Exhibition | In My View |

The focused study of an object to capture it in any media takes intense concentration. Every shape, each curve, line and shadow permit the artist a fresh moment in time to consider how they will interpret what they see. The outcome can feel like a mystical experience when the form comes to life.

Aarti Gupta Bhadauria - Best in Show

Wave of Origin

terracotta

India

Artist Statement:  Sculpting the clay is to the sculptor as the paper is to the painter. In the delicate clay, the genius of the sculptor is found in its most extreme virtue and truth.

Sculpting with clay and giving it an abstract effect depicts how we look at something, but it always has an abstract meaning associated with it. When we are emotional, we feel different waves inside us, I show the different forms of these waves through my sculptures. My sculptures are aerial and without any armature. I maintain my own style in terracotta, and it takes me three to four months to make one sculpture. I wanted to do something different in life, so I decided to choose my own destination, and started working with terracotta. Terracotta is one of the ancient mediums for art, I want to promote it world-wide with modern ideas and my style. When I work, I get lost in it and does not feel my physical existence. My work is my soul.

Anton Selleshii - Director's Choice

Childs Soul

oil

Ukraine

Artist Statement:  My visual language is characterized by a certain hybrid of painterly techniques - dabs, often without colour, which gives birth to a recognizable style. The tonality tries to imitate light, shadow, and spatial perspective, but instead is dirty and breaks the form. Despite all this lack of control of light and shadow, figurative works depend on anatomically correct lines and proportions. In the era of digital hyperrealism and augmented reality, emotional, raw, gestural dabs become an integral language of my painting.

|  Finalists  |

Aarti Gupta Bhadauria

Wave of Origin (view 2)

terracotta 

India

Carina Imbrogno

Lemon Lime Paradise

pastel drawing

United States

Ieva Graudina

Look Up

oil

Latvia

Lauren Aristizabal

Eat Me

acrylic on canvas

United States

Aarti Gupta Bhadauria

Wave of Attraction

terracotta

India

Ieva Graudina

Sea Day

oil

Latvia

Ed Whitmore

Evanescent Ice Floes

oxidized iron copper and bronze metal effects paint

United States

Aarti Gupta Bhadauria

Wave of Protection

terracotta

India

Ed Whitmore

All that Jazz

oxidized iron copper and bronze metal effects paint

United States

William Wylie

Flower Study 2

photography

United States

John Diephouse

Calculating the Odds

digital collage

United States

John Diephouse

Generation

digital collage

United States

Moti Bazak

My Place

photography & digital

Israel

Ed Whitmore

Hittite Winged Demons Margy

oxidized iron copper and bronze metal effects paint

United States

Ed Whitmore 

Under the Sea

bas relief triptych

United States

Narcis Sehic

Monocle 

mixed media

Bosnia & Herzegovina

John Diephouse

Sum of the Parts

digital collage

United States

Lauren Aristizabal

Eat Me 2

acrylic on canvas

United States

Anton Selleshii

Ego (panel 1)

acrylic

Ukraine

Lauren Aristizabal

Eat Me 3

acrylic on canvas

United States

Ningxin Li

Girls Dream

oil on canvas

United States

Thomas Yau

Standard Shell

cyanotype on fabric

Hong Kong

Aaron Krone

Forgotten Toys

graphite

United States

Ed Whitmore

Statuesque Berkeley

oxidized iron copper and bronze metal effects paint

United States

Anton Selleshii

Escape

acrylic on canvas

Ukraine

John Diephouse

Hudson

digital collage

United States

Lifang Chen

Walk In Fashion

ink

Taiwan

John Diephouse

Blues

digital collage

United States

Moti Bazak

Dream

photography & digital

Israel

William Wylie

Flower Study 46

photography

United States

Moti Bazak

Support in Desert

digital photography

Israel

Carina Imbrogno

Fruit Medley

oil

United States

Anton Selleshii Ego (panel 2) acrylic on canvas

Anton Selleshii

Ego (panel 2)

acrylic

Ukraine

John Diephouse

An Idea Blossoms Clearing the Cobwebs

digital collage

United States

Carina Imbrogno

Spring Bloom

oil

United States