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ABN LEAH & STAN GOLDBERG • Leah and Stan Goldberg have been making paint- ings together for 20 years. T eir works, many of which are Buddhist-inspired, celebrate the theme of divinity.
TIBI HEGYESI • www.tibi.ca • Tibi Hegyesi is a Toronto-based visual artist whose distinctiveness lies in his ability to capture the essence of the world around him through vibrantly contemporary visuals of an unseen depth of fi eld and richness of color.
MARK HOLT • www.chilledimage.com • T ough photography has been a lifelong passion for Mark Holt, it didn't become a professional pursuit until the advent of modern digital photography. "For me, photography doesn't reside solely or even mostly in the camera," says Holt. "With powerful computers and sophis- ticated soſt ware, I can explore a space of options for any given digital image."
LEILA HOLTSMAN • www.leilaholtsman.com • Earth strata, fossils and geological timelines inform the sculptural work of Leila Holtsman, who makes low-relief surfaces that evoke displacement and change, alluding to the passage of time. "By printing and transferring layers of images on steel, my work calls to mind the inevitability of change," she says.
KO-HEY! ARIKAWA • www.happyclover528. com • Ko-Hey! Arikawa is one of Japan's best-known contemporary artists. His annual exhibitions in Okinawa draw more than 10,000 visitors each year, and his newly produced works routinely sell out as quickly as he produces them.
JOAN KONKEL • www.joankonkel.com • "As a sculptor, I release color into space," says Joan Konkel. "I unleash its power to travel into the third dimension where it can enter a kaleidoscopic, unfettered realm. It is a realm where colors can change, perception is deceived and light intertwines."
IVAN LEBEDEV • www.photopas- sion.ru • "I like to call myself a 'photographic hooligan,' attempting to walk along the boundaries of photographic art to get a feel for its edges," says Ivan Lebedev. "For me, the fundamental diff erence between photography and painting lies in three under- pinnings of time character- istic of photographic images: Fixation of a concrete moment, time-fl ow within the frame and the marks of natural wear on the physical printed form of the image and its texture."
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JULIE LEFF • www.julieleff.com • A graduate of Yale University, Julie Leff lived in New York, Los Angeles and London before settling in Connecticut. She has shown her work in nu- merous solo and group shows. Her artwork is held in private
collections in the U.S., Europe and Asia and is exhibited at Yale University's Child Study Center.
ANNE MARCHAND • www.annemarchand. com • "Abstraction is my inquiry into the nature of life," says Anne Marchand. "As a painter, I am fascinated by the emotional power of color, music and poetry to engage the senses. From these painting platforms, I can explore univer- sal currents and rhythms by layering paint, texture and words on canvas."
RICKY MUJICA • www.rickymujica.com • Born and raised in New York City, Ricky Mujica has lived in Africa, Norway, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, Japan, England, Italy and Australia. "T ough I enjoy the work of modern masters such as Diebenkorn, Hofmann and Motherwell, I draw my inspiration from Sargent, Zorn and Sorolla," says Mujica, whose infl uence from the old masters has helped him achieve a high level of success.
KRISTEN RAY NAUGLE • www.kristenray- naugle.com • "Simple elegance from clas- sic inspirations" is how photographer/ painter/ABN Top 50 Emerging Artist Kristen Naugle hopes viewers will see her artwork. Naugle will debut a new mixed media collection inspired by an art world great and the fi rst-ever Kristen Naugle Metallic Collection at Artexpo New York.
JESSE MICHAEL NEWMAN • www.rebirthof- gaea.com • With a eye toward Baroque surrealism, New York-based artist Jesse Michael Newman has worked on multiple Oscar-nominated fi lms as well as other projects accepted to the permanent collections of MoMA and the Whitney. His latest piece, Rebirth of Gaea, is an epic visual tapestry delicately interweaving refl ections on the environ- ment and spirituality through the rich imagery of Greek mythology.
EUGENE NICOLCEV • www.nicolcev.com • During the past 25 years, major North
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