Bird Perched In Pink Flowers
I am an emerging artist, working primarily in photography. I currently live and work in Eugene, Oregon. I grew up in the small town of Sweet Home, Oregon. I loved living out in the country. That is where my love of animals and beautiful landscapes started. I have always loved art and being creative. When I was younger I would write stories, draw, and paint. I remember when I was young sitting on the steps of my back porch using watercolors to paint the beautiful sunset. I have always felt like I had an eye for design and as I got older really became interested in interior decorating as a way to express myself and my love of art and composition. During COVID I was wanting to find something that I could do at home that would be creative and make me feel happy. I started really wanting to get into photography and that is when my husband bought me a camera for our anniversary. I wanted a camera that could take great pictures of birds, have a good built-in zoom lens, and also be able to capture pictures of the moon. So, my husband surprised me with a Nikon P950 camera last summer. That is when I discovered my passion for photography. I love taking photographs of animals and scenery. I want my photographs to evoke the same sense of joy and happiness in those who view them as they do for me. Being able to share my art and love for nature is a dream come true.
I am an emerging artist, working primarily in photography. I currently live and work in Eugene, Oregon. I discovered my passion for photography a few summers ago and love taking photographs of animals and scenery. I want my photographs to evoke the same sense of joy and happiness in those who view them as they do for me. Being able to share my art and love for nature is a dream come true.
Birth (Or Just Another Monday)
Alana Bigos (b. 2001, Vermont) is a multimedia artist. She works with painting, crochet, and ceramics. By crossing the respected art form of painting with the overlooked women’s craft of crocheting, Alana amplifies the mediums’ meticulous and time-consuming nature and draws a connection between the dedication both require. Crocheting is reminiscent of ritual, the way it is repetitive and happens continuously over time. It works on a three-dimensional set of layers, which is something that machines simply cannot do. Human connection, specifically between women, is the center of her work. Alana just graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in painting and ceramics.
My work explores the complex realities of womanhood. Showing strength and vulnerability through a multidisciplinary blend of painting, sculpture, and textile. I often contrast soft fibers with rigid materials, creating a tactile intimacy that holds both protection and exposition. These pieces are at once deeply personal and universally relevant, offering space for contemplating the tension between visibility and concealment. Like the act of crafting, womanhood is a continual process of shaping, enduring, and resilience. Ultimately, my work invites reflection on the emotional and physical performances women are expected to maintain, while honoring the quiet, often unseen labor of becoming.
Birthing / New Earth Series
Dorothea Ney’s abstract paintings present themselves as a playful symphony of colors. Thanks to her travels and different living conditions she has learned to blend the different experiences into her own abstract expressionist style. Light flows and moves through shifting pastel color fields over the canvas, and boundaries of form are dissolved. Dorothea Ney’s imaginary places enwrap the viewer in a harmonious impression of peace and beauty.
BA Academy of Fine Arts, Bremen, DE
Several works in private and corporate collections in Germany, Austria, Estonia, the US
Lived and worked as a visual artist in Berlin, DE – Installation-Performance-Sculpture –
Grant of Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin, DE
Grant of the Cultural Senate of Berlin, DE
Artist in residence Castle of Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg, DE
Moved to NM in 2000/ garden business until 2021
Works as an expressionist painter in NM
2023/ Group Shows
“Joy”, Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM
“Spirituality”
“Precious”
“Inspirations”
“Earth”
2024
“The Sky Above”
“Flow”, Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art
“Connections”, HMVC Gallery, NY
“Wax-On-Wax-In”, Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM
“Vibrant Landscapes”, Red Buff Gallery
As an expressionist painter in NM, I work with acrylics, oil colors, and crayons. My paintings weave together the softer colors and light in my homeland Germany with the bolder colors and the intense light in NM. Both opposites feed into my works creating imaginary landscapes and translating the beauty and energetics of the natural world into an abstract composition of color and movement. Light flows and moves through shifting pastel color fields on the canvas, and boundaries of form are dissolved.
Birthing New Ideas
Karen Sachs has been a passionate artist since she was a young girl, using her creative talent to discover and portray beauty in the world around her. Armed with grit, determination, and passion, she has brought her art across America and won numerous awards in recognition of her sparkling vision. By drawing on her emotions and allowing them to explode onto the canvas, Karen unleashes powerful truths that words cannot channel. Through her art, she builds a personal sanctuary – a place where she can feel safe, comfortable, and at peace – providing eternal delight for both herself and all who observe it.
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, feeling 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!
Bishop Canyon
The world of photography and the world of the natural wonders of the Sierra Nevada opened to Don Jacobson simultaneously. The photographs he took with his little Kodak Brownie were woefully inadequate to express the grandeur of the Range of Light. Within a week of his first backpack trip into the high country, he bought his first SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic, and began to take photography classes. While living in Los Angeles, he studied photography with Edmund Teske at UCLA for a year.
He is currently a member of the Portland Photographers Forum and the Interim Group, a critique group originally formed by the influential photographer Minor White. Many of his photographs have won awards, been published in well-respected photographic magazines, the Sierra Club calendar, and exhibited nationally.
I see the world differently now. The camera, which narrows the field of vision, has actually expanded my vision. When I realized I was viewing reality as if it were a series of photographs, I initially questioned that perspective. Now, I know my perception is enhanced and enriched from my pursuit of photography. An already dynamic and interesting world has become more so.
I am delighted by the quality of light, vibrancy of color, and unexpected and often unnoticed detail. The stunning structure of an orchid, the intricate ornamentation on an older building, or dishes stacked in a dish drainer are fascinating to me. Abstractions and patterns are richer and invite investigation. My subject matter is limitless. Anything that appeals to my eye is fair game for my camera.
Black Lives Matter
Ann Chwatsky is a photographer and educator, at New York University for many years, who has exhibited in many countries, such as England, Argentina, China, etc. in addition to the United States.
Her books include. THE FOUR SEASONS OF SHAKER LIFE MEN IN THE STREET
A longtime obsession for me has been exploring what it means to be a woman. For me, it is a way of understanding myself to photograph women in different ways.
Black Lung
Jake Sheykhet is a 20-year-old mixed-medium artist currently attending Brown University. Jake works with a wide variety of media, which includes but is not limited to construction materials, wire mesh, found objects, photography, Photoshop, and oil paint. Many of his long-form artworks are oil paintings atop which he sculpts with construction materials and everyday found objects (paper towels, cotton balls, twigs).
Jake’s style is informed most directly by his Soviet roots. Both of his parents are from Kyiv, Ukraine. The art instructor that has influenced his output most directly is also of Soviet origin. It is unsurprising then that the films of Tarkovsky, and Eastern Orthodox icons are referenced throughout his body of work.
All are beautiful. There’s beauty in pain, in brutality, in joy, in love, in hideousness. Modernity, as evidenced by the news, is often brutal. My art aims to be both beautiful and of its time. Thus, it often captures dark moments – moments of suspension, where the line between life and death is blurred. The only certainty in my work is beauty. Perhaps it’s a coping mechanism for me – a way to deal with the hideousness I find both inside and outside myself. By finding beauty in it I can live with dark truths.
Black Movements
I am a Sicilian illustrator, born and raised in Palermo, where I currently live, alternating teaching with graphic activity.
I have been working on Illustration since 2002. Since 2018 I have been painting abstract paintings inspired by the plant world.
In recent years I have combined illustrations with teaching activities, orienting my graphic production towards Art Licensing (sale of pieces or graphics suitable for printing on various products).
Italian contemporary artist Francesca Tesoriere explores the profound connection between the human being and the natural world. In her artistic research, trees and plants become like living microcosms, a powerful metaphor for alchemical creativity and transformation, a symbol of rebirth and renewal. In her works, winding and dynamic lines stretch out along paths that lead our gaze upwards, while branches filled with life and vibrant colors convey vitality and energy. The style is very dynamic and influenced by abstract language, transforming the subject into a true visual metaphor, in which the artist’s branches seem to become cerebral connections or pulsating veins through which energy and lymph flow. The backgrounds, smeared with white brushstrokes unconcerned with space, envelope the subject in an amalgam of nuances, which contribute to creating a sense of pleasant calm in the viewer. Francesca Tesoriere’s trees evoke that feeling we get when we are immersed in nature, reminding us of the importance of this ancestral connection. The artist chooses the trees as her muse and, evoking the continuous cycle of life, celebrates diversity, inviting us to look beyond the surface and recognize the intrinsic value of nature and life. A visual exploration, that of Francesca Tesoriere, which fascinates and inspires, leading to a reflection on our interdependence with nature.
Blackberry
Victoria Shalvah Herzberg is a scientist as well as an artist whose academic studies of evolutionary genetics eventually merged with an interest in native plants, particularly their ability to quickly evolve in response to environmental challenges. In addition to studying, propagating, and caring for these plants, she routinely depicts them artistically to call attention to their innate beauty. Their seasonal variation especially appealed because she’d grown up in Houston, TX, where all seasons were variations of summer and plants rarely, if ever, prepared for hibernation as they routinely do in Vermont, where she now lives.
Shalvah attended graduate school at St Louis University (M.S.) and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX (Ph.D.). She then studied art informally while serving on the research faculty of (what was then) Dartmouth Medical School. She became accomplished in watercolor painting, hand-pulled printmaking, and, in 3 dimensions, sculpture, pottery, and knitting. After she retired from academia, she was awarded Signature Membership in the Vermont Watercolor Society (2006) and is now an artist member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio (TRPS) in White River Junction, VT, and AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH.
Shalvah has shown artwork in over 25 juried and group exhibitions throughout New England and has also mounted 6 solo exhibits. In 2023, she conceived of and curated “Many Artists, One Model…”, an exhibit at TRPS as a tribute to her long-time fellow artist and friend, Penelope Bennett. She has published her images, paired with poems by her husband Don Herzberg, in two books, “Mirror of Seasons” and “Body Language”.
My life has distinct eras – the rational, scientific, and the creative, artistic. This dichotomy reflects the tension in my given names, Victoria, assigned with hopes of victory in WWII, and Shalvah, in hopes for peace. I use the latter exclusively for my artwork.
My artistic career began by illustrating many laboratory notebooks with the results of my experimental data. I eventually recognized and developed these abilities by studying with contemporaries who were not only established artists but experienced teachers, willing to share their expertise. I currently work out of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT, where I share printing presses with, and continue to learn from, my talented colleagues. I endeavor to perfect new techniques to utilize those that will best capture each artistic vision.