The Purposeful Mayonnaise

2.22.22 - About the Artists

Nazli Abbaspour

Born in 1975, Tehran (IR) and graduated in Photography from Azad Islamic University, Tehran (IR). She is a member of the Iranshahr photo Society, the Institute for Promotion of Visual Arts and the National Iranian Photographer’s Society.

Website: www.nazli-abbaspour.com   

Instagram:@nazli.abbaspour

Diahann Addison

Diahann Addison is a photographer based in upstate New York. Finding commonality in both, her work focuses on the details in nature and architecture. When not out in the field, she creates still life photography and includes themes derived from the human experience in black and white or color.

Website: daddisonart.com         

 Instagram: @daddisonart

Clara Bolle

As a philosopher, I view my writings and art as tools to do research. My main question in relation to thinking and making is:  What does it mean to be your body instead of having a body? My aim is to think of bodies in a non-medical, anti-capitalist way and look for other ways to experience our bodies, for example, a new anatomy of the body, the hand as a self-portrait or the relation between nature and our body.

Website: www.clarabolle.com

Isabela Castelan

I am a Brazilian artist living and working in London. In these works, I explore the idea of multiple spaces on the surface of creating a double vision. I use a drawing tool to make the lines and spray paint. It is a fast process and allows me to dive into the moment. 

Website:  www.isabelacastelan.com 

Instagram: @isabelacastelanstudio

Éadaoin Glynn

Éadaoin Glynn is an Irish, self-taught painter interested in abstraction.  She studied literature instead of art, following a coin toss aged 17 and thinks of her paintings as visual poems.  She is inspired by Irish literature, mythology and the landscape.  

Her paintings are built up with layers of vibrant colours and marks, exploring and abstracting her response to memory and place.  She manipulates paint with DIY tools and gestural movements. 

Recent exhibitions include the London Art Biennale and her paintings are in private collections worldwide. 

She is a member of the Backwater Artists Studio and works from her home studio in Cork, Ireland. 

Instagram: @eadaoinglynn

Harsimran Juneja

Harsimran's practice is concerned with ideas of conflict, contradiction and contrast that we experience living within societies. Through texts, drawings and paintings, his works reflect on his observations about the human condition living in different social, political and cultural landscapes. Born in 1995, Harsimran lives and works in Ahmedabad, India.

Website: www.hcjarts.com

Instagram: @harsimranjuneja

Julia Katolla

From the teachings of motherhood and new feminine perspectives to unprocessed trauma, a little madness and a great affinity for the surreal and the odd, Julia Katolla oscillates between the beautiful and the ugly, the reasonable and the absurd.

In her works, she tends to play with the unpredictable outcomes of less controllable materials while seeking symmetry and balance in the arbitrary.

A large portion of Katolla's works reflects the significant processes motherhood elicits regarding femininity. In her approach towards motherhood she tries to shed a more realistic light on it, to a certain extent counteracting its glorifying depictions throughout history. Even though the issues addressed by her works come from personal experiences, the origins and interconnections of life in its collective sense are explored in a fundamental way.

Bio:

Julia Katolla (raised in Costa Rica/ based inGermany) is a mixed media artist who received artistic training at the University of Bonn, Germany (2015 - 2017) and the arte fact academy(Bonn, 2019 - 2021). Exhibitions include Bonn, Berlin and London. She was recently awarded the International Confederation of Art CriticsAward at the London Art Biennale 2021.

Website: www.juliakatolla.com

Instagram: @juliakatollaart

Anastasiya Krokhmal

Anastasiya Krokhmal (born in 1997) is a contemporary artist living and working in Moscow. The artist's paintings are aimed at studying people and their psycho-emotional state.

Artist Statement

I paint expressive oil paintings on paper and canvas in the figurative genre. The main theme of my paintings is feelings and conditions of people, including conditions related to the spectrum of mental disorders. My artistic practice is based on self-reflection, emotional intelligence and personal life experience with anxiety-depressive disorder. The characteristic features of my paintings are pronounced contrast, drips of paint, raw paper margins or pieces of canvas. With these techniques, I strive to share my energy with the viewer. Art for me is not only the result of my experience and reactions to everything that happens, but also the opportunity to combat the stigmatization of mental deviations.

Website: artkrohapaint.wixsite.com/my-site 

Instagram: @art_kroha

Vladimir Marcu

Vladimir Marcu is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the relationship between the viewer or reader and the creator. His presence is mostly felt offline rather than online, but you can see some of his work here.

Kristine Narvida 

Kristine Narvida is an academic visual artist born in 1977. She graduated in 2006 as a Magister at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga. She lives and works in Germany in Potsdam and Berlin and is mother of four daughters. She is an active member of the Brandenburg Association of Artists. She presents and sells her fine artwork throughout Europe and globally with online galleries. This year she runs a solo of her fine art series "Presence" and "Look how I move" at the "Futur eins - Blitztauf" Gallery Potsdam, online at narvida.com, and also at the Discovery Art Fair Cologne on 28 April and at the Rhy Art Salon Basel, 16-19 June. She prefers working with oil on linen, using models as her subjects.

Artist statement

"The relationship between certain parts of the work and its entireness excites me. I shape my space of solitude and the work that evolves lives its own life, defiantly independent of me. I like to wonder how colors happen and to maintain the dimensions in constant tension. That is instantaneous awareness of fulfilment that can just as instantly disappear. My search involves clear form-expressed messages in which what is present asks for the truth. The gaze is not a simple movement of eyes, it involves knowledge, experience and an explanation. I go through this process, overcome myself and this leads to the choice I have made and gives me joy as a creator." 

Website: www.narvida.com 

Instagram: @narvida_art

Michael Wagner

Born in Heidelberg in 1953. During the course of my social work studies at Mannheim University, I used every free minute for artistic studies so that I could concentrate entirely on the fine arts after completing my degree.  From 1981 I lived in Heidelberg as a freelance painter and graphic artist (self-taught).                                                                                                                                               

Today I work with a variety of visual media and use it to create my extensive artistic universe, favoring color as a wonderful medium, as a sonorous language.

Artist statement:

Works of art reflect the world. My works are also mirror images of today. However, it is not a reflection of the external appearance, not an abstraction of the mimetic world, but a reflection of the inner constitution. My works arise from sensations. They reflect the sense of time, so to speak, and represent ciphers for today. Thinking and feeling, geometry and color - between these poles I explore my artistic possibilities, although with all seriousness playful and poetic components are always involved. In this way I develop a visual world that has its roots in the strictness of the constructive and concrete, but at the same time is also based on individuality and spontaneous intuition. 

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