An award-winning artist known for her colorful and whimsical portraits of animals, Gina Matarazzo aims to show the viewer a magical way of looking at ordinary things. Through their point of view, she tries to reveal truths on how to be more genuine like animals are and be in tune with the things that matter the most in life. Her work is meant to distract the beholder from the difficulties that the world presents to them, promote peace and joy, and to remind the viewer how there is beauty available to them if only they stop for a moment and take notice.
Theo Polymorphos is a North American painter of imaginative realism, whose art explores the mysterious journey of the soul, exploring themes of ecstasy, initiation and metamorphosis. Taking a deeply personal approach, he builds on these themes with symbols and motifs from his own dreams, spiritual practices and natural environment. After a decade wandering the globe as a consultant, he rekindled his childhood love of drawing and painting and quickly became obsessed. The confidence gained from learning traditional drawing and painting methods unlocked the door to his imagination, catalysing a total reorientation in life. He recently completed a three year course in imaginative realism under Tenaya Sims at the Georgetown Atelier in Seattle, Washington. He currently resides in Central Florida where he continues to develop his portfolio.
Rachel Romano is a New Surrealism Figurative Painter. Her connection to art began at age 7 with sojourns with her father, a poet, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which planted the seeds of storytelling. Rachel finds inspiration in personal myth and the stories of others. The laughter, love, and sorrow of our lives fills her creative well.
Reinhard Riedel has been involved with art throughout his life, starting with the advanced course in high school. After studying computer science and mathematics, he was 4 decades in senior positions in the IT sector. After retiring for 2 years, he wants to professionalize his hobby. In painting but especially in sculpture he has perfected his artisan skills. He can now use the different techniques and materials so that they support his ideas in the overall composition of the work of art.
Christian Boehmer is an autodidact artist and started his first artistic steps in the graffiti scene of the late 1990s. In the process, he very quickly began to focus exclusively on figurative picture elements. The principle of colorful and very dynamic image design, borrowed from the graffiti context, can still be found in many of his works.
Alessandra Maria was born in 1989 in Seattle Washington, and resides in the Hudson Valley, New York. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2012, and is represented by Galerie Fledermaus in Chicago.
Sandra Yagi was raised in suburban Denver Colorado, (USA) and from an early age she loved science (especially biology) and drawing. Her parents instilled in me an ethic of getting a “useful” education because of their concern for monetary and domestic stability—a result of their internment with other Japanese-Americans during WWII and their desire for their children to assimilate. As a result, Sandra’s studies focused on business, she obtained a Masters in Business Administration, and worked in the corporate world for 27 years at major financial institutions. Sandra left corporate life behind in 2008 and became a full-time artist. With a viewpoint rooted in logic and science, and a curiosity for the macabre, Sandra Yagi explores themes such as mortality, human experience and our impact on the natural world.
Noah Norrid is a self-taught artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having been an English and Design teacher for more than 20 years, ton-Emil? (Do You Dare, Anton-Emil?) His current body of work is the culmination of both his extensive interests in natural history, literature, mythological and religious symbolism as well as his near pathological interest in painting with watercolor and obsessing about details. Particularly the details that bring his subjects to life.
Laura Barth is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist based in the mountains of North Carolina, United States. Primary media include analog and experimental photography, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, and linocut prints. Laura currently exhibits her work at Calendula gallery in St. Paul and has had work awarded, published, and exhibited across the country.
Farzad Golpayegani is a US based visual art artist and musician. He has produced and released over nine solo music albums, has exhibited his painting and drawings since 1999, and simultaneously has built a career as an art director. The style of Farzad’s drawings and paintings are close to Surrealism and Expressionism. His subjects are dreamlike, whimsical, and psychological. While influenced by historical events, politics, beliefs and religions, and everyday life, his concepts push the logical boundaries.
Dawn Smith is an artist hailing from Detroit who is embarked on her creative journey as a tattooist, refining her craft from a tender age and cultivating a prosperous career spanning two decades. Dawn's art serves as a celebration of the divine feminine, manifesting in surrealistic and symbolic compositions. Often, her pieces incorporate disembodied parts of feminine figures intertwined with animals, skillfully subverting the male gaze while accentuating the profound connection between humanity and the natural world.
Karin Hauck is self-taught, her serious involvement in painting only began in 2016 after she completed a painting course in the technique of the old masters. Since then, she has been constantly evolving. This happened mainly through numerous visits to museums where she found inspiration in the old masters of the Italian Renaissance such as Raffael and Leonardo or by Flemish and French painters such as Van Eyck, Vermeer, Ingres, Flandrin and Bouguerau.