MIZUE SAWANO

ARTIST BIO

The Japanese-born Impressionist artist, best known for her paintings of water lilies, cherry blossoms, and abstract figures in oil and water color has been featured in exhibitions at The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Meguro Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Yoshii Gallery, and Takashimaya Art Gallery in Japan, Gerald Peters Gallery in New York, Casa Lamm Centro de Cultura, Mexico City, Marrakech Museum and the Bibliotheque H.R.H. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan in Morocco, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jernsey, and many more.

Mizue has public works displayed all over the world including commissioned murals in Morocco and paintings at Columbia University and Harvard. Previously her works have been displayed at the Grand Ballroom of The Waldorf-Astoria, as well as in the Twin Towers in New York.
 
She has been recognized by the Japanese-American Association for donating pieces of art annually for over 20 years to benefit Japanese communities in New York, and has won numerous awards going back to 1953 when she won the Gold prize for Contemporary Students Oil Painting Exhibition, sponsored by Mainichi Newspaper and held at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

ALIA

ARTIST BIO

Alia, an awarded American artist of Cuban-Lebanese descent, creates artwork that simply invokes a sense of happiness. Alia uses a beautiful blend of vivid colors, unique textures and extravagant jewels that can enhance any room or setting.

Inspired by her late father’s fine jewelry creations, Alia has blended visually captivating interpretations of nature through the lens of abstract art by using the finest acrylic paints, meticulous beadwork, pearls and Swarovski crystals.

Alia’s artwork has been featured throughout the world in destinations such as Miami’s Wynwood Art District, New York, Florence Italy and Monaco.

Her artwork can be described as peaceful, joyful, serene and captivating. It enchants the eyes and the soul. Much like Alia herself, her artwork brings light and life.

KEVIN THOMAS

ARTIST BIO

In 1976, I acquired formal training through a scholarship to Parsons School of Design in New York City. Mentoring renown artists, Joe Bowler and Murray Tinkelman encouraged me to take up studies within the Department of Illustration.

During my first year I was hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an illustrator for the museum’s costume reproduction department. The experience I received from the institutions there attributed greatly to my gaining invaluable direction.

Since that time, I have created original fine art, illustrations and designs for numerous award-winning projects for clients of advertising agencies and design firms to museums and universities through out the United States.

Artist Statement

I enjoy drawing and painting just about everything under the sun -- especially people. My work is mostly figurative but not exclusively. I like to seek out rarely viewed encounters of people as they go about their daily routine, presenting them in an interesting and colorful way.

In my studio, I regularly experiment with a variety of design approaches in order to express a particular mood or narrative. Essentially, each project is another challenge to convey my work as if it were a visual poem.

I want the viewer to have a unique experience while interpreting my work. Hopefully awakening something within them that has impact and translates as meaningful.

HELEN PETRI

ARTIST BIO

Stefano Mariotti studied art as a young boy and grew up going regularly to exhibitions and museums with his father, a passionate art collector. Meeting Primo Conti was very important for his artistic training to understand that reality is not always as we see it but how it is represented. Stefano’s research went beyond the boundaries of the perceived to invade that of pure abstraction, which led him to try different ways of expression, with a particular interest in kinetic art of the 1970’s. His ‘painting’ is interactive and looks at aspects of philosophy and spirituality. He focuses his artistic attention on the study of shadow through matter and the use of the nylon threads serves to create a dialogue in constant transformation between light and shadow and between the spectator and the artwork, to create paintings – installations, or textures, as he likes to define them. Stefano Mariotti ‘s works are distinguished by the delicate, almost maniacal perfectionism and the profoundly elegant aesthetic result.