Andrew Dykes

Andrew Dykes is an upcoming artist based in New York, finding new grounds in the merging dichotomies of Masculinity V Femininity. He applies a specific layering approach to enhance Hyperrealism with Neo-expressionism, often portraying masculine depictions of a flower. You will not get lost in the loose brushstrokes or the elegant waves behind a petal; instead you will see the painting exactly for what it is. You will see an emboldened cluster, consolidated and contrived.

Dykes starts with a centered format to activates the space and create a deliberate confrontation to the viewer. He assembles a variety of mixed media, often building layer upon layer with silver and ink to bring the paintings to life. Once completed, he flattens the background and allows the subject to shine. Infusing masculinity with femininity, light with dark, and realism with abstract: the media then merge and become equivalent to the picture they create.

“I want the painting to be both visceral and mysterious: where once you begin viewing the painting, the painting soon stares back.”

For more information contact

Naoaki Funayama

I’m from the city that is famous for Mt. Fuji. I really like that mountain, and dinosaurs as well. Both have special meaning: “power”, “greatness” and “specialty.” The work titled “X-don” means “tooth of the unknown.” With paleontological research the whole body of a dinosaur can be restored from just the fossil of one tooth. I have questions about how that works. Human beings can’t know everything. We can only work from one part by imagining a thing’s whole. Today’s images of dinosaurs are one of the possibilities we can consider from a hypothesis. The paleontologist presents just one possibility from the limited viewpoint of a selection of relics of the past. This theory has overturned. “X-don” shows that which is larger than a mountain. I am expressing one of its possibilities.

Alena Zaruba

Alena Zaruba (b. 1962, Irkutsk, Russia) is the daughter of a well-known Russian artist and art teacher. Although Alena never studied art at school, she has been drawing since childhood. At the age of seventeen she became engrossed by a number of subjects that deepened her spirituality. She studied psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, Eastern philosophy, esoteric science, runology, and mysticism. Like her mother, Alena had certain psychic abilities. Following her mother’s passing in 1991, she began painting mystic paintings-talismans. Alena claims that her paintings protect peace and well-being of people who own them. The subjects of paintings come to Alena in her dreams. Even after starting a painting, she often does not know what the end result will look like. All paintings are performed on wood fiber panels using gouache and colored lacquer. They shimmer in the sun light and look different depending on the lighting and different angles.

Alex AG

Alex AG photography is an attempt to define the future of photo art. The current crisis of creative photography is a result of changes in photojournalism and visual arts in general. The need for overly realistic images is significantly diminished and transformed. As a result Alex felt a need to work on reforming the entirety of approach to visual presentation as well as redefining the goals of the genre.

Alex AG works are based on oversized photographic images and heavily edited after the image is taken and combined in one panorama. The worlds in Alex’s works are merely inspired by reality, but in no way aim to accurately depict it. They are closer to idea of the dream about the world and its alternative version.

When creating his images Alex works on the whole complex of the visual signals, ranging from carefully choosing the palette of the piece: sometimes opulently bright and colorful and sometimes nearly monotone, – then proceeding to reworking the composition of the work: in some cases just adding a small innuendo of a fiction to completely realistic scene, and often creating a scene completely impossible equally in real world and in classic photographic image.

Alexander Dudorov

Grigory Gurevich

Grigory Gurevich,, sculptor, painter, graphic artist, printmaker, and inventor has had more than 300 exhibitions in the United States and Europe and conducted hundreds of sculpture workshops in Italy, Denmark, Russia and U.S.

His paintings, drawings and sculptures have won numerous awards and are in public and private collections of famous personalities as Marcel Marceau in France, A. Raikin in Russia as well as in Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Slovakia and The United States, His art was published in leading art magazines and Newspapers in those countries. He received a Masters Degree in Art from Academy of Fine and Industrial Arts in Leningrad (Sankt Petersburg), Russia and was a professor at St. Johns University, N.Y. and faculty member of Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. His bronze tableau of seven life–size figures entitled “The Commuters”, sculpted in 1985, is installed in Newark Penn Station. His book “Reflections” features 17 linocuts, etchings and mixed media prints has been included in the print collection of New York Public Library as well as the Rare Book collection of Newark Public Library, Library of Saint Bonaventure University, Library of Metropolitan Museum of Art on New York and Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Russia. In April 1995 Mr. Gurevich was granted a patent on “Manifolding book”, one of which “Numbers 1-10, 10-1” is in the collection at the Brooklyn Museum and library at Columbia University of Chicago. In March m, 2016 his sculpture “CLOWN” was exhibited in Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia in a group show “CIRCUS”