Balaji Ponna is a visual artist from India, born in 1980 living and working in Baroda.
Balaji received his B.F.A in Graphics from Andhra University with Gold medal and M.F.A in Graphics from Visva - Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has also been the recipient of H.R.D. National Scholarship for young Artists for 2004-05
Daas is an expat american visual artist living in Japan, his life and experiences in his new home led him to create his most recent series of paintings "The Origami Dream that has been in exhibited in both the U.S. and Japan.
https://vimeo.com/uzrswl/kolorktm The most recent stop on Daas' journey brought him to Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of Sattya Arts Collective's "Kolor Kathmandu"." The project intends to create 75 site-specific murals in Nepal. Visiting artists work alongside local artists and community members to create the murals that will inspire and attract visitors for years to come. Daas and other artists participating in the project are all volunteers. Although
paint and minimal supplies are provided by Sattya, travel expenses and accommodations for 21 days in Nepal were Daas' first challenge. So, he launched a fundraiser online in an effort to help offset the cost. Daas new work is to be shown in May at Cafe Absinthe in Osaka, Japan. For more about Daas and his artwork, visit his website and Kolor Kathmandu project website.
Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a Chinese born performance artist living and working in Canada. Her current research, “Performance Ethnography: a Method of Inquiry in Research of Visualization,” is supported by Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts and British Columbia Arts Council.
The Double performance by Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a series of gestures made by sixteen females that wear red mouthpieces and white bath towels. Each female is standing in a row next to the other, facing the same direction and repeating every five minutes three still gestures: Standing, Kneeing, and lying on the floor. Artist quote about her artwork: The gestures in the performance are inspired by gargoyle, a legendary stone-carved grotesque with a spout that normally is designed to convey water from a roof. Mouth serves as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of
sound and speech. However, when performers wear the mouthpieces, or when women’s mouth is forced to open, the mouth loses its function. In fact, it silences and disables the women because they are unable to talk when their mouths are widely pulled open. This performance explores another side of the unseen and unspoken—the vulnerability, struggle, shame, and suffering that we are uneasy to share and expose while examining multifaceted struggles of a woman associated with identity, gender, and sexuality in order to reveal the struggle and conflict rooted in oppressed individuals and groups. [toggle title="Performers"] Alida Esmail, Karoline Lebrun Emily…
My Father and I Series by Toronto artist Laurie Kong, A BFA with Honours 2008 graduate of Concordia University in Photography,is a series of photographs that explore Laurie's bonds and relationship with her dad.
Laurie is showing the similarity in the way they express themselves, the conventionalism attitude that is lurking around when being materialistic but also the tenderness that seems to appear when all formality is gone. This series of photographs show the human need for communication and expression as a parent and as a child.
Yang Yong is a chinese photographer based in the southern city of Shenzhen, his work focus in the new Chinese economy and young girls trying to find their way through the big cities.
"On Edge"(2011) was his solo exhibition first presented in m97 Gallery at Shangai, his photographs were shot in 3 years time in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing and his subject is the chinese youth, born
in the 70's and 80's, that are constantly changing away from the traditional look of chinese woman as they move and work around big cities, "evolving" into the model of a western female.
Adona Khare is a painter from a small town in Iowa, her work is created using only a pencil, an eraser and a sock while her drawings feature animals in a surreal world in an effort to inspire adults and children to use their imagination in order to build their own world other than their own.
Elephants is the award winning artwork prize for 2012 where she presents a series of life sized Elephants mixed with other wild animals. Elephants is a large scale paper drawing made with carbon pencil on paper. Elephants Artwork Installation Video in ArtPrize 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V7pF-FvOTo The World of Adonna Khare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxbbEPQvTk