My name is José Mercado (jay) I was born in Brooklyn NY 1982 now live in Dallas tx I’m American – Puerto Rican and started painting in 2014 a friend of mine who is a artist told me to give it a try and I been painting ever since I use mostly house paint and […]

I grew up in a very spiritual and political family. I very much wanted to change the world. I wanted to be the next Martin Luther King Jr. or Mother Theressa, but through my art. I remember being four and thinking I would surely be killed if I pursued my dream of activism and art. […]

Take a look at the entire series here: vimeo.com/channels/makingart Making Art New York, Alyssa Monks, Brooklyn, New York “We need to feel like we belong to this experience, we need to know our place, we need to know where we fit. We need to feel that we’re accepted for who we are. So the goal […]

  The first bits of paper that I have collected and glued together were pictures of my idols, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix. I was 14 and I absolutely did not want to lose those pictures of them so I started to assemble them religiously… 20 years later I continue! It became a means […]

Fiorentina De Biasi “City of Dreams” Photo collage and staples March 7th , 2015, 7pm – 10pm Leonardo Rossi Studio 200 West 21st , NYC 212 727 9777 Fiorentina De Biasi was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples, Italy). She studied at DAMS (Department of Art Music and Entertaining) at Bologna University. She graduated in […]

Yaro’s Zajac-Przybylski portraits reveal nostalgia and subtle eroticism. In their explicit depiction, his paintings anticipate to large degree the erotic works of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Auguste Rodin. He views femininity as a phenomenon of the moment, and he sees  to express the natural cycle of sensuality and mystery in his portraits of women. […]

Manuella Muerner Marioni was born on March 23, 1964 in Thun, Switzerland. She studied Fine Arts and Fashion Design at the new Kunstschule Zurich/Switzerland. Travelling to cities and foreign countries such as Vienna, Lisbon or Paris, Spain, South America and the USA, she continuously widened her artistic horizon. Niki de St. Phalle was her personal […]

Art Fairs: ARTEXPO New York April 23 – 26, 2015 Amy Cohen Banker’s artworks will be presented at: ART UpCLOSE Booth #478 Pier 94, 55th Street, NYC, NY Le Petit Musee @ The Emporium InDeArts, Great Barringtons, MA, Sept. 2015 AMY COHEN BANKER For me, painting is a medium of expression capable of communicating profound […]

Stay connected with N.A.W.A.! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNAWA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NAWAnews Artsy: http://artsy.net/thenawa   Established in 1889, N.A.W.A. is the first established professional women’s art organization in the U.S. N.A.W.A’s documented exhibitions are archived within The Smithsonian Institution Archives; The Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; the […]

“Art can not be empty, because the history of humanity repeats itself and is frightening. It is up to the artist to manifest himself through his work, and bequeath an interpretation of his time, a message.” Duda Penteado is a multimedia artist who has lived between the United States and Brazil for almost 20 years […]