ADELA ANDEA Romanian-born, Texas-based artist Adela Andea creates complex light sculptures and installations that explore the fine line between reality and virtual reality. Swarms of LED and CCL lights along with pulsing electrical components are intricately weaved together, forming technological landscapes that hypnotize and engulf the viewer; reflecting sociopolitical themes of over-globalization. HJ BOTT Bott’s well known systemic Displacement-of-Volume (DoV) System Concepts are applied to all paintings, sculpture and installations. His work is concentrated in the analysis of the “Phenomena-of-a-Line” using his DoV Concepts. Current paintings and reliefs are both metaphorical and principally pure line-to-form explorations. 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.   SHANNON CANNINGS Shannon Cannings lives and works in Lubbock, Texas where she teaches at The Texas Tech University. Cannings’ expertly painted hyper-realistic paintings of toy guns explore the artificial nature of American consumerism, creating a visual hybrid between opposing themes of beauty & kitsch, innocence and violence, nostalgia and regret. 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". PAWEL DUTKIEWICZ One of Poland’s most innovative abstract painters, Pawel Dutkiewicz’s paintings and installations explore themes of meditation and purity through landscapes of subtle cascading colors. Influenced by such artists as Mark Rothko and Barnet Newman, Dutkiewicz’s work establishes a spiritual relationship with the viewer, evoking feelings of enlightenment and self-awareness. BEGONA EGURBIDE Barcelona based artist Begona Egurbide is one of a new generation of European female photographers whose work challenges the conventions of standard photography using a process called lenticular photography, causing the photographic image to move in response to the viewer’s body. Egurbide’s photographs explore the connection between experience and memory. 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. KATJA LOHER New York based Swiss artist Katja Loher is one of a new generation of innovative video artists whose work creates a dialogue between themes of nature and technology through integrating futuristic style performance art and video into traditional forms of sculpture.   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. 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.