The natural beauty of the human face, accompanied by colors and shapes cascading around a view of perfection. Art can give us new ways of interpreting beauty, and Mike Ruiz's print Surreal 4 captures the human element perfectly while exercising one's imagination.
This month is an exciting one for us, as we get to welcome three outstanding new artists to the Prints family. Each of them bring their own unique style and beauty to the constantly growing catalogue we have here at Prints995. Here's a brief intro of the new artists, we know you are going to love them!
Born in Brooklyn, New York, before it was fashionable, Ennid Berger is a photographer, painter and writer who is based in New York and Key West, Florida. With a creative soul, Ennid captures the raw energy of the city with a contemporary flair. Her neo-surrealistic images have a painterly aesthetic enhanced by her preference for the palette of grainy, high-speed black and white film.
Florence Montmare was born in Vienna, grew up in Stockholm and ventured to New York in 1996. She studied Photography and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Florence has stated that intimacy and disconnection are some of the themes that drive her work. She has said, "Psychological ambiguities become apparent when memory meets imagination and love and intimacy encounters longing and disconnection."
Michelle Dean Kaminer was born of Russian descent in New York City and grew up in North Jersey. She received her bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Theater from Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 2001. She strives to convey the feelings of every day life, as her images capture wonderful, brief moments in time.
Mike Mabes has presented photographs in solo exhibitions in Santiago and Berlin. He now resides and takes photographs in Brooklyn, New York.He spends his days with a camera under his arm. He seeks beauty in every day life; in the landscapes and memorable faces. His approach to photography is quite varied, but beauty is the common denominator for his imagery. “I love playing with what life has to offer.” Pictorially there is so much to work with, real life, no stages just the raw reality of it all, understand it and present that to the viewer.
A photographer of substance, Stephane C. seems to search for light in the darkest hours of the night. Whether his subjects appear from thin air or disappear before the viewer’s eye is all a matter of perspective. Communicating through violent contrasts of coal black and electric white, blurred image, and long pause, his photographs introduce us to a strange and magically troubling universe.
– Julien Voinot / Edit Revue
