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www.susankessler.net Susan Kessler

Susan Kessler was born and raised in Los Springtime Casino
Angeles County, CA (USA). As a child, she digital photo collage
was exposed to the nature and beauty of
the coastland. She now lives in the sea- 20x30 inches
side city of beautiful Santa Cruz, CA, 2014
famous for the Santa Cruz Beach Board-
walk and also the towering redwood
trees. This unique environment helps
inspire her creativity. She is an accom-
plished and award winning painter and
photographer who recently started com-
bining photographs, mainly taken in
Santa Cruz, into exquisite photo collag-
es. Her goal is to challenge the viewers’
imagination by creating visually stimu-
lating new ways of looking at art.

Red Flower Lighthouse
digital photo collage
30x20 inches
2013

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David Naman www.hypnoticphoto.ca

Laughter Surrounded by the beauty, nature, and
photograph wildlife of the West Coast, David Naman
48x32 inches became inspired. Not only did he want to
2011 capture, and save a moment, he wanted
others to see the beauty through his eyes.
In 2005 he found a
way to share, and
capture these im-
ages through Pho-
tography. David’s
talent is evident in
his artistic, original,
and sometimes con-
troversial photos.
David’s visual works
have touched and
disarmed viewers in galleries from New
York, to Las Vegas. Recently published in
‘Masters’ books and widely recognized
by his peers, David has relished the voy-
age and looks towards the future with an-
ticipation in capturing all those moments.

Companion
photograph
32x48 inches
2012

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www.georgiaszollosi.com Georgia Szollosi

Chelsea
digital art
2015

Georgia Szollosi is an airbrush
artist and designer, based in
London, UK. Since she es-
tablished her Airbrush Studio,
G-Design in Budapest, 2007,
her work has been featured in
leading art and custom painter
publications, as well as shown
in many exhibitions around
Europe.

“Ever since my earliest days growing up in Hungary I have enjoyed painting and I love to
express my emotions through my art. I have been a fine artist for the last eight years and have
exhibited in both solo and group shows across Europe. I have sold several pieces which in-
clude paintings, drawings and sculptures, some of these have been commissions from clients
within the UK and Europe. Recently I have developed my technique using the airbrush. I am a
multi skilled artist who is not tied to one media. I choose materials based on their relationship
with my concept and what can be interpreted from such means.”

Brighton
digital art

2014

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Sculptures, Installations 

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www.sallyrockriver.com Sally Rockriver

Rockriver believed her processes could exist on other Thermal Storm
planets. The series of Thermal Storms are narratives of blown glass with ceramic
glass raining onto a chemical landscape. Her theories glazes, self-blown fume orb,
became possibilities in 2013 when NASA discovered an
Azure planet that rains glass. Rockriver combines ceramic glory hole floors
glazes with hot glass to create geochemical events. Ves- 16x24x20 inches
sels birth specimens from a far-away place. Core-samples
from her imaginary worlds contain 2008
glaze clusters; the seeds of a theo-
retical species. Gas emitting salts
are trapped in hot glass to make
self-blown bubbles. Works are not
repretational, but create their own
reality. She refers to this as “Narra-
tive Material Realism”.

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Self-blown fume orbs, blown and

cut glass with ceramic glazes,
fused sand, paper, paint, epoxy

48x24x6 inches
2013

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Nicolai Nickson www.nicolainickson.com

Nicolai Nickson was born Autumn
in Sweden in 1973 to Eng- marble
lish and Swedish parents. He
studied painting in Sweden 9x8x10 inches
and Finland before moving to 2014
New York to study sculpture,
where he received an MFA in
Sculpture in 2013 at the New
York Studio School. He stud-
ied stone carving at the Art
Students League of New York, where he has won
several awards for his work. He has exhibited in
Stockholm, Sweden and New York and has work
in private collections in both countries. He loves
stone and wood, and finds a powerful connection
to these materials through the process of carving.

Standup Woman
marble
20x11x9 inches
2013

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www.leodeville.co.uk Leo Deville

Ishka’s Moment
ceramic & mixed media

26x19x12 cm
2014

Birdeyes
ceramic & mixed media
32x17x6 cm
2013

Leo creates ceramic faces, figures, sculptures
and jewellery that sometimes include coloured
wires, textiles, beads and paint. When she has
a black biro in her hand she produces surreal
black & white illustrations and also paints in oils
& acrylics. She started working spontaneously
with the black biro drawings, which took her on
subconscious journeys to a world far more in-
teresting than the physical normality. She now
lets her ceramics evolve and loves this process
as she’s constantly intrigued to view where her
mind has taken her. Leo’s eyes, ears and mind
are forever open to new ideas and influences.

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Brent Brager www.millponddesigns.com

Brent Brager is a Minnesota based
artist, and excels in working with
wood and metal. His sculptures
are deftly carved bringing soul,
depth and expressiveness into
his work that is uncanny. In re-
cent reviews, some of his pieces
have been called psychological
heavyweights, harrowing and ab-
surd yet impeccably carved. Brent
says he started out as an abstract
artist when he was young… very,
very young. In that case his art has
definitely become more sophisti-
cated, thoughtfully maturing with
age, and taking on an equally hu-
morous if not darker tone.

Presidential Ambitions
Wood carving-Eastern red cedar,
diamond willow
72x42x44 inches
2014

Entitlementia
Wood Carving-
Basswood Rickshaw-Steel
72x22x72 inches

2012

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www.asliuludag.com Asli Uludag

Home afar, by the sea… We look with awe at our history, at the great
Etched copper civilizations that have defined power. We
9x7x7 inches reuse the stones and the papers they have
2012 left behind and rebuild on our borrowed
land; with the belief that we will make it
We build on seesaws, don’t we? ours, we play history again. Uludag’s work
Hand cut copper, nickel silver, cement juxtaposes the past and the present by bor-
10x10x6 inches rowing motifs, shapes, and objects from art
2014 and architecture as well as acts of ritual that
remind the viewer “here” and “now” is the
result of the demise of “there” and “then”;
and though we see ourselves more devel-
oped than the people of the past, we con-
tinuously repeat their mistakes.

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Bobby Tso www.BobbyTso.com

Detail
Moment of Re-Inventing
“Ideally Speaking“
White Earthenware, Cone 04,
sanded surface, Wood, Plastic,
and Paint
36x48x12 inches
2013

Kwok Pong Tso was born and raised in Hong Kong. After receiving some education in Hong
Kong he decided to come to the USA to begin exploring the culture while continuing his
education. In 2009 he completed the undergraduate art program at Northwest Missouri State
University. He then worked as a teaching assistant and adjunct teacher teaching Ceramics at
Iowa Central Community College. After earning his Master of Fine Art degree at the University
of Iowa and plans to graduate in 2013, He is now act as lecturer of art in Ceramics at North-
west Missouri State University, teaching all level Ceramics classes, and head of the Ceram-
ics Department. The concept
of his recent work is form
and grows from his curios-
ity about the relationship be-
tween one object to another.

Moment of Re-Inventing-
“De-lib-er-a-tion”

White Earthenware, Cone
04, sanded surface, Wood,
Plastic, Paper, Paint and glass

32x36x8 inches
2014

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www.michelebrody.com Michele Brody

Grass Skirt 4
sculpture

65x36 inches in diameter
2013

Nature Preserve
installation
96x264x144 inches
2011

Michele Brody is a New York based artist who
has had one-person shows in France, Costa
Rica, Chicago, Germany, Taiwan and New
York City. She has received an artist grant or
residency every year since receiving her MFA
from The School of Art Institute of Chicago in
1994, including the Pollock/Krasner Founda-
tion, New York Foundation for the Arts, Ma-
rin Headlands Centre for the Arts and Marie
Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. In 2011 she was
awarded Best 3-D Entry at the international Art
Prize competition. She currently resides and
works in The Bronx as an Artist-in-Residence
at the Andrew Freedman Home.

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Anna Gunnars www.annagunnars.is

Fluctuation
(detail)
silk, wool, metal
frame, sibory
technique
160, 140, 120x25 cm
2014

Anna Gunnars is a textile artist residing in Iceland. Focusing on the traditional felt making
technique, Anna combines it with a contemporary, fresh approach. She has developed her
own unique way of felting, where her signature has a strong sense of Scandinavian and mini-
mal art. Anna´s work is based on the idea of light and shadow, creating large sculptures and
3D wall pieces for both indoor and outdoor use. Anna has gained international recognition
for her sculptural work, exhibited in
various countries such as Australia,
Korea, USA, Germany and Sweden.

Heaven and Ocean (detail)
silk indigo dyed
99x33 cm
2014

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www.annagunnars.is Anna Gunnars

Forest Atlantic Ocean
plant dyed silk coiling wool yarn
75x40 cm
2014 4 meters
2013

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V. meer www.v-meer.de

Archetype
Clay
20x10x10 cm
2010

V. meer – Vera Meyer – is a self-taught artist. She studied biotechnology in Sofia and Berlin and
worked as a scientist in Berlin, London and Leiden. Currently, she holds a professorship for
applied and molecular microbiology at the Berlin University of Technology. As a scientist, she
tries to understand what shapes and
structures living organisms, to de-
code nature’s genetic principle that
defines morphology. As an artist, she
does not act rationally; instead she
impulsively creates objects, paint-
ings and letterings. Her artistic work
is intuitive, improvised, without in-
tended purpose, ranges from expres-
sive to reduced, from large to small,
from loud to quiet.

Guardian
Wood, metal, stone

60x20x20 cm
2013

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www.davidconnolly.org David Connolly

Speakers are
speaking in code
3 channel audio

loop, 1/4 and 1/8
steel rods, three

horn speakers
Dimensions
variable
2012

David Connolly is a New York based artist whose work situates itself in
the larger field of new media, interactivity, sculpture and installation.
For more than a decade he has chosen to live and work outside of his
native Australia, immersing myself in the cultures, languages and belief
systems of New York, Tokyo and Buenos Aires. He has gained extended
exposure to issues that are at once culturally specific and globally applicable
specifically, the themes of immigration, migration and isolation as they
are coupled with biometrics, surveillance, and detachment due to the
increased use of technology.

Be careful for what we wish for?
Melamine rice bowls, display case, plaster Chinese lions, utopia book on architecture, red

silk cloth and Himalayan salt.
Dimensions variable
2013

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Meredith Nichols www.meredithleenichols.com

Untitled
wood fired stoneware

18x16x4 inches
2014

Too busy to talk (detail)
cotton, string, rubber latex,
altered readymades, mirror
6x6x5 inches
2014

Meredith’s work is driven by a desire to
evoke connections between objects and
people. She expresses unanswered ques-
tions and curiosities, often dwelling in
unsettled contradictions rather than seek-
ing to resolve them. Those who view her
work are asked float awhile in this un-
certainty, and drawing from her unique
visual language, to open up a gateway to
reciprocal human understanding. She is a
young artist working in Hudson Valley, NY,
always poking around for things unknown.

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www.giatkabladze.com George (Gia) Tkabladze

ROMANTIC ALLUSIONS
Wood, Metal

24,5x11x8,5 inches
2012

BOMB FALLING IN LOVE
Wood
26x30x10 inches
2015

George Tkabladze was
born in 1971 in Kutaisi,
country of Georgia. In
1996, he received his BFA
and MFA, majoring in
sculpture from Tbilisi State
Academy of Fine Arts, and
Associate degree in sculp-
ture and art education in
I. Nicoladze Art College.
(Tbilisi, Georgia). Since
1993 he has participated in more than sixty
national and international exhibitions, Bien-
nales, Triennials and received numerous awards
and grants such as: International Art Award
RAFFAELLO SANZIO 2014 – Lecce, Italy and
TRINACRIA award 2014, – Museum Monreale,
Italy. His works are kept in galleries and private
collections in: USA, The Netherlands, Greece,
United Kingdom, and Georgia.

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SUPPORTED ARTISTS

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www.mayasunn.com MayaSunn

Blazing Dream
Airbrush and
Spray paint
60x48 inches
2014

Maya Sunn’s art offers you a moment of pure freedom, to ease your soul and escape this world
of pain by bringing you somewhere else. Having survived her death in 2011, she came back
with an inner peace and a different understanding of Life. Her art shows us all the beauty
that lies within. Everything she feels, touches, sees, smells is a new inspiration. Each artwork
contains a part of her soul. Give her a can of spray paint and she’ll make a masterpiece! Her
3D’s elements and textures makes her art stand out, unique and apart of the others.

Deep Inside
Spray paint
48x48 inches

2014

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Eniko Takacs enicot.wordpress.com

Uterus Metamorphosis Model Eniko Takacs is a Hungarian born visual,
installation set, costume artist and designer based in
40x30 cm London. After she finished her studies to
2007 become a graphic designer, she felt tempt-
ed to do something different expanding
Cipolla Modern Dance Ballet her view and knowledge about art. Then
installation she has been studying Theater and Film
500x700 cm Art Design at the Hungarian University of
2010 Fine Arts. There she received scholarship
at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Mi-
lan where she has been encouraged about
her project. Since she had have worked
at several theaters, films and exhibitions,
projects and participated in a few solo and
joint exhibition throughout Europe.

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zobokia.wordpress.com Andras Zoboki

Ballaro Market
acrylic on canvas

25x30 cm
2014

Originally from Hungary impressionist painter Andrew Zoboki now lives and works in
London. His paintings are known for their emphasis on atmosphere, light and movement,
rather than detail, which is only hinted at by seemingly random dashes of colour. His works
are artistic combination of a delicate impressionist style with a sense of fun and sometimes
critic, results in powerful artworks. Before turning back to paint and brushes to capture figures
and moods Andrew was a cartoon animator for seven years, producing work for the most
famous studios in his country.

Social Network – Part of a Triptichon
oil on canvas
221x76 cm
2007

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Nam YoonSoo www.NamYoonSooArt.com

High Frequency
acrylic on canvas
36x36 inches
2014

YoonSoo Nam is a visual artist who paints unique and extraordinary pictures of the heavenly
realm in spirit and in truth. Through her exhibitions, live shows, website and Facebook page,
her paintings and poems have been released and impacting many souls in various countries.
She was born in Seoul, Korea, gradu-
ated from Ewha Woman’s University
with Bachelor of Fine Arts and Mas-
ter of Arts & Craft, from Seoul Jangsin
Theological Seminary with M.DIV.
“I paint for Jesus, the one who is alive
in me. I see my artworks shine the
creative light and bring His mysterious
Kingdom to the earth.”

Time Redemption
acrylic on canvas

30x40 inches
2014

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www.editmihovich.wix/artworks Edit Mihovics

Abstract drawing, with peaceful patterns. I de-
scribe my drawings as “soul stamps” I create
these drawings through my symbol system.
They can show my emotional state and energy
qualities. When I create for people they trans-
mit some deep message, and they can help to
understand the course of things. The minimal
style is just minimal :)

Glass
mixed media

21x40 cm
2014

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mixed media
29x42 cm
2014

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Evi Toth www.evitothphoto.wix.com/evisphotography

Lilly Wood Mask Weisse Dame
digital art illusion filter photography
40x60 cm
2014 2012
Body painting by Zoltan Szabo, model Bianca.

Evi Toth is a Hungarian freelancer a photog-
rapher living and working in the Netherlands.
In her very early years she discovered The
Camera and since she is fascinated by pho-
tography.

“I am not here to take
a cute pictures of your
child. I am here to docu-
ment the newness of
your little one in such
a way that it is impossi-
ble to forget. I want you
to have wonderful mo-
ments whilst looking at
these photographs and share memories and
smiles with your friends and family. I want
you to print them out a dozen times or more,
frame them and hang them on your walls, to
hold in your hands, to browse through the
images in albums and books for decades to
come. Photography is so very important, since
it will tell our stories for many generations
after those times when we will no longer be
able to do so.”

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