Paradise
Kate.jjj is an artist and contemporary painter who is known for her work within the entertainment industry. Her artwork has edgy collage elements that evoke inner thought and oftentimes are infused with text. She graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Design with a BA in Architecture and a minor in Product Design. Though she is a self-taught artist, her schooling is important to note as hints of her architectural practice are seen throughout her SNKRS.jjj series.
In 2018 Kate presented her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, California, and in 2019 exhibited in the Los Angeles Pancakes and Booze show. Professionally, as an Art Director in the film and entertainment industry, her artwork has been showcased on Netflix, HBO, and A24, and is regularly commissioned to pitch her artwork for specialized campaigns.
In 2022 Kate was awarded a Gold PROMAX award with creative studio, Rhubarb, for her illustration for Netflix’s “Pray Away.”
The mural she painted of Kobe & Gigi Bryant in Los Angeles in 2020 gained the media attention of tv and film. She will be featured in an upcoming documentary Sincerely, Los Angeles that highlights and tells the story of artists “painting the streets” after the passing of Kobe. Kate was published in the Sincerely, Los Angeles coffee table book as well as the Safehaven zine.
Jensen lived in Los Angeles for 5 ½ years but now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she works and paints from her in-home studio. She makes trips often to LA & NY to check in on projects and catch up with existing and past clients.
“I’m an artist who is constantly exploring the duality of light and dark, sanity and madness; the space that exists between your reality and mine. A lot of my work, and developed style, is inspired by having synesthesia and being able to interpret music and sound in a visual way. I also like to dance with perception and challenge my own understanding of what might be real to me and unknown to you. Life is both good, bad, and heartbreakingly beautiful all at the same time. All of the time.”
I think it’s hard for most artists to describe, in words, the world they are trying to build or the “brand” around the art they are creating because we show it to you…and we prefer it that way. At least I do. I follow the music I’m listening to, the energetic burst of lightning I get in my chest when that Jay-Z double entendre hits. I follow the laughs I get from obsessively watching comedy podcasts all day every day. I follow the sentence that keeps repeating in my head over and over and over, with no idea what it means or where it came from. I follow the moods of everyday life and just want to make them look as best as I can. And hopefully, through that journey, something I make resonates with you, and love it enough to welcome it into your home.
Paradise Vibe
Bryan Bromstrup is a self-taught artist who started oil painting in 2013 after suggestions from family artists going back four generations. He paints what he enjoys in life or whatever excites the artist inside him. Bryan continues to expand his artistic talents in oil painting photography and other digital art concepts. Originally, from Beech Grove, IN he currently resides in Terre Haute IN.
Bryan’s art comes from life experiences. It might be from pop culture or from observing interesting things around him, but it definitely comes from music, travel, and his love for the National Parks. “I’ve learned something new from every painting I have ever done. As I get older, I find the artist in me has come to the forefront, expanding the simple things I always did into pieces of art. When it comes to being creative, I look beyond the how to do it and enjoy the process of just letting the brush work its magic.” Bryan’s artwork rarely overlaps in representation as all have a distinct style so he likes to call his art style, “Bryanism”. You can find his art regularly on display throughout Indiana and online at galleries across the U.S.
Looking through the art catalog calls for many moods. These 3 digital art pieces express my current mood and as you will see it is wide-ranging as temperatures this winter are hovering around 0 degrees.
Paris Pyramid At Dusk
I have been an artist all my life.
I have had many dreams come true & of course many disappointments too.
Perseverance furthers!!
My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions, including:
– Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
– Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
– MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy
– Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland
– Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
– Laguna Art Museum, CA
– Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA
– LA County Natural History Museum, CA
– Monterey Museum of Art, CA
– Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY
– L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy
– Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
– Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
I have been part of countless group shows and art fairs around the world over the last 30 years. My work has appeared in many magazines, books, book covers, dozens of online art sites, two museum exhibition catalogues, and two published books of my art, “Garden Tales” and “Car Tales”.
Recently, I have had the honor of installing my art in many wonderful public spaces, on indefinite exhibit, including UCLA and UCSB:
– In 2013, I installed more than 70 large artworks at the UCLA Law Library and UCLA Anderson School of Management, including a 5’x10′ commission.
– In 2014, I installed 20 new very large artworks printed on aluminum at UCSB Gervirtz Graduate School of Education.
– In 2015, I created the First Vertical Art Gallery at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes, and colors since I was very young. I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on my Cibachrome prints over 40 years ago. Before Photoshop, I found a way to express a new magical reality with the vivid, saturated, and unrealistic colors that I painted into each individual photographic print.
For the past 30 years, I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 45 years. I paint, combine, and enhance them with Photoshop, creating my own idyllic world!
Parked At The Park
Sylvia Bandyke, Royal Oak, MI, USA, is largely a self-taught photographer, having taken studio and art history classes in college. She began her art career by displaying photo collages in ArtPrize, an independent international art competition in Grand Rapids, MI, from 2014 to 2018. Subsequently, she has been juried into more than 100 group exhibitions in 24 states and accepted into numerous online international exhibitions. An award-winning artist, she keeps an eye open for interesting views of a subject while looking for hidden beauty every day. Most recently, she was a caregiver to her elderly mother and was able to create some memorable, unique art as a result of this experience.
I prefer using the collage format to integrate associated images into a cohesive unit that is even more compelling because of the embedded story. Having been a playwright and technical writer, I am accustomed to delivering content with a message. So now, as a visual communicator, I continue to provide meaning via the structure of the collage format, wherein the four photos confirm, augment, or even contradict each other if warranted. I enjoy offering the richness that the multiplicity of images provides, along with the impact gained through their thoughtful positioning. Ultimately, I intend to have my work act as a doorway to the viewer’s own mental and emotional framework regarding the collection of images, perhaps finding their own very personal meaning in them.
Party
Nora KOMOROCZKI – Artist name: MANO
Nora is a Hungarian artist-painter with the artist name Mano. She was born in Hungary and is still living in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. She’s been painting with oil on canvas for more than three decades, inspired first by the beautiful landscapes in Hungary and other countries where she has been living with her family for a few years (Sweden, Israel, Belgium). Her qualification is journalist, but she has visited some artistic courses both in Stockholm and Budapest. First, as the Editor in Chief of Hungarian Airlines she could travel a lot, and later as the Regional Director of the Scandinavian and Baltic Countries at the Hungarian Tourism Agency she could see and meet interesting people, and capture the beauty of different countries. She tried to show this beauty and special moments on her canvas. Her artworks were invited to different art exhibitions – solo and in group – organized in Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Israel, Belgium, the USA, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy. She is an artist awarded several international art prizes (Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Picasso, Palma d’Oro, Art Olympic Prize, Artist of the Future, Face of Peace Art Prize, Artist of Creativy, Top 60 Masters, Trophy International Prize Paris, The best Modern and Contemporary Artists London, World Best Artist Prize, Leaders Protagonists of Art at Washington, Silver Cross of Merit Hungarian State Award, International Prize ARTIST of the YEAR 2025, etc.)
I love to paint the lights dancing on the surface of a lake or sea, the eyes and faces of interesting people, special moments of our days or of our old history, and everything that inspires me. I admire and care for nature, and try to capture its beauty on my canvas. We have to preserve our nature as it is for the next generations as well.
Party Girls
Katrina Niswander is an internationally exhibiting and collected fine artist, interior designer, and life coach working out of Toledo, Ohio in the USA. Her works have been highlighted in numerous blogs and publications such as Create Magazine, Photo Trouvée Magazine, Women United Publications, Art Seen Magazine, Visionary Art Collective and BCAN Arts. She has a fascination with the feeling of home, what we choose to surround ourselves with and what we leave behind. She explores the complexities of time, memory, nostalgia, and loss through her mixed media portraits and paintings on found photographs. Fuzzy black and white snippets of time transform through her intuitive practice of adding graphic color as she attempts to wrap her head around the complexities of time, memory, nostalgia, and loss in a playful way. Her mixed media paintings are a collaboration between past and present that manufactures new memories for us to share. She expands on that artist calling through her design and coaching work. Her approach emphasizes the transformative power of art, design, and mindful living practices as forms of self-care, encouraging individuals to embrace these tools to cultivate a more aesthetically pleasing, imaginative, and fulfilling existence.
My work is a conversation and collaboration with people of the past. I transform images from my collection of found photographs through an intuitive practice of adding graphic color. It’s my attempt to wrap my head around the complexities of time, memory, nostalgia, and loss in a playful way. As I paint, I contemplate the lives of the subjects and weave new stories. It’s meditative, collaborative, and a tad metaphysical – integrating what they have chosen to share with what I can add with my paintbrush. It bends time, it celebrates these ghosts and adds another layer to their existence. We take pictures to capture memories – but photos fade and crumble, the digital can become corrupted or lost. I aim for the work to be a reminder to make time for presence, to build our most beautiful lives, and to enjoy small special moments before they become memories: snapshots fading in a drawer or lost in the sea of images in the cloud.
Party Time
Herbert Appelson was born in 1937 in New York City; he studied at Brooklyn College, received his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin, and an Ed.D. from Columbia University. Appelson specializes in printmaking and the relief technique. The graphic pieces in the exhibition, which he calls “hand threaded embossments,” are dimensional compositions in form, line, and texture. They are prints that activate the flat surface of paper and possess true sculptural qualities
Appelson’s prints have been Featured in many shows including the A.A.A. and Macy Galleries in New York, the art Alliance and Woodmere Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Trenton State Museum in New Jersey. In addition, his works are represented in a number of public and private collections such as the Noyes Museum, Kansas State, Auburn, Columbia and Wisconsin Universities.
My present works, which I call “hand-threaded embossments,” are an attempt to combine papers and threads into a creative art medium. I wanted to create prints that activated the flat surface of paper and possessed true sculptural qualities.
Working primarily with geometric designs, the paper was embossed or folded into three-dimensional shapes. The use of an overlay of different kinds of threads further increased the dimensional facets of these shapes. This embossment process represented a dual experiment: on the one hand, it expressed the beauty of the matrix; and on the other, created a sculptural composition in form, line, and texture.
Pass Thru
Eric Helbig is a New York–based visual artist whose practice centers on abstract painting in oil and acrylic. His work combines improvisational energy with formal restraint, resulting in vivid compositions that explore color, space, and movement. Helbig’s paintings, which he terms “deconstructed organic modernism,” have been shown in New York and reflect a disciplined yet exploratory approach to abstraction.
Eric Helbig creates bold, abstract compositions in oil and acrylic that explore the tension between intuition and structure. His paintings are defined by saturated color, compositional clarity, and a deep sense of movement and spatial rhythm. Through fluid forms and graphic lines, Helbig evokes distant landscapes and alternate realities—images that suggest meaning without settling into the familiar.
Working in what he describes as “deconstructed organic modernism,” Helbig approaches each painting as an improvisation that gradually refines into balance and resolution. The result is a body of work that merges spontaneity with precision, offering an experience that feels both expansive and intimately human.
Passing
Elizabeth Gorcey has devoted her life to the pursuit of art that intrigues her, stories that compel her, and the elevation of authentic voices that must be heard. Her dedication has allowed Elizabeth to discover and pursue her own creativity and talents while inspiring others to do the same.
Elizabeth has extensive experience working in the cinematic field as an actress, director, and producer. By boldly exploring socially taboo topics like aging and disability, she translated the lives of others into compelling films. Elizabeth’s creative endeavors won awards and advocated for individuals and communities the world had pushed aside.
Personally, and professionally, Elizabeth avidly encourages speaking honestly and authentically in every setting. This trait led to another artistic endeavor when she shared her love of creating with her daughter. As a collaborative venture, Elizabeth and her daughter wrote the award-winning children’s book series, Liv on Life. Aimed to cultivate a child’s sense of confidence and kindness, this mother-daughter duo was able to write from the perspective of parents and children, encouraging families to embrace authenticity in every relationship.
Compelled by her love of visual arts, Elizabeth became a painter when she was a little girl. Winning an award at the age of 10 for her watercolor “Chinese Tea Pot”, which was displayed in the New Jersey State Museum. Recent exhibitions include New York, Portland, Los Angeles, Canada, and Europe have revealed her talents to a new audience of private collectors and institutions. Recently Ms. Gorcey showed her work alongside Jackson Pollock in a group exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
The passion of this committed actress, director, producer, painter, and author urges each of us to express ourselves as authentically as she does. Put simply by Elizabeth herself, “Creating is nourishment for my soul.”
I am fascinated with the ‘human condition’ that we are all a part of; more specifically with how each of us experiences and sees ourselves, each other, and the world on our collective journey. As a child, I was very sensitive and empathic. I would feel things very deeply and, at times, imagine I knew how those around me felt. My sensitive and creative mind literally felt the weight of humanity– My mind would ‘see’ all these highs, lows, anxieties, and triumphs overlapping and bleeding into my own personal experiences. At that age, I didn’t know how to process what I was feeling, but as an adult, I worked through what I saw on my canvas. I paint because I must.
When I look around and see what’s happening in the world today it makes my heart break for humanity and it propels me to paint. I feel the pain, sorrow, and discontent of so many souls. I hope that people who view my paintings recognize a piece of their own humanity and know they are being seen.