Ben Dierckx​
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After attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Ben Dierckx studied Cultural Science and Philosophy of Art at the Free University of Brussels and graduated at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Flanders. He subsequently migrated to Madrid (Spain) where he has developed his practice in electronic arts and produced a series of interactive installations in which he explores the idea of interdependency and consciousness of perception. In 2006, he won the Caja Madrid "Generación" prize.
Ben Dierckx has exhibited in Belgium, Spain, Hungary Mexico and the USA and curated shows in Mexico City, New York, and Taipei.
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Carole d'Inverno
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Born in Belgium in 1956, Carole d’Inverno is a research-driven artist focusing on American history. Her paintings and drawings investigate themes of immigration, feminism, and human impact on the land.
Notable solo exhibitions include the Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN; Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY; The Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH; The Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, amongst others. d’Inverno lives and works in New York.
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History and abstraction are at the core of my work. I produce paintings and drawings based on the regional history of the United States, with a focus on immigration, feminism, and the human impact on the land.
In 1979, I immigrated from Europe to the United States. In contrast with my upbringing, America seems to be in constant motion. Jobs, homes, families, neighborhoods, and wealth can all change in the blink of an eye. How can I understand these complex phenomena? Instead of trying to grasp the whole picture, I focus on local history and make works organized in collections tailored to each area I study. My research starts with the effect that humans have had on this land. The landscape bears the marks of the people who have lived here through the millennia. The exploitation and allocation of the available resources have caused enormous political and societal changes. I follow those lines, looking, getting lost, backtracking, and finding new threads. American history is a rabbit hole of information I love to fall into.
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Magda Knop
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Magda Knop is born and raised in Brussels, Belgium but lived in different countries before moving to Houston, TX.
Her dad was a celebrated playwright, author and journalist in Belgium, her grand dad was a stained-glass artist. She is a self-taught abstract artist with a concern about the health of our planet.
Knop has been featured in several juried art shows, in group exhibitions and received honorable mentions and best in show awards. Her paintings are already in private collections in the USA and Europe.
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Searching for the unknown, I like to find out what happens when I don’t follow the rules. In this series, I explore the profound impact of important words in life. Each brushstroke captures the essence of words that hold immense meaning, shaping our experiences and relationships. Through vibrant colors and intricate details, I aim to evoke emotions tied to these words, inviting viewers to reflect on thepower and significance embedded in language. My art becomes a visual narrative, weaving a tapestry of words that resonate with the shared human experience, fostering a deeper connection to the language that defines our existence.
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Marc Lambrechts
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Marc Lambrechts studied at the St. Lucas Higher Institute, Brussels. He obtained a scholarship to study printmaking in Bratislava, Slovakia. He left for New York City in 1983 and took continuing education courses at Pratt Institute. Marc also curated exhibitions and was a guest professor/ coordinator at the Higher Institute for the Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. His work has been exhibited and collected privately and corporately and has been reviewed in various publications.
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Most of my work reflects my interest and fascination with astronomy and finding our place in the universe. I express the mystery of the very small and the very big through the use of different materials. I am interested in the surfaces or skin of the work to help reveal our emotions or realities.
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Jonas Leriche
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Born in Belgium in 1976, Jonas Leriche spent ten years working as a fashion photographer before making the decision to move to New York and focus exclusively on his artistic practice. An early career in fashion enabled Leriche to develop his photography skills but spending day after day in an industry dominated by superficiality and social media posturing, left him with little enthusiasm. The experience did, however, entirely inform his approach to the practice of making art.
Leriche consciously seeks out the juxtaposition between what is artificial and what is authentic, rendering artworks that encourage the viewer to identify this duality. The driving force behind Leriche’s work is his desire to inject raw, natural elements into a flawless, cultivated image in order to challenge those viewers who are unaccustomed to scratching any deeper than the surface.
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Leriche’s artworks have been exhibited at Art Miami, Context, Scope and Art Wynwood. He has had solo exhibitions in New York City, NY and in Antwerp, Belgium.
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What matters to me is the transformation of emotions and intentional or subconscious ideas into gripping images. Each piece tells a story and the stories I create go far beyond the individual or anecdotal. My aim is not merely to create an aesthetically appealing artwork but to create something larger than life.
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NOIR artist
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NOIR Artist refers to two brothers: Lucien and Martin Gilson. While Lucien creates, Martin handles the business side of things.
Having attended Saint-Luc art school in Liège, Lucien is attracted by the creative, collagist aspects of what he sees around him. Through paintings, drawings, monumental frescoes, murals, trompe-l'oeil, decoration, and urban design, he explores a world seething with tension. Constantly in search of new forms and new media, he develops a trademark graphic style, using both spray cans and brushes. Inspired by advertisements and superheroes, Lucien uses virtual reality to produce drafts, and integrates sculpture into his works. Over time, he likes to add touches of gold or color, but his signature remains the use of various shades of black.
Lucien and Martin Gilson live and work in Liège.
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NOIR Artist embodies a dual look at life, the world, people, and the events that we experience. It reflects a conversation between us, a dialogue that pulls you through an elegantly concealed door -into the world of NOIR Artist.
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Click here to see NOIR artist's art at the Belgian residence.
Jack Saul
Jack Saul is an artist and psychologist living in New York City and Woodstock, NY where he has his painting studio. He founded and directs the International Trauma Studies Program which has provided training and innovative project development with trauma affected communities around the world for the past 25 years. Originally on the faculty at New York University, Saul moved to Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and has been visiting professor in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has been exploring the role of the arts in healing practices and taught at the Norwegian Expressive Arts Academy and the European Graduate School Program on the Arts and Conflict Transformation.
Since I began my studies as a psychologist, I have been interested in the important role that culture, religion, and the arts play in shaping narratives of suffering and transformation. This has led to me to focusing on the role of the expressive arts as a powerful tool for exploring the nature of traumatic experience and awakening the healing capacities in individuals, families and communities.
Painting has been a primary focus to explore my own internal life and family history as well as in working in therapy with clients. In my work with the Chilean and Liberian refugee and Post 9/11 communities in New York City, I have found theater to be a powerful way of eliciting the embodied experiences of suffering and resilience and finding a way forward.
I am currently presenting a sound installation entitled The Moral Injuries of War in theaters and art museums in the US, Europe, and Latin America. It engages the public in a conversation about the moral consequences of war. My work as a painter has recently focused on an artistic inquiry into the nature of consciousness.
Anita Thevissen
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Anita Thevissen’s artistic journey began in her childhood, blossoming into a more intense creative pursuit during her residence in France’s “Pays de la Loire” region, a short drive from Paris. Immersed in this setting, she refined her watercolor techniques under the guidance of various mentors, from 2004 till 2015. Her return to her native Belgium in August 2015 marked the commencement of another chapter in her artistic journey. This phase culminated in the attainment of the Visual artist degree in 2021 after a five-year study at the Royal Academy of Arts located in Belgium.
Thevissen’s art is deeply rooted in a natural and sustainable ethos, employing materials such as Indian ink, watercolors, water-based acrylics, and pencils on paper. Her affinity for Indian ink stems from its unique interaction with paper, mirroring how emotions and sensations are captured within people. Thevissen’s watercolor technique involves layering colors to enhance the drawing’s sensitivity and plasticity, a method she perfected in France, resulting in stunningly bright colors achieved without mixing pigments.
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As an artist deeply fascinated by the human condition, my work is a continuous exploration of the complexities and nuances of human emotions and behaviors. My portfolio is a diverse tapestry, ranging from elegant, recognizable portraits to more abstract depictions of disoriented figures and isolated body parts. Each piece tells its own emotional story, a reflection of my mood at the time of creation. My art oscillates between the understated elegance of minimalist, monochrome drawings, where the white space breathes an enigmatic air, to the vibrant, colorful compositions that burst with joy and sensuality.
Through my art, I encourage viewers to pause, to reflect, and to find solace in the beauty of life. Through the exploration of themes such as femininity, psychology, and social alienation, I invite my audience into a world where they can explore the intricacies of their own emotions and experiences, and perhaps find a piece of themselves in the process.
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Marc Van Cauwenbergh
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Marc Van Cauwenbergh is a Belgian-American artist who has lived and worked in New York since 1994. He recently moved to New Jersey and divides his time between the USA and France.
Originally from Belgium, he attended the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent and holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
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Van Cauwenbergh has exhibited internationally since 1984. His work is in private, public and corporate collections such as the Collection of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brussels, BE), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NY), Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée (La Louvière, BE), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), EBES (Ghent, BE) and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.
His most recent solo exhibitions were at Radial Art Contemporain (Strasbourg, France), 57W57arts - Project Space, New York, NY,
Jason McCoy Gallery (New York, USA), Alice Mogabgab Gallery (Beirut, Lebanon), Galerie Van Caelenberg (Aalst, Belgium), the Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce
(New York, USA), Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery (Brussels, BE) and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Staten Island.
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Awards include Grant Flemish Community, Belgium and a Fulbright-Hays Grant for Graduate Study in the USA.
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My work explores the increasing fragmentation of human identity and communication within the chaos of the contemporary, urban world; the faceted emotions of physical and psychological relationships.
I view my canvas as a theatrical space, onto which one can project life with its ever-changing combinations of people and environments.
Each part of the canvas is linked to that experience both positive and negative. My compositions reflect aspects of this drama. Sensual, organic forms, applied in fluid, dynamic layers of oil paint on raw Belgian linen, alternating applying paint and resting, interact to lock in the composition.
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Anne Vandycke​
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Anne Vandycke is a Belgian artist living and working in New York.
Vandycke studied Art in New York at Columbia University in an Advanced Intensive Painting Program, at the National Academy School & Museum in the Studio Art Intensive Program and Graphic Design at the Parsons, The New School.
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Vandycke is best known for her minimalist abstract oil painting and her sense of color and composition that transforms shapes and lines into a free movement and an energetic state of change. The transition from one state to another and the movement is what brings her art to life. The freedom of the brushstroke and the precision of the composition makes the work intense, always seeking to make the imagination travel through emotion, which is for her the essence of art.
Vandycke has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in the USA and in France, at venues including the National Academy Museum, NY; the Sonia Gechtoff Gallery, NY; the N.A.W.A. Gallery, NY; The Affordable Art Fair, NY; The Other Art Fair, NY; the Ad Art Show at Sotheby’s, NY; The Ad Art Show digitally on the LinkNYC screens, at the Oculus Westfield World Trade Center screens; at Fendi Casa Showroom, NY; at the BelCham, NY; at Intuitae Family Office; at the Private Residence of the Belgium Consul, NY. Her work is represented, among others, by InSight Artspace Gallery and Mixx Atelier Gallery. Her works are in private collections in the USA, Belgium, France, Japan and Switzerland.
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Art is an expression of the mind and senses, opening the door of imagination to make sense of it. Therefor, art is always a personal story, both from the point of view of the artist and the one who admires.
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