Sebastian Di Mauro, an artist hailing from Australia, embarked on a transformative journey to the United States, a land far from his homeland. In this foreign terrain, he discovered not only the intricate interplay of identity but also a unique way to express it through his art. His move was not simply a change of geography but a turning point in life. With his spouse, whose roots are in Wilmington, Delaware, Di Mauro immersed himself in a new cultural landscape. As a child in Australia, he had grown up fascinated by American imagery—television shows and films that portrayed the promise…
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Jane Gottlieb is an artist who has spent her life expressing a deep love for color, form, and expression. Raised in Los Angeles, she began her creative path with painting before turning toward photography. Yet she never stayed within one medium for long. She has enhanced, painted, and combined her images with Photoshop now and for the past 25 years. Over time, she developed a process that merged the painter’s brush with the photographer’s eye, hand-painting her own images with bold, saturated tones. More than thirty years ago, she started working with Cibachrome prints, transforming photographs into something between reality…
Carolin Rechberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice lives at the crossroads of mediums, senses, and ideas. Born in Starnberg, Germany, she has cultivated a body of work that defies containment. Her creative reach extends across ceramics, drawing, installation, illustration, painting, performance, printmaking, photography, poetry, sculpture, sound art, textile design, and voice work. What connects these seemingly diverse practices is her devotion to process. For Rechberg, making is not simply a route toward a finished object—it is the core of the art itself. Each gesture, each material, each sound or mark carries the weight of experience and becomes a thread…
Juliette Lepage Boisdron, born in Paris, is an artist whose work reflects the wide arc of her life across cultures and continents. With a Master’s Degree in History of Art from Sorbonne University, she has built a foundation that grounds her creative practice in academic rigor while leaving room for the freedom of expression that comes from lived experience. Her path has taken her from North China to the U.S.S.R., Abu Dhabi, Pondicherry, New York, Lisbon, Paris, Singapore, and Basel. Each stop has left a trace, expanding her understanding of identity and shaping the layers of her work. Juliette’s art…
Mikel Frank is an experienced artist, educator, and curator who has spent his life immersed in the arts. His 29 years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art gave him an extraordinary foundation, shaping his understanding of both history and contemporary practice. Over the years, he has curated exhibitions in New York and Charlotte, NC, and his work has traveled internationally with the Global Art Project. Frank has also worked alongside some of the most ambitious art projects of the past decades, including Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates Project in Central Park. His curatorial vision was also central to MICA: Then and Now at the…
William Schaaf’s artistic journey is one of self-discovery, healing, and connection to the natural world. At 80 years old, he looks back on six decades of painting and sculpting with the horse as his central subject. His art is not simply about representing the equine form but about reaching into a deeper spiritual current that runs through him. Horses, in his work, become vessels of memory, carriers of tradition, and companions in his own search for meaning. Schaaf has long been inspired by the Zuni and Navajo fetish and doll makers, artists who use their craft to honor life and…
Michael Sabin, an artist deeply rooted in upstate New York, has a story as reflective and multifaceted as the glass he has worked with for decades. Born and raised in a small town, his early years in the Finger Lakes—an area often called Mark Twain Country—left a lasting imprint on his imagination. The natural beauty of the rolling hills and lakes was matched by a culture of storytelling and quiet observation, which helped form the foundation of his creative life. Sabin has always sought mediums that can hold light and color in unusual ways, and glass became his lifelong partner.…
Ted Barr’s journey as an artist is as unique as his life story. Born in Nevodar, Romania, near the Black Sea, his earliest memories were shaped by the pull of water and the flow of migration. At just four years old, his family moved to Israel, carrying him from one shore to another. This shift marked the beginning of a life built on exploration—geographic, spiritual, and cosmic. Barr’s curiosity has never been limited to one field or one view of the world. His work draws from the vastness of outer space while remaining deeply rooted in the fragility of human…
Randa Hijazi is a contemporary Syrian-Canadian painter whose journey has carried her from Damascus to Dubai and finally to Laval, Quebec, where she has made her home since 2017. Born in Damascus, she graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus in 2000. She later expanded her studies in Mass Communication and Media Science at the same university, graduating in 2008. This dual background—fine art and journalism—gave her a layered way of seeing the world. She can move between the sharp eye of a photojournalist and the open hand of a painter. Her paintings often carry…
L. Scooter Morris, a sensory illusionist, creates paintings that blur the line between surface and substance. She describes her work as “Sculpted Paintings,” a term that captures her method of weaving color, light, and texture into layered experiences. Her art is not about replicating reality but about revealing the invisible truths hidden within it. By folding mixed media into her canvases—whether through surface variations or textured relief—Morris builds works that both demand attention and invite quiet reflection. At the heart of her practice is a belief that art should start dialogue, especially during moments of societal upheaval. Her paintings become…