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The Art World Provocateur,-Alfredo Martinez
The Art World Provocateur,-Alfredo Martinez

Alfredo Martinez is a New York City-based artist who served time in the US federal prison for forging and selling Basquiat drawings to prominent collectors. He was also detained and later deported from China by local authorities.

The Eyes that Speak a Thousand Words
The Eyes that Speak a Thousand Words

“The circle and the drip are my trade marks. It’s something that just came about over time and I stuck with it. I did it so the focus of my subjects would be their eyes. The eyes of a person can speak a thousand words.” -Dain.

Nostalgic Overlapping of Images, Memories and Family History
Nostalgic Overlapping of Images, Memories and Family History

Nicolas Sanchez explores his bi-cultural origins, beautifully blends his family's rural Mexican history with American Midwest by creating layered narratives that are expressed through both imagery and process.

Traversing Global Landscapes
Traversing Global Landscapes

New York based artist Bill Claps shares his memories of nomadic ventures across Asia in a search of a perfect landscape. He talks about his love for the Asian esthetic and the profound fascination with the birthplace of kung fu.

Exploring Black & White State of Mind
Exploring Black & White State of Mind

This Brooklyn based artist uses color only sometimes, explores the rainbows in-depth, and makes good use of any medium that helps him achieve the kind of visual sounds he is striving for.

Deconstructing Darkness for the Brave New World
Deconstructing Darkness for the Brave New World

Malik Roberts starts his works with a feeling that leads him to places dark, deep and meaningful. Artist draws his inspiration from Baroque giants and brings it to a contemporary audience in his very own, uniquely deconstructed manner.

Houben Paints Money
Houben Paints Money

Through currencies, repetition-loving artist Houben Tcherkelov enters a dialog with different subjects, different eras, and ideologies.

 

Latest Art News

L.A. Museums Team Up With Mega Collector for Groundbreaking Collaboration

Los Angeles is taking the lead, in these trying times. The Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA announced this week they’re taking on a jointly owned and managed art collection to promote L.A.’s local artists, courtesy of an immense donation from noted collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn. The new collective, which will steward and grow the 356-artwork collection, is dubbed the Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA—or, MAC3.

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Robert Nava,- Hated by Art Connoisseurs, Loved by Collectors

Despite the harsh criticism coming from much of the commentariat, his paintings are selling for a lot of money.

In July, Robert Nava made his auction debut at Phillips, where The Tunnel (2019), a painting of a monster’s blood-red eyes, was estimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000. It sold for $162,500. In the following months, his depiction of a transforming Power Ranger fetched $124,195. A painting of a child riding a monster snake brought $100,000.

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Arturo Di Modica, The Sculptor of The Charging Bull, Dies at 80 in is Hometown in Sicily. 

The sculptor lived in New York City for over 40 years. He arrived in 1973 and opened an art studio in the SoHo neighborhood. With the help of a truck crane and a crew of 40 men, Di Modica installed the bronze bull sculpture in New York’s financial district without permission on the night of Dec. 16, 1989.

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Mariane Ibrahim Gallery is Opening a New Location in Paris.

Just two years after moving her fast-growing gallery from Seattle to Chicago, Mariane Ibrahim will open a new location in Paris with plans to further her focus on art from the African diaspora. Paris location will welcome visitors in September to an inaugural show in a newly renovated three-story space on Avenue Matignon in a 19th-century Hausmann building in Paris’s 8th arrondissement.

For an art dealer who grew up in Somalia and France before leaving Paris for the United States in 2010, this will be a homecoming of sorts. 

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Female Exuberance. Mujeres Muralistas for a Great Cause
Female Exuberance. Mujeres Muralistas for a Great Cause

“The Migrant Caravan felt too mythological to be true. The news were telling one story, yet I just could not visualize what thousands of people, of all ages, moving in a critical mass, cross countries, looking for a better life look like.” -Scarlett Baily

Reading our Minds, in Bright Pigments: Reinventing a Frontier Neighborhood in Mexico City
Reading our Minds, in Bright Pigments: Reinventing a Frontier Neighborhood in Mexico City

”. . . In Mexico, we have access to so many amazing pigments. For example, the tiny beetles called cochinillas that grow on the local cactus. These insects bring us the iconic reds and pinks and purples of Mexico.“ -Jasmine Cadenhead

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Frasquito Raymond Gil-Urquijo
Frasquito Raymond Gil-Urquijo

“I started drawing only a couple of years ago, so my memories are quite fresh. I always loved drawing but never gave it a chance, partially because I have an innate inability for it and never wanted to take classes. I am totally ignorant when it comes to art and everything that resembles it”.

Kale Barr’s Beautiful Mess
Kale Barr’s Beautiful Mess

Kale Barr transports experiences from his past and his present onto canvas while using his unique color blending and layering technique. The artist wants the viewers to internalize their own moments of lightness and darkness, thus leaving behind “the beautiful mess”.

Extra Real, Extra Colorful,- the Toy Story by Andres Compagnucci
Extra Real, Extra Colorful,- the Toy Story by Andres Compagnucci

“I am working on a large size flower panting. I also have an ongoing series of paintings that celebrate art,- a tribute to the artists I like the most. I show their style and personality in a playful way by using toys dressed up as the artists themselves.” -Andres Compagnucci

Sculpting Out Our Deepest Fears and Dreams
Sculpting Out Our Deepest Fears and Dreams

“Hero’s Journey” is exploring the relationship with the inner child through time and space, connecting, listening, accepting, surrendering, forgiving, thanking, challenging, holding, confronting, shadowing, appreciating, loving, failing, seeing, playing, pushing, healing, questions, and answers towards awakening. -Haidee Nel

The Optical Illusions of Beauty, Up Close and Personal
The Optical Illusions of Beauty, Up Close and Personal

I believe that the intent of creating is an expression and touching someone who resonates with your work. I call for no limitations and for universal inclusion. -Dimitri Likissas

Kings and Queens
Kings and Queens

Artist Gilda Garza,- from violent Sinaloa not only survives but thrives. “Before I knew it my artwork was all around Caesar's Palace and Roberto Cavalli was already making a jacket with my artwork on it. My artwork graced the covers of Playboy Mexico Magazine and it all has been truly amazing.”

The Oman-Based Artist Depicts the Mexican Story in Vibrant Colors
The Oman-Based Artist Depicts the Mexican Story in Vibrant Colors

“So I take inspiration from life and people around the world because when you strip the obvious layer of division, we all are the same with the same dreams, same struggles, and same values. It is this human struggle and strife that I love capturing on my canvas.” - Gailani

Mila Pierce Leaves a Lot Of Room for the Viewer’s Imagination
Mila Pierce Leaves a Lot Of Room for the Viewer’s Imagination

“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.” Most treasured phrase by Mark Rothko that artist Mila Pierce holds so dear to her heart.

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Yana Volf: Where Meticulous Precision and Patience Define Artistry
Yana Volf: Where Meticulous Precision and Patience Define Artistry

Yana Volf and her world of precision and patience

Tommaso Fattovich and his Abstract World
Tommaso Fattovich and his Abstract World

Fattovich’s skillful use of powerful brush strokes and bright colors beautifully exposes artist’s admiration for extreme juxtapositions. His creative energy and expressive abstractions are undoubtedly generated from within.

Ron Agam’s Relentless Attempt to Repair the Imperfect World
Ron Agam’s Relentless Attempt to Repair the Imperfect World

Artist is using an enlarged flower as a symbol of purity in hopes that its fragility and perfection will encourage us to treasure and care for our planet.

“I Like Working with Things that Bring Ugly Memories to the People”
“I Like Working with Things that Bring Ugly Memories to the People”

Federico Uribe’s Animal Farm is made of X-Rays, surgical instruments, bullets and other painful memory inducing objects. The artist playfully transforms the painful into beautiful.

The Psychology of Art by Lina Condes
The Psychology of Art by Lina Condes

While the artist emerges herself in the creating of sculptures using her knowledge of anatomy, proportion and structure, she still considers her family to be the greatest work of art.

Kolodny’s Art Makes The Money Go Round
Kolodny’s Art Makes The Money Go Round

It took time to materialize his love for Miami and join its ever expanding art community. Artist Kolodny uses sculptural words as his medium to transmit his thoughts and share them with the world.

TRAN$PARENT Money Games
TRAN$PARENT Money Games

TRAN$PARENT artist considers creativity to be the highest form of consciousness and is continuing his father’s legacy while transforming the meaning of money.

The Quintessential Miami Artist, Utterly Everywhere</a>
The Quintessential Miami Artist, Utterly Everywhere

Growing up in the emerging Miami graffiti scene of the ’80s, Atomik witnessed at a young age what would later become his passion and profession.

The Colorful World of Jordan Betten
The Colorful World of Jordan Betten

“I work on paintings, sculptures, and collages simultaneously. I like to have multiple projects around me. I create every day and live in my studio. My work and life are one.” - Jordan Betten

Super Buddha Blessing Miami State of Art
Super Buddha Blessing Miami State of Art

Venezuelan artist, raised in China is taking Miami art scene by storm.

 

 

Art Collectors

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Twenty Years of Loving Contemporary Art
Twenty Years of Loving Contemporary Art

The world of a passionate art collector,- Delphine de Causans is full of neons and no regrets. The ultimate happiness for her are the moments of philanthropy and giving back through arts.

Rockstar Art Collector
Rockstar Art Collector

Torn between collecting are creating, Alex Skora finds time for both in his very hectic and busy life routine.

Beyond Dental Arts
Beyond Dental Arts

“Oral health care for paintings. I guess you could say I was a true patron of the arts.” -Todd Bertman

A Glimpse Inside a Private Collection of a True Art Lover
A Glimpse Inside a Private Collection of a True Art Lover

“I’m motivated by the passion that an artist puts into the creative process.”

-Pablo Annovelli

 

The Next Great Artist

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“I Always Knew I was a Creative and that I Wanted to Work with my Bare Hands”— Fernando Cuétara
“I Always Knew I was a Creative and that I Wanted to Work with my Bare Hands”— Fernando Cuétara

“I love my life as a minimalist, the less I have, the more at peace I am with mysel. I need nothing, I am happy with nothing.”—Fernando Cuétara

“I love when people are able to connect to their own emotions through my artwork”- Cartú
“I love when people are able to connect to their own emotions through my artwork”- Cartú

Artist CARTÚ draws his inspiration from his past experiences, deep contemplations, and ever changing emotional states that he aims to portray by using materials that are as ephemeral as his emotions.

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