Publishing in Art & Beyond Magazine 2025

I have always possessed a great affinity to nature, thirst for knowledge, and a deep appreciation of beauty in all of its forms. These innate qualities have found expresssion in many areas. In my paintings, I have seen patterns emerge that express harmony, joy, order, and beauty. My belief in the fundamental unity of all cultures and peoples has led me to create art pieces that relflect the depth of our collective souls, the beauty of our beings, and the ability to expand to fully embrace our lives.

I was born and raised in a small city in the northern region of Iran called Rezahyieh. In 1978 I moved to the United States to attend college and received a business degree from California State University Sacramento. I then traveled extensively for several years encountering various cultures in different countries. I developed a feeling of expansion that included all of humanity. While living in Brazil, I was inspired by the European and Brazilian artists I met, so began creating one of a kind garments and bags that were sold through high end boutiques in Los Angeles. While working with fabric dyes on hemp canvas, I shifted my artistic direction towards painting. Over the years, I have experimented with a wide variety of mediums and cherish the discovery of something new. My work has evolved over time, allowing me to switch forms of expression as I feel inclined. My most recent pieces I call Nouveau Surrealism - ordinary printed photos that have been transformed to reflect unseen realms. Over the past four years, I have shown in the Topanga Artist Studio Tour and have participated in numerous shows in various venues around LA. The most recent show was called Down the Rabbit Hole, representing portals into the mysteries within each of us.

Annette Assmy has a Master Dregree in

experimental Media at University of fine Arts, Berlin & creative Documentary Film

(Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

She worked on many Film Productions, Performed at different stages and directed Documentary Films and short Fictions. Her passion is Storytelling, traveling and other cultures.

Annette Assmy since 13 years is a shamanic practitioner. She studied and learned from Alberto Villoldo, indigenous people like the Pre-Incan people ( Andean Shamans) Mayan and Toltec. She was initiated as a Pampamesayok, so called Earthkeeper.

She emerged deeply into Dream Work with Robert Moss and became a Dream Teacher. She is an apprenticeship of the Academy of Oracle Arts ( Isis Indryia) entering the Western Mysticism and the Art of Rituals and Ritual Theater.

Her journeys to Egypt, Mexico, South of France, Asia and Africa brought her the understanding that ancient civilizations still holds so much knowhe is the Founder of the Mystery School of the Soul.

She combines Art & Spirituality, especially through the immersive, performative, spiritual and ritualistic Dream Sanctuary which she already launched twice in Berlin (MAHALLA & Genezarethkirche) in collaboration with around 13 other Artists, The future of Art for her is a co-creative and collaborative space where ancient and modern meets in order to shape a better future.

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, assistant professor of Russian-Armenian University, Member of the International Foundation of Armenian Artists of the Union of Artists of Estonia, born in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1977 graduated from Yerevan State University, Faculty of Philology. In 2006 defended her thesis at the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU), the theme:

I am a metamodernist artist. My works are my experiences of witnessing tragic events in family and collective history, the complex interaction of an individual striving for freedom and a totalitarian country, transforming the experience of immigration.

My art is my way of sharing with viewer research into the metaphysical processes within us through our reflections based on the ideas and values ​​of humanism, through sensations, properties of the soul and personal experience. My artworks reflect the transformation of the soul following the path of development, striving to make this world a better place. My special interest is expressing the feeling of movement material and immaterial, creation forms and visual images of such subtle concepts as energy and thought. I share my ideas with the viewer through metaphors and symbols. The idea in my work is the leader and determines the method of embodiment. My work can awaken in the viewer a feeling familiar to everyone, when in childhood we sought to know what is beyond the horizon - somewhere beyond our perception there is something that we cannot yet see, but we know that it exists. This search and expectation of the unknown is a key element of my work. It is important for me to leave a motivating message for future generations.

I’m from Ukraine. I came to USA in 2019. In 2022 I felt that I wanted to express my inner ideas end energy through collages and this process was very inspiring and fulfilling for me. In 2024 I started creating paintings, using textures, acrylic. My paintings have received 12 certificates of participation in online Biafarin platform and participated in several group exhibitions in 2024. Artsy selected my paintings to be featured on it.

Sandra Cohn

It has been said that poets and artists, in their highest calling, are the ones who express Being itself; who enlarge human consciousness by inviting the viewer to engage in an experience that inspires a deeper search for an understanding of the nature of existence. Even as a young child, my inner world was absorbed in an encounter with the immense mystery of the Universe. At six years old, I spent endless hours lying on the carpet in my playroom with eyes closed, imagining (unsuccessfully!) the borders of an infinite Universe. Trees, to me, were portals of Light. I pondered the meaning of who we really are and what we are doing here while the rest of the children happily made mud pies and ran through the streets. I spent most of my adult years reading, peering, studying, working in the field of neuropsychology, hospice and grief work, and advanced clinical hypnosis; absorbed in a meditative quest for higher truths. Key to my experience was a near death encounter at 26 years old while giving birth to my first son, which both surprised and delighted me with a direct experience of an all encompassing joy and beauty. My work as an artist and writer reflects this journey, both from compassion for each of us as we reach for heightened clarity and awareness during our often challenging journey of life, and in direct relationship to the translucence of the mystery itself.

I engage with my art and writing as metaphor for deeper wisdom, a portal to an encounter that hopefully uncovers insight and acts as a gateway linking us to the greater universe of conscious.

Sandra Cohn

As an artist, I have a wealth of experience that permeates my work. For most of my life, beginning as a young child , I have been fascinated by consciousness, where it arises and resides, and how it affects our understanding of reality and beyond. This interest shows up in my work as an artist, compelling my work forward into deeper discovery.

At the age of 26, I had a near death experience. During this profound experience, I pierced the veil of our everyday consciousness. Additionally, I worked In Neuropsychology at UCSF Medical Center in California, studying the effects of brain conditions that affect personality and the nature of consciousness. Throughout my life, my defining interest has been exploring spiritual consciousness as our true nature; the embracing of the Whole, of Light and Dark. Art as a window to expansion is deeply interwoven in my work.

Along with my love of clay, and my love of color and texture in paint, I am drawn deeply to story, to words. I write poetry, perform, and mix it into my work or remix others poetry to reflect my work.

I am drawn to exploring the mix of these three mediums as well as sound. The materials I use reflect the history of our lives, Rusted found metal pieces mixed in with sculpture each have their own story to tell and are used in a new form. House paint on roofing paper forms the texture of our daily life used in an artful form. It is in these multitude of mediums that the viewer drops the veil and begins to experience deeper truth and understanding.

The first Picture I drew in 2003 after declaring bankruptcy of my “Russian Bookseller Outlet” Store. The Panorama of memory of St. Petersburg was drawn from complete memory! I had been left unemployed for more than a year and took to art which shocked all my relatives and my household. From sheer memory and using simple paper and colored pencils without mistake or an eraser, I depicted a panorama of the Hermitage and parts of St. Petersburg depicting the whole history of my hectic life surrounding those places. Later I found in an album of a book a photograph that accurately conveys my memory. In the picture are six episodes; from how my mother and father brought me to the Hermitage for the first time, to how I brought all my wives and children there.

When a friend Igor Tyulpanov, looked through my entire website and albums of my art he told me “I was an unsurpassed master of writing with painter with colored pencils.” I was convinced of his words after looking upon what I had painted, the first picture in my life. I began to write a book about my life and continued to draw on the four sheets of plain writing paper with colored pencils the "Panorama of memory of St. Petersburg, the Palace and Vasilevskiy Island.”

My friends and family had thought I went crazy but really two events pushed me to create this work, rather two stories. During the 1937 election when my parents met, (where my father was the Chairman of the Electoral Commission from Minsk and my mother, an active member of the Komsomol, was a member of this election commission in the factory in Belarusia). Two weeks later, dad came to mom's parents and asked for her hand in marriage. They immediately though a wedding which my mother was not present, ( she was to ashamed to ask for three days off). The second inspiration for creating this "masterpiece" was a copy from the pictures by Grisha Bruskin "All People came on Elections”. By seeing this picture I began to formulate the plot and continue expanding on my art. When this "masterpiece" was completed, I found in the remains of the last few books from my crushed store the Album "History of the Construction of the Hermitage" to which my surprise so accurately portrayed my art drawn from memory.

At the retired age of 69 and a half, during my time visiting my daughter and grandchildren in New Hampshire I started drawing my next piece. While they slept upstairs, I began to draw again from memory and looking onto the view outside. At the age of 69.5, retired, took up a brush and a pencil, and created it in almost a year my next 25 pieces!

Eduard Klebanov was born on January 25, 1949 in the City of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad. He was a graduate of the Leningrad Electrical Communications Engineering Institute named after professor M.A.Bonch-Bruevich. Klebanov’s only exposure to art at the time was taking the class ‘Basics of Art Design & Radio for Electronic Equipment’ with the focus on ‘The Basic Principal of Art Constructivism and the Principal of Art Design Radio-Electronic Apparatus (Graduate Department of the Institute of Technical Aesthetics). He graduated from the institute and as his final work wrote a paper on “Magnetic-Record Block of First Class” which was given an academic score of ‘Excellency’ He attended a lecture course on the Theory of Art History at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute at the Department of Art Graphics and Painting under the guidance of the prominent historian of the theory of Arts Michael U. German. On August 19th, 1992 Eduard moved to Boston and from October 1996- February 2001 he owned a Russian Bookstore and Art Gallery. From February 2010 to March 2018 he was the owner of a photo souvenir art kiosk at the Arsenal Mall in Watertown Massachusetts where he took pictures and edited them to be placed on souvenirs for the shoppers of the mall. He began drawing the view from his window, then the interior of his apartment; “Mishin Park” in acrylic, oil and watercolors. Viewing the world like a frog 365 degrees. The scenes from his head his thoughts and feelings of the world replicated in his art. Works like, “Boston College inverted perspective, Halloween in Brookline” a lot of people drawn strange projections of homes not quite where they belong. In February 2019, he went to NY, climbed to the 102nd floor of the Freedom Tower and the new saw the underground Museum. The idea to draw his autobiography through geography to depict his life in the USA through a NY lens. “Panorama of Remembrance 2”, will be forward # 26 - “Panorama of Remembrance 3, Boston and I” all art drawn 3 in a row! There was no such are depicted like this in the history of painting. The closest was Small Dutch, Flemish, Matisse and Van Gogh. Eduard says “I have a lot of things in small spaces with a lot of them in the interior”. From there, this Still Life Collection of the Interior was my muse. Since July 2018 there are 25 total paintings which has absorbed life at the age of 70.

My work explores the relationship between Harmony and Nature best represented in my ceramic work.

Was born in the city of Sochi, Russia. She studied at Grekov Art School located in Rostov-on-Don, Russia and was named Student of the Year. From 1975-1995, she worked as an artist in one of the biggest art companies in the Soviet Union where she participated in many art exhibitions and had her work win constant recognition in multiple countries such as Russia, Armenia and Ukraine. In 1996, she immigrated to the U.S where she continued her art career, creating beautiful and unique paintings. For the last 3 years, she has dived into the art form of sculpting, creating many different ceramic sculptures that represents her vision of Harmony and Nature.

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I embarked on my journey as an artist just a few years ago, initially experimenting with colored pencil sketches. As my artistic exploration evolved, I delved into the realm of digital manipulation, utilizing graphic software to transform my creations in diverse ways. However, it was my collaboration with AI that truly ignited a new chapter in my artistic development. Working alongside artificial intelligence infused my creative process with fresh inspiration and boundless possibilities. With each artwork, I strive to evoke emotion and resonance, hoping that my pieces will resonate with your hearts and find their rightful place in your lives.

Was born in Moscow, have been living in Los Angeles since 1992.

As a professional makeup artist for many years in the entertainment industry. I love transforming and sculpting faces of every kind, but I often wish I could freeze-frame my work, which some how vanishes with the night. Now, through my passion for working with my hands and creating hot bronze and cold cast bronze sculptures. I am able to forever capture subtle emotion and beauty with the finest detail. I am embracing this process with the utmost wonder and zest for what lies ahead. Now, when people view or touch my work, I am filled with joy and satisfaction that they will be able to enjoy it for a very long time.

I am a Professional Makeup Artist working in the Entertainment Industry for many years. As a sculptor I have shown my Collection of Bronze Sculptures in the 2008 Beverly Hills art show \"The Affaire in the Gardens\"

2008 Malibu Art Festival, Malibu Ca.

5th & 6th Annual Thousand Oaks Arts Festival

2008,2009.

From the 6th Annual Thousand oaks Arts Festival I was invited for the month of October 2009 to have my sculptures on display at the Thousand Oaks Community Art Gallery.

My sculptures can be viewed on my website:http//www.bronzedlife.com

EROS

COSMO-EROTIC HUMANISM

Kohlene Hendrickson is a native Californian, whom moved to Switzerland in 2000 where she has found "home" in the enchanted medieval village of Romainmôtier. She studied Fine Arts at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. She worked for 12 years as an illustrator and art director, then returned to fine arts by studying fresco with Frederico Vigil, lineage of Diego Rivera. Passionate about fresco, she went to Italy where she discovered encaustic painting, another ancient technique using natural materials and has continued to experiment with encaustic. Her search for a medium that could translate transparent layering of colors and rich mass material finally evolved into her unique multi-media technique, combining the materials of beeswax, resin, pigments and gum arabic. Her artwork is luminous and expressive abstract figuration, exploring dimensionality, the human and cosmic of EROS.

She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the USA and in Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland and Austria). Plexus Art Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland.

Represented by PRIMOPIANO LivinGallery- Lecce, Italy.

- 1st prize by World Women Talent System & Primo Piano LivinGallery, 2025

-M/Musa International: Woman’s Essence Show, 2024 WOMAN Art Award

-Invited Artist and Godmother of exhibition ART WOMAN 2024, Primo Piano LivinGallery. Lecce, Italy

–Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize 2023

–Contemporary Art Curator Magazine 2023, The Faces of Peace Art Book

–Primo Piano Atelier Prize – Silver Certificate Awa

✨ My Mission ✨

Through my art, I seek to help others experience a spiritual awakening — to rediscover inner harmony, hear the heart at deeper levels, and remember the Song of the Soul. My intention is to assist individuals in reconnecting with the soul of our planet, Gaia, and with the consciousness of plants, animals, and the greater cosmos — the galaxies and stellar systems that mirror the vastness within us.

With my paintings, I strive to create spaces that invite reflection, transformation, and healing. Each artwork becomes an environment for exploring certain states of mind and energy — helping to release negative patterns, restore balance and confidence, and awaken intuition and higher awareness.

My aim is to awaken, inspire, harmonize, and fill hearts with beauty, wonder, and a sense of the sublime.

With my art, I seek to create environments and settings that invite contemplation and transformation. Each painting becomes a space for working with certain states of mind and energy — helping to release negative patterns, restore balance and confidence, and awaken intuition and higher awareness. My aim is to inspire, harmonize, and fill hearts with beauty, wonder, and a sense of the sublime.

Each of my artworks is born with a particular intention, setting, or mood — I embed frequencies of emotion and meaning within the paint itself. Thus, my paintings can serve as portals for meditation, reflection, and inner alignment. Through them, I also express my admiration for the beauty and diversity of life on Earth and the infinite expanse of the Universe — its stars, galaxies, nebulae, constellations, and unseen worlds beyond.

✨ Oil Paintings of Night and Light ✨

Space • Cosmos • Other Dimensions

Angels • Archangels • Ascended Masters

Spirits of Gaia • Animal Totems

Sacred Places of Power on Earth

Paintings for Meditation • Inspiration • Healing • Harmonization

✨ Energy Portraits • Color Therapy ✨

Izabel Raa is an award-winning Russian-born American artist, music composer, and author. Her paintings serve as gateways to meditation — vivid portals into states of balance, serenity, and awakening. Drawing on years of spiritual practice across diverse traditions, Izabel creates works that transport the viewer into a higher emotional and energetic resonance. Her intention is to restore love, wonder, and healing to one’s life through art infused with presence and soul.

A true citizen of the world, Izabel follows the call of movement and inspiration, creating wherever she feels resonance. Her creative path has led her through many Places of Power across the globe — from the Himalayas and Mount Uluru to Mount Fuji, the ancient temples of Nepal, Thailand, and Bali, as well as the mystical landscapes of Sedona, Mount Shasta, Monument Valley, and Hawaii. She has also journeyed to the Amazon jungles of Peru, the Egyptian pyramids, and the sacred dolmens of Russia. Each of these places nourishes her art, infusing it with the spirit of the Earth and the infinite Cosmos.

Her artistic journey began in 2013 in California, where she started painting in oil while simultaneously composing music — crafting electronic, cinematic, and meditative soundscapes that evoke both intimacy and vastness. From ambient and experimental sound worlds to piano and string compositions filled with emotion, Izabel’s music transcends genres, exploring the mysterious bridge between sound and color. Her works can be found on all major platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube.

Izabel’s first exhibition took place in 2017 in Sedona, Arizona — the mystical heart of North America. Since then, her artworks have been exhibited in the United States, Italy, India, and Russia, featured in numerous shows, art events, and spiritual festivals dedicated to mindfulness, Buddhism, yoga, Hinduism, Orthodoxy, and Shamanism. Her paintings now reside in private collections and meditation centers worldwide.

She also creates energy portraits — personalized paintings attuned through meditation to the unique vibration of each individual. Working from a person’s photograph, Izabel channels their energy onto canvas, crafting custom artworks delivered globally.

Exhibitions and Events

2017

• Jerome (Sedona), Arizona, USA - Art Walk Event, Yester Day’s Gallery (Jan 2017).

• Jerome (Sedona), Arizona, USA - “The Love of Art,” Art Walk Event, Yester Day’s Gallery (Feb 2017).

• St. Petersburg, Russia - Participation in Budart Art Retreat for Artists (June 2017).

• San Francisco, California, USA - Solo Exhibition, San Francisco Zen Center (Aug 1 - Sept 9, 2017).

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Meditative Art Exhibition and Performance, Budart Meditative Art Festival (Sept 16 - 21, 2017).

2018

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Yogananda Fest “Change Yourself to Change the World” (Apr 28, 2018).

• Lake Forest, Los Angeles Area, USA - Exhibition-sale, Thanksgiving Event, Gallery “Olympic” (Nov 2018).

2019-2020

• Moscow, Russia - Mini Exhibition, Gallery & Tea Club “Arteafact” (Nov 2019 - Jan 2020).

2020-present

• Divnomorskoye, Gelendzhik, Russia - Permanent exhibition, Private Gallery of Eco-Villa “Sea Chalice” (Oct 2020 - present).

2021

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Online Group Art Show and 2 Artists Zoom Meetings “SoulRise”; publication in Art & Beyond Magazine (Jan - Apr 2021).

• Moscow, Russia - “FreedOM’art,” Group Art Exhibition of Artists of the Spiritual Art Style (July 4, 2021).

2022

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Exhibition “Soul’s Flights” (Jan 7, 2022).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - “Universe of Soul,” Solo Exhibition with music album presentation and guided meditations, SMART Anti-Gallery (Jan - Feb 2022).

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “Art Transforming Spaces” (Feb 1 - 15, 2022).

• Florence, Italy - International Prize Leonardo da Vinci - The Universal Artist (Feb 6, 2022).

2023

• West Hollywood, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “The Art of Wellness” (Mar 2023).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Exhibition “A Journey Through Inner Places of Power and Resourceful States of Consciousness” (Aug - Nov 2023).

2023-2024

• Divnomorskoye, Russia - Group Art Exhibition “Lumen” (Nov 2023 - Jan 2024).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo art show during various music and art events (Nov 2023 - Mar 2024).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Show in Café “Na Chile” (Dec 2023 - Apr 2024).

2024

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “Harmony Within” (Feb - May 2024).

• Gelendzhik, Russia - Solo Show in “Dom Dushi” (House of Soul) (Apr 2024).

• Divnomorskoye, Russia - Audio and visual art performance in Café “Lumen” (May 2024).

2024-2025

• Los Angeles, California, USA - Lark Gallery Group Art Show “Voices of Resilience” (Nov 2024 - May 2025).

2025

• Goa, India - Solo Exhibition “Whispers of the New Earth,” Saral - Café of New Earth (June 2025).

Publications

2017

• “Cathedral’s Magic” — featured in Jerome First Saturday Art Walk celebrates “The Love of Art”, Verde News / Kudos Magazine (Feb 2017).

• Articles and online features connected with the Jerome exhibitions:

– Jerome First Saturday Art Walk celebrates "The Love of Art"

– Jerome Art Walk, February 4, 2017

– Jerome Art Walk to have Valentine’s Day focus

• San Francisco Zen Center Blog — “August Art Show: Izabel Raa” (July 14, 2017).

• Artists on Art Magazine — “Beholders of the Night: A Summer Solstice Oil Painting” (2017).

2018

• Art & Beyond Magazine, July/August Issue — Feature article with paintings “Infinity” and “The Dance of Love”, presented by LarkGallery.

2021

• Art & Beyond Magazine, Summer SoulRise Special Issue — Feature article with paintings “Violet-Blue Heart of the Universe”, “The Way to the Abode of Masters”, "The Path Through Dimensions" and "Mysterious Night of Azur".

• Interview with Artist: Izabel Raa — LarkGallery blog (2021).

2022

• Art International Contemporary Magazine, Issue #1 (Jan–Feb 2022) — Feature the artwork “The Cat, Stardust and Cosmic Fireplace”, or “Where the Love Is”.

• Leonardo da Vinci – The Universal Artist, Florence, Italy — Award and catalog publication (Feb 2022).

2024

• Art & Beyond Magazine, Spring Issue — Feature article and paintings “Enchanted World” and “Alma de Primavera”.

• "Женщина Мира. Пробуждение истины" ("Woman of the World. Awakening of Truth") (Russia) — Printed almanac publication featuring artworks and an article about the artist (2024).

2025

• Art & Beyond Magazine, Winter 2025 — Feature article and paintings “Road to Monument Valley”.

Awards

• International Prize Leonardo da Vinci – The Universal Artist, Florence, Italy (2022).

Links

https://bio.site/izabelraa

https://izabelraa.com/

https://www.instagram.com/izabelraaart/

https://www.facebook.com/izabelraa/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/15QFm0wjlxvNIAO6UVWCkS

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/izabel-raa/1544850360

https://www.pandora.com/artist/all-albums/izabel-raa/AR5xV5gfJrmgwxX

https://music.amazon.com/artists/B08QMLLQGM/izabel-raa

https://www.youtube.com/@IzabelRaa

Where are we going?

Aside from the obvious depiction of roads leading nowhere, broken road signs, explosions and fallen trees these paintings are questioning how we, as society, are dealing with our contemporary challenges. We are witnessing wars, civil unrest, polarization of society, growing cynicism, deterioration of moral values and ecological problems.

Roads lay in ruins, great cities civilizations proudly erected are deteriorating, people prefer escapism to engagement in active life, and nature rebels against human abuses. Do we acknowledge the problems? What are we doing about them? Or are we just ignoring the problems and waiting for chaos to swallow us?

The planet lost its way and spins by pure inertia. There is no clear goal or purpose. Where are we going?

My work is shaped by the tension between catastrophe and continuity—between the moments when the world seems to fracture and the deeper forces that endure beyond every crisis. I am drawn to the emotional space where fear, uncertainty, and resilience intersect.

We live in a time when upheaval feels constant. Wars, social division, ecological decline, and the erosion of shared values can make it seem as though we are losing our way. Yet even in the midst of this turbulence, there are elements of the world that remain steady. Nature, in its vastness and indifference, offers a kind of reassurance that human events cannot erase.

This duality forms the foundation of my practice.

One body of work focuses on moments of rupture—real or imagined—set within ordinary landscapes: a road, a stand of trees, the edge of the ocean. These scenes are familiar, yet something has gone terribly wrong. Trees fall, structures break, distant explosions stain the horizon. Through dynamic brushwork, collaged textures, and deliberately unbalanced compositions, I explore the immediacy of fear and the fragility of the everyday.

The companion series turns toward what survives. In four large-scale triptychs, I depict water, trees, mountains, and sky as elemental presences that have outlasted countless human crises. These works are slower, more deliberate, and more monumental. They reflect my belief that nature holds a kind of quiet eternity—one that persists long after our catastrophes fade.

By placing these two modes of painting in conversation, I seek to examine how we respond to instability and what we choose to hold onto. My work asks viewers to consider not only the disasters that shape our lives, but also the enduring forces that ground us, reassure us, and remind us of our place within a much larger continuum.

Elena Kalman is a painter, a creator of public art, and an architect, whose work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries throughout the United States, including:

The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

National Aquarium, Baltimore MD

Van Cortland Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA

Bijou Box, Bridgeport, CT

Kalman’s work is included in the following permanent collections:

William Benton Museum of Art UConn, Storrs, CT

Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

Jewish Center of Ridgefield, CT

Carnegie Management, New York, NY

Chabad Center of Somerset County, NJ

Kalman received her Master of Architecture degree from the Moscow Architecture Institute and Fine Art degree from Kiev Art Institute. She immigrated to the United States in 1979. She is a principal of a Connecticut-based, design-oriented architectural firm, which she founded in 1988. Her commissioned sculptures and paintings became integral parts of several buildings she designed located in New your City and Connecticut.

Her series of 30 paintings “Timeline” illustrating Jewish history through the ages, ceramic relief “Jerusalem” and outdoor sculptures: “Flame” and “Holocaust and Rebirth” are commissioned by The Chabad Center of Somerset County, NJ. These are integrated into a religious building designed by Elena Kalman, AIA

Yelena says: " The root of my creativity stems from a desire to live a long life free from unhappiness, awe before the awesome beauty of the natural world and the desire to include this beauty within my own life and say to others "I see it this way!"

Born in Kiev, Ukraine. She acquired a dual Master's Degree in Geophysics and Computer Science. Yelena Kimelblat is self-taught American-Ukranian artist. Yelena Kimelblat started to paint in 2008 and art became a means for Yelena to share with others her vision of life.

Yelena's paintings belong to absolutely new genre... This genre is very much understood by the people who are absolutely new in the world of visual art. Yelena has the uncanny ability to see the unexpected side of the plain and the ordinary. One cannot arrive at this place with reason and logic. Her metaphoric thinking leads her to decisions that are so far from ordinary human associations that it amazes me beyond words, one who has seen everything within my long life of creativity. That which Yelena is doing doesn't fit within the understanding of artistic movements and schools of thought. She does not belong to any movement. She is on her own. She gives birth to her art pieces somehow naturally, and they naturally communicate to us that which belongs only to her: her visions of things and happenings - her inner world. This perspective finds a connection with the people who view Yelena's paintings. I think this is happening because the joy of being with which Yelena lives and works is being conveyed to people. "

Selected Museums and exhibits

• The National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, r/s division, Philadelphia, USA

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, r/s division, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Smithsonian Institute, outside artists, collection Dan Prince, Washington D.C, USA

• Tolerance Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles, CA 2015

• San Diego Museum of Living Artists, San Diego, CA, USA, 2014

• Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MI, Watercolor USA, Merritt Award 2001, 2005

• Carnegie Art Museum, California, USA – Art News Award 2001

• Museum Center RSHU , Museum of Tsvetaeva, Moscow, Russia

• Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA – American Art in Miniature 2007

• Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Columbus, GA, USA

• San Diego Museum of Art, Fine Art Festival 2

• MOMA, NY, NY, USA – radio / internet production with WPSI, with Elle Attlee 2005

• Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, Art auction, 2004

• Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts, Plantation, Florida, USA - personal show 2003

• S-MOVA, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA, USA 2002

• Lancaster Museum of Fine Art, PA, USA

• San Bernardino County Museum, CA, USA

• Roswell Museum, New Mexico, USA

• Rio Honda Museum, Whittier, California, USA – personal show

• Coachella Valley Museum, California, USA - personal show 2000

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Ann Krasner, born in 1967 in USSR, immigrates to USA as a political refugee in 1988 with her husband Paul. Settled in Malibu, with 3 talented children and her husband, Ann created a distinctive instantly recognizable style in art. More than 6000 pieces of original oil paintings, sculptures, bronze, ceramic and mixed media are in private and public collections. Ann’s work had achieved worldwide recognition with numerous exhibitions around the world.

My art name is Lark - the bird that lingers between the earth and the sky. We artists do it at the moment of inspiration and meditation. That's how I create my art. I meditate and start with the spontaneous movements of my instruments; usually it is not a brush. A brush makes me think. My instruments are usually just pieces of cardboard. I also paint on any surface – canvas, board, plexiglass, glass, wood, etc – and I love to experiment and see what happens. My best creations take place in a state of no mind.

Although I begin the way abstract expressionists do and use some sumi-e techniques, eventually most of my creation starts shaping as abstract or impressionistic landscapes as ocean, sky, trees, flowers and mountain views start appearing from the formless. Nature is my source of inspiration, but instead of landscape details I channel nature's moods, the feeling of being one with nature, and swimming in its atmospheric light.

Light is what drives me to continue working. My mission is always to bring more light to people around me with my art, poetry and meditations. I know that viewers feel joy, peace and harmony when they look at my work, enter and settle inside it because it heals their emotional wounds and it makes me happy. Being an artist is an opportunity to express the fountain of my creative energy and at the same time serve people's needs in beauty that will heal the world.

When people perceive the light, the high and playful energy that my paintings emanate, they start feeling they are back in the fairy-tale world of their childhood, when their soul was open to transformations and miracles, and they feel like Alice in her enchanting wonderland.

From the beginning of her art career, Lark’s art caught the attention of art lovers and gained recognition from art jurors including LA Weekly critic Peter Frank, Santa Monica Museum Art Director Lisa Melandri and MOCA curator Alma Ruiz.

Fusing classical and contemporary art traditions, Lark's award-winning artworks carry her signature gestural brushstrokes and vibrant color palettes. They have been featured in the many prestigious exhibitions, art catalogs and sold globally in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia, Armenia, Canada, Sweden and many other countries. In 2021 - 2025 Lark's art was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the Shiba City Museum of Art In Japan where Lark got two Gold Awards in the group shows.

I hope to create work that reveals the organic foundations of humanness.

As a woman, I believe there are always parts of ourselves that carry the innocence and curiosity of a little girl. That energy—the wonder, the fearlessness, the vulnerability—still lives within us.

"Mirror Twins" are characters that many people can see themselves in. I choose not to reveal too much about them—I’d rather let viewers discover their own meaning and stories within the work.

Now more than ever, artists and creatives must stand up for the value of art. Even when the world isn’t ready to hear our voices—especially as some are being censored, edited, or erased—we must keep creating. It’s painfully clear that many of our communities are being silenced and pushed to the margins.

As an artist, cartoonist, creator, and teacher, I’m committed to encouraging others to stand boldly and make art that speaks truth. My own journey is always evolving. Maybe it’s okay that I don’t reveal everything. Maybe my role is more about connection—and keeping a few secrets of my own.

—Cristina Natsuko Paulos

Cristina Natsuko Paulos is an award-winning artist, animator, cartoonist, designer, and educator. She currently teaches commercial arts and digital media at a high school in the Clark County School District, and works as a freelance artist and workshop leader. She also likes to remind people: she’s a good human.

A BFA graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Paulos’s work blends fine art and illustration, often featuring mirrored or twinned characters, expressive portraiture, and imagery inspired by real life. Her style draws heavily from cartoon aesthetics and deeply personal themes, creating a space where vulnerability, identity, and duality intersect.

Her original animation work has appeared on Sesame Street, and her artwork has been exhibited in prestigious galleries including La Luz de Jesus, Giant Robot, and the Cirque du Soleil Contemporary Art Collection. She has also been featured in two published books: Garden of Eye Candy and La Luz de Jesus 25: The Little Gallery That Could. Her films have screened at festivals in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and she has collaborated with puppeteers to create toy theatre performances.

Since relocating from the San Fernando Valley to Las Vegas in 2002, Paulos has received multiple grants from the Nevada Arts Council, including two Jackpot Grants, a 2008 Artist Fellowship, and a 2005 Sesame Street Workshop Scholarship.

Paulos works with a wide range of materials—ink, paint, dye, handmade paper, canvas, wood, and mixed media. Her process is rooted in the philosophies of drawing, aiming to expose the raw, often hidden elements of identity.

“My artwork derives from life, juxtaposed with the cartoon world,” she says. “Using drawing philosophies, I try to reveal the marks we often try to erase—the flaws, the discomfort, the quiet parts of ourselves. Whether through cartoons or figures drawn from life, I explore what it means to be fully seen, completely vulnerable—naked, beyond form.”

My inspiration comes from Nature and the wide world of culture, including Literature, Religion, Mythology, and the Visual Arts.

Joan Pearson is a Los Angeles artist, working at this time exclusively in soft pastel. Her work is in collections in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.

My name is Rubab Ramzan. I am a student, studying in the 3rd semester of BS Economics at GC University. I am also a very talented artist and have secured first position 3 to 4 times in art and calligraphy competitions across Pakistan. In addition to this, I have several other skills, such as making presentations, designing certificates, and more.

To make art and see it being born from my own hands fulfills one of my

greatest dreams.

I like the moment when a new creation is not yet mine, not yet in my

imagination - but already is tickling my subconscious.

Working with paints, knowing their elasticity, and exploring new

textures and color shades allows me to move them on the canvas

spontaneously.

But it only seems so. In reality it happens under the guidance of my

soul.

It is my soul that expresses itself on canvas, showing its flights and

falls, joys and sadness, and then gives birth to an image. My hands only

choose and move colors around, before the appearance of a new image

gives rise to new fantasies.

When a fantasy desires to continue over a series of my art, the process

gives birth to imaginary realities which emerge from the depth of my soul

and cry out to find release on the canvas. Only then can my hands

themselves put down the paints and hang alongside my body. Fatigue and

relief cover me with a light veil. Nothing more needs to be corrected

and completed.

My soul enjoys the liberation of previously collected feelings and

impressions of life whose meaning was unclear to me but which I can now

express. Also what my paintings let me express on canvas is a joyful light shining

from the soul. It is the wonderful space of creation.

Tatiana Yartseva is a Siberian and moved to California in 2024. She is an artist and interior design and lives and works between the city of Omsk and Los Angeles, where she received her formal art education and immersed herself in the local art scene, working at the Lark Gallery. In addition to solo shows, the artist is an active participant in international projects such as "Peaceful Freedom" (2018), "Evolve. Women. Wisdom." (2019), and "Homage to Russian Avant-Garde" (2019) in the USA, "Seeking inner Joy(2002) in Russia", "The Temple of the Dreams"(2025) in Italy, "LAOpen" (2026) in the USA. Visionary Art Show Artsper Award. Since 2025 showing her art work at Artsy platform.

Participated in Digital Art Exhibition organized by Art Screen TV in the Biennale, Florence, Italy in 2025.

Her works have been featured in the American art publication Art & Beyond, Artistinish, and are held in private collections.

Madelyn Webb

“LAMAZO”

Artist Statement.

Art Coming From Life And It Is A Life. The purpose of her art is to connect, to give anyone looking at her work at certain ways in which she sees uncompromising realism, surrealism, transcended by powerful contrasts of light.

BIOGRAPHY.

Madelyn Webb

Madelyn Webb started painting at a young age, had desires of being an artist. At school ages in art class she draw a painting by her imagination, but her teacher didn’t like it because it wasn’t following his standards. After a while that painting took a first place at regional art festival.

After that she start to draw at home studio and didn’t show her art to any professionals.

She’s immigrated to the United States in hopes of pursuing her passion for the fine arts. Madelyn attended art and music classes at LA City College, but dropped out because she had home situations and taking care of sick parents.

Throughout the years she dabbled in art as a hobby but never fully pursued it.

She went on to get her masters by attending Los Angeles Film School Academy where she’s focus on art and perspectives. She realized that her calling was art, even friends encourage her to be an artist, and that is when she put her full focus on paintings and being an artist. She had guidance by a few renounced artists. Madelyn’s works are a part of various collections. Her highly abstract improvisations have become increasingly representational.

The purpose of her art is to connect, to give anyone looking at her work at certain ways in which she sees uncompromising realism, surrealism, transcended by powerful contrasts of light.

The current collection she has out has been in the works for about 3 years with some paintings that go back more then many

Artist Statement

My practice explores the body as a site of memory rather than representation.

Working with gesture, texture, and erasure, I focus on what remains after movement has passed — the trace rather than the form. The image is not constructed, but reduced, often dissolved to the point where presence becomes uncertain.

This process reflects a personal history in which expression was once internal, unspoken. What was held in silence now emerges through minimal action — a mark, a removal, a residue.

I am interested in the tension between appearance and disappearance, where the emotional weight of the work exists not in what is shown, but in what resists being fully seen.

I was born and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan, where early exposure to culture and contradiction shaped my perception of beauty, restraint, and inner tension.

My artistic practice emerged later in life, after years in which creative expression remained internal rather than visible. What was once held in silence now unfolds through gesture, material, and absence.

I work with the body not as a figure, but as a trace — a memory of movement rather than its representation. My paintings explore the space between presence and disappearance, where emotion is not illustrated but felt.

Each work is part of an ongoing inquiry into identity, time, and transformation — where what remains is often more important than what is shown.

Memorable images, powerful interaction, symbolism – these are defining features of Victoria Zelenikina’s art.

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Victoria was born in October 1992, Novorossiysk, Russia.

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Victoria is a self-learner, therefore she has no limits or rules in her artworks. She does not admit there is the right or wrong way to create. This is why it’s always difficult to define the genre of her works. She paints the way she feels.

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Victoria made some drawings under the unknown circumstances, therefore it is quite challenging to put them in line with ordinary pieces. There are some paintings made while sleepwalking. When the artist recollects herself on the floor covered with paints and curiously looks over an image on the canvas, does it really matter if this image has skewed horizon?

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Victoria creates her own reality escaping from the real world. She suffers from somnambulism (sleepwalking) which brings many of her story lines. She depicts different images and subjects while fully asleep and being looked after by her husband. These ideas soon thereafter become realized and transform into another work of art. Creating new worlds cures the artist’s soul though letting everything out.

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Victoria’s artworks encourage a deeper view of the pictures, a search for something extraordinary or even spiritual in familiar images. If one succeeds, this will allow going beyond the limits of human understanding.