Living The Dream

Tony Khawam, American, a Syrian-descended artist lives and works in Northern NJ. His work stems from his interest in heritage, history, human emotion, and popular culture, and the ubiquitous fleeting moments of the conscious and unconscious. The recent work has iconic undertones with a focus on the artist’s fascination with historical imagery with influences of post-war American art adopted into his practices with the current surroundings and happenings by marrying a skewed perspective with dimensional flatness, his paintings allude to the continuous development of American culture. Work Samples

José Bedia born in La Havana, Cuba and graduated with honors from the ISA , Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana, Cuba. He was a pioneer of the radical transformation of Cuban Art that inaugurated the Exhibition Volume 1, which Bedia was integral part of it. His passion for the primal Amerindians complemented his anthropological studies on Afro-Transatlantic cultures. His travel influences to Africa has increased his interest about the African roots of American culture. After residing in Mexico he moved to Miami Florida, where he currently lives and works. Work Samples

Edouard Duval Carrié born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and now lives and works in Miami. He is a graduate with MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, and BFA from Loyola College, Montréal. He is an artist-curator and an educator, who challenges the viewer to make meaning of dense iconography derived from Caribbean history, politics, and religion. His mixed media works and installations present migrations and transformations, often human and spiritual with emphasis on materials and through consistent attention to translucent and reflective mediums, such as glitter, glass, and resin. Work Samples

Ivonne Ferrer born in Cuba, lives and works in Miami. She graduated from San Alejandro Academy, and René Portocarrero National Silk Screen Print Shop, Havana. Atribuciones in Fidelio Ponce Gallery (1990) was her first solo exhibition, which led her to leave the Cuba for the Spanish circuit where she participated in: Expo Universal Sevilla 92, Arts Pavillion, La temperatura de Dios (1993), Fisiología decorativa (1994). Ivonne migrated to the US in 1995. and produced Trinomio cubano at Botello Gallery, Puerto Rico. Her work is in museums and private collection in the Americas and Europe. Work Samples

Sibel Kocabasi born in Istanbul, Turkey, lives and works in South Florida, USA, and immigrated to the US in 2000. She has MFA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (2005) and BFA from the Marmara University of Fine Arts in Istanbul. Kocabasi is a multidisciplinary visual artist studied Turkish Traditional Arts (rug/kilim design, natural dyes, conservation, restoration of textiles, and illumination of manuscripts) working in painting, textiles, staged photography, and installations. Her art addresses contemporary social concerns, from the deteriorating natural environment, migration, violence against women, across cultures, including the suppression of female identity and the recent awakening of feminine power and confidence. Work Samples

Christina Nicola born in Plano, Texas and now living and working in Miami. She is an expressionist figurative painter whose work depicts the fluidity of the black femme identity. Coining the term ‘Afroromantic’ to describe her style, She uses the phrase as a catchall for the narratives in her work that explore themes of love, lust, and longing. Her romantic paintings are portals to the artist’s fantasies, fears, and memories where her past, present, and future identities commingle. Work Samples

Nizar Sabour received his PhD in art philosophy from Strugunov Academy in Moscow and now lives and works in Damascus and Moscow. The influence of Syrian-Russian cultures are reflected in his work which splits between two themes, the first has religious undertones, focusing on icons whether Christian, Islamic or non-Abrahamic traditions and the second theme is very poetic. He employs motifs reminiscent of the European Dada movement rather than the precision of historical iconography. The Icons, Maaloula and Palmyra have a correlation to the historical places in Syria. Work Samples

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