Iryna Bondar

Glamour

2025

This is the first part of a diptych exploring the inner garden of a woman's soul, where different facets of the self quietly coexist.
Among lush greenery and oversized pink roses, se...

The second part of the diptych continues the quiet dialogue between the many inner voices of a woman. Two figures emerge among blooming roses: one leaning dreamily into a flower, the...

The painting Quiet Joy is an intimate portrait of a moment when the outer world quiets down to make room for inner silence. A young woman stands by a window, holding a handbag filled...

A gentle scene where the woman and the flowers seem to breathe in unison.
Soft tones of pink and green blend into a space filled with light and stillness.
It’s a story about feminini...

NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans. In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation. Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The artist says of her work... “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography. I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...

Emotion #5 is a striking acrylic on canvas by Ukrainian contemporary artist Inna Kharchuk, created in 2024. This unique, emotionally charged work captures the fragility and complexit...

My works speak of the human condition, the animality that inhabits us, and the creative impulse as a survival strategy. My series are a reflection of my own experience, of the life t...

Anita Kapraljevic No TItle 2010 Oil on canvas 150 x 119 cm signed, titled and dated on verso Anita Kapraljevic is born in Mostar and lives in Berlin. She studied in Nürtingen Univer...