By LAURA RODRIGUEZ A girl with porcelain skin and crimson red lips stares back at me with eyes wide open as she swallows a mouse’s tail. She holds a blood-stained knife and a fork. White mice crawl in her hair, and a white cat rests on her lap. The cat eyes mimic the porcelain beauty’s more »

  BY CHARLES ALFREDO DONATE In an effort to elicit an emotional response from an audience, expressionism serves to depict objects through a subjective lens. Take the image of a child’s face, for instance, rendered in a somber expression, but with contrasting colors—blue and black—that run horizontally from forehead to chin, halving the portrait. Add more »

BY KALUNDA HILTON Art Basel week was full of excitement in Wynwood, Midtown Miami and Miami Beach. Tens of thousands  from  across the globe came to experience one of the most important art seasons of the year. Within the first few days of the art fairs’ opening, some reported higher than expected attendance and sales. Art Basel, listed more »

By LAURA RODRIGUEZ Gina Martynova is what you would call a ‘third culture artist.’ Having lived in Russia, Thailand and New York, she was able to add a multicultural depth to her palette that allows her to create paintings and portraits that are at once whimsical and obscure. According to Gina’s official website, her art more »

By LAURA RODRIGUEZ When I first looked at one of Luigi Mercurio’s pieces, I experienced a flashback back to those times when as a child, I would look through a kaleidoscope, fascinated by its ever-changing shapes and its intoxicating colors. Luigi Mercurio’s psychedelic prints stand out in a room full of paintings and sculptures. The more »