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Tracing Identity with Namsa Leuba
Emese Krunak-Hajagos: The topic for this year’s Contact Festival is Identity, involving ancestry, history and society, and how the individual’s sense of self is shaped by them. How do you feel about your mixed African-European background? Namsa Leuba: I think to be a mix of cultures is a great wealth. I am an African-European, born […]
Sabine Poppe
Vibrant colors and piercing eyes drive my pieces. I love the impact of bright colors, and the joy they radiate. To have a blob of magenta and spread it alongside a bright orange delivers instant excitement and sunshine. The amazing variety between individual faces fascinates me; how is it that only minimal changes in in […]
Kara Asilanis
All art is collaboration, whether I am collaborating with myself, or with the subject, or doing a home portrait for someone—it’s one of the things I love best about painting. Then the painting is shared and it becomes a collaboration between the viewer and the piece. blacklionart.com
Johan Warodell
I have been creating art all my life and can now finally live my dream to its fullest by creating art on a daily basis. I am the owner of Warodell art studio, located in south-east Sweden on an island called Öland. I was born in 1979 and have been working with my art professionally […]
Leah Oates Interviews Kristen Copham
Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Kristen Copham: I have identified myself as an artist for as long as I can remember. I had strong drawing skills as a kid, so I benefited from early encouragement. I now find the title to be a little vague and commonplace, […]
Chuck Close’s New Exhibition in East Hampton
Celebrated artist Chuck Close will show his recent work at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, for the second time since his solo exhibition of large scale Polaroid photographs, Chuck Close Up Close, in 1991. Mr. Close always had been an experimental artist who consistently strive for new methods in making his art. In the […]
