Sun Shield
Paul Delpani is an artist from Vienna, Austria. Born in 1966.
Austria is a place of tradition and art, which is surrounding you everywhere. It is this special environment that gave rise to Paul Delpanis’s career. Always keen on understanding and questioning circumstances, ambience, and interconnectedness he focuses on photography and digital media to depict all this.
In a combination of analytic and procedural methods and with the eagerness to find a stylistic experimentation Paul Delpani researches the potential of photography, starting from alternative processes to digital painting. Trained in processes he uses photography conceptionally, mainly thinking in series giving meaning.
He exhibits since 2000, concentrating on international exhibitions since 2016, and took part in various Group and Solo exhibitions internationally and nationally, such as Texas, New York, London, Scotland, Bangkok, Budapest, Venice, Nice (France) but also Vienna.
Participation in photo festivals in Spain and Vienna, Honorable mentions, and prizes in competitions. His artwork is also represented in collections in Europe and in print media.
All artwork is Ed 5 + AP and available on different materials on request.
Home – an ambiguous thing: safe harbor and trouble area at the same time. Warm welcome or denial? It depends on us how to interpret.
My artwork is showing places that are home to somebody, entrances, and invitations in an area of tourist interest – Venice, Italy. Photos taken on passing by – seldom anybody around even if crowded by people.
Sundancing
Gregory Kessler has spent his career drawing and teaching students how to “see” the environment through drawing. For Kessler, the pencil epitomizes the natural linkages between paper, fingers, arms, and the mind. The pencil has unlimited potential, and through each drawing, Kessler seeks to discover new possibilities.
Through drawing, he seeks to express unique perspectives of myths, terrains, vegetation, and places. His work seeks to instill inquisitiveness and curiosity and is inspired by travels to unique places, as well as experiences discovered in everyday places.
With both a global and local perspective, Kessler’s work has resulted in a career devoted to art and design. His teaching portfolio includes well over fifty design studios at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In his career, he has brought design education to over 2,000 students. Kessler holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California.
Kessler’s work investigates, myths, terrains, vegetation, and places. Each explores the intersection between environment and experience. Impermanence, where all phenomena are interdependent is the basis of his work.
The Myth series provides fanciful narratives. “Sundancing” explores traditional subjects, overlaid with incongruences.
Sunflowers have their origin in Greek Mythology. They inherently illicit joy always bringing a smile to our day. Those qualities are expressed through the dancing figures occupying the disc florets.
Sunday Afternoon In Wales
Babler’s work has been juried into: The Boston Printmakers 2026 North American Print Biennial”; 2026 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 115th Juried National Exhibition; 91st National Exhibition – 2026, Cooperstown NY, “Spatial” MFA juried exhibition; GALEX 59 National Exhibition 2026; 38th September Competition Juried Exhibit at Alexandria Museum of Art; “After Dark 2025” and “Reflecting 2025”– Maryland Federation of Art; 38th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition; “In the City” exhibit juror Christina Gomez (Art Institute Chicago); North American Print Biennial juror Elizabeth M. Rudy (Associate Curator of Prints Harvard Art Museums, Boston); Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial juror Pamela Hugdahl (Rochester Art Center); Rockford Art Museum Biennial Juried Exhibit of Contemporary Artists; Amanda C. Burdan (Associate Curator – Brandywine River Museum of Art); Christiane Paul (Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art); Felice Frankel (Science photographer/research scientist); Malcolm Daniel (Curator of Photographs – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC); Kenneth Baker (Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle); William Lieberman, Director of Zolla/Lieberman Gallery – Chicago; Annette Carlozzi (Sr. Curator Blanton Museum of Art); Dr. Jefferson Harrison (Chief Curator Chrysler Museum of Art); Charlotta Kotik (Curator of Contemporary Art Brooklyn Museum of Art); David Houston (Chief Curator –Ogden Museum of Southern Art); Dr. Russell Panczenko (Museum of Art, Madison Wisconsin); Siri Engberg (Walker Art Center); Stephen Phillips (Phillips Collection – Washington DC); Sam Gilliam; and Ed Paschke.
A Ragdale Residency Fellow, a juried member of the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts-In-Education Roster, and she has exhibited at Northwestern University, Concordia University, Rockford Art Museum, and the Alexandria Museum of Art. She was a fine art consultant for Grumbacher/Prismacolor, along with developing a program for Blick Art. Her artwork is in corporate, university, and private art collections.
Summer is a time to relax and enjoy sunny days and long nights. It is a time to unwind with friends and family. The colors of summer are intense, and the memories made are just as bright. A day sitting and picnicking in a lovely botanical garden defies the clock. A day at the beach is full of color and fun. My submissions reflect memories of summer fun and travel.
Sunday Morning
I am a self-taught amateur artist. In 2018 found I had a talent and passion for painting when I tried to help a friend with a disability through art. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I do.
We wake up on Sunday morning, after a long work week to the smell of fresh coffee. We sit in peace sipping as the morning sun warms our spirits.
Sunday Morning
After having spent a decade in Greenwich Village where Kelly, and a group of close compadres, discovered “performance art” (when she first combined visual art & poetry), she then relocated to Northport, NY, and immersed herself in live poetry, visual art, and acting. Some publications include a full-length book of poetry “Barking at Sunspots”, “On Maxwell Street”, “Bards Annual”, “Grabbing the Apple (an anthology”), “Long Island Sounds (an anthology)”, “XANADU”, “Paumanok: Poems & Pictures of Long Island (an anthology)”, numerous small chapbooks and inclusion in many small press publications (“DICO,” “Voices International”, “AITIA, etc.). Kate has worked as a visual artist with other poets (a published book “ENTER”) and collaborated with other poets and musicians (e.g. David Amram on the CD “Northport Celebrates Jack”). She was honored to be awarded “New York State Woman of Distinction in the Arts” (2003). Kelly has been fortunate to have exhibited in many art exhibits, both group and solo, involved in organizing multi-media events (Sundays @ 7), was a member of the Bare Bones acting group, “performed” her poetry in many venues, was one of the founders of the Northport Arts Coalition and served as their first co-chair. She has served as a curator of shows for the Art League of Long Island and the Northport Arts Coalition. Recent visual art exhibits from 2020 – 2023 include curated group shows “Out of Isolation”, “Paradoxical Paradigms”, “Forever Young”, “We’ve Gone Wild”, “Artist’s Choice (an invitational)”, “Blue”, “Flower Power”, “Home’, “Abstract is Abstract”, “Summer Feels”, “Kingdom Animalia” (an international group exhibit), “Lights, Shadows, Reflections”, “Paper, Paint and Pixels” (2-person show) and solo exhibits, “a show of wanderings” and “New Works”.
After spending many years working in different media, i.e. traditional darkroom photography, oil/acrylic painting, sculpture (welding, wood, etc.), and most often a combination of all these approaches, I was introduced to using the computer as yet another tool to express myself, to share my vision of the world. The discovery of what it offered in the way of new approaches to creating my work, intrigued and excited me. I was afforded the tools that supplanted and/or enhanced other tools that I had been working with, and in altogether new & inspiring ways, the possibilities opened up an unexplored and most challenging world. As art progresses, innovative and exciting tools become available, and, as an artist, I am always curious, always experimenting and embracing different techniques to further my end as an artist, which is my attempt to communicate with the outside world. Attached are recent works that display the many artists that have profoundly influenced the direction of my work = Klee, Miro, Picasso, Pollock, Kandinsky, and the graffiti work I saw on the walls in Manhattan in the 1980s.
Sunday Morning
Cher Pruys, ASAA SCA, IGOR, AAPL, CSAA, AMS, LMS, OSA, MAA, CFA, NOAPS, PSOA, AWA., AAOA.
“To take my inner visions with my hands and create a work of art for you the viewer… That is the ultimate in self-expression.”
Cher Pruys was born in Regina. Over the years she lived in many places including Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Fort Frances, settling into her present home in Devlin, on the banks of the Rainy River with her husband Mark, 4 dogs, and 2 cats.
By age three, Cher was seldom found without a drawing tool in hand. She worked in pencil, charcoal, and ink over the years, until, she picked up a paintbrush at the age of 35. Beginning with oil paints, she found her chosen mediums in acrylic, watercolor, and gouache.
Although self-taught, her dedication and talent have seen her work juried into 558 International exhibits, as well as exhibits in numerous non-juried shows. She has won 885 awards for her work in the International Juried Exhibits.
Her work has graced the covers of 3 books, and 37 magazines, including The Best Of Acrylic Fall 2021, the cover of the May 2022 Arabella Magazine, #20 Hyperrealism Magazine with “Girls Girls Girls”, & #21 with “The Young Cowboy”, & the latest, Artists & Illustrators March 2024. She has been featured in over 368 International publications. Cher’s works have found a permanent home in private and public collections worldwide.
I am a self-taught artist working in water-based mediums, mainly acrylic, but also at times gouache and watercolor. I am a hyperrealism painter fascinated by the world around me. I am very drawn to shiny surfaces as well as transparent objects, especially when the lighting brings them to life. I look for beauty in everyday objects that most people take for granted or just don’t truly see as they are. The seemingly boring and mundane subjects can truly be like magnets if portrayed in the right light. The shiny metal is one of those materials that can host endless visions….the light hits it and the reflections are captured on the smooth, sleek surface…people and animals especially the eyes…an artist’s dream! My future art plans are to paint the countless subjects I have chosen to become paintings and to share my art with as many people as I can.
“To take my inner visions with my hands and create a work of art for you the viewer… That is the ultimate in self-expression.”
Sunday Picnic In Spring
Anthony Siradakis, a contemporary artist using action painting methods to tell stories through color, was born in Bay City, Michigan in 1985. He studied at Central Michigan University and the College of William & Mary, receiving graduate degrees at both institutions. Currently, he splits his time living and working in his studios in Michigan and Virginia.
The color goes beyond description, conveying thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences. For years I have tried to leverage color; its countless mixtures, combinations, and hues, to represent personal stories of the past and hopeful events of the future. The juxtaposition of lights and darks, thick and thin, and paleness and richness, allows me, as an artist, to express dramatic moments caught in time, represented through brush strokes on canvas.
Sunday Solitude
Mabelin Castellanos (Mabela) is a self-taught artist living and working in Miami Beach, Florida.
She was a Scientist for more than thirty years and she loved every minute of it. In 2015 her career ended due to neurological issues. It was a long recovery and creating Art played an enormous part in her healing process.
She stitches snapshots of everyday scenes. The colors and patterns of the fabric pieces often give inspiration for what she draws on top of them.
Her work has had an excellent reception, which has made her known to the Art Community and has made possible the exhibit of her quilts in Art Galleries across the country.
I stitch stories, creating quilted paintings without paint but using thread and clothes. I quilt imagined scenarios or scenes into vignettes that offer sentiments and questions for the viewer to ponder.
Sunflower Cowgirl
Michelle Magnus Brown was born in California and raised on the island of Kauai. During her teenage years, she spent time in Southern California and then in New Mexico. After graduating from high school, she studied graphic design at Santa Barbara City College with an art scholarship, then completed her degree in fine arts at Eastern Oregon University.
After university, Michelle relocated to Fort Collins, CO, and worked in graphic design and showed her paintings in several area galleries.
After 21 years in Colorado, Michelle moved to Northern California, where she currently resides in the Bay Area with her husband. With both kids grown and off on their own, Michelle is able to take a brush to canvas and consistently create new work. She often blurs the lines between graphic design and fine art. Nature and a deep curiosity about the motivations of society are the two main themes in her work.
THE WALL
What is “fine art,” and what is worth putting on a wall? Should it be purely beautiful, or should it ask questions of the viewer? What gives it the right to be on the wall in the first place?
My latest work intentionally blurs the lines and methods of commercial art with “fine art.” This latest evolution in my work was probably to be expected since my career has spanned years in the world of graphic design. “Fine art” was something I was taught to keep separate. But recently I began merging graphic compositions onto my canvas or board, then painting into them with acrylics. The slick look of graphics with the organic look and feel of brush strokes and paint creates a pleasurable and unexpected tension in the work.
This new fusion applies to a specific subject matter that is figurative with provocative messaging. It questions what it means to be a woman, and as such, an icon. It tests the waters of pop with that of nature and tradition. Some viewers may think it shouldn’t be on the wall in the living room….or should it?