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Jonathan Wateridge: Figuring the Unreal in Contemporary Life

Artist portraits • Apr 22, 2025 • 7 minutes read
Jonathan Wateridge, born in 1972, is a British artist known for his work in the Postwar and Contemporary painting scene. His art is currently on view at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, and his work has previously been showcased by leading galleries and institutions, including GRIMM in London...

Christopher Wool: Language, Abstraction, and the Raw Edge of Contemporary Art

Artist portraits • Apr 15, 2025 • 7 minutes read
Christopher Wool (born in 1955) is an American artist whose work, since the 1980s, has explored themes related to post-conceptualism...

The human body in Italian art after Michelangelo

Art history • Apr 8, 2025 • 7 minutes read
Looking at the works of Michelangelo, whether carved in marble or frescoed on ceilings and walls, what immediately strikes one is the extraordinary depiction of the human body: taut muscles, natural poses, veins, tendons, joints that seem to pulse under the marble skin...

Brent Wadden: Weaving Modernism into the Threads of Craft

Artist portraits • Apr 7, 2025 • 8 minutes read
Brent Wadden creates abstract woven works that merge painting, design, craft, and folk art. By mounting his handwoven textiles on canvas, he blurs the boundaries between craft and painting. His use of repetition through warp and weft welcomes imperfections and variations, highlighting subtle disruptions in line, color, and form...

Julia Dogan: Art has always been my way of communicating

Artist portraits • Apr 1, 2025 • 21 minutes read
"Art has always been my way of communicating with the world—when words fall short, my paintings speak. I’ve experienced so much in life that demanded expression: moments of joy, pain, freedom, and longing. Every shift, every challenge, every moment of growth has added layers to my artistic voice."

Enoc Perez: The Artistic Evolution of a Contemporary Visionary

Artist portraits • 5 minutes read
Enoc Perez, born in 1967, is a contemporary artist from Puerto Rico, renowned for his paintings and oil stick drawings that depict Modernist architecture...

Stanislav Bojankov: The beginning is always somewhere in childhood

Artist portraits • 7 minutes read
"I have tried everything. At earlier stages I worked in more realistic forms and genres such as landscape, portrait and figurative, later some genre and stylistic changes began in the direction of abstraction and associativity, in the direction of musical sensations and vibrations, related to the abstract and subconscious recreation of sensations, feelings, emotions. In search of other channels of communication, expression and subjective perception"...

Alexandra Djokic: The strategic combination of colors

Artist portraits • 6 minutes read
"I was always inspired by the thoughts that I couldn't do something I wanted... .Don't compose, work traditionally within the task borders". Back when I was studying piano, my professor (now my colleague), told me not to compose but to go with a typical school like style. A rebellion immediately broke out in me, and nothing came out of that "school creation"...

Dita Lūse: Inspiration is overrated

Artist portraits • 7 minutes read
I was born into a family of artists, therefore the interest came naturally as a part of our lifestyle, and drawing and painting was a childhood habit. My professional art education started at the age of 11, when I began studies in an art school, and afterwards continued in the Art Academy of Latvia...

Giuseppe Penone: The Art of Nature and the Essence of Sculpture

Artist portraits • 9 minutes read
Giuseppe Penone (born 1947 in Garessio, Italy) is an Italian sculptor recognized for his large tree-inspired works. His art explores the connection between humans and nature and is linked to the Arte Povera movement. In 2014, he received the Praemium Imperiale. He currently lives and works in Turin, Italy...

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