Ali Warren (b. 1975 Redwood City, California) is a painter residing in Lake Tahoe, California. Warren's realistic, emotional figures are depicted with loose and meandering brush strokes that are underpinned by technical drawing proficiency and purposeful distortion. Her paintings reveal a state of estrangement and loneliness; a psychological disorientation created by her intricate compositions. Her journey into the colors and pulp of the skin is an homage to painters born from the neo-figurative movement. Reminiscent of 15th century Flemish painters, she sets her figures amongst their daily surroundings while her technique embodies the sedulousness of modern America.



Ali Warren earned a BSA in nursing and BA in Wilderness Leadership. As an artist she is primarily self-taught. By attending workshops with master painters and professors from the Chicago Art Institute, Warren has mastered her skill through diligent work and commitment to the ongoing study of art history and modern art. Her work was shown, most recently, at Scope Art Show during Art Basal week in Miami, FL. She has found international showings with international galleries such as; Nasima Landau Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel and Galleri Ramfjord in Oslo, Norway.

https://www.aliwarrenart.com/

Cathrine Muryn currently lives and works in Norway, but her main artistic activity has been in Catalonia and France, where she has participated in numerous solo shows and juried group exhibitions. Several art collections in Europe feature her work, and four of her paintings are owned by Lluís Peñuelas Reixach, former secretary general of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation. Her artworks have also been acquired by Nesodden municipality and Clohars-Carnoëtmunicipality in Brittany.

Cathrine is a visual artist working primarily with painting. Her works are abstract and intuitive, consisting of rhythm, temperament and materiality. Light and dark, – compositions that lie between the poetic and the expressive. Her works explore color and tonality, the materiality of colors and contrast along with the location mood. Her inspiration comes from impressions of landscapes, and the observations of shifting lights and colors.

“As my paintings are strongly related to my surroundings, I believe the residency in ESKFF and Mana Contemporary in Jersey, with its vibrant urban atmosphere will show its traces in my new paintings made during my stay. The experience of the residency and meeting with other artists and galleries in New York will leave imprints in my works and career.”

https://galleriramfjord.no/artists/cathrine-muryn/

I was born in Albacete (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) in 1985 but I have lived in Valencia for 20 years. In this city I obtained my Degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of San Carlos, I became a professional painter and founded my own art academy in my atelier where I teach portrait painting lessons. My influences come mainly from the Spanish old masters: Velázquez, Goya, Sorolla, Fortuny or Ramon Casas, but also Sargent, Zorn or Mancini.


I have held several individual exhibitions, the most important at Espacio 75 Gallery in Madrid, and collective exhibitions at the Madrid Academy of Art or the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona. I have received various awards and selections in important competitions such as the Barcelona Academy of Art Award in the Modportrait competition or the First Prize of Painting at the Polytechnic University of Valencia competition. My work is found in institutions such as town halls and university departments and in private collections in Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Argentina, Germany and Spain.

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Aliyah Martin is a collage artist born in Fort Collins, CO, now based in Queens, NY. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Studio Art from Adelphi University in Garden City, NY. She draws inspiration from assembling discarded and overlooked fragments of our material world in small scale mixed media works. Their pieces delve into the interplay between permanence and impermanence. She often manipulates everyday items such as used bandages, safety pins, lost buttons, cardboard, and string. Incorporating found and personal photographic imagery of the human body, Aliyah’s collages explore visceral themes of existence. She uses an intuitive process to rearrange, cut, and piece together elements, creating new objects. Experimenting with concepts further, she constructs sculptural mobiles. Aliyah transforms two-dimensional collages into three-dimensional objects that aim to capture the essence of the human form, in both physical and emotional states.

https://www.artbyaliyahmartin.com/

Lavely Miller is a figurative realist painter; her work is shown and represented by galleries throughout the United States and Europe.

Miller was named one of ten finalists for the 2021 Bennett Prize, the largest visual arts award given to a female figurative realist in the United States. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Maryland State Arts, and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. She is a past recipient of the Keller Prize, the Contemporary Award from Contemporary Paintings, the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, and a Juror’s Choice awardee from the National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution. Miller has had residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Dacia Gallery in New York City, where she studied under Iliya Mirochnick.

Lavely Miller’s paintings have been featured in the Washington Post, American Art Collector, Hyperallergic, Fine Art Connoisseur, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, International Artist, as well as other publications internationally. Her work is held in various public collections such as the New Salem Museum in New Salem, Massachusetts, the University of Virginia, the Barcelona Academy of Art in Barcelona, Spain and the Twenty-First Century Fox and News Corporation Building in New York City.

Miller graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Studio Art from James Madison University. She holds both master's and doctoral level degrees in Clinical Mental Health from the University of Virginia, where she completed her residency in the area of serious mental illness.

She currently lives and works on the eastern shore of Maryland.

http://www.lavelymiller.org/