Art Kaleidoscope

‘Deny and Repress’. Cal State Fullerton Art Gallery. Glass bead installations by Liza Lou

Glass bead installations by Liza Lou
Born in New York City, Liza Lou is a talented American conceptual artist.
She became known internationally for her large scale glass bead installations. In particular, room-size sculpture of Kitchen with all appliances and furniture made entirely of bright colored glass beads of different sizes and shapes. And also, wire, and plaster. All objects of backyard installation with trees, flowers, grass, and a bench – covered with a dense layer of multicolored beads. In the project “Kitchen”, as in many other works, Liza is experimenting with turning small beads in a fundamental element of creativity. In addition, filled with love to detail.
Noteworthy, the installation “Kitchen” – exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in 1996. According to Liza Lou, she began creating bead installations when she was twenty. And for today, she has had twenty years of successful artistic career. Her recent 2014 solo exhibitions took place in Goodman Gallery in South Africa, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in France, and Bermondsey in England.
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Autumn has come. Fedoskino painting by Russian Lacquer miniature artist Yulia Danilina

Lacquer miniature artist Yulia Danilina
Born September 13, 1979 in Lobnya, Moscow region, Yulia Danilina is a talented Russian artist working in the original Fedoskino technique of painting. Traditionally, it is oil painting with gold leaf and mother of pearl, covered with several layers of lacquer. Yulia has created the beautiful gallery of miniature paintings. In particular, “Alice In Wonderland”, “land management”, “Sun”, “Snow Maiden”, “Summer”, “Autumn”, “Seasons” and “Carnival”. Her works are in private collections in different countries, such as Austria, England, Germany, Holland, and the Museum of Sholokhov. Danilina graduated from Fedoskino School of Industrial Art in 1999. Her diploma work was performed on Lermontov’s “Princess Ligovski”. In 2002, Yulia graduated from the Moscow State Open Pedagogical Institute.
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Blue vase with flowers. Still life photography by Vasily Cheshenov

Still life photography by Vasily Cheshenov
In addition to photography, Vasily Cheshenov is a Russian journalist, artist, sculptor and writer. Meanwhile, he has become known worldwide for his blurring photography of flowers, which look like oil paintings. According to Vasily Cheshenov, the inspiration comes to him from God. Besides, in every period of his life he had a favorite photographer, who influenced his artistic activity. In particular, Jan Saudek, Arnold Newman, Josef Sudek, Helmut Newton and Leni Riefenstahl. Vasily Cheshenov calls himself not a photographer, but a photo artist. The difference is that a photographer just takes pictures, but a photo artist creates what is possible to create from photography. He has searched his own place in the world of art photography for a long time, and during the process he got many beautiful moments in life.
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Angel. Painting by Russian artist Alexey Ezhov, St. Petersburg

Russian artist Alexey Ezhov
Bborn in 1970, in Lipetsk, Alexey Ezhov is one of the most enigmatic artists of St. Petersburg. His skill imbued with profound mysticism and extraordinary deep perception. In the works of the artist traced creative reconsideration and continuation of painting subjects and ideas of Bosch, Brueghel, Leonardo and other great masters. Painting by Alexey Ezhov attracts art lovers by the mystical worlds filled with surreal creatures. Sometimes even religious stories, and always philosophically inspirational.
Alexey Ezhov graduated from the Faculty of art and drawings of Tashkent State Pedagogical University in 1992. Since 2001 he lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His art gallery, except painting, includes photo-art and sculpture. The artist’s works are in private collections in France, Germany, Russia and Japan.
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Amy Winehouse. ValrArt watercolor portraits, Ukrainian artist Valentina Ra

ValrArt watercolor portraits
Ukrainian artist watercolorist Valentina Ra, aka ValrArt, has created a stunning gallery of watercolor portraits of iconic figures of the XX century. In particular, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli, Vivien Leigh, Edith Piaf, Sophia Loren. Besides, portraits of contemporary celebrities – Monica Bellucci, The Twilight Saga actors, Angelina Jolie, and Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones). Also, animalistic series of watercolors, signs of the zodiac.
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Pendant design sourced from an antique castle button. Ivy Woodrose jewelry art

Ivy Woodrose jewelry art
American artist jeweler Ivy Solomon, aka Ivy Woodrose, began designing her own jewelry in 2002. Experimenting with silver, cold enamel and silver metal clay, she developed new and unusual technique which to this day provides huge scope for creativity. The product in particular, made of sterling silver with inlays of silver metal clay 925 (precious metal clay PMC). And the top covered with a layer of cold colored enamel. Besides, some decorations supplemented with fresh water pearls and 22k gold.
As a result, art works of jewelry brand “Ivy Woodrose” received recognition and awards at exhibitions in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois. The world-famous company Rio Grande, awarded Ivy awards for first place in the international competition of young designers, Saul Bell Design Competition, in 2004 and 2006. Her works have appeared in fashion magazines and catalogs. Also, one of the publications called “The Spirit of Summer” was an article that belonged to Mitsubishi Company.
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Amy Winehouse on a French coin. Controversial coin art by Andre Levy

Controversial coin art by Andre Levy

Brazilian Sao Paulo born designer Andre Levy (a.k.a. @zhion) is currently living in Frankfurt, Germany.
The recent exhibition of his art works – painted coins in the gallery of Norwich, England has caused lots of controversial opinions. In particular, his art consists of a series of portraits painted on coins of different countries. The coins turned real image into something opposite, for example Franco on a Spanish coin into Divine, or Chinese coin remade into René Magritte’s “The Son of Man”, etc. These miniature fantasies of iconic figures of pop culture fit into the space of the real image of a coin have some controversy. According to some people, Levy’s creativity as a work of art. However, others see his art as a kitsch and disrespect to their culture. Indeed, there’s a thin line between expressing artistry and being respectful to other cultures.
The project called ‘Tales You Lose’ presents coins from suddenly new side. The artist’s statement – What makes some cents more valuable than others – the stories they carry. Sometimes they are just not yet to be seen. Those are the Tales You Lose.
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