Visual Art

Red Moon

Vian Borchert is an established award-winning contemporary expressionist artist. V. Borchert has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions within the US and internationally. Vian is a graduate and “Notable Alumni” from the Corcoran College of Art and Design George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Vian considers her expressionistic art as visual poems. Vian Borchert’s art has been on exhibit in prestigious places such as the United Nations General Assembly’s Public Lobby Gallery, NYC, and in “Art Basel Miami Beach” Spectrum Miami, 1stdibs Design Center in Chelsea, NYC and the LA Art Show. Vian’s art is in private collections worldwide, embassies, and museums. Borchert exhibits in major world cities such as NYC, LA, DC, London, Berlin and Hong Kong.

V. Borchert’s art has been featured in numerous publications such as The Flux Review, The Washington Post, ARTPIL, Shoutout LA, Art Reveal magazine, Vie magazine and others. Borchert has juried art exhibitions in the Washington DC area. Moreover, Borchert has extensive knowledge in art history, and she has worked in major museums such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Borchert is an educator teaching fine art classes in the Washington DC area. Find out more at www.vianborchert.com

Old Folk’s Prayer

Raymond Chen is a beginning poet in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He takes a great interest in critical thinking and is enthusiastic about all techniques of the arts. These include painting, sculpting, printmaking, writing poetry and novels. Furthermore, Raymond takes a great interest in critical thinking and is involved in the study of interrelated fields such as philosophy and psychology. Raymond sees that he expresses his nuanced sentiments and emotions best by bringing to the world an original artwork. Overall, Raymond attempts to utilize his passions for individual growth and for the betterment of society by doing what he can with his own individual quirks symbolized through diverse artwork.

The last supper

The creation of Adam; Afro version

A multidisciplinary self taught visual artist creating drawings and works that require the fusion 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional art forms usually fusing fine oil paints and sand in paintings that focus on Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism also fusing metal cuts on panel and making photorealistic paintings on them that talk about my life story as well as utilizing poetic descriptions for them. He is from Afikpo north, in Ebonyi state, Nigeria. Born on the 14 August 1999. He grew up learning how to draw through practice and drawing of diagrams of school assignments. At a tender age, he was engrossed by comic art. In 2017, he started to create art again not just for subsistent reasons but for commercial purposes. He began with the pen, day by day he practiced, observed and found the works of other artists and kept improving as a pen artist and gently got to learn about realism with the pencil and then gradually into the painting. And in 2018, he won the Anbukraft Peace poster competition, which was the first time he attended an exhibition. He kept improving in my art as time past. In 2019, he participated in the "life in my city" art festival, a national art competition involving different artists in the country. And he made it to the top 100 artists who later exhibited at the grand finale at Enugu Nigeria. In 2019, he came 3rd at a talent hunt preceded by a singer and a rapper. In February 2020, he became a campus ambassador for TECNO mobile Nigeria, a mobile phone brand, following a talent hunt organized by them.

In his art, the use of sand is mainly focused on general human history as it is believed that humans were made from sand, but using this to create afro hair and specifically African soil makes it mostly about African descent. Each piece has expressive significance shown by the subject in question and written in poems. He sees art differently. He feels it shouldn't be just seen, I think art should be felt, both mentally and physically even on a 2 dimensional surface. So I introduce a bit of 3 dimensionality to a 2 dimensional painting.

Flos Carnis

Caroline Loftus. The sun is my enlarger, and plants are my muse. My creative process heavily involves gathering inspiration from my surrounding natural environment. Silver gelatin photographic paper is my canvas on which objects are placed, and an unrepeatable image is exposed under the sun. Working in a cameraless photographic process brings a lot of unknowns. With lumens, what normally is controlled through aperture, exposure, and chemistry, is unpredictable. The process of creating each lumen is meditative. I focus on my hands; how they feel, what they look like, the way they move. What I feel and think determines my creative freedom. I am not my body, and neither are you. Every day I challenge myself to think innovatively about the work I create. I push through the boundaries of photographic paper by using anything containing pigment; from Hawaiian Punch to Chaga, and most recently, RIT Dye. The addition of these pigments permanently stains the photographic paper, preserving the colors that were once lost to the chemistry that makes it light safe. Focusing on the process instead of the outcome of my work is liberating. I am grateful for each quiet moment that I am allowed a deeper breath, where time slows, and I connect with myself on a level far greater than physical. In each of these moments, I spend time observing my natural surroundings, picking plants most would discard or leave unnoticed. I want to thank the earth through my work; creating an image manipulated by nature.

Bamboo

Born and raised in a city which was the birthplace of the ancient romantic Chu era and the historic revolution of China, Peng Qi bares the exquisite, creative, and pioneering gene. In his artwork, he uses his own unique language and skills to acknowledge the vicissitudes of human life as well as those of the world surrounding him.

Peng Qi is passionate about reflecting our modern digital and network age on the canvas. He uses his masterful skills to generate virtual and photoelectric color effects that do not exist in the natural world. Peng Qi attempts to break through the perceived three-dimensional space and ventures into the higher dimensions, leading the viewer to contemplate the mysterious nature of the universe.

Peng Qi works passionately to unlock new ways to create contemporary art that bears the mark of the new age. He believes, that the cooperation, symbiosis, and co-evolution with technology is an inevitable trend and should be embraced. The combination and cooperation between humans and artificial intelligence, like a man in a self-driving car, for instance, will allow for the human strategic intellect to complement the machines precise ability to follow instructions harmoniously marking an important shift in the evolution of art history. The combination of new technology and traditional culture will bring the ancient art a new life.

Peng Qi’s artworks have been exhibited worldwide, collected by museums, private collectors, galleries and organizations from the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. When not painting in the studio and teaching fine arts at the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Peng Qi travels the world to admire the diverse cultures in different countries and also allocates time to mentor young artists, encouraging them to find their own unique voice.

For Peng Qi, art is a religion, whose intricacies and depth are more than the lay man could even comprehend. Find him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/pengqiart or by email: pengqiart@outlook.com

Speak with your hands

Bilingual, Multidisciplinary artist, MarieJulie Lafrance won two art scholarships while studying for her DEC in Arts in letters. She obtained her DEC in 2012. Since 2014, as an illustrator-freelancer MarieJulie uses pencils, brushes, digital software, and fabrics as tools to express her creativity. Diagnosed as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), MJ is highly attuned to details, giving her the ability to bring a textured but flowy elegance to her work. Find out more on her website: mariejuliestudio.wordpress.com

Of Innocence and Of Experience 2

Matthew Troyer is a documentary and fine art photographer that lives and works in Sarasota, Florida. He will receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Imaging from the Ringling College of Art and Design in 2022. He has been offered admission to several graduate programs to continue growing his conceptual practice and to teach. Troyer spent nine years serving in the United States Marine Corps as a combat photographer. He documented combat operations and training in Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Thailand. Troyer taught photography as the faculty supervisor at the Defense Information School on Fort Meade, Maryland. He now uses his prior military experience, expanded knowledge of fine art photography, and creative conceptual development to create work exploring the military experience, combat trauma, memory, familial relationships, and unseen heroes. To view more of his work, visit www.matthewtroyerphotography.com or on Instagram @matthewtroyer.

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Maria Tabet is a Lebanese artist, she graduated with her Masters in Fine Arts from The Lebanese University of fine arts and architecture in 2020. She has been honored with an award for educational excellence and her work has been showcased nationally such as MACAM (Modern And Contemporary Arts Museum), and on international platforms such as Culturally Arts Collective. Her works are philosophical subjects turned visual, which she has been studying and researching for years. When she is not visually creating an absurd scene around a specific subject, she enjoys playing with theories of human consciousness and how it works, because to her, the many perspectives on life are fascinating and she often openly likes to ask "Do you know what you are? Because I sure don't."

Full Disclosure 3

Alice Teeple is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is currently working on a solo exhibit about energetic transmutation and time travel, to be shown this spring in New York City. She lives there, too. Find her on her website: www.aliceteeple.com or Instagram: aliceteeple or Twitter: @creeple