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 Janna Sokova
Young, Russian artist Janna Sokova began making still-life and landscape paintings at a very young age. Her passion for springtime is apparent in her floral, fruit and foliage subjects. “Spring is the time when everything is transformed.” Sokova studied at the Childrens’ Art School in Moscow at the age of 8, and continued at the Moscow Art Surikov Lyceum. She has been exhibiting her work since 1994.
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Beatrice Mady
Beatrice Mady’s abstract paintings are interpretations of nature. Through her work, the artist voices her belief that art can reveal spiritual truth. “The layering of color, both opaque and transparent, can be likened to the layers of consciousness or the veils of reality.” Mady received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York, and her work belongs to several corporate collections, including Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceutical and Bristol-Meyers Squibb. |
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Alice Wexler
Alice Wexler’s painting technique incorporates the use of ink stamps to create layers. The repeated, sometimes varying gesture of the stamped mark emerged from her interest in Eastern art; from “the spatial concepts and the relationship to nature of Eastern artwork, particularly the tantric fabric scrolls, which depict sacred images.” Wexler received her doctorate in education from Columbia University and her Masters in Fine Art from the Royal College in London.
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Liduine Bekman
Liduine Bekman’s award-winning watercolors of underwater life reveal her life-long fascination with the sea. “The ocean was very much a part of my childhood.” She grew up in the Netherlands, a country that she says “was literally built out of the sea.” Her lyrical compositions of stone crabs, turtles and sharks are painted in a vivid palette of bright tropical hues, indicative of her home in Pompano Beach, Florida. Bekman studied at the Alfred Glassell School of Art and the Berkshire College of Art and Design.
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 Kasandra Weinerth
Kasandra Weinerth’s paintings and monotypes mimic the shapes and textures of nature in depictions of leaves and vines created in an intricate process. “I layer gold leaf with transparent acrylic glazes, creating an iridescence that makes each painting appear to glow from within.” Her interest in alchemy is apparent in the transformation her work undergoes from start to finish. Weinerth studied at the Art Center College of Design, and has exhibited her work in the Napa Valley region of Northern California.
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 Gaetano LaRoche
Gaetano LaRoche’s works on canvas and paper are interpretations of contemporary social patterns. His expressive, almost childlike line and color depict human and animal beings in dreamlike social settings. Through innocent, and at times humorous characters, he evokes issues of violence, love, diversity and self-esteem. LaRoche received his BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and his Ph.D. in Urban Education from the University of Wisconsin.
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