Monday, December 16th, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Jay Gidwitz works at the frontier of digital and AI art. His work reflects a deep appreciation for Symbolist and Surrealist movements while embracing contemporary digital practices, resulting in compositions that bridge historical with contemporary artistic sensibilities.
Formally trained in classical drawing and painting at Chicago's School of Representational Art, Gidwitz further expanded his artistic vocabulary at Brown University, where he earned his B.A. in Visual Art with a focus on photography and digital media. This dual foundation in traditional and digital techniques allows him to bring a distinctive painterly sophistication to his digital creations.
Beyond his personal artistic practice showcased at jaygidwitz.com, Gidwitz serves as an editor at SurrealismToday.com and creates mesmerizing dreamscapes for his YouTube channel. His work pushes the boundaries between traditional artistic expression and emerging technologies, establishing him as a unique voice in contemporary digital art.
website : surrealismtoday.com and jaygidwitz.com
Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/surrealismtoday
"The New Normal II" 2024, Digital Video, 8K
Elzbieta “Ela” Zdunek is a writer and a collage artist specializing in digital, predominantly grayscale compositions. Both in her written and visual works, she aspires to create a confusing, immersive experience by exploring themes such as alienation, resentment about one’s own identity, and the subjectivity of perspective, shaped by individual histories and biases. The biggest question behind her works is what makes us who we are and how many people - both heroes and villains - we are, depending on the context.
Originally a photographer, Ela’s focus was never the photographed object, but rather its perception. This approach remains at the forefront in her collages too. She portrays the action and inaction, the moment of change, when we don’t know yet if the result is a blessing or a curse, but it’s going to define us in the eyes of others.
Her favorite sources of inspiration are silent films and historical theater, that allow to subject the protagonists of her work to a merciless scrutiny. She has exhibited among others in Omnibus Gallery, Chromart Art Space, and the famous Berlin Kitkat Club. Her artworks have been published in magazines such as The Adroit Journal, The Maintenant Dada, and Door is a Jar.
Website: https://www.surrellart.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrellart/
Cold Case, 2024, 30 x 30 cm, Digital Collage
Kristin Kwan is an artist making illustrative paintings with a bent to the otherworldly. She works primarily in oil on panel, building up her vibrantly colored images in thin layers. She is inspired both by the natural world and by legends and myths, using elements of fantasy and allegory to explore themes of life, death, and rebirth. Kristin is a graduate of Union College in Lincoln, NE, she is the 2022 grand prize winner of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. Kristin has exhibited professionally since 2019. When not in the studio, she can usually be found riding her bike around town, or through the woods, where inspiration is most easy to come by. She currently lives in Lincoln, NE.
Website: www.kristinkwan.com
@kristinkwanart
The Threshold, 2021, 24"x12", oil on panel
Vincent Fink is an award-winning artist/Renaissance Man working out of his studio in the Houston Arts District. In 2010, he began his first series, Atlas Metamorphosis, with vigorously detailed greyscale Sumi ink perspective drawings spawned from a lucid dream. He continues to push the boundaries of this medium along with Iterations, his series of Sacred Geometry surrealistic paintings. Now the two worlds are merging into a unified series of everything.
Website: www.vincentfink.com
Social Media: @vincentfink, @vincentfinkart
‘’2020” 2020-2021, 60”x48”, oil, acrylic on canvas
Jacqueline Sferra. A native New Yorker, who lives and works in NYC. She began formal art studies after high school graduation at The Brooklyn Museum Art School and then received a B.A. in Fine Arts cum laude from Hunter College, NYC. She maintains a studio in Long Island City. She has been selected to participate in Master Painting Program IV at LIU/Southampton campus, A.I.R. program at the Nantucket School of Art &Design, and has been awarded residencies in Ireland (Cil Rialag) and Italy (BAU Institute) several times and Iceland. Also, she is actively involved in the NYC art community as an officer of two historic artist-run organizations as Secretary of Artists Talk On Art and President of The Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors, as well as a member of the National Assoc of Women Artists. She exhibits in the New York metropolitan area and her work is in many private collections.
My work, while grounded in reality, draws on the aesthetic traditions of minimalism, realism, and remembrance art. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to evoke realms of the imagination. I seek to establish a link between reality and imagination based on my interior response to a subject....create a place where fiction and reality balance... well-known metaphors merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. In my exploration of landscape, I strive to amplify the astonishment of the viewer by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil, poetic images which convey traces of recognition and alienation.
Website: https://nyartistscircle.com/artists/jacqueline-sferra-rada
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacqueline_rada/?hl=en