It was in Japan that she began to interact with and illustrate the spirit world.  Recalling that some Korean masks were used in war, Gyon remodeled them as Shamans: partially to remember the figures association with death and for the purpose of making progress with her brilliant compositions.     Perhaps one of the most […]

Ebtekar describes his work as “a visual glimpse of a crossroad where present day events meet history and mythology.” Inspired by the delicacy and intricacy found in Persian manuscript illuminations and Islamic architecture, the work employs the image and metaphor of the the portal, the gateway into the next, or the future.       […]

I sometimes use decorative faces on bottles because I like it when things look at you, as if they are ready to come alive and change – like a drag performer putting on makeup.  More recently, I’ve become even fonder of large, aggressive flowers.  Many of my visual references, garish Russian textiles, Renaissance and Baroque […]

Sam Jackson’s works produced for VOLTA NY seek to look and contemplate on how it is possible to produce figurative work within a contemporary and image obsessed culture.  They strive to examine both high and low culture and how this can manifest itself in a painting in a serious and sensitive manner.  These paintings offer […]

The photographs of Haley Jane Samuelson take place in abandoned settings, quite often man-made structures being reclaimed by their natural surroundings.  These places of transition provide the opportunity to position the feminine experience on a literal threshold of what once was and what is about to be.     I started photographing modern dancers in 2009, […]

From Penetrations and Other Complications is a pictorial series that talks about human relationships and how love and pain are always side by side.   In this world surrounded by progress and with attention paid to the hectic pace of globalization and its demands, consumer culture plays an important role in the mechanics of modern societies.  Is […]