Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Lisa Catara has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Lisa is an award-winning photographer based in Georgia, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 30th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Lisa’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her photographs submitted to this competition.
As an acclaimed photographer, Lisa Catara's focus lies in looking at the world from a different perspective, finding beauty in the ordinary.
Lisa believes photography saved her. Rather than sit in despair, she bought her first DSLR camera and forced herself to see the world from new perspectives. Out of pain, she found beauty, self-discovery, and absolute magic.
She creates composition which feels intimate/personal, bridging a gap between the work and the viewer. Lisa wants you to feel as if it's your story, too, because she’s learned that- in many ways- we have more in common than we do differences.
Lisa believes art has healing power. She is passionate about cars, travel, and street art.
As a child of creative curiosity, a lifetime spent in and around the Arts and Entertainment was inevitable. If there's a story to be told, I will capture it. There is beauty to be found everywhere, and in everything.
I have come to be known for my use of composition. I want the viewer to feel as if they're there, that my experience could very well be their experience.
With automotive work, I imagine myself reaching out and grabbing the steering wheel of a rare 1961 Jaguar, or getting under the hood of a brilliant restoration.
In my travel photography, it's never just about the architecture of an opera house, but that by looking, you can almost hear music, ascending throughout the hall. My goal is that my images make the viewer feel '”here and now.”
To learn more about Lisa and to see more of her photography, please visit her website.
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Congratulations to Sandy Gherardi for her acceptance into Fusion Art's Featured Artist Members Gallery.
Sandy Gherardi is an award-winning self-taught, fine art photographer based in Washington, DC and Virginia, USA.
Sandy’s love for photography originated decades ago with a Nikon School of Photography weekend course and a Digital Arts course at the Corcoran School of Art. After that, she was hooked!
While she’s often recognized for her abstracts, she also embraces representational photography. She rarely pre-select a location to photograph. She finds subjects everywhere, from the banks of a scenic river to a mundane heap of trash.
Architecture, window and water reflections are among Sandy’s favorites. Never knowing what she’ll discover on any given day, life becomes an adventure.
Sandy was awarded 1st Place Overall/Best in Show for her photograph, "The Big Apple” in the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery’s 14th Annual “Cityscapes” Online Art Exhibition in June 2024 and selected this Featured Artist membership as her award.
Sandy is a Fusion Art Featured Artist Member.
Click below to visit her member artist webpage and to learn more about her.
https://www.fusionartgallery.art/sandy-gherardi/
For the second year in a row, Renée Phillips, the Director of Manhattan Arts International and the Curator of Our Bond With Nature on The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS website exhibition asked me to be a Guest Judge and to give a special award for the artists juried into this exhibition.
I chose Helena Cooper’s abstract photography as my special award-winning artist. Helena’s colorful interpretation of nature’s beauty provides a glimpse of tones, textures, and energy that is rarely noticed by the rest of us when we are in the midst of nature.
Her nature photography contains either an explosion of colors or a muted version of earth, water and form. Though her artworks appear to be colorful abstracts, they produce a subtle experience of the natural world in the viewer.
Below are her artist biography and statement, along with 5 images of her outstanding abstract photography.
Artist Biography:
Helena Cooper was born and lived in São Paulo, Brazil, until the age of 25. She grew up in a family of artists, surrounded by sculptors, painters, designers, jewelers, and photographers. Helena studied painting at the Escola Brasil Dois Pontos, the prestigious Art Institute of Brazil which has launched many of the country’s greatest contemporary artists as well as The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
As an abstract artist, Helena’s paintings and photography both reflect mysterious depths of nature. Through photography, Cooper explores the potential for water and earth to nourish, heal and restore the mind, body, and soul.
The Finger Lakes region in upstate NY provides a perfect venue for this expression; its gorges, forests, lakes, and streams are Helena’s inspiration. This is where she lives.
Artist Statement:
“I found comfort in nature during a challenging time in my life. I started to photograph at gorges, lakes, and streams near where I live in the Finger Lakes. Through the camera lens, a decomposing leaf in a small puddle of water or a beam of light refracted in a stream transforms into a whole universe of new perspectives.” Helena’s website: helenacooperart.com
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