Diafano art magazine (august 2020)

Wanda Fraga Sánchez de la Campa
https://wandaartsession.webnode.es/

Between us
Mixed media
38cm x 38cm

Robert Starmach
@robertstarmach

BAD BEHAVIORS No.6
Oil on canvas
100cm x 90cm

David Hicks
@david_w_hicks

Menu of unrealistic expectations
Acrylic, spray paint, oil stick, pen and fabric on heavy weight paper.
60cm x 42cm

These self-portraits are the result of an exploratory digital drawing process. I
continuously watch my reflection as I draw with the light from a projector,
as both the model and the image maker. My appearance is distorted with
light and color, generating “superficial portraits” that exist on the surface of
my skin. Each photograph captures an iteration of transmogrification- an
entity emerges with its own emotional fingerprint. Within these character
vignettes that I inhabit, there is an intrinsic quality of self, however obscured
or altered.My practice is informed by autobiographical experiences and my
evolving relationship with race and gender as a queer, trans, Chinese
American. I employ ambiguous and contradictory cultural signifiers to
traverse social boundaries, “passing” through to other spheres of existence.
The plasticity of identity functions as a portal to reimagine possibilities of
being.

Isa Wang
@isawng

Isa Wang
@isawng

David Wolfe
@davidpwolfe

Quarantine Series 05
Acrylic and water on canvas
45,7cm x 61cm

Ozkan Taskiran
@atmocphere

Unknown
Dried flower, paper, mixed technique

Shy Sausage
@shysausage

Shy Sausage is a mixed media sausage-art collection made by Shay Josef Castel. Shay was born in
Israel in 1988, he graduated from HIT Holon Institute of Technology in 2016 with a major in
industrial design.
Currently Shay is an independent industrial designer and artist working from his studio Hamifal 1 in
Tel Aviv.  His desire to create art emerges after years of studying and working as an industrial
designer which mostly means designing logic products with a specific function and a brief that
guides the creative process.

“The desire to create something nonfunctional, funny, positive, without any border lines was
burning inside me but as I was taught, I still needed something to hold on to. The sausage
image has always been amusing to me, and for years I was doodling it all around my
notebooks. When I approached the world of art I used the sausage as my “crash test dummy”
and built concepts around it.
For me, sausage as an image reflects our modern world of society perfectly and it
somehow,  visually, affects people in different ways.As an artist I embraced the method of
exploring- What happens if?When I was a child I used to put toys in the freezer just to see what
would happen to them, and it excited me every time.
One day I asked myself “what would happen if I make a sausage room? With a huge, realistic,
golden framed sausage portrait, sausage chandelier, paint it pink with sausage family photos
on the walls?  That turned out to be my first art exhibition, and my answer for that question was
people's diverse reactions." 

With the sausage image Shay creates multimedia, irrational, funny, weird, sexual (for some people),
and mostly positive art."It's a dog eat dog world and a sausage got to make a living".

Shy Sausage
@shysausage

Piece from the '3d sausage' collection
Digital art

Spooning sausages
Pink illustration series
Digital art

Hayoung Jung
@hayoung_art81

The light of the space 1
Oil & Acrylic on canvas
76,5cm x 102cm

Jeanne Veraldi
@jeanne.varaldi

9 am
Acrylic on canvas
60cm x 80cm

Shara Francisco
@sharafrancisco_

Malabo Malinaw
Oil and Acrylic Latex
61cm x 91,5cm

Veronica Huacuja
@veronicahuacuja

The Intervention 9
Oil on canvas
100cm x 75cm x 0.1 cm

Celia Fernandez
@celiafernandez.art

Crowd
Acrylic on canvas
76.2 cm x 91.4 cm
People gathered together, arm to arm, hand to hand, peacefully
united, standing up, supporting, protesting, unfortunately there are
many causes to choose from, but a simply a representation of our
willingness to create a change towards what we thing is important
to us.

Var Sahakyan
@vartist

Unknown
Digital art

Ken Crost
@kencrost

Into the Light 3
Limited edition of 10, Diasec acrylic print
122 x 122cm

Brian Heston
@chicaguy53

"Service Station" A rural small town service station in the
Colorado Rockies in the 1970s
Unknown

Karly Villaseñor
@karlydoesartstuff

Carefully Composed
Mixed media
152,5cm x 91,5cm

Blair
@ivblair

Multiverse
Acrylic on canvas
90cm x 60cm

Blair
@ivblair

Phoenix
Acrylic on canvas
80cm x 60cm

Gary Klatt
@buuutcher

Hollow
Digital, mixed media
3000px x 4000px

Emily Shih
@cat2791

Fisherman
Acrylic on canvas
50cm x 60,5cm

Desi Ilker
@desiilker.art

Future Thoughts
Acrylic on canvas
40cm x 40cm

Growing up in a family of fashion designers, Desi was always surrounded by art. This arCsCc atmosphere allowed her already
as a child to discover many possible avenues in which she could explore her own creaCvity. Although her search to express
her emoConal world through painCng started in a very early stage of her life, Desi primarily dedicated her early years to
classical dancing. Today, she blends her painCng skills with a twenty-seven years of dance experience, which leads to the
dynamic character of her pieces - mostly abstract aestheCcs, which explore the depths of movement and composiCon.
Inspired by her dance-filled childhood and her studies in literature and cultural science in Berlin and Paris, Desi pursues
both, an intellectual and uKerly emoConal experience in all of her work that range from enCrely abstract to incorporaCng
geometric forms or carefully worked out shapes. Saturated with bright, contrasCng color and an overall sensual energy,
Desi’s painCngs show the expansive possibiliCes for exploraCon through shapes, color and texture. In her recent works, she
oMen pictures simple, reduced elements in combinaCon with curving or straight lines, creaCng the illusion of movement and
depth on the flat sCll surface.

Vida Jilanchi
@vida_artpage

Break Time
Flowing light series
Acrylic on canvas
100cm x 120cm

Olivier Breton
@olivier_breton

Leap of faith
Collage / pastel piece
60,5cm x 61cm

Mark Evans
@monoprintedman

Table In Isolation #4
Pyro-etched taskboard, gouache and ink
38cm x 38cm

Petr Strnad
@strnad.petr2018

Spacewalk I
Acrylic on canvas
45,7cm x 61 cm

Klára Doležalová
@klara.dolezalova.painting

Where's Mona Lisa
Oil on canvas
40cm x 40 cm

Huy Lam
@_huylam_

Confluence
The unexpected intersections of our lives have always fascinated me. Our disparate trajectories
collide and create causal shockwaves across time and space that have lasting, irreversible impact.
Although linearity exists neither in life nor in nature, the human mind attempts to impose order
upon an seemingly disordered world. This series of wood sculptures explores that paradoxical
impulse, as stark straight lines of metal penetrate the free-flowing wood grain, bringing a flash of
order to randomness. Just as I have carved out these paths in wood, collectively we strive to make
our mark by blazing bright trails in a dark, dynamic universe. 

Bio
Huy Lam is a multi-disciplinary artist whose current practice is obsessively focussed on sculpture.
He worked as a professional photographer for over a decade, all the while developing personal
projects in a variety of media. Like many artists, Huy was an aspiring painter in his youth, and
drawing remains integral to his process. He fell in love with photography when he was introduced
to the darkroom in high school, which lead him to the Humber College Photography Program.
After graduation from Humber, Huy spent several years working as an assistant and traveled
around the world honing his skills, eventually becoming a sought after agency photographer in his
own right. His new passion of working with metal and wood explores its natural, diverse, and
malleable qualities, with a focus on materiality and process.

Threat of Rain
Wood and Brass
31cm x 9cm x 21,5cm

Huy Lam
@_huylam_

Confluence
Wood and Brass

New England Based artist Michael Angelo Valotto makes vivid abstract
paintings composed of scraped, smeared, and layered marks of pigment.
His encompassing large canvases, and intimate drawings study the
mechanisms of psychology and perception — interpreting the fluidity of the
soul and human nature.  
Michael Angelo Valotto lives and works in Massachusetts. He received a BA
from The University of New Hampshire. In 2014 while pursuing a degree in
journalism, Valotto taught himself the craft of painting and still to this day
focuses his efforts to continue his vision as an artist.

Michael Angelo Valotto
@michael_angelo_valotto

Blue Steele
Oil on canvas
106cm x 106 cm

LaLa Man
Oil on canvas
106cm x 106 cm

Anja Jovičić
@_crtam

Borderline of freedom
Acrylic on canvas
20cm x 30 cm

Roberta Brasola
@_crtam

Nosebleed
Dripped black and aruba paint on canvas with golden spray paint finish.
40cm x 50 cm

Xanthi Tsaloupi
@xanthitsaloupi

Unknown
Acrylic, charcoal, oil on canvas
100cm x 100 cm

Rosana SzuYun Hsu
@rosana.hsu

Tiger
Digital piece
72cm x 60 cm

Meruyert Temirbekova
@meruyert_temirbekova
Visual artist from Kazakhstan. Works in painting and
graphics. Currently studying at Academy of Fine Arts
Brera in Milan, Italy.

STEPPE INTERVENTIONS
Mixed media on paper
70cm x 70cm

Yves Gibb
@yvesgibb

Dodecagon
Unknown

Gilles Dedecker
@gillesdedecker

A Tiger and a Western Car
Color pencils on paper
14,8cm x 21cm

Sigurdur Olafsson
@sigurdurolafsson
Sigurdur Olafsson is an abstract painter living and working in Iceland.
Working within the field of contemporary abstract art he uses acrylic paint applied to the canvas with large
custom-made squeegees, trowels, spatulas, and other unconventional tools. Through an accumulation of
spontaneous, reactive gestures he composes striking, multifaceted works with intriguing colour combinations
and a mathematical twist that explore the boundaries between order and chaos, and faith and uncertainty.
Olafsson is not interested in mimicking reality. His passion is to use the medium of painting to explore new
patterns and forms that will lead to new discoveries. His paintings pose a series of questions rather than provide
clear statements or narratives. The works thus contain an account of his search for that elusive and ethereal
something that can only be discovered through art and the meticulous application of the creative process.
After graduating from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts he pursued a career as an artist, working as a
software developer on the side to support his growing family. The allure and the dynamic creativity of the
software industry eventually took over much of Olafsson's working life and he enjoyed a successful career there.
His passion for art never diminished, though, and in 2019 he returned to painting full time.
Olafsson's work has been exhibited in various institutions in Iceland. His work is held in public and private
collections in Iceland and in private collections in Europe and the USA.

Almost Home
Acrylic on canvas
50cm x 50cm

Sigurdur Olafsson Intangible
@sigurdurolafsson Acrylic on canvas

60cm x 50cm

Caroline Suttlehan
@csuttlehan

Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
13cm x 15cm

Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
10cm x 23cm

Caroline Suttlehan
@csuttlehan

Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
13cm x 15cm

Melody Hesaraky
@melodyhesaraky

I WISH YOU LIGHT
Unknown

Melinda Clarke
@melindaclarkeart

Country Dreaming
Acrylic on canvas
45cm x 60cm