InternationalBiennaleArtists Exhibit

LuminArté Gallery | Dallas, Texas

This collection of artworks displays a varied understanding

of technique, media, and subject matter, while typifying

contemporary trends in the international art world. Many of

the artists featured have been recognized through various

awards and distinctions; each artist has endeavored to

communicate to a broader audience, creating artworks

that have been exhibited and collected worldwide.

LuminArté Gallery is proud to celebrate the achievements

of 42 contemporary artists representing 17 countries,

including Austria, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland,

India, Iran, Israel, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Peru,

Romania, Sweden, Turkey, the U.S.A, and Venezuela.

We are delighted to introduce this creative community to

the flourishing Dallas cultural scene.

The International Biennale Artists Exhibition showcases a community of well-established artists, whose artwork serves to express cultural diversity, while creating a universal dialogue of creative expression.

InternationalBiennaleArtists Exhibit

LuminArté Gallery | Dallas, Texas

Alicia H. Torres

Anica Shpilberg

Anneli Di'Francis

Araceli Salcedo

Ashok Kumar

Aydin Arkun

Bronwyn Towle

Çagatay Karahan

Charlotte Martin

Dalia Blauensteiner

Edmund Ian Grant

Elisha Ben-Yitzhak

Elmadani Belmadani

Emilia Garcia

Esther Wertheimer

Flavia D’Ascoli

Francisco Ceron

Heinz Körner

He Si’en

He Zhang

Irene Neal

Jamie Gagan

Jane Ellen Murray

JoAnn Cox

Kicki Granholm

Kimberly Berg

Lee Ables

Li Haibing

Magi Calhoun

Malena Peon

Matti Sirvio

Michelle Muhlbaum

Perihan Sadikoglu

Puneeta Mittal

Richard Bailey

Robin Antar

Ron Burkhardt

Shawn Man Roland

Sina Khosravi

Ted Barr

Teri Starkweather

Wewer Keohane

Colombia, USA

Peru, USA

Finland

Mexico

India

Turkey

USA

Turkey

USA

Lithuania, Austria

USA

Isreal, USA

Morocco

USA

Canada, USA

Venezuela, USA

Columbia, USA

Austria

China

China, Canada

USA

USA

USA

USA

Sweden

USA

USA

China

Romania, USA

Mexico

Finland, Turkey

USA

Turkey

India, USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

Iran, Canada

Israel

USA

USA

In my paintings, I manipulate my creative expression using the order and apparent chaos of the stain, experimenting, researching and learning something

new every day through a process of trial and error. With a minimum of line contours, I pour light and heavy layers of color, while using vibrant acrylic paints

and mixed media. I contrast a radiant palette of reds, oranges, and blues with opaque grays, blacks, and whites, and create a hybrid art form in each

composition. In the interpretation of figures, nature, and objects, I seek to discover traits that are relevant to my own reality. The images are ambiguous,

sometimes distorted to create abstraction, and the canvas is splattered in a dynamic gesture. With heavy brushstrokes and energetic movements, I leave

my desires, fears, hopes, dreams and idiosyncrasies, and I capture my freedom to continue working.

My goal and desire is to release my emotions and to communicate them to the spectator in the same way that I feel them, with the same curiosity of

reason, while decoding and evaluating them to make a statement. In this way, my paintings speak for themselves without the need for words. I paint what I

am, and if there is something magical or secret, that is it. I look at the small details in the symbolic abstraction of the universe, to make the work a gigantic

piece of art, full of forms, tactile qualities, colors and movements. Through use of color, texture and organic shapes, my work can affect a conscious and

positive change in an individual, while conveying a message.

aliciahtorres.co

The Door to Remembrance

30” X 40”

Acrylic on canvas

AliciaH.Torres

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Spiral of LIfe. Drenched in color, inspired by experience, shaped by emotion, my art has always been the language of my

thoughts. They say more about how I feel, about who I am, than words ever could. I am drawn to express myself through

many materials that give strength to my emotions of love, anger and frustration, which allow me to express my heritage.

Through my work I seek to bring awareness of the social and cultural clashes that are apparent in our world today;

the Spiral of Life in which we find our selves many times. Beneath my work is the unexpected joy that arises from

transformation: extracting and magnifying uniqueness while creating something altogether new. These things represent

states in my search for the finished work.

anicaonline.com

Memories of Rioja

30” x 24”

Mixed media

AnicaShpilberg

In her paintings and ceramic sculptures, Anneli Di’Francis wishes to open a

door beyond every day imagination where human stories and feelings give

a new perspective to see the world. Anneli Di’Francis is an art instructor

in Finland, where she exhibits regularly. She has also participated in

exhibitions throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, and in Mexico.

sites.google.com/site/annelidifrancis

Longing

24" x 20"

Oil on linen

AnneliDi'Francis

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Araceli Salcedo was born in Mexico City, where she had her first approach to art while obtaining a degree in Interior

Design. Her interest in painting motivated her to enroll in various art workshops at the Universidad Iberoamericana

and with private teachers. Her journey through painting has led her to experiment with different styles, expanding her

studies in techniques such as nude drawing, oil, acrylic, water media, collage, encaustic and tempera, studying these

with important personalities such as Beatriz Flores, Catherine Scott, Enrique López and Jerónimo Melo in Mexico and

later extending her studies in the United States with teachers such as Carl Dalio, Frank Webb and Katheleen Brenan.

Today, she has positioned herself as a well-known artist with a personal and unmistakable style and hallmark.

aracelisalcedo.com

Harmony

39” x 51” Triptych

Mixed media

AraceliSalcedo

My creations explore human feeling and thought through the imagination of line, form, color and texture, and through the relevant content

of shades and strokes. I depict the semi figurative form of human beings, animals, birds and nature in basic drawings, and I paint abstract

backgrounds, which have their own importance in establishing a relationship with the subject. Colors depict the subject’s inner and outer

thoughts, revealing its essence; the essence of the creation has no boundary or limit, yet has the ability to interpret a cultural scenario.

Ashok Kumar studied art at Patna University and at L’Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, has and exhibited artwork throughout

India and France. Ashok’s work can be viewed at:

onlineashok.com

Depth of Blue

32” x 50”

Oil on canvas

AshokKumar

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When I take up a variety of motives in my works, I can better understand the

subject of the painting itself. Therefore I try to avoid acting in a certain style.

I think that especially in this confused world, where man sacrifices himself to

his self, art must be one of the freest spaces.

aydinarkun.com.tr

True Blue

40” x 20”

Acrylic on canvas

AydinArkun

I am all about the physicality of painting, guided by my imagination and the energy of varied mark-making, bold

gestural lines, and saturated color. At times, my work reflects the rich and diverse cultural background of my

upbringing in Hawaii: ethnic, primitive, and always inspired by the beauty of the human face or form.

bronwyntowle.com

Big Attitude!

36” x 48”

Mixed media

BronwynTowle

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I configure my paintings with ordinary static objects of everyday life and with the relationships among these objects. I think that these ties

have taken the place of human social groups and behaviors. The individual realizes his relationship with the outside world through these

objects. Thanks to these silent witnesses, the individual is strengthened by the confident feelings of belonging, and in a way, he also loses

freedom as long as he is connected to the outside world through these objects. The liberation from this feeling of belonging is nothing

more than the individual becoming aware of his loneliness.

Most of the time, I use photos that I have taken to maintain subjectivity in my paintings. I define the objects as they are, and sometimes

as elements of my own fiction. I try to select these elements contained within a place, which are used in daily life or even become waste,

and these industrial parts usually form the environment in which I live or with which I communicate. I think that in this way, I can reflect the

impression and experience on me, which the objects create.

cagatayinamkarahan.blogspot.com

As human beings we are detached from nature,

so our relationship with nature is not at peace.

As noted by the artist Paul Caranicas:

The Dark Lands

26” x 41”

Acrylic and oil on canvas

ÇagatayKarahan

“We are not living in a beautiful and inspiring

world. Fear and victimization are the realities of the lives

of people.”

Nesting

30” X 22”

Gouache, pastel, graphite

The realization that there is nothing I can paint, draw or create that probably

hasn’t been done before and done better by someone somewhere, gives me

tremendous freedom. I’m free to create in any way without the trappings and

restrictions that come with competition. There is only competition with myself,

always striving for improvement, growth and what is next around the corner for

me on my personal art path.

cmartinsart.com

CharlotteMartin

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Act

39” x 39”

Oil on canvas

Dalia Blauensteiner was born 1962 in Lithuania, and studied art at the National University Art Department. After her studies, she worked

as an artist in the Culture Centrum, where she organized and participated in international youth projects, decorated stage sets for theatre

events, and managed the regional Folk Art Union. Since 2003, Dalia has lived in Krems, Austria, where she has taken part in numerous

creative activities including organizing exhibitions and installations, and designing publications and catalogues.

Dalia has exhibited her paintings in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Dalia typically paints with oil on canvas, creating abstract

compositions, still life and landscapes; her paintings are in private collections and official institutions in Lithuania, Poland, Czech, Denmark,

Germany, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and the USA.

dalia-galerie.at

DaliaBlauensteiner

Grant started his award winning art career at an early age.

Playing the saxophone by age seven, he continued through

his collegiate years with his own jazz band. After a long hiatus

from a professional career, he taught himself to paint in the

mid 1980s. Today, his work is collected throughout the United

States and abroad. Not only has his artwork been shown

in galleries from New Orleans to some of the top galleries

of California, but he has been exhibited in Florence, Milan,

London, Chianciano Terme, and Tel Aviv.

Edmund’s paintings can be viewed in the 2009, 2010,

and 2011 editions of the national juried book American Art

Collector. Imagination, experimentation with new media, color,

line and sensuality characterize his art, as his improvisational

skills are translated into the visual aesthetic.

edmundiangrant.com

BeBop

25” x 48”

Acrylic, mixed media on board

“Art is remedy, poking and prodding the narcissism of censorship and the status quo of accepted thought.”

Edmund IanGrant

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Since a young age, painting and sculpture have always been a major part of my whole being. My paintings

are about the essence and rhythm of life; all depicting symbols of life the way I see it. I have always strived

to reach the ultimate balance in composition and colors. The struggle of making a society more receptive

of art has followed me throughout my life. I strongly believe that art plays an important role in every society

by transforming thinking and understanding of the immediate surroundings. Later in life I started composing

songs and poems. Private individuals, art collectors, galleries and museums around the world have acquired

many of my paintings, books and CD’s.

elishasart.com

Jerusalem in God’s Hands

36” X 24.5”

Acrylic on canvas

ElishaBenYitzhak

Elmadani Belmadani is a Moroccan impressionist painter, born in Taza in 1955, who has experienced painting since

childhood. Elmadani continued his art studies at the former Italian school in Tangier, and has participated in group

and solo exhibitions in Morocco and in other international venues. His paintings are in private collections in several

countries and he is the Chairman of the Regional Association “Golden Triangle” of Arts in Taza, Morocco.

elmadani.sup.fr

Flowers of Happiness

28” x 20”

Oil on canvas

ElmadaniBelmadani

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My work is centered on the beauty of our culture, who we are and from where we come. I try

to convey images that speak of strength and love through family and celebration, all the while

focusing on the spirit of women. Although my influence has been from the great Mexican masters,

my inspiration comes from my grandmother’s love and her presence within me. It is through the

closing of her eyes that she has opened my eyes to the reality of what I have become.

burnttortilla.com

Valentina

24” x 36”

Acrylic on canvas

EmiliaGarcia

Addosso

13” x 10” x 7”

Lost wax bronze

Esther Wertheimer’s work has been exhibited and commissioned internationally for over 50 years. She has been

particularly recognized throughout Japan, Canada and the United States where her 35 public commissions adorn

cityscapes, providing beauty and inspiration. During her career, Esther has received numerous honors, awards and

prizes for her outstanding work, including the Gold Medal of Lorenzodi Magnifico at the 2009 Florence Biennale.

“Sculpture, perhaps the most homocentric of the arts, conveys rhythms and the pulse of life, and invites the personal

response of the users of public places. Buildings and terraces, gardens and marks, after all, are for the people.”

“Pablo and Francesca”, dedicated to the Dallas Ballet Company, is located in Dallas, Texas.

ewertheimer.com

EstherWertheimer

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Flavia D’Ascoli was born in Venezuela; her early encounters with the ocean, the white sands and the multi-colored sunsets awakened her

senses to nature, color and art. In her late twenties, she began her studies and the quest for her inner artist.

In the 1990’s, Flavia resumed this quest by taking photography at the Newman Institute, and by studying printmaking and etching at Taller

Artes Graficas Huella in Caracas, Venezuela. Flavia began by producing dry point and etching, and then enrolled in Introduction to Modern Art

at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas. In 2000, she went to Italy to study etching at the Institut D’Art Lorenzo de Medici in Florence;

after taking several courses in etching and painting/collage at the Art Institute “El Thaller” in Caracas, Flavia started working with collage at the

Museum of Art in Corel Springs, Florida. Flavia still continues to pursue her passion for and knowledge of art.

flaviadascoli.com

Simbolos

25” x 25”

Acrylic, collage, aerigraphic

FlaviaD’Ascoli

FranciscoCeron

I think my art is like a window to show the good side of the

world, a vehicle for carrying messages of joy and a celebration

of life. I use strong and vibrant colors to wake up the child that

lives in every spectator.

As an artist and a person, acting with senses and feelings,

I would say that art works speak more than words. I let my

creations talk about themselves. The roots of my inspiration

can be found in the colors of my native country Colombia and

ancient cultures of America with their graphics and symbols.

Other great artists have influenced my artwork as well, with

cultural movements like pop art, cubism, urban art, and comics.

I try to unite all this multicultural and ethnical diversity in

my works using traditional painting techniques and digital

technology, reconstituting them through my vision and mixing

with my memories, my imagination and my sources of inspiration

like love, music, nature, the woman, the earth and dreams.

ceronart.com

A Woman’s Heart

24” x 25”

Digital art over PVC

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He Si’en’s graphic artwork draws inspiration from Chinese culture and representative symbology. The animals depict fate and man with his

passions. He Si’en portrays these in a personal light with subtle hints of alphabetical characters. With the colors he uses, he creates atmospheres

that make one think of the unavoidability of simply ‘being’ and the spiritual justification for life. One can recognize a recreational aspect with little

butterflies, fish and colored characters. The color is applied to the medium using a range of different techniques. The animals, which hold the only

real connection with reality, come out through a reflective cloud, but in a precise and uniform way, whilst well founded light and instinctive brush

strokes define contrast. In his works there is a love for his heritage and roots, retold through symbols recognized by all.

saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/53886

Our BABY

24” x 16”

Photography, rice paper

HeSi’en

Heinz was born in Krems, Austria in 1963, and began a career

restoring artworks in 1994. In 1997, he began to take part in painting

exhibitions and sculpture symposiums, working with wood and stone.

From 1997 through 2007, Heinz attended woodcarver symposiums

and exhibitions throughout Austria; in 2007, he participated in the 4th

International wood-carver symposium in Inami, Japan.

From 2009 to 2011, Heinz exhibited in numerous venues in Vienna

including the Palais Palffy, the Villa Wertheimstein, the Rathaus Vienna,

and in the Waldmüller Centrum Vienna, working in collaboration with

the Community of Performing Artists. Heinz participated in the 2011

International Biennale Artists Exhibition at Gallery Gora in Montreal,

Canada, and continues to work as an artistic adviser for international

wood-carver symposiums.

Heinz assisted in diverse restoration projects in several Southern

Austrian churches including the Grafenwörth, the Greinbrunn, the

Friedersbach, and the Monastery Göttweig, where he worked on the

high altar, choir stalls, summer sacristy, organ and shrine. He assisted

on the restoration of the sacral interior of the Krems Church and the

Baumgartner Höhe Crucifix of Kolo Moser-Otto Wagner in Vienna. In

addition to restoring the complete interior of the Wulkerprodersdorf,

Heinz worked in the Technical Museum, the Burgenland, and the

Mühlendorf. His international restoration projects include work in Mills,

Ohio, and in the Dom von Treviso in Italy.

artcorner.co.at

Golden Stockings

Height 27"

Wood, art model material, 23 karat gold

HeinzKörner

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Zhang He, born in China in 1963, is a Chinese-Canadian artist based in Montreal. His vigorous

abstractions range from austere studies in movement and energy to exuberant explosions of color

that express the ever-changing landscape of his emotions. Gestural power and luminous hues

reflect the verve and freedom of Chinese calligraphy, while each painting is a journey of self-

discovery, continual exploration and personal transformation. In his refusal to settle on easy formulae,

the artist has induced a process of constant reinvention that has given his art extraordinary power

and momentum over the past decade. Recent exhibitions have successfully shown in Canada, the

United States, China, Thailand and Italy.

artistzhanghe.com

Red Club

48” x 60”

Oil on canvas

HeZhang

After graduating from Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1958 she married Paul Neal and for the next 16 years lived, worked and

studied in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Portugal and Argentina. Currently Irene and her husband enjoy living in the waterfront community of Merrit Island, Florida

where her studio is located. Irene has exhibited her works on an international level at numerous museums and galleries. Some locations include: New

York City, Paris, Canada, Brazil, and at the Czech National Gallery in Prague, as well as more recently in China and Italy.

“She works in a tradition of large size free-form abstraction, originating with Jackson Pollock, the Abstract Expressionists, and the Color Field Painters.

She reinterprets this tradition by means of new, state-of the-art acrylic paints and gels, which have undergone an extraordinary development in recent

years. In these free-form abstract paintings, Irene Neal aspires to the brilliant accident, the miraculous frozen moment in the flow of paint. Working

experimentally with new materials, she has had to improvise her own unique “craft:” ways of organizing herself to paint; mixing and applying colors to

keep them clear and vibrant...whether on canvas, wood, plastic or paper, Neal shows herself to be a master painter.”

ireneneal.com

Motherhood

28” x 22”

Mixed media on paper

IreneNeal

"I paint with all that I am, that somehow the best of my strengths will become visible to those who stand in front of my art so they too, can feel in their soul the beauty and greatness of this life.”

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I am a printmaker and mixed media artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico for over 20 years. I use photographs, monotypes,

solar plate etchings, drawing and found objects as elements in my mixed media pieces. I place equal emphasis on process and

content in my creative pursuits. I particularly enjoy developing a sculptural texture on a traditionally two-dimensional surface.

In the last few years I have incorporated political and human rights themes into much of my work, weaving news clippings of

international issues and events through the compositions. Social commentary is layered with bold color and textural variety at the

intersection of art and social responsibility.

collectorsguide.com/jgagan

Border Guardian Collage

17.5” x 27”

Gold leaf and solar intaglio on masonite

JamieGagan

Putting New Life in Still Life! According to Webster, Still Life is “a picture consisting of inanimate objects” (YAWN). Isn’t it time we put some life

in Still Life? Come in close. See the beauty of what nature has created. Drink in that luscious juice running down a slice of orange. Admire the

brilliant colors on an apple that entice you to eat it. Discover the intricate patterns in slices of Kiwi. That’s my new look in Still Life! WOW!

janeellenmurray.com

JaneEllenMurray

Kiwi

18" x 24"

Oil

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As an artist, I am challenged to create a subject that is not based on the world around us, but one that exists only

on the canvas. My paintings are not “of anything” or symbolic of anything, at least not to me consciously. They

are simply my paintings. Sometimes people say they see a subject or feel symbolism in a work and that’s okay. I

believe viewers should feel comfortable experiencing a work of art from their own personal point of view.

joanncox.com

Symphony

44" x 58"

Acrylic, foam sheets, gold leaf

JoAnnCox

I was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, where I also began my artistic career. The big city

stress and noise led me and my family to move to a minor village, and now I live in Nossebro. I

express myself in painting, mostly in oil and sculpture, ceramics being my favorite material. My

ultimate dimension is when I proceed into an infinite, borderless and speechless world. Happiness is

being fullfilled by colour, light and form; to be encircled by my piece of art. People, animals and nature

inspire me the most, though anything can ignite the process of creation within me.

kickiart.se

Close But Far Away

191/2" x 191/2"

Oil

KickiGranholm

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Blue Lumina VI

26” x 19”

Pastel

I believe that artists have an important role to play in changing the patriarchal world in which we live. It is becoming increasingly clear that the

present patriarchal military, social, political, religious and economic institutions we live under are no longer workable or sustainable. This is

especially true for women who have lived under a patriarchal system, created and governed by men for the last 5000 years.

As a male feminist artist, I believe we are living at a significant turning point in human history. A monumental change is happening in regard

to the status of women in Western culture and other societies worldwide. After millenniums of nearly universal patriarchal subjugation, many

women now have the chance to visualize themselves in totally new ways and reclaim their inherent birthright. I believe the artist can play an

important role in furthering this historical transformation. This is because the artist has the unique ability to create a visual image that can inspire

viewers to reinvent themselves.

As an artist I wish to create a visual experience that lays the groundwork for a change in attitude: one that will allow women to feel confident that

they have the ability, strength and resources to take control of their life. Ultimately, this can help us all become more whole and more human.

isisrising.net

KimberlyBerg

Lee Ables was born and raised in Southern California. His educational background includes Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles.

State College (B.A. in Art - 1956,) the University of Hawaii (M.F.A. - Painting - 1963,) and the Ohio State University. He is an actively producing

professional artist as well as having been an art teacher at the Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu for 25 years, retiring in 1989. He has held

membership in several professional organizations and is currently a juried member of the Arizona Artists Guild.

He has participated in all of the major competitive shows in Hawaii at one time or another. His work has been in juried group shows in Hawaii,

and Arizona since moving there in 1993. Among his solo exhibitions have been the University of Hawaii, Koko Head Gallery, Gallery Nine, Arts of

Paradise Gallery in Honolulu, the Village Gallery in Hilo, the Lynn Kottler Gallery in New York, Gallery Three in Phoenix, and Galerie Gora in Montreal,

Canada.

His work is found in many private collections in Hawaii as well as on the mainland United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. He is also

represented in the collections of the University of Hawaii, the Hawaii State foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the City and County of Honolulu.

leeables.com

LeeAbles

Undersea Eruption

48” x 36”

Acrylic on canvas

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LiHaibing

Artists are always the sharpest observers and critics, regardless of what kind of society

in which they live. The infinite exploration of new lands for their creations should be the

ultimate mission of all artists for the purpose of discovering the secrets of humanity in

such a diversified society, in order to arouse and enlighten all human beings.

lihaibing.com

Left Light

48 x 48 cm

Photography

My work deals with the inner world of emotions and dreams. I like to tell stories with clay--stories with universal symbols that elicit different

responses in different viewers, depending on their own sensibilities, emotions and past experiences. The virtually edgeless quality of clay

forms, unconstrained by preexisting boundaries, fascinates me. It allows me to create my clay narratives free-form. With clay, an edge is

not automatically predefined as with a canvas, which has inherent limitations of conventional preexisting shapes. Clay allows me to play

with the tension between two-dimensional and three-dimensional boundaries of both mediums, blur the interfaces, and create narratives

that flow from one to the other. In this way, I can push the limits of what I do with the clay. Recently, I have added a few other elements

like cast metal, wax and wood, or found objects to keep the creative process fresh and exciting and to constantly challenge myself in the

studio. There is never a dull moment.

saatchionline.com/profiles/portfolio/id/300917

Journey

17“ x 10” x 11”

Ceramic and metal

MagiCalhoun

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Having painted for many years, Mexican artist Malena Peon transforms natural landscape into jubilant shades and tones that

merge effortlessly on canvas. Refreshing and liberating, this contemporary artist’s work transports viewers from the white cube

cold of the gallery to a fantasyland where nature’s beauty is in its pristine condition. A dexterous painter, Peon takes inspiration

from her surroundings, her culture and the modern world. Her work celebrates the birth of every living thing; her media varies

from oil, to acrylics, to Chinese inks. Whatever the material, Peon always manages to convey her individual moods and her

emotions through multi-colored imagery. Her latest work pays a tribute to her land; where warmth, passion, and life thrive

through the romantic touch of her brush. With her expressionistic brush strokes, Peon constructs a euphoric atmosphere that

envelopes viewers and elevates them to a state of serenity and joy.

malenapeon.com

The Pitaya Tree

39” x 39”

Oil on canvas

MalenaPeon

Matt Anzak, curator of the International Biennale Artists Exhibition in Dallas, has been traveling regularly since 1998, either creating or exhibiting his

artwork internationally. Matt has shown his art throughout the Dallas - Fort Worth area, as well as in Santa Fe, San Diego, San Francisco, New York,

Miami, London, Paris, Florence and Sydney. Matt has worked with cultural organizations such as ProArt and Contraria Arte in Ferrara, Italy, and

Bhavan Australia in Sydney, and is a founding member of the artist group Ivy Paris in Paris, France. His artwork ranges from figure and landscape

to nonobjective abstraction and explores a variety of media, technique and subject matter. Matt currently lives and works in Denton, Texas, and

coordinates international art events with LuminArté Gallery in Dallas.

mattanzak.com

MattAnzak

Metropolitan

48” x 24”

Oil and resin on canvas

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Matti Sirvio was born in Sotkamo, Finland. Since 2006, he has worked in Istanbul, Turkey. Encouraged by his time in Savonlinnan Taidelukio,

which at that time was the only high school specialized in Fine Arts in Finland, he made preparations to study art therapy in England. A call to

church work redirected his way eastward. For the following 25 years, Sirvio worked as a pastor in Sweden, Hungary and among the Turkic

nations in the former Soviet Union. He lived in Sweden, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and in Kazakstan. He travelled extensively in

Central Asia from Turkey to China. After moving to Istanbul, he picked up his passion for painting again. The bright and strong colors of

Central Asia and the Caucasus captivated his soul. Sirvio’s style is Semi-abstract Expressionism. His works reflect impressions from the

Orient and the North. He is a colorist. Bold combinations of cold and warm colors communicate interesting messages that lead the spectator

to consider the fundamental questions of our very existence. The works speak of eternity and invite us with optimism of light to observe and

to believe. The tapestry of the cultures and religions of the Middle-East touch the current issues with symbols and joyful details. During the

past year Sirvio has exhibited in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, England and Finland. In the near future his work will be presented in

Istanbul, New York and Zurich. He is working as a full-time pastor of the Greater Grace Church in Istanbul, and as the director of the Greater

Grace World Outreach in Eurasia and the Middle-East.

armoa.blogspot.com

Going Up Beyond There

24” x 32”

Oil on canvas

MattiSirvio

Michelle Muhlbaum was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and grew up in New York. She studied in Philadelphia under the late Romas Viesulus, master

printmaker. When working on her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she let go of the pulling of the print and became

absorbed in the sculptural qualities of the metal printing plate. This process led to the assemblages she still creates today. The medium she

chooses often depends on the content of the work.

In addition to the Biennale in Firenze, Michelle has shown her work abroad with B.B International in Zurich and Berlin. Her work has been

collected by the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City where she had a one-woman show. She also has work in the collection of the

Contessa Caproni's family Museum in Rome, Italy. Her work has been in juried group shows curated by Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator of the

ICA Museum in Boston. She also received an award from artist Bettye Saar.

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Portrait of a Heart

16” x 18”

Mixed media

MichelleMuhlbaum

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Girl Mythic Tower in Istanbul

26” x 39”

Mixed media

Born in Trabzon in 1972, Perihan Sadikoglu began her education in Istanbul, continued her studies at the Painting Department of Graphic Main

Art Branch of Ataturk Faculty of Education at Marmara University, and completed her masters education at the English Business Administration

Department Foundation of Contemporary Sciences at Marmara University in 1995. She founded her own graphic design agency in 1996, and

worked in the field for 6 years. Since 1999, she has concentrated on her paintings and has participated in 11 personal art exhibitions as well

as 65 integrated exhibitions. She founded an artistic design workshop in 2002, where she organized studies until 2005. in 2003, she traveled

to Egypt taking photographs and videos, examining the civilization for her 2006 thesis “The Impacts of Antique Egypt on Modern Art and A

Re-Interpretation.” She worked under the instruction of Prof. Ozdemir Altan at Yeditepe University in 2004, creating paintings with the subject

of Antique Egypt that were later exhibited in the Ankara Art Fair in 2005. She also gave speeches with art critic Ümit Gezgin, and sociologist

Ayhan Kalaycı on “The Mystery of Antique Egypt.” On March 29, 2007, her thesis titled “The Impacts of Antique Egypt on Modern Art and A

Re-Interpretation” was published in English and Turkish under the name of “Antique Egyptian Art and Impacts from Historical Flow to Today."

She exhibited her artwork in 2007 at the Alexandria Biennale and in 2011 at the Izmir Biennale.

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ParihanSadikoglu

With a strong belief that everything that is born, grows and withers away to be yet born again – incessant change from one to another proceeds

in an evolutionary cycle – I choose not to be limited to a small corner space that defines who I am and what I must make. To quote Dalai Lama:

"Within the seed of the cause of events is the seed for their cessation and disintegration.”

The ceramic sculptures I make are simplified in form and use the layering of glazes to create a surface that is an imagined space; through the

layers I build landscape and terrain. I find my inspiration from the world, viewed singularly through the lens of an inverted fluorescent microscope.

Not far removed from my ceramic process of glazing with minerals and oxides layered on the clay body, my oil paintings have the interplay of

colors and the quality of depth that create an inner landscape without compromising the content. I continue to work with ceramic forms that reflect

my own sensitivity and awareness of the material itself and its traditions. The pieces that best integrate the form and surface, the spontaneity and

fluidity of the clay along with the object’s use, are my personal triumphs. I am excited each time I find a new direction to experiment. As the work

progresses, I tend to become more concerned with the overall perspective, and my own personal challenge in trying to know who I am in the

context of the world I create and of the one in which I live. Consequently, I pause to look at my own work more critically and objectively.

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Dendrites

Clay and horse hair

Wall installation

PuneetaMittal

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Rocks in Motion

36” x 48”

Oil

Depicting imaginary landscapes with colors, texture and movement makes me pause to reflect on youthful exploring:

treading on cross-bedded sandstone formed from ancient dunes that were uplifted in tumultuous action, eroded and

exposed, reflecting the geological formations often studied from altitude while on autopilot.

I apply paint in horizontal patterns, reflecting the formation of sedimentary rock; then cause the vertical lifting ‘defying

gravity’. The violent formation of the landscape exposes minerals, gems and fossils, yet hosts the growth of foliage.

While painting, I recall exploring the rugged western environment, hours of studying geological formations from the

cockpit, imagining the forces required to expose my hiking trails.

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RichardBailey

My abstract work is a reflection of my experiences combined with emotion. Each abstract creation is one of a kind, and

has a unique significance, which emanates an essence and an aura of its own. The life-like creations from stone, chiseled

meticulously to perfection, form a visual extravaganza as well as an intellectual playground of wonderment. Each time you

look at apiece, you see something different, allowing you to draw in its beauty through your individual perspective. The

true beauty of abstract art is not just what appears to the naked eye, but what lies beneath the surface.

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Birth

11”w x 15”h x 8”d

Blue onyx, granite base

RobinAntar

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Terra Orba

38” x 52”

Acrylic, enamel, soil on canvas

Ron Burkhardt, founder of Notism and originator of Earth Art, chronicles a society whose multi-tasking demands intrude on every facet of life. His raw, anti-tech

work preserves the primal spirituality of our shared histories. Born in Jackson, Michigan and bred in the urban cauldron of New York City, this artistic pioneer

merges frenetic scrawls with organic gesture; a free-spirited conglomeration of design and obsessive colors moving with linear rhythms in all directions.

The bi-coastal Burkhardt has had 50 shows in the past decade and exhibited in dozens of renowned galleries--Philips de Pury, Sothebys and Forbes

galleries in Manhattan, Peter Marcelle Contemporary, Southampton, Guild Hall, East Hampton, Paul Fisher Gallery, Palm Beach, Marion Meyer

Contemporary, Laguna Beach, One Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, LuminArté Gallery, Dallas, Forster Gallery and Art Basel, Miami. He has been honored at

International Biennales in Austria and Florence, Italy, where he won a Medici medal in 2005, and at the American Art Awards in 2010.

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RonBurkhardt

I come from a childhood full of encouragement of creativity and achievement, but one also of discord. From my earliest days, I could more easily

convey true and honest feelings, thoughts, opinions and reflections of my life and the world, through images than through words. Images leave

much open to interpretation, but also reach for a fundamental connection and profound meaning. When a piece of art is complete, it stands on its

own and has its own life. I really strive to create things of beauty that mean something to others, as well as to myself, even if that meaning is different

for each person who shares them. I see my artwork as addressing issues of isolation, transcendence and the emotional importance of color.

I like to incorporate whatever materials I discover that interest me and will get me closer to my vision of that piece, and have learned to use many

mediums and tools, freeing me to follow my ideas. Predominately, I use acrylic and oil paints, plaster, wood, metal, resin and any thing else that

will work. My art reflects my fascination with color, texture, organic shapes and lines, as well as a desire to illustrate emotions and stories through

figurative elements. There is tension in my work between the materials, the textures, shapes and colors and what comes out of it, or images and

more illustrative concerns. My most current work has become a melding of sculpture and painting, and is often very organic in form. It can be

completely abstract, or figures may emerge out of a fog of color, line and texture.

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Shhh

351/2” x 36”

Latex and oils on canvas

ShawnManRoland

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My style of painting is premised on the exfiltration of paint through the weave of the canvas. Just as paint lengthens when squeezed out of a

tube, my canvases extrude paint-lines. This allows me to explore the sculptural aspects of paint. My approach creates a medium, which is

the synthesis of both painting and sculpture. My intention is to work through a problem within the two magisterial media of visual art: painting

and sculpture. The problem is this: how far apart are the two mediums? I try to collapse some of the conceptual distance that divides them.

This ‘collapse’ happens to favor painting. The canvas has always been the literal base for painting, but how often has paint itself played a

sculptural role? By turning the familiar (flat paint) into the unfamiliar (moving paint strings), I am not only paying homage to Russian formalist

critics and their concept of “ostranenie,” but I’m also experimenting with a Bachelardian poetics of the granular. My work tends to be small-

scaled. The paintings display paint strings that can actually move. Lighting and air flow activate the paintings into something subtly auto-

performative. All the paint used in the paintings is pure acrylic, and no other material has been added to the paint. The points of departure

for my work have been Jackson Pollock, Lucio Fontana, Mark Rothko, and Eva Hesse. These are now monumental names, but their

innovations still reverberate if we value the philosophical conundrum of trying to keep on ‘painting’ in an age of ‘posts’ and digital virtualities.

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#2

3” x 5”

White, orange, blue, and red acrylic strings out of canvas

SinaKhosravi

TedBarr

Life and every existing element has a beginning and has an end. I believe that human life, as star lives, moves in cycles. My main

interest in my art is cycles; I see it in the movement of stars, galaxies and clusters. I view life in the embryonic stages of pregnancy

and in symbols that define religions.

While studying the celestial patterns, I wrote 4 basic rules that are applicable to any object in space: movement, gathering, cycles

and evolution. These 4 elements are the key bricks in my artwork. In order to depict these elements, I developed the multi-layered

tar technique that consists of multi-level layers of cold tar, oil colors, acrylic and lacquer. All these elements are moved on the

canvas, gathered by sushi sticks, then multiplied by 10-20 layer cycles.

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The Hand Formation After 9 Weeks

59" x 59"

Tar, oil colors, acrylic and lacquer

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I have embarked on a new body of work that addresses the thought that Teihard de Chardin

expressed. He said, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Throughout history

artists have depicted angelic beings. My paintings explore the spiritual side of human beings

and our connection to the earth, the universe, and each other.

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Erosion

18” x 24”

Mixed media

TeriStarkweather

Tea Ceremony in Silk

48” x 40”

Mixed media

My work is metaphor. Through the invisible quality of understanding the metaphor, I am intuitively guided to the visual interpretations.

Through a contemplative process using found objects, recycled ephemera, words, color, metals, the metaphor awakens into a story.

When I fully understand the metaphor I move to another, which most often presents itself to me through my dreams or meditations.

This is a slow process as I am rarely ready to “art” the metaphors, dreams, visions without processing their meaning in my life, which

can take days or decades. This process of art making is my individual and indisputable connection to the divine. To the outside world,

the work looks eclectic in nature. To me, it tells the story of my growth and the evolution of my authenticity....my quest to make the

invisible visible. The continuing theme within all this work is balance: balance with self, genders, relationships, life. All the metaphors

seem to be exploring this deep desire to find a world without duplicity.

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WewerKeohane

Elisha Ben Yitzhak was born in Israel in 1943. He studied art at the Bezalel Art Academy

in Jerusalem and at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv under the guidance of master artists.

His paintings are exhibited in museums, galleries, art festivals and private art shows,

and appear in numerous publications and electronic media. Elisha moved to Milwaukee,

Wisconsin USA, in 1985. About Elisha's art, an art critic wrote: “Elisha’s pictures have

a unique and independent style of their own with so much rhythm. Most of his images

combine both figurative and surrealistic elements. The colors in his paintings have an

impact similar to the effect of pastels in the work of great impressionists. Elisha expresses

his feelings, emotions and personal experiences through most astonishing paintings,

which are revered around the world and considered extraordinary”.

Matt Anzak, curator of the International Biennale Artists Exhibition in Dallas, has been

traveling regularly since 1998, either creating or exhibiting his artwork internationally. Matt

has shown his art throughout the Dallas - Fort Worth area, as well as in Santa Fe, San

Diego, San Francisco, New York, Miami, London, Paris, Florence and Sydney. Matt has

worked with cultural organizations such as ProArt and Contraria Arte in Ferrara, Italy and

Bhavan Australia in Sydney, and is a founding member of the artist group Ivy Paris in Paris,

France. His artwork ranges from figure and landscape to nonobjective abstraction and

explores a variety of media, technique and subject matter. Matt currently lives and works in

Denton, Texas, and coordinates international art events with LuminArté Gallery in Dallas.

Jamie Labar, artist and owner of LuminArté Gallery, works tirelessly to help

bring the arts to the Dallas area through her gallery. LuminArté emerges as a

unique, vibrant beacon in the center of the flourishing Dallas Design District and

maintains a strong connection to the international design community, to the

Arts District and to the philanthropic community. LuminArté serves as a venue

not only for established and emerging artists, but also for multimedia events

involving nationally recognized musicians and performers.

A special thanks to all the talented artists involved in this

show as well as to the following

ElishaBenYitzhakModerator

MattAnzakCurator

JamieLabarOwner, LuminArté Gallery

1727 E Levee St | Dallas, TX 75207

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