Author: Aria Sorell Vantine

Pasquale J. Cuomo’s story starts the way a lot of real creative lives start: with a teenager and a camera, not fully aware of what he’d just picked up. He was born in the United States, and over more than fifty years behind the lens, photography didn’t stay a hobby or a phase—it became a steady through-line. Cuomo moved with the medium as it shifted from film to digital, learning the patience of darkroom time and the speed of modern capture, and letting both approaches shape the way he sees. What comes through in his work is a long relationship…

L. Scooter Morris makes artwork that behaves like a presence in the room. She calls herself a sensory illusionist, and that description fits: her practice lives in the gap between what you think you’re seeing and what your body registers before you have the words. Morris builds “Sculpted Paintings” that refuse to stay quiet on a wall. They push forward and pull back. They catch light, swallow it, and send it back at a new angle. Up close, you notice the physical work—acrylic layered with mixed media, edges that hold shadow, ridges that read like touch. Step back, and the…

Miguel Barros was born in Lisbon in 1962, and his art carries the imprint of a life lived across several worlds. Time spent between Portugal, Angola, and Canada has given him an expanded sense of what “place” can mean—how it shapes identity, how it lingers in the body, and how memory can travel even when a person does. He trained in Architecture and Design at IADE Lisbon, graduating in 1984, and that foundation still shows in the way he approaches painting: with a sensitivity to structure, pacing, proportion, and the way space can be organized without losing emotion. When he…

Nestled within the vibrant rhythm of Milwaukee, Janet Adventure Sather is reshaping how we understand abstract sculpture. Instead of clay, stone, or metal, she turns to something almost unbelievable—conductive light, fiber optics, and stranded sugar. This radiant and fragile material glows, bends, and breathes life into her two- and three-dimensional forms. Her sculptures don’t simply sit in space; they shimmer with an inner current, mirroring the emotional charge and unseen energy surrounding the people who inspire them. Through this unlikely medium, Sather captures the invisible layers of human experience—our moods, tensions, hopes, and hidden strength—translating them into shapes that feel…

Maria, who creates under the artistic name ZOCALO, is a Swiss-based artist originally from Russia, and her art feels like a quiet conversation with memory, feeling, and the unseen layers that shape who we are. Her work does not rush. It does not shout. Instead, it invites you to pause, breathe, and notice the delicate impressions left by time, experience, and the movement of human thought. Working primarily with mixed media and acrylic on white canvas, Maria builds her paintings slowly, allowing texture, depth, and subtle shifts of tone to speak as much as color or shape. Her inspiration is rooted…

There are artists who paint what they see, and then there are artists who paint what they feel. Rebecca Navajas belongs firmly in the second group. Her work isn’t about recreating life with precision. It is about translating emotion into color, gesture, and presence. Her paintings move with energy. They breathe. They remind you that strength can be tender, beauty can be vulnerable, and identity can be layered, complicated, and deeply human. Rebecca Navajas approaches portraiture not as documentation, but as conversation. She paints faces as if they are living landscapes. Every curve, shadow, and brushstroke holds story. The eye…

Luigi Francischello was born in Zurich and spent his early life between Switzerland and Australia before eventually settling in Italy, where he now continues his creative journey. His work has traveled across borders as much as he has, finding homes in exhibitions in London, Paris, Alice Springs, Amsterdam, Montecarlo, Rome, Porto, and Venice. Francischello often describes his practice as a channel of energy, shaped toward a purpose: reaching a state of aesthetic bliss through art. He is deeply engaged with art history, fascinated by its depth, its beauty, and the endless range of references it holds. In his paintings, layers…

Jane Gottlieb’s artistic path has been shaped by a lifelong devotion to color, movement, and visual energy. Based in Los Angeles, she began her creative life as a painter before turning toward photography, where she found new ways to explore structure, rhythm, and light. Over three decades ago, Gottlieb took a decisive turn that would define her practice: hand-painting individual Cibachrome prints, transforming photographic images into singular, tactile objects. This labor-intensive process allowed her to merge painting and photography into one physical surface, where color became both material and message. Today, Gottlieb extends that practice through digital tools, scanning her…

Linda Cancel was born in 1959 in Moscow, Idaho, and her way of seeing the world has been shaped early on by the quiet drama of the Pacific Northwest. Landscape, atmosphere, and the slow movement of light across land and water have stayed with her since childhood. One of her earliest memories—watching fireworks bloom over the Snake River when she was just over a year old—became a kind of visual imprint. That moment of light against darkness still echoes through her paintings. Cancel’s work is grounded in observation, but it is never detached. She paints from lived experience, from moments…

Carolin Rechberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across materials, sensations, and states of awareness. Born in Starnberg, Germany, her work moves fluidly through ceramics, drawing, installation, illustration, painting, performance, printmaking, photography, poetry, sculpture, sound art, textiles, and voice. Rather than treating these mediums as separate categories, Rechberg approaches them as interconnected languages—each one offering a different way of listening, sensing, and responding. For her, making art is not only about producing an object, but about entering a process that shapes perception and presence. The act of creation becomes a way of moving through the world with heightened attention.…