Patrizia Iacino

Italian born Patrizia Iacino is known for taking everyday objects considered as trash to most, such as used contact lens cases and milk bottle caps and juxtaposing them with precious metal, stone and pearls, to create one of a kind hand crafted jewelry.

Jessica Iapino

Artist who develops from a sculptural training, now follows a parallel path and starts using the digital language, not only in the photo – graphic sense but mostly to discuss on the artistic aspect on different levels: visual, formal, conceptual. Jessica Iapino considers the imaginative power of the digital language at its highest level, mostly to put into discussion the hallucinogenic oasis mass – mediates considered in the inner of her work inhibiting empires of the individual conscience. She asserts that “Things are not how they look, they are how you interpret them”. Therefore the digital language, joined with the awareness of the exhibition space in which she always interacts with different mediums, becomes the most fast and tidy instrument to give life to the deep form of the symbolic universe and to the artists’ personal motivation. The installation represents for Iapino the right connection between the sculptural form and the conceptual value of the environment. The emotional aspect is the adhesive element between the artist and the viewer who is forced to seek the most intimate phantoms of her creative work. Born in Rome in 1979, lives and works in Rome

Ice Bear

Ice Bear’s work reflects his beliefs about the necessity of understanding the natural world around us, and learning to respect both this Earth and all our fellow travelers on it. Other themes are related to these beliefs, reflecting his cultural heritage, the mythologies of aboriginal peoples, and the conundrum of being aboriginal in a technological world.

Ice Bear's huge public art works (created between 1992 and 2001) have been extensively covered by local media, been front page photos and TV and newspaper headlines several times. Chris (the artist's given name is Chris Johnson, but all work is signed Ice Bear) also received a 1999 Community Arts Award for the contribution he and his public art made to the Capital region.

Chris prefers to paint primarily with acrylic on canvas, although he has used watercolour and oils. He has created sculpture in soapstone, wood, composites, and winterstone, and has just released his first limited edition bronze.

Karina Ihara

Japanese Artist

Nad Iksodas

For most of my adult life, I lived, worked, pursued a career, started a family, exulted in personal triumphs, and endured defeats. When I was young, the world was black or white. It?s only thru life?s experiences have I come to realize that the world is filled with infinite shades of grey. Within the shades of grey lie beauty and art, waiting to be seen.

Elena Ilku

Native of Ukraine, Elena received degree in History of Art and Design from Lviv Academy. She started her career as a professional artist in 1985, and since then has been extensively traveling, working and exhibiting her work throughout Europe and North America. She continued her artistic education in France and United Kingdom, which helped her to develop a unique style of painting. She is producing work of great originality, in which there is a release of emotion and a strangely captivating balance between abstraction and figuration. Still the signs and symbols of Slavonic Icon, one of her favorite subjects in early works, continue to evoke feeling and memories of old times. Elena is a master at depicting familiar surroundings but by way of suggestions and citations. She succeeds in expressing a deeply felt sense of “unity” and “wholessness”, balancing colour, form and composition. The consequences of this process are proven to be powerful yet elusive. Currently Elena lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Ilunia

As an artist I am fascinated with the beauty and mystery that nature has to over. I like to capture a moment in time a sundown or snow scene, a place that I can share with you or a feeling that you can relate to. Flowers have there own language I let them speak to you by themselves. My passion is watercolor but occasionally I like to paint in acrylics and oil.

Tina Imel

I'm a Painter specializing in Neo Surrealist Portraiture and Feminine Pseudo art. My major interests and influences are:Victorian culture, including primitive medicine and corseting: anatomical drawings, physiognomy and fetish art.

Inka

"Karwath employs color fearlessly. Her oils have a remarkable chromatic resonance, particularly in her "White Lines" series where nudes and other figures have an almost ghostly quality, delineated linearly almost ghostly quality, delineated linearly against shimmering color fields dominated by incendiary reds and yellows."

Shane Wheatcroft is a London-based artist who paints graphic portraits of cult icons from the world of music and cinema. He also produces art under the name Sean Ingram in various media, remixing images from popular culture, in an attempt to put a little bit of everyday reality into the heroic, glamourous and fantastical world portrayed by the mass media.

Mikhailov Igor Iurie was born on April l , 1963 in Magdeburg city in 1980 he graduated from the Arts School in Alma-Ata city. Once he was mastering this science, he was learning by himself. As he was fond of peisage he was studying the creation of such artists as Shishkin I.I., Serbakov B.V., SavrasovA.K. and many others. Often he was going out to studies, he tries to be loyal to the nature and, at the same time he tries to see in the every day life something unusual, beautiful and brightful. His paintings are a part of personal collections in many countries of the world, as the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel etc. The paintings are done in a realistic manner with oil on canvas.

Tom Irizarry

My red cloud paintings typify a dual nature of my work. They are at once weighty, physical and also transparent, other-worldly. They embody the meaning of inscape.

Craig Irvin

I guess this is one of my goals--to create dreams. My work has been called childlike, and I think most of us really long for the good things of childhood. We never really outgrow them, we only pretend we do.

Throughout my artistic career I have experimented with a variety of mediums, styles, materials and genres. My work is always evolving but my creativity is always drawn from everything that is around me. I simply display the word as seen through my eyes. My art is not so much a reflection of reality but rather a refraction of my environment. What the viewer sees has been appropriated and/or abstracted from that which I know, see, and feel. What I see passes through personal “filters” and experience before it is set down on canvas or paper. In the process the original image may become skewed slightly or unidentifiable as in my abstract work but still in relation to my world, my two cultures and my current mood. What it comes down to is that my art has foundation in what is familiar to my self and from that familiarity my imagination has it’s genesis.

Although I may paint from what I know or from experience my work does tend to run along a general theme. All of my artwork whether real, cultural or abstract projects the idea of impermanence; the idea that nothing is static, nothing is unchanging. My work is never passive. Activity is always implied. The play of light on an object, an object’s shape or the use of colour can all illicit this implied energy. Although the images are ‘captured’ moments in time and mind the viewer senses an undercurrent of energy as if the image could change at any instant. Although the impermanence, energy is subconcious when I paint it is fundamental in visually expressing my world; it is not physical but more mental in activity. I think this manifests itself in how I make eclectic elements “dance to the same tune” and some who “hear” may glimpse more of what was going on in my head than others.

When you look at my work, you are seeing how I have been moulded through culture, idealology, technology and education to view the world in my frame. As an artist I am trying to find that creative element that will make you see it a little different than usual. I think my work creates a mood, evokes emotion and questions from viewers and that is all I hope for. I want my work to grab the audience and hold them, much like a good novel would, and make them think a little bit harder or longer than they normally would. It’s as simple as that.

My work explores themes of memory, dreams, paradox and symbolism. I wish to draw the viewers into my work, deliberately weaving many different narratives together. Each image contains some clues, but not explanations of the drama unfolding. Nobody reveals the hidden stories because this is not only visual but also poetry which has to be inexplicable allusion. My goal is to capture special moments in time and space that make one slip into a completely different world - images that evoke enigmatic emotions between real and unreal.

Masaru Ishikawa

Visual Artist and Designer.
Lives and work in Milan.

Lorena Isla

For me painting is a form of communication, I put on the canvas what comes from my imagination and my messages to the world.

Painting is like oxygen for me and I enjoy the feeling when I work on a painting, it feels like reaching nirvana.

I love the result of my babies because that’s how I see my paintings, as babies.

In my work I bring together old and new icons and images from American and Japanese culture. These combination of images represent the history of two cultures as well as my personal thoughts about the world I am experiencing.

Many cultures have applied gold leaf to pictures. In the sixteenth century, Japan developed its own unique styles and techniques, especially in secular painting. This is the style I use in my work today. As a modern artist I begin my work by computer manipulation, collaging, and the printing of images.I then return to the formal art techniques of painting and gold leafing to complete my work.

In the middle of rapid globalization, I would like to share my passion and visions of living in diverse cultures through my artwork.

This new painting process is a replica of technologies developed by the Industrial Revolution. Why Industrial revolution? Because the new shapes and surfaces, that came out of the Industrial Revolution, have composed the cultural landscape of the 20th century. And the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century can leave its fingerprints through this painting process. The 20th century began with technological transformations, which sparked the spirit of modernity. While the modern painting exploring how to align itself with the dynamics of it’s time, the painting process remained technically unexplored, throughout the century.We have to go back 600 years, to find the last technical innovations, in the history of painting. Back then, at the absence of camera and electronic communication, ‘painting was the main generator of social symbols’. People sow broader world through painting and they also learned how to live in it, by adopting new ideas and values.Today mass media achieves more, with more advance tools. It’s armed with cameras and computers. The practical potentials of these tools generated universal efforts and resources, in their past 160 years of development. Parallel to their practical use, cameras and computers created their own masterpieces of art. Guided by these same economic and aesthetic principals, can we reinvent the painting process? If yes, how to use our hands and the sticky paint, to compete with magical technologies of our time? Let say, we succeed, can painting regain its old power by this? This humble painting process, controlled by hands, with the use of same paint, can produce and synthesize, great production speed, extremely low cost, unlimited size, and high quality, that cameras and computers have not yet produced in there ultimate visual images.

Jewellery from the "Orit Ivshin" design studio are made with special attention and love. My inspiring sources are numerous and varied, and in the center there is the human body. A jewel, in my eyes, is actually a garment that comes in touch with the body and creates sort of a dialog with it. Jewelry of my design is composed of thinking and researching, all in purpose of creating unique and unusual items that integrate into modern fashion trends. Obviously, I will be more then happy to meet a challenge and design a jewel that fits the customer’s personal desires and dreams.

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