Andrés Ramírez

Andrés Ramírez (b. Manizales, Colombia) is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Miami,FL. With nearly 30 years of experience in drawing and painting, he has developed his practice outside of formal artistic education, guided and inspired by the mentorship of his father. Although best known for his monochromatic "Fragmented Realism" works, Ramírez’s artistic journey is diverse and experimental. He also explores color painting, watercolor, collage with magazine cutouts, and small-scale sculpture. His work has been exhibited in New York,including Greenpoint Gallery (Brooklyn, 2018) and Southampton (2016). His paintings are also held in private collections in East Hampton, Southampton, and Miami, strengthening his presence within the contemporary art market. Through his practice, Ramírez dissolves and reconstructs the human figure, suggesting memory, identity, and absence. Each canvas becomes a dialogue between presence and erasure, reality and imagination.

Artist Statement: “My work explores the fragile boundary between what is seen and what is hidden. Through a monochromatic palette and fragmented strokes, I reconstruct and dissolve the human figure, suggesting memory, identity, and the subconscious

RACHEL RUFF

Rachel Ruff has worn many hats, including Emmy award-winning CNN producer, ad-agency executive, White House assistant pastry chef, author, and artist. Though she feels most at home when she's in her favorite element: painting.

At CNN, Ruff produced Emmy award winning medical documentaries and created the first-ever “World Aids Day” documentary. Ruff served as a Vice President for Porter Novelli, a worldwide advertising agency, where she used her journalistic insight and extensive CNN experience to oversee digital media and broadcast projects.

She wrote and self-published “Defriending Facebook,” a memoir on the intense pressures and addictions she fell into with social media. Her narrative details how she came dangerously close to taking her own life and how she healed herself by going offline. Ruff says, "My book was written to share my experiences to help others silently suffering online."

She holds a communications degree with a pre-medical concentration from the University of Florida. She also has a Pastry Arts degree with Honors from L’ Academie De Cuisine. After graduating, she worked for White House chefs Anne Amernick and Frank Ruta.

When Ruff was eight years old, she began studying and practicing oil painting in traditional Renaissance style. In her forties, Ruff's work was rebirthed into acrylic painting in the form of vivid abstracts via synesthesia, using her pastry palette knives, her "dancing" fingers, and drip painting onto an array of canvas mediums including linens, plywood and masonite.

My re-awakening of painting vivid abstracts created through synesthesia, in the form of visualizing colors through the vibrations of music and then painting that which I see. I cannot describe a song in words; in a work of art, I can. I also create pieces by channeling a client's musings or my own emotions and bringing them to life on canvas

William Braemer

William’s artwork is the result of an amazing life experience and a personality that hungers for rich, character-defining adventures. William’s artwork can be defined as abstract expressionism; notably flavored with valiant colors, rich strokes and provocative themes. From the Caribbean flavored abstract paintings to the ornately crafted sculptures, William’s artwork appeals to a wide cross-section of collectors. As a young man, William was educated in New York and upon graduation, apprenticed in Europe during the 1980’s. While living in Florence, Italy, he was inspired by the city’s rich artistic history and its’ deep-rooted culture. It was this moment in time of William’s life which inspired him to pursue his passion for art; thus, beginning a life-long journey steeped in a love for self-expression.

Artist Statement
“My intense passion and extreme love of life is the foundation of my creativity. Elation, contentment and ultimate satisfaction are the feelings I experience when reaching the completion of one of my pieces, thus granting me the drive and ambition to begin creating a new body of work. I like to define my artistic style as abstract in nature coupled with an expressionist quality.
My interpretation of a subject matter is
transformed into rich, vibrant bold colors
– timeless, awakening the soul, uplifting and radiant. My use of color evokes many moods; each piece I create is a moment in my life and therefore reflects that period of time – my art is the reflection of my eyes looking into my soul.”

Axel Lefrancais

In 2012, Axel LEFRANCAIS began his activity as a sculptor. Self-taught and passionate about art since always, he is inspired by what surrounds him: fashion, news, street art, etc...
This versatile artist works with materials such as resin, aluminum and plexiglass.

I am fighting for people to accept the idea that this is an aesthetic, magnificent object, sadly intended for war. My mission is to make grenades unnecessary, turning them into works of art. My biggest model so far is two metres tall, and right now I am working on a 4-metre mold. I also have my real-size “grenadines”, experimenting with a number of different paints and plasters, big and small. Every grenade is unique.

Komarov

My name is Komarov.
I am a native Floridian, born in Hollywood and raised in Chicago.
From a young age, I knew art would play a significant role in my life. Museums and galleries became my playground.
My art curriculum was my favorite part of school.
From the first brush stroke I placed on a canvas, I realized I could express my feelings, thoughts, and points of view without having to communicate my deepest emotions with a single word.
I hope that when you look at my artwork, it evokes deep feelings or thoughts.
As I paint, I express my hopes, dreams, pain, and sacrifices from both the present and the past. I hope you will find in my art the concerns and uncertainties of my future….

Joshua Wingerter

“Let’s just do it man, see what happens.”

This is the philosophy of Josh Wingerter, self-made artist and entrepreneur from Westwego, Louisiana, a small town right outside of New Orleans. Josh’s early roots in his artistic process started while he was working in artist Keith Eccles’s studio, who Josh credits as a huge influence on his artwork. Despite the lack of professional training or schooling in the arts, Josh managed to wow Eccles with his work. A customer stopped by the studio one day and noticed Josh’s work. Eccles introduced them to one another and commented, “If he wasn’t so lazy, he’d be a great artist.” This is when Josh had to ask himself—is that true? Should he be challenging himself more?

This sparked the motivation needed to take Josh’s competitive nature into higher gear. His drive to create both noticeable and significant work took him to the Frenchmen Street Art Market in New Orleans. This is when his artwork started gaining more notice, particularly for the unique mediums utilized. One recognizable feature is the use of newspaper backgrounds. Josh believes we are currently in age of the last generation of the printing press, and to immortalize such a long-cherished means of communication in his work preserves its memory. Much of his work contains colorful images that pay homage to legendary people. He appreciates the New Orleans culture that he was born into. His work does feature some of the local flair, but he rather constantly expose himself to “new information in order to always be inspired.” Josh likes to stay stimulated, garnering inspiration from a variety of sources, from the tellings of philosopher Alan Watts, matters in social activism, to books, movies, and all genres of music. He claims that his art themes come to him in waves, and he lets the art define him and tell him where to go.

Overall, Josh feels extremely fortunate about what his art has done for him in life. He believes he doesn’t have the right to feel upset about anything because he is so lucky to have this “dream job” that allows him to spend time with his son. Just 3 months before his son’s birth, Josh quit his full-time job to pursue a career in artistry. His son and art are his ultimate focal points in life, and he believes he owes it to both his son and career to “go all in.” Josh strives to defy the odds—an artist from a small town who wants to prove that art is “more than a hobby.” It can truly provide career opportunities. “You’re going to get out of it what you put into it.”

“Spaghetti.”

Lenore Robins

The art world can often seem puzzling and intimidating. Lenore Diamond Robins’ art world is often a puzzle, quite literally. Through her art, she attempts to “solve” the puzzle by creating art which is readily accessible to the viewer. Her work has been described as, “Pop Art which really pops!”

Lenore works in six basic design styles: Geometrics, Puzzles, Fish, Flowers, Just Having Fun and Black & White color studies. All of her styles evolved from the use of basic geometric shapes, some of which are placed at varying heights or angles to create dimensionality and a sense of motion. Her art is distinctive and immediately identifiable.

Each of her unique works of art are wood based. The wood is cut and fully sealed. Each piece receives multiple coats of acrylic paints to obtain the depth of color Lenore requires for her bold, three dimensional art. She uses a high gloss resin to final coat most of her artworks. This is a technically challenging, very beautiful, hand-mixed and hand-poured finish which requires years of experience to properly master. Some variation in the final result is natural.

Lenore began creating art for her own home in 1988. Today, in addition to her long term representation at Art Fusion Galleries, she exhibits her art in galleries in Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York City, NY. Her artwork has been purchased by private collectors from across the country and around the world; art which now hangs in private homes of collectors from Austria, England, France, Spain, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, as well as the US and Canada. Her art was shown at an invitation only juried art exhibition in Nashville, TN. Lenore served for three years as President of The Artists’ Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, a very prestigious auxiliary of over 300 artists and art lovers.

Lenore’s art is designed to be hung without additional framing, or if she feels a frame is needed to complete the design, she incorporates the frame as part of the artwork. Her collectors invest in original art, not in commercial framing.

Richard Orlinski

Richard Orlinski has been the best-selling French contemporary artist in the world since 2015. He began his artistic career in 2004, and created his first work, a crocodile in bright red resin, which quickly became an iconic piece of the sculptor’s bestiary.

The artist takes his inspiration from pop-culture, everyday objects and the popular. Richard Orlinski quickly developed new sculptures, often animals, all symbols of freedom, power and passion. The result is a series of powerful works, with pop colors and a faceted style that will travel the world.

Very quickly, exhibiting his often spectacularly large works in unusual and open-air locations became his trademark. Driven by the desire to democratize art and make it accessible to as many people as possible, Richard Orlinski is interested in all means of expression and his art knows no boundaries.

Carlos Navarro

Carlos A. Navarro is a Cuban-American Pop Artist. He began his career as a successful professional but that life was not a fulfilling one for him. Instead, he chose to venture into his life long passion for Pop Art. Since his early childhood he has shown a talent and passion for art, later in life that passion bloomed into the profession he holds today. Carlos has fused his culture and passions into his art to make it his own style.

Gonzalo Borges

He started to draw at a very early age, inspired by his reading of Africa's classically based mythical tales of the Yoruba religion. At age 12, he took his lesson in oil, painting popular and folklore themes from Cuba.

In 1954 he participated in his exhibition at National School of Fine School of Fine Arts de San Alejandro, a tradition for young Cuban painters, becoming first prize award winner.

Borges apprenticed for many years as a ceiling muralist in many of the cathedrals in Cuba, under the watchful tutelage of Vicente Clemade a famous master of Al Fresco paint, enabled him to acquire the talents which he uses today to express his vision.

Drawing upon this experience and other techniques he has developed his own unique style of painting. The paintings he exhibit demonstrate Borges' innovative use of circumference and distortion as well as of line and color, this extremely talented artist's paintings are exceptionally beautiful and through the years they have found their way to various private collections in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Spain, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and the United States.

Roman Galac