Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2015

www.susankessler.net Susan KesslerSusan Kessler was born and raised in Los Springtime CasinoAngeles County, CA (USA). As a child, she digital photo collagewas exposed to the nature and beauty ofthe coastland. She now lives in the sea- 20x30 inchesside city of beautiful Santa Cruz, CA, 2014famous for the Santa Cruz Beach Board-walk and also the towering redwoodtrees. This unique environment helpsinspire her creativity. She is an accom-plished and award winning painter andphotographer who recently started com-bining photographs, mainly taken inSanta Cruz, into exquisite photo collag-es. Her goal is to challenge the viewers’imagination by creating visually stimu-lating new ways of looking at art.Red Flower Lighthousedigital photo collage30x20 inches2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 101

David Naman www.hypnoticphoto.ca Laughter Surrounded by the beauty, nature, and photograph wildlife of the West Coast, David Naman 48x32 inches became inspired. Not only did he want to 2011 capture, and save a moment, he wanted others to see the beauty through his eyes. In 2005 he found a way to share, and capture these im- ages through Pho- tography. David’s talent is evident in his artistic, original, and sometimes con- troversial photos. David’s visual works have touched and disarmed viewers in galleries from New York, to Las Vegas. Recently published in ‘Masters’ books and widely recognized by his peers, David has relished the voy- age and looks towards the future with an- ticipation in capturing all those moments. Companion photograph 32x48 inches 2012102 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.georgiaszollosi.com Georgia Szollosi Chelsea digital art 2015 Georgia Szollosi is an airbrush artist and designer, based in London, UK. Since she es- tablished her Airbrush Studio, G-Design in Budapest, 2007, her work has been featured in leading art and custom painter publications, as well as shown in many exhibitions around Europe.“Ever since my earliest days growing up in Hungary I have enjoyed painting and I love toexpress my emotions through my art. I have been a fine artist for the last eight years and haveexhibited in both solo and group shows across Europe. I have sold several pieces which in-clude paintings, drawings and sculptures, some of these have been commissions from clientswithin the UK and Europe. Recently I have developed my technique using the airbrush. I am amulti skilled artist who is not tied to one media. I choose materials based on their relationshipwith my concept and what can be interpreted from such means.”Brightondigital art 2014 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 103

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www.sallyrockriver.com Sally RockriverRockriver believed her processes could exist on other Thermal Stormplanets. The series of Thermal Storms are narratives of blown glass with ceramicglass raining onto a chemical landscape. Her theories glazes, self-blown fume orb,became possibilities in 2013 when NASA discovered anAzure planet that rains glass. Rockriver combines ceramic glory hole floorsglazes with hot glass to create geochemical events. Ves- 16x24x20 inchessels birth specimens from a far-away place. Core-samplesfrom her imaginary worlds contain 2008glaze clusters; the seeds of a theo-retical species. Gas emitting saltsare trapped in hot glass to makeself-blown bubbles. Works are notrepretational, but create their ownreality. She refers to this as “Narra-tive Material Realism”. Lost in the Rift of Time 105Self-blown fume orbs, blown and cut glass with ceramic glazes, fused sand, paper, paint, epoxy 48x24x6 inches 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

Nicolai Nickson www.nicolainickson.com Nicolai Nickson was born Autumn in Sweden in 1973 to Eng- marble lish and Swedish parents. He studied painting in Sweden 9x8x10 inches and Finland before moving to 2014 New York to study sculpture, where he received an MFA in Sculpture in 2013 at the New York Studio School. He stud- ied stone carving at the ArtStudents League of New York, where he has wonseveral awards for his work. He has exhibited inStockholm, Sweden and New York and has workin private collections in both countries. He lovesstone and wood, and finds a powerful connectionto these materials through the process of carving. Standup Woman marble 20x11x9 inches 2013106 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.leodeville.co.uk Leo Deville Ishka’s Moment ceramic & mixed media 26x19x12 cm 2014Birdeyesceramic & mixed media32x17x6 cm2013 Leo creates ceramic faces, figures, sculptures and jewellery that sometimes include coloured wires, textiles, beads and paint. When she has a black biro in her hand she produces surreal black & white illustrations and also paints in oils & acrylics. She started working spontaneously with the black biro drawings, which took her on subconscious journeys to a world far more in- teresting than the physical normality. She now lets her ceramics evolve and loves this process as she’s constantly intrigued to view where her mind has taken her. Leo’s eyes, ears and mind are forever open to new ideas and influences. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 107

Brent Brager www.millponddesigns.com Brent Brager is a Minnesota based artist, and excels in working with wood and metal. His sculptures are deftly carved bringing soul, depth and expressiveness into his work that is uncanny. In re- cent reviews, some of his pieces have been called psychological heavyweights, harrowing and ab- surd yet impeccably carved. Brent says he started out as an abstract artist when he was young… very, very young. In that case his art has definitely become more sophisti- cated, thoughtfully maturing with age, and taking on an equally hu- morous if not darker tone.Presidential AmbitionsWood carving-Eastern red cedar,diamond willow72x42x44 inches2014 Entitlementia Wood Carving- Basswood Rickshaw-Steel 72x22x72 inches 2012108 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.asliuludag.com Asli UludagHome afar, by the sea… We look with awe at our history, at the greatEtched copper civilizations that have defined power. We9x7x7 inches reuse the stones and the papers they have2012 left behind and rebuild on our borrowed land; with the belief that we will make itWe build on seesaws, don’t we? ours, we play history again. Uludag’s workHand cut copper, nickel silver, cement juxtaposes the past and the present by bor-10x10x6 inches rowing motifs, shapes, and objects from art2014 and architecture as well as acts of ritual that remind the viewer “here” and “now” is the result of the demise of “there” and “then”; and though we see ourselves more devel- oped than the people of the past, we con- tinuously repeat their mistakes. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 109

Bobby Tso www.BobbyTso.com Detail Moment of Re-Inventing “Ideally Speaking“ White Earthenware, Cone 04, sanded surface, Wood, Plastic, and Paint 36x48x12 inches 2013Kwok Pong Tso was born and raised in Hong Kong. After receiving some education in HongKong he decided to come to the USA to begin exploring the culture while continuing hiseducation. In 2009 he completed the undergraduate art program at Northwest Missouri StateUniversity. He then worked as a teaching assistant and adjunct teacher teaching Ceramics atIowa Central Community College. After earning his Master of Fine Art degree at the Universityof Iowa and plans to graduate in 2013, He is now act as lecturer of art in Ceramics at North-west Missouri State University, teaching all level Ceramics classes, and head of the Ceram-ics Department. The conceptof his recent work is formand grows from his curios-ity about the relationship be-tween one object to another. Moment of Re-Inventing- “De-lib-er-a-tion” White Earthenware, Cone 04, sanded surface, Wood,Plastic, Paper, Paint and glass 32x36x8 inches 2014110 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.michelebrody.com Michele Brody Grass Skirt 4 sculpture 65x36 inches in diameter 2013Nature Preserveinstallation96x264x144 inches2011 Michele Brody is a New York based artist who has had one-person shows in France, Costa Rica, Chicago, Germany, Taiwan and New York City. She has received an artist grant or residency every year since receiving her MFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1994, including the Pollock/Krasner Founda- tion, New York Foundation for the Arts, Ma- rin Headlands Centre for the Arts and Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. In 2011 she was awarded Best 3-D Entry at the international Art Prize competition. She currently resides and works in The Bronx as an Artist-in-Residence at the Andrew Freedman Home. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 111

Anna Gunnars www.annagunnars.is Fluctuation (detail) silk, wool, metal frame, sibory technique 160, 140, 120x25 cm 2014Anna Gunnars is a textile artist residing in Iceland. Focusing on the traditional felt makingtechnique, Anna combines it with a contemporary, fresh approach. She has developed herown unique way of felting, where her signature has a strong sense of Scandinavian and mini-mal art. Anna´s work is based on the idea of light and shadow, creating large sculptures and3D wall pieces for both indoor and outdoor use. Anna has gained international recognitionfor her sculptural work, exhibited invarious countries such as Australia,Korea, USA, Germany and Sweden. Heaven and Ocean (detail) silk indigo dyed 99x33 cm 2014112 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.annagunnars.is Anna GunnarsForest Atlantic Oceanplant dyed silk coiling wool yarn75x40 cm2014 4 meters 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 113

V. meer www.v-meer.de Archetype Clay 20x10x10 cm 2010V. meer – Vera Meyer – is a self-taught artist. She studied biotechnology in Sofia and Berlin andworked as a scientist in Berlin, London and Leiden. Currently, she holds a professorship forapplied and molecular microbiology at the Berlin University of Technology. As a scientist, shetries to understand what shapes andstructures living organisms, to de-code nature’s genetic principle thatdefines morphology. As an artist, shedoes not act rationally; instead sheimpulsively creates objects, paint-ings and letterings. Her artistic workis intuitive, improvised, without in-tended purpose, ranges from expres-sive to reduced, from large to small,from loud to quiet. Guardian Wood, metal, stone 60x20x20 cm 2013114 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.davidconnolly.org David Connolly Speakers are speaking in code 3 channel audio loop, 1/4 and 1/8 steel rods, three horn speakers Dimensions variable 2012 David Connolly is a New York based artist whose work situates itself in the larger field of new media, interactivity, sculpture and installation. For more than a decade he has chosen to live and work outside of his native Australia, immersing myself in the cultures, languages and belief systems of New York, Tokyo and Buenos Aires. He has gained extended exposure to issues that are at once culturally specific and globally applicable specifically, the themes of immigration, migration and isolation as they are coupled with biometrics, surveillance, and detachment due to the increased use of technology. Be careful for what we wish for?Melamine rice bowls, display case, plaster Chinese lions, utopia book on architecture, red silk cloth and Himalayan salt. Dimensions variable 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 115

Meredith Nichols www.meredithleenichols.com Untitled wood fired stoneware 18x16x4 inches 2014Too busy to talk (detail)cotton, string, rubber latex,altered readymades, mirror6x6x5 inches2014 Meredith’s work is driven by a desire to evoke connections between objects and people. She expresses unanswered ques- tions and curiosities, often dwelling in unsettled contradictions rather than seek- ing to resolve them. Those who view her work are asked float awhile in this un- certainty, and drawing from her unique visual language, to open up a gateway to reciprocal human understanding. She is a young artist working in Hudson Valley, NY, always poking around for things unknown.116 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.giatkabladze.com George (Gia) Tkabladze ROMANTIC ALLUSIONS Wood, Metal 24,5x11x8,5 inches 2012BOMB FALLING IN LOVEWood26x30x10 inches2015 George Tkabladze was born in 1971 in Kutaisi, country of Georgia. In 1996, he received his BFA and MFA, majoring in sculpture from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts, and Associate degree in sculp- ture and art education in I. Nicoladze Art College. (Tbilisi, Georgia). Since 1993 he has participated in more than sixty national and international exhibitions, Bien- nales, Triennials and received numerous awards and grants such as: International Art Award RAFFAELLO SANZIO 2014 – Lecce, Italy and TRINACRIA award 2014, – Museum Monreale, Italy. His works are kept in galleries and private collections in: USA, The Netherlands, Greece, United Kingdom, and Georgia. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 117

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www.mayasunn.com MayaSunn Blazing Dream Airbrush and Spray paint 60x48 inches 2014Maya Sunn’s art offers you a moment of pure freedom, to ease your soul and escape this worldof pain by bringing you somewhere else. Having survived her death in 2011, she came backwith an inner peace and a different understanding of Life. Her art shows us all the beautythat lies within. Everything she feels, touches, sees, smells is a new inspiration. Each artworkcontains a part of her soul. Give her a can of spray paint and she’ll make a masterpiece! Her3D’s elements and textures makes her art stand out, unique and apart of the others. Deep Inside Spray paint48x48 inches 2014 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 119

Eniko Takacs enicot.wordpress.comUterus Metamorphosis Model Eniko Takacs is a Hungarian born visual,installation set, costume artist and designer based in40x30 cm London. After she finished her studies to2007 become a graphic designer, she felt tempt- ed to do something different expandingCipolla Modern Dance Ballet her view and knowledge about art. Theninstallation she has been studying Theater and Film500x700 cm Art Design at the Hungarian University of2010 Fine Arts. There she received scholarship at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Mi- lan where she has been encouraged about her project. Since she had have worked at several theaters, films and exhibitions, projects and participated in a few solo and joint exhibition throughout Europe.120 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

zobokia.wordpress.com Andras Zoboki Ballaro Market acrylic on canvas 25x30 cm 2014Originally from Hungary impressionist painter Andrew Zoboki now lives and works inLondon. His paintings are known for their emphasis on atmosphere, light and movement,rather than detail, which is only hinted at by seemingly random dashes of colour. His worksare artistic combination of a delicate impressionist style with a sense of fun and sometimescritic, results in powerful artworks. Before turning back to paint and brushes to capture figuresand moods Andrew was a cartoon animator for seven years, producing work for the mostfamous studios in his country. Social Network – Part of a Triptichon oil on canvas 221x76 cm 2007 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 121

Nam YoonSoo www.NamYoonSooArt.com High Frequency acrylic on canvas 36x36 inches 2014YoonSoo Nam is a visual artist who paints unique and extraordinary pictures of the heavenlyrealm in spirit and in truth. Through her exhibitions, live shows, website and Facebook page,her paintings and poems have been released and impacting many souls in various countries.She was born in Seoul, Korea, gradu-ated from Ewha Woman’s Universitywith Bachelor of Fine Arts and Mas-ter of Arts & Craft, from Seoul JangsinTheological Seminary with M.DIV.“I paint for Jesus, the one who is alivein me. I see my artworks shine thecreative light and bring His mysteriousKingdom to the earth.” Time Redemption acrylic on canvas 30x40 inches 2014122 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.editmihovich.wix/artworks Edit MihovicsAbstract drawing, with peaceful patterns. I de-scribe my drawings as “soul stamps” I createthese drawings through my symbol system.They can show my emotional state and energyqualities. When I create for people they trans-mit some deep message, and they can help tounderstand the course of things. The minimalstyle is just minimal :) Glass mixed media 21x40 cm 2014 After Three Months 123 mixed media 29x42 cm 2014Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

Evi Toth www.evitothphoto.wix.com/evisphotographyLilly Wood Mask Weisse Damedigital art illusion filter photography40x60 cm2014 2012Body painting by Zoltan Szabo, model Bianca. Evi Toth is a Hungarian freelancer a photog- rapher living and working in the Netherlands. In her very early years she discovered The Camera and since she is fascinated by pho- tography. “I am not here to take a cute pictures of your child. I am here to docu- ment the newness of your little one in such a way that it is impossi- ble to forget. I want you to have wonderful mo- ments whilst looking at these photographs and share memories and smiles with your friends and family. I want you to print them out a dozen times or more, frame them and hang them on your walls, to hold in your hands, to browse through the images in albums and books for decades to come. Photography is so very important, since it will tell our stories for many generations after those times when we will no longer be able to do so.”124 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

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