THE WARRIORS WITHIN COLLECTIVE

This image is about a journey of transformation from Maiden to all-seeing Mother, or the Life/Death/Life Cycle of being, of manifestation, of transcendence. The thread of life, that which links this world to the other world and all beings, links consciousness to the thread of one's soul and to one's body ...

 My “FETISHICONS” are directly inspired by paraphilias and fetishism.

I explore a solitary, fantasized and partnerless self-fetishism through my gaze as a photographer and a woman, my feelings, my preferences and my aesthetics.These are self-portraits made...

Each episode of the VAST series will be centered around one or more related conditions or aspects of ADHD. While bringing these into awareness, I am equally aiming to show that while everyday life may be that much more difficult, the rewards can be equally that much sweeter. My hope within the series is to embrace the good, the bad, the ugly, and the brilliant parts of my own VAST brain; and of yours too. I hope that everyone....

My yearning for stability is embodied within the exploration of the human form in a three-dimensional space. Every minute of our lives is spent in physical and psychological dialogue with the space around us and the contorted bodies within these oversaturated three dimensional spaces have been transmogrified towards semi-abstraction mimicking hard ceramic surfaces...

 As a child, when I watched films about people with cancer, I thought "no, this will definitely not happen to me."  It seemed to be something that happens only in films, permanent, not amenable to treatment, and taking away all the beauty and vitality...

 "A vast landscape steeped in secrets and mysteries populates the art of Catharina Suleiman."

Through her gaze, the language of the human body leaps to the eye, revealing different forms, senses, gestures, and appeals of the soul. Any notion of truism is put on the sidelines. It is important to know...

A Close Look At The Trailblazer in Bullying Prevention, Music and Mental Health: 

 Hit recording artist Meredith O'Connor is known for her positive impact that has influenced fans all over the world and the industry alike. In her bold new chapter, she works to amplify the voices of others who "don't fit the mold"...

 Everything has worsened. The old pillars have collapsed, and new ones have not been found. We can’t think of anything better than blaming ourselves for what’s happening, for being in a precarious situation again. And instability, as we know, is the way to development and change. But also to crisis. How to get out of this spiral? Where it is unclear and frightening - to try new things. To suspend the program of destruction in oneself is to stop the program of destruction of everything around: humanity and humanness...

This series of portraits is about silent thoughts, the ones you have with yourself and that are not shared. This work shows a way to discover hidden thoughts, a door that opens itself to unveil what questions a current mood triggers in a person. While two characters of this series ask themselves: “where are you?” or “where are we?” the third portrait has he answer: “I am here.” As a statement, this is as an invitation to leave nostalgia behind and to go ahead... 

I paint women because I feel an inherent kinship with them. I am drawn to understanding how we have each uniquely shaped ourselves from similar clay – not only a shared biology, but also a shared sense of moving through a world that both celebrates and degrades us...

It is normal to learn about the romantic muses of poets, artists, and musicians. Love and desire are posited as pure forms of inspiration and creativity, and thus are placed at the pinnacle of a false hierarchy of forms of relationships. However important romantic relationships can be, this tendency to view them as the epitome of intimacy ignores the vital importance and emotional depth of friendships...

 My masks are three-dimensional self-portraits; a combination of photography, sculpture and collage. They are photo-realistic, which creates an uncanny resemblance, but often altered or distorted. Through these masks and performance work, I am creating...

 You don’t search for something you already have. 

You cannot be who you truly are until you can remember, what you already know. Upon the remembering, the ancestors will be able to intervene in all the good ways they can.  That includes helping you with all the things you cannot know about until you have allowed yourself to be swallowed in the awakening of remembering, your wildish sacred nature, a  woman. The wild woman is an endangered species, and more necessary now than ever.  Remembering means...

 My surrealist language is free from reason and it takes the photographic medium out of its conventional objective role, offering bizarre realities that often invite interpretation. With visual delicacy, dreamy atmosphere, and disturbing charge as ingredients, I distort and bend the idea of beauty, fusing it with a sense of the grotesque....

The SCOTUS decision to trample on the Constitutional rights of women and on their bodies beyond abortion – their reproductive health and freedom – had an immediate impact on me as an artist, a woman, a mother of a young daughter. It set me on an artistic mission to express my anger, sadness, disappointment and feeling of loss. 

My visual work is based on the observation of the body and its parts, its kinesiology and forms of expression. I use my body to develop and complete my works. This led me to use performance art as a medium, sometimes as a work in itself and sometimes as a complementary action to my paintings. 

The portrait painting compositions embody the feeling of movement in slow motion. Her painted faces are in ceaseless intermediate states. These are snapshots between what was and what will be. The zooming on the faces or the seemingly calm figures are never frozen because the state of peace is utopian. The figures dance within themselves, allowing the movement of the soul, giving themselves to a peculiar trance when revelation occurs unconsciously....

It decides the beginning and end of everything. Patrycja in her video Yoni II shows her fears, pain, intact dreams, discrimination, service...

 As the world undergoes this massive transformation, it is important that we dive deep into who we are, the warriors within us (holding our greatest powers), and the creative resources that help us navigate them. ..

"Writing about sexuality and sensuality," says Anaïs Nin, "has nothing to do with pornography. For me, writing erotica is wild poetry." The same is true of Tanja Selzer's painting. She, too, is interested in the voyeuristic gaze of a society that, however, rarely openly admits to it. The artist's painting style is also poetic. The softly applied, light colors create a...

 Seeing Black women in this light has always been controversial when viewed by others and often from the white gaze. Anytime a Black woman is put on any kind of pedestal it's seen as problematic. This isn't our problem! I pride myself in being an artist...