Guest Curator Carolyn Edlund Highlights The Works Of Bianca Dakli, William Brown & Alexander Shandor
Carolyn EdlundAbout Carolyn Edlund
With a background as a self-employed artist and art business writer, Carolyn Edlund brings 35 years of experience in the industry to her work with creative entrepreneurs. She is the founder of the top ten blog “Artsy Shark” and has authored eight courses on art marketing, pricing, sales strategies and other topics. Carolyn has juried, curated and judged extensively for art fairs, and exhibitions, and presented more than 60 live art business workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has an active practice as an art business consultant.
Selected Artists
Bianca Dakli.
William Brown.
Alexander Shandor.Bianca Dakli
Following her passion as both a dancer and a painter, Bianca Dakli’s creative work is inextricably entwined. Her visual art conveys movement at every turn—the ebb and flow of water and air, wild stirrings of color and texture, or a quiet surface with whispers of rumblings beneath.
Her work has the power to evoke strong emotions in the viewer through the juxtaposition of color and form, or even with a well-placed brushstroke. Each painting alerts the senses, uplifts the spirit or piques the curiosity. The effect may be calming and hypnotic or dynamic and energizing.
As the artist uses her innate sense of balance and motion to compose, she moves the observer as well.
William Brown
Artist William Brown’s work is like a race across time, with a message that perfectly reflects our current age. His montages are mashups of Renaissance imagery and hi-tech replication. Sourcing already complex works by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel the Elder, Brown hypercharges them into frenetic compositions that read like a high-speed network of internet connections.
What better way to create these intricate works than with a robotic painting system designed to alter the nature of art itself? His compelling portfolio challenges us to look into the future if we dare, and to imagine the possibilities.
Alexander Shandor
Spontaneous in nature and filled with vivid color and energy, the paintings of Ukrainian artist Alexander Shandor invite the viewer to step into the creative experience with a sense of immediacy. Each swiftly placed brushstroke captures a unique fleeting moment in time, and forever preserves it on canvas.
Using simple, bold fields of color that convey form and meaning but only hint at detail, Shandor unapologetically shares a sense of sheer joy in the act of creation. The observer cannot help but be drawn into each exuberant work of art.