Palm Springs Art Project. My publications include “60 Artistes Du Mouvement Art Resilience,” France, and “Fictional Narrative,” Decagon Gallery, New York.
The power of the stiletto speaks to the integration of boldness and intricacy, offering not only a reflection and admiration of its beauty in our colorful, diverse socio- and pop-culture but also a powerful commentary on its movement. My composition of this photo artwork expresses a narrative on expressive elegance, glamour, and one’s confidence against a backdrop of societal complexity and allure. Look deeply to see how it could evoke a range of interpretations and emotions, from fashion to femininity and exploration to identity. It’s about us; Celebrate its magic! Go ga-ga over it!
Oops I Slid
Marion Kahn is an award-winning, contemporary oil painter. Through vivid interpretation, her paintings share the unceasing mystery of the world around her. As an artist, Marion confidently captures surprising details that draw in the viewer. Her palettes can be soft or bold. She uses color to carry the message of the painting, whether expressing a quiet meditation or exuberant joy. Marion’s work is found in the homes of sophisticated collectors around the country as well as healthcare institutions. “My desire to paint exploded in Sicily when I saw two young artists atop a scaffolding restoring a 400-year-old fresco,” says Marion. “I watched, mesmerized and full of questions.” Marion studied with established artists, including renowned photorealist painter, Robert Cottingham; abstract painters, Sammy Peters, and Lauren Mantecon; American Impressionists, Kim English, and Barry Thomas; abstract colorist, Casey Klahn, and plein air painters, Jean Perry and Joan Hoffmann.
I speak in color. I offer a joyous journey into a chroma-saturated world on a path of discovery, of the art, myself, and hopefully for the viewer. As an artist, I try to express the truth I see and feel, primarily in oils. As light filters through elements, I see their reality. But when I imagine the potential of sight or vision on a canvas, I see color. I see what could be and may be. At a cellular level, there is color. I’m not repainting the world. I’m just offering a different idea of how things could be. Painting, for me, is a Zen-like activity. It provides a great deal of peace, even when I’m debating a painting. In the honorable struggle of creation, I remain committed to the discovery and to creating compelling works. It is my wish that, through my paintings, viewers never find the last idea but rather the ongoing inspiration of possibility that I, too, enjoy.
Open Street Dance On The Upper West Side
Lukas has interned at the Sun Herald, the Mississippi Free Press, and the Indianapolis Star in 2021. He was a fellow at Boyd’s Station Documentary Project in 2023, where he made work that was recognized by the White House News Photographers Association. His photographs have been published in national publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as in solo shows and group shows across the world. Lukas is a graduate of Yale University. You can reach Lukas at 662-315-7978 or lukasflippophoto@gmail.com.
Lukas is a photographer and writer exploring rural communities in America through both place and people. Where they have been, where they are now, where they are headed. And the ways that direction, whether it be death by flight to the city or the revival of the quiet blink-of-an-eye downtown a stone’s throw from the Friday night heroes running to the cadence of cheerleaders who picked up their first pom-poms and uniforms from their mother, manifest themselves in the people who see that lone stoplight as home or a blinking reminder of what their home once was.
Opening Up
Karen Sachs has been transforming her art into a creative reflection of her soul since she was a young girl. Painting allows her to express the reality of life’s challenges with transparency and beauty, revealing truths that words can never do justice. Her unique talent has earned her multiple awards for masterpieces conveying emotions onto a canvas with grit and passion that have taken her work all around America. She is an artist dedicated to uncovering the true nature of the world with stunning truthfulness! If we are looking at ways to influence her heart and her world, she has to open up, avoid sugar, and be who she truly is!
Art is where my heart is, and for me, that place of comfort and security has always been found through creating art. For years, I’ve been using my art to express the depths of my soul: from the colors I choose to the brushstrokes, to every unique tool I use – each painting tells a story. Each piece of artwork is like a journey into my inner world, filled with emotions, feelings, and experiences that have been hidden away – it’s almost magical. My passion for creativity and transparency when connecting with the world has earned me numerous awards and exhibited shows – proving just how powerful art can be. I’m proud to continue pushing myself artistically in order to capture the beauty within our ever-changing world!
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Kylo-Patrick Hart is an award-winning photographer 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 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.
Oracle At A Beach
Stanislav “Standa” Riha
Visual artist, photographer, and writer
Member of CARFAC
Born in 1952 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Lesser Town (Malá Strana), surrounded by great medieval and modern art and artists that caused his desire to create. From early childhood, he enjoyed drawing and later painting; as a young man, he focused mainly on surrealism. His artistic attitude was shaped by many art courses in childhood, followed by art training by MgA Milos Saska and work in set production of the Realistic Theatre.
In 1980, he lived for a year in Grinzing, Vienna, Austria, and then moved to Vancouver, BC, Canada. Enchanted with the natural beauty of British Columbia, he dedicated the first few years to realistic nature themes and then switched to Surreal and later Surreal-abstract creative work.
In the last three decades, I have been creating wall-mounted, cast resin, and aluminum sculptures combined with canvas and gold leaf and exploring the computer as an art tool for creating digital artwork.
All my life, I have loved to create art full of emotions and feelings, “soul,” with the satisfaction of fun. I am interested in the balance and composition of colors and objects rather than the reality of the items.
The direction of the last two decades has been aimed at understanding and, through artwork, expressing the human struggle of emotions and adaptations. For the past ten years, I have been polishing my creative work in the Surreal-abstract style.
The main motto of my artwork is: Just as in a good story, the readers have space to create their image; in a good picture, the viewers can form their account.
Oracles
Don Manderson earned an AA at Pensacola State College, a BFA at Florida Atlantic University, and an MFA at Florida State University. After completing his MFA he worked as an art and computer instructor in the Escambia School District, Pensacola, Florida, and as an adjunct computer graphics instructor at Pensacola State College. Don is now a full-time computer graphics artist and is showing in nationally juried shows from New York to California. His “digital montage” work exhibits influences of his Asian art history studies, his formal training in expressionist painting techniques, and his propensity for use of surreal imagery to effect social comment.
My work examines the simultaneous sensory experience present in a society that is increasingly technical and transitory. This is exemplified by societal expectations for individuals to constantly ingest, evaluate, and act on input from multiple digital and analog sources. My work is inspired by subconscious and dream state attempts to reconcile this sensory bombardment. My montages employ layers of photographic imagery that interact visually and metaphorically to imply a piece’s social narrative in a manner consistent with contemporary sensory experiences.