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Ann Strassman is an American figurative painter working in Boston. Antiques and the Arts Weekly vividly describes her style as “expressive realism” that “evolves from an unforgiving eye which she has developed through experience. Through the use of exaggerated brushwork and dramatic tones she creates psychological tension. The vocabulary may well be German Expressionism and London school, but the vision is all her own.” 

Such compelling thought exercises led Strassman to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she developed the skills...

Ann Strassman is an American figurative painter working in Boston. Antiques and the Arts Weekly vividly describes her style as “expressive realism” that “evolves from an unforgiving eye which she has developed through experience. Through the use of exaggerated brushwork and dramatic tones she creates psychological tension. The vocabulary may well be German Expressionism and London school, but the vision is all her own.” 

Such compelling thought exercises led Strassman to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she developed the skills...

Khara Oxier-Mori is an Idaho-based artist whose primary focus is the human body. Oxier-Mori attended Boise State University after receiving an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. In 2016, she earned her degree in anthropology with a concentration in genetics, evolutionary medicine, and osteology. Her life experiences are her chief artistic inspiration, but she credits the deconstructionist theories of Derrida and Foucault for her relentless pursuit and examination of human power dynamics. 

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Pauline Couble studied applied arts in Paris from 1997 to 2002, first focusing on scenography and the architectural environment in her design training. She then discovered sculpture and synthetic materials and began working with resins and novel molding techniques. She is interested in collaborating with decorators to create unique lighting that illuminate the vast possibilities that resin offers in terms of shape, color, and transparency. At the same time, she is inspired by the living world and organic matter and has begun to create sculptures with undulating shapes reminiscent of forms found in nature. Her artistic project...

Johan Wahlstrom is one of today's most vocal artists, known for his unencumbered critiques of the current social and political landscapes. 

In 1998, Wahlstrom moved to a small village in France where he immersed himself in his painting for seven years, part of the time under the tutelage of the Swedish artist Lennart Nystrom. Wahlstrom's dark narrative centers around the depiction of heads and torsos inspired by handwritten critiques in cryptic prose on scraps of paper that scatter his studio....