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It's In Her Hands

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Judy Polstra is a self- taught mixed media artist who grew up surrounded by art, books, and sewing. Born in New Mexico in 1965, she grew up in North Canton, Ohio where her mother taught her hand embroidery basics at age 7. Her mother was both a seamstress and an oil painter who inspired her daughter to create from a very young age. Judy was always surrounded by fabrics, pattern books, classical music and oil paints. While Judy received her BA in business studies with a specialty in Fashion Merchandising, she never lost her passion for the arts. Polstra created mixed media assemblage sculptures and installations in the early and mid 2000s and has exhibited and been collected throughout the United States, Italy, and Australia. Her mannequin assemblages began with a large inheritance of costume jewelry, buttons and beads from her mother and both her grandmothers in the 2000s. One of her full-size assemblage works was featured in a major exhibition in Belgium and now resides in a private c...
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Visual Surface

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My name is Beatricia Sagar and I’m an artist working in Miami Beach. I was born in the Bronx, N.Y. and lived where an Elevated train traveled very close to our windows. This train cast a shadow of darkness over the neighborhood. It didn’t seem possible that there was anything on the other side of the train. When I was 13, one day, I discovered accidentally that there was an amazing park on the other side. In the park, there was, the now famous, New York Botanical gardens. It was there I discovered a world of light, and it was where I started to draw and paint. When I moved to Manhattan, I found myself in a world alive with art and artists. I had a large loft in what is now SoHo and even though I was able to show my work here and there it was difficult to find my way into New York Galleries I began to take the initiative and my motto was, “Do a body of work and find a place to show it”. I began to show my work in my loft, in restaurants, and other unique spaces. Even though the loft...
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Outer Limits

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  F R A N C O   S O T I L L O   The art of Franco Sotillo is a manifestation of the merging of his inner and outer worlds, a meditation on the parallel but often conflicting experience of internal and external identities, Just as any act of creation reveals the shifting essences of the temporal energies within each moment spent creating, so the finished painting reflects the qualities of his mind throughout the artistic process. His current work is inspired by Latin American folklore, religion, freedom and how humans were created by the Sun God. he accomplished this by introducing geometric shapes and surrealism images as horses, planets, dimension and identities extraterrestrials. Disco Inferno Oil on canvas 24X30 $1,250.00 Seduction Oil on Canvas 24”x30” $1250 The works featured here are available for purchase directly through the Artist. The Artist makes 100% of the profit of the sale of the artwork, so this is a great time to support them, whi...
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Renaissance Man

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  M A T T E O   T R I S O L I N I I was born and raised in Italy and always found myself out of place wherever I ended up, except for that time in 1996 when I (for the first time) landed in NYC. It was just a family trip celebrating my parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Little they knew, by taking me on that trip they had changed my life. I spent the next 4 years finding ways to make NYC my home. The journey involved a few years in Milan studying photography at the European Institute of Design (IED) where I was able to win a scholarship to attend School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC. Useless to mention, I never left NY. After graduating and moving to NY I worked as a commercial photographer for clients like Simon & Schuster, Elements Magazine while I was creating work for celebrities, musicians and artists. I exhibited my personal work in NYC, Philippines, Italy and Japan with a sweet highlight for the Venice Biennial when I was a student at IED. Everything came to a stop...
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Underwear Masterpieces

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  Rene Farias I am a Cuban artist living in Miami I like to explore the human eroticism and break taboos and stereotypes. There is no better way to assert ideas than through art. Mermaids, minotaurs, fairies, snakes, butterflies; recurring elements in my work that serve to accentuate the contrast between masculine strength and the fragility and delicacy that nature and mythology offer us. Oshun Oil on canvas painting, 110 x 90 inches $3.000 Let’s start with your story, we would like to know about your journey has been so far and hear how you got started. I am a Cuban artist born in Havana. Since I was little, I was always interested in art, but it was not until 2017 that I began to dedicate myself to it professionally. What is something you had to put off because of the pandemic that you have recently done or is on your list to do soon? The pandemic was really what made me start working with watercolor. It was a totally new medium for me and having a lot of free time in confin...
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Beauty, Strength and Vulnerability

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  Brenden Sanborn Brenden Sanborn, an artist hailing from South Florida, has dedicated over two decades of his life to the exploration and celebration of the human figure. Not confined to a single medium, Brenden has cultivated a versatile portfolio that encompasses watercolors, oils, acrylics, and even digital art created with Procreate. This variety of mediums is a testament to Brenden's adaptability and adventurous spirit as an artist. For him, painting is more than merely arranging lines and shapes on a canvas; it's a spiritual journey that delves deep into the human condition, expressing realms of sensitivity, passion, tenderness, and vulnerability that often go unseen. The human form, to him, is a vessel of strength, humility, and sensuality, and he expertly captures these traits through his art. Inviting his audience on an enlightening journey, Brenden captures the subtle emotional undertones of each subject through their body language. The slight tilt of the head, the c...
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Re-Focus

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  GIANCARLO  BALISCIANO  Since I can remember, I’ve always been attracted to Art and tried to express myself artistically. Growing up in Italy in a Military family where everyone excelled in everything besides Art was challenging. Still, I found a way to express myself in school, where my favorite academic subjects were Art and Music (where I always excelled). I discovered my love for photography at a very early age taking pictures with my father’s camera. My father initially supported me until I became serious with it, and this is when he made me stop. My decision to apply to an Art institute was quickly killed as well by my father (because of his narrow view of life), and he pushed me to find a more profitable career path. The only thing I enjoyed (artistically enough) was cooking. So, I joined a culinary school and became a chef. The best part of being a chef was that it allowed me to work and travel worldwide. My life after leaving Italy became very diverse,...
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