Author: Aria Sorell Vantine

Sigrid Thaler is an Italian artist based in Milan whose practice is shaped as much by geography as by inner reflection. Born in Italy and raised in a small mountain city, her earliest experiences were rooted in close contact with nature—its rhythms, silences, and quiet authority. Over time, her life expanded outward through travel and residencies in Austria, Paris, Singapore, and São Paulo, placing her in dialogue with Nordic, German, and global cultures. These movements did not fragment her vision; instead, they layered it. Thaler’s work reflects a steady interest in how environment, culture, and personal choice intersect. Rather than…

Sue Nicholas is a British artist whose path through art has been shaped by both intellectual rigor and intuitive exploration. She studied at Goldsmiths’ College and Imperial College, University of London—institutions known for encouraging critical thinking across disciplines. While this academic grounding informs her practice, it is not what defines it. Nicholas is less concerned with surface identity or outward narrative and more interested in the internal terrain of human awareness. Her work moves inward, toward the shifting, elusive experience of consciousness itself. Rather than describing the self as something fixed, Nicholas treats it as fluid—an energy that expands, contracts,…

Judy Gittelsohn’s paintings feel like conversations that happen quietly, without urgency, but with weight. They don’t announce themselves. They wait. Color, gesture, and form come together in a way that suggests lived time rather than a single moment. Her work carries memory, family, longing, and return—not as concepts to decode, but as sensations that linger after you step away. Born in Portland, Oregon, Gittelsohn has spent much of her life moving through different places, absorbing the emotional climates of each. Painting has been her way of marking those internal shifts. Now, after twenty-eight years away, she has returned to San…

Cynthia Karalla, an American artist, brings together activism, experimentation, and a refreshingly direct voice. She started her creative life studying architecture before turning fully toward photography and later fine arts. This background sits quietly inside her artwork—not as decoration or theory, but as structure, rhythm, and spatial thinking. Karalla has always challenged traditions. She treats art not as something untouchable or precious, but as a working practice built from risk, material honesty, and an ability to turn what looks like damage into something meaningful. Her approach mirrors photography’s darkroom language: negatives become positives, exposure becomes clarity. She embraces flaws, pulls…

Toni Silber-Delerive was born in Philadelphia, a place filled with movement, color, and the kind of layered urban stories that eventually found their way into her art. She studied painting at the Philadelphia College of Art and continued her path through Kean College of NJ, earning both a certificate in art education and a BFA in painting from the Philadelphia College of Art, followed by a MA in art education from Kean College in New Jersey. My studies expanded in New York City, where I honed my skills in graphic design and silkscreen printing at the School of Visual Arts.…

Julian Jollon is an American artist whose path into creativity does not follow a straight line. His life and work are shaped by change, interruption, recovery, and a patient return to what he always knew he was meant to do. Formally trained in Fine Arts, Photography, and Painting, Jollon once imagined a future built entirely in the studio. But life intervened. For fifteen years, he stepped away from professional artmaking and entered a very different world: Hospital Epidemiology. During that period, he also underwent a liver transplant—an experience that reshaped his sense of time, mortality, and what it means to…

Shubhi Gupta, an Indian artist based in Singapore, has spent nearly ten years developing a distinctive voice within contemporary art. Her practice moves fluidly between still life and portraiture, creating images that feel intimate yet universal. She approaches her subjects with curiosity, closely observing the small rituals, emotions, and gestures that shape daily human experience. This attentive way of seeing has brought her work into respected circles: her paintings have been acquired by Standard Chartered Bank globally, as well as by private collectors around the world. Living away from her homeland for over two decades, Gupta draws insight from cultural…

Fant Wenger works at an intersection that feels both ancient and futuristic. His art isn’t easily contained within one medium or tradition. Painting, sculpture, and installation merge into something that feels more like a field of energy than a conventional object. Wenger describes his ongoing series, Frequenz, as an exploration of vibrations that shape the world around us. Since 2016, he has been building a visual language around rhythm, resonance, movement, structure, and the unseen forces that pulse beneath physical form. His works ask viewers to step into a space where matter and energy are not opposites but partners. Wenger’s interest…

Lisa Atkinson’s relationship with art began long before she ever considered it a serious path. Growing up by the beach in Santa Monica, she spent her childhood watching the Pacific shift through its daily moods—soft morning haze, sun-splashed afternoons, and the evening light melting into the horizon. These impressions stayed with her, forming the quiet foundation of her visual world. By First Grade, she had already won First Place for a Miro reproduction. In high school, she sold a mixed-media collage. That early sense of connection—someone responding to something she made with her hands—left a mark. Art wasn’t just a…

Pasquale J. Cuomo’s story begins with a teenager holding a camera without knowing he was opening the door to a lifelong pursuit. Born in the United States and shaped by more than fifty years behind the lens, Cuomo has traveled through the changing landscape of photography—film, digital, and everything in between. What started as a simple curiosity became a steady companion as he experimented across genres, traveled, and watched the medium reinvent itself again and again. Cuomo is one of those photographers whose relationship with the craft feels stitched into the rhythm of his life. He remembers the smell of chemicals…