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Kelly Marshall

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Kelly Marshall’s upbringing in Southern California has shaped her work and perspectives. She spent her childhood in her suburban San Diego neighborhood creating games and making countless messes. In Art School, at San Diego State University, Kelly took her love of the art of mess-making to the next level and refined her eye with printmaking and artist books. During this time, Kelly was awarded a grant to study the art and cultural heritage of Japan with fellow members of the art department at SDSU. After a near 20 year career as a teacher and owner of Color, Construct, Create Studios, her full-inclusion children’s art school, Kelly has returned to her passion for process and intentional mess as an abstract painter. Her social practice of teaching art to children and adolescents with disabilities has informed her visual language. Kelly has won awards, participated in several group shows, and currently displays her art in regional galleries.

"The artwork I produce is a reflection on my shared experience as an artist and educator. Teaching deepens my understanding of the human condition and painting is my avenue of expression. After almost 20 years of working with children with special needs, I have honed my urgent commitment to thinking about and making art with people who move and think differently. My artwork juxtaposes these conflicts through beauty and delicacy of light as well as the harmony of colors. Each painting begins with bold colors and is layered, scraped, built, and deconstructed through neutrals and additive negative space. Hidden colors and implied shapes contemplate the relationships in nature, structures in organic matter, and subtle nods to the return of the 19th century in our current societal dysfunction. I work in acrylic paint, found pages, collected bits, and materials sourced from student projects. Each painting is deliberate, organic, intuitive, and a reflection of my social practice."

K.A. Letts

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Francesca Falli

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Francesca Falli began painting as a child, under the guidance of her maternal grandfather, and made arts her professional sphere. She studied at the Art Institute, the European Institute of Design and the Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1983 she began her career as a freelance graphic designer, carrying out graphic projects for public bodies and private companies, while she devoted herself to painting. In 2010, she began working with digital techniques. She is the creator of numerous editorial-artistic publications: in 2000 she designed and created the "International Peace Prize" assigned to the Holy Father Pope John Paul II. In the 90s, she attended the studio of Fabio Mauri.

Falli's works are exhibited in several contemporary art museums and she has received prizes and awards in Italy and abroad. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Contemporary Landscape. She exhibited her "Pollage" in the large galleries section of the main Italian contemporary art fairs alongside the works Warhol, Festa, Angeli, and Schifano. She is documented within the Catalog of Modern Art Mondadori and the Atlas of Art de Agostini. Falli exhibited her "PollArte" at Palazzo Albrizzi Capello to coincide with the review of the Guatemala Pavilion, present at the 16th Venice Biennale.

Her attitude to experimentation has pushed her towards the creation of an innovative mode of "artistic work" in which painting and decoration are contaminated with the possibilities of new digital techniques. Continuous research has led her to the production of "Pollage" which are gaining interest from critics and historians and are spreading in the world of collectors. The chaotic, distorted and emphasized landscapes we find in her mirrored artworks are an expression of the mental and visual chaos caused by the earthquake that struck her city in 2009.

Ray Besserdin Paper Sculpture Artist

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Born to artist parents, Ray began his passion for paper in childhood, about the time he also became fascinated with nature. Graduating from LaTrobe University in 1982 and starting out as a graphic designer/illustrator, he soon began innovating sculpture techniques with paper. Over 30 years, his work has ranged from miniature to gigantic and abstract to ultra-realistic, but his signature work is a style he terms “Impressionist Sculptured Paper,” associating it with the painting style of that name because it is only loosely representative, concerning more with stimulating emotive responses.

“I want the nature of the paper to show through as I speak to viewers’ hearts without the clutter of detail."

Ray uses mostly hand and mould-made sheet formed cotton, mulberry and hemp papers from Europe and Asia. Nature and people are his favourite subject matter.

Ray has been recognized both in Australia and internationally with 24 awards to date, including two gold from New York, one for a Macquarie Bank corporate commission and First in the Nature Exhibition of LightSpaceTime Gallery, Florida 2018. He won the People’s Choice Award, National Works on Paper 2018, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria and a highly coveted International Art Professionals “Gold Medal for Creativity” by the Mondial Art Academia, France.

Corporate clients include Macquarie Bank Australia, Amcor, Ford Motor Company and Northern Territory Government of Australia to name a few. Private commissions hang in London, Munich, Manhattan, New Zealand and throughout Australia.

Recent interviews: ZoneOneArts https://zoneonearts.com.au/ray-besserdin/ ACS Magazine Chicago, USA https://www.acs-mag.com/acsmagjanfeb2019 and Art & Museum Magazine, UK https://lnkd.in/gWbhQqx

Ray Besserdin is Australian Ambassador for Mondial Art Academia, France since 2018.

2019 Exhibitions: July in Melbourne, Australia presented by the Royal Botanical Gardens of Victoria; October in Paris, Carrousel du Louvre

Sheila Eder

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Sheila Eder is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds graduate degrees from Columbia and New York University. She retired from a long-held university job in 2013. Since retiring, Ms. Eder has pursued an interest in collage and mixed media, studying at Cooper Union and at the Art Center of the 92nd Street Y. In her brief career as an artist, she has won two "Best in Show" prizes and been exhibited in Brooklyn, Manhattan and in online galleries including the International Gallery of Art (Toronto), Fusion Art (California), and Bauhaus Prairie Gallery (Oklahoma).

Anne Jeffery

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"Growing up in California, under the spell of such luminaries of photography as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, I was entranced with the photographic process. After receiving a sensible college degree, I went on to study photography at Brooks Institute of Photography. I left Brooks to begin a career with the Federal Government documenting wildfires for the Bureau of Land Management. During my Federal career, I worked as a photographer, a public relations specialist and National Deputy Director for BLM’s Office of Fire and Aviation. Over the years my work has evolved from documentary photographs into creating fine art multi-layered digital photomontages.

My photomontages may be composed of up to 70 different layers. A layer may be an original digital photograph, a digital creation such as flare, fog, stars, shadows, color splashes or a layer may modify another layer by adjusting exposure, hue, saturation, color, and/or texture.

I have studied under some of the masters of photography including workshops with Al Weber, Philip Hyde, Maggie Taylor, and Ysabel LeMay. In addition, I had the great honor of being selected to work as an assistant to Ansel Adams at one of his Yosemite Workshops.

I was a finalist in the Julia M. Cameron Award for Women Photographers - Alternative Processes 2016 and had my work exhibited at Berlin Foto Biennale - 4th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography. My work is currently being exhibited at Friedman Memorial Airport, St Luke's Medical Center, 7Fuego Restaurant and Bellevue Public Library.”

Angeles Gonzalez

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"I am an Audiovisual Communication professional with more than 20 years of experience working in television, in creation and edition of audiovisuals. In the world of photography, my training is self-taught, my work has evolved through my own research. I started doing Documentary Photography; there was a moment when I wanted to investigate further, and I went into other genres, like fashion photography and later I evolved to Fine Art.

The experience was very positive. I experimented and discovered new ways of capturing, not only moments but subtle details which I could register and forms of expression which I could shape. I became able to create what was in my imagination. Utilizing a unique technique my works require a long and continual gaze.

Inside the many possibilities offered by photographic art, the one that attracts me the most is the portrait, because of the power it has to transmit sensations and emotions, which reach the viewer directly. But I go a step further, because I try to get my photography to have a pictorial appearance so real, that when I contemplate it, put into question that what I am watching is photography or painting.

I consider my photography, emotionally dense and infinite; my art emphasizes fantasy and imagination as a source of aesthetic experience

My professional career focuses on the search for beauty, and through my photography, I try to share my emotions. My last projects have been based on a study through the painting of the great masters of the Baroque and Renaissance; I analyze the use of light in those wonderful chiaroscuros, to use that knowledge in my photography, where my goal is to achieve that mixture between photography and painting.

In my works, the framings, the treatment of the light, the scenery, the whole, get a mixture, that when observing the work printed on canvas surprises that it is photography."

Fay Wood

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“Art using found objects has attracted me since 1965, when I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and saw large sculptures by local artists made from detritus on the Bay shore. They were fantastic, noisy, beautiful works with great humor and form - I never have forgotten them. As an art student at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Mass. I began studying painting, but later, when I was attending a life drawing group, a sculptor encouraged me to carve directly in wood. This began what has become a deep love for sculpture and, later found object assemblage.

In 1992, when I finally had a permanent studio in the Hudson Valley of New York State, I began combining found objects with the cherry wood carvings I had been doing and continue to do so; adding found rag paper, wire, and paint to the mix.

I have also continued to paint, draw, and create tapestries and, recently I have completed an 18 piece portfolio of collages. I have an extensive exhibition history, including The Proskauer prize from the National Sculpture Society, exhibitions at Brookgreen Gardens, S. Carolina, Biennale Dell Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, where I have been invited again in 2019, as well as many solo, group and invitational exhibitions in the USA. I will also be a featured artist with Artrepreneur, a website assisting artists to further their careers, in a film on PBS worldwide in April 2019.”

Ritva Georgiades

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Henny Schlüter

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German, Henny Schlüter has been an artist since 2002 and in 2011 his portrait appeared on München TV, Foundation of OfficeAndArt - "Economics meets Art - THE interactive platform". He has participated in the project WorkART Connections of the Center for German and European Studies (CGES), Minneapolis/USA.

Select Solo Exhibitions

2016/17 Papiertechnische Stiftung PTS "Paper Matters" Munich, K&K Galerie "Klein und Fein" Neuried, 2015 City of Munich, Dept. Cultural Affairs "Malerei mit Papier II", KIK "Papier ist geduldig" Krailling, 2013/14 Max Plank Institute "Malerei mit Papier I" Martinsried, 2013 Town Hall City of Planegg "MyART"

Select Group Exhibitions

2018 Galerie Kerstan "Xmas" Stuttgart, Galleria ARTtime "Emozioni Astratte", Udine Italy, 2017 Galeria ART Nou Millenni "Modern European Art" Barcelona Spain, Museum St. Johann Austria, 2016 Stilgalerie "Farben Querschnitte" Vienna Austria, 2015 A&D Gallery "Continental Art" London GB, 2013 KUNST-TAGE Trudering "Selected Artists of the Year" Munich

International Art Fairs
2019 artexpo New York, 2018 Carrousel du Louvre Paris, ARTe Sindelfingen, 2017 XIth Florence Biennale Florence Italy, 2016 ART Innsbruck Austria

Select Publications and Media

Who's Who in Visual Art 100 Top Fine Artists ISBN 978-3-9817701-2-4, Exhibition Catalogue PTS Munich, XIth Biennale Florence ISBN 97-8-8868741778, "Portrait" Report Edition 49 ISSN 1612-0434, CULT KunstundLiteratur "Artist's Portrait" Edition 16 ISSN 2193-4711, "Internationale Kunst Heute" Kolle/Gardill, ISSN 978-2-9816-395-2-8

Select Memberships

Kunstkreis Gräfelfing e.V.and Paul Klinger KSW e.V. München, in both member of advisory board, H-Team e.V. Munich jury member, KUN:ST International Stuttgart e.V., Sylter Kunstfreunde, Isle of Sylt, Germany, Kunst-Kulturverein KitzArt Kitzbühel, Austria

Kelly Marshall

Kelly Marshall is a San Diego-based abstract painter with a background in painting, printmaking, and art of the book. Her work is a reflection on her shared experience as an artist and educator. Kelly works in acrylic paint, found pages, collected bits, and materials sourced from student projects.

K.A. Letts

“My work looks both forward and back in time. I describe the present Anthropocene age by referencing myths and stories from our shared cultural history, in order to imagine our trans-human future, where all of nature is touched by humans and all humans are touched by technology.”

Francesca Falli

"In my art, there is an exercise in thought that blends with visual communication. I love new digital techniques, even if for me the computer is only a mean; the ideas come first in my mind. I combine technology and painting techniques inspired by Pop Art."

Ray Besserdin Paper Sculpture Artist

Sheila Eder

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

- Pablo Picasso

Anne Jeffery

Angeles Gonzalez

Fay Wood

"I've been an artist for many years and creating sculpture using found materials is my favorite form of expression. I love a quote by Virginia Woolf: ‘Arrange whatever pieces come your way.’ I also have portfolios in painting, tapestry, collage, and drawing."

Ritva Georgiades

“Art is my hobby, my obsession, my love, yearning for something that I cannot give name to. It is an ongoing journey with its ups and downs. This journey can be both exciting and agonizing and at times surprising how images unfold.”

Henny Schlüter

"Painting with paper on canvas is the result of my ongoing contemplation on progress and sustainability leading me to the unique use of colored paper as my artistic medium. I want to achieve a new visual language leading people off the beaten tracks towards new experiences."