Category: ARTISTS

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Seleka Muñoz

Seleka Muñoz (b. 1982, Seville) began his engagement with public space through graffiti at the age of ten. Over time, his practice shifted to a studio-based exploration of abstraction.

Entirely self-taught, Muñoz approaches painting with disciplined focus. His work avoids representation, instead developing a visual language rooted in gesture, surface, and material sensitivity. While in dialogue with modernist abstraction, his paintings reject nostalgia or stylistic imitation.

Through processes of layering and erasure, Muñoz navigates the tension between intuition and control. He sees painting not as illustration, but as inquiry—a space for ongoing experimentation.

Resisting immediacy, his work unfolds slowly, inviting viewers into a space where meaning remains open, layered, and evolving.

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Luo Dan

Since 2006, Luo Dan has been dedicated to picture book and illustration creation, gradually expanding into explorations of single-frame painting. Her works focus on expressing emotional resonance through the expressions and gestures of people and animals. Using mainly pastels combined with acrylics, she employs light, shadow, and gentle color tones to convey the tranquility of life and evoke a sense of inner healing and peace.

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Fanny Brodar

Fanny is a Maine-based artist whose colorful, emotionally charged works blend illustration, abstraction, and playful visual storytelling.

She holds a BFA in Illustration from The Art Institute of Boston. Her influences include the irreverent charm joyful playfulness of Japanese art, the boldness of 1980s pop art, and the high-saturation energy of the digital
age.

Born in 1971 in Oslo, Norway, and raised in New York, Fanny brings a cross-cultural sensibility to her work — one that balances Northern whimsy with urban intensity. She currently lives and works in Maine, where her practice continues to evolve through intuition, humor, and a deep love of expressive form.

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Haguri Takeshi

Haguri Takeshi (born 1957 in Nagoya, Japan) is a contemporary Japanese sculptor who primarily works with wood. He graduated from the Department of Sculpture and the graduate school at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, and has been creating since the 1980s. Camphor wood is his principal material, occasionally combined with metal elements.

His works merge tradition and modernity, imbued with theatrical tension. The figures are exaggerated yet composed, often adorned with masks and full-body tattoos that reference Noh theater, festivals, and ukiyo-e culture. The tattoos are meticulously hand-painted by his collaborator, Miki Nagasaki, adding further depth and dimension to the sculptures.

Over the years, his themes have evolved—from the lighthearted “Musicians” series, to depictions of rebellious youth in “Yankees,” to gangsters and outlaws in “Outlaws,” and more recently the “Matsuri” series, which blends festival imagery, folklore, and characters drawn from ukiyo-e. These works consistently reflect his interest in social outsiders and cultural symbols.

Haguri’s sculptures range from small-scale pieces to monumental works over two meters tall, many of which are installed in public spaces across Japan. He has held solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Nagoya, participated in sculpture exchanges in Japan and Germany, and presented works at international art fairs, securing his distinctive place in contemporary art.

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Reload

Reload (Barcelona, 1972) is a multidisciplinary artist rooted in a family tradition of antique dealers and recognized as a leading figure in contemporary sculpture. Working primarily with marble, he merges classical sculptural language with pop culture, cinema, rock music, and subcultural codes. Defining his approach as “retrofuturist art,” Reload humorously reinterprets Western myths, desacralizing them and placing them within a contemporary cultural flow. His works transcend formalism to create expanded experiences where emotion, reflection, and play converge. By hybridizing the eternal and the ephemeral, the canonical and the countercultural, Reload transforms marble into a vibrant field of dialogue where beauty coexists with provocation and history is rewritten through a critical, contemporary lens.

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Nathan Paddison

Nathan Paddison’s paintings are raw, expressive, and deeply personal, shaped by lived experience and emotional urgency. Working instinctively across multiple canvases, he creates a world where color, gesture, and memory collide. His characters—part family, part self—form a visual language that reflects his identity as an artist, father, son, and friend. For Nathan, painting is not just a process, but a place of escape and belonging. “My art is me, I am my art.”

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Cheng Yi Cheng

Cheng Yi Cheng , born in China in 1985, is a graduate of Anhui Normal University. Influenced by early 2000s comics, Renaissance art, and Tang and Song dynasty paintings, he blends these elements into a surreal, fantasy-inspired style. His subjects range from figures and animals to landscapes, reflecting his vivid childhood and adolescent experiences. Chengyi currently lives in Beijing.

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Chun Wu Liang

Chun Wu Liang’s paintings possess a distinctive style, marked by a refined, luminous quality filled with mystery and depth. His art has received high praise from Camilo José Cela, the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish writer, who described Liang’s work as “feathers soaked in light and shadow.” Cela remarked that his art soars with peaceful lines across the canvas, intricate yet mystical, while allowing viewers to grasp its essence. This delicate balance lies at the core of Liang’s artistic philosophy, where he employs subtle and precise techniques to create tension between reality, abstraction, and the figurative.

Unlike traditional nude portraits, the women in Liang’s paintings are not passive objects of observation or subjects of the gaze; rather, they are active storytellers. Liang does not use professional models, preserving a sense of innocence and natural spirit in his work—an artistic goal he has pursued throughout his life. In his painting, women are not merely images but symbols of emotion and thought, reflecting qualities of purity, nobility, and romance. 

 

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Gerard Mas

Gerard Mas was born in 1976 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona, Spain. He studied sculpture and stone carving at the Llotja Art School in Barcelona from 1998 to 2001. He later completed specialized training in sculpture restoration and conservation at the Escola Superior de Conservació i Restauració de Béns Culturals de Catalunya in Barcelona, graduating in 1998.

Mas’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by his early career as a restorer. His works, characterized by a realistic and figurative language, appear to align with academic traditions but are infused with irony and visual poetry. Depending on the needs of each piece, he employs a wide range of techniques, including stone carving, wood carving, colored resin, ceramics, and bronze. Through these materials, he frequently revisits events and themes from art history, reinterpreting them with a contemporary perspective. In his unique universe, imagined Renaissance noblewomen, fictional classical sculptures, and mythologized depictions of domestic animals coexist harmoniously.