UZOMAH UGWU is a poet/writer, curator, and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
Painting is MARIO LOPRETE‘s first love. An important, pure love. The foundation of his painting lies in creating , starting from the spasmodic research of a concept through which he wants to transmit his message. Sculpture is his lover— his artistic betrayal to painting— Avoluptuous and sensual lover that inspires different emotions which strike forbidden chords.
For his concrete sculptures, he use his personal clothing. In his artistic practice, he uses plaster, resin and cement, and transforms articles of clothing into artworks that can be hung. His DNA and his memory remain inside the concrete, so that the person who looks at these sculptures is transformed into a type of postmodern archaeologist, studying his work as urban artifacts.
He likes to think that those who look at his sculptures, created in 2020 ,will be able to perceive the anguish, the vulnerability, the fear that each of us has felt in front of that planetary problem that was COVID-19. Under a layer of cement are the clothes in which he lived through that nefarious period.
The clothes that survived COVID-19 are likened to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii, which recounts man’s inability to face the tragedy of broken lives and destroyed economies.
My artwork addresses the mute expression and range of heart-felt emotions experienced by the human race. Art is something people should be able to relate to. Art is a visceral experience that can be accessed by all regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, or identity.
HANNA MARIE DEAN WRIGHT is a self-taught folk artist residing in Keavy, Kentucky. She uses her experiences from growing up in rural South-Eastern Kentucky, teaching special education classes, and living with obsessive compulsive disorder to inspire her unique works of art. Hanna Wright uses bold lines and bright colors to create abstract figures with relatable and at times deeply emotional expressions. Hanna was born in Barbourville, Kenucky on April 15th, 1993. Hanna graduated from the University of the Cumberlands in 2015 with degrees in Special Education Behavioral Disabilities and Elementary Education.
Hanna Wright’s mamaw, Geraldine Scalf, has had a great impact on Hanna’s art career and works as a fellow folk artist residing in Barbourville, Kentucky. Hanna was adopted at the age of 4 and moved from Barbourville to Keavy, Kentucky. She now teaches special education in the Laurel County School District and spends most of her free time creating unique works of art on paper, canvas, wood, and reclaimed scrap materials. Hanna most enjoys drawing her expressive “Starmen” and painting abstract figures and faces on reclaimed wooden panels.
Hanna Wright’s collection of art contains over 2000 works of art on paper and over 400 paintings of all sizes. Hanna’s artwork has been gaining popularity on the internet since 2015 and her artwork has been sought after by art galleries on a global scale. Hanna has had opportunities to display her artwork in galleries from Australia to New Mexico.
JACK BORDNICK’s sculptural and photographic imagery is a reflection of his past and present forces and the imagination of his life’s stories. They represent an evolutionary process of these ideas and how all of life’s forces are interconnected, embraced and expressed through creative art forms. These works represent what has accomplished with this art form. They reflect this quantum and metaphoric moment, the changing from one form to another. They express and implement these thoughts and feelings, and take risks, without any guarantee of their success. To be reflected through these present works, is his goal. The predominant imagery deals mostly with faces of both living and non-living beings and things. They are expressed in many forms and images, speaking to us in their own languages.
Bordnick has been a part of this creative world since he can remember, beginning as a product designer and establishing his own design business in New York, SantaFe and Europe. These present sculptural images incorporate surrealistic, mythological and magical imagery, fabricated in textural metallic mixed media assemblages. They are assembled, disassembled and reassembled. They are heavily textured surfaces that become abstractions unto themselves, and he seeks them to revert back to their origins. Enjoy their stories.
My collage work is an amalgam of vintage graphics, mixed media, and photography, arranged within photoshop. I tend to be drawn to exploring negative space & color. This particular series, ‘The Terrible Practice,’ (2021-2022) is an exploration of ego death and what lies beyond that.
JESSE CAVERLY was born an hour outside of Boston but he and his mother quickly became nomads. He doesn’t remember much about Tucson and everything about Hawaii. There, he had a small white terrier as a pet. There, he collected comic books and ate guavas fresh off the branch. Then they moved to California, high school was all right, college didn’t happen but life did. He is now a storyteller, proud father of a wilding, and an occasional poet. He resides in Arcata, Humboldt County. He can be found here.
DONALD PATTEN is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He is currently a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine. As an artist, he produces oil paintings and graphic novels. Artworks of his have been exhibited in galleries across the Mid-Coast region of Maine. His online portfolio is donaldlpatten.newgrounds.com
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