Author: Mary W

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…

Emma Coyle has been immersed in the visual language of Pop for over twenty years—but she’s never just followed its rules. Originally from Ireland and living in London since 2006, her work draws energy from the bold aesthetics of 1960s American Pop Art. But she doesn’t recreate that style—she recasts it. Coyle’s paintings are anchored in the present, built from fragments of modern advertising, filtered through her practiced hand. Her 2022 solo show The Best Revenge at Helwaser Gallery in New York grabbed attention for that exact reason. The exhibition was listed 12th on GalleriesNow’s ranking of the most popular…

Stormie Steele didn’t come into art through the front door. No formal training. No academic blueprint. Her creative path is rooted in something quieter and more personal—years of inner work, reflection, and a deep connection to spirit. As a self-taught artist, writer, and healing arts guide, Steele doesn’t separate her art from her life. The way she lives and the way she paints come from the same place—intentional, intuitive, and full of listening. Her work isn’t trying to impress. It doesn’t shout for attention. Instead, it unfolds slowly, with a softness that asks you to pause. There’s no perfection being…

L. Scooter Morris’s paintings don’t just hang—they press forward. They reach into your space, ask things of you. Built with rough textures, shifting surfaces, and sculpted layers, her works are less about visuals and more about experience. Morris calls herself a sensory illusionist, and it’s easy to see why. Her pieces invite movement, contemplation, and touch. They’re not passive objects; they’re invitations. What motivates her isn’t polish or perfection. It’s the need to tell the truth—especially the hard, uncomfortable kind. Morris’s work opens space to sit with contradiction, with what we’ve buried, ignored, or rewritten. Her goal isn’t to simplify.…

Natali Antonovich didn’t come to painting with grand gestures or showy ideas. Her work doesn’t shout—it listens. Over time, she’s developed a quiet, thoughtful approach to art, one shaped by her lifelong attention to the small and the meaningful. She’s someone who notices things—how light moves across a face, how silence fills a room. That sensitivity shaped her path through various creative forms—graphic work, portraiture, batik, and years of teaching. But it’s in oil and watercolor that she seems most at home. These mediums let her slow down, let her think, and speak through the brush. For Antonovich, painting is…