Mona Vatamanu from Romania and and Florin Tudor from Switzerland have been making artwork together from 2001 confronting the traumatic legacy of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm. Lombard Freid Gallery
Their artworks show the remnants of Socialist architecture and how everyday people deal with their lives after their former ideals have failed.
Kelly Nipper is a US artist born in 1971 in Edina, Minnesota. She is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts.
Nipper's artwork of Figure Underlay, Felt Overlay even though they show as static they seem to be in constant motion. Figure Underlay, Felt Overlay artwork was made with plaster, cardboard, wire, felt.
Stone Nudes by Dean Fidelman is a serie of photographs that got inspired and celebrate the human body through a three generation of women rock climbers.
In his book he presents over a hundred photographs of female rock climbers that he shot over the last ten years. His b/w approach is ideal for revealing the rock climbing spirit and the special connection it creates between the moving human body and the big rock
as an element of nature. Stripped out of any clothes female rock climbers show their bodies naked and full of strength giving us the chance to admire them free of any sexual cliches, Dean Fidelman writes "do not seek to sell or promote anything beyond the experience".
Raised in an Indigenous environment filled with arts and culture, Natalie M. Ball uses visual art as a way to demonstrate her culture, her way.
Having studied Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and Indigenous Arts at Massey University in New Zealand, Ball examines and challenges the inconsistent and often problematic
narratives that surround Native America. Ball is a native of the Modoc and Klamath tribes of southern Oregon and exhibits work in countries across the world. .
Heritage Mythologies Video Performance by Jackson 2bears 2010
Jackson 2bears is a new media, interactive installations and multimedia performance artist based in Victoria BC, Canada. A Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), 2bears works focus on the aesthetics of indigenous identity in contemporary times and explores Native spirituality. His work has been exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada, as well as internationally at Digital Art Weeks in Zurich, Switzerland. 2bears is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria.
Minnesota born Anishinaabe/European artist Andrea Carlson is an artist whose work takes the viewer into a politically charged object-filled world focusing on cultural narratives and stories offering commentary on museums, collections, and storytelling.
Her work has gained support through various fellowships and is represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. Carlson also holds a BA from the University of Minnesota (2003) and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2005).