Author: Iris

Cynthia Karalla is an American artist whose work sits between activism, material investigation, and a straightforward visual approach. She began in architecture, transitioned into photography, and later expanded into a fine art practice that avoids easy categorization. Throughout these shifts, one idea remains steady: a focus on examining systems—political, social, and visual—and turning them into something tangible. Karalla handles materials in a way that echoes photographic development, pulling clarity out of what might otherwise feel distant or overwhelming. Her work exists in a constant push and pull—structure against disruption, content against form. By transforming dense, bureaucratic information into sculptural and…

Huang YI Min’s life and work are closely bound to the layered history and cultural fabric of China. Born in 1950, she grew up during a period of rapid and often difficult transformation, experiences that quietly shaped the direction of her artistic thinking. After completing her studies in Fine Arts at Beijing Normal University, she carried this background with her when she moved to the United States in 1997. The shift in geography did not distance her from her origins; instead, it sharpened her perspective. Her work reflects a personal dialogue between memory and place, where lived experience, cultural history,…

Sylvia Nagy works in a space where making and thinking are inseparable. Her practice brings together the clarity of design with the openness of fine art, allowing precision and intuition to operate side by side. With a background spanning industrial design and ceramics, she approaches material not just as a physical medium, but as a way of testing ideas. Her studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, where she completed an MFA in Silicate Industrial Technology and Art, gave her a strong grounding in fabrication and process. That technical base later extended through her involvement with Parsons…

Judit Nagy L. was born in Slovakia, a place shaped by layered history and cultural depth. From an early age, she approached the world visually, sensing form, color, and meaning in even the simplest surroundings. As a child in kindergarten, she already saw life as something to interpret through images. This early pull toward art led her to study in both public art school and private studios, where she developed her technical foundation. Yet her path did not remain linear. Life moved in other directions—she earned a Master’s degree in civil engineering, built a family, and entered the world of…

David John Hilditch, born in Wolverhampton in 1951, has shaped a practice that sits between painting and philosophical thought. His work avoids fixed meaning, instead opening a space for reflection on identity, perception, and experience. With a foundation that blends visual inquiry with intellectual exploration, Hilditch treats the canvas as something alive. Paint is not simply applied—it moves, responds, and continues to transform across the surface. His compositions feel removed from linear time, without a clear start or finish. What emerges is a visual field where perception is constantly shifting. Rather than standing apart from the work, the viewer is…

Adamo Macri works across disciplines without settling into a single form. Born in Montreal in 1964, he trained at Dawson College, where his studies ranged from commercial art and graphic design to photography, art history, and fine arts. That wide foundation still informs how he approaches making. While sculpture is often associated with his name, his work moves just as naturally through video, painting, drawing, and photography. Each medium becomes a way of working through the same concerns. Rather than separating them, he allows them to overlap. His practice consistently returns to questions of identity, change, and the gap between what…

Jo Gabe uses painting as a way to hold onto experience while allowing it to change over time. Working across acrylic, oil, and pastel, the practice moves between observation and feeling, where memory remains fluid and place is never entirely fixed. While there are hints of artists like Kandinsky in the looseness of form and sensitivity to color, Gabe’s work stays grounded in personal reflection rather than pure abstraction. Landscapes, interiors, and figures are not treated as separate subjects. Instead, they extend from lived moments, connected through mood and recollection. Travel continues to inform this approach. From the layered intensity…

Linda Cancel’s work is rooted in place, though it never stays confined to it. Born in 1959 in Moscow, Idaho, she grew up surrounded by the wide openness and shifting light of the Pacific Northwest. That environment continues to shape how she paints. One of her earliest memories—watching fireworks over the Snake River as a toddler—left a lasting impression. It wasn’t only the brightness of the display, but the way light moved across the surface of the water and slowly disappeared into darkness. That awareness of light and transition carries through her work. Her paintings return to atmosphere, to the…

Toni Silber-Delerive’s work begins with a foundation shaped by both formal training and a wide-ranging curiosity about materials. She earned a BFA in painting from the Philadelphia College of Art, followed by an MA in art education from Kean College in New Jersey. Her path did not stay confined to a single discipline. Time spent at the School of Visual Arts in New York expanded her approach, introducing graphic design and silkscreen printing into her practice. These experiences continue to inform how she builds images today. Rather than treating painting as separate from design, Silber-Delerive allows structure, repetition, and clarity to move…

Sebastian Di Mauro’s work is shaped by distance and relocation. Raised in Australia and later settling in the United States, he stepped into a cultural environment that felt at once familiar and strange. Much of what he had understood about America had been filtered through media—films, television, and the broader mythology of the American Dream. Living there shifted that perception. Alongside a partner with ties to Wilmington, Delaware, he began navigating between expectation and experience, between what had been imagined and what unfolded in real time. That tension continues to inform how he approaches both material and meaning. In his…