Anthony Mikulka
"This piece was inspired by Andrew Wyeth's iconic 'Christina's World.' It would be perfect for a playroom. These are crazy times. Be safe. Love your families. Play with your dogs!" - Anthony Mikulka
Kelly Stewart
Kelly Stewart’s latest series, Alchemy Art seeks to preserve moments in time where chemistry and creativity merge. Allusions to the early process artists of the 1960s and 70s abound in her new series, as each work is a culmination of influences that arbitrarily impact the final composition. Stewart drew inspiration for the series by witnessing the natural resistance generated between her medium and the unconventional chemicals she employed. This intersection of colliding chemicals and natural factors including time, gravity and heat, produce images that seemingly suspend her colors in motion. Each haphazard culmination generates unpredictable organic forms that are both dynamic and mystifying. For the viewer, Alchemy Art offers an exploration of possibilities that range from representation to abstraction, the minimal to the abundant. Likewise, Stewart’s joining of color and process draw attention to both the micro and macrocosms that saturate our world leaving us to wonder if it is truly probability or random chance that shape our own existence. Kelly is a fine artist living in Orlando, Florida. She has a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.
Joanna Zjawinska
Joanna Zjawinska is passionate about her work, her life, her family, her homeland, and the United States her adopted home. Passion is the key to Zjawinska's art, and, in equal measure, her art has incited passion in the hearts of her viewing audience. Her life has been operatic in scope, just as Joanna's work is operatic in substance. In Zjawinka's paintings and prints, hints of impressionism, expressionism, and art nouveau are evident within a style that is wholly her own. These influences, coupled with her love for the world of fashion design, color her work but do not define it. Zjawinska imbues each image with a sense of theater. Joanna Zjawinska creates a world of glittering elegance where the people moving within the frame are chic, beautiful and dressed to the proverbial nines. It is world of aristocratic souls, who may or may not give in to base instinct. Then, there is the voyeuristic aspect of Joanna Zjawinkas' images. The viewer feels like an observer who happens upon a private scene and is privy to the secrets of those involved. Therein unfolds the stories within Zjawinska's images. Since Joanna offers considerable room for interpretation, the conclusions to the stories laid out in her paintings and prints are left for the viewer to determine.
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American actress and comedienne, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.
Diller, a self-taught artist, began painting in 1963. She worked in acrylics, watercolors, and oils throughout the 1970s and filled her Brentwood, California home with her portraits and still lifes. In 2003, at age 86, she held the
first of several "art parties," selling her artwork along with her stage
clothes and costume jewelry.
Saulius Jankauskas
Saulius Jankauskas, MD, born in Detroit, MI to Lithuanian parents that were forced to run from their
homeland because of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. A Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with a
private practice in Longwood, Florida, has been working in recycled hot glass since 1996. Has won
awards in shows and has exhibited in many galleries nationally. His creations are in private collections
as well as corporate collections. He is involved with Unique Glass Colors, LLC as the research and
development head, developing new products and coming up with unique solutions to existing problems
in glass enamels.
“In undergraduate school, I delved into ceramics. Over time, became more interested in the glazing
process than the construction, and finally realized that glaze IS glass and that working in hot glass would
be the glazing without the clay!
Working with and “on” people is absolutely my first love. Helping patients through reconstructive or
cosmetic surgery is really gratifying. What is interesting is the similarity that both processes – surgery
and hot glass, have with each other. In surgery, you have to have the ability to know how certain tissues
react in the healing process over time. Sometimes you have to over correct or under correct or just
correct to get the great final result – knowing that in the healing process the tissues will change. The
“healing” time for the glass is the time it spends in the kiln. So, like human tissue, you have to overcorrect
or under-correct, to get the final result you are trying to achieve.
Many things inspire my creations, but my main muses are poetry, Lithuanian folklore and
spirituality/religion."
Gabriel and Angela Collazo
Gabriel and Angela have been partners in love and in life for fifteen years. Angela is an interior designer with a keen eye for elegant yet simple refinement. Hers is an innate talent, a natural sophistication, which is manifested in each work with a fine sense of style, scale and color. Gabriel, an artist in every sense of the word, creates with purpose using paint, texture, layers, music and drums, all of which is imbued with light and love.
In Gabriel’s words: “I wake up every day and say a morning prayer. It's an intentional, mindful session that gets me in the mindset that a higher power is working in my life. This mentality orients me toward that which is more important than money, things, and ego: an attitude of giving, loving, and letting the Spirit of God guide me. I know that my purpose is to spread love through every aspect of my artistry. Whether it be art, music, poetry, or human relations, this mindfulness is present; this Spirit is present. Together, Angela and I can accomplish anything we put our hearts into, and this artwork is just that; it's our passion; it's our Spirit."