HappenArt

Colleen Barry

Colleen Barry
Painter
Location: New York (US)

Colleen’s paintings combine the rigor and sophistication of European masters with the power of contemporary art. His influences range from Michelangelo and Kathe Kollwitz to portraits of Andy Warhol. His subjects include family members, friends, fellow artists and his two children. A lifelong New Yorker, Colleen grew up immersed in the music scene of the early 2000s. At 21, she created paintings for film companies in New York and Hollywood. His work has appeared in major Lil Kim and Die Romantik motion pictures and music videos. In 2011, she received an Affiliate Fellowship to reside at the American Academy in Rome with her husband, Will St. John. She learned to paint by studying the old masters in European museums for 10 years. Colleen paints from her studio in East Williamsburg Brooklyn. She is currently the design director at Grand Central Atelier in Long Island City, New York.

Website→  https://www.colleenbarryart.com/

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Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm Sasnal 

Painter
Location: Krakow (Poland)

Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnow, Poland. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow until 1999, but before that he studied architecture for two years at the Polytechnic in Krakow. During his studies, Sasnal became involved in the artistic collective called Ładnie Group. The title meant pretty or pretty and the band embraced the exact opposite aesthetic. Rather unconventional, and was active until 2000. After that Sasnal worked for advertising agencies but simultaneously produced paintings. Photographs, films. Over time, as his career developed, the artist’s work became part of the public collections of institutions such as the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

20th century propaganda.

Sasnal approaches painting as a formal exercise. He often borrows subjects from art history. Also, to 20th century propaganda and photojournalism. Avions is a dark appropriation of Alighiero Boetti’s famous airplane designs. Overturning the original pastoral optimism, Wilhelm Sasnal’s planes are engulfed in smoke as if hit by enemy fire.

High culture.

He deconstructs the hierarchy of “high culture” by filtering it through the association of mass media. Through painting, Sasnal explores his own interpretation and understanding of imagery. Her work constantly questions the space between “personal” and “public”. Thus, he strives to define individual experience within a global order of collective consciousness.

Website→  https://www.instagram.com/wilhelm_sasnal/

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Ferrán Gisbert

Ferrán Gisbert

Painter
Location: Spain

The materiality of painting in the work of Ferrán Gisbert escapes language. Meaning to claim the creative process of painting as a pure form of expression and performative intervention. The form is generic for the styling action. Using a craft brush matching the artist’s cue. The performative act is printed directly on the walls, recording the movements of the artist, full of gesture, speed and vitality.

The hand of the author.

The questions that the work of Ferran Gisbert addresses are the intention that animates the hand of the author, of any author. He is driven by the influences of the time in which he lives. The imprint left by said intention in the place, evoking the physical presence of the artist. Gestures, understood as clues that recall the maneuver of the artist. The relationship of his body in a struggle for control of the properties and proportions of the place. His work then generates a concrete way of inhabiting the intervening space when the viewer, contemplating the painting, reconstructs the corporeality of the author there.

Website→  https://www.facebook.com/ferrangisbert.paintings

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JIM

JIM
Painters
Location: Paris (France)

JYM was born in and raised in Germany, from a German mother and an English father. After schooling in Munich, curious to discover the other culture, she will study in London. First she will learn science, a concession to her parents. She dares to drop out after visiting a Rodin exhibition, so moved to have seen the feelings and the movement in the form. She is accepted for the preparatory course at Heatherley’s School of Art in London. Then will do her Fine Arts degree at Camberwell College of Arts, one of the 5 art schools in London.

Living model.

Very quickly attracted by the living model, she goes beyond the academic nude by the search for an underlying frame reflecting the soul of the model. It combines affective state and rigor. All revealed by strong contrasts of light. his influences are Giacometti, Frank Auerbach and Rembrandt.

Raphael’s work.

Three years after its admission, the management closes the model room. JYM returns “to the sources” and spends his time in museums copying the masters. There, she discovers the harmony of lines that respond to each other, especially in the work of Raphaël.
This is the time of the first landscapes, always on the ground. JYM seeks to capture the light, the poetry of space and moment. The space of nature becomes the space of painting, a land of personal adventure. Transcribe with touches of color the mysterious and indefinable nature.

For 30 years.

JYM relentlessly refines lines and harmonies. In constant search between the image of the model and what she feels about it. By simplifying to convey a message and at the same time leave room for daydreaming.
The work of the figures translates fragility and tenderness, fractures and strengths. The work of the landscapes an escape into the infinity of the moment, the poetry of the distance.

Website→  https://www.jym-art.com/

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Lev Khesin

Lev Khesin 
Painter
Location: Berlin (Germany)

Artist, painter Lev Khesin, born in Penza, Russia. He lives and works in Berlin since 1999. Making sculpture-like paintings that bring the complex interplay between color and materiality.
Defying the grip of linguistic systems. Khesin, a graduate of Frank Badur’s master class in Berlin, explores the cognitive potential of an art free from any concepts imposed on objects and phenomena.
In a time-consuming process and using various tools. Lev lays down layer after layer of dyed translucent silicone in a variety of shades.

Experimentation.

Molds smooth surfaces and ragged structures. Experimentation and discovery are always part of the spirit of Khesin artistic method. Each layer of silicone covers the surface of the panel like a film. The number of coats on a painting varies from a dozen to a hundred. Khesin mixes transparent silicone with different pigments and therefore each layer may differ from the other in terms of color. degree of transparency.

Exhibition.

By painting with silicone enhanced with pigments, Khesin appeals to the senses of sight and touch in equal measure.
Since 2005, he has had numerous individual and collective exhibitions in museums and galleries in
Germany. United States, Italy. Netherlands. Russia. Swiss. France and Japan.
Her art book “Morphology” was published by Distanz Verlag, Germany in 2019.

Website→  https://www.levkhesin.com/

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Salman Khoshroo

Salman Khoshroo
Painter

Location: Tehran (Iran)

Salman Khoshroo, born in 1983, spent his childhood in New York. After a few intermittent years in Iran, he went to study at Australian National University. Then he graduated in digital art. Since moving to Iran and making art in his studio in Tehran.

Khoshroo uses a palette knife and heavy coats of paint to create the moving portraits. From a piece of paint, the artist then shapes the outline of the portrait before shaping the rest of the face which lacks distinct physical features. Viewers can follow her creative process step by step by looking at the edges of each stroke.

Website→  http://salmankhoshroo.com/

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Richard Whadcock

Richard Whadcock
Painter
Location: United Kingdom

Richard Whadcock studied at both Bristol Art College and the Royal College of Art. This gave him a solid training in painting and engraving. It uses aspects of engraving. Lithography in his approach to painting by eliminating everything that is insignificant for the image to work.

Whadcock incorporates elements from artists such as Cy Twombly. Robert Motherwell and others using their influences in his own works. Starting with a strong reference point in a sketch. From a photograph or even a souvenir. Then inevitably letting the painting process take over. Whadcock is able to create beautiful works that use a unique approach to layers and technique.

Website→  https://www.richardwhadcock.com/

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Analia Saban

Analia Saban
Painter
Location: Los Angeles (US)

Analia Saban (b.1980) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is adept at blurring the lines between art forms by deconstructing the techniques she uses to create her work. Saban’s artistic creations are always guided by his curiosity. She establishes her own category of mixed media by going to the root of how art is created. His approach to his work is both scientific and imbued with an awareness of the social impact that art can bring. Saban’s work can often be interpreted as a dismantling of art. Objects in the quest to transmit the metaphysical properties of the subject. Her exploration of her (and our) relationship to common objects serves as a powerful commentary on both the artistic process and the impact art can have on our worldly consciousness.

Website→  https://analiasabanstudio.com/

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Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker
Painter / Sculptor
Location: Düsseldorf (Germany)

Günther Uecker (born March 13, 1930 in Wendorf, Germany) is a German artist who became known for his works in painting and sculpture. He is particularly renowned for having worked with nails which he fixes on panels or his sculptures. Part of his work is one with kinetic art.

The nail.

In his works, the nail becomes an “elementary particle”. Or “basic brick”. The nails are large enough and spaced enough apart that their individual presence is inescapable. But simultaneously, the work emerges from the organized set of nails. They are rigidly linked to each other by the substrate in which they are planted. The distances and the relative orientations between the nails are definitively fixed. In some cases, the general shape is a deliberately elementary geometry.

Overall movement.

The emergences it produces mirror the organization of the world in multiple areas. Its nail assemblies offer the vision of a whole movement. A bit like waves on the surface of water, or folds of expertly crafted fabric. H20 molecules, invisible, are discrete elements in unimaginable number, which form waves. Likewise, while the movements of the fabric can reveal the woven threads while the fibers at the heart of the threads remain invisible. These paintings are constructed from a discreet assembly of nails to form a structure that is perceived to be continuous, beyond these basic elements.

Website→  https://www.facebook.com/G%C3%BCnther-Uecker-209929909314

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Thomas Riesner

Thomas Riesner
Painter
Location: Leipzig (Germany)

Thomas Riesner, a trained printer, is self-taught and heavily involved in painting since 1990. Besides paintings in acrylic and ink. The drypoint is one of his means of artistic expression.

Expressive and intuitive.

In a good mood from top to bottom. Riesner can lead his fellows into a moment of carefree laughter. Quite spontaneously and abruptly, it literally springs from him. Laughter as well as his ideas for concrete image patterns on paper and canvas. His expressive and intuitive painting style is reflected in his seemingly archaic figures and pictorial elements. His images exude an atmosphere of originality and spontaneity. Although most of the patterns show torture, death, murder, rape, disease, and ritual cruelty.

Website→  https://www.facebook.com/thomas.riesner.de

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