Biljana Cincarevic

Purity and Serenity is a part of the concept of Holy femininity and is about the reflections of the enlightened women from the past transposed in the present time. It is an attempt in the demystification of their holiness and the transposition of their sanctity into a new form. How would enlightened women of the past look today and could the modern women experience the enlightenment and holiness of the past? Today, sacred women are replaced with the icons of style, film, business... This particular series of oils on canvas engages the observer to reflect on contemporary feminine spirituality. www.biljanacincarevic.com

Pedro Morales

By taking the practices of architecture and meditation as a point of departure I utilize the mediums
of painting and photography in an attempt to record the process of the movement towards the inner. In one practice, one uses conceptual thought to build things from materials and in the other, through awareness, one travels from the outside in to the source of everything and every thing... Travelling the opposite way from the finished building as a product, beyond conception into the bright, luminous, knowing, blissful space of the mind. www.artnuvi.com

Billy Bob Beamer

Billy Bob Beamer (b. 1947) works in small formats to create compositions through the use of meditational and labor-intensive techniques. He has exhibited in over 60 solo, juried/curated, and invitational art shows throughout the USA and at the Ancient High House Museum, Staffordshire, UK. His art works can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Virginia's Governor's Mansion, the Virginia Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley, and the estate of noted art/cultural historian, Roger Shattuck. Currently, in addition to his own drawing, Beamer teaches classes in "drawing as quiet active meditation" to relieve pain and stress. In January and February of 2011, beamer exhibited with internationally known artists at Roanoke College, in Salem, Virginia. The exhibit featured work done by those who use meditation as a primary vehicle for creating. beamer says, "My best way to express incalculable enormity is to create its contrasting opposite. At this time, I am concentrating on drawing--- that most basic mode of communication --and on arte povera-like constructions, both in a small format. To paraphrase Blake: 'the universe lies in a grain of sand' ... and in drawings or objects that are small and that may appear not too carefully crafted (however labor intensive the actual technique), I am in some sense paying homage to the marginalized...to the people (and animals) tragically seen as 'throw-aways' or 'what is to be ignored' by culture/society at large." beamer, a sociology graduate of the College of William and Mary, is also a retiree from the Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Social Services, and an award-winning trumpeter, with a 40 year week-end career playing jazz, R & B, blues, and other types of music. He also explores experimental, experiential writing as a meditational tool, and has had five books of his POMES published by Chalk Editions and White Sky Books. billy bob (who has a married daughter, a psychologist) lives with his wife, Kathy, and their cats in Bedford County, Virginia. http://www.outsiderart.info/beamer.htm

Helga Kreuzritter

Are we going to keep walking and evolve super- slowly yet surely, or are we going to go against the stride, take discomfort and uneasiness without rest upon ourselves to bend our circle, make rules new in each moment and take the risk of being lost in the forest for the sake of involution?... The Abbreviated Articulation of Helga Kreuzritter –Tchera Niyego www.helga-kreuzritter.de

Halis Karakurt

When one peers into Halis Karakurt internal and private worlds what becomes immediately apparent is that two different visions coalesce as one in these visual works: an internal vision that one sees in visions and a type of representation that refers to the mimetic, that is, that refers to objects or their qualities that reside in the world of lived experience and reality. The near-impossibility of wrenching one system of sight from the other is at the core of this work's mystery and beauty. With this realization in mind it becomes quite clear this very fine artist intends to engage his viewers with the suggestive potency of symbolic material which refers to the antithesis of spirit-matter and matter-form: contrarieties always seeking synthesis but never achieving it. Naturalistic surfaces and textures alluded to are organic ones. The radiant gossamer quality of the bold marks, overall fields which resemble wave patterns, or microcosmic energy fields seem to ebb and flow on the residual larger forms which rests within them. They are fascinating to behold, a prism of the phantasmagoric characters involving dervishes and priests. These iconographic patterns allow the inner eye infinite access to a limitless and transcendent pictorial plane. The field is boundless and universal. The larger contrasted forms shimmer like apparitions within their overall spectral force fields. Three dimensions are insinuated but not stressed as size and scale becomes sublimely indeterminate. The dream quality pervades these efforts in which one can discern figural shapes that hover tremulously over the surfaces. These forms resist interpretation as they filter as spectral beings in and out of view. One could infer the impressions in time passed molded over cultures and civilizations. It is the mere suggestion of the past realized in a momentary flush, and then retreating, like a dream, in the night that keeps our attention and wonder fully aflame. www.haliskarakurt.net

William Rodwell

No matter what the subject matter, Rodwell’s work, when knit together as a whole, demonstrates truth by expressing beauty, pain, strength and volatility. wmrodwell@gmail.com

Susan Carnahan

I am an artist, a mother and a wife based in NYC.
In my work, I have often explored the nature of relationships and the perpetual shifting dynamics between people and their various roles. I am fascinated by how these roles inform each other, and how they are never static in nature, but rather constantly subject to change as they evolve. As an artist, I have examined roles and ideas from the perspective of a child. Now, as a parent, I am able to see myself in the role of my own mother, gaining a better understanding of how these cycles come together, full circle. www.susancarnahanart.com