Voices of Resilience

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.

As a high school student, I won multiple awards in Art Contests, including First and Second Prize for two pieces in one competition, as well as Honorable Mention in local art shows.

I studied art by making frequent trips down to to the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My primary influences are the Pop artists of the New York School, i.e., Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claus Oldenburg and the like.

I am also a successful Cameraman, Video Editor with dozens of titles to my credit. I have experience in creating Graphic Art pages for internet sites using Photoshop, and can create 2-D Animations using After Effects.

I believe in creating art that speaks to a sensitivity derived from both the world of art history as well as the technical world. Thus, my early paintings combine my fantasies of worlds beyond this one. Later work portrays themes of contemporary life in the urban environment, where art and science collide. I am also an accomplished portrait artist, and the majority of my portraits are of the major musical influencers in my life.

Raised in the NYC suburbs of Riverdale and Bronxville, attended University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. in Communications, the San Francisco State Grad Program in TV Broadcasting, and the American Film Institute Grad Program.

As a high school student, Nick won multiple awards in Art Contests. He studied art by making frequent trips down to to the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His primary influences are the Pop artists of the New York School, i.e., Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claus Oldenburg and the like.

He attended the American Film Institute in the Graduate Producing Program, and was the Producer of two short 35mm films, using cameras provided by Panavision under the New Filmmaker’s Program. A true one-man band, he became a Cameraman, Editor, and Graphic Artist for an Internet company, and later was a Cinematographer for a low-budget feature.

He has produced an independent feature entitled “Nutcracker: An American Nightmare”, made for a shoestring budget and sold worldwide as well as Amazon and Netflix.

He has also independently produced and directed the documentaries, “Takashi’s Dream,” and “The Brokaw Hoax,” and was a Co-Producer and Editor on two other films, “Steel Drums, Not Guns” and “On Borrowed Time,” and was a Producer and Editor for “Genghis Heroes,” Editor of the Documentaries “Harlem to Hollywood” and “When Houston Had the Blues,” and the feature film “An Egypt Affair.”

Art is meant to excite inspire and motivate the viewer into seeing in a new & different way

It should enhance the energy in the space where it is viewed

Studied, showed and wom awards Toronto Canada 1975-85

Portrait artist on Venice Beach 1985-95

one man show HOT GALLERY Venice Ca 1989

SHERMAN GALLERY 1991 Salons at GEMINI MANOR THRU 2012Y

MY work is figurative people spiritual animal based

most recently I am showing at my own studio commissions and original art and prints

Artist Statement — AZIZA Azizova an Artist,

AzziArt Gallery LA owner, International art dealer.

My art is born from the fusion of intuition, spirit, and soul. Since I began painting in 2019, I have created over 3000 art works—each one a portal into a world of energy, love, and deep connection. I have more than 300 art collectors. Working with acrylic, oil, and mixed media, I move fluidly between figurative, abstract, and three-dimensional expressions, often combining them in a single piece to create movement, texture, and emotional resonance.

Inspired by the universe, nature, music, and the rhythms of life, my creative process is intuitive and often spontaneous. Ideas visit me at unexpected times—through the colors of a sunset, a melody, or the quiet of the night. My work explores themes of the cosmos, human connection, soul energy, and transformation. I often incorporate words, symbols, and planetary elements into my paintings, weaving layers of meaning that invite the viewer to look deeper.

I’ve developed my own unique techniques, including a signature “mosaic movement”, tale&mosaic and 3D textural style that gives form to invisible energies and unseen dimensions. My goal is to awaken the senses—to take people on a journey beyond the surface and into a space of spirit and imagination. You can feel movement, sound, soul, and life in every stroke.

I have been exhibited art collection in Los Angeles, Laguna Beach Gallery, Marina Del Ray, Silver Lake, Switzerland during Art Baseball, Italy at the Biennale and more…

My art collectors from USA and around the world:

New York, Texas, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Play Vista, Switzerland, Vienna, Germani, London, Australia, Dubai, Italy, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, different part of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and more…

but its true home is wherever someone can feel its vibration. Through color, texture, and form, I aim to touch hearts and transport souls—to remind us that we are all connected through the invisible threads of beauty, love, and the infinite universe.

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Aziza Azizova started painting in March 2019. She is a self-taught artist. In that short time, her work has been on display at Marina del Rey, Silver Lake, Forest and Ocean Gallery in Laguna Beach, California, Azzi Art Gallery LA, Florence Biennale, during the Art Basel, Switzerland, Mag Gallery, Switzerland.Currently, her collection of acrylic and oil on canvas painting, has more than 3000 unique artworks, almost half of them have been sold to a private collectors.At this moment she has more than 350 artwork collectors.

She is a board member of The Arts Council of Los Angeles.

She has opened her own International AzziArt Gallery LA in 2021, located at 2370 Westwood Blvd Suite E, Los Angeles, CA 90064.

The Gallery specializes in offering Aziza Azizova’s unique artwork and artworks from International Artists.

Since 2021, Aziza curated more than 300 art exhibitions for International Artists.

The gallery offers different art classes for kids and adults.

Every month the gallery has events and exhibition s for creative people from around the world!

In 2025 she helped 83 exhibitions and events for artists, writers, musicians.

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:

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I visualize and think with keen beliefs and insights. Reflection of human and societal concerns which cross emotional boundaries-- communicating that which is unspoken. My traditional art foundations of drawing, painting and printmaking, evolved into video, digital photography and experimental media. I use digital photography and imaging to envision the concepts originating from the creative pulse.An individual artist explores and gives the world a view of their personal heightened awareness. Artists see and think with keen beliefs and insights.Reflection of human and societal concerns which cross emotional boundaries-- communicating that which is unspoken.

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Awards recognitions

Midwest Regional Fellow National Endowment for the Arts Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award-Media Arts Neighborhood Arts Program Artist at Lathrop Homes, Chicago Housing AuthorityCHA City of Chicago. Dept. of Cultural Affairs American Video Conference Award sponsored by the American Film Institute Billboard Magazine Tokyo International Video Festival, Special Merit Award in Experimental Video Art American Registry of Outstanding Professionals Chicago Access Network Television, Chicago Access Network Television CAN TV Independent Producer 1986-current. , ARC Gallery Educational Foundation, Affiliate member and former President, Director-1999-2001. Chicago Society of Artists, current member..

BIO

Artist, Independent Filmmaker Photographer, Educator, Media Consultant

MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1984

MA. ED. Loyola University of Chicago

My art is an expression of the life I see around me. I utilize color and stroke to bring forth an emotion from my paintings. Acrylic and watercolor are my main mediums as I love the challenge of the quick drying paint. Much of my art comes from pictures that I take with my cell phone while walking around Pasadena. The other pieces I create spring forth from my imagination.

Theresa Brekan has been an artist for most of her life. Growing up in Van Nuys, CA, her passion began during elementary school where her paintings and drawings received numerous awards. During high school she moved to Tempe, Arizona, where she painted large scale cotton and linen backdrops for Alleluia Ballet, as well as scenic work for her school theater productions. She displayed artwork at the Arizona State Fair, Tempe Sister Cities, the Alwun House "Swirling Daze" and other local shows. Her education as a Fine Art Major at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, with a focus on painting. Taking time to see the world, Theresa traveled to Prague, where she spent time sketching, painting, and sight- seeing. Theresa returned to Arizona, and while raising a family, developed her skills in graphic art and layout design. She volunteered at Camp Gan Israel East Valley summer camp teaching and developing the weekly art program for five years. She moved to Pasadena, CA where she continues to pursue her love of art. She works as a free lance graphic and layout design artist, paints as a scenic for the film industry, and published several children's books illustrations. Theresa loves making time outside of the studio to experience nature, drink coffee, and take walks along the beach with her husband, Ralph, and their five children.

The images in this submission show women breaking through internal struggles. In "Falling" the dancer hides her face behind a veil as she seems to be drifting unable to protect herself. In "Navigating" the female is underwater doing all she an to breath under water as she seeks to reach the surface. "In Head Above Water" the subject is able to breath with her head barely above the surface, while relaxing into her fate until she again gains control of her fate.

Joanne was born in the beautiful Midwestern University town, Ann Arbor, Michigan. While the natural surroundings of her childhood were inspiring, the beauty of nature surrounding Los Angeles was the impetus for her entrance into the field of photography. Joanne began vigorously studying photography and other art arenas to hone her skills as a visual artist. In 2000, she graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Masters of Fine Art (MFA). She is now a full-time artist.

In addition to color and black and white film, Joanne shoots digitally and employs the techniques of infrared imaging and enjoys creating 3D anaglyphs to be viewed with red/blue lenses. As an extension of photography, she has branched out to do videos and have a YouTube Channel, THE VIDEO ART OF JOANNE CHASE-MATTILLO. Along with nature, Joanne frequently photographs female and male subjects at themed studio shoots. She often uses the photograph of models combined with images of her nature photography to create unique photo montages.

Joanne has exhibited throughout California, nationally, in Korea, France, England, Switzerland, Scotland, Greece, Spain, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Brazil, Dubai and Italy. Her work has also been selected for Lunar Codex, a very special project partnered with SpaceX to deliver the images of art in a time capsule to be permanently affixed to the surface of the moon.

Highly influenced by artists like Hopper, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Diebenkorn, I paints multicultural urban Los Angeles with all its contradictions and poetry.

I am trying to blend my classical European artistic background with contemporary conceptual approach. In the LA urban environment I am looking for and finding manifestations of eternal human values, such as love, faith, longing, and the strife for a better life. I try to see real people and their life through the facades of the buildings depicted with much love and connection.

Born in Moscow , Russia /f. USSR/

Moscow's Art School at Kropotkin St.

MA graphic design from Stroganovskaya School of Art and Design, Moscow.

Graphic Design Workshop Artist Union USSR

Group Show at Bienalle/ Chekhoslovakia, Praga

1989- Came to USA, Los Angeles

1990-2009 Decorative painted furniture and murals

2008-1st Solo show TALK TO ME LA1 Modern Art Gallery

2010-2nd Solo show TALK TO ME LA 2 at Modern Art gallery

2012 Group show at Santa Monica Art Studios

2013 Group show "Seen and Unseen"Downtown LA

Phantom Gallery

curator and artist

2013 Group show "Oneness"Phantom Gallery

2015 Group show at Civitella d'Agliano

2015 Group show at Nuremberg ,Germany

2016 Solo show at Lark Gallery Hawthorne

and curator for CALIFORNIA show

I am a professional scientist, but my genetic makeup always pushed me to the artistic world. I preferred company of artists to the company of peers, which even manifested in my choice of spouses. So, being immersed in the artistic world all my life, I finally realized I needed to let my personal artistic juices out. And allow visceral part of me to kick in and get out.

As a scientist, I thought it will be a good idea to find a balance between cognitive and visceral sides. Hence, I decided to use opto-electronic approach to create images never existed before. But building blocks for creating these novel images are everyday very familiar objects. The closest definition for the final images will be ‘digital still-video’. The reason for that is that either the object involved in the creation of image is moving, or the imaging device, or both.

When creating an image, I seek, by transformation, to reveal in objects of everyday life what they can be, or manifest, given they are brought in motion, which is not particularly pertinent to their nature. So, it’s the opposite of what I try to do as a scientist, where molecular motion at nanoscopic level is translated into steady-state observations with opto-electronic devices.

I hope the approach to creating my images results in new and unexpected visual creations enriching viewers with new emotions and thoughts.

My life is a cascade of transitions, transformations, and quite unobvious and unpredictable revelations regarding what I was, am, and/or potentially can be. There are several examples of that throughout my lifespan. The pertinent one is that I started my adult life as a Ph.D. in Biophysics and may retire as an ‘artist’. The start happened in Russia, and retirement will, hopefully, happen in the US.

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.

According to The Washington Post “…Cline’s surreal sculptures are a combination of Alice in Wonderland and Franz Kafka.”

I create narrative sculptures which center around issues of personal identity and family. Having a complicated history, it is difficult to assign specific meaning. Working with emotional material pre-dating even my own birth, I submerge myself in the painful feelings…

It is difficult to say what each piece means, or what each element means. I try to just move steadily forward. I typically do no sketching, no concept work. Using a torch I start making an element, not knowing why or what I will do with it. A chair. A tree. A circular shape which I begin to see as a link and then a chain.

I am overwhelmed by the reaction people have to my work. I was especially moved by a review in SCULPTURE Magazine which referred to my work as “metaphors for Lynden’s emotional history” and went on:

Focused primarily on sculpture I have been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in cities including Washington DC, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.

I have been making art for the past 20 years after leaving a marketing career where I developed strategies, directed market research, and created and produced promotional programs for Fortune 100 companies (such as Procter & Gamble and Honda.)

I taught at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington D.C. At the request of the Chair of the Sculpture Department, I designed a course to expose under-graduate and continuing education students to thought processes and techniques for communicating personal experiences and concerns through the execution of individual projects.

Active in art and community associations, I was invited to join the board of Washington (D.C.) Sculptors Group, a non-profit organization with over 370 members founded in 1984 to promote an awareness and understanding of sculpture. I was quickly elected to President where I directed a 12-member board and won the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts.

I recently developed Creativity Grows On Trees (But Trees Need Strong Roots) which provides strategies, tools and fundamentals to allow artists, writers and others to get in touch (or keep in touch) with what it takes to be creative through presentations, lectures, blog posts, recommendations & resources, as well as a 6-week course.

In 2020 I started Artists As Activists – a non-profit organization whose mission is to distribute provocative art about important

Los Angeles-based artist Sandra Cooper is renowned for her distinctive abstract expressionist style. Her paintings and drawings are unique in their ability to stimulate viewers visually and emotionally with both passion and contradiction. Her striking images encourage viewers to use their own mind’s eye to interpret the movement of paint across canvas. Cooper wants to evoke an emotional response to her art, rather than merely object recognition. “If I wanted to recreate exactly what I saw, I would use my camera. My style celebrates the randomness of abstract expressionism.” “Why paint the entire scene when it’s the negative space that fills my imagination with the creative possibilities of ‘What if’” Cooper says.

Cooper’s “Heart Felt Series,” painted under her “nom de art”

R. Vega, is reflective of the powerful abstract nudes for which she is known.

Cooper’s style and technique are reflected in the media she uses. Whether it is watercolors, mono prints, mono types, charcoal line drawings, acrylics or collage, her work is recognized as a consistent signature of talent.

Cooper?

Exhibitions/Tours/Representations

1) Februrary 20th from 3:00-4:00PM (PST) BlogTalkRadio. The ORACLE Speaks, hosted by Denise L. Cook, with special guest Artist Sandra Cooper. UK Songwriter Artie Q\'s single \"Not a Lot of Love\", which was inspired by Cooper\'s \"Out of Control\", will be played.

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2) In 2011 Daily Art Calendar, All For Love, www.ArtWanted.com/SandraCooper

3) The Whole 9 Gallery - Culver City, California - The Peace Project

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4) In 2010 Artist Sandra Cooper was featured on BlueHighways TV in conjunction with Lark Gallery Online. The show was viewed in over 220 countries.

http://country-cooperative.com/index.php/artists/category/mixed_media .

5) In 2010 Sandra Cooper artwork Out of Control was chosen by internationally renowned UK songwriter and singer Artie Q for LarkGallery Online E-exhibition Colors of Life - Music

6) In 2010 The Whole 9, juried competition, The Peace Project, Culver City, CA

In 2010 The Pop/Lock Gallery, Global Art Exhibition , Los Angeles, CA

Animoto

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2009 Woman\'s Club of Hollywood, guest artist, 12th Annual Rose Variety Arts Show, Hollywood, CA

2009 Woman?s Club of Hollywood, featured cover artist for Denise Cook, The ORACLE, Speaks just because, Hollywood, CA

2009 The Hive Gallery, Art & Action, Los Angeles, CA

2009 LarkGalleryOnline.com, featured artist, Sandra Cooper, Santa Monica, CA

2009 Fantasy 2000, Sherman Oaks, CA

2009 Clouds, ?Heart Felt Series? painted under R. Vega, Santa Monica, CA

2008 Malibu Art Assn, Memories and Appreciation, Juried Exhibition, Malibu, CA

2008 Malibu Art Assn, Colors, Colors, Colors, Emeritus College, Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica CA

2008 Beverly Hills Country Club, Rose Breast Cancer Foundation, Visions of Hope, Beverly Hills, CA

2008 No Ho Gallery, Visions, North Hollywood, CA

2008 Haziaz Gallery, Art48, Sun Valley, CA

2008 Finegood Art Council of the Valley Alliance Jewish Federation, Studio Tour, Los Angeles,CA

2008 Malibu Art Association Juried Exhibition, The Challenge of Colors, Pacific

Palisades, CA

2008 APA Art Association Members Only Exhibition, The Washington Convention Center, Washington DC

2008 Art Treasures of Los Angeles, the Hidden Gems Art Collection, curator: Pasqual Bettio,Westmoreland Art Lofts, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Clouds, ?Heart Felt Series? painted under R. Vega, Santa Monica, CA

I often go downtown. In my roamings around the city center, I encounter the homeless -- those weakest of the weak, our littlest brothers and sisters. For some ineffable reason, they attract me. I wonder about the subjectivity hidden beneath the battered exterior, about the human enigma each of these people represents. My interest in them is visual and philosophical. By painting them, I enter in an interpersonal relationship with them. I am amazed by the resilience these people radiate even from the abyss of misery.

A native of Bulgaria, Rossitza Djananova graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has painted ever since. In addition to painting, Ms. Djananova's artistic explorations include icon painting and monumental genres like mosaic and frescoes. While Ms. Djananova is grounded in the clasical realist tradition, her influences also include the bolder brushwork of German Expressionism and the post-Impressionistic impulse toward stylization and abstration for a idiosyncratic, unique mode of expression. In her work, Rossitza Djananova explores issues of marginalization and oppression. For more of the artist’s work, you can visit rossitzadjananovaart.com.

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

Lives and works in Los Angeles.

"My art allows me to see the beauty – the color and design – in ordinary everyday objects, in buildings, in clothing, in nature.

We are all surrounded by beauty. All we need to do is stop, look and take it all in."

Georganne Aldrich Heller, daughter of the famous fashion designer and art collector Larry Aldrich and a successful designer is an artist in her own right. She makes collages building on the vision that drove her long career as a theatrical producer in New York. Each collage and boxed construction represents a setting of evolving mysteries, opening the way to surreal dramas inviting viewers to enter the world of her dreams, yet unruled by any sort of literary content. Instead, Heller favors a lucid, iconic approach where the “thingness” of shapes and substances is allowed its own expression, her visual reasoning riding on the dynamic that powered western art through a half century of experiment, from cubism to De Stijl.

✨ 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

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These works are done for the fairytale club .

I have been an artist since hand painting clothes in the 1990s which led me to designing prints for fabric in the fashion industry for over 30 years. Today I am retired and spend my time painting landscapes, portraits, and other forms of expression.

My work is inspired by the natural world. Travels abroad and within the U.S. are reflected in my paintings of landscapes and florals. Using acrylics, I begin my preparation with various gels to achieve a textured ground on canvas, board, and paper. Pouring on mylar, using various papers dipped inn paint, and incorporating collage produce hidden surprises that move me forward. I love to experiment with different tools, brushstrokes, palettes, techniques to create atmosphere, illuminate sunsets & reflections on water, sunlight on mountain tops, and trees changing with the seasons.

My art is a work in progress, a joyful and challenging journey that has opened exciting vistas. As a painter, my lifetime goal is to release my inner spirit, be in the present, develop patience, & create from my heart.

Alli began her art journey in 2010 after retiring from a 35 year career in education, teaching high school in LAUSD and BHUSD, California.

She studied watercolor and acrylic in a small group setting with artist Ilana Bloch, in her private studio in Culver City, CA, 2010-2017.

Alli continued her art education completing live model drawing classes at Emeritus College, Santa Monica, CA, 2014-2016.

She studied abstract painting at Otis College of Art & Design, Continuing Education Department, Westchester, CA, 2016-2018.

Alli was accepted into small group, private painting classes with her Otis instructor Linda Jacobson, who has remained her mentor until the present.

Alli's work has been exhibited in Beyond the Lines Gallery & bg Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica; Redondo Beach Historic Library, Redondo Beach, CA; Gallery of Hermosa, Hermosa Beach, CA; Los Angeles Art Association, West Hollywood, CA; San Diego Artist Guild, San Diego, CA.

Alli's paintings have been selected by the League of Women Voter's Southbay for the cover of their Directories, 2020-2025.

She has been featured in many on-line exhibits given by the Los Angeles Art Association, West Hollywood, CA, 2018-present.

I make art

to communicate

what I cannot communicate with words;

what I need to say

about what's going on in the world around us;

what I cannot fix;

what I wish I could make different

with my paint and clay

or metal and wood;

I work very hard at it -

always with my hands,

smearing, scraping, sanding -

until the experience becomes intimately personal;

communication is at the heart of every creation,

wedded to a humanistic concern;

I yearn with passion to make sense of it all;

fulfillment comes

only after I am personally satisfied

with having known, experienced and conveyed -

or at least tried to convey,

an ongoing, meaningful conversation;

a conversation that has found its way in the work itself;

a conversation that may potentially transpire

a continuance of the same with each viewer -

long after the paint has dried.

Julienne Johnson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. She has been engaged professionally in a variety of other creative disciplines, most notably songwriting, with both Grammy and Dove Award nominations to her credit. Her latest music was released in Oslo, Norway, April 2019 for award winning producer, Knut Asphol. Her poetry has been published in the United States, and the UK. Despite her success in these areas, Johnson's most profound connection is with the visual arts – her strongest, most direct form of communication.

She trained classically as a fine arts major at Taylor University, Indiana and continued painting representationally for the next ten years doing commissions, while exhibiting minimally. Much later, after re-settling in Los Angeles, Johnson returned to studying art briefly at Otis College of Art & Design in 2005, transferring to Art Center College of Design in 2006 where she custom coordinated a Master’s-level type program and was mentored by the late Franklyn Liegel.

Since 2010, Johnson has been honored with 5 solo exhibitions across the United States, including a solo museum show at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art; her sculpture and paintings have been included in numerous museum shows around the world, including: Armenia, Japan, China, Qatar, Italy and Thailand. Her work can be found in 7 Museum Permanent Collections internationally and can be viewed on permanent exhibition at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan, and several museums in Italy and Thailand. Residencies include: China, Italy, Japan, Thailand and Mexico.

Her work can be found in private and corporate collections across the globe. She resides in Southern California.

Krista Kelly was born and raised in the Greater Seattle Area. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA. For the last decade, she has resided and continues to make Art in Los Angeles.

All my art except the heart series and those with ink and paint are made with recycled materials, Old calendars, wallpaper books, posters, leaves I have picked up and pressed, and many other found objects.

I have been an artist all my life. Writing books or poetry or doing some form of visual art from watercolors to Japanese Ink painting called sumie, to my real love of Mixed Media, new love acrylics. As a prolific writer, world teacher, and visual artist I have written 5 popular books including A Slice of the Beloved: Connection for Relationships, The Moon She Rocks You: Revealing the Secrets of Women's Inner Emotions, The 13th Month: How to Get an Extra 29 Days Each Year, Empower Your Essence, and the Art of Energy. I also developed an online academy called Empowered Energy Academy to support people on their Empowerment Journey.

I have created several series: from my Heart series to The We Be Me series, to Sacred Art, and Sacred Feminine, to Ink drawings with pecan branches. I have enjoyed them all yet this time of lockdown found me pouring out multiple pieces every week. I look forward to sharing them with you.

I relate to the canvas by composing landscapes of irrealities. Rooted in emotional ties, and transposed by interchanging the concepts of design, I attempt to create a meaningful composition for the eye. The purpose being that the project becomes a story, and the story is told in an abstract, yet emotional manner. Each story of the irreal is given a sense of realism by my use of abstraction.

I use abstraction to create an image. The character of the project, urban but organic, becomes a playground for representation, suggesting its theme. The placement of each element changes the entirety of the project. From my experience, character, obvious or underlying, embodies the vision, circumstance, or situation within. I express this dialogue of character with images, not words.

I superimpose images that the eye can distill, complete, reinvent, and/or canonize by using the image to explain what is seen as a kind of narrative.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust

Meaning is found through imagery and/or other conceptual devices adding to the work. The environment of the image is telling. It helps define what is in front of you.

With each project, my ideas grow. Conceptually, there are many intertwining ways in which these images can be connected. My work is an exploration of such a journey, a journey that is ongoing and reinvents itself through constant change.

My work has an amorphous form and function; encompasses an evocative use of light, shape, and form; and, each composition is different depending on the project and the message. I visually identify with a space and its components through the relationship of the project to its entirety. My projects embrace the mundane, the intellectual experience, and the passions of my life.

Born in South Africa, Teresa Lakier currently lives/ works in Los Angeles. Teresa is best known for her Geometric Abstractions, and her Digital Art. She received a Bachelor of Arts for Art at California State University at Northridge and studied at the California Institute of Art, Westlake.

During her career as an artist, Teresa has exhibited at Bergamot Station in galleries: Secant/Sulkin and Beyond the Lines Gallery. She has also exhibited at Gallery 825, Hale Arts, LACDA, Lark Gallery, MOLAAA, TAG Gallery and Wallspace LA. Teresa has received awards in shows/publications, including Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, LA Municipal Art Gallery, MD Art Gallery, Mujeres al Pincel y la Lente, Phantom Galleries, West Hollywood Pop-up Gallery, and VIVA Gallery. Teresa has been represented/affiliated with Hale Arts, LAAA.org, and Wallspace LA. Online she is/ has been represented/affiliated with Artist.com, Bslog.com, Fineartamerica.com, and Saatchi.com.

Teresa is currently working on three bodies of work: Geometric Abstractions, Digital Prints and Portraiture.

Through her work, she reinvents herself using images, the correlation of line, shape, form, and perspective. She challenges the viewer enough to affect them, confuses them enough for them to ask the question, and then, again, challenges them enough to respond to what they see in front of them.

In the past, she has collaborated with three artists: Karen Kinney, Liz Duer, and Odenis Vitorelli.

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 use art as a means to express my reactions to my environment. In this way what you see is akin to the emanations from a sound box where the acoustics of sounds, life circumstance and landscape have combined at one moment in time. The subject matter is not the subject. The process is often as important as the result. I have recently included with my abstract, tactile paintings, more objective work, but the impetus is the same. Just as each person responds differently to music, I expect each viewer will respond differently to what they see.

Born Elizabethtown, Kentucky

BA, MA California State University, Northridge

My paintings reflect my purpose and responsibility in life which is to stimulate others with beautifully inspiring pieces of artwork. My paintings are predominantly vibrant explorations of color. I aim to create paintings that arouse both senses of seeing beauty in and truly feeling the joy in life through art. I have become increasingly fascinated with the subjects like ancient egypt and expressing it in my work. One of my chosen subjects is the female form and face. I create art that I hope inspires you, serves you, expresses our world and the universe. I paint with love and light.

Thank you for viewing my work! I appreciate you.

USA artist based in California. International contemporary artist

Featured in Vogue (2017 - 3 issues in Vogue’s Gallery)

Residencies in Cairo Egypt created Egyptian collection

Group show

Awarded Governors medallion highest distinction in California for artist

Awarded at Uffizi museum in Italy 2016, exhibited at the Al Duomo in Florence Italy 2013

Won best of show 1st place

California State Summer School For the Arts at California Institute of the Arts, 2001. VIEW

Pasadena City College. Scholars Program Transferred with Honors and Distinction, 2002-2004.

B.A., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Degree in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations with Concentration in Egypt and Art History, 2008.

AWARDS & HONORS:

California Arts Scholar, 2001.

Governor's Medallion, 2001.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Nova Gallery & Framing, Pasadena, CA. Exhibition Oct 8, 2011 - Nov 5, 2011. Art Pasadena Contemporary

SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Solo Exhibition, Nova Gallery & Framing, Pasadena, CA, Oct 8 - Nov 5, 2011. Opening Artist Reception October 8, 2011, 7-10pm

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.

Art is my way of life

Mark Pol, born 17th October 1943 in The Hague has found an early passion for painting. His interest in drawing and painting started in primary school. And later on he went to the Photo Academy followed by the Free Academy of Art led by George Lampe, both in The Hague.

The work of Mark Pol, also shown on his website (http://www.markpol.nl), is in essence inspired by daily human life, without losing its vulnerability and the animal unpredictability. Despite the timeframe the painting or drawing might seem to be in, humanity is key in his work.

In the early stage of a painting, Mark Pol draws his thoughts and dreams with a pencil and then continues his vision with a basis of oil - or acryl paint on canvas. The expression of Mark Pol are often too much for the two dimensional canvas and the result is a three dimensional world, shown in different materials.

Website Mark Pol: http://www.markpol.nl

Mobile: 0031 6 45410400

The three fools can be interpreted in different ways. It can be a statement on our current political situation in the U.S. But can also be interpreted as warding off the evil eye. Which at one time in the history fools were thought of as protection by warding off the evil eye. We need three fools right now.

I felt that collage and jointed paper dolls were the best way to represent the fool. Their limbs can be moved and they can evoke different emotions depending on what their position is.

Robin Potash

Artist, Traveler, Educator

Robin Potash was born and raised in

Echo Park, in Los Angeles, and still

lives in the area. She is mostly a self

taught artist. She gets inspiration

from city scenes and nature around

the world. She has traveled

extensively. Most recently having

gone to Tanzania and India. Her

artwork often reflects her

fascination with color and shape.

She enjoys the process of

experimentation with watercolor,

gouache, oils, acrylics and mixed

media collage.

I was born on May 25, 1961, in Yerevan. I graduated from School #65 named after Leo and continued my studies in Leningrad, earning a qualification in civil engineering. Returning to Yerevan, I worked at the Municipal Executive Committee. My passion for art, particularly miniature and portrait painting, emerged in childhood. Since 1993, I've been an honorary member of the Armenian Artists' Center, specializing in folk miniature art. Since 2007, I have dedicated myself to depicting portraits of 132 Catholicoi of All Armenians on ostrich eggs, showcasing my talent in miniature painting, engraving, portrait painting, and illustration. My collection is unparalleled globally. I have showcased my work in various exhibitions, including international ones organized by AJA in 2015 and 2017. My distinctive artistry has earned me a place in the Armenian Guinness Book of the Year 2012-2015.

Painting is a shared emotional experience. In my own work, I begin with an emotional memory linked to the physical world. The art is then the distillation and tracing of that memory through color, texture, shape and brushstroke-palette knife to the emotional place where it lives. This might be a place of sadness, happiness, peace, exhilaration, or awe. The acknowledgment of emotion is transformative and teaches the lesson that everything in this world moves forward - beyond the edges of canvas, beyond our experiences, beyond the memories themselves.

Much of my work is about my lifelong love affair with Southern California. The paintings in my series “The Golden State” normally celebrate the beauty of the Southern California Sun – that swathes our cities, beaches and oceans in warmth and light. But they also speak to the power of Nature’s trifecta: Sun, Wind and Water; and the delicate balance that defines our environment and our California Lifestyle. As a Californian, I have learned that nature will heal itself with regeneration of the ecosystem and that we, as its inhabitants, will again be inspired to renew and rebuild as nature teaches us to do, challenging as it may be.

American Artist Frederika B. Roeder is a 4th Generation Southern Californian. Born in Palo Alto, California, her work follows Minimalism and the Light & Space Movement rooted in her experiences as a skier and surfer as part of Southern California’s iconic surf culture. Her abstract paintings are luminous expressions of the majesty of the natural world and the importance of its preservation.

Frederika exhibits her work continuously, with over 50 shows in museums and galleries since 2020. Exhibitions in 2024/25 include the 23rd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum curated by Julienne Johnson with chairman Katsu Shimmin; the Museo Camuno, Breno Italy; Galerie Diderot, Orquevaux, France; The Korean Culture Center, Los Angeles CA; Los Angeles Art Association/Art 1307/Instituto Italiano di Cultura with curator Cynthis Penna, consultant for contemporary art Centro Museale MUSA Portici, Italy.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Frederika studied fine art at UC Irvine, UCLA, Pasadena City College, the Art Center of Design, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. While in New York, she studied under John Baldessari, and worked at Vogue Magazine under Diana Vreeland and Richard Avedon.

My love is Zen painting an expression of no thought. A burst of energy.

As a child I was good at drawing and painting landscape scenes using vivid colors. I returned to painting in the 90's while I was traveling in India. I studied with Meera, a well known abstract Japanese artist, who used a no-mind, zen approach to painting.

Creative expression is a willingness to be open to what evolves on the canvas.

With no goal or result in mind, the time spent on the painting, the journey, is the result.

Whether or not it is pleasing to the eye, or to someone elses eye is another story.

My joy in painting is the appearance of shapes and colors rapidly forming before me. It takes me into quiet space inside.

I was born in 1958 in Armenia and graduated from the University of Arts in Yerevan. After moving to the United States, I continued to pursue my passion for art, showcasing my work in both solo and group exhibitions across Armenia, the United States, and various European countries.

Today, I remain dedicated to creating art while actively participating in private and voluntary projects aimed at supporting and uplifting my local community in America. My artistic journey continues to be driven by a deep commitment to creativity and making a meaningful impact through my work.

Alisa Sokolov

Each piece of my art reflects how I perceive the world around me. I work to capture the essence of health, femininity, and creation in ways that stretch the boundaries of imagination. I find beauty in symmetry, in the way shapes align and come together to create a sense of flow and oneness. The contrast of flowing brushstrokes with sharp angles interests me, for it brings balance and harmony out of chaos. My work is deeply personal, shaped by my studies of indigenous health, western, and Chinese medicine. Art, for me, is a vessel of transformation—of the human spirit and of self-expression. I also use performance as another means to explore and share my journey. Through this work, I hope others are inspired to walk their own paths of healing, growth, and empowerment.

As an artist, I explore the powerful intersections of health, femininity, and creation. My work, inspired by abstract art and expressionism, features flowing brushstrokes and angular shapes to create harmony, embracing the internal symmetry within chaos. My art is deeply personal, reflecting my journey of self-discovery and growth as an artist and advocate.

I had the honor of showcasing my work in a solo exhibition in Los Angeles, centered around the womb and uterus, exploring women’s life stages, societal roles, and the strength of motherhood. Through these pieces, I aimed to honor the womb as the essence of creation, life, and connection.

With a background in human physiology and global health, and currently studying Chinese medicine and acupuncture, my artistic journey has been shaped by diverse influences. Mentored by fine artist Leat Silvera, I honed my painting skills and discovered art’s transformative power.

My first collection, UTERVERSE, honors the uterus as the vessel of creation and transformation. Since then, I have created other collections that explore different parts of the human experience. I strive to inspire others to embrace their own journeys of rebirth and self-discovery.

I am excited about the opportunity to collaborate with Lark Gallery and contribute to its mission of showcasing innovative, impactful art. Thank you for considering my application.

I was born in Uzbekistan

Documental Photographer

Have exhibited in Los Angeles

“Raíces Mexicanas in Los Angeles” “Mexican Roots in Los Angeles”

Innocence’s in shadows

Wounded Planet presented at Latin American Museum of Pomona and Monserrat gallery in Chelsea New York.

I was born in 1962 in Armenia and graduated from the University of Arts, where I specialized in both interior and exterior design. After completing my studies, I began working as a designer for a prominent company in Armenia.

With a passion for education, I dedicated 15 years to teaching as an art instructor at a local art school while also providing private lessons. My commitment to the arts and education has earned me numerous accolades, including recognition as a “Distinguished Artist.”

Over the years, my artwork has been featured in renowned galleries across Armenia, Barcelona, Los Angeles, and other international locations, earning acclaim from diverse audiences. Through my creative journey, I strive to inspire and connect with art enthusiasts around the world, leaving a lasting impression through my passion and vision.

My paintings come out as attempts to "translate" from ideograms and fantastic hieroglyphs that I see in the patterns of nature, most often in the tree bark.

It is like listening to a song in an unknown language. Everyone will have their own guess of what the words might say, but the main theme of the song will be recognized.I am so thrilled by the moments of gazing into the patterns of nature when intuition gives a glimpse from the world of archetypes. I think that trees are books and libraries that can be read, perhaps as well as any thing around if we attune to it…

My paintings are sort of "snapshots" from the process of reading the Book of Nature by the mind;these "snapshots" are somewhere in between the imagery and the language.The mind projects meanings onto the shapes and lines, but they are being reflected back, startling and puzzling… there is always a sensation of a mirror dialog, of having been "read" yourself by the Book of Nature...

born in Baku, Azerbajan, lived in Moscow since 16 years old, moved to L.A. in 1992;

M.F.A. in Film &Tv( Animation major) from UCLA;

involved in painting, writing and illustrating, cartooning, mixed media, paper theatre, small size dioramas

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.

These painterly collage pieces are a continuation of my Beach Rock painting series. I was initially inspired by rocks on a deserted beach. Submerged in water, they reminded me of strange creatures pulsating with spirits, and inspired me to reimagine them on my canvas.

The idea behind my collages was to bring out the mysteriousness I felt about these rocks and make their strangeness even more vivid.

Each collage piece has several vignettes generated in the process, either intentionally or incidentally. They are like mini dramas within a bigger show and, when viewed as a whole, meant to heighten surreal feeling.

The way I see and express nature might have been influenced by shamanistic spirit that I had witnessed as a youngster in my old country.

Young Yun Summers is a Los Angeles based artist. She was born in Korea and came to USA as a high school student. She inherited a love of art from her family and always knew she would be an artist.

Majoring in design in fine arts, she earned her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in retail advertising for many years. However, her passion to be a serious fine artist was not pursued while she was working full-time and raising a family.

After her son went off to college to study piano, she finally decided to fully commit herself to art.

Young started out painting her favorite subjects, such as her family, trees, rocks, things in nature. Then, she began to incorporate collages, as a way to enhance her paintings. Soon the painterly collage took over and became her signature medium, garnering great responses and awards. Lately, her collages have become more sculptural and experimental. Finding beauty and harmony in most unexpected way from items soon to be discarded, while reducing waste and recycle are important aspects of her artistic life.

Hello!

I am Yulia, a happy woman, traveler, model, photographer and an artist!

I love nature and grateful people.

Art spreads love and beauty, inspires, gives strength and heals. That's its power!