Katya Quel is an artist and multidisciplinary creator, born and raised in Moscow, who now lives and works in Paris after roughly a decade based in Germany. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, she builds elaborate fictional worlds populated by trolls, elves, witches, castles, and imagined creatures, a body of work she describes, without much […]
Valeria Vertii is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Paris who works across painting, drawing, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, moving so fluidly between mediums that she has trouble listing them all without leaving something out. She trained first as a painter and has spent the last several years pulling that foundation toward sculpture and installation, driven
Some artists search for inspiration in distant landscapes, history books, or moments of profound personal revelation. Leo Chesneau finds it in an A4 sheet of paper, a toner cartridge, a Post-it note, or the standardized dimensions of a hollow-core door. At first glance, these objects feel almost invisible. They belong to offices, classrooms, construction sites,
From digital worlds to airbrushed paintings, Austin Lee explains why the future of art isn’t about technology, it’s about connection. Sitting in his Brooklyn studio surrounded by luminous canvases, airbrushes, sculptures, and computer screens, Austin Lee doesn’t describe art as a profession or even a practice. Instead, he describes it as a way of existing
A blank canvas can be an intimidating thing. For some artists, it represents possibility. For others, pressure. For Vinny Olimpio, it’s an invitation to step into a conversation that has no clear beginning and no definitive end. “I don’t think you’re ever going to stop telling stories until you stop breathing,” he says. “Creating art
For Brazilian artist Thomas Szott, art begins with something deeply personal. His paintings, textiles, sculptures, and drawings emerge from memories, emotions, relationships, and the quiet process of understanding how those experiences shape a life. Yet while his work originates from autobiography, Szott is less interested in documenting events than transforming them into symbols, atmospheres, and
Kevin Umaña did not plan on becoming the artist he is today. His path moved through architecture school, printmaking, photography, graffiti, ceramics, construction jobs, and years of uncertainty before arriving at the hybrid ceramic paintings he is now known for. For Umaña, the work developed less from a single vision and more from persistence, experimentation,
Amy Bravo’s work unfolds as a raw, layered exploration of emotion, memory, and identity. An ever-evolving practice rooted in intuition, material history, and lived experience. Raised between Queens and New Jersey, Bravo draws deeply from her upbringing, where domestic spaces, family objects, and cultural inheritance shaped her earliest understanding of creativity. Her work today still
Björn Heyn does not describe his studio as a workplace. He calls it a playground. For him, that distinction matters. Being an artist, he explains, means holding on to a particular state of mind that can easily disappear in adulthood. Bills arrive, emails pile up, the mailbox fills with responsibilities that feel far removed from
Hugo Winder-Lind does not talk about art as if it is something that can be solved. In fact, he begins from the opposite position. The expectation that someone else might hold the answers, or that there might be a place to go where everything becomes clear, is something he has long since abandoned. The reality,
