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The esthetics of geometric abstraction, optical and kinetic art have been produced and distributed in the Venezuelan media since the last decade. It is possible to affirm that the artistic taste of our country has been impregnated by the investigations, forms and resolutions that characterize these movements. The international success obtained by the masters of kinetic art, Jesús Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, and the fact that an important part of his artwork takes place in the main cities of Venezuela, has contributed to this reality nowadays.
In the field of artistic creation, this influence has been also notable. Since the beginning of this esthetics in the 1970 decade, and even when they were discredited in some ways, many artists have followed the visual marks of geometrics and the kinetic movement. Recently, the critical thinking that moves around kinetic art and the unanimous acclamation of its representatives in the international aspect has reinforced these tendencies, allowing the existence of new followers that have created new proposals from the personal point of view, declaring their obvious affinity for the kinetic movement.
Carolina Sanllehi is a Venezuelan young artist that has followed the work of Carlos Cruz-Diez since the beginning. Her artwork is based on the optical effects, but the pieces are not centered in the vibratory behavior of the colors, she avoids the chromatics radically. The use of white as the only color, allows the artist to overlap levels of clear material with patterns and textures. The repetition and the complex structure of nylon threads and acrylic tubes, create a sensation of distortion making the spectator to perceive blurry volatile shapes.
The artwork of Sanllehi is the delicate result of transparencies played with textures achieved only by using nylon and Plexiglas. Her work looks for the subtle contemplation, the apprehension of a movable atmosphere and the appearance of bodies from geometrical shapes.

Light visible to the human eye, responsible for the sense of sight. My work are structures of order and repetition, white textures and colors creating chiaroscuro with its own shadows, geometrical figures, always including a second layer of element creating optic illusions and movement with colors throughout shining traces in the nylon cords, confusing intentionally the spectator to creating depth and volume as floating and figures in the space.

The idea of movement and the game with the viewer makes her work something unique and its form makes it vibrate, taking it to the bottom of an idea that is sometimes fragmented and sometimes complete, creating a perspective of the world in an unconventional way. The spectator is a crucial part of his work since he is the one who finishes the piece, without them the work of art would not exist.
She uses oil and mixed media including photography, mirror, acrylic, pvcklup’uñk.ñ,l and wood. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico in several instances, mentioning some such as Zona Maco, the Torre Mayor, the Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, the Bicentennial Museum, the Oaxaca Museum, the Museum of Modern Art with Living Art, the Senate of the Republic, the National Lottery, the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, Cultural Center in Luvina, Museum of the State Government of Oaxaca and in international instances in Miami at Spectrum Miami Art Basel week, New York Grimandy gallery and gateway center, California at the Latin American Museum, London Zero Gallery, Spain Asociación Cultural Mexicano Catalana , Cuba Josúe País García House of Culture and Taiwan Chan Liu Museum.

The idea of movement and the game with the viewer makes her work something unique and its form makes it vibrate, taking it to the bottom of an idea that is sometimes fragmented and sometimes complete, creating a perspective of the world in an unconventional way. The spectator is a crucial part of his work since he is the one who finishes the piece, without them the work of art would not exist.
She uses oil and mixed media including photography, mirror, acrylic, pvcklup’uñk.ñ,l and wood. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico in several instances, mentioning some such as Zona Maco, the Torre Mayor, the Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, the Bicentennial Museum, the Oaxaca Museum, the Museum of Modern Art with Living Art, the Senate of the Republic, the National Lottery, the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, Cultural Center in Luvina, Museum of the State Government of Oaxaca and in international instances in Miami at Spectrum Miami Art Basel week, New York Grimandy gallery and gateway center, California at the Latin American Museum, London Zero Gallery, Spain Asociación Cultural Mexicano Catalana , Cuba Josúe País García House of Culture and Taiwan Chan Liu Museum.
Her work is collected internationally and includes Don Gabriel García Márquez and the Latin American Museum in Barcelona.
She has received awards such as 2017 Jose Luis Cuevas Museum for painting, 2019 ATIM in New york received at the MAD museum and 2021 Finalist Art Taipei.
Member of SOMA patronage since 2019.

In the traditional definition usually we make a reference for hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, and that's a good lesson as being good of mind, action and speech .
But Nowadays it’s important to hear, see and speak out loud for what we stand for.
Everyone is different and unique so lets be bold and be heard, be seen and be loud about who we are.

My work is an attempt to capture the feelings associated with life, memory, time and space. If I were to create a term to describe my style it would be something along the lines of intuitive emotional impressionism or expressionism. I tend to follow my emotions rather than a rigid plan both while I photograph and in post- production. I get inspired by what I see and what I imagine and allow my emotions to guide me. In many ways my images are more about how I feel than what I see.
Peter’s interest in photography began at an early age while embarking on long road trips across North America. He wanted to find a way to capture the feelings he experienced while looking out at the vast landscapes. After studying photography at Ryerson University/Humber College and Art History at the University of Toronto, he continued to explore the world around him through his lens. Using his emotions as his guide, he examines themes of time, space and our relative place within them. Having recently been diagnosed with ADHD, he has come to realize that in many ways his images are an escape from his own cluttered mind. Peter’s work belongs to personal and corporate collections around the world.
Besides his formal education, Peter has participated at numerous group shows in Europe, Canada as well as a recent solo show in New York.

Kenny Nguyen explores the concept of cultural identity, integration, and displacement. His studio practice is influenced by Vietnamese culture and background in fashion design. Nguyen uses silk, a cultural-rich material, as a metaphor for identity and transformation.

Kenny Nguyen explores the concept of cultural identity, integration, and displacement. His studio practice is influenced by Vietnamese culture and background in fashion design. Nguyen uses silk, a cultural-rich material, as a metaphor for identity and transformation

Time pauses in order to be contemplated over and over again. A splash of water is frozen between the clouds. Printed on thick, hand cut cotton threads, tones and hues that resemble the different states of water. Before it fades a black line cuts the threads symmetry in order to create a relaxed atmosphere and harmony within the space,
reflecting the warmth and minimal clarity of the piece.
Art Works are limited edition pieces (series of 10) which combine the experience of Nat and Salo Sutton of more than 13 years of working together. Their work combine different arts: photography, painting, sculpture and cinematography. They are installations that invite us to see beyond the frame. Pieces that impact, demanding closer
attention and telling us "look at me closely, here I am, I am not a static image." I am so much more ...
This couple of restless photographers search for a subject or a space to take the photograph. They intervene it, paint it, print it on metal, or tear a piece of canvas and insert corks underneath. They cut it out, distort and make it new. They either add elements or remove them, recreating it. It´s not only a painting but also a sculpture.
What used to be performance, they convert it into an installation.
Logs, balls, threads…anything goes. They are fearless. They distort the pictures until they achieve what they wish to represent. In Art Works the photos are intervened with metal, paint, cork and threads. They are cut, ripped, cut some more, disassembled, then rebuilt and transformed. There are moments to take chances and others to be cautious, but only an artist understands what each work calls for.

Art Works are limited edition pieces (series of 10) which combine the experience of Nat and Salo Sutton of more than 13 years of working together. Their work combine different arts: photography, painting, sculpture and cinematography. They are installations that invite us to see beyond the frame. Pieces that impact, demanding closer
attention and telling us "look at me closely, here I am, I am not a static image." I am so much more ...
This couple of restless photographers search for a subject or a space to take the photograph. They intervene it, paint it, print it on metal, or tear a piece of canvas and insert corks underneath. They cut it out, distort and make it new. They either add elements or remove them, recreating it. It´s not only a painting but also a sculpture.
What used to be performance, they convert it into an installation.
Logs, balls, threads…anything goes. They are fearless. They distort the pictures until they achieve what they wish to represent. In Art Works the photos are intervened with metal, paint, cork and threads. They are cut, ripped, cut some more, disassembled, then rebuilt and transformed. There are moments to take chances and others to be cautious, but only an artist understands what each work calls for.

Three layers of different images printed in threads cut by hand, mounted on an aluminum frame.
Different scenarios, different materials. Several textures that are revealed to discover each other. Dangling cotton threads gliding to escape to another reality while revealing a parallel dimension.
Threads that rest on links and ties creating a hybrid mix. This piece produces an organic sensation to the viewer who does not know, or doesn’t wish to distinguish where one canvas begins and the other ends: Black and white on the middle, colorful on the back and on the front subtle purpuras… A unique piece that reflects the syncretism
between nature and abstract paint each layer a new symbol.
Art Works are limited edition pieces (series of 10) which combine the experience of Nat and Salo Sutton of more than 13 years of working together. Their work combine different arts: photography, painting, sculpture and cinematography. They are installations that invite us to see beyond the frame. Pieces that impact, demanding closer
attention and telling us "look at me closely, here I am, I am not a static image." I am so much more ...
This couple of restless photographers search for a subject or a space to take the photograph. They intervene it, paint it, print it on metal, or tear a piece of canvas and insert corks underneath. They cut it out, distort and make it new. They either add elements or remove them, recreating it. It´s not only a painting but also a sculpture.
What used to be performance, they convert it into an installation.
Logs, balls, threads…anything goes. They are fearless. They distort the pictures until they achieve what they wish to represent. In Art Works the photos are intervened with metal, paint, cork and threads. They are cut, ripped, cut some more, disassembled, then rebuilt and transformed. There are moments to take chances and others to be cautious, but only an artist understands what each work calls for.

The wave" belongs to a group of works conceived between 2014 and 2020. In these pieces, I intent to explore the capacity that common objects poses to describe situations, behaviors or human spaces.

The image of the bonfire of books appears frequently at different instances of the history of humanity. These are moments in which a group in power assumes the authority of denying others of certain knowledge contained in the volumes condemned to fire. The act of burning a book is one of the most evident among all forms of censorship. In certain occasions, in order to refer to this works, I've said that it is inspired in what I've called "The Torquemada effect" in Cuban culture.

New grounds & new adventures await. Shifting a series that contemplates the search for adding to our lives. New horizons, hearts beating w/new pace ...the understanding of our lives, shifting. We travel long and assuredly, climb higher and steadier.

With a strong focus on conceptual photography, predominantly staged self-portraits, her work presents narratives that challenge the status quo of the quotidien, exposing layers of complexity seemingly invisible to the eye. Her language explores dichotomies of the optimistic and the cynical, the comedic and the pensive, the forbidden and the compliant, the absurd and the spiritual. Through her installations and performance works, Alcántara is able to engage with the audience herself, blurring the lines of the intimate and the public.
During the pandemic Alcántara’s work went viral online, giving her career a pivotal push. She resorted to photography as a way to release her own uncertainties, fears and anxieties caused by the pandemic, resulting in an unprecedented public response as everyone could relate to these universal themes.

La Festa" Oil on Canvas is a nostalgic nod to Rachel's childhood in Italy where traditional Carnivals and Circuses used to visit the small town where she grew up just outside Florence.
Her Unique technique of Oil Embroidery creates the illusion of woven thread referencing Italian Tapestries and their whimsical stories.

Blurring the Boundaries between Sculpture and Painting, monumental and delicate. Casa Mia done in Oil on Canvas represents the feeling of the city, the dark , the beautiful, the other wordly.
There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave."
Please check on image to be familiar with process to create the textile with oil.

In this series I encounter my past through objects from my childhood. As if I had stored them in a time capsule years ago, just so I can unbury them today and discover how the nostalgia butterflies have transformed my memories.

Zammy Migdal, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, served in the Israeli Army, 1975-79. From 1980, lives in Miami, FL. Before devoting his life to Visual Art, as a B.A. Hospitality Management from Florida International University, he was general manager and partner at Indian Creek Hotel, Miami Beach, winning awards for restoring the hotel to its 1930s glamour. He has big interest in the Arts, being their supporter: 2002-05, Board of Directors of Maximum Dance; 2005-09, Board of Directors Member of Ballet Gamonet and 2006-09, as its President; 2008 to present as Member of Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust. At Lincoln Road's Art Center of South Florida, he studied art in metal with Carolina Sardi and Daniel Fiorda. In 2005, as full-time sculptor developed his artistic creativity in self-standing sculptures and wall installations. His abstract Art depicts images from his imagination that he wants to share with others. Three-dimensional creation always interested him. He brings life and motion to new or recycled metal, connecting his works to each other, as their textures reflect an inner world of fertile vital imagination. His first Abstract Series Tropical Metal, inspired by the plants in his garden, was followed by Square Chain and Construction Series, motivated by our environment's construction. A visit to Morocco inspired his Levitation Series. On his Turbulence series he made viewers visualize motion over each metal piece, some like imaginary wooden surfaces in contrast to others looking like metallic boiling elements, to remind the Universe's changing evolving nature composed by opposite forces that create the equilibrium for unexpected peaceful end results. Moved by nearby nature and people, he expanded creating new shapes, reaching balance, essential form, and grace, obtaining the equivalent of perfection of any form of Art. Raw materials and powerful images assembled by Zammy create vibrations by penetrations, provoke contrasts, inner spaces and deep holes projected to the infinite, while metal filter the backgrounds as these works become intriguing beauty. Composition, equilibrium, and balance are qualities of his Art. At once we experience the effects of color, form, and symbol. On the Series of Polygon Graffiti, he combines geometric shapes that interact representing non-real objects based in real images and experiences. On his poetic artworks, inspired by his life and travels, nothing is left to improvisation. Assembling artistically designed elements on a flat surface, he transforms it into a rich surface plentiful of texture and color to interact among metal elements, backgrounds, attaching pins, space, light, and shadows. Raw materials are used without additional decoration. On a recent work, a new ingredient appears on top of the raw color coated material. A simple metal stripe becomes a unique vibrating element under the masterly creative act of the Artist. For Zammy emotion is paramount in the symbiosis of abstraction and feeling. He depicts emotional instants of life using paint, wood, metal, acrylic, creating a variety of textures, colors and visual effects to suggest stress, torsion, equilibrium or pain. At Scope Art Fair Miami, he portrayed not only an image, but an event. After a hit-and-run driver rolled over his foot as he crossed the street, he used Art to replicate the life experience of his reconstructive surgery and months of rehab in ZMM @HSS Series created when he got back on his feet, born from the X-rays of his damaged foot that he transferred on canvas, stretched over wooden boxes, topped with metal and painting to express his pain and revival. Zammy said: "Life changes in a split second. It happened so fast. From happily walking across the street to finding myself on the pavement with excruciating pain... I am not going to let the injury define me, I’m blessed, and I’m having fun. Art was always within me!” "I create sculptures that transform spaces and walls into shapes, colors and shadows. Every piece is strong, clean, often undulating and at other times straight clean lines. In my work, energy flows to form clarity and purpose. While water and words are easy to pour and impossible to recover, metal shapes into form. But, it is the emptiness inside the forms that holds the shadows." At Art Santa Fe, Zammy presents two distinct creative walls assembling unique metal pieces, using color in For Ever Foliage or monochrome in White Trail, that will create great attraction. His widely exhibited Art is in homes, businesses, and public spaces worldwide, from Hong Kong to Las Vegas, or closer to home at Temple Beth Am, Pinecrest, Bloomingdale’s, Aventura, and Miami Dade College, Hialeah.
At the present time Zammy just finished a Solo Show “Internal Knot" at the Coral Gables Museum, Miami, Florida.

This sculpture is manufactured using laser cut acrylic and molded out using thermic gloves with heat. The most difficult part of the production process is that the artist only has few seconds to shape the acrylic before it cools down and returns to its original rigid state. Therefore, the secret of the creation of this sculpture is the ability of the artist to create her planned design in a truly brief time.

I developed my series “Optical Vibration” combining multidimensional curves in mathematical precision, intensified with multicolor lines, achieving the perception of continuous movement.
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I developed my series “Optical Vibration” combining multidimensional curves in mathematical precision, intensified with multicolor lines, achieving the perception of continuous movement.
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Retail Therapy evokes a sensory wonderland that visually delights and distracts from the day-to-day mundane of modern living. Shopping reduces residual sadness. And sadness is strongly associated with a sense that situational forces control the outcomes in one's life. Thus, the choices inherent in shopping may restore personal control over one's environment and inspire contentment. Studies suggest that when people feel things aren't going their way, getting precisely what they want can be a positive personal achievement. Shopping stimulates the senses.
Through the experience of something new, the bright lights and colorful displays combine to create an imaginative simulative experience that removes one from their own reality. Through presentations, we project ourselves in satisfying environments. Browsing, scrolling, or window shopping can positively impact one's mood. This simple anticipation of the possibility of a reward or treat releases dopamine, the hormone neurotransmitter in the brain that makes people feel good. Dopamine increases the desire to continue to seek out things that make one feel good.

Submerged and caught in a voyeuristic moment of social detox, the socialite is found glistening when she retreats to "powder her nose".

In my new series " Human to Post-human " l imagine different stages of Human evolution. In the future humans will merge with Al and will no longer be strictly biological. Technology will alter our notion of what it means to be human. We will genetically redesign humans, eliminating aging and greatly enhance our intellectual and physical capabilities.
Equilibrium shows the perfect balance between nature and technology.
Method: The artist creates a Pro-type of his new concept, choose a proper model and make-up artist and by the guidance of the artist the Pro-type is transfer to the human being. Then the artist takes the proper photos to be print under on Chroma lux with a Black Floating Frame.

In my new series " Human to Post-human ", l imagine different stages of Human Evolution.
In the future humans will merge with Al and will no longer be strictly biological.
Technology will alter our notion of what it means to be human. We will genetically redesign humans, eliminating aging and greatly enhance our intellectual and physical capabilities.
Metamorphosa demonstrates the Metamorphosing into a hybrid species that it will be necessary for
human survival.
Method: The artist creates a Pro-type of his new concept, choose a proper model and make-up artist and by the guidance of the artist the Pro-type is transfer to the human being. Then the artist takes the proper photos to be print under on Chroma lux with a Black Floating Frame.

In my new series " Human to Post-human " l imagine different stages of Human evolution.
In the future humans will merge with Al and will no longer be strictly biological. Technology will alter our notion of what it means to be human. We will genetically redesign humans, eliminating aging and greatly enhance our intellectual and physical capabilities.
Odyssey is the truly image of this adventurous journey.
The artist creates a Pro-type of his new concept, choose a proper model and make-up artist and by the guidance of the artist the Pro-type is transfer to the human being. Then the artist takes the proper photos to be print under on Chroma lux with a Black Floating Frame.

This picture was made in Montreal during summer 2012. It was taken at night to highlight the sparkling effect of the dress. The French singer Gaële was the model in the photo. The artist chose this moment as it seems suspended in time and allows the viewer to get into a dreamy state of mind.

Alice was taken in 2015 in Los Angeles during a music video set. This shoot was unplanned askKids jumped with dresses in the pool. This picture was actually taken while one of the sisters was was tying to getout of water.
This all scenery leads to a very surrealist and dreamy interpretation of a playful moment.

Frida Quincianera, a very important tradition in Mexico which Frida celebrated in her house with his family and friends with pozole, tamales, and anatole de guayaba. Several neighbors were invited to celebrate with the mariachis ban.

The painting was created during my residency on Governor's Island thanks to 4Heads non profit arts organization. 'absentia' or absence is for me multi-layered and references both physical & emotional presence as well as absence. Being fully present in a space and time is considered increasingly difficult and it is my hope that these meditative moments in paint help to regard our place, our connections within and beyond ourselves. It is also a memorial in a way to the palpable feeling of loss, how an empty space can feel tangible when no longer occupied by people or even objects that were so integral to our own existence. The final physical painting features water, which I often use as a form of eraser and it also removes my control over aspects of the process. The light from Governor's Island shines through parts of the image and reminds me of the beautiful day it was created, lending a bit of hope in these trying times.
‘absentia’ and my complete first collection of NFT’s is viewable on the platform, Opensea, link below:
https://opensea.io/collection/greggvemery-collection

Inspired by a powerful line from Nina Simone's, 'Feeling Good' this painting is about powerful moments, power in simplicity and about moving forward even when it feels like you can't even get out of bed. With so much trying to weigh us down it is also a moment to meditate, pay attention to the beautiful connections we all have with one another and this world and to move. Movement & meditation have been my focus for much of my painting career and I hope you enjoy this latest piece created in my New York City studio.

This new exhibition by the artist Alejandro Rauhut begins with the abstraction of his series “LAYERS OF BEING”, digitalizing and fractalizing it.
It is born from the questioning about the value that the intangible and the ephemeral has for each one. Is an object worth more than an experience, an action than a feeling, a physical work of art or a digital one (NFT)?
The artist takes the geometries, duplicating them in infinity and animating them. The continuous movement, the repetition of forms on different scales, the continuous exploration of geometries transcribed from the physical to the digital and back again. These end up being an unconscious analogy that alludes to fractals. They reach the point where there is a back and forth, where the origin becomes irrelevant, they are simply in a different form, plane, state, but in coherence and harmony.

Alejandro Rauhut, born in Bogotá, Colombia, resides and has his Art studio there. Education: 2002, Industrial Design, Universidad de los Andes and 2004, Graphic Design, Universidad La Salle College. Rauhut says about his Series EXCLUSIONS: "These mirrors intervened with maps of different cities dating from around 1800 are a call towards gratitude. These pieces that depending on the light generate different nuances are light boxes where the geometric figure can be turned on and off generating different sensations depending on its state and environment. This makes them not only contemplative but interactive with the viewer since the reflection is a big part of the artwork. This series consists of 8 maps of different cities, each with a different color and geometric figure that represents a wake-up call to gratitude. The cities are Berlin, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai."
Alejandro Rauhut developed a new unique style in Visual Art. He connects two Art concepts, Installation and Creation, managed by his excellent talent and skills to become exclusive Artworks that attract and please viewers with their intriguing and surprising changing looks. I point two relevant issues: 1st, Artists contact human minds through their work, theirs and the ones of viewers. 2nd, Abstract Art has endless evolutions, new meanings and presentation ways. Abstraction Master, Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Bauhaus school of Art artist and teacher, told: "Sensibility will always remain as the last instance." Op Art Master, Victor Vasarely, 1906-1997, said: "Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form. It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself." Then, I say that Alejandro Rauhut creates in his exquisite Art simultaneous experiences merging effects of color, light, form, App technology and city maps urban symbols, leading viewers to reach sudden sensations, intimate thoughts or feelings, transcending object and theme description. Not presenting a literal picture of the observable world, he expresses ideas by his novel and simplified forms, re-inventing movement and volume. His Artworks communicate his love for uniqueness, cities and colors. Alejandro Rauhut Art represents a Renaissance for this era, an influential perdurable statement for his time and generations to come. A discourse of betterment by his Art new techniques, shapes and materials, in addition of a novel way to treat common elements and themes transforming them in an inimitable concept. His Artworks also relate with Nature, as they show a great light, connect through their color and movement with human action and each land expanding trough the framed square transparent glass boxes with a diverse geometric form, make every city different, but all illuminated by a bright Sun. Made of black and one color only they gratefully project their lights to the world existing around. Alejandro Rauhut states: "Although at first glance my work may seem a bit eclectic, the experimentation with lights, shadows, reflections, projections and sacred geometry predominates in all my series. Influenced by the oriental culture, my central theme is always the self, divinity and inner search."

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