Author: Iris

Pasquale J. Cuomo’s relationship with photography starts in a simple, relatable place: a teenager experiments with a camera and realizes it isn’t just a passing interest. Born in the United States, Cuomo has spent more than fifty years working through the medium’s shifts and reinventions. He learned photography in the era of film and darkrooms, then carried that discipline into the digital age without losing what those earlier years taught him. That long stretch of time shows up in the work. You can feel the accumulation of practice—trying different approaches, recalibrating, making mistakes, refining, and returning with better judgment. For…

L. Scooter Morris makes work that refuses to behave like background. Her pieces don’t simply hang on a wall—they take up space with the insistence of something alive. Morris calls herself a sensory illusionist, and it fits once you spend time in front of her art. The experience starts in that instant before you can explain what you’re seeing—when your eyes register color and form, but your body picks up depth, weight, and shift first. Her “Sculpted Paintings” don’t stay politely flat. They press outward, sink inward, and change depending on where you stand. A ridge catches light and the…

Miguel Barros, born in Lisbon in 1962, makes art that feels shaped by a life in motion. Moving between Portugal, Angola, and Canada has widened his understanding of what a place leaves behind—how it forms identity, settles into the body, and keeps traveling through memory long after the suitcase is unpacked. He studied Architecture and Design at IADE Lisbon, graduating in 1984, and that training still anchors his painting. You can feel it in his sense of proportion, his timing, and his ability to organize space without draining the work of feeling. When he relocated from Angola to Calgary, Alberta…

Amid the vibrant rhythm of Milwaukee, Janet Adventure Sather is reshaping what abstract sculpture can be by embracing materials most artists would never consider. Rather than stone, wood, or metal, she works with conductive light, fiber optics, and sugar—a combination that feels fragile, luminous, and strangely alive. These sculptures do far more than occupy space. They shimmer, react, and seem to pulse with quiet energy, echoing the emotional presence of the people who inspire them. Through these glowing forms, Sather explores the invisible emotional worlds we carry with us—the calm we show, the tension we hide, the bravery we rarely…

Miguel Barros makes art that feels like a conversation with place—sometimes quiet, sometimes dreamlike, and often layered with a sense of longing. Born in Lisbon in 1962, he carries the influence of three distinct geographies: Portugal, Angola, and Canada. Each one has shaped the way he sees color, form, and the emotional undercurrent that runs through a landscape. When he moved from Angola to Calgary in 2014, he found himself surrounded by new skies, new seasons, and new rhythms. These changes didn’t replace what came before; instead, they blended into his work, creating a dialogue between past and present. Barros…

In a wide creative field filled with artists who make images, there are a few who do something more. They build stories, pull you into them, and hold you there without force. Kimberly McGuiness is one of those artists. Her work does not simply present a scene. It offers an entry point into a mental landscape where emotion and memory sit close to imagination. She works with a steady clarity, but her pieces feel open, like doors left unlatched on a quiet night. Kimberly brings a sense of wonder without leaning on theatrics. Instead, she threads her ideas through color,…

Vandorn Hinnant, born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1953, has built an artistic path shaped by curiosity, discipline, and a long study of the relationship between art, science, and spirit. His early years in Greensboro set the stage for a life spent asking big questions through visual form. He studied Art Design at North Carolina A & T State University, earning his BA, then continued at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he focused on sculpture. This mix of design structure and sculptural thinking continues to inform how he approaches every piece he creates. Over the years, Hinnant…

Ted Barr’s path into art began long before he ever picked up a brush. Born in Nevodar, Romania, close to the wide horizon of the Black Sea, he spent his early childhood watching life shift around him. At four years old, he moved with his family to Israel, a transition that carried him from one world into another. That early uprooting became the first chapter in a life shaped by movement—across borders, across ideas, and eventually across inner landscapes that reach far beyond geography. Barr’s art reflects this sense of searching. He doesn’t settle for the obvious or the familiar.…

Salwa Zeidan’s beginnings trace back to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, a landscape known for its quiet stretches of land and deep sense of history. That environment gave her an early awareness of space, form, and the subtle ways surroundings shape perception. But it was her years of travel that broadened her artistic view. Moving through different countries, she collected impressions—how people think, how they create, how art shifts meaning across borders. These experiences became the groundwork for her creative voice. Her path eventually led her to Abu Dhabi. There, she opened a contemporary art gallery that reflects her belief in open…

Vandorn Hinnant was born in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and grew up in a landscape marked by open fields, steady rhythms, and the quiet details of Southern life. That environment taught him early to notice the small things—how shapes relate, how balance appears in nature, and how patterns often sit just beneath the surface of everyday experience. He later studied Art Design at North Carolina A&T State University, earning his BA, and continued his sculptural studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His training laid the groundwork, but curiosity is what carried him forward. Over the years,…