Iván Guzmán

Hi there! My name is Iván Guzmán (1990), I’m a Venezuelan painter and architect from Caracas, Venezuela; living in Barcelona.

I'm an Architect from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the U.C.V (Central University of Venezuela) and I have 2 years committed to develop my artwork and share my vision.

I work with spray paint developing a sense of process and technique that allows me explore on intuition and freestyle a wide ethereal world of form and color highly influenced on technique and aesthetics by my carreer in Graffiti for more than 15 years and the dynamics and stimulus of architecture, city, music and nature.

In 2012 I built with some friends a platform for emerging artist in Caracas called LA TERRAZA, in which we could find inusual spaces for ephemeral collective and solo exhibitions and link artists, clients, press and sales.
In 2015 I found a platform of product design for emerging designers in Caracas called DÍADA; where I work at the moment with interior and product design.

From 2017 I have been focus on production on fine art in paper and canvas formats, in this moment my work has become more and more expressive though gesture; fast and raw, evoking movement and energy as graffiti and urban interactions are.

The gesture is a container of space - movement - time; evidence of an event. A defined or blurry space of interactions where something happens, an impact (a gaze), a trace (a promenade), a color (a sense). Space and time laid in the process of creation of this artwork has a lot in common with the space and time we grant to contemplate them. It’s contained in the gesture; a moment [momentum] of curiosity, exploration and discovery, find without seek.

Peter Hastings

Peter Hastings is a Toronto based Artist whose work reflects his interests in the urban landscape. The remnants and flotsam of human activity not only inform his creative endeavours but also become the raw materials for his paintings. His most recent paintings include the application of found objects such as discarded plastic, paint can lids, old painted wood and recycled paint.

Mr. Hastings is rumoured to live underground in an undisclosed location in the west end of Toronto. He spends his days painting fictitious portraits and collecting urban flotsam and sticks, objects that often end up on his paintings. Asked about his future aspirations he said “bigger sticks would be nice”

Mansoore Hosseini

Mansoore Hosseini (b. 1985) is an Iranian artist and art instructor, currently residing in Tehran. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and Masters of Science in Illustration. Prior to teaching art and exhibiting her work in galleries in Italy, Lebanon, France, Spain, Bosnia, Mexico and the United States, Mansoore illustrated children’s books and magazines.

The predominant technique in my artwork is colored ink and acrylic paint. I have come across many of the forms seen in my works as coincidence, and improvisation is a priority.

I was born in a country involved in war and severe sanctions. Art helps me accept the difficult conditions. Drawing calms me; a calm I can not achieve any other way. Art is a common language the entire world understands - happiness, sadness. I am glad I can communicate in this language with people in other countries. Art has the power to make the entire world beautiful.

Jens Huls

Hej, I am Jens. Groningen (NL) based conceptual artist. I often explore comfort and identity trough a variety of digital tools, text and performance.

Avoid any text asking to describe oneself within 2-3 sentences.

Hans Kvam

Hans Kvam is an artist who lives and works in the northern part of Sweden.
He studied at Trondheim Academy of fine Arts in Norway 1993-97 and Royal institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden 2001-2002. The artist has recently received a working grant from Konstnärsnämnden - the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2020-2021. The artist is represented bythe Swedish Arts Council: Public Art Agency Sweden, Trondheims Kunstmuseum, and several Swedish county councils. Hans Kvam has participated in both Swedish and international exhibitions over the years such as Saatchi Gallery, Paper Cuts, London and PADIGLIONE INTERNET 53rd International Art Exhibition, Collateral Events, Venice, Italy.

Hans Kvam founded and ran the Trunk Nordic art video festival between the years 2003-09.

The artist works mainly with painting and experimental sound.

A theme that has been around for a long time, regardless of technology and expression, is to try portraying things and events that are on the borderland between being visible and hidden. The things that are happening right on the border between seeing and guessing, or hearing, is something that fascinates and which he returns to in different ways. In painting, it is expressed in a more abstract painting, but also in the form of different portraits, landscapes and still life.

The sound art arises through a collection of sounds from different environments, which is broken down, processed and sampled for final production. A common recurring basic sound in the productions is the electromagnetic sound that occurs in electronic equipment in combination with self-made instruments and analogue synthesizers. The recorded sound is reused, with a new meaning, in the joint between being music and only noise.

A_Marcel

A_Marcel is a conceptual video artist scholar and speculative designer based in Boston. Their visual practice circles the visual art world, design and performance art worlds. They hold a BA in philosophy and political science from Columbia University. After college, they interned with the artist Fred Wilson and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After a post 9/11 move up to Boston, they completed MassArt’s graphic design certificate program with honors. In 2018, they received a MFA in graphic design from VCFA where they received a scholarship called “Future of Design Merit Award.” Their thesis explored design and performance and encompassed a gestamtkunstwerk called Hot Dogs 24/7 (a play, video and performance). 2019 art highlights include: shortlisted for Spring Break NYC, participation in the Nick Cave Joy parade, a video screening in Integrated Conference in Belgium themed Radical Imagination, and a 24 hour performance piece at the gallery Magenta Suite in New Hampshire. Shows in 2020, prior to the start of the pandemic, have included video work at Fountain Street Gallery in Boston as well as a separate online curation, a performance/video at the DFBRL8R Gallery in Chicago, and a 3 person show in Vermont at VCFA.

A_Marcel’s work is a play of text and image, a pitting of the real and surreal, and a disorienting glitche of fact and fiction. Marcel amplifies the language of the meme to counter the mimetic demands of the mundane. Their work is politically personal and personally political commentary. A_Marcel’s practice is transdisciplinary and draws from the vernacular of graphic design, critical and queer theory, the theatre of the absurd, music videos, and performance art. They’re obsessed with heterotopias and hot dogs. A_Marcel is a copy of a copy without an original.

Aaron Marin

Aaron Marin (NEUTOKYO) is an American artist, born in 1978, who lives and works in Upstate New York. The nom de plume, NEUTOKYO, is a nod to his formative years spent working and traveling in Japan.

NEUTOKYO collage based work confronts and challenges preconceived notions of beauty, power, and intelligence by fusing anthropology, art, and fashion.

His explicit use of the black figure serves to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships, and experiences of our lives in contemporary America.

Soumya Netrabile

Soumya Netrabile was born in Bangalore, India and emigrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was 7 years old. She initially studied at Rutgers University, College of Engineering and then later at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a full-time painter and ceramic artist residing near Chicago. Through experimentation with different painting methodologies, she explores relationships between the human body, terrain, and the natural world. She’s exhibited her work nationally, most recently in group shows at La Loma Projects in California and at Karma Gallery in NY.

My experiences and memories of perceived nature are at the center of my practice.Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, I want to explore sensations and remembrences that my mind and body have absorbed while being immersed in nature and unspoiled landscapes. My daily walks through nature, which bring me in contact with soils, plants, water and other natural elements have become a way for me to find emotional sustenance and build intimate connections through my body and senses. Working within this framework, ideas of mutation, anthromorphism, and myth play through my subconscious while I work and frequently in my dreams as well. Initially setting my thoughts on the body while I am absorbed in the act of painting helps me muse and search for formal or narrative relationships to develop.

Martina Priehodová

My name is Martina Priehodová, I am a Slovak Fine Art student based in Groningen. I have started studying Fine Arts three years ago, and my favorite medium to play around with is photography.

Within my artistic research, I focus on what it means to be a human, otherwise described as the human condition. By using photographs and pinpointing the errors within human nature, I aim to showcase them honestly. The goal would be to pinpoint the complexity, richness, and beauty of this condition. Alongside the faults that are very present within human nature, I am also exploring the questions of identity, discomfort, and belonging to a place. The narratives I choose to work with are embedded within beautifully painful, cherishable moments in human lives, playing on the strings of empathy and nostalgia.

Noelle Richard

BIO: Noelle Richard (they/them) is a transgender/non-binary artist and filmmaker from Cleveland, OH, based in New Orleans, LA. Noelle’s practice includes experimental video, illustration, and artist publications. Noelle earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing with an emphasis in Photography+Video from the Cleveland Institute of Art in May 2017.

Their video work is screened at galleries and film events throughout the United States and internationally. They’ve self-published numerous books and zines, and table at comic and independent print conventions. Their 2019 show through the Gordon Square Arts District, “no water,” was their first solo show.

Currently, Noelle is riding out quarantine in sunny New Orleans, LA, and continues to make drawings and cinematic work that explores intimacy and community in this singular time through their lens as a white queer person. When they’re not hunched over a laptop gulping iced coffee, they can be found driving along back roads taking photos of abandoned gas station signs and billboards.

ARTIST STATEMENT: I make video portraits of people in my queer chosen family. These videos are filmed in blanket forts, which create a little soft cocoon of intimacy. Intended to be viewed on a loop, the videos have a different sense of time, in which moments are stretched out, slowed, duplicated, and become removed from linear time. In combining dreamy visuals, the camera’s close proximity to the people in the videos, and the warped, spacey soundscape, I create an alternate universe to the straight, heteronormative world.

Caroline | Litho | MC was filmed in November 2019 as a part of the For Freedoms billboard campaign in Cleveland, Ohio. In collaboration with creative director Amanda D. King, we decided to create a billboard/artwork addressing freedom of gender expression in Cleveland, which has a history of violence against transgender people, specifically trans women of color. We brought together three people of different gender and racial experiences to explore what gender identity and safety/comfort within one’s own gender identity looks like using the visual language of my blanket fort video portraits series. A still from the video was displayed on a billboard on one of the main streets in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood. The video shown here presents a complement to the billboard (viewed in a split second), in which the atmosphere of beauty, safety, and comfort can be experienced by the viewer for an extended period of time.
In this video portrait series, I present my community with beautiful, sensual, non-objectified visions of themselves. I celebrate the different ways we look, we move, we exist in time and space with ourselves and with each other. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, these images of physical closeness, trust, and intimacy add to the parallel universe feeling of the videos. I’m asking the viewer to spend a moment inside what the future could be - queer, intimate, together.

Margo Sarkisova

Margo Sarkisova was born on January 29, 1997 in the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

In 2013 she entered the Donetsk Art College at the faculty of "interior design". In September 2014, due to the political situation in the Donbass, she was transferred to the Kharkiv  Art College as a volunteer at the faculty of “interior design”. 

She graduated from the Kharkiv Art College in 2016, received the qualification of "junior specialist" with a diploma with honours. In 2016, she entered the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts at the Faculty of Graphic Art and Printmaking. 
In 2019, she received a bachelor’s degree with honors.

Margo Sarkisova is a young Ukrainian artist, Finalist of the Contemporary Visual Arts contest, dedicated to Nathan Altman in Vinnitsa (Ukraine) 2017, 2018; participant of the PRINTFEST_100 - printing press festival in Kiev (Ukraine), participant of projects and exhibitions in Germany, USA, Bulgaria. Her work is included in private collections in Denmark, USA, France, Canada, Mexico, Italy, England, Australia, Austria, Netherlands, Germany. Now she is working in her studio space in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

My name is Margo Sarkisova, I’m artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine.

My main area is printmaking, but I’m more drawing in this year with Chinese dry ink and experimenting with forms and artwork size: from tiny sketchbook to large size ink drawings that bigger that my own height.

Graphic art for me is about strong composition. That’s why I’m not using so many colors on my artwork, only 2-3 (including black or grey) and accent (my favorite — red).
Red is very strong and emotional color. I love to use it to show important moments in composition.

I find the work process soothing and exciting at the same time. It allows you to plunge into your thoughts and also feel the joy of the process of creating something new. There was a time in my life when I just took a package of paper and draw it all in a few minutes. This helped me throw out my worries and emotions. Therefore, I really appreciate drawing for these qualities of tranquility and peace.

Main goal of my creation is reflecting to outside world feelings and thoughts of mine and turn the viewer with his eyes inward.

I’m working a lot with theme of roots and concept of “Home” now.

This themes is really means a lot for me and helps to talk more about what we can generally considered the roots of a person? And 
how displacement and migration affects at the life and thoughts of a person?

This questions is on my mind and my researching process very active now.

With this researching I hope to transfer to people feeling that this experience is valuable and it’s important to talk about it. 

Hope Wang

Hope Wang is a Chicago-based artist, arts facilitator, and writer working through weaving, screenprinting, book-making, painting, and photography. Her interest in reimagining architectural associations and visual perception scales into broader questions of how the peripheral can shift centers and how people form complicated relationships with the structures of their daily lives. Her autobiographical poetry frames these environments as spatial productions of memory, grief, and desire.

She received her BFA (2018) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has attended The Weaving Mill WARP Residency, Spudnik Press Cooperative Fellowship. She is also currently part of the team organizing behind Chicago Textile Week, a new venture devoted to mapping and celebrating textile-based endeavors in the Chicagoland area.

ARTIST STATEMENT Drawing from architectural “scars” as symbols for how people negotiate belonging in public places, my work evokes intimate details of space that have been eroded, redacted, or defaced. I reproduce patterns and textures of these surfaces and then shift their scale and contexts onto alternate substrates. By deconstructing architectural elements and reconfiguring the fragments, my works become traces of space. Through the destabilization of surface and its assumed material conditions, my work questions our sense of intimacy and nostalgia within the built environment.

Les Soeurs Siamoises

We know each other since 10 years. We work first together has designer. 
After a while we decided to go further with art and we published our first books. One of them (erection statuaire - Monument Lies) was noticed and praised at les rencontre de Arles @rencontresarles
This book and his reputation allowed us to go to Off Print @offprint_projects (the European Printed matters) to show our books. Since then, we are painting, drawing, we are making picture. Nothing can stop us at being happy with making our art!!!

We are two of us, but we are one…
Les soeurs siamoises, siamese sisters, it’s a powerful name who allow us to tell everything we want, especially when people don’t want to hear it. It’s also our reality, we are alike!! for the better and the worth…

Shane Walsh

Shane Walsh is a painter who uses collage as a conceptual framework for understanding the legacy of abstraction. He works to re-construct an image of abstraction that feels appropriate to his time and place with a process that involves collage, photography, and digital technology. Walsh creates complex hybrids that synthesize abstract painting with visual languages from 1990’s subcultures.

He teaches Painting and Drawing in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin – Miwaukee and his work has been included in solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, St. Louis, and Miami. He is represented by Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York) and The Alice Wilds (Milwaukee).

Shane Walsh’s paintings are the result of his involvement with collage, both in a literal sense and as a conceptual framework for understanding the legacy of abstraction.

Walsh’s process begins with small-scale collages constructed from photocopies of various shapes and marks - some expressive, others graphic or digital - which respond to the history of abstract painting. This approach allows him to treat the history of abstraction as a storehouse of moments from which to copy, paste, and sample. This cutting, copying, and pasting, however, owes as much to the punk and hip-hop culture of the artist’s youth in the 1990’s as it does to modernist collage traditions.
The photocopy itself also serves as an important metaphor in Walsh’s work. Just as an image repeatedly reproduced on a copy machine will become distorted over time, so our understanding of abstraction is altered as paintings are transmitted and reproduced through time and culture. For Walsh, these distortions are something to celebrate and provide him with the opportunity to re-construct an image of abstraction that feels appropriate to his time and place.