Author: Aria Sorell Vantine

Bobbie Carlyle, an amazing American sculptor, builds her work from a life that is both full and grounded. As a mother of seven and a grandmother many times over, her creative process is closely tied to lived experience. Rather than separating art from life, she allows the two to move together. She pursued her Fine Arts degree at Brigham Young University while raising her family, a decision that speaks to both persistence and clarity of purpose. That same sense of commitment runs through her sculpture. Carlyle approaches bronze not just as a material, but as a way to hold energy,…

Nancy Staub Laughlin moves between disciplines with ease, working as both a pastel artist and photographer while allowing each practice to inform the other. Based in the United States, she holds a BFA from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, a foundation that continues to shape her approach to composition and material. Over time, her work has been presented across galleries and museums along the East Coast, finding its way into both corporate and private collections. Critics have responded to her work with interest, including Sam Hunter, who described it as refreshingly unique. That response feels grounded in what her…

Miguel Barros is an artist shaped by movement, distance, and layered experience. Born in Lisbon in 1962, he carries with him a cultural mix that spans Portugal, Canada, and Angola. This breadth of perspective continues to inform how he sees and builds his work. In 2014, he relocated from Angola to Calgary, a shift that introduced new visual and emotional terrain, yet his connection to Lisbon remains central. Trained in Architecture and Design at IADE in Lisbon, Barros approaches painting with a structural awareness that never feels rigid. Instead, it becomes a quiet framework for exploration. His work moves between…

Michel Marant, born on August 4, 1945, in Saint-Junien, France, has developed a body of work rooted in the quiet patterns of daily life and the presence of the natural world. Trained at the National School of Decorative Arts in Limoges and affiliated with the Maison des Artistes, his practice has gradually shaped itself into a distinct visual language. Working across pencil, acrylic, oil, and collage, Marant moves between surfaces such as canvas, paper, and cardboard without hierarchy. His approach draws from the flowing sensibility of art nouveau, yet it is not bound by it. Instead, he builds a personal…

There are artists who work from observation, and others who work from sensation. Rebecca Navajas stands with the latter. Her paintings are not concerned with accuracy or careful representation. Instead, they move toward something less fixed and more immediate. Emotion becomes the starting point, and everything else follows. Color is not decorative. It carries weight. Gesture is not controlled. It reacts, shifts, and sometimes resists. In her work, nothing feels static. Each piece seems to hold a pulse, as if it continues to change even after it is finished. Navajas approaches identity and experience as something layered rather than defined.…

Jane Gottlieb’s artistic path has been guided by an enduring fascination with color, motion, and visual intensity. Born in Los Angeles and now based in Santa Barbara, her creative foundation began in painting before shifting toward photography, where she discovered new ways to explore composition, rhythm, and light. More than thirty years ago, she made a defining move that continues to shape her work today: hand-painting individual Cibachrome prints. This process transforms photographic images into one-of-a-kind physical pieces, blurring the boundary between mediums. Rather than treating photography as a fixed image, Gottlieb reworks it into something tactile and fluid, where…

Tinashe, born in 2001 in Mutare, works from a place of movement. His life has unfolded between Zimbabwe and the United States, and that distance shows up in how he sees the world. His work sits at the intersection of identity, culture, race, and gender, but it does not explain these ideas in a direct way. Instead, he builds images that feel lived in. There is memory in them. There is tension, but also care. Growing up across two environments shaped his sense of belonging. It is not fixed. It shifts. That shifting becomes part of the work. Tinashe does not…

Garda Alexander is a German-born artist based in Switzerland whose practice unfolds with calm intention rather than spectacle. Her work does not rely on dramatic gestures or visual excess. Instead, it grows from a careful attention to the rhythms and structures found in the natural world. Working across painting, sculpture, spatial concepts, and land-based projects, Alexander moves fluidly between disciplines while maintaining a consistent focus on how color, form, and space shape the relationship between people and their surroundings. There is a quiet clarity in her approach. Rather than presenting bold declarations or fixed interpretations, Alexander constructs environments that invite…

In the vast and constantly shifting field of contemporary art, some artists produce images that capture a moment, while others create entire atmospheres that viewers can step into. Kimberly McGuiness belongs to the latter. Her paintings feel less like traditional scenes and more like contemplative spaces where color, symbolism, and mood quietly unfold together. Each work carries a calm presence, yet beneath that calm there is a subtle sense of movement, as if the composition is slowly breathing or evolving beyond the frame. For McGuiness, painting becomes a reflective process rather than a direct explanation of ideas. She allows shapes,…

Andy Warhol, the iconic figure of the Pop Art movement, has left an indelible mark on the art world with his vibrant, bold, and often controversial works. One of his most famous pieces, “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” from 1963, stands out not only for its artistic significance but also for its record-breaking auction price. On November 13, 2013, at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York, “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” went under the hammer. This monumental piece, which depicts a mangled car crash scene rendered in Warhol’s characteristic style, captivated bidders with its boldness and rawness. The…