Visual Art

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Born in Brussels Belgium, Dominique Elliott is a multimedia artist and professor. Her work begins in reverse: with a title. Her interests in the interplays of words and image, in transpositions, translations, phenomenology, epistolary works, reverse ekphrasis, have crept into her artistic practice through documentaries, painting, and mixed media. Her work has been published in New Plains Review, Liminal Spaces, Novus Literary Arts Journal, Fauxmoir, Touchstone Literary Magazine, Passengers Journal, The AutoEthnographer, Kithe, StreetLit, Red Noise Collective and L=Y=R=A.

The Rapture

Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer, filmmaker and photographer exploring the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. Her worlds communicate with our neglected inner child and are informed by explosive colors, elevated play and the existence of light in the dark.

Jaina writes and directs award winning short films that wrestle with the complicated path of healing. Her second short, Trauma Bond is a dreamy, coming of age thriller that explores what happens when we attempt to heal deep wounds with quick fixes. In 2023 Trauma Bond took home the grand prize at the Lonely Seal International Film Festival.

Jaina’s photographic works are fabricated by hand in her Lowell studio. Working with Jaina is often described as cathartic and playful. Her photographic work has been shown at Griffin Museum of Photography, the Photographic Resource Center/Boston, PhotoPlace Gallery VT, Medium San Diego among others.

She is the founder of Finding Bright Studios, a design company specializing in set design for music videos, immersive spaces and public art. Jaina is the owner and executive director of the longstanding Arlington International Film Festival. She has collaborated with GRRL HAUS, Boston Art Review, and was a Boston Fellow for the Mass Art Creative Business Incubator, a finalist in EforAll Merrimack Valley and was a participant in the city of Boston’s Un-monument augmented reality workshop.

Along the Same Vein

David  A. Goodrum, photographer/writer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His  photography has graced the covers of several art and literature  magazines, most recently Cirque Journal, Willows Wept Review, Blue  Mesa Review, Ilanot Review, Red Rock Review, The Moving Force Journal,  Snapdragon Journal, Vita Poetica, and appeared in many others. In  the quickness of our modern lives, we often lose the small details as we  step over them, look away, stare straight ahead, distract ourselves  with devices. Instead, my photos are from experiences of pausing and  contemplation. See additional work, both photos and poems, at www.davidgoodrum.com.

Rinascita Fior di Loto

Giorgio Rizzo, born in Catania in 1971, began drawing as a child influenced by his painter mother. After attending the Art Institute of Catania, he became the youngest Art Director at Publimedia in Milan, refining his representation of the body in fashion. He collaborated with artists like Franco Califano and Gabriella Ferri in music. During Covid-19, he explored new artistic paths with Giada Trebeschi, writing and directing works. He experiments with unconventional materials like cigarette butts and wine, exploring desire as the primal engine of his art.

Echoes

Aleksandra Scepanovic is a sculptor whose work reflects her experience of migratory displacement and her ongoing quest for a true likeness of identity, suspended between war, peace, and culture. Her sculptures are strong physical preambles to wonder and potential, arrested in transformation. Aleksandra collaborates with a collective of sculptors in her studio in Woodstock, NY, channeling echoes of her life’s experiences into art that celebrates the courage of continuation and the quiet joy of life in the Hudson Valley.

Worst Enemy

Mirka is an illustrator and visual artist from Cologne, Germany. She always has been drawn to surrealism, the unknown and the intuitive. As a feminist, she is inspired by female surrealist painters such as Alice Rahon. Her works circle around dance and movement, poetic abstractions as well as the beauty, banality and brutality of the everyday. She mostly works with watercolor and ink. The published work was an experiment with liquid watercolor and gouache.The work deals with the fact that our worst enemy lies within ourselves, which is both a liberation and a burden. During her active creative phase, Mirka took part in various exhibitions and publications.