Minjae Lee, 1989 | Pop Surrealism painter

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean painter and illustrator, whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril.

Christina Nguyen, 1977 | Impressionist Cityscape painter

I wake up, get up and walk through the day trying to keep my eyes open.

Sometimes I get obsessed with places and stories and I fall in love with them as if they had a soul which I think they do.

I like to take my walks in the unknown cities without having a map.

And when the twilight comes, everything feels possible and nothing is quite certain.

Will Cotton, 1965 | Surrealist painter

American painter🎨 William Cotton is an New York based painter, known for his surreal candy landscapes. His primary subjects are candy and women, often in combination. Will Cotton painted landscapes made out of pastries, melting ice cream, candy, and other tantalizing sweets on female models.

He has a professional oven in his studio and makes all of these himself. Then uses them as models for the paintings.

Cotton was born in Melrose, MA, and earned his BFA from the New York Academy of Art. After graduating in the late 1980s, Cotton portrayed pop icons, such as the Nestlé Quick Bunny in his paintings.

Laurie Kaplowitz | Figurative Expressive painter

American painter ▪ Laurie Kaplowitz earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boston University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from American University. She is a Chancellor Professor in Painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Claude Monet | La Gare St Lazare, Parigi 1877

When he painted The Saint-Lazare Station, Monet had just left Argenteuil to settle in Paris. After several years of painting in the countryside, he turned to urban landscapes. At a time when the critics Duranty and Zola exhorted artists to paint their own times, Monet tried to diversify his sources of inspiration and longed to be considered, like Manet, Degas and Caillebotte, a painter of modern life.

Nicholas Burdykin [Николай Бурдыкин] 1960

Russian painter Николай Бурдыкин, well known as a master of lyrical architectural landscape.

However, in his work, took quite a mythological theme, which is reflected in works of this exhibition.

The myth for centuries nourished the work of artists. Each generation of artists gave their interpretation of the myth.

Not forgotten this issue and in our vain time.

Referring to the mythological theme, Nicholas Burdykin not trying to illustrate it, and focuses all attention on the mythological characters.

Christian Schloe | Digital Visionary painter

Austrian Visionary painter Christian Schloe works includes digital art, painting, illustration and photography.

The surreal scenes by Christian Schloe feature bizarre moments that draw viewers out of a concrete reality and into a dreamy, fictional world.

In his work, the digital artist creates expressive visual stories filled with soft color palettes, elegant birds and butterflies, soft flower petals, and otherworldly, majestic landscapes.

The illusion of a scratched canvas and worn, aged edges allude to a different time and place where a howling wolf is half human, half animal; a couple dances among the clouds; and a young girl collects drops of moonlight in a bowl.

Sampo Kaikkonen, 1975 | Figurative painter

Sampo Kaikkonen, a Finnish figurative painter living and working in Oulu, Finland.

His paintings respect the technique and style of the old masters.

The atmosphere in the paintings is timeless. There are no symbols of specific era and the landscape is universal.

Beside the dominant human figures another strong factor in his works is emotion which mediates through his themes, expressions and colors.