The future of art

Born in Chile, P.X. Miranda has lived in Italy since 1999. She was awarded a scholarship to Davidson College and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she won several prizes for her highly regarded oil paintings. Fascinated by history and its notable figures, she uses literature, poetry, and music as inspiration for her paintings.

Medieval tapestry, Renaissance portraiture, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and William Morris designs also underpin her works. She combines these elements in her pieces to create images that have a timeless quality resembling a sort of puzzle. P. X. Miranda paintings unapologetically embrace nature...

Roman Kriheli’s paintings draw on the rich heritage of the Renaissance and the Old Masters. He reinterprets the artistic traditions of the West to create unique imagery that merges the old with the new. Drawing inspiration from the world around him and finding the hidden significance imbued in everyday objects, humanity, and its creations, Kriheli explores themes of beauty, mysticism, and spirituality. He confronts head-on the most difficult questions about life, death, and what lies outside human knowledge. Ever elusive and much sought after by collectors around the world, Kriheli has remained true to his singular yet eclectic vision of...

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...