Tag: contemporary women artists
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Limor Dekel creates striking sculptural faces using cardboard and repurposed paper, transforming discarded materials into expressive works full of life and movement. Trained in ceramic design at Bezalel Academy, her practice blends craftsmanship with experimentation. What began during the pandemic as a practical solution for teaching evolved into a defining artistic language rooted in freedom and sustainability. Her layered forms carry human energy, gesture, and emotion, often inspired by her background in dance and observation. By elevating humble materials, she challenges how we value both art…
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Lisa Matway creates bold abstract faces layered in vivid pinks, purples, and oranges that pulse with emotion. Her work is deeply rooted in her husband Jerry’s journey with Parkinson’s, exploring the gap between a face that appears still and the life that continues beneath it. Through exaggerated features, layered textures, and unapologetic color, she restores expression where the condition tries to take it away. Each piece begins with shared conversations, translating lived experience into visual form. What started as a personal outlet has grown into modart4pd,…
Nicole Garcia blends gothic and whimsy into bold, imaginative portraits and mixed media works. Her art celebrates strangeness, play, and fearless self-expression
Lorena Casanova’s hyper-realistic charcoal portraits prove that black and white can hold as much emotion as color. Through subtle gestures, light, and shadow, she captures the quiet intensity of the human face with striking depth and honesty.
Kathleen Warren’s encaustic works layer wax over photography, building and scraping surfaces that mirror memory itself. Through patience, intuition, and time, her paintings reveal stories that emerge slowly, inviting viewers into a quiet dialogue beneath the surface.
Adi Zur’s layered mixed media paintings combine oil, text, and collage to create surfaces that hold hidden histories beneath them. Inspired by archaeology and philosophy, her work invites viewers to look closer, uncovering buried meaning through colour, fragments, and subtle shifts in composition.
Margo Nacai’s abstract expressionist paintings challenge traditional portraiture by presenting fragmented faces, gestures, and forms that mirror the complexity of human identity. Through colour, broken lines, and emotional space, her work explores memory, inner tension, and the unfinished nature of self.
Cristina Jantic creates quiet digital portraits in walnut, sepia, and vintage grey tones that invite viewers to slow down and feel what women often carry silently. Her work blends handwritten poetry and muted imagery to explore emotional labor, endurance, and the invisible weight many women hold without words.
Maryna Tsoneva grew up in Soviet Ukraine surrounded by grey streets and scarcity, but one art book changed everything. Today she paints portraits in oil that don’t just resemble people, they hold what they carry inside. Through restrained brushwork and quiet emotional depth, her faces invite viewers to pause, look closer, and feel the unspoken stories beneath the surface.
Nadja Eleonora Milsten’s work sits in the space between doubt and trust. Her watercolor figures feel present but unfinished, shaped as much by emotion as by restraint. Some of her strongest paintings are the ones she almost abandoned—set aside for months until time changed how she saw them. Moving from oils to watercolor during a turning point in her life, she stopped painting for expectation and began painting from instinct. Her practice isn’t about certainty. It’s about letting doubt exist, stepping away when needed, and trusting that what doesn’t make sense…