Author: Aria Sorell Vantine

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…

Huang Yi Min’s story begins in Shanghai in 1950, but the places that shaped her most deeply are Beijing and, later, New York. Her life moved between upheaval and quiet observation, between cultural disruption and personal persistence. She studied at the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Normal University and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1997 as an outstanding talent. By then she had already lived several lives—student, young farmer, art editor, and painter working against the tide of a society in flux. Her early relationship with art started at age ten, when she was selected to join the…

TYDIED comes from Northern California, a place where DIY culture, street art, and independent music all live close together. His path into painting wasn’t planned or polished. It didn’t start with art school or theory. It began with something simple and almost accidental: leftover paint from silk-screening T-shirts. Instead of letting the extra paint dry up on the table, he pushed it onto canvas. That small act — not wanting to waste material — opened a door to a style that feels both raw and intentional. Before long, those experiments became their own language. TYDIED was already a clothing designer,…

Adamo Macri doesn’t approach art from a place of comfort. He was born in Montreal in 1964 and studied at Dawson College, where he immersed himself in commercial art, photography, drawing, fine arts, and art history. Those early foundations didn’t pull him toward one path but opened many. Today, he moves through sculpture, photography, video, painting, and drawing as if each form is simply another door to open. His work feels like an ongoing inquiry into what lives beneath the surface—identity, fear, duality, memory, and the quiet tension between what we think we know and what lies behind it. Macri’s…