Carousel Fine Art
About the Artist
Artist, designer, entrepreneur. Throughout her career spanning over three decades, Caroline Dechamby has used art and history as a source of appropriation through which to develop her own niche, and place of resonance for her audience, within the largely male-dominated canon of painting.
Dechamby’s paintings re-asses masterpieces by household names — among them Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Piet Mondrian, as her own, painting herself (either full-bodied or as silhouette) into the pieces in the act of creation. In doing so, Dechamby symbolically and visually takes back the field from “the boys” reimagining art history in her own vision, and allowing for viewers, especially female viewers, to envision themselves too in the empowered position of creative genius in place of the artist’s painted avatar.
Repeatedly depicting her own figure from behind, Dechamby creates from her likeness both a recognisable autobiographical character, as well as an anonymous silhouette that allows for an immediate recognition and connection by viewers. Even by the very act of appropriating these works does Dechamby echo the trends of art history – her work, in a populist spirit, follows directly in the footsteps of artist like Marcel Duchamp, or more recently Elaine Sturtevant. As a woman, her outright placement of herself as an artist in the same league of famous predecessors she appropriates offers a powerful feminist statement, one that is intended outside the hallowed halls of museums and the institutionalised art world.
Jean-Baptiste Launay, better known as Jisbar, is a French pop-street artist, he lives and works between Paris and Amsterdam.
Jisbar is famous worldwide for being the first ever artist to reinterpret classical art masterpiece figures such as Mona Lisa, Frida Kahlo and others from Klimt and Warhol with his personal style of pop and street art. This striking blend of influences shaped a clear and unique identity that inspires a lot of artists and brands across the world today. Each artwork surpasses the idea of a simple remake as it is enriched with words, slogans, numbers and codes that help create a new story to decrypt. It challenges every person who looks at it to find their own clues by focusing on every single detail. The abundant signs generate new angles inside which the spectator finds new elements and interpretations every time they look at the painting.
From San Francisco to the Gold Coast, from Bangkok, Venice or Paris to London, Jisbar’s work is shown in many galleries all over the world, and well-known museums such as the Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi or the National Museum for the History of Immigration in Paris.
In the Parisian museum, Jisbar introduced his piece “Love is a New Fame” to the then President of France François Hollande during an art exhibition condemning racism and antisemitism.
Jisbar is also known for his various collaborations with renowned brands such as BMW, Armani or JM Weston, and he has contributed to create unique experiences on every one of these occasions. Among all of these memorable events, he organized an exhibition with JM Weston on the Champs Élysées. Jisbar put an exciting new spin on the brand’s identity by incorporating his art inside the flagship store and customizing several of their famous shoes to turn them into true art pieces.
He worked closely with the Italian brand and donated his piece “Ducati Mona Lisa” at a charity auction to raise 170.000€ for the Sant’Orsola Polyclinic hospital in Bologna.
His last performance paid tribute to Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death. Jisbar sent a new version of his reinterpreted Mona Lisa to fly into space. The painting hovered 33.4 km above Earth for over an hour and a half. On this occasion he became the first ever artist to achieve this performance. His technical exploit was widely applauded though international media coverage.
Jean-Baptiste Launay, better known as Jisbar, is a French pop-street artist, he lives and works between Paris and Amsterdam.
Jisbar is famous worldwide for being the first ever artist to reinterpret classical art masterpiece figures such as Mona Lisa, Frida Kahlo and others from Klimt and Warhol with his personal style of pop and street art. This striking blend of influences shaped a clear and unique identity that inspires a lot of artists and brands across the world today. Each artwork surpasses the idea of a simple remake as it is enriched with words, slogans, numbers and codes that help create a new story to decrypt. It challenges every person who looks at it to find their own clues by focusing on every single detail. The abundant signs generate new angles inside which the spectator finds new elements and interpretations every time they look at the painting.
From San Francisco to the Gold Coast, from Bangkok, Venice or Paris to London, Jisbar’s work is shown in many galleries all over the world, and well-known museums such as the Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi or the National Museum for the History of Immigration in Paris.
In the Parisian museum, Jisbar introduced his piece “Love is a New Fame” to the then President of France François Hollande during an art exhibition condemning racism and antisemitism.
Jisbar is also known for his various collaborations with renowned brands such as BMW, Armani or JM Weston, and he has contributed to create unique experiences on every one of these occasions. Among all of these memorable events, he organized an exhibition with JM Weston on the Champs Élysées. Jisbar put an exciting new spin on the brand’s identity by incorporating his art inside the flagship store and customizing several of their famous shoes to turn them into true art pieces.
He worked closely with the Italian brand and donated his piece “Ducati Mona Lisa” at a charity auction to raise 170.000€ for the Sant’Orsola Polyclinic hospital in Bologna.
His last performance paid tribute to Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death. Jisbar sent a new version of his reinterpreted Mona Lisa to fly into space. The painting hovered 33.4 km above Earth for over an hour and a half. On this occasion he became the first ever artist to achieve this performance. His technical exploit was widely applauded though international media coverage.
Hailing from Los Angeles, Chance Cooper has an artistic style molded by the memories of his life, forgotten and not. His work is recognized as a playground where his characters perform their existential secrets. Chance often uses words and objects within his paintings to guide the viewer to a rabbit hole where they can jump in and create their own fling with the image, all while having their morality tested along the way. In many cases, each recurring visit to a piece will evoke a new dialogue within the mind of the observer, spawning endless narratives. His work celebrates the sacred art of storytelling and his paintings carry the feeling of a page torn from one’s life.
Gregory Watin has been internationally recognised for his very
unique "urban" style. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the USA for the last 15 years.
He takes a picture he uses as a sketch. He immerses himself of all things that give strength to this urban landscapes, he looks at these structures marked by time and gathers all these elements in order to build an atmosphere, a universe around these places. In his work, he tries to make them his by giving them a second breath of life. That is why he uses bright colors. He inlays various element of nature, woods, cardboard, papers, plexiglass.
There is also a notion of urgency in his work, to seize on idea before it gets away , to put on the canvas the instant gesture, the instant collages, the instant urge. He has created his contemporary poetry from daily material, from the town, the people. This urbanity made of anything is not sad or doomed , if you look at it closely, it is also colored and rhythmic.
Jean-Baptiste Launay, better known as Jisbar, is a French pop-street artist, he lives and works between Paris and Amsterdam.
Jisbar is famous worldwide for being the first ever artist to reinterpret classical art masterpiece figures such as Mona Lisa, Frida Kahlo and others from Klimt and Warhol with his personal style of pop and street art. This striking blend of influences shaped a clear and unique identity that inspires a lot of artists and brands across the world today. Each artwork surpasses the idea of a simple remake as it is enriched with words, slogans, numbers and codes that help create a new story to decrypt. It challenges every person who looks at it to find their own clues by focusing on every single detail. The abundant signs generate new angles inside which the spectator finds new elements and interpretations every time they look at the painting.
From San Francisco to the Gold Coast, from Bangkok, Venice or Paris to London, Jisbar’s work is shown in many galleries all over the world, and well-known museums such as the Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi or the National Museum for the History of Immigration in Paris.
In the Parisian museum, Jisbar introduced his piece “Love is a New Fame” to the then President of France François Hollande during an art exhibition condemning racism and antisemitism.
Jisbar is also known for his various collaborations with renowned brands such as BMW, Armani or JM Weston, and he has contributed to create unique experiences on every one of these occasions. Among all of these memorable events, he organized an exhibition with JM Weston on the Champs Élysées. Jisbar put an exciting new spin on the brand’s identity by incorporating his art inside the flagship store and customizing several of their famous shoes to turn them into true art pieces.
He worked closely with the Italian brand and donated his piece “Ducati Mona Lisa” at a charity auction to raise 170.000€ for the Sant’Orsola Polyclinic hospital in Bologna.
His last performance paid tribute to Leonardo da Vinci on the 500th anniversary of his death. Jisbar sent a new version of his reinterpreted Mona Lisa to fly into space. The painting hovered 33.4 km above Earth for over an hour and a half. On this occasion he became the first ever artist to achieve this performance. His technical exploit was widely applauded though international media coverage.
Gregory Watin has been internationally recognised for his very
unique "urban" style. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the USA for the last 15 years.
He takes a picture he uses as a sketch. He immerses himself of all things that give strength to this urban landscapes, he looks at these structures marked by time and gathers all these elements in order to build an atmosphere, a universe around these places. In his work, he tries to make them his by giving them a second breath of life. That is why he uses bright colors. He inlays various element of nature, woods, cardboard, papers, plexiglass.
There is also a notion of urgency in his work, to seize on idea before it gets away , to put on the canvas the instant gesture, the instant collages, the instant urge. He has created his contemporary poetry from daily material, from the town, the people. This urbanity made of anything is not sad or doomed , if you look at it closely, it is also colored and rhythmic.
is a Swiss based artist with a reimagined vision of Street
and Contemporary Art; moving from the street to the
greatest museums, challenging social codes, challenging the world, sometimes mocking, often denouncing, and even admiring.
He aims to provoke; to make people think, mix, connect: people, times, styles, perceptions. For Być, "to be" means to constantly seek, to say, to show, to share, as the painters he admires have done before him: whose works have described their worlds with tenderness, sometimes cruelty, and without complacency. Through hyper-consumption, he opposes recycling; and through intolerance, he imposes humour or emotion, by means of ugliness and wear and tear, the proposition of reincarnation.
Cayla is an outstanding young artist whose creative and intelligent mind thrive on a contemporary style. Through travel and an eclectic upbringing, she has gained a vast amount of culture and world experiences. Her influences come from a wide array of writers, musicians, and epistemologists. The most prominent including: Jack Kerouac, Ella Fitzgerald, Chuck Palahniuk, and several others. A large portion of Cayla's works merge traditional acrylic paints with other unique materials; she transcends the confines of mixed media art to create a style all her own. A signature approach of intricate designs pervade all of Birk's body of work - her instantly recognizable gestures and marks boast austere verbiage and shroud depictions.
Cayla's work has been acquired by many private collectors and can be seen at numerous prominent international contemporary art fairs.
Jean-Daniel Lorieux is one of the most famous photographers in France, a world legend of fashion photography, holder of the Legion of Honor and the Order of Arts and Literature. The work of the French photographer is put on a par with such classics of photography as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin.
Jean-Daniel Lorieux received his art education at the National Graduate School of Arts and Crafts in France. In 1960, he was assigned to serve as a staff photographer for the Algerian War. Upon his return from Algeria, he continued to pursue photography, working at the famous Parisian photography studio Harcourt. From them, he took over the experience of working with light and shadow - the Harcourt studio gained worldwide fame for black and white studio portraits with harsh, contrasting lighting, creating a dramatic effect.
Lorieux's rise as a fashion photographer took place in the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of the fashion industry and glossy magazines. He became widely known, working with such significant publications as Vogue, L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, as well as high fashion houses - Dior, Lanvin, Céline, Pierre Cardin, among others. Among his friends and clients were such celebrities as David Lynch, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Aznavour, Karl a Bruni, Claudia Schiffer and many others. In addition to models, movie stars and musicians, he also took pictures of politicians, in particular Jacques Chirac, for whom he designed a series of posters for his 1988 election campaign.
A characteristic feature of the author's style of Jean-Daniel Lorieux was the use of vibrant contrasting colours. In search of the sun and dolce vita atmosphere, he has filmed supermodels and celebrities in heavenly corners of the planet, including Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritius and Seychelles.
Simone D’Auria is an Italian architect and designer.
Son of the seventies, he grew up in a culture immersed in the aesthetic of revolution and politics. The counterculture atmosphere of those years indelibly influenced his distinct style development. Deeply inspired by Italian designer Bruno Munari, D’Auria ardently followed his vocation to be an artist. D’Auria’s ability to assimilate to different parts of the world allows him to approach art with a culturally conscious design.
is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Grand Blanc Michigan. Ross utilizes all of her resources on her property in the heart of Chicago. She uses tempura paint from her pet chickens, acrylic paint, tennis balls, balloons and gems in her art practice. Her work depicts imagery that is contemporary, playful, colorful and whimsical.
Her practice consists of hand gemming large scale works, along with creating extensive installations that can be seen in homes across the country. Ross has an over abundance of positive energy that comes through in all of the work she produces.
Stéphane Braud, born in Libourne, is today considered one of the greatest underwater painters in the world. He is also nicknamed the “fisherman of blue”. He makes his paintings from nature, directly under the sea. Self-taught, Stéphane Braud began painting at the age of 19 and traveled to Norway, Germany and Tunisia where he found his inspiration. His favorite medium is watercolor on the spot. Since 1974, he has traveled across Africa. It took him more than 20 years of research to finally restore on his paintings, the atmosphere of the Maghreb, the effect of time on the doors discolored by the sun. Unique, its doors are of a sensitive realism and incomparable depth. In 1980, he quit his job to devote himself solely to painting and flew to Reunion Island where he set up his workshop. Passionate about diving, he naturally began to paint underwater. Today, installed in Marakech, he exhibits his works all over the world.
Zack Smithey is an interdisciplinary artist who is based in St. Louis and is represented as well as works with galleries, designers and agents worldwide. Smithey has over 3,000 orginal pieces and murals in public, private and corporate collections. Smithey has had over 100 solo and group shows across the country, has been commissioned to do art\film for Lincoln Center in NYC, created a series of art videos for world renowned pianist Inon Barnatan, collected by Boeing, commissioned performance piece for the La Jolla Music Soceity. Smithey has been published in the New Yorker, CURBED, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis At Home Magazine, All the Art, INSIDER, and has been covered/interviewed on Netflix, NBC, Fox, CBS, and USA Today.
Smithey is a philanthropist, art collector and community activist.
Born in 1996 in China, grew up in America, Xin is an architect turned artist who approaches her imagination with colors and life, bringing a sense of surrealness to a familiar but imagined world. Xin is drawn to the possibility of colors and attracted to subtle geometries which she embeds into her paintings. She reveals depth, and mischief of still lifes, bringing forth an area between reality and fantasy.
Everything is alive, broken down to the atoms. Even the shadows are alive and moving. A moment in time - when the shadows hit that precise orientation and when the leaves rumble slightly from the wind. Captured within the frames of a canvas, the moment was frozen and yet alive.
Eric Alfaro is a Cuban artist based in the United States whose paintings have been exhibited in both nations. He describes his current artist expression as having been influenced by the great painters of different periods in history. Working in different styles, hyperrealism is present in a large portion of his compositions. Alfaro's figurative pieces are created using oils on canvas. Graduated from APAP (Provincial Academy of FINE Arts) Raúl Martínez of Morón, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. He has participated in exhibitions in various places such as the "Copperfest" Arts Festival in North Miami, Florida, United States; and at the “Paratissima” Contemporary Art Fair in Torino, Italy. His work is in private collections in Cuba, the United States, Canada, Italy, France, England, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, Egypt, Singapore, South Africa, Angola, China, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina , Uruguay, Chile, Panama, Holland . As well as at the Copperbridge Art Foundation; the company F&F Media Corp. and in the collection of the Lincoln Center Orchestra, in New York, all in the United States. His works have recently been published in the Spanish magazine CdeCuba Art Magazine, Issue # 25, 2018, and the book Eric Alfaro Selected Artworks that shows a selection of his work from its beginnings to 2018 , also published by the Spanish publisher CdeCuba .Currently has representation in galleries in Miami and Texas.
Award-winning glass artist Zac M. Knudson (ZMK) has been dazzling visitors at art fairs around the world and shaking up the art scene for over 15 years. His extensive, cogent and provocative body of work includes a unique infinity glass technique, master metalworking, as well as interactive and site specific installations. In his work, Knudson captures the zeitgeist of modern culture; our collective obsession with excess, convenience at the expense of the environment, and preoccupation with money... Just to name a few. All of these themes are executed with the intention to poke fun at the undeniable mess we as humans have found ourselves in.
Neill Wright is a multidisciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His satirical work braves the world of social commentary in a bold, colourful and humorous manner. Wright explores various mediums, such as sculpture, printmaking and painting as modes of expression, drawing inspiration from the interconnected worlds of media, popular culture, politics and societal interactions in an attempt to create panoramic views of current issues, hardships, complexities and paradoxes present within South African and to some extent African society as a whole. Through highlighting the absurdities of a collectively experienced ‘everyday’, his work subverts the tragic, placing the viewer in a space where they are confronted by opposing feelings: the melancholic reality and the ironic hilarity of his compositions.
In 2007, Neill graduated with distinction for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Honours), at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, where he was co-awarded the Simon Gerson Prize for an outstanding body of work. In 2009, he graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, majoring in printmaking. In 2013, Wright was named one of the ten emerging South African artists to watch by The Times, and he has exhibited in a number of group and solo shows as well as at numerous South African and International Art fairs. His works are housed in private collections in Europe, the United States, Australia and South Africa.
Dimitri Likissas (1969) was born and raised in Belgium and has Greek roots. Around his early 20’s he moved to the Caribbean where his career evolved from being a graphic designer to a corporate director of a media publishing company. From that point forward he has turned into a full time artist painter and his creations have discovered their way into numerous private collections mostly in Europe and America. His colored dots arrangements, transform imagery into abstract/geometric forms. He explores the unlimited potential of chromatic and tonal scale, visual planes and volume with a two-dimensional framework. Viewing his dynamic works of art is an exciting optical experience. He is influenced by his pop art heroes Keith Haring (which he has personally met as a teen), Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. For him, the pattern of dots serve as references to living organisms, atoms, i.e. the idea that matter is made up of discrete units. These patterned dots cohabitate in harmony. For him dots (circles) keep on moving and rolling, where he has developed his own optical language and inimitable style. With utmost proficiency he invites us to view the world as magical, fluid, and invigorating panorama.
Gregory Watin has been internationally recognised for his very
unique "urban" style. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the USA for the last 15 years.
He takes a picture he uses as a sketch. He immerses himself of all things that give strength to this urban landscapes, he looks at these structures marked by time and gathers all these elements in order to build an atmosphere, a universe around these places. In his work, he tries to make them his by giving them a second breath of life. That is why he uses bright colors. He inlays various element of nature, woods, cardboard, papers, plexiglass.
There is also a notion of urgency in his work, to seize on idea before it gets away , to put on the canvas the instant gesture, the instant collages, the instant urge. He has created his contemporary poetry from daily material, from the town, the people. This urbanity made of anything is not sad or doomed , if you look at it closely, it is also colored and rhythmic.
Artist, designer, entrepreneur. Throughout her career spanning over three decades, Caroline Dechamby has used art and history as a source of appropriation through which to develop her own niche, and place of resonance for her audience, within the largely male-dominated canon of painting.
Dechamby’s paintings re-asses masterpieces by household names — among them Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Piet Mondrian, as her own, painting herself (either full-bodied or as silhouette) into the pieces in the act of creation. In doing so, Dechamby symbolically and visually takes back the field from “the boys” reimagining art history in her own vision, and allowing for viewers, especially female viewers, to envision themselves too in the empowered position of creative genius in place of the artist’s painted avatar.
Repeatedly depicting her own figure from behind, Dechamby creates from her likeness both a recognisable autobiographical character, as well as an anonymous silhouette that allows for an immediate recognition and connection by viewers. Even by the very act of appropriating these works does Dechamby echo the trends of art history – her work, in a populist spirit, follows directly in the footsteps of artist like Marcel Duchamp, or more recently Elaine Sturtevant. As a woman, her outright placement of herself as an artist in the same league of famous predecessors she appropriates offers a powerful feminist statement, one that is intended outside the hallowed halls of museums and the institutionalised art world.
Artist, designer, entrepreneur. Throughout her career spanning over three decades, Caroline Dechamby has used art and history as a source of appropriation through which to develop her own niche, and place of resonance for her audience, within the largely male-dominated canon of painting.
Dechamby’s paintings re-asses masterpieces by household names — among them Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Piet Mondrian, as her own, painting herself (either full-bodied or as silhouette) into the pieces in the act of creation. In doing so, Dechamby symbolically and visually takes back the field from “the boys” reimagining art history in her own vision, and allowing for viewers, especially female viewers, to envision themselves too in the empowered position of creative genius in place of the artist’s painted avatar.
Repeatedly depicting her own figure from behind, Dechamby creates from her likeness both a recognisable autobiographical character, as well as an anonymous silhouette that allows for an immediate recognition and connection by viewers. Even by the very act of appropriating these works does Dechamby echo the trends of art history – her work, in a populist spirit, follows directly in the footsteps of artist like Marcel Duchamp, or more recently Elaine Sturtevant. As a woman, her outright placement of herself as an artist in the same league of famous predecessors she appropriates offers a powerful feminist statement, one that is intended outside the hallowed halls of museums and the institutionalised art world.
is a Swiss based artist with a reimagined vision of Street
and Contemporary Art; moving from the street to the
greatest museums, challenging social codes, challenging the world, sometimes mocking, often denouncing, and even admiring.
He aims to provoke; to make people think, mix, connect: people, times, styles, perceptions. For Być, "to be" means to constantly seek, to say, to show, to share, as the painters he admires have done before him: whose works have described their worlds with tenderness, sometimes cruelty, and without complacency. Through hyper-consumption, he opposes recycling; and through intolerance, he imposes humour or emotion, by means of ugliness and wear and tear, the proposition of reincarnation.
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