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Art Miami Context
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Mark Posey
Mark Posey (b. 1985) is a painter living and working in downtown Los Angeles. He earned his BA in History from UC Berkeley in 2010, and his MFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco in 2012. He uses thick layers of fluid paint and relies the unpredictable nature of the material to guide his work. Much of his work is a modern take on traditional subjects, and his use of contemporary materials challenges people to re-address their familiarity with classical subject matters.
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Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi (Grama) is a painter of Italian origin, born in 1966 and now living & working in Lugano, Switzerland. Marco creates remarkable portraits thanks to their realism, always accompanied by a special touch and a pinch of surrealism. The artist gives special importance to the thoroughness with which he handles the details of his not-very-traditional subjects.
Since the beginnings of his career, Marco Grassi developed a very personal style which praises the identity of the female subject in the specific moment in which they are painted. With his intense female portraits, Marco searches to captivate the viewer, by creating a silent dialogue between the subject and the audience.
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Loribelle Spirovski
Loribelle Spirovski (b. 1990, Manila, Philippines) is a trained painter and artist living and working in Sydney, Australia. Since graduating from the University of South Wales in 2012, Spirovski has been recognised for her accomplishments in art and portraiture, including being a 2017 finalist for Australia's Archibald prize. She is influenced by the work of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, John Singer Sargent and Diego Vélasquez.
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Mary Ronayne
Irish painter Mary Ronayne elevates comedy, wit, and fun to a level of purpose, paving the way for farcical elements like melting faces and candy pop colours to become celebrations of the fluidity of time, identity, and life. Juxtaposed with scenes drawn from historical narratives and classical literature, it affirms the enduring elements of humanity in the carefree spirit fans have come to love about her work.
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Gao Xintong
Young emerging artist Gao Xintong (b. 1998 in Liaoning, China) graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Italy, and he’s now rapidly gaining international attention due to his bold and innovative compositions. Gao Xintong’s artistic practice focuses on deconstructing and reconstructing visual elements through the use of vivid colours. His work can be perceived as a “Portrait Shan-Shui” where the emphasis is on the subjectivity of the painted object and empty spaces play a significant role in the composition. Like in the ancient Taoist philosophy, emptiness in his work is conceived as a dynamic force, which enables each depicted element to emerge and gain vitality.
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Zhuang Hong Yi
Born in 1962 in Sichuan Province, China, Zhuang Hong Yi lives and works between The Netherlands & Beijing. The flower motif dominates Zhuang Hong Yi's work - a significant image in Chinese culture which carries countless meanings and emotions yet with equally strong associations with the Netherlands, world famous for its flowers - and he works patiently and religiously on this subject year after year, intricately crafting his works with care and forethought. Zhuang's well known and highly collected 'flower bed' works are crafted from delicate pieces of painted rice paper, which he has bent and folded into hundreds of tiny buds.
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Gregory Siff
Gregory Siff was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1977. Gregory lives and works in Los Angeles. His artworks are included in Swizz Beatz’s Dean Collection, Deitch Projects, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Soho House New York and the Google HQ, to name a few. Siff’s exhibitions include "When You Were Little You Used to Color," 287 Gallery (2018), “Happiness Dealer,” Samuel Owen Gallery Nantucket (2017), "Portrait of an American Ice Cream Man," 4AM Gallery (2016), Art Miami: Gallery Valentine (2016), “Walls,” Pacific Design Center (2015), Scope Miami and New York (2018-2019), “Matter of Time,” Gallery Brown (2012), “There & Back,” Siren Studios x The Art Reserve (2012).
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Dylan Gebbia-Richards
Outside the Heavens, 2020Dylan Gebbia-Richards’ striking use of colour, texture and unpredictable surfaces make for a style which is now unique to his practice. Through extensive experimentation, he gains a deep understanding of his chosen materials, building up layers of melted wax and coloured pigment. He exploits these materials in a way that brings out their most unusual and natural qualities. Through these techniques, his works resemble a microcosm of the natural world. Gebbia- Richards encourages the viewer to move around the piece, exploring it from every angle to appreciate its ever-changing and dynamic surface. The precariously placed structures on the surface create a feeling of unease for the viewer. His use of texture and vivid colours inspire awe and his large scale installations play with the immateriality of the space, submerging the viewer into what resembles a natural phenomenon.
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Gianfranco Meggiato
Gianfranco Meggiato was born in Venice in 1963, where he attended the Istituto Statale d'Arte art college for five years, studying stone, bronze, wood and ceramic sculpture. At the invitation of the Municipality of Venice, he exhibited his works at a very young age in two exhibitions, in 1979 and 1984, at the "Galleria Comunale Bevilacqua La Masa" in St Mark's Square, Venice, where he showed sculptures in stone and semi-refractory material. Since 1998 Gianfranco Meggiato has participated without interruption in a long series of exhibitions, shows and fairs in Italy and abroad. In recent years, Gianfranco Meggiato has been invited to take part to the 54th and the 55th Venice Biennale, where he has exhibited among national participations.
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Vladinsky
Vladinsky was born in July, 1988, in the city of Onesti, a city located in the Moldovan area of Romania. From the first years of school he was fascinated by visual arts because of a fine arts teacher. Being the first generation in a country barely escaped from communism, the help received from his parents was modest because the family did not know the true meaning of freedom and it was very difficult to guide him in finding a form of expression.
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Jason Sims
Jason Sims is an Australian artist who works in the realm of perceptual art. Using the properties of light and reflection, he creates simple illusions of space in the form of contemporary sculpture, large-scale installation and public art. Blurring the lines between reality and illusion, Sims' captivating work defies notions of physical possibility.
Sims is most interested in producing work that serves as a vehicle to re-imagine the space encountered - to deconstruct perceived physical limitations - and facilitate a kind of meditative response allowing viewers to interpret the illusion of space created as reality. He particularly enjoys working with illusion for its ability to evoke the sublime and its power to interrogate our understanding of the world around us.
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Emmanuelle Rybojad
French visual artist Emmanuelle Rybojad (1991), takes us on a journey into the world of illusion in her studio, inspired by the symbols of the OpArt movement and pop culture of the 1970s.
For this self-taught artist the path to creation was intuitive. She grew up surrounded by works of art, alongside her father-in-law, an active collector who introduced her to the great movements of art history. Emmanuelle is interested in all forms of art and which she approaches with profound curiosity. She is constantly curious about exploring and developing art that can be displayed anywhere other than the walls, such as a coffee table and other media. Fascinated by space and matter, she constantly seeks to divert objects from their main function. -
Bran Symondson
Bran Symondson is considered to be one of the finest reportage photographers of the 21st Century. He began his career working alongside renowned photographers such as David La Chapelle, Nadav Kander, and Gavin Bond. Bran Symondson ventured into portraitures, having his first success in the 2003 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.
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