Mara Sfara

Red Cat by Mara Sfara, Contemporary Lucite Sculpture, Gemstone Accents

2018

Acrylic & Oil on canvas A posy of daisies to keep love alive. Nicholas Broughton is a contemporary and innovative artist who considers a day without painting to be incomplete. He has lived in various countries such as Brazil, England, Thailand and currently Australia which has contributed to his fascination for the vibrancy of life that he confidently depicts in his art. His most formative years were spent in Brazil where he learned to adapt to a fascinating scene of different cultural backgrounds and traditions. The Brazilian artist Di Cavalcanti...

The memories of his time in Brazil are Nicholas Broughton’s inspiration for his unique ‘Favela’ series. A favela is the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty town which is generally foun...

The Black Paintings is a series of pastel-on-sandpaper paintings that use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly-charged narratives. In the Black Paintings the figures (actors) take central stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. are eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as Barbara slowly layers and blends up to 30 layers of soft pastel. The idea for the Black Paintings began when I attended a jazz history course and learned how Miles Davis developed cool jazz from bebop. In bebop the notes were played hard and fast as musicians showcased their technical virtuosity. Cool jazz was a much more relaxed style with fewer notes, i.e., the music was pared down to its essentials. Similarly this series evolved from dense, complex visual compositions into paintings that depict only the essential elements—the actors. As the series evolves what is left out becomes increasingly more important, resulting in more demands being placed on the viewer. – Barbara Rachko

Derived from Francois Duerinckx's mannequin series, these limited varied edition photographs (No. 1 - 6), represent the artist's contemporary take o...

Jim Salvati's "Pool" series presents the artist's engaging realism in a Hockney-esque landscape of aquamarine pools burnished by the California sunshine...

Soft pastel on sandpaper. From Rachko’s newest series, Bolivianos. Upon a visit to the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Rachko noticed an exhibit of historical...

This figurative sculpture titled "Petals Falling" is an original artwork by Roxana Azar made of UV print on acrylic. The piece measures approximately 16"h x 7.5"w. Roxana Azar uses a...

This figurative sculpture titled "Tree Aloe" is an original artwork by Roxana Azar made of UV print on acrylic. The piece measures approximately 47.5"h x 23.5"w. Roxana Azar uses a c...

Some works of art are exploratory; they ask questions, but offer no answers. Some are the distillation of a lifetime of experience, and the answers they give cannot easily be translated into words. Richard MacDonald’s mythological sculpture...

W 629 from Linda Stein’s Knights of Protection series functions both as a defender in battle and a symbol of pacifism. The series references popular and religious icons such as Wond...

Vestment 628 from Linda Stein’s Knights of Protection series functions both as a defender in battle and a symbol of pacifism. The series references popular and religious icons such ...

This sculpture from Linda Stein’s Knights of Protection series functions both as a defender in battle and a symbol of pacifism. The series references popular and religious icons suc...