Visual Art

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Hija de la Pachamama

Paula Camaco is a Colombian-born artist based in Miami, Florida. She graduated from University of Central Florida in 2019 with her bachelor's in painting. She also constructs site-specific nature installations using fallen materials. Her practice, ultimately a visual exploration into the theory of immanence, is heavily influenced by transcendental experiences and her consequent investigations into Taoism, shamanism, and Jungian philosophy; seeing how they connect and how it applies to and/or mirrors her own life and spirituality. A profound reverence for nature’s complex, entropic perfection is the animist intensity that is integral to her process.

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Tanya Wischerath is a San Francisco based oil painter and printmaker who utilizes traditional academic realism as an investigatory vehicle into unfixed states. Influenced in equal parts by Baroque and Romanticism, Wischerath's paintings are as much about what is implied as what is made explicit.  Rendering sections of her paintings while leaving visible traces of the progressive stages of work, her pieces balance on the edge of rough and refined.

Wischerath attended California College of Art where she studied under James Gobel and Ray Saunders. In 2014 Wischerath’s painting titled “31 Years” was selected to be exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery of London’s annual BP Portrait Competition. With a focus on both her immediate and historic queer community, Wischerath’s murals featuring significant figures in LGBTQ history can be found in the Mission and Castro district In San Francisc. In 2015 she moved to Florence Italy to study the  Atelier method at the Angel Academy of Art, after graduation in 2018 Wischerath’s paintings moved away from direct portraiture and towards more expressive figurative paintinags. You can follow her work @tanyawischerath on Instagram and at Tanyawischerath.com

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Rilind Modigliani is an Albanian Tosk, born in ex-Yugoslavia in the small village of Prespa in the eastern part of North Macedonia. At the age of seven, following his father’s passing, he was cast from his home as custom dictated at his mother’s new betrothal. Between the ages of seven and sixteen he lived a nomadic life, visiting different extended families along eastern North Macedonia and the northern cities of Albania, at times spending weeks asleep out in the wild, or working as a shepherd, field hand, farmer, blacksmith and shoe maker until the age of sixteen when an uncle from his father’s side adopted him into his own family, living in New Zealand. On arrival he was put to work in the family’s businesses and given secondary and tertiary education.

The familial environment was emotionally toxic, a burden he bore until his twenty second year when he finished his Bachelors in Arts at the University of Auckland, picked up the few possessions he had, with his last savings paid of his student debt and ran away, spending the next three years doing odd jobs between towns, traveling to Australia for a year working along the Eastern coastline, as a waiter, musician, chef, ballroom dancer and, for a few months, as a bouncer at a strip club. With the intention of continuing his travels, he moved to Argentina but quickly fell in love with Buenos Aires and settled there, where he continues to live to this day. Throughout his whole life he had enjoyed the discipline of writing, fiction and prose, and settling down, he began dedicating his time to the study of the nature of human beingness, its visual representation through the medium of photography and written dictation through the fictive form.

Find him on Instagram: @rilindmodigliani or visit his website: www.rilindmodigliani.com

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Andrés Porras is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and overall storyteller based out of Calgary, Alberta and born in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He has had his work featured in publications such as Analog Cookbook and Seites. He normally works in analogue mediums such as 35mm and 120 black and white and color film. Up next, he’s working on using medium format photography as a way to tell stories. You can find more of his work on flickr at https://www.flickr.com/people/luminadi/.

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Kicca Tommasi holds a degree in Graphic Design from the Instituto Europeo di Design, Rome and a BA in Photography from the University of Westminster, London. In London she spent most of her professional life freelancing as a Photographer and Art Director for the publishing world. Among other assignments, she was Creative Director for Conde Nast UK for one year. In 2008 she relocated to the fabulous city of Buenos Aires fascinated by its lively creative scene and incredible light. From 2014 till 2017 she was a partner of FotoRuta, a company offering photography tutoring and photographic expeditions. Since 2018 she is spreading her time between Buenos Aires and Italy and dedicate most of her practice to Fine Art and Portraiture photography.

More of her work can be see here: www.kiccatommasiphotography.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiccatommasi/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/KiccaTommasiPhotography

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Ivan Tkach is an artist. He is 48 years old and He lives in Russia. He started creating relatively recently, after he was 40. Ivan  feels a great desire to work hard and create. He is learning a lot and hope to reach a decent standard in art. Ivan is an owner of several awards, including “Russian Art Week” Contest-Exhibition 2020 and 2021. It`s very important for him to be evaluated and this way to prove to himself that he is moving in the right direction. At this stage he is interested in working with colour, making expression and “movement” in pictures. It motivates him to create. Besides, Ivan believes that a picture should contain a thought, which has never been said before, a symbol that is self-explanatory. That is the point for him – to say your own word to the world. Each time he seeks to see a thing or a phenomenon from another angle. Canvas, as any other work of art, must make a person think and contemplate. From another point of view the artist is responsible to the world for all he has created. He considers humanism as the main moving force behind the art. Ivan heartily thanks his family, wife Elena, kids and mother for the great opportunity to create. Find him on Instagram: https://instagram.com/intkach_art?utm_medium=copy_link or by email: intkach@inbox.ru

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Rex Wilder is an artmaker and poet living in Benedict Canyon, California. He considers both vocations interchangeable, or at least sharing the same gallery in his mind. His artwork has been honored with many awards and featured both on magazine covers and within them. Three full-length books of his poetry have been published, and his poems have been widely printed and anthologized, including aboard Knopf's recent Together in a Sudden Strangeness, which showed up on many must-read lists last year, from Entertainment Weekly to The New Yorker.