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Shanmukh Gollu is an artist and writer, residing in India. He earned a bachelor's degree from the M.S. University of Baroda in Fine Arts in 2022. He writes and draws, reacting to his social experiences. His works reflect on the negotiations made between different identities that we assume and shed every day, tuning and adjusting in response to each other’s politics. His visuals draw from literature, films, history, social media and from his own writings.

The piece is from my “Beach” sketches. I have always been inspired by my ability to recognize different human states. I like to arrange elements in intricately interwoven patterns as well.

— Alexey Adonin

This piece is also from my “Beach” sketches. There is a catch—when you draw moving people, you do not keep up with their moves. However, I loved how my imagination worked out that problem!

— Alexey Adonin

The piece is a parable of man’s destiny and relationship with what is beyond. The theme here is a conceptual and philosophical dialogue among different positions.

— Alexey Adonin

There is always the silent presence of light accompanying us from the clean sheets of mother’s bed to the end of the mortal path.

— Alexey Adonin

matthew fertel

sacramento, california

mfertel.wixsite.com/matthewfertelphoto

I photograph whatever catches my eye on my daily walks. Returning to the same locations over days, months and years, I capture my subjects under different lighting and weather conditions, documenting the changes in these objects as the environment interacts with them over time. Small details get framed in ways that draw attention away from the actual object and focus on the shapes, textures, and colors. My goal is to use these out-of-context images to create compositions that encourage an implied narrative that is easily influenced by the viewer and is open to multiple interpretations.

—Matthew Fertel

augustina droze

america

augustinadroze.com

American artist Augustina Droze (1981) uses animals as symbols to describe her personal lived experiences. Her current body of work explores her life as a foreigner, her gaze of the world as exotic, beautiful and bewildering. As an expat living in Beijing for the past 10 years, Droze’s work incorporates elements of East and West. Her paintings are colorful and confrontational, brimming with Rococo inspired abundance.

—Augustina Droze

a.j. belmont

new hampshire

abelmont.com

My art centers on deconstructing subjects to their critical elements to communicate form and emotion. Attempting to cut through the unnecessary in a piece allows me to relay my experiences more precisely. I begin painting this way experimentally in Boston in the mid-90s, and more fully developed over the following decades. Today I live and work in a quiet area of northern New England, where I continue to advance this approach through autobiographical themes — discovering the minimal and essential information in subjects and focusing on color decisions in portraying how I experience a moment, topic, or subject.

—A.J. Belmont

robin young

boreggo springs, california

Retirement took me to the California desert with my creative husband John and lazy dog Comet. I discovered a collection of the small collage postcards I had done years before remembering how much fun I had and was inspired and so I continue... It is difficult to explain my style, it is forever changing leaning more and more to the odd, weird, eclectic. I added 3D sculptures and large scale murals to the things I do. I also enjoy using recycled materials in my art, sculptures made from embroidery hoops and guitar strings.

—Robin Young

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