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Rasim Babayev was an iconic figure in post-Soviet art and a pioneer of the Azerbaijani Avant-Garde movement. Although predominantly focused on painting, Babayev expressed his vision in sculpture, on monumental murals and mosaic panels, on painted ceramics, and work in papier-mâché. Using the language of metaphor to create symbolism—reality knotted with fiction—the ancient Persian false god Div, or Daeva, was a significant muse, depicted in a large portion of his works. As a fictional creature from folklore, he considered it to be a personification of human nature.
Born in Odense, Denmark and now based in the Bay Area, Kirstine Reiner Hansen received a BA in Design and Illustration at Kolding School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, most recently in a solo exhibition at G-allery in Berlin, Germany. In 2012, she received the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant and has twice been a semi-finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. She has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, BloPop Magazine, and The Asian Curator, as well as in the book Disrupted Realism by John...
Hisako Kobayashi grew up in Tokyo before moving to New York City in 1981 to earn a Master of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. An abstract painter, she has since exhibited her work on five continents over a span of three decades. Upon observation, her works clearly and openly illustrate a maternal devotion to her native Japan while at once embracing the essence of her newfound Western sensibilities.
Art critic Donald Kuspit has authored this on her work, "Kobayashi's paintings exemplify the romantic idea that 'it...
A lawyer by profession, Hunter Biden now devotes his energy to the creative arts, bringing innumerable experiences to bear in his works. The results are powerful and impactful paintings ranging in theme from the photogenic to abstraction. His chosen substrates are canvas, YUPO paper, wood, and metal on which he affixes oil, acrylic, and ink along with the written word, coming together to create a unique, signature visual image.
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Born in 1952 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Rashid Al Khalifa held his first solo exhibition at the Dilmun Hotel, Bahrain in 1970, when he was just 16 years old, and then moved to the United Kingdom in 1972 to study at the Hastings College of Arts and Technology in Sussex. After returning to Bahrain in 1978, inspired by Europe’s great Impressionist masters, he began his own renditions of his country’s landscapes, producing a series of atmospheric paintings of desert, sea, and historical sites. These works were first presented at...
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