SUBTLETEA (POUR IN SPIRIT)

Artist statement: In the pursuit for novel ways to implement his art, Alex Nodopaka introduces a hint of cubism without following the previously established footsteps of traditional cubism or futurism or figurative art. Instead of playing with multiple viewing perspectives of a subject from different angles, the artist introduces a planar geometric layout that renders a similar impression to cubism or futurism or figurative realism without creating the problem of searching for Waldo. Alex incorporates an additional qualifying adjective into his artistic endeavors:  expressionism. His latest series of artworks deal with the human figurative and figurative object that represent each in the act of happening.

Figurative Cubism 350 – Susanna and the Elders




Figurative Expressionism – Shattered Masterpiece

Figurative Expressionism – Flashing Voyeur

Born in Soviet Latvia, Jana uses her art to, as she puts it, express “the state of a human soul – dreams, longing, love, pain.” Her work has been shown and placed in collections in Europe, Australia and the United States. Visit her official website here.

Keeper of the Garden




Sticky Little Song in Lily’s Head




sketchbook excerpt




Sailor’s Wives




Hunters from the Sunday School

Claudio lives in Catanzaro, Italy.  Visit his site.

Born in Iran, raised in the Netherlands and currently residing in Norway, Ashkan is a collagist whose pieces, to quote artist and columnist Annabel Osberg, “speak to humanity’s intrinsic obliviousness, heightened by vanity and abused by others. We think we know ourselves and the world around us, but how much do we really understand? Just as Honarvar´s figures are obliterated, severed, and reorganized by him, we are often at the mercy of circumstances outside our control.” Perhaps Osberg summed up Ashkan’s art best with this line: “[T]he body itself is a living paradox:its vitality can be beautiful; its deformation, grotesque.” Visit Ashkan’s official site here and his Facebook page here.

Jenny’s World
(model: Jennifer Fernald) 

Sarah Kayss is an award-winning photographer and editor of The Transnational, a bilingual literary magazine. She was born in Germany but now lives in London.  Visit her official site here.

Capetown, South Africa

















cover art for Ich mag die Welt, so wie sie ist

David is an artist who lives in Switzerland.  See more of his work here.

Forget Fate







Lost on the Way




Cool Dip





Symbols of Far Away Places





Alone and Together

Carrie Ann Baade is an award-winning artist who is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University. She lives in Tallahasssee. Visit her official site.

 
Joy and Sorrow






 Demoiselle in Distress





The Suicide Queens





The Insomniac





Dali

The Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois





Charity and Her Children





Our Lady of Perpetual Indulgence 

 Erika lives in California.  Visit her site.

Mother and Child

Scheherazade

Surface

Passage