Sand Castle

In just the last four years, Rich Wagner’s works have been included in more than 35 exhibitions in New York, Maryland, and California. Examples of his work are included in private collections and in the Law Library at Pace University.

The son of artists, Rich’s formal art education includes study at the Art Students League of New York, where he is an elected member, and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In addition, he has studied art history, most recently at the Courtauld Institute, the University of Oxford, and the National Gallery of Ireland.

In my works, I am very concerned with the feelings and atmosphere conveyed by the subject rather than a literal depiction. This work presents the atmosphere of summer in line, color, and tone.

Sandpipers

“Something as simple as a curved line, when placed with sensitivity, holds life energy.”

Sculptor Mary Taylor is most inspired by animals, and she is able to observe them–their beauty, their habits, their cooperation with each other–every day at her Honeoye Falls, NY home. “I live in the country and my natural surroundings along with the wild animals that live near me continually fill me with excitement and inspiration,” she said. In order to stick to her daily working schedule, it is very important in for Taylor to be in nature with very little of the material world for distraction. The studio on her property is her sanctuary where she sinks into a deep calm, takes the rod and torch in her gloved hands, and begins to bend lines. “I do have an objective when I begin to shape a creature, but to me, the miracle and the mystery speak through line,” she said. “The expressed energy in a curved line is the connection which communicates to the viewer.”

Growing up in a creative household, Taylor had an affinity for art early on. In the last 50 years, she has constructed interior and exterior sculptures of wildlife in both mild and stainless steel. Taylor’s creative style is unique, welding small steel rods to create describing animate forms with light shining through. “Within the structure of each sculpture, I space the welding rods slightly apart to allow light to penetrate through the completed work. “When backlit, this technique animates the sculpture with twinkling light, which, in turn, creates excitement and fascination.” This technique, combined with the expression of life emanating through the sculpture, makes her works popular with viewers. Along with her smaller sculptures, Taylor has constructed five large public works for both galleries and private collections. “I feel deeply moved and gratified when I complete a sculpture larger than myself.”

I weld nature’s creatures in mild and stainless steel to enhance our connection to and our understanding of the grand forces of nature and the movement and growth so inherent for our imaginations to flourish and reach out toward our dreams.

Over the last 40 years, I have constructed interior and exterior sculptures of wildlife. Employing steel rods, I render unique and intricate patterns of realistic animation with a strength of spirit and an intensity of aliveness. My sculpture is an announcement, a reminder, and a heralding of our natural heritage.

This is a poignant, crucial time in the light of extinction. There are basic philosophical questions encompassing the juncture of life and death, beauty and harmony of not only our endangered species but also of our fragile selves.

Sandy Point Sailing

I have worked with creative mediums including oils, watercolor, Itaglio print-making, lithography, and digital graphic design. My work has consisted of landscape painting, printmaking, seascapes, watercraft, industrial themes, architectural waterfronts, and cityfront scenes along waterways. I have shown my work locally and regionally since 1990.

I currently work as a tugboat Captain and I am inspired by the view from the wheelhouse while working routes between Maine to New Orleans including the Intracoastal Waterway.

1999, Started a graphic design business, in Leesburg Virginia.
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design, Art Institute of Washington.

Current Galleries:

Main Street Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Crossroads Art Center, Richmond, VA
Skipjact Nautical Antiques, Round Pond, ME

My current work reflects the waterfront I know. Tugs, sailing craft, lighthouses, waterfowl, city fronts, and classic watercraft have always commanded my attention and piqued my interest. Through my work, I try to share some of these subjects and inspired moments.

“My work currently consists of constructing digital works using the Adobe Design Suite of products to make art in layers of colored shapes. The process is similar to how a serigraph is composed of layers of color applied over one another opaque, some transparent. I call this process “Digital Serigraphy”, as the result is a style reminiscent of the “Fruit Crate Art” of the late 1800s. The saturated color, simplicity of composition, and detail- a style that encompasses a “less is more” proposition.”

Sandy Sniffs Crabapple Blossoms

(Columns of Joel Mobius), John Laue Is also a recognized photographer: Images of his have been featured in literary journals and in local and international juried shows. He has created photo essays on many topics including civilization, With five published books of his poetry, and one of prose growth, abandonment, shadows, and reflections.

Photography for me is a gorgeous treasure hunt. When I discover interesting subjects I usually don’t change scenes or insert extraneous elements. My method is similar to collecting “found” poems. You take what’s there. Any magic that exists must be in the selection itself, and the way one captures it.

I admire the philosophy of Wallace Stevens’ poem, “The Man With the Blue Guitar.”
“And that’s life, then: things as they are”,
“A tune beyond us as we are,
Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar.”

Santorini Overlook

Audrey Roth’s aesthetic style is highlighted by picturesque landscapes, portraits, flora, seascapes, and collage compositions. Whether using pastels, watercolors, acrylics, or collage as chosen medium, her painting technique creates velvety surfaces of light and color values. Attending High School of Music and Art and with a degree in Fine Arts from the City College of New York, the seed of her creativity was formed. Retirement from careers in teaching art and packaging sales, and design allowed her to devote herself to her passion for creating art full-time. From 2016 to the present, Audrey‘s work has been exhibited and presented with honors and awards in numerous gallery showings, including solo exhibitions.

Most recently:
Monmouth Museum/Smithsonian “Bias Inside Us” Juried Exhibit-2025
Creative Arts Gallery, Lincroft, NJ, Juried Show-2025
Middlesex County Senior Art Contest-2025
Membership in arts and cultural councils, study groups, and volunteering at Grounds for Sculpture continue to provide resources to motivate and inspire her visual stories on canvas and paper.

It all truly began for me while attending the prestigious High School of Music and Art in New York. A new identity was being nourished, as I was both learning the basics of fine art in all media, while being immersed in art history and stimulated by the talents of fellow students.

I compare myself to a composer or writer as I paint to capture moments that intrigue me. Taking the inspiration and then changing it, I use color as my language. I reimagine a new impression of that memory or image and translate it with values and tones as my tools. Most often, I use pastels, my preferred medium, because they are tactile and can be mixed or blended directly on paper. For me, they offer fewer color boundaries as I try to evoke the tone or mood of the piece, perhaps to create mystery, distance, emotion, or peacefulness.

Art, for me, is a means of expression that elevates my soul. It is a joy that never diminishes and, when recognized by others, grows tenfold.

Sapphire

Abigail Corman is a multidisciplinary artist working across stained glass, sculpture, metal, mixed media, and light. Her practice is rooted in a fascination with transformation and the ways familiar forms can become objects of wonder, contemplation, and reverence.

Working from her studio in Kentucky, Corman combines traditional stained-glass techniques with sculptural construction, copper foil and solder, welded armatures, mixed media, and found materials. Her work ranges from figurative and animal sculptures to intricate glass relics, bas-reliefs, jewelry, and sculptural objects.

Corman’s ongoing body of work, Devotional Objects, explores mythology, literature, symbolism, sacred and ceremonial art, historical objects, and imagined relics. She is particularly drawn to objects that appear to carry a history beyond what can immediately be seen. Through material, texture, craftsmanship, and light, she transforms recognizable subjects into objects that feel simultaneously ancient, unfamiliar, and precious.

Light is an important part of her process and visual language. Her use of stained glass allows an object to continually change depending on illumination, creating a tension between solidity and transparency, fragility and permanence. Recycled glass and discarded materials are frequently incorporated into her work, allowing materials with previous lives to become something new.

Corman’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, universities, juried exhibitions, and art publications. Her sculptures have appeared in exhibitions across multiple states, and her work has been featured internationally in connection with her multidisciplinary practice.

Rather than limiting herself to a single medium, Corman approaches each idea by asking what form it needs to become. Her practice moves freely between sculpture, glass, metal, wearable objects, and other materials, with the underlying goal remaining the same: to make tangible the things that cannot otherwise be held—memory, mythology, devotion, wonder, and imagination.

My work explores transformation, devotion, and the emotional and symbolic power of objects. Working across stained glass, sculpture, metal, mixed media, and light, I create objects that exist somewhere between artifact, sculpture, and imagined relic.

I am fascinated by the moment when something familiar becomes something otherworldly. An animal, a figure, a vessel, or an everyday object can become strange and precious through material, scale, texture, light, and craftsmanship. I am drawn to the feeling that an object might have existed before us—that it may have survived from an unknown history, belonged to another world, or carried a meaning we can sense without fully understanding.

Stained glass is central to my practice, not simply because of its traditional associations with sacred spaces, but because of its ability to transform completely in the presence of light. A piece of glass can appear opaque, fragmented, or almost geological in one moment, then become luminous and jewel-like in another. I use that transformation to explore ideas of wonder, memory, reverence, fragility, and permanence.

My ongoing body of work, Devotional Objects, draws from mythology, literature, sacred and ceremonial objects, archaeological fragments, and the visual language of relics. I am interested in creating objects that feel simultaneously ancient and imagined—things that seem to belong to a story even when the story has never been told.

Sapphire reflects this fascination with transforming the familiar. Constructed from recycled glass, the recognizable form of an animal becomes something more jewel-like and mysterious: a creature that feels discovered rather than simply made. Light moves through its body, changing its presence and revealing details that cannot be seen in the same way from one moment to the next.

Ultimately, I make objects that invite questions rather than provide answers: What was this? Who held it? What did it mean? What world does it belong to? And why does it feel as though it has a story of its own?

Sarah’s Serenity

Emma Laskin started creating figurative and portrait art as a child, producing detailed fashion portraits of girls worldwide. Her love of painting developed in late high school. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Laskin majored in Italian Renaissance Art History, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She also completed intensive coursework in Fine Arts as electives. After college, Laskin worked as the lead research assistant for Professor Howard Gardner, a neuropsychologist at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences made a strong impact on Laskin who came to understand that she possesses a complex integration of visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal intelligence, not simply artistic and emotional “talents”. Laskin then attended medical school at Cornell University Medical College and became a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She often uses the emotional experiences of her patients to inform her portraits.

The submitted oil portrait is Laskin’s visual conceptualizations of the Judeo-Christian Matriarchs–the powerful, yet flawed, heroines of Genesis. Sarah wife of Avraham and the first Matriarch is described as the fair-skinned proselytizer of God’s word. Laskin depicts her in a blue veil to symbolize her serenity and her religious stature (akin to the often blue-clad Madonna in Renaissance art). Sarah looks heavenward to God and not at the viewer. Rebecca depicted wearing a fiery red veil, appears conniving as she plots to help her second-born son Jacob steal his older twin’s birthright from their father Isaac. Rachel, Jacob’s second wife, and true beloved is depicted as young, beautiful, and seemingly happy. She wears a green veil, however, to illustrate that she harbors envy of her elder sister Leah, Jacob’s first wife, who bore him seven children while she, Rachel, remained barren for many years.

Satori

At heart, Pamela Nigro is a risk-taker, adventurer, and explorer. Not only has she walked on the edge of jungles in the Philippine Islands and chanted in Franciscan Monasteries, but she’s also appeared on Broadway stages in the asphalt jungle of New York City.

Her art reflects a narrative about her fascination with human behavior, cultural values, beliefs, and principles. Bold, colorful palettes and a daring, passionate authenticity as well as a distinctively unique perspective make her art captivating and widely sought after. Pamela believes artists are the record keepers and storytellers of mankind, with an opportunity to curate their work depending on the current social climate and direction.

She is committed to using her art to heal, stimulate discussion, open new avenues of thought, give the viewer a profoundly moving experience… and ultimately transport them out of their current reality.

I am a Southern California artist currently exploring the human condition past, present, and future both realistically and abstractly.

My paintings are not only my visceral response to my human experience but also my sentinel of hope, promise, and belief in the vast opportunity for mankind to change, overcome, and heal.

My fascination with human behavior, cultural values, symbology, beliefs, and principles inform my work along with bold, colorful palettes and a daring, passionate authenticity as well as a distinctively different and unique perspective. I see myself as a record keeper and storyteller of human history, curating my artwork depending on the current social climate and cultural direction.

My deepest desire with my art is to stimulate discussion, open new avenues of thought, give the viewer a profoundly moving experience and transport them out of their current reality.

I believe Art is essential to life and can lead us back to ourselves and reconnect us on a primal level. It is one of the ingredients in the primordial soup of Life that feeds us, sustains, heals us and … ultimately will save us.

Save The Earth

Katja Lührs was born in Rochlitz/Germany. Discovered at the age of eighteen by New York fashion photographer Mike Reinhardt and has worked for magazines at home and abroad (including Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Marie Claire, Petra, Stern, Madame, Twen)

As an actress, she appeared in front of the camera for films (including The Woman Without a Body, Robin Hood) and TV series (including Schwarzwaldklinik, Marienhof, Dr. Stefan Frank).

She received her training as an author and journalist at Burda Verlag. She worked as a presenter for ZDF and ARD (public television in Germany. As well as for ORF in Austria with the program “Fun in the Snow”. An art and design training course with ArtTabea Caren. A training course in conversation and hypnosis therapy at the Institut Erhard Freitag Hypnosis Center Munich and a medically certified yoga teacher training at the Institut Scharnagl Munich.

Skydiving training by the Swiss Confederation.

Diving certificate from SSI – Scubaschools International Israel

Shows On Television

Cinema flashback (weekly broadcast on Sat 1-)
Colorful talk show (weekly broadcast on Sat 1-)
Skydiving (40-minute film broadcast worldwide)
Fun in the snow (game show on Sat 1 and ORF)
The beautiful weekend (weekly broadcast on Bavarian television ARD)
Saturday Club (weekly broadcast on Bavarian television ARD)
Abendschau (daily broadcast on Bavarian television ARD)
Bremer Fernsehen Abendschau ARD (daily broadcast)
Bellezze Sulla Neve (weekly game show in winter on ORF as well as in Italy and Spain)
Enzymforum (weekly broadcast on the RTL regional program)
Marriages in court (moderation for 9 years on ZDF)
Music workshop (broadcast quarterly on ZDF)

Design And Moderation

Art – fashion – and jewelry design – 3 years of training at ArtTabea Caren
Jewelry design for RTL Group and HSE24. The programs were called: “Katja Lührs Design” and “Katja Lührs Classic”

Author

Book: “Viva Veggie” (Hans – Nietsch – Verlag) Nutrition guide with CD-Rom to optimize your personal menu contains the favorite recipes of celebrities such as Kim Basinger, Paul McCartney, Martina Navratilova
Book: “Smoothie – Fit” Healthy Eating (Hans – Nietsch – Verlag)

Exhibitions

Gallery of the Creative Company Madrid and Munich – ARTHOUSE Munich – ARTBOX World 1.0 – The Hub Munich – ARTBOX Barcelona – Galerie Azur Brussels – ART MUC Munich – Discovery Artfair Frankfurt – ARTe Wiesbaden – Los Angeles ART LAB – Johnathan Schultz Gallery Miami – PAVOT Gallery Bucharest – Venice Biennale – ARTBOX Zurich – Cover in the art magazine “ARTPROFIL” in November 2020 as well as pages in the magazine – ARTBOX World 2021 with the image “farbenklang”, awarded as a finalist and 3 times as a semifinalist – ITSLIQUID Group (ITS) winner of the Artist of the Year 2022/2023.

ITSLiquid Group (ITS) Artist of the Year 2022 and 2023 – Winner Circle Arts 2023 – Harmony for Humanity the Global Consciousness Art Prize 2023 – Winner Collectors Art Prize Planet Future 2023 – Artbox World Winner 2020 – 2021 – 2022 with the painting „Color Sound – Summerdreams – Save the Earth – Blue Night Fog – Rainbow and Moments and 2 Covers in the ART Magazine „ARTPROFIL“ November 2020 and August 2023.

The variety of colors and shapes of flowers, trees, and leaves has fascinated me since I was a child. The power of the sun and its play with light and shadow in nature are characterized by: “grace – the joy of life – confidence – peace and serenity”. With pictures, you can capture the beauties of nature. Because what you love, you also protect. That’s why my motto for my pictures is: “Save the earth”.