Author: Mary W
Working out of Athens, Vicky Tsalamata brings a firm, unsentimental eye to her art. She’s not interested in trends or ornament. As a Professor Emeritus in Printmaking from the Athens School of Fine Arts, she knows her tools inside out—archival prints, layered mixed media, and the soft grain of Hahnemühle cotton paper. But technique is only part of the story. Her real work lies in peeling back appearances. Drawing on references like Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine and echoes of Dante’s Divine Comedy, she holds a mirror to the messy contradictions of human life. Her art walks through the past with one foot in…
Caroline Kampfraath builds her art from objects that have lived other lives. A can, a bottle, a worn-out piece of metal—each one enters her hands already carrying a story. Based in the Netherlands, she creates 3D works that blend these found materials with fragments of the human form, forming sculptures that feel both deeply personal and open to interpretation. Her work draws from memory, observation, and a desire to understand how we relate to the world around us. It’s quiet, reflective, and layered. Some pieces feel like questions. Others feel like memories you can’t quite place. Each sculpture holds more…
Miguel Barros creates from a place of connection—between memory and nature, between structure and emotion. Born in Lisbon in 1962, Barros carries the experiences of three continents. With roots in Portugal, Canada, and Angola, he brings a layered perspective to his work. In 2014, he relocated from Angola to Calgary, Alberta, where a new phase began. Trained in Architecture and Design at IADE in Lisbon (class of 1984), Barros has always approached painting with an architectural mind and a poetic heart. His work blends logic with feeling. It shows the bones beneath the bloom. His upcoming exhibition, Gardens of My…
Ruth Poniarski didn’t start out with a paintbrush. Her early years were rooted in design and construction—she earned her degree in architecture from Pratt Institute in 1982 and spent a decade working in the field. But over time, she found herself drawn to something less rigid, more expressive. In 1988, she made a shift. Painting offered a new way to think—one that didn’t require measurements or blueprints. It gave her room to build with memory, story, and emotion instead of steel and concrete. Her paintings blend the surreal with the symbolic, pulling inspiration from myths, literature, and the deeper questions…
Sylvia Nagy’s path as an artist blends structure and sensitivity. Trained in industrial ceramics, she began her formal studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, where she received her MFA in Silicet Industrial Technology and Art. Later, in New York, she deepened her connection to both making and teaching while at Parsons School of Design. There, she wasn’t just passing through—she taught and even built a course around mold-making in plaster. Her approach combines the control of engineering with the freedom of improvisation. And it’s taken her far: from Hungary to Japan, China, Germany, and the United…
Pasquale J. Cuomo has been making photographs for over fifty years, but he still works like someone just discovering the medium for the first time. He picked up his first camera as a teen and never looked back. What started as a teenage interest has turned into a lifelong habit of observation. Through all the changes in photography—film, digital, smartphones, AI—Cuomo has kept moving, kept shooting, and most recently, circled back to where it all started: film. Over the course of his career, Cuomo didn’t stick to one genre. He’s done it all—weddings, fashion, commercial shoots, architectural work, legal and…
Not every artist captures what the eye can see. Kimberly McGuiness isn’t concerned with the obvious. Her work feels like something remembered from a dream or drawn up from the soil of old stories. It doesn’t aim to document—it reveals. What she creates doesn’t sit on the surface; it comes from someplace older, deeper, and far less certain. McGuiness returns again and again to images that carry weight: horses that don’t just run but embody freedom, peacocks full of silent symbolism, oracles who guard the thresholds between knowing and not knowing. These aren’t random visuals. They’re loaded with intent. They…
Sabrina Puppin’s art isn’t interested in repeating what the eye already knows. Instead, it breaks things open—replacing fixed images with sensation, movement, and color that seem to pulse off the canvas. Her work has been exhibited in cities including New York, Doha, and Miami, and across Europe and Asia, where her unique approach to abstraction has built a wide following. Her paintings don’t sit quietly on a wall. They move. They pull you in. Rather than recreate the outside world, Puppin’s art draws from a more internal place—where thoughts shift, dreams flicker, and feelings override form. Her canvases are full…
Nancy Staub Laughlin brings a thoughtful touch to both her mediums—pastel and photography—and makes them work in harmony rather than in competition. With a BFA from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, she has steadily built a career rooted in careful observation and a dedication to process. Her work has been exhibited throughout the East Coast and is part of various public and private collections. She’s also been featured in interviews and art press coverage over the years. Art historian Sam Hunter once called her work “refreshingly unique,” a phrase that continues to apply. Laughlin doesn’t treat photography and drawing…
Kerstin Roolfs doesn’t make work that fades into the background. Her paintings are bold in scale and unapologetic in content. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she leans into heavy subjects—myth, gender, politics, physical difference, and the weight of history. Her pieces aren’t meant to decorate. They’re meant to start conversations. To provoke. To hold the viewer in place and not let go. Originally from Germany, Roolfs studied fine art in Berlin before crossing the Atlantic in 1994. She landed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, back when it was still a rough-edged hub of artists and raw possibility. In 2016, she relocated…