Olivia Bennet

Artist Carla Elena transforms horses in her vision onto canvas with diligent yet carefree brush strokes. Animalistic and instinctive, Elena’s approach brings her subjects to life, each vivid and wild as if they were to leap off from the canvas any instant, their look soft and gentle, their energy spirited and vibrant. While emitting strength and vigor, Elena’s works are sensitively rendered, each composition thoroughly thought out. The harmonious balance of the negative and positive space alters the static image into an exuberant spectacle springing from the ...

Billich’s paintings read as smoothly as photos. They are composed mostly of architectural elements with arbitrary touches of human figures and statues. The majority of subject matter is depicted in a flattened, slick manner, with a consistently ultra smooth gradation. Despite these flattened surfaces, the scenes composed in these paintings are arranged in so many layers that the picture as a whole perpetuates a great sense of depth. Microenvironments are found within the larger picture many times over. Sharp, mirrored architectural spaces can be discovered existing inside each other. Whispy, ...

Though differing vastly in mark, Domingue’s pieces all have a characteristic feeling of a slow growth and gradual manipulation. In his piece, Symbol of Inner Strength, the gracefulness of the steady easing of the bright orange into the black background tames the difference between the two opposites. The two colors at their most saturated moments are quite extreme and it’s remarkable to see such a peaceful transition between the two. The subtle scale changes in the fragmentation are rather slight and very delicate, as well. The differing size, shifting from larger ...

Exuberantly colored in bright blues, oranges, pinks, light purples, Colina’s work gives the immediate feeling of a children’s book. Through the setting’s abstract forms she composes a fantasy-like playground for the characters in her narratives. Her figures range in form, from a shape analogous to human, to creatures that look more similar to insects, bacteria, or perhaps an anticipated alien? Regardless of their representative associations, Colina’s characters’ relationships and interactions definitely add to the complex plot that exists within each of her pieces. Maybe more visually intriguing than the figures ...

Geffray Powel


Steffi Kaschlik's overture is immersed in the culture of painting and its potential for alchemical transformation. A new breed of painting Kaschlik’s work invites viewers to a world full of vibrant colors and mysterious visages. She gracefully incorporates picturesque elements into the paintings she creates—landscapes and dreamscapes that stand for a reality observed through her own vision. The result is a representation that is dreamy, capricious, and out of this world. Producing endearing and mesmerizing works, that emerge out of a place where fantasy and reality intersect Kaschlik’s ...

Simone Cappa



Minimalist artist John Gesager Nielsen’s oveture are a tribute to the legacy of sculpture and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Nielsen’s questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture does not stop with the creation of objects and images; he is committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. Nielsen has been creating evocative figurative and abstract sculpture for many years. An earnest devotee to the human condition, he renders both Plexiglas, and metal in an ...

Catherine Y. Hsieh

Gao Yi Lei’s vibrant palettes bring marine creatures back to life in his oil-on-canvas series The Times of Ke Long. A lobster in green and royal blue seems to be jumping off from the canvas surface against a backdrop of vast oceanic blue while in another piece a dark purple octopus wags its tentacles in remarkable energy with shades of crimson exploding in its center contrasted with an atmospheric background of power blue. Gao paints exquisite gold fish in another piece with carefree brushstrokes and unexpected hues. The ...

Kristina Asvarn’s serene paintings create an innovative world within a world. Each of these “worlds” have led to the artist to develop a reputation for poetic epic works that display both delicacy and fragility, revealing a deep respect for something fundamental, some primal, indigenous sense of shape and color. Her paintings are playful, spirited, freeform and deceptively complex. There’s not a single corner, hard edged, geometric line to be found in her composition, instead the shapes are as fluid as the submerged sounds that fuel her imagination. Using acrylic paint ...

James Wcycoff

Thérèse Boisclair
is an international artist whose monolithic watercolor Works thread together conceptual practices with material practices, excavating memory and lived experience in order to distill the essences of these immaterial events into translucent images that glow, vibrate, and reverberate together in unexpected and magical ways. Evoking an array of psychological notes, her work enables viewers to rest, reflect, meditate, and celebrate, instilling a range of emotional responses. One such feeling is passion, as demonstrated by the work Vers la lumière, whose apocalyptic abstraction fuses ...

Catherine Y. Hsieh

Segueing between paper and oil paint, artist Betty Disco creates a mysterious world that solicits viewers to explore the strange beauty of her paper sculptures, paper installations, and oil paintings. Disco’s creations, while coming in different forms and mediums, possess a similar quality, the quality of colors. Turquoise, off white, purple, green, navy, and earth tones permeate Disco’s work. She is skilled at cutting and twisting paper into imaginary objects that remind viewers of their everyday life and distance them from it at ...