Category: Artists

NATHANIEL BOLARINWA Bolarinwa’s vivid paintings capture the optimism and vibrant perspective of youth. His visions are portraiture, almost abstract-photographic, with bold lines that appear out-of-focus behind figures in crisp textural detail. The artist utilizes his medium to emphasize the tactile quality of his subjects’ skin. Replacing flesh with tree bark and branches, his characters represent… Continue reading NATHANIEL BOLARINWA

MICHAEL SWANEY Michael Swaney is a self-taught painter. Nevertheless, he is not considered an outsider, as in modern times the excluded, the crazy, the children and members of foreign, “exotic” cultures were called. Swaney’s inspiration, however, lies here, in art brut. Often the characters bear names of these outsider artists. “his picasso” was aloïse corbaz,… Continue reading MICHAEL SWANEY

MATIJA BOBICIC Slovenia-born artist, Matija Bobičić, presents paintings with unrestrained and untamed imaginative forethought. Employing mutated reflections of sci-fi and fantasy paradigms from his youth, Bobičić grapples with the filtering of American culture into post-Yugoslav Slovenia in the 1990s. Rooted within both nostalgia and an uneasy prophecy of our future, Bobičić’s work plays with the… Continue reading MATIJA BOBICIC

IVANA DE VIVANCO Born in Portugal, de Vivanco grew up between Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and for the past decade has lived and worked in Germany. Congruently, her creative practice reflects this divergent background amalgamating culturally eclectic references and stylistic approaches, along with conflated logics of time and space. The result is paintings, drawings and sculptures… Continue reading IVANA DE VIVANCO

HERMES BERRIO Hermes Berrio’s inspiration springs from the everyday, the oft quiet and intimate moments which make the building blocks of daily life. His paintings are at once deeply personal snapshots of his people and his city, and a sublimely laid out perspective that feels universal and unpretentious. His pieces are documentary-like in nature, derived… Continue reading HERMES BERRIO

GIORGIO CELIN Celin’s work is greatly informed by his experience as an immigrant – the inner and outer struggles and triumphs inherent within the displacement of one’s life into the unknown. Born in Colombia, Celin migrated throughout Europe and currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Firmly asserting his heritage upon the canvas is one… Continue reading GIORGIO CELIN

GAO HANG Gao Hang’s recent paintings are inspired by image “definition” and “rendering” in digital graphics on the internet, especially those from the last 20 years. The rawness of hand coloring/tracing/sculpting 3D digital graphics on a 2D screen resonates with “painterly movement” on canvas in terms of the honesty and uncertainty of muscle behavior. The… Continue reading GAO HANG

ERKUT TERLIKSIZ Erkut Terliksiz (b. 1978, Adana, Turkey) pursues his life and artistic endeavors in Istanbul. He completed his undergraduate studies in the graphic design department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2002. Since 2007, he has participated in solo exhibitions in Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, and Japan, as well as group exhibitions in… Continue reading ERKUT TERLIKSIZ

CES MCCULLY McCully has explored themes of identity and the evolution of contemporary social paradigms as a result of technology and social media.  Continuing to discuss questions of identity, she utilizes influences from textile work and religious iconography to create pieces that feel personal and at times nostalgic.  The text she utilizes is at once… Continue reading CES MCCULLY

ED BRONER Born in Paris, France, Ed Broner began to paint in the late 1980s as a graffiti artist. Both a photographer and painter, Broner’s work is his personal diary – an authentic examination of the ideas and symbols in modern urban subcultures. His style combines influences from graffiti and contemporary painting, as well as… Continue reading ED BRONER