Harold Westerink
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Harold Westerink is an expressionist artist from Wieden, The Netherlands. Singul art describes him as follows: "Harold Westernik is a passionate Dutch painter who has exhibited his work in the Netherlands. Interested in the sloppy, uninhibited way children paint, he undertakes an unplanned, free painting process, reacting with his materials moment to moment and creating bold works decorated with deconstructed text, striking figures and vibrant colours."
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Juan Camilo Guzman
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Juan Camilo Guzman is interested in shopping. He works with mixed media as a medium and as a subject as well. His interests include art history and theory, painting, philosophy, design, advertisement and the role of the artist in the material world. He was born in Bogotá, Colombia where he lived until 2014. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Jane Barthès
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Jane Barthès is a Franco British artist who lives and works in Chicago. In her own words: “I feel a bit like a physicist researching her molecules. In essence everything is but matter and energy."
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Dorothy Bury Shaw
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Dorothy Bury Shaw, an award-winning artist from the Chicago area, explores spiritual themes in colorful renderings of great detail and symbolism. She is inspired by nature and the human experience.
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Peter Bremers
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In his own words: "I have a deep love for glass as it is the only material that allows you to experience 4 dimensions as you can see the front and the back of a sculpture at the same time, as well as the matter and space in between."
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Susie Hamilton
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In her own words: "I paint figures in a ‘wilderness’ which can be a natural or an urban one, a desert or a shopping mall for instance. The figures in my paintings are often solitary and may seem overwhelmed or challenged by their environments and also by my method of painting which defaces or abstracts them into mysterious, metamorphic shapes."
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Donald Russel
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In his own words: "I create sculptures in stone and wood, ranging from small pieces suitable for a residential coffee table, to large works more appropriate for the entrance to a corporate office building or foyer of a hotel. I really enjoy working with natural rock shapes and wood formations such as manzanita root burl. The burl being a really hard wood with incredible grain patterns cuts and polishes superbly. The Arizona petrified wood log sections that I sculpt and polish have the most beautiful color and also polish excellently. Whilst I am drawn to fluid flowing lines with seemingly endless continuity, my works look to capture both the symmetry and asymmetry of all that occurs in the natural world around us."
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Jonathan Swanz
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In his own words: "I use glass as a medium to investigate, interpret and express my relationship to life. My work is driven by process and material, and navigated by ideas. I have developed two main bodies of work: Tropical Abstract and Vibrant Matter. The blown glass sculptures of TA are inspired by Hawaii’s ocean, flora and fauna crafted using traditional Italian and Scandinavian glass techniques filtered through my personal aesthetic lens. The conceptual work of VM explores parallels in the energetic and social nature of materials and humans by investigating state change and energy transfer through the manipulation of molten glass, digital media, performance, and architectural installations. I want my sculpture to have an anthropomorphic quality, a reference to being embodied that hooks the viewer to experiencing the materiality of their body more deeply."
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Judy Aizuss
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In her own words: "My paintings are about discovering Light, both literally and spiritually. I like to think that my artwork speaks of realities and truths that lie beyond our physical senses. As a landscape artist, I use physical tools such as brilliantly colored pastels organized into carefully designed images, in an attempt to communicate those truths as I understand them. In addition, I use landscapes and cloudscapes to reawaken our reverence for nature. Nature has a restorative, life-giving energy which I seek to infuse into my work. My originals are done mostly in pastels applied in many layers with frequent blending of colors. I work from a combination of photos and my imagination. The colors I use are not necessarily realistic, but are chosen for how they complement each other and for how well they express my feelings about the scene and the message I want to communicate."
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Sylwia Kramarz
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In her own words: "To create my collages mostly I use found images, but occasionally I mix them with my own pictures and drawings too. Modifying existing images by cutting them out, folding and rearranging them, gives me a real sense of exploration in which I can experience how the past is mixing with the intuition of the present, to form ‘reshaped reality‘. By using unconnected images and having different ideas at the same time, it is essential for me to be alert to what is happening and then to reveal what I am feeling."
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