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

Victoria Kovalenchikova

VK Gallery represents contemporary international artists working in different genres and media, including painting, sculpture, photography and digital art.
Victoria Kovalenchikova believes in supporting different cultures across the globe, and VK Gallery is a part of several humanitarian and charity projects. Victoria hopes that her small contribution will have wider impact.
Victoria's paintings demonstrate a strong knowledge of art history. Her fascination with the cityscape - both its architecture and inhabitants - is evident in most of her works. She frequently attempts to portray the passage of time by recalling seemingly innocuous events, ingrained in our collective memory, unfolding at specific locations.

Recently Victoria started to create new EARTH paintings, which are dedicated to our planet and universe. Most importantly, she views her creative process as a means of representing the kaleidoscope of life by piecing together its infinite fragments.

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.”

Peponne

“I have known Peppone’s works for many years and they have naturally found their place in our galleries. Like many, I was first won over by the first degree of reading his work, which consists of immersing oneself with humor in a bath of childhood. “It’s not an intellectual art, it’s not the goal because it would prevent you from letting go” he told me during our first meeting.

The second degree is more complex, more insidious because by placing the heroes of our childhood in situations with iconic references, Peppone makes us want to remember the strength of certain photos, films, posters or historical events that have draped our own personal construction.

Thus its improbable mixtures penetrates you by the roots of your own culture while preserving the essence of the original subject, which made the great History. We smile as much in front of the tenderness of the Simpsons in Michelangelo’s “creation of Adam” as in front of his so light way of revisiting the cult cover “Abbey road” of the Beatles.

Today, his works surround me and looking at them reminds me at all times that if you leave childhood behind while growing up, childhood never really leaves you.”

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

Glenda Hecksher

Didier Audrat

Audrat is a sculptor and designer, urban furniture designer and interior designer. He was born in Toulon, France. He has developed his artist career in Guadeloupe. He has been living and working in the US for 5 years. The artist has two main inspirations: the different influences of the Native American and African culture, and his passion for contemporary materials. His zeal for space and object pushes his creations, from installing monumental works to creating objects.
Didier Audrat questions the public and urban space. It performs operations on the landscape, sometimes ephemeral and also devotes part of his work to the creation of original usual objects.
His in-situ interventions highlight, underline or criticize the place in question to invite us to see otherwise. His artistic approach is based on the idea of the "any world” or the idea that one can create anywhere and adapt its creation without getting lost and losing its identity. The idea of an universal creation.