JOZSEF BULLAS One of Hungary's leading artists. Exploiting the traditional medium of oil to canvas, he aims to create an indefinable space within his paintings. The structured composition combined with his gestural mark-making emphasizes the physicality of the painting process, resulting in images that pulsate with energy and tension.   WILLIAM CANNINGS An English - born sculptor, now living and working as a professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.   His work researches the effects of compressed air on permanent materials, such as aluminum and steel.   As a result, his sculptures appear as if they were sensually carved, exhibiting properties that seemingly contradict the physical properties of materials used for composition.   ANDREY CHEZHIN One of Russia's most important conceptual photographers, Chezhin's work can be found in numerous international photographic collections.   His work d eals with the idea of capturing the unpredictable by using purely photographic processes in order to create a "new reality" within one negative.   ONDREY COUFAL Born in 1979 in Czech Republic. This unique self-taught painter developed his own style by the age of ten and has already had 15 exhibitions in Europe and the US. His paintings, embodied within surrealist movement, relate to the theme of the "inner self". LALLA ESSAYDI Lalla Essaydi was born and raised in Morocco, but lives in the United States. "Converging Territories" was photographed in the house in which women from her family were sometimes locked up for weeks if they had transgressed the rules of Islam. ORNA FEINSTEIN An artist and printmaker now living and working in Houston, Texas. Her mono-prints address her fascination with nature's abstractions.   She considers the printing process an artistic journey beginning with the observation of nature, and ending in a multi layered abstract creation. GARLAND FIELDER Garland Fielder is a Houston based artist that received his MFA from the University of North Texas in 2005. He has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally. His work is primarily focused on the interpretive components of visual art, bringing into question the act of "reading" a painting or object. Fielder is also a frequent contributor to Art Lies, ArtsHouston and Glasstire. GEORGE GROCHOCKI George Grochocki has constructed a body of work that places him firmly in the tradition of one-image systemic art. His work claims similarity to the abstract systemic art and the repetitive imagery of such artists as Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Thomas Downing. Grochocki utilizes in his system four colors: black, gold, silver, and white. These colors are symbols or signs that represent the notions of tranquility, confinement, separation, and tension. Utilizing the square as his primary form, Grochocki creates four spatial archetypes or areas. These areas when endowed with color become a commentary upon the dynamics of space.   SAMARIY GURARIY A Soviet photojournalist who began his career in 1934, photographing for the Moscow newspaper Izvestia. He became the favorite photocorrespondent of Stalin and was present and working at many of the most historic events of Stalin's career, such as the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences as well as covering the Soviet-Nazi front during the Second World War. In Russia today, he is regarded by photographic historians as the equal of Baltermans, Khaldei and Shaikhet. DMITRI KOUSTOV Russian born, Texas -based painter and sculptor.   The foundations of his work are intense color and abstract imagery.   Commissioned works include a 14 feet steel sculpture for Easterwood Airport, College Station, Texas, and a 33 ft mural for the Arts Consul of Brazos Valley. NEVA MIKULICZ Houston-based artist Neva Mikulicz will have an exhibition of eight new drawings at the Anya Tish Gallery beginning October 20, 2006. The eight works are large drawings executed in pencil on paper in a hyperrealistc style made up of tens of thousands of tiny hard graphite pencil marks.   MICHAL MISIAK Michal Misiak is Polish artist based in Krakow. He was born in 1973 in Tarnow, Poland, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he currently teaches. He is a recipient of numerous international awards for both painting and drawing. JOHNNY ROBERTSON The primary sources of inspiration for Robertson’s paintings are Texas landscapes (Robertson is from Lubbock), and the unique dynamic of the Texas to California road trip (for which he received a Dozier Travel Grant in 2001).       SOODY SHARIFI Born in Iran, Soody Sharifi has lived in Houston for over 30 years. Sharifi’s prints, which include modified Persian miniatures and documentary photography, explore the tension between public and private spaces, depicting images which undo the Islamic stereotypes represented by the media. CHARLOTTE SMITH Carefully stacked drips of paint that form intriguing piles and patterns are the integral part of the meticulous work by Charlotte Smith. The use of vibrating colors and cast shadows farther contribute to the complexity and dynamic quality of her paintings. A native Texan, Smith has had a solo museum show (the Art Museum of Southeast Texas), and has been widely collected by corporate and individual collectors. MAXIM WAKULTSCHIK Born in Byelorussia in 1973, Maxim WAKULTSCHIK lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy under Beate Schiff and Janis Kounellis. His paintings, objects, and installations employ figurative images which are multifaceted and dynamic in process.   PIOTR WORONIEC The unique and surprising sculptures of Piotr Woroniec are an isolated phenomenon in the world of contemporary art. His technical skills and imagination enable him to bring his wooden world to life embracing realistic, symbolic and fairytale - like styles. His sculptures have been exhibited in Germany, France, Denmark and the US.