At The Mirror
Prof. Galina V. Volkova is a multidisciplinary artist and mathematician born in Lugansk, currently Lugansk People’s Republic, Russia. Her dual gifts comprised a passion for Fine Arts and Science. She graduated with an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the School of Mathematics at Kharkov University (founded in 1803 as Imperial Kharkov University of South-East of Russia) and completed doctoral studies in Foundations of Mathematics (Axiom of Choice by Ernst Zermelo and Continuum Hypothesis). During her student years, she participated in the Exchange Abroad Program at Halle University, Halle-Saale, Wittenberg in Germany. She worked at the Space Science Laboratory, Radio-Physics Department of Kharkov University and Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and the Office of the President of the University of California. Currently, she is teaching various courses in Mathematics, Computer Sciences, and Fine Arts at university (California State University at Chico), college (City College of San Francisco, Marin College, and St. Mary’s College), and high school level (Red Bluff High School).
She had been exposed to Fine Art since her childhood at the Museum of Fine Arts in her hometown of Lugansk, inherited drawing skills from her father, studied techniques from various Russian and American artists, and got a formal education in Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2014, she has been an exhibiting artist at the Pleasanton Art League (Museum-on-Main and Harrington Art Gallery in Pleasanton and Aspen Art Gallery in Walnut Creek, California), Livermore Art Association, Fremont Art Association, and Tehama County Arts Council (Main Event Gallery and TCAC Gallery and ArtWalk Festivals in Red Bluff, California). In 2022-2023, she completed the online Artist-in-Residence Program ‘Artist on Standby’ at Belgrade Art Studio, Belgrade, Serbia. In 2023, her mixed media painting titled “Bon Voyage” was selected for the “Love-2023” Art Exhibit by biafarin.com Toronto, Canada. Since 2017, her Art Studio has been established in Red Bluff, No. California. Her paintings could be found at the G7 Art Studio (No. California) and in private collections nationwide (including California, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Utah, Oregon, New Jersey, and Texas) and in Western Europe (Germany and Italy).
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My art is based on the trilateral unity of the concepts of hope, harmony, and humanity as a spiritual foundation of art. Hope is the necessary condition for any creation to belong to the category of art. Harmony is a balance of the artist’s inspiration and materialized on canvas as a result of effort. Humanity reflects on our eternal search for the truth and healing through improvement. Art in all its manifestations should serve the self-knowledge of man’s purpose, as I believe, and implement it as a credo in my artwork.
Currently, I am working – among other things – on the augmentation of a dancing silhouette collection focusing on Anna Pavlova’s art and images. Pavlova is an appealing subject not only because of her great professional contribution to human achievements but also because of her individuality. As Victor Dandre, her friend, husband, and impresario, indicated in his book “Anna Pavlova in Art & Life”, it’s a combination of her qualities such as wisdom, intelligence, intuition, faith, and “extra-ordinarily child-like nature”. Those are steps to a hard labor habit raised to a degree of professionalism to manifest perfectionism in a non-perfect world.
At The Red Window II
Born as Angelika Classen in 1959 in Heinsberg, Germany
An artist since childhood. Self-taught training and continuous work, especially in the creation of portraits, all free time is used for drawing and painting 2001 marriage (against the initial resistance of the family) with the artist Leon Daemen.
Regular studio exhibitions with Leon Daemen about every two years.
Membership in NABK (Nationale Associatie voor Beeldend Kunstenaars)
Inclusion in the NABK yearbooks in 2013 and 2020
Article in ArtisSpectrum, New York 2009
2009 Exhibition in New York, Agora Gallery
Article in Realism magazine Edition 2010/11
Publication of the book “Portrait Painting” Boekscout 2011
Exhibition in s’Hertogenbosch with Leon Daemen, new place Art Gallery 2014
Exhibition Terpkerk Urmond 2016 with Leon Daemen
Exhibition in museum van de vrouw, Echt in 2107
widowed since 2018
Exhibition together with works by Leon Daemen, Terpkerk Urmond 2019
Publication of the book “Peyer Psalmen” 2018
Publication of the book “Winterfarben” 2019
2019
Entry of the artist’s name in the identity card
2020
Nomination in the Jan Mankes art competition
Acquisition of the picture “Approaching Joseph Beuys” by the Beuys archive.
Participation in the Limburg Biënnale, Maastricht
2021
Participation in the exhibition:
Brabantse prijs voor de rooms-katholieke schilderkunst in Aarle Rixtel
Member of KC 61 (kunstcorridor 61)
2021 August -September group exhibition with KC 61 in Urmond (Terpkerk)
2021 September – October group exhibition with KC 61 in Roermond (Achterhuis)
2022 October – group exhibition with KC 61 in Rolduc
2022 October – Weekend van het Portret, Nederlandse Portretprijs
2023 April – Atelier op Tafel Museum Valkenburg
For a long time, I haven’t been aware of why I was drawing and painting at all. I understood later that it had to come from an impulse that also kept me alive in a way. I don’t have any other motivation than to follow my innermost thoughts and feelings. I am often drawn to the representation of silence and of people who seem vulnerable (including myself). While drawing I like to follow the movements of dancers or acrobatic performances.
I am against activism in art.
What I do: making art on impulse, representing something that moved me, in my material, my lines, my forms, my colors, sometimes not figurative, and yet finding a form for the emotion, or mostly figurative, accepting only activism in this sense, namely to protect my own identity.
At The Sea
I grew up along the California coast and natural elements have always been an influence on my expression through art.
As a child, I won a Save the Bay art contest creating a collage of a girl fishing bottles from a boat, using scraps of painted paper, real sand, and a real doll bottle. My next art experience wasn’t. I took a painting elective in college from Bay Area artist Frank Lobdell. It was through his teaching style, that I realized the freedom of expression available through art and particularly through paint. With the simple words keep painting and no other critique, Lobdell‘s influence has kept me painting as an adult.
I like to paint colors, light, texture, and layers. I use acrylic paint, oil pastels, natural objects, and photography. It is always an impression or an expression. My art does not fit a category. In fact, I have a strong dislike of boxes and was drawn to painting as a place to just be.
My paintings are mainly about my feelings in relation to the environment, so it is not surprising that I am able to paint how summer feels to me. My series “Dreams of A Girl” started during the beginning of the Covid pandemic. I was painting large canvases in a sun-filled backyard during my lunch breaks. My shadow kept creeping into the canvases as I painted, varying in size and shape depending on the time of day. I begin to play more and more with my paintings and my shadow figures’ movements: reaching, standing, walking, bending, and dancing. I am an emotive artist and painting is a way for me to be transported to another world; I felt even more transported with my shadow becoming a part of my art.
Atardecer
Luminar, the stage name of Alessia Rampoldi, was born into color, raised among the vibrant and lively art of her father and the biting curiosity of her mother, who has always taught her to let art be the means of expression of her true self.
The artist studied architecture in Milan and Santiago de Chile and, after some work experience in both countries, in 2021 she specialized in musicalization, exhibit design, and architecture for archaeology, receiving a special mention for the Master’s thesis, developed together with her design team, on the rearrangement of the Acropolis of Athens entitled Kenós. The nature of the void.
Her strong passion for art has always been cultivated in parallel with her studies and was significantly influenced by her education and the fundamental teaching to pursue beauty in all its forms in the complex reality of everyday life.
She has always drawn, as long as she can remember, alternating pencil, ink, and watercolors. She has always loved playing and experimenting with colors and shades, but it was in March 2022 that she discovered for the first time the acrylic technique at a time when painting was not just an exercise or a wish, but a need, an essential urge to transfer on canvas a huge tangle of emotions through large gestures and to translate it into dense brushstrokes of thick color.
Her art has been shown in collective exhibitions in Milan, Rome, Paris, and Berlin, her work is represented by the German branch of Galeria Azur and some of her paintings have been featured in the 2023 Spring campaign of British Vogue, Vanity Fair UK, House and Garden and The World of Interiors.
It is all about colors. My paintings are a collection of memories, people, places, and emotions.
Atgets Paris Flore
Karen Safer, a native Angelino, is an internationally exhibited, award-winning photographic artist and poet with a musical bent. Her passion for art began when given a camera and crayons at age three and was immersed in California’s visual language. A lifelong traveler, she has explored over 230+ countries & territories, embracing both the exotic and the unexpected. Influenced by her father’s black-and-white photography and her mother’s insatiable curiosity for knowledge and travel, her inspirations range from ancient Assyria to the conceptual works of Cindy Sherman. She began as a painter before discovering photography in college, earning a master’s degree in art (UCLA & CSULB) and building a career in design and architecture.
With 14 solo exhibitions and participation in over 710 shows, she has received more than 610 awards, including the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, PISPA, TIFA, reFocus, and Exposure One. Her work has been featured in 180+ publications, such as LENS, Dodho, ArtTalk, ArtTour, One Eyeland, and Spotlight. She has exhibited in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Venice, Florence, Barcelona, Budapest, Dubai, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo, Zurich, New York, and Los Angeles. Her work is held in numerous collections, and she is a member of many organizations, including LAAA (825 Gallery), LACP, etc. A self-described “romantic old soul” with intellectual cravings, she navigates the digital world while remaining deeply connected to art’s timeless essence. She embraces color but venerates black and white, realistic and abstract.
“I am a ‘romantic old soul’ with intellectual cravings now living in a Digital World.”kjs
I’ve always been an artist. My passion for art and photography began early in my teens. I embrace the natural world and man-made as well. I am influenced by everything from the ancients to Cindy Sherman, and while I embrace color, I revere black and white, realistic and abstract. I am a student of the universe, history, art, architecture, music, literature, and all the arts.
I got a camera and some crayons as a kid,
journeyed along a path in life – far from what I’d expected,
moved from youth to middle age,
did some work, had some fun, got high, got low,
and just continue doing it – never tiring of the next visual surprise.
– Life is still a mystery, after all. – kjs
My Motos: “A photographer has the whole world, big or small, to capture.” kjs
“And, wherever I am in the world, it is my favorite place!!” kjs
Athlete At Rest
I am a figurative painter who was taught by abstract artists and that marriage is present in all my work. Growing up in Queens, NYC, the daughter of a commercial artist, I studied figure drawing at the Arts Student League under Isaac Soyer from ages 11-13. I received a BA in fine arts from Yale University, working with Robert Reed and Bernie Chaet (my self-portrait is published in his book, The Art of Drawing, 3RD Edition), and got my MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington, where I taught Josef Albers’ Color Theory class as part of my fellowship.
After graduate school I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, teaching drawing, painting, and color theory and participating in graduate student critiques, and afterward lived and exhibited in Chicago. I also taught figure drawing and foundation drawing at Moorpark College, a Ventura County Community College in California, as well as teaching figure drawing, collage, and color theory at the Arts Council of Princeton, in Princeton, NJ. Currently, I work in an artist’s collective in Hopewell, NJ, where the local scenery has crept into my repertoire of images.
I believe my own art education from such distinguished abstract artists as Robert Reed, in concert with an early rooting in – and love for – working from the human figure have combined to form my own distinctive narrative style of making art. Among my artistic inspirations and influences, I count such great historical painters as El Greco, Goya, and Manet, Ensor and Munch, and Beckmann, and among more recent artists, Freud, De Kooning, Colescott, Guston, Murray, and Bosman. These artists conceptualized the horrors and tragedies of our world with a sense of humor and humanity, which is my goal as well.
Whether in the form of paintings, prints, or drawings/gouaches, my work always centers on the use of the human body as an expressive tool. This is a natural extension of my skills as someone who has both studied and taught figure drawing for many years, but also underlies humanistic themes in my content, which often address such ideas as power imbalances, relationships, and our existence in nature. Thus the structure of the body, still or in motion, serves as the building block of my compositions, and even my landscapes are conceptualized in terms of bodies or body parts, as in many early creation myths, with clouds, for instance, acting as a kind of Greek Chorus to the figurative narrative.
Women are particularly important as players in my narratives, struggling to wrest themselves from defined cultural roles in search of agency and power, as in the Crazy Jane paintings (inspired by the Yeats poems) and my study after Two Witches (by Balding). In my prints, physically flamboyant clowns become channels for the frustration of social inequity, violence, and unfairness, e.g., Grief and pleading, and also as metaphors for dysfunction within bodies of power, e.g., Politics. In the print, Partisan, a person’s uncomfortable and unpopular stance on what they consider unjust makes them into a modern-day St. Sebastian, the target of many arrows, their body cruelly violated.
For me, then, every painting, print, and drawing is an essential means of emotionally and intellectually understanding the confusion and tragedy of the world via narrative re-telling, or, visually speaking, a re-composing. And if that re-telling has poetic rhythm, and compelling figures in which we can see ourselves and our own foibles, catharsis can be achieved. It’s an idea that again, goes back to classical art and poetry and centuries-old stories of creation.
Atomic Blonde II
The beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for her entrance into the field of photography. Joanne began vigorously studying photography and other art arenas to hone her skills as a visual artist. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Fine Art (MFA). She is now a full-time artist.
In addition to color and black and white film, Joanne shoots digitally employs the techniques of infrared imaging, and enjoys creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. As an extension of photography, she has branched out to do videos and has a YouTube Channel, THE VIDEO ART OF JOANNE CHASE-MATTILLO. Along with nature, Joanne frequently photographs female and male subjects in fun-themed studio shoots.
Joanne has exhibited throughout California, nationally, in Korea, France and England, Switzerland, Scotland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Brazil, Dubai, and Italy. Her work has also been selected for Lunar Codex, a very special project partnered with SpaceX to deliver the images of art in a time capsule to be permanently affixed to the surface of the moon, selected by Era Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of “Legends Of The Moon”.
As a photographer, I am constantly in search of iconic imagery. The craftsmanship and perfection of classic Hollywood cinema have always been an inspiration and goal I seek to achieve in my photography. While enjoying the technology of the present and how that has enhanced photography, I am very drawn to recreate photographs that reference the best of the past. It is my intent that the viewer of the images I create will be taken out of the everyday present to a magical place where at any time they would dream of going. Whether photographing people or nature, I strive to honor the best and beauty of all that I have an opportunity to capture with my camera.
Summer days are the dream moments of the year that are looked forward to in dreary seasons. The beach, pool, lakes, and oceans draw all to embrace the sun and beat the heat. When we think of summer, we embrace all that the warmth of the sun brings.
Audrey Hepburn
S. P. Harper studied art at the American University in Paris, France with Paul Jenkins, the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Art (BFA), and ArtCenter in Pasadena, California. After spending 12 years in New York City, she returned to Los Angeles to teach and practice eco-centric art.
Exhibiting internationally, work is included in Neutra Institute Museum, Autry Southwest Museum, Audubon Center, Museum of Modern Art: Yerevan, Romania, Irvine Fine Arts Center, and MOAH, Museum of Art & History. She has exhibited at The Living Room Gallery, W Hotel Hollywood, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, California, and Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
Awards include COCA2020 Finalist: COCA Center for Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy; First Place: Irvine Fine Arts Center 3D Art Exhibition, Irvine, California; “Water Works” Certificate of Achievement Huntington Beach Art Center, California; “Artavita” Certificate of Excellence; ArtSlant Prize Showcase; “Artvoices Magazine 10th Anniversary Gallery Guide” Featured Artist; Special Recognition Category: Light, Space & Time Art Gallery.
Published in 101 Contemporary Artists: Artvoices Art Books, Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, London, UK, Issue 10: The Undertaking: Full Blede Magazine, Voyage LA/Los Angeles Magazine, “ArtCenter Dot” Magazine and Los Angeles Art Association Book Volume II.
Teaches art at American Jewish University, Alexander Hamilton & Los Angeles High School, Belmont Retirement Community, and lectures for LA Guest Artist Series.
In the collection of Mandy & Cliff Einstein, Glorya Kaufman, Gayle Garner Roski, TAM: Torrance Art Museum, Malibu City Hall, and South Bay Contemporary Gallery.
Eliciting desire. What is it? Who creates it?
Part of eco-centric art, aka neo-materialism, I paint and construct abstract geometric positive images using reclaimed materials, synthesizing historical and contemporary styles by mixing the classical tradition of still-life painting with modernism. Through reforming and re-employing materials, my work reduces, reuses, and up-cycles. Background recycled surfaces disappear behind opaque paint rendering to revive a dead surface into an image of life. Delicate petals and leaves emerge to restore a forgotten and forlorn canvas retrieved from a demolition site to inspire and transfix.
A nosegay is an odorous fresh flower bouquet very popular in Victorian times. It was used to regale the scene of smell. They were made famous in the iconic image of Audrey Hepburn selling nosegays in her role as Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady. Using diverse media such as discarded wallpaper, curtains, newspaper, tablecloth, poster, canvas, lath, and plaster, what begins as refuse is repurposed by transforming base materials into noble objects. Focusing on the intersection of rummage flotsam and object d’art, showing how materials change from valuable to worthless and back to valuable again, my painting and sculpture explore layers and levels of reality. What begins as a bit of refuse is repurposed to acquire consideration, and therefore desirable.
Aufbruch
Manuela Eibensteiner – born 1968 in Austria. She lives and works in Freistadt (Upper Austria) atelier ART-ME.
Her great passion, painting, began at a young age. The fascination of the colors, and their expressiveness captivated her, in addition to the activity as a tourism specialist, a steadily growing artistic curiosity developed. Dealing with a wide variety of materials, playing with color and light impressions with glaze technique in representational, impressionistic, and sometimes fantastic representation. Encounters with trees, stones, and people influence the painterly processing of these impressions.
The urge for more knowledge led her to numerous courses and art studies, with artist friends, where she was able to acquire a wide variety of techniques: from the “old craft” of reverse glass painting, and hollow glass painting to working with oil, acrylic, and charcoal on a wide variety of surfaces (paper, wood, cardboard, canvas, fabric, leather …) She thinks about how to capture nature in pictures. Surrounded by the beautiful Mühlviertel, she draws strength and inspiration from nature and love for their family and friends. Here in Freistadt she works in her studio and looks forward to numerous visitors from home and abroad.
Manuela Eibensteiner’s artistic journey is a testament to the power of creativity, authenticity and perseverance. Her ability to unite the energies of nature and imagination, coupled with her unwavering commitment to her craft, has helped her gain international recognition. As an artist who dreams of connecting people through her art and leaving a lasting legacy of unity and joy, Manuela’s journey is an inspiration to anyone who wants to make a name for themselves in the world of art.