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Howard Harris

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"Visual reality is an ever-shifting, highly individualized experience. In any given moment, what we see reflects both our inner state and a synthesis of outer qualities—light, color, movement, space. My exploration in dimensional photographic art represents an attempt to recreate the perceptual experience, with its dynamic nature and hidden complexities. In my patented process I use photographic constructions, a single often abstracted image is layered over itself on clear acrylic surfaces and superimposed on a subtle grid. The resulting visual phenomenon infuses the image with a sense of dimensionality and fluidity affected by such changes as the angle of viewing and light."

Howard Harris has long been fascinated by both visual perception and design. The Denver Colorado USA native earned a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, MID (Masters Industrial Design) from Pratt Institute in New York studying with internationally renowned design theorist Rowena Reed Kostellow.

Harris has spent more than 35 years combining design and technology where he has won many prestigious professional awards. Now his creative energy has turned to his lifelong passion, photography. With an iconoclastic streak that had seen him consistently forging new directions in design, he was bound to approach the photographic image in an unconventional way as well.

In 2017 Harris was granted a United States Patent no: 9,753,295 titled Apparatus and Method of Manufacturer for a Layered Artwork proving the uniqueness and inventiveness of his photographic work. Since then his work has appeared in many books and publications such as The Great Masters of Contemporary Art, ARTtour International Artists of the Decade, Art Collectors Choice Japan, International Contemporary Masters, and Top 10 Contemporary Artists, to mention a few. He has also been awarded Artists for a Green Planet Artist of the Decade, International Prize Raffaello, International Prize Giulio Cesare, International Prize Leonardo Da Vinci, International Prize Caravaggio, Contemporary Art Curator Magazines Artist of the Future, and more.

Howard Harris serves as a Trustee of The Kansas City Art Institute has won the Who’s Who Worldwide Lifetime Achievement and the USA Small Businessperson of the Year. His work is shown internationally and represented by galleries in the United States, U.K., and Europe and appears in the South Korean Yukyung Art Museum.

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Pablo Guillamon

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Spanish artist Pablo Guillamon has exhibited in various establishments and cities including Lorca, Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Paris, Miami, Huesca, Barcelona, Zurich, etc.

In 2021 Pablo Guillamon was a semi-finalist at the ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0. Zurich, Switzerland and in 2019, a finalist in the National Painting Prize "Art without Barriers", Albacete, Spain.

For Pablo, his works are an expression of his deepest feelings on everyday life. In his realistic work, he tries to find the poetry of shapes and colors that configure our real world. In his abstract works, the strokes of light and color move the observer to a warm and cold place at the same time. Hot in the feelings, cold in the observation.

In his own words: "An image is the past of everything that has been during the time elapsed in its composition. Colors create different and harmonious visions that can not always be seen.

These works represent this eternal and continuous contradiction."

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2022 Finalist 55 Artavita Art Contest Art Expo New York, New York, United States

2022 Avatarte Ralist Painting Contest. Maruja Mallo Exhibition Hall Madrid, Spain

2022 Biennale Art Expo. Venice, Italy

2022 Contemporary Art Gallery Online. All CityScape. Wilmington (Delaware) U.S.A.

2022 Realism. The last vanguards Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

2022 Urbanside Gallery. Zug, Switzerland

2021 Mention Luxembourg Art Prize 2021

2021 Contemporary Art Gallery online Exhibition. Wilmington (Delaware) U.S.A.

2021 Gálicca Art Gallery. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2021 SwissArtExpo, Zurich. Switzerland

2021 V Salón de Pintura Realista. Centro Cultural Moncloa. Madrid, Spain

2021 Casa América. "Arte en Red" . Madrid. Spain

2021 Semi-Finalist ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0. Zurich. Switzerland

2021 Contemporary Art Gallery Online's Digital Art Exhibition.

Wilmington (Delaware) U.S.A.

2021 ArtBox Gallery. Project World 1.0 - Zurich. Switzerland

2021 Mundo Arti Museum. Special Christmas

2020 II Internacional Museo Virtual Mundoarti

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Maria Stella Polce

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Italian artist, Maria Stella Polce is a Professor at the M.P.I. (Ministry of Education). Originally from Abruzzo, she traveled throughout Italy before moving permanently to Francavilla al Mare, where she currently resides.

A versatile artist, from an early age, Maria Stella showed a passion for art by painting mainly landscapes and animals with a realistic approach. From the age of 20 onwards, she began to paint with oil colors on canvas (self-taught), had her first solo shows as well as participations in collective exhibitions, obtaining acclaim and prizes.

After a long period of research and artistic experimentation with various techniques and materials (including oil pastels, acrylic colors, watercolors, tempera, glass painting, mixed techniques, etc.), Polce discovered fractals. From 2000 onwards, her way of making art radically changed, to "Fractalism."

Polce draws fractals with her virtual brush, guided by the mouse, bringing out various themes including horses, female figures, landscapes and more, with a unique technique of painting the interior and producing an original, surprising effect.

Later, Polce also experimented with new types of modifications to fractals, occasionally moving away from the figurative. All her digital works are born from fractals and their transformations (including fragmentation, overlapping, etc.).

With this new genre of digital art, she has received notable awards and feature in various art catalogs, including, Mondadori and L'Elite 2019, Artisti 20, Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea De Agostini 2021. Since 2015, Maria Stella Polce has continued to actively exhibit her work in Italy and abroad.

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Ulla Strandberg

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Swedish artist, Ulla Strandberg has explored a wide range of materials in her long creative life. She began as a jewelry designer and then found clay. After a Master's Degree, she showed her ceramic works mainly in Sweden and Denmark. Ulla then found more meaning in promoting other artists' work and for several years now, she is a well-known gallery owner and art curator working for many national and international shows and art fairs. Ulla often lectures in art and design. In 2014, she started KonstMappen, a digital display and intermediation for Swedish artist members. She is very interested in showing art worldwide.

At the same time, Ulla began working with digital collage, a process she really enjoys and discovering new ways of expression.

"I find the creative process very exciting. The world wide web opens up new opportunities for artists indeed. My digital art can be shown on screens, so it is not always necessary to travel. My art is for sale as prints and can be shipped worldwide."

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Shu Yu

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2017, Awarded in the 2017 American Art Awards, juried by America’s 25 Best Galleries & Museums (category 47, digital art – representational).

2018, Won the 1st place in the 28th latest Artavita Online Contest in the category of Digital Art.

2018, Became a 4X winner in the 2018 American Art Awards. Won the 1st place in both “Orientalism or Asian” subject and “digital art – representational” subject; Won the 4th place in futurism; Won the 6th place in surrealism.

2019,Won the contest Finalist Award exhibited in San Diego of Unite state.

2019,Artworks were published on spotlight contemporary art magazine in 2019.

2019，Was selected as one of the artist in the information of Contest Finalists, exhibition at spectrum Miami.

2019, Was invited to participate in the 12 th Florence Biennale of Italian in 2019.

2019， Was selected in the ArtGemini Prize, London& Singapore (London Global Art Prize).

2019 ,Was invited to participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Culture and Art Exhibition.

2019 ,In 2019 American Art Awards, won 8 prize and 1 masterpieces prize by the committee.

2019 , won the 1st prize in the Circle Quarterly art magazine art awards, artworks were published on the circle foundation art magazine for free.

2020， Was selected in the SCA2020 (Society of Canadian) International Open Juried Online Exhibition

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Richard Chalquest

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"My life’s work has always been in research. I spent many years as a very serious photographer and after retirement transferred to digital art. When I started working with digital art, it was a very new field and I had to learn from tutorials for photography and adapt the techniques to art pieces. Later, specific software was developed which has made my work much simpler and has extended the horizon of potential art pieces."

Richard Chalquest is an American artist living and creating in San Diego.

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Dr. Natalia Jezova

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Dr Natalia Jezova is an award-wining, multidisciplinary artist. She achieved her Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London in 2021.

Natalia's work is never quite what it first appears to be. Her images depict meticulously controlled compositions characterised by a classical aesthetic, tinged with poetic undertones of timeless desire and romance. Natalia's work creates immersive narrative scenarios that blur the lines between imagination, reality and memory.

Natalia is sight impaired and she sees everything with a double vision effect. This was one of the reasons why she started to use the superimposition technique (in which two images are simultaneously visible over each other) in her art practice. The layering of images on top of each other creates a new meaning and makes an impression on an almost subliminal level.

Natalia particularly admires Old Master paintings. She is fascinated by their unsurpassed technical qualities, their mysterious representation of dramatic light and their masterful use of composition. However, she appreciates not only their technical skill but also their incredible ability to convey to a viewer the subtext of the picture hidden behind the symbolic meanings of colours and details. After all, many Renaissance masterpieces, with their unique placement of objects and use of distinctive colour palettes, are coded ‘books’ filled with secrets and hints.

You just need to know the ciphers for these codes to understand what their author wanted to convey. She mixes classical and modern aspects and her artworks are multi-layered, containing their own little secrets that viewers are invited to discover. As Natalia says: “What could be more enchanting than a mystery? I suppose, only the love for the mystery and the quest which one embarks on in trying to solve it.”

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Yiannis Galanakis

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Yiannis Galanakis studied at the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2012 he has been dealing with digital processing and composition of his photographs. He has presented his work in group and individual art exhibitions as well as in international competitions or festivals.

“Human,

when no one sees him

he goes out and walks

outside of human.”

- Homero Aridjis

"In my work, I try to introduce a transformative reality already grafted with elements of the imagination. This reality reflects upon the world, as well as itself, through visual elements as provided by digital image processing, the use of the photographic lens and "craft writing": the alteration of the image on the computer, be it a photograph, a painting or simply a drawing.

My aim is communication as the re-creation of readings; a language that has hidden inside it what was always there - an emotional or emotive presence; all that was made to inhabit and inhabited by poetic language.

I think of my works as narrative quotes, movie frames or reflective fragments of an essay on our fragmentary, fluid, and transitional world, more like metaphors really or allegories for ways of seeing.

My concern is to narrate / suggest an open story, using the picture as a language, as a means of access to the reality of the «unwritten» world, to cause an emotional vibration - something to shake me up - where its roots are nourished by the soil of the sensible and the conceivable inseparably."

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Morten Saether

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Morten Saether is a freelance photographer and painter. Alongside his self-taught artistic practice, Morten has enjoyed an extensive professional career as an Art Director and Graphic Designer.

Morten’s photography and paintings have been featured in exhibitions in Collioure/France, Barcelona, Spain, Fredrikstad, Horten and Oslo, Norway. Morten is keen to continue to exhibit his work throughout Europe and is focusing on Paris and Barcelona as his target markets. Morten resides in Oslo, Norway.

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Howard Harris

Pablo Guillamon

"My painting transmits the poetry of everyday life through shapes and colors."

Maria Stella Polce

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - P. Picasso
"I transform a fractal (computer generated), into a horse or a nude or a landscape or an abstract."

Ulla Strandberg

Passionate Photographer, Ulla Strandberg uses her I-phone captures to create her digital collages. Inspired by nature, colorful moments, fun situations and unexpected surprises, her works are often stories full of symbolism.

Shu Yu

Richard Chalquest

"I have been doing digital art for over ten years. I use Painter software with a few attachments to produce art pieces. I primarily create abstract art but do vary the format according to my interests such as a love for flowers. I have developed more than 200 digital art pieces."

Dr. Natalia Jezova

Dr Natalia Jezova communicates through a wide variety of media, including photography, film and installation. Her art, which has been exhibited internationally, addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues.

Yiannis Galanakis

"In my work, I try to introduce a transformative reality already grafted with elements of the imagination. I think of my works as narrative quotes, movie frames or reflective fragments of an essay on our fragmentary, fluid, and transitional world, more like metaphors for ways of seeing."

Morten Saether

“Photography is often the essence of my Art. I also love traditional collages. So often my work consists of different photos put together in layers and presented in a new way, mostly abstract but sometimes with elements you can recognize.”

Alan Mahood

"There is no set formula for the way I work and every piece is unique in that respect."

"My painting transmits the poetry of everyday life through shapes and colors."

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - P. Picasso "I transform a fractal (computer generated), into a horse or a nude or a landscape or an abstract."

Passionate Photographer, Ulla Strandberg uses her I-phone captures to create her digital collages. Inspired by nature, colorful moments, fun situations and unexpected surprises, her works are often stories full of symbolism.

"I have been doing digital art for over ten years. I use Painter software with a few attachments to produce art pieces. I primarily create abstract art but do vary the format according to my interests such as a love for flowers. I have developed more than 200 digital art pieces."

Dr Natalia Jezova communicates through a wide variety of media, including photography, film and installation. Her art, which has been exhibited internationally, addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues.

"In my work, I try to introduce a transformative reality already grafted with elements of the imagination. I think of my works as narrative quotes, movie frames or reflective fragments of an essay on our fragmentary, fluid, and transitional world, more like metaphors for ways of seeing."

“Photography is often the essence of my Art. I also love traditional collages. So often my work consists of different photos put together in layers and presented in a new way, mostly abstract but sometimes with elements you can recognize.”

"There is no set formula for the way I work and every piece is unique in that respect."

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - P. Picasso
"I transform a fractal (computer generated), into a horse or a nude or a landscape or an abstract."