ISSUE 4 . JUNE 2017
INTERVIEWS . KIKYZ1313 | NADIA RAUSA | EVGENIYA GOLIK . ARTIST OF THE MONTH . ROBERTO FERRI . FEATURED ARTISTS . PAMELA WILSON | SARAH JANE STOLL | OLGA ESTHER | BIANCA GARCÍA | NARELLE ZELLER | JAYMI ZENTS | ENYS GUERRERO...
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KIKYZ1313 | NADIA RAUSA | EVGENIYA GOLIK .
ARTIST OF THE MONTH .
ROBERTO FERRI .
FEATURED ARTISTS .
PAMELA WILSON | SARAH JANE STOLL | OLGA ESTHER |
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What makes us human, 2016<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white pastel on paper<br />
‘The Progeny of Chaos’
CONTENTS / <strong>JUNE</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
INTERVIEWS OF THE MONTH<br />
Kikyz1313<br />
Querétaro, Mexico<br />
22<br />
Nadia Rausa<br />
Alaska, USA<br />
Evgeniya Golik<br />
(aka Evgola)<br />
San Diego, California<br />
74<br />
104<br />
22<br />
104<br />
ARTIST OF THE MONTH<br />
Roberto Ferri<br />
Taranto, Italy<br />
robertoferri.net<br />
118<br />
118<br />
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FEATURED ARTISTS<br />
08<br />
Featured in the Guide<br />
84<br />
PAMELA WILSON<br />
The best artists you’ll<br />
see at art this month<br />
38<br />
Sarah Jane Stoll<br />
Connecticut, USA<br />
46<br />
Olga Esther<br />
Valencia, Spain<br />
56<br />
Bianca García<br />
Degollado, Mexico<br />
68<br />
Narelle Zeller<br />
Canberra, Australia<br />
84<br />
Jaymi Zents<br />
Ohio, Cleveland<br />
94<br />
Enys Guerrero<br />
Venezuela, South America<br />
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‘Sweet Secrets in Bare Delirium’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas
Featured Artist<br />
PAMELA<br />
WILSON<br />
Pamela Wilson has built a reputation for works of art that<br />
transcend the commonplace to enter the realm of the<br />
otherworldly, the sublime unknown. She develops haunting<br />
images which create a remarkably compelling narrative.<br />
The physical and emotional isolation of her characters has<br />
emerged as a hallmark of her work. She explores the great<br />
chasm of the psyche, the abyss that opens when you seek to<br />
understand the complex human in modernity. The characters<br />
in her paintings are often called “odd or mad,” or similar terms<br />
denoting something out of alignment with ordinary reality.<br />
She believes that letting ourselves explore the inherent<br />
“distortions” in reality is part of what gives us heart, and<br />
balance. Addressing “beauty” in a painting feels too passive,<br />
and what she is seeking is a psychological moment, a different<br />
kind of beauty, the beauty in absurdity. Pamela received her<br />
MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where<br />
she was awarded a Regents Fellowship, the Abrams Project<br />
Grant, and a Regents Award for her Thesis Exhibition. She is<br />
currently Mentor Faculty at Laguna College of Art & Design,<br />
Laguna, CA, as part of the MFA Program.<br />
Exhibiting consistently since 1992, her work has been the<br />
subject of 23 solo exhibitions, spanning the United States.<br />
She has exhibited in many museums, including the National<br />
Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC, and a solo<br />
exhibition at the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY. Her work is<br />
included in many prestigious collections and has graced the<br />
cover of American Art Collector Magazine twice since 2014.
Pamela Wilson<br />
Featured Artist
pamelawilsonfineart.com<br />
‘Calling Down the Poison Moon’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
‘When the Wolfbane Blooms’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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Pamela Wilson<br />
Featured Artist
‘Gone’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas
Pamela Wilson<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘The Ensorcelless’ 2016<br />
Oil and 24K gold leaf on canvas<br />
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‘The Incurious Came Pirouetting’ 2016<br />
Oil and 24K gold leaf on canvas<br />
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Pamela Wilson<br />
pamelawilsonfineart.com<br />
‘When The Sky Was Round’ 2016<br />
Oil and 24K gold leaf on canvas<br />
‘The Unquiet’ 2016<br />
Oil and 24K gold leaf on canvas over birch panel<br />
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Pamela Wilson<br />
Featured Artist
‘Circus Circus’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas
Career &<br />
Exhibitions<br />
Pamela Wilson<br />
Santa Barbara, California<br />
She started work in a new direction. She has<br />
been painting new paintings, waiting for time to<br />
experiment with new ideas, make lots of mistakes,<br />
find some magic, and grow! An artist has to keep<br />
growing- to be authentic.<br />
Represented by Evoke Contemporary Gallery,<br />
Santa Fe Rail Yard District, NM, and RJD Gallery,<br />
Bridgehampton, NY.<br />
Education<br />
1992 MFA Painting, Photography<br />
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA<br />
1990 BA Art Studio, San Diego State University<br />
San Diego, CA<br />
1983 Fine Arts, Colorado State University<br />
Fort Collins, CO<br />
1980-1983 Fine Arts, Brigham Young University<br />
Provo, UT<br />
1982 Brigham Young University Study Abroad<br />
Program, Florence, Italy<br />
1981 Brigham Young University Study Abroad<br />
Program, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico<br />
Teaching<br />
2010-16 Mentor/ MFA Program<br />
Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA<br />
1990-92 Graduate Student Teaching Assistant<br />
(Painting, Printmaking)<br />
University of California, Santa Barbara<br />
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Awards<br />
2015 Portrait Society of America FIRST PLACE<br />
(Members Only / Outside The Box)<br />
1991-92 REGENTS FELLOWSHIP<br />
University of California<br />
1992 ABRAMS PROJECT GRANT<br />
University of California, Santa Barbara<br />
1992 REGENTS AWARD/ THESIS EXHIBITION<br />
University of California<br />
1991 HUMANITIES RESEARCH GRANT<br />
University of California<br />
1991 CONTINUING GRADUATE STUDENT GRANT<br />
University of California<br />
1980-1983 TALENT SCHOLARSHIP, Fine Arts,<br />
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT<br />
JURYING<br />
2014 SOLE JUROR, Sixth Annual Juried Figurative<br />
Competition/ Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery,<br />
Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA<br />
Exhibitions<br />
2016 32ND ANNIVERSARY Exhibition, Waterhouse<br />
Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA<br />
2016 JAMAIS VU (three-man exhibition w/ Oda<br />
and King) BeinArt Gallery, Melbourne<br />
2016 OUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE (Women<br />
Painting Women) RJD Gallery, NY<br />
2016 THE SWEETEST POISON (solo), RJD Gallery,<br />
Sag Harbor, NY<br />
2016 FEMME TO FEMME FATALE<br />
Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA<br />
2016 FARENHEIT 911, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK<br />
2016 FIGURATIVE II, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO<br />
2016 LA Art Show, Distinction Gallery<br />
2016 BeinArt Surreal Collective Group Exhibition,<br />
Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA<br />
2015 ArtHamptons, Bridgehampton<br />
NY, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY<br />
More Info<br />
pamelawilsonfineart.com<br />
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Interview by Ramón A.Olivares<br />
kikyz<br />
1313
Artist Statement<br />
- Kikyz1313 was born in 1988 in Querétaro,<br />
Mexico, and creates beautifully intricate<br />
ink, graphite, and watercolor works on<br />
paper. From beneath the initially alluring,<br />
and understated, first impression of the<br />
works, emerge unexpected oppositions<br />
and abject tensions. Studies in the afflicted<br />
wretchedness of humanity, her work is<br />
neither despondent nor obviously gory, but<br />
rather presents an aestheticized nightmare<br />
of sublime abhorrence; ambiguously<br />
gorgeous despite its agonizing discomfort.<br />
She received a BFA from Autonomous<br />
University of Queretaro and had her first<br />
solo exhibition at the Museum of the City<br />
(Queretaro City, Mexico). She has completed<br />
an artist residency at the Nordic Watercolor<br />
Museum in Skärhamn, Sweden.<br />
Showed in several art fairs and group<br />
exhibitions in the USA, Berlin, and London<br />
as recently presented her second solo<br />
show entitled ‘The Progeny of Chaos’ in<br />
Los Angeles, California.<br />
‘Through my work, I am trying to build an<br />
emotional momentum, one that rouses<br />
the intellectual exercise of questioning<br />
one’s vision of reality. While looking<br />
at my artwork, the viewer will begin<br />
to experience a series of diametrically<br />
opposed thoughts and emotions. Initially,<br />
they may feel overwhelmed by the<br />
obsessively intricate and highly detailed<br />
forms, the composition, the technical skill<br />
and the pleasant color vibrations but as<br />
an analytical shift in perception slowly<br />
overtakes them, the viewer unwittingly<br />
grasps the artwork’s inescapably wretched<br />
and subversive subject matter.<br />
This new clarity forces the observer to<br />
re-engage with the work and rethink<br />
their initial opinions until, in some way<br />
or another, the shift takes place and the<br />
observer’s perception of natural things<br />
expands to include elements such as<br />
disease and death itself.<br />
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‘Kikyz1313’<br />
The Artist & Gumiño<br />
While these types of human experiences<br />
are often veiled, the artwork truly embraces<br />
them and functions as a reminder of our<br />
ephemeral existence and places in doubt our<br />
vain and materialistic way of understanding<br />
life.This intellectual exercise will continue<br />
to expand until the conceptual structures<br />
of the artwork, particularly it’s elemental<br />
lack of apparent reciprocity, unwaveringly<br />
pushes the viewer to put them together into<br />
the same aesthetic context.<br />
In turn, a new meaning evolves and gives<br />
birth to a poetic paradox, a concept that<br />
I have been developing for 6 years and<br />
include in each piece that I produce.I also<br />
want to share my own vision of life and what<br />
I think matters the most. Maybe the viewer<br />
will engage with my work in such a way that<br />
it encourages introspection or solves an<br />
issue, or possibly they may become morally<br />
disturbed and confused; but whatever<br />
the outcome, the ultimate intention of my<br />
work is to open a dialog and incite thought<br />
and reflection, which I think must be the<br />
primordial pursuit of contemporary art.<br />
More Info kikyz1313.com<br />
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kikyz1313<br />
Interview<br />
What’s your name?<br />
Why kikyz1313?<br />
My name is Laura Ferrer, but I have<br />
rarely used that name in life.<br />
Since a child, I’ve always been called<br />
Kiki causing through the years to be<br />
a nickname with I identified myself<br />
better, and even introduced myself as<br />
Kiki instead of Laura.<br />
So in my teenage years, at the time<br />
when I started to consider an artistic<br />
life, It felt natural to keep using Kikyz<br />
as an artistic name.<br />
The full kikyz1313, on the other hand,<br />
is a silly story that goes back to my<br />
asthma haunted years, when I was<br />
a very delicate 4-year-old child that<br />
spent the whole days inside the house<br />
playing and drawing.<br />
I was always advised by my father<br />
to sign every single dumb drawing<br />
I made with my name, so I then<br />
figured ‘kikyz1313’ would make it.<br />
I kept using that signature because<br />
it felt right, it had a warm familiar<br />
feeling to it.<br />
Describe your path to becoming<br />
an artist.<br />
I guess it started like most of the artists;<br />
with the luck of never stopped drawing.<br />
Since a child, I used to attend to<br />
summer art classes with other kids,<br />
just for the fun and because I had no<br />
use in other disciplines like dancing,<br />
martial art, swimming courses, (I tried<br />
them all) and was terrible at camping<br />
experiences. So drawing was always<br />
the little shelter where I was better at<br />
it, I guess I just got stuck with it and<br />
kept doing it until I realized that an<br />
artistic journey would be the only life<br />
fitting for me.<br />
And as everyone else who think that<br />
for making a life you need a school<br />
degree; I, at the age of 18 went for<br />
it and graduated from the local<br />
University of Visual Arts, which said I<br />
was an artist.<br />
I’m still not comfortable enough with<br />
my work to call myself an artist, not<br />
even the beginning of my career,<br />
but I did realize that in order to be<br />
recognized and noticed I needed to<br />
give impeccable and unique artworks<br />
to the world, and that’s something I’m<br />
still driven to do.<br />
‘Devouring smile’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Graphite, watercolor and pastel on paper<br />
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kikyz1313<br />
Interview June <strong>2017</strong><br />
Where is your studio and where are you from?<br />
My studio is inside our home in the province of<br />
Mexico, in a small Catholic district called<br />
‘El Pueblito’ (Spanish for ‘Little Town’) and I am<br />
from a small growing city called Querétaro, which<br />
is a 10-minute ride from my studio and a very<br />
conservative place as well.<br />
Tell me about where you grew up and<br />
how your childhood influenced your ideas<br />
about creativity<br />
I never moved from the same place, and the<br />
same city, so I’ve witness the transition from<br />
small town to growing city, and everything that<br />
involves that; the huge contrasts of thinking in<br />
where fervent Catholicism clashes with social<br />
hypocrisy and cultural shame and contradictions<br />
where prehispanic ingrained feeling of ‘pride’<br />
opposes to the high desire to flee the country<br />
and be from somewhere else.<br />
Mexico is a land full of contrasts and contraries,<br />
and I believe that growing up with such an<br />
ambivalent way of thinking and the narrow<br />
social circle I was since little, made me wonder<br />
and question this very same train of though,<br />
influencing in a big way what I am and what I do.<br />
How would you describe your work?<br />
I would describe them, as small-enclosed<br />
scenarios of poeticized human tragedy.<br />
What motivates you as an artist?<br />
I think that the first thing that always comes to<br />
my mind is the motivation to reach the imaginary<br />
‘self’ that’s living in my head.<br />
I always picture the look of an artwork or I picture<br />
an image of myself of ‘How I would like to be’<br />
(emotionally, intellectually and even physically)<br />
and day-by-day, drawing-by-drawing I try to get<br />
closer to the idealized image of things, in hopes I<br />
can achieve it.<br />
So far I’m maybe far from reaching it, but this<br />
one of the thing that drives me to continuingly<br />
improve myself in every aspect of my life.<br />
On the other hand, there is always the<br />
motivation of staggering others with what you<br />
do. To bleed yourself in that piece of paper so<br />
you can thrill an audience with something they<br />
have never seen. To achieve that something that<br />
pierces the gut and lives in the consciousness:<br />
one that can change perceptions and one that<br />
allows you to be remembered.<br />
‘Why so lonely’ 2014<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white pastel on paper<br />
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‘The tender for another´s pain’,<br />
th’ unfeeling for his own . 2016<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white pastel on paper<br />
Tell us a little about these portraits that live<br />
in your paintings’ worlds. Who are they and<br />
what are they up to?<br />
They portray my personal understanding of<br />
human condition: the contradictions, the<br />
senseless behaviors, the gained knowledge,<br />
my obsessions, the blindfoldedness and<br />
fears I perceive in myself thus others, all<br />
jumbled in, floating or resting over and under<br />
different symbols. Decorated with intrinsically<br />
beautiful things with the sole purpose to fool<br />
us in that personal world.<br />
You do have a very distinct, recognizable style.<br />
Thank you, but I honestly find myself wondering if<br />
nowadays that is a compliment or a weak spot.<br />
It’s a very nice feeling to know that all the imagery<br />
you’ve been working on for 6 years is solid enough<br />
to let the artwork speak for it own, but I must say<br />
that this is also a dangerous place that at long<br />
term may cause us to fall in the common place<br />
and in repetition, instead of moving forward to<br />
improvement.<br />
This easy way may be very appealing when most<br />
of the times there’s a fight to feel rejected by our<br />
peers, institutions, or our audience.<br />
But, does anyone would really like to be held in<br />
a place of pleasing others even when a satisfied<br />
mind is at risk?<br />
This is something I’m constantly scared of,<br />
and I try my best to never see myself in such<br />
situation, even when there is always a big load<br />
of insecurities and economic uncertainty. I think<br />
I rather resist this dreadful possibility with the<br />
opposite: and do a lot more confronting and<br />
obscure artworks, a lot more obsessive and<br />
critical, to find different mediums and techniques<br />
so maybe I can achieve that unexpected and<br />
higher perception of reality that I’m looking for.<br />
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Tell me about the first time you considered<br />
art as an actual career.<br />
It surely was in my teenage years, just before the<br />
last year of high school.<br />
I was advised by my family to think about what<br />
would I do for the rest of my life even when I<br />
wouldn’t be paid for it… The answer was easy, as<br />
at the time I enjoyed to draw a lot and an artistic<br />
life was never a such a crazy idea since my mother<br />
paints a lot.<br />
Since then, I considered art not only as a career<br />
but also as a way of life in which I promised to<br />
commit myself entirely.<br />
Did you have any mentors along the way?<br />
I sadly never had mentors, not even in college, but in<br />
my first years in the artistic trade did have a couple of<br />
artists near me that inspired me a lot to be better.<br />
I think the one that really pushed me into the<br />
world of drawing would be Román Miranda, who<br />
was the first artist I knew who lived from art and<br />
who worked on graphite and paper with some<br />
very intricate and fantastic compositions.<br />
At that time I didn’t even know that one could live<br />
solely from drawing!<br />
His work opened my eyes, and even when I saw<br />
his work in persona after 3 years, I kept some<br />
postcards of his work and only by looking at them<br />
was a reminder of where I wanted to be in the<br />
future. Today he is still a huge inspiration, and I’m<br />
happy to call him a close friend.<br />
Are your family and friends supportive of<br />
what you do?<br />
Absolutely, my family has been a huge beacon of<br />
support and encouragement since always, and<br />
there is no possible way I could ever repay or<br />
thank them enough.
‘Sorrow´s piercing dart’ 2016<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white acrylic on paper
‘A soulfully denature’ 2013<br />
Ink and watercolor on paper
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What advice would you give to a person<br />
starting out?<br />
I would say that: forget about success, forget<br />
about fame, and forget about money.<br />
Do an introspective search for as long as you need<br />
and search for that significant thing in yourself<br />
that turn your soul on fire, that keeps you awake<br />
at night thinking and that it’s relevant enough to<br />
share with the world.<br />
Then, build yourself artwork that speaks for that<br />
and most important: don’t ever try to please<br />
anyone, but you.<br />
How does where you live to impact your<br />
creativity?<br />
Well… the way Mexico is have really shaped<br />
entirely my whole being. The way I think, the way<br />
I over saturate my compositions, the obscure<br />
imagery, the symbols I choose, the muted smoglike<br />
colors, the subject matters I describe in my<br />
work, etc. They are all projections of what I’ve<br />
seen and lived in this place.<br />
Do you have a favorite book?<br />
The favorite(s) are changing constantly but I find<br />
myself always coming back to the 1900’s horror<br />
fictions authors, these past days with Arthur<br />
Machen and more of his fantastic short stories.<br />
I also have a very special place in my head for<br />
‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury and ‘The Gods<br />
Themselves’ from Isaac Asimov.
‘Ghosts from a griesly sweet scent’ 2016<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white pastel on paper<br />
What is your current album on repeat?<br />
Right now I don’t have and specific album, though<br />
I do insanely obsess over an album in time to<br />
time. But right now I’m constantly repeating on<br />
my headphones a lot of dark ambient, drone,<br />
doom and black metal music.<br />
Who is your role model?<br />
It’s curious but that’s a question I’ve never asked<br />
myself, so this is the first time I’m actually putting<br />
thought on it, and I’m not completely sure If I’ve<br />
had a role model in the past or today. But I’m<br />
certain there have been a handful of artists that<br />
have marked significantly my career and deeply<br />
influenced my artwork.<br />
Of course, there’s been always the aspiring feeling<br />
to be like Dürer or as strikingly raw as Goya, but<br />
mostly in the past year, I’ve been highly influenced<br />
by the chaotic compositions, staggering bright<br />
colors opposing to the muted grayish tones in the<br />
paintings of Justin Mortimer.<br />
I knew his work a couple of years ago and since<br />
then I noticed my works started to become a lot<br />
more chaotic, random and less narrative. In fewer<br />
words: driven only by gut. And it’s something I’ve<br />
been admiring a lot in Justin Mortimer’s work, that<br />
impromptu selection of the characters, figures,<br />
and backgrounds always transporting us to a not<br />
so distant parallel universe of blurred memories<br />
and reveries. I hope to achieve that feeling<br />
through my works some day, even though my<br />
technique and intentions are completely different.<br />
What was the best advice given to<br />
you as an artist?<br />
You could say I live a sort of a secluded life, in a tiny<br />
social circle; therefore it’s very uncommon to find<br />
myself chatting in person with someone else and<br />
even less about my work. So the only strong advice<br />
or critics I’ve ever had are coming from my husband<br />
(painter/draftsman as well) who, after a week of<br />
being sick, found me half of the day crying of stress,<br />
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advised me that we have to choose wisely our<br />
battles, never take more compromises that we can<br />
get. We have to know our limits and work based on<br />
them. And in worst case scenario, when it’s too late<br />
to refuse, then THE HELL WITH IT, that my health<br />
and mental stability were first and it’s better to ‘fail’<br />
the commitment than seriously harming myself in<br />
order to fulfill other’s expectations.<br />
Those days I think I was very close to a metal<br />
breakdown, and after his advice I’ve learned to work<br />
wisely, resulting to enjoying a lot more what I do.<br />
What is your dream project?<br />
I’ve had a strange idea of making paper artworks<br />
that change with the intervention of the audience<br />
resulting in different narratives. Something like<br />
the pop-up and interactive paper books we<br />
find for kids, but with very obscure and realistic<br />
imagery. It’s not so dreamy but a little far from<br />
doing them right now.<br />
Is there anything you want to do in the<br />
next 2 years?<br />
An oil painting series. I’m currently teaching<br />
myself oil painting and about to end a workshop<br />
I’m attending. I’m very excited to keep practicing<br />
and maybe in the near future make very intricate<br />
compositions with very vibrant colors.<br />
I wish to make a series of medium formats and if<br />
they end up decent, to present them in a public<br />
or private space.<br />
‘Laughing while crying’ 2016<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white pastel on paper
kikyz1313<br />
kikyz1313.com<br />
‘A slumber embrace’ 2014<br />
Graphite, watercolor and white pastel on paper<br />
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Featured Artist<br />
Sarah<br />
Jane Stoll<br />
sarahjanestoll.com<br />
Sarah Jane Stoll is a Connecticut based<br />
painter and illustrator. She is a graduate<br />
of the Maryland Institute College of<br />
Art where she studied painting and<br />
concentrated in illustration. Her artwork<br />
investigates dream realms, mythological<br />
feminine archetypes, cinematic horror,<br />
and symbols of nature. Her work has<br />
been featured in several exhibitions in<br />
MICA and galleries in Baltimore, such as<br />
La Bodega. Sarah Jane currently works<br />
as freelance oil painter and illustrator.
‘Meditating on the Sofa’<br />
2016-17<br />
Oil on canvas
Artist Statement<br />
My artwork delves into the phantasmagorical, mythological<br />
feminine archetypes, cinematic horror, and symbols of<br />
nature. The concept of the monstrous feminine is of great<br />
interest to me because it symbolizes the intersection of<br />
feminine archetypes and horror. It also addresses the uncanny,<br />
due to its mythical and fearful connotation. The uncanny<br />
is bound in the nature of our dreams. I wish to express the<br />
ephemeral quality of dreams through images that dissipate<br />
into a disorder of blurs and fragments<br />
I investigate the experiential qualities of dreams through<br />
painterly abstraction and representation. Realism clings to<br />
what is perceived as absolute, what we know and remember.<br />
Abstraction speaks to the transient nature of things. Through<br />
melting forms, we lose a sense of space in the painting and the<br />
image dissipates into abstraction. It is through the materiality of<br />
paint that I express the emotive and metaphysical. I manipulate<br />
paint through a combination of squeegee dragging, palette<br />
knife scraping, masking, and marbling techniques.<br />
sarahjanestoll.com<br />
‘Anguish.’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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Sarah Jane Stoll<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Internal External’ 2016-17<br />
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas<br />
‘Pomegranate’ 2016-17<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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Sarah Jane Stoll<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Natura.’ 2016-17<br />
Oil on Canvas
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Featured Artist<br />
Olga<br />
Esther<br />
Olga Esther is a Spain-based painter<br />
and illustrator. she is a graduate of fine<br />
arts from the Polytechnic University of<br />
Valencia, she’s got two art scholarship<br />
in Prague and Mexico. she also holds a<br />
master‘s degree in video games. now,<br />
she lives and works in Valencia.<br />
Olga Esther paints princesses who<br />
don’t want to be princesses, birds who<br />
cry blood, toads who kill themselves<br />
because they are ignored... she uses the<br />
“princess-tales” symbology to talk about<br />
gender and feminism. she paints the<br />
invisible ones, the little-forgotten girls,<br />
those little nobodies in this world, but<br />
above all, all those who although are still<br />
nobody, do not have anyone.<br />
‘Aporia (La Dificultad)’ 2015<br />
Oil on board<br />
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EXHIBITIONS<br />
2016: Group Show Artelibre. Galería Kafell<br />
Zaragoza . Spain<br />
Group Show selected Artelibre. MEAM<br />
Barcelona . Spain<br />
Russafart 2016<br />
Workshop Átika. Valencia . Spain<br />
2015: Exhibition “De todo corazón”<br />
Ballettzentrum Westfalen, Dortmund . Germany<br />
Non Solo Vero<br />
Einaudi Palace, Chivasso (Torino). Italy<br />
2014: Russafart 2014. Workshop Central Art<br />
Valencia . Spain<br />
2012: Spanish Contemporary Painting.<br />
Private Collection of Miguel Bañuls.<br />
Exhibition Hall “José Hernández”<br />
Casa de la Cultura Fuente Álamo, Murcia . Spain<br />
2011: Femenino Plural.<br />
Artist selected by the City of Valencia<br />
Museum Reales Atarazanas . Valencia . Spain<br />
2010: Group Show Reales Atarazanas.<br />
Sponsored by the City of Valencia . Spain<br />
Gallery Val i 30. Exhibition “El clavo ardiendo”<br />
2009: Solo Show. Rus. Valencia. Spain<br />
2008: Spanish Contemporary Painting.<br />
Private Collection of Miguel Bañuls . Xaouen . Morocco<br />
‘De reinas tuertas y países ciegos’ 2016<br />
Oil on board<br />
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olga esther<br />
instagram @olgaesther.pinturas<br />
‘El Cuervo’ 2015<br />
Oil on board<br />
‘La Astrónoma y el sapo ignorado’ 2016<br />
Oil on board<br />
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olga esther<br />
instagram @olgaesther.pinturas<br />
‘De reinas sabias y sapos suicidas’ 2016<br />
Oil on board<br />
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olga esther<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘La Madriguera’ 2015<br />
Oil on board<br />
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olga esther<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘La Locura’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on board<br />
‘Estudio sobre la Belleza’ 2015<br />
Oil on board<br />
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Featured Artist<br />
Bianca<br />
García<br />
In my art my main goal is to create<br />
artworks capable of transmitting<br />
emotions to the viewer, my technique<br />
focuses on creating vibrant and<br />
mysterious artwork using oil on canvas.<br />
Fine and delicate touches that give a<br />
touch of mystery and sensuality that<br />
reflects a bit inside me. Resulting in an<br />
artwork which is able to express all the<br />
beauty that my eyes and my soul have<br />
captured and kept inside of me, the<br />
whole feeling transmitted right through<br />
different eyes. Stories I am able to<br />
imagine or see, because I firmly believe<br />
that the greatest source of expression<br />
find it in a intense look, in which they<br />
have their own language.<br />
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Artist Statement<br />
Bianca Garcia is a Mexican artist in oil<br />
painting and an Art teacher. Born and<br />
raised in Degollado Jalisco. Beginning<br />
at a very early age, she was strongly<br />
influenced by a great artist, her father.<br />
He is a sculptor, So she started drawing,<br />
taking inspiration from the drawings that<br />
her father made for her.<br />
The expressions on the faces that he drew<br />
while she watched him were fascinating<br />
to her, and those special moments,<br />
were her first inspiration to go into this<br />
amazing world of art. That started it all,<br />
but her passion is not only for painting<br />
faces, it is also to capture expressions,<br />
emotions and feelings from mysterious<br />
and enigmatic eyes on a canvas.<br />
She has been involved in the art world<br />
since she was a little child. that is<br />
why she has become a self-taught<br />
artist. But she is still seeking to find<br />
and create all that fascinates her and<br />
to improve her technique.<br />
She has been showing her work in<br />
Mexico, and in international exhibits<br />
as United States, Portugal, Madeira<br />
Islands, Czech Republic, Russia, and<br />
coming soon Spain. In her art her main<br />
goal is to create artworks capable of<br />
transmitting emotions to the viewer, her<br />
techniques focus on creating vibrant and<br />
mysterious artworks using oil on canvas.<br />
Fine and delicate brush strokes that give<br />
a touch of depth, mystery, and delicacy,<br />
which reflects a little of her perception<br />
inspired by femininity.<br />
She is currently planning a new oil<br />
painting gallery in which she will<br />
seek to project her particular style<br />
which she is passionate about with<br />
realistic faces, showing the harmony<br />
and her interpretation from eyes and<br />
its magical mystery.<br />
biancaartgallery.com<br />
‘Storm and calm’ 2015<br />
Oil on Canvas<br />
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Bianca Garcia<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Melancholy creature of darkness’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on Canvas<br />
‘Bianca’ 2016<br />
Oil on Canvas<br />
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‘Inner self portrait’ 2016<br />
Oil on Canvas
Bianca Garcia<br />
biancaartgallery.com<br />
‘Secrets’ 2016<br />
Oil on Canvas<br />
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‘Reincarnation’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on Canvas
Bianca Garcia<br />
biancaartgallery.com<br />
‘Something wild’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on Canvas<br />
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Featured Artist<br />
Narelle<br />
Zeller<br />
Narelle Zeller is an emerging<br />
contemporary realist painter based<br />
in Canberra, Australia. Drawing<br />
inspiration from the people around<br />
her, Narelle strives to give her work<br />
a substance that people can connect<br />
with. She finds realist painting to<br />
be a powerful creative force, which<br />
can capture a moment in time and<br />
bring it to life with an honesty and<br />
understanding of color, light, and form.<br />
Currently, under the mentorship<br />
program of artists David Kassan and<br />
Shana Levenson, Narelle is busy<br />
developing her skills further in the<br />
medium of oil paint.<br />
‘The Girl in the Chair’<br />
Acrylic on canvas<br />
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Narelle Zeller<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Tobias’<br />
Acrylic on canvas<br />
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‘Kiah’<br />
Acrylic on canvas
‘When you’re not looking’<br />
Oil on canvas
Narelle Zeller<br />
instagram @narellezeller<br />
‘Hailey’<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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Interview by Almudena Rguez.<br />
Nadia Rausa is an illustrator based in Alaska, USA.<br />
She is intrigued by the relationship between nature<br />
and humanity as a deep connection with love,<br />
thought, and energy. She strives to portray stories<br />
with this underlying relationship, along with various<br />
cultural, psychological, and religious aspects. She<br />
enjoys exploring the female figure that interacts with<br />
animals and nature. She strives to represent beauty<br />
and vulnerability in her subjects.<br />
Nadia mainly works in watercolor, ink, gouache, and<br />
colored pencils. Outside of doing illustrative work, she<br />
is the Creative Director & Co-Founder of R2C2 Studios,<br />
a photo and film studio in Alaska, as well as the Art<br />
Curator & Co-Founder of One to a Thousand, an online<br />
community for artists and writers.<br />
Photography by JL Chabotte<br />
Instagram @jlchabottephoto
Nadia Rausa<br />
Interview June <strong>2017</strong><br />
Let’s dive in at the beginning of your story.<br />
Tell me about where you grew up and what<br />
your childhood was like.<br />
I mainly grew up in Alaska and was raised in a<br />
multicultural home. My mom was from Korea<br />
and my dad from America, so I grew up learning<br />
both Korean and American culture. When I was<br />
growing up, I remember being encouraged to<br />
draw, be creative, and play outside. Playing<br />
outside was very magical for me; I imagined vast<br />
worlds around me and built stories upon them as I<br />
played. I think I got myself into trouble sometimes<br />
with how much my head was “in the clouds,” as<br />
some people would say. As I grew older, I learned<br />
to control when I allowed my mind to wander,<br />
but every once in awhile, it still has a tendency to<br />
wander without me realizing until someone jolts<br />
me out of my head.<br />
Describe your path to becoming an artist.<br />
It actually wasn’t until I was in college that knew<br />
I wanted to become a professional artist. I think<br />
my path really started when I began graphic and<br />
web designing about 11 years ago. It was very<br />
technical, but still artistic. I think that skillset has<br />
an influence on my art nowadays, although I try<br />
to be much looser with my paintings than I would<br />
have been with a graphic design piece.<br />
I definitely feel like I’m still new to art, but I love<br />
this path that I’m on right now. I love being able to<br />
say that I’m an artist when people I ask what I do<br />
for a living. Being an artist may have not been a<br />
childhood dream, but it’s my dream and plan now.<br />
Was there a moment when you realized that<br />
Illustration was what you wanted to do?<br />
It was in my sophomore year of college that I<br />
realized art, particularly illustration, was what I<br />
wanted to do for a career. Before the semester<br />
was over, I changed my major to art after some<br />
inspirational words of encouragement from a<br />
coworker, who was an art major. That year, I<br />
realized there is so much more to art than we,<br />
as a society, are raised to think. Without art, we<br />
wouldn’t have movies, video games, illustrated<br />
books, and so much more! I was (and still am)<br />
determined to be a part of it. I ended up not<br />
finishing my Bachelor’s degree and left college in<br />
December 2016 so that I could pursue building my<br />
portfolio full-time.<br />
Tell me about “One to a Thousand”.<br />
One to a Thousand is an online community that<br />
my best friend, J.L. Chabotte (the writer of us two)<br />
and I started. It all started when we both wanted<br />
inspiration and more motivation to draw/paint<br />
and write more regularly. I would make art that<br />
would inspire a short story, and she would write<br />
a short story that would inspire me to draw or<br />
paint. We thought that other people might enjoy<br />
the concept, so we started a Facebook group,<br />
which anyone is welcome to join and partake in.<br />
We recently started a website, which is currently in<br />
beta. We are hoping that we can fix the bugs in the<br />
site and have it opened to the public very soon!<br />
‘Year of the Rooster, <strong>2017</strong>’<br />
Watercolor & Ink on Cold-Press Watercolor Paper<br />
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Nadia Rausa<br />
nadiarausa.com<br />
‘Year of the Dragon, <strong>2017</strong>’<br />
Watercolor & Ink on Cold-Press Watercolor Paper<br />
Have you had any mentors along the way?<br />
There were a few professors in college that<br />
really helped guide me through my art, but one<br />
in particular really stands out: John Barton. He<br />
was my professor for only a couple of classes,<br />
but I loved working with him because he gave us<br />
students a lot of freedom. The assignments always<br />
made us think of our own solution, rather than<br />
being told exactly what to do. To me personally,<br />
he was always the one, to be honest with me<br />
about my work and nudge me in the direction I<br />
needed to go. Currently, I don’t have a particular<br />
mentor, but I know that if I ever had a question,<br />
John and the other professors from my college<br />
would be happy to answer them.<br />
been and are incredibly supportive of me being<br />
an artist. It’s a big leap, especially when I currently<br />
have a small portfolio. It definitely helps to have<br />
such a large support group; I’m not sure what I<br />
would do without them.<br />
Do you feel a responsibility to contribute to<br />
something bigger than yourself?<br />
Yes, I do. I hope that one day I will travel the world<br />
as a missionary to help those in need of food, water,<br />
and clothes, and bring the joy of art along with me.<br />
I love learning about different cultures and it would<br />
be phenomenal to help preserve other cultures,<br />
learn their ways, and spread the love of God.<br />
Are your family and friends supportive<br />
of what you do?<br />
Very much so! Both sides of my family (birth family<br />
and my husband’s family) and my friends have<br />
‘Overgrown, <strong>2017</strong>’<br />
Marker on Paper<br />
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‘Blossoms, <strong>2017</strong>’<br />
Ink & Watercolor on Cold-Press Watercolor Paper<br />
What advice would you give to<br />
a person starting out?<br />
Study and make art every week, if not every day.<br />
One thing I regret is not being more diligent with<br />
creating a schedule for myself, until recently. I’ve<br />
recently set a schedule to make myself get tasks<br />
done to start building my portfolio. I know that<br />
if I had practiced and made art every week, I’d<br />
be a lot further than I am now. Also, don’t worry<br />
about your art supplies when you’re first starting<br />
out. Make do with what you have and build up<br />
from there. Don’t allow what you don’t have to<br />
stop you from achieving your goals and dreams.<br />
Always remember: it’s the artist who makes the<br />
art, not the supplies! And my last piece of advice<br />
would be to get on Instagram as soon as you<br />
feel comfortable. Always use hashtags, take your<br />
photos in the daylight, and post at whatever time<br />
research says is best for your time zone (for Alaska,<br />
it seems like between midnight and 2 am are<br />
prime times to post).<br />
How does where you live impact<br />
your creativity?<br />
We have a lot of wildlife in Alaska and I absolutely<br />
love it! I love exploring the relationship between<br />
animals, people, and nature. It’s an incredible<br />
feeling when there’s a moose in my yard, or a<br />
crane, or really just any animal. I’m hoping to go<br />
to Denali this summer to see the various types of<br />
animals out there.<br />
What does a typical day look like for you?<br />
My days are very busy, but I always try to make<br />
time for relaxation at night. I celebrate my<br />
Sabbath on Mondays, but every other day I’m<br />
either working on art, or I’m working on tasks for<br />
R2C2 Studios, a photography and film business<br />
I co-founded with J.L. Chabotte, her husband,<br />
and my husband. My day typically starts off with<br />
checking any comments or messages I’ve received<br />
on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube, reading<br />
devotionals, eating some breakfast,<br />
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Photography by JL Chabotte<br />
Instagram @jlchabottephoto
Who is your role model?<br />
Artistically, I would say Leonardo da Vinci. I just<br />
love how many subject matters he dabbled in--<br />
drawing, painting, inventing. He just seemed like<br />
an incredibly interesting person. Currently, I really<br />
look to the artwork of Audra Auclair, J.A.W. Cooper,<br />
Daria Theodora, and Sara Tepes for inspiration.<br />
‘She never knew defeat’, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Ink on Cold-Press Watercolor Paper<br />
and then I beginning my tasks for that day, which<br />
I plan that morning while having breakfast. Tasks<br />
can range from sketching, painting, bookbinding<br />
(or other handmade craft-related things), or any<br />
art-related tasks for R2C2 Studios. What I do in a<br />
day really depends on prioritization.<br />
Do you have any favorite videogame?<br />
My all-time favorite video game is Alice: Madness<br />
Returns. Not only do I love the dark and twisted<br />
story, but the visuals are absolutely stunning. I<br />
also enjoy Borderlands, as it was the game that<br />
my husband and I played the most while dating.<br />
One could say we bonded over it.<br />
What is the best piece of advice<br />
you have received?<br />
To build your own dream--not someone else’s. I’m<br />
not sure who it came from, but my husband used<br />
to work as a call center agent and was helping a<br />
woman on the phone. Near the end of the call,<br />
she said that he sounded smart and wasn’t sure<br />
why he was working for someone. She asked him,<br />
“Do you want to build someone else’s dream<br />
or your own?” It really resonated with him, as<br />
he’s always been the go-getter type. Whenever<br />
I feel discouraged about my art, I remember<br />
that question. Do I want to work as an admin or<br />
receptionist at a company that I don’t really care<br />
about? Or do I want to build my own dream, or<br />
as I have recently been calling it, plan of being an<br />
artist? Sure, the former option is easier, but the<br />
latter is far more fulfilling.<br />
Do you have a favorite book?<br />
Oh my, this is a difficult question! I can’t say<br />
that I have a particular favorite, even when I<br />
break them down by genre. My favorite series<br />
is probably A Series of Unfortunate Events by<br />
Lemony Snicket. I also really enjoyed the Dark<br />
Secrets series by Elizabeth Chandler. And just<br />
about any book by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.<br />
I know that isn’t very specific, but I have such<br />
difficulty narrowing favorites down.<br />
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‘Curiosity’, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Ink on Cold-Press Watercolor Paper
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Featured Artist<br />
Jaymi<br />
Zents<br />
A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists<br />
Fellowship, Jaymi Zents maintains a studio in Ohio,<br />
working on her sculptures, paintings, and drawings.<br />
Graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art with<br />
a BFA in drawing in 1997, she has freelanced for The<br />
Health Museum of Cleveland, Picker International,<br />
and Kaleidoscope Animations, as well as having<br />
served as the Resident Artist for the Cleveland San<br />
Jose Ballet. Jaymi also worked with the education<br />
department at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Her<br />
work is in private collections in Canada, the United<br />
Kingdom, the United States, and Belgium.<br />
‘Frost’ 2012<br />
Pencil, oil on birch
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Jaymi Zents<br />
Featured Artist<br />
Artist Statement<br />
Drawing is the most cherished time that I have. There is a<br />
meditative element to getting lost in all of the details of a<br />
beautiful surface with a simple pencil. Organic surfaces have<br />
always provided the source and inspiration for my work. It began<br />
with skins and stained rice papers, eventually encompassing<br />
stained silk and wax. Any surface that literally had a life and a<br />
history of its own was a potential surface for finding figures. As<br />
a kid, I was always looking for animals and figures in the clouds<br />
or the wood paneling. Birch was a natural progression. Initially,<br />
the birch was a means of extending my love of landscaping<br />
and gardening into the Winter season. So many of the forms<br />
and curiosities of nature could be found in each piece of wood.<br />
The tree itself had endured untold stories. It had sustained<br />
life, each knot indicative of a branch that fed the tree itself, but<br />
also supported animals and insects. There is a microcosm in<br />
the remnants of life, in relics, that is profound and fascinating.<br />
Stains, knots, and growth rings quickly give way to spider webs<br />
and roots, wings and blood vessels, and a vast array of biological<br />
forms. I have deep respect for the life that was lived and wants<br />
to honor its beauty. Hopefully, my girls are an extension of<br />
that beauty. The female figure is symbolically in keeping with<br />
notions of sustenance, nurturing, and fertility that are so much<br />
of my interest. I strive to draw women who are self-aware, yet<br />
empathetic. Women with an intelligence and depth beyond<br />
their physical beauty. Their solitude is their peace.<br />
‘Ascension’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Pencil, oil on birch<br />
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Jaymi Zents<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Gatekeeper’ 2012<br />
Pencil, oil on birch<br />
‘Immersion’ 2011<br />
Pencil, acrylic on birch<br />
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‘Kalypso’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Pencil, oil on birch
‘Timber’ 2014<br />
Pencil, oil on birch<br />
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Jaymi Zents<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Invocation’ 2014<br />
Pencil, oil on birch<br />
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Featured Artist<br />
Enys<br />
Guerrero<br />
My name is Enys Guerrero, since I was a little child I<br />
dedicated a huge part of my time to the arts. I have been<br />
always influenced by history moments like Renaissance<br />
and Victorian age, at the same time the fantasies themes,<br />
the Romanticism and tragedy also was a source of<br />
inspiration to me. I graduated with nineteen (19) years<br />
old as graphic designer and I start my artistic career<br />
since them. My works have been published in artbooks,<br />
tarot decks, postal cards and magazines like Infected<br />
by Art Volume 2, 78 Tarot-The Tarot of The Water, 78<br />
Tarot Carnival, Zodiacal Postal card set by Aura-Scope,<br />
Infected by Art Volume 3, 78 Tarot Astral, Ladies of The<br />
Steampunk Magazine, Kultur Magazine, Digital Templum<br />
Magazine, among many others.<br />
At this moment I am working with 78Tarot Editorial and<br />
Braiinz Publishing, at the same time that I’m working<br />
on personal projects. You can find some of my original<br />
pieces being auctioned on Strange Dreams Surreal Artist<br />
Collective Facebook page and at The Rabbit Hole Artist<br />
Collective Facebook page.<br />
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Enys Guerrero<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘The Keys of the Savage Garden’<br />
Acrylics, watercolors, color pencils,<br />
pastel and inks on opalina paper<br />
‘Como Cierva Sedienta’<br />
Color pencils, gouaches, acrylics,<br />
pastel and coffee on opalina paper<br />
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Enys Guerrero<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Memento Mori’<br />
Acrylics, watercolors,<br />
color pencils, pastel and<br />
inks on opalina paper<br />
‘Natanya’s<br />
Wonderland’<br />
Color pencil, watercolor,<br />
inks, coffee and acrylics<br />
on opalina paper<br />
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Enys Guerrero<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘Forest Spirit’<br />
Acrylics, watercolors, color pencils,<br />
pastel and inks on opalina paper<br />
‘Forest Memories’<br />
Acrylics, watercolors, color pencils,<br />
pastel and inks on opalina paper<br />
100 | June <strong>2017</strong>
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Enys Guerrero<br />
Featured Artist<br />
‘The Moon’<br />
Acrylics, watercolors, color pencils, pastel, inks and markers on opalina paper<br />
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Interview by Ramón A.Olivares<br />
EVGENIYA<br />
GOLIK<br />
“Deep gazes, halos, long necks, blossoming skins, gold leaves,<br />
secrets and stars...”<br />
Evgeniya Golik (aka Evgola) is a Russian born pop-surrealist<br />
based in San Diego, California.<br />
Inspired by the European Renaissance, Russian Orthodox icons,<br />
Slavic folklore, fairy-tales and modern pop culture (fashion,<br />
photography, cinematography, music), Evgola’s art combines<br />
a classic sensibility within a contemporary setting, something<br />
which artist-self defines as ‘Neo Renaissance’.<br />
Using a variety of media, her work joins real world portraiture<br />
with imaginative and often surreal narratives to highlight and<br />
reveal her subject’s personalities.<br />
Evgola’s haunting paintings and drawings are doors to a mystical<br />
realm, one which showcases a myriad of beautiful human<br />
faces and fantastical creatures, that seek to express their secret<br />
through esoteric language.<br />
Evgeniya has been working notably with The Oceanside Museum<br />
of Art (OMA), Museum Of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Museum<br />
of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and New Americans<br />
Museum (NAM) as of latest. Her art have been exhibited in various<br />
Galleries within the USA and Europe, as well as being published<br />
and commissioned by private collectors all over the world.<br />
Photography by Keshav Dahiya<br />
www.dahiya.us<br />
Instagram @drdahiya<br />
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Photography by Anna Buster<br />
www.annamos.com<br />
Describe your path to what you’re doing now.<br />
I’ve been drawing and painting since I can<br />
remember. It’s not been a straight path to what<br />
I do now. But art and daydreaming have always<br />
been my salvation, my happy bubble I was<br />
hiding into whenever I felt like it, on my good and<br />
bad days. I remember being a kid, and besides<br />
doodling in my albums, I would often spend hours<br />
browsing through books of fairytales illustrated<br />
with some of the best Russian and European<br />
artists. Later on it was Art History books.<br />
My mother is a librarian and big books lover, so<br />
we’ve always had a great selection of books at<br />
home. Definitely it had huge impact on me as<br />
growing artist. I thank my father for the artistic gift<br />
he pass on me with his genes. And yes of course<br />
Art School and degree in Architecture and Design<br />
have helped to improve my skills.<br />
Did you always want to be an artist?<br />
No, I’ve tried to avoid the inevitable for a while.<br />
I grew up in a world of stereotypes, where artist<br />
as actual job title pretty much did not exist. I had<br />
to think about earning money as soon as it was<br />
possible, so art was not an option at that time.<br />
Architecture and Design were a good compromise<br />
for me in those years. I kept painting and drawing,<br />
but only for a pleasure of my own and my beloved<br />
people, just as my hobby. And I got an actual<br />
office job. I was fighting my karma for years, until I<br />
realized that art is what I do best as a professional<br />
and I actually enjoy it the most. I found ways to get<br />
paid by being creative and using my artistic skills.<br />
So it was time to leave the office and pursue my<br />
dreams. Life is too short, we exist to do something<br />
we love! Even if it can be a real challenge at<br />
times, that’s the only way to grow, give our best to<br />
society and live in peace with our-selves.<br />
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‘Balance (2 Swords Tarot)’<br />
Acrylic, colored pencils, silver and gold<br />
leafing pen, ink pen on wood panel
‘Phoenix’<br />
Mixed Media<br />
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Evgeniya Golik<br />
Interview June <strong>2017</strong><br />
Where did you grow up?<br />
I grew up in Vladivostok, it’s a diverse modern<br />
city, sea port very East of Russia. I was living<br />
there till the age of 24, still most of my life. So<br />
excuse my English, haha.<br />
You said you grew up in Russia. What was<br />
the art like there?<br />
It was impressive, because only the most<br />
talented people were artists back then, few<br />
brave ones who had true passion for art<br />
without compromises. There were not as<br />
many because of the money struggle factor,<br />
especially in Perestroika times. Generally art<br />
was classical, realistic, monumental, patriotic,<br />
at times impressionistic. Mostly portraits of<br />
people with great stories, still life, history,<br />
genre, landscape paintings from what I can<br />
remember. Definitely a high academic level,<br />
very strong school.<br />
What do you do for inspiration?<br />
For inspiration... I just keep my eyes open. I get<br />
inspired from everything I see. It can be people<br />
with unusual characteristics, endless beauty of<br />
nature creations, events happening in the world,<br />
different cultures, places I visit, also interesting<br />
stories, favorite movies or even the medium<br />
itself that I happen to use... And of course I<br />
look into the past of art history for inspiration<br />
(European Renaissance fascinates me the most)<br />
and follow modern art tendencies, thanks to<br />
internet and social media it’s easy to do.<br />
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What motivates you as an artist?<br />
Do you want to know the sad truth? Deadlines,<br />
haha! Before I started to work with galleries and<br />
to do commission art, I had a lot of unfinished<br />
pieces. And I want to thank my ego for pushing<br />
me to constantly improve my technique and get<br />
my name out there. Only half-joking. On a serious<br />
note... Through art I’m trying to express what I<br />
feel, to share different vision and perspective with<br />
others, to show that we - humans - are beautiful in<br />
any version nature has created us and the world<br />
is a magical place, full of miracles, mystery and<br />
charm. I know my work resonates with emotions<br />
of many other people, so I’m on a mission of<br />
doing it for them. And I practice art for my-self as a<br />
healing therapy, meditation or escape.<br />
What kinds of projects are you working on in<br />
the studio right now?<br />
I’m working on one big social project. I had an<br />
honor to be selected by the New Americans<br />
Museum to work on “Muse mural project”<br />
(Artist Interpretations of San Diego Museums).<br />
I’m happy to represent NAM especially since I<br />
consider my-self “new American”, so I can feel<br />
the essence of museum’s mission on all levels -<br />
personal, emotional, political. It’s at the concept<br />
developing stage right now - producing sketches<br />
and a large painting before I perform an actual<br />
mural. Concept paintings for several museums by<br />
different artists will be exhibited on June 17 at La<br />
Bodega Gallery, San Diego. Also I have one group<br />
show “Furs, Tails, Feathers & Scales” coming up<br />
at Distinction Gallery, Escondido on June 10,<br />
working on one animal inspired painting for it.<br />
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‘Liberty’<br />
Mixed Media<br />
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Evgeniya Golik<br />
evgolafineart.com<br />
‘Fear’<br />
Acrylic, colored pencils, ink pen on wood panel<br />
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Photography by Anna Buster<br />
www.annamos.com<br />
Tell me about the first time you considered<br />
art as an actual career.<br />
I guess when I first sold my art piece at the gallery<br />
and when I started to get requests for commission<br />
portraits and murals.<br />
Tell me about body painting.<br />
I made my first face and body painting attempts<br />
about 7 years ago. It started as just fun, painting<br />
friends at home gatherings and festivals in whose<br />
sweet times I used to party. Then little by little<br />
it became my second (after fine art) passion,<br />
and additional career. I do body painting as live<br />
performance at various events, also for magazine<br />
editorial photo shoots, for TV, for fashion shows,<br />
for ComicCon and such. I also teach body and<br />
face painting at the Makeup Academy. Body<br />
art is a very special way of self-expression and<br />
connecting to your model. It’s quite a speedy type<br />
of painting, I usually have no more than three<br />
hours to complete it. Human skin is an amazing<br />
live canvas, the whole process of transformation is<br />
pretty fascinating and exciting.<br />
Are your family and friends supportive of<br />
what you do?<br />
Extremely supportive! And it means the world<br />
to me! So grateful for having such loving, caring,<br />
helping and understanding people in my life.<br />
Although they are my biggest distraction as well,<br />
but I don’t mind it - best distraction ever!<br />
How does where you live to<br />
impact your creativity?<br />
When I moved to California I got merged into a<br />
multi-cultural society. And it definitely transformed<br />
me as an artist and as a human in general -<br />
expended my horizons, enriched inspiration. Plus<br />
San Diego has a very welcoming art community. I<br />
was lucky to find several artists friends in this city,<br />
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who are always ready to help with an advice, to<br />
share experience. There are some very talented<br />
people up here, a lot to learn from.<br />
What is your favorite music?<br />
I like many different music genres. Pop Rock,<br />
Indie Rock, Alternative, New Wave, Trip Hop,<br />
Blues, Chill out, Psychedelic Trance and most of<br />
electronic music. I think I will never get tired of<br />
listening to Depeche Mode. Although my most<br />
favorite is live music.<br />
Do you have a favorite book?<br />
One favorite? No. If you look at my library shelves<br />
you’ll find mostly art history books, contemporary<br />
magazines and books about artists I admire the<br />
most. When I was younger I used to read sciencefiction<br />
novels by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Kir<br />
Bulychev, Victor Pelevin...<br />
Who is your role model?<br />
I don’t have one role model, but I truly admire<br />
several female surrealists: Frida Kahlo, Remedios<br />
Varo, Leonora Carrington. They are great<br />
example of strong spirit, unique style and<br />
unstoppable passion for art.<br />
What advice would you give to a person<br />
starting out?<br />
Stay faithful and sincere to your-self, don’t think<br />
about “what others will say”, don’t try to create art<br />
everyone will love - most important that you love<br />
it. It’s impossible to please all. Your audience will<br />
discover your talent when the time is right. Find<br />
something that makes you different from the rest<br />
and develop it into your unique style. Be patient,<br />
work hard, keep learning, keep experimenting and<br />
always give your best.<br />
What is your dream project?<br />
Back in the days I dreamed about being book<br />
illustrator (children’s fairytale books especially),<br />
perhaps it is still one of my wishes to come true.<br />
But my dreams have gotten bigger since, literally...<br />
I dream about large scale paintings, meaningful<br />
murals of social, public character. So I guess my<br />
dream is coming to life, since it’s exactly what I’m<br />
working on right now.<br />
‘Under the skin’<br />
Oil, acrylic, gold leaf, vinyl / paper<br />
butterflies on wood panel<br />
Photography by Anna Buster<br />
www.annamos.com<br />
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Evgeniya Golik<br />
evgolafineart.com<br />
‘Honey and Bees’<br />
Oil, graphite, colored pencils on wood panel<br />
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‘Free as a Bird’<br />
Mixed Media<br />
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oberto ferri<br />
Artist of the month<br />
‘Evocazione’ <strong>2017</strong><br />
Oil on canvas
ROBERTO FERRI<br />
Artist of the month<br />
Roberto Ferri was born in Taranto<br />
in 1978. In 1996, he graduated from<br />
art school “Lysippos” of Taranto.<br />
He began to study painting on her<br />
own and moved to Rome in 1999,<br />
explores the research on ancient<br />
painting, the beginning of the<br />
sixteenth to the nineteenth century;<br />
in particular, he devoted himself<br />
to painting Caravaggio and the<br />
academic (David, Ingres, Girodet,<br />
Géricault, Gleyre, Bouguereau, etc.).<br />
In 1996, he graduated from the<br />
Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto, a<br />
local art school in his hometown.<br />
He began to study painting on his<br />
own and moved to Rome in 1999,<br />
to increase research on ancient<br />
painting, beginning at the end of the<br />
16th century, in particular. In 2006,<br />
he graduated with honors from the<br />
Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.<br />
His work is represented in important<br />
private collections in Rome, Milan,<br />
London, Paris, New York, Madrid,<br />
Barcelona, Miami, Qatar, Dublin,<br />
Boston, Malta...<br />
His work was featured in the<br />
controversial Italian pavilion of<br />
the Venice Biennale 2011, and has<br />
exhibited at Palazzo Cini, Venice in<br />
the Kitsch Biennale 2010.<br />
‘Il Rito’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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oberto ferri<br />
Artist of the month<br />
‘Cupo Fuoco’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
‘Il Dono’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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oberto ferri<br />
robertoferri.net<br />
‘Torso-Maschile’ 2014<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
‘Nella Nebbia’ 2016<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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oberto ferri<br />
robertoferri.net<br />
‘Lacrime D’avorio’ 2015<br />
Oil on canvas
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oberto ferri<br />
robertoferri.net<br />
‘Il Sospetto’ 2015<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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