Mahlstedt Gallery | Our Artists

OUR ARTISTS

Highly regarded Realist painter Maurice Sapiro is no stranger to taking chances. As anyone who studies his work can attest, his ability to perceive, capture, and transpose light and color onto canvas is unlike any other.

Philip McKay’s fusion of black and white photography with digital artistry evokes the existential exploration of being.

Andrei's interest in logic, computers and reasoning resonates well with learning and working in Photoshop. His love of photography pushes him to think about composition, color and subject matter.

Astro De Sagun is an artist born in the Philippines, who migrated to England in 2006. He describes his photography as a combination of emotions & motions in a surreal frozen frame shot; photography on a deeper antithesis mood of the human eye.

Born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1977, José is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes acrylic, oil and watercolour paintings, 3D computer graphics and augmented reality.

Olivier Lamboray

Olivier Lamboray, a Belgian surrealist painter, is on year 22 of his artistic journey filled with dedication and discovery. Projecting a harmonious balance of whimsical color pallets with the seductive mystery of surrealism, the artist explores the dynamic shapes of architecture through their relationships with color and their manipulated surroundings.

Mélanie Simard

Melanie Simard is a talented abstract artist from Quebec City. Her unique vision combines bold colors, expressive strokes, and a vision of the real world remade as abstract expression. Her colorful work will light up a room in the home or office in any interior design.

Ben Heine is a Belgian artist who has produced through the years a huge number of artworks. He is currently best known for his original series "Pencil Vs Camera", "Digital Circlism" and "Flesh and Acrylic".

Edgar is inspired by the idea that he can create something that initially has no place in reality. To give “life” to something that did not exist beforehand is simply perfect. He tries to realize what’s inside of him, his mind and his soul. So every time he does some design, it’s part of him materialized in an abstract way, linear and colorful.

Phoenix Dawn Thomas

“Eye contact can be uncomfortable because it can reach into the depths of the soul and reveal the unknown. I like to explore the imaginary world behind a passing glance through my study of photomanipulation, especially surreal photo manipulation of eyes."

David's romantic and yet graphic compositions reveal his personal celebration of nature and the stillness of the landscape that surrounds his studio in rural Pennsylvania.

Aurika Piliponiene

Aurika’s paintings are full of fantastic and symbolic themes. Most common of which are mythical creatures - angels, birds, boat and sailing narratives, symbolizing the journey through life and many detailed and complicated floral motives.

Meir is known for his large scale paintings and strong use of color; he combines expressionist and figurative genres with Jewish spiritual elements in his work.

For the artist, visual arts means an expression that starts where words are not enough and the camera can’t see anything.Gabriele Esau wants to make this visible through a realistic manner of painting. Her genre is surrealism and fantastic realism and preferred media are oil paints and graphite.

Bassam Alemam is a painter and digital artist from Damascus, Syria. His art orbits from satirical to surreal, inspired by the social and political scenes around the world and his own life experience.

According to Dutch native Ria van Werven, “painters must have talent, technique, imagination, courage and - last but not least - inspiration for something on the canvas, and now a digital screen.”

When she paints, she creates an idea which then begins to change with the colors and textures leading her to an unexpected and unknown territory.

It was a world of dapper, fedora-wearing men coming home to their beautiful wives who wore aprons over their dresses. A world of white-picket fences, milkmen, cars with curves, and stewardesses.

Ann Baker’s main genre is a type of surreal where her compositions are inhabited by everyday objects arranged in unexpected ways to create something playful, humorous, whimsical or absurd, and where there is little or no meaning and not much sense and where it is left to the viewer to make sense of what he/she sees.

Destiny Von Brandt

Using primarily fine-tip pen, Destiny Von Brandt works as an illustrator and fine artist. She creates detailed pieces with lines, dots, and geometric shapes bringing to life creatures and dreams.

Monica Manfroi, born in Brazil in 1963, has always been immersed heavily in the world of art. For Monica, art is the purest means of personal expression. Sexuality and sensuality are heavily thematic of Monica’s works.

Ron Walker's general belief is that life in the suburbs is as exciting and as interesting as anywhere else. Suburban Primitive art came about from an interest in primitive art, combined with the knowledge that man has not changed genetically in any major way in the last sixty thousand years.

Thomas Faustin Huisking

Born in Ft. Hood, Texas, Thomas traveled extensively via his father's military career. He became involved in community theater and creative writing at the age of nine, and has added musical performance, directing, and painting along the way.

Canadian born, Jared Boechler's work has been shown multiple times throughout Canada, especially in the Toronto area.

Arepo Quentin Hugard

Born in 1990 and an autodidact, Arepo comes from the magic saying that “TENET OPERA ROTAS SATOR AREPO” (meaning “the peasant is leading the plow” / “we are masters of our destiny”).

Carol Aldrighi is an illustrator who predominately works digitally, though she enjoys expressing creativity through various activities and media and always has since she was a little girl. The main theme of all the works in the "Kitsch-en" series is a visual representation of food-related common sayings, with abstract meanings, surreal depictions and a lowbrow-inspired color palette.

Raigardas Kudirka

Raigardas Kudirka is interested in subconscious construction and fabrication of life, connections between dreams and reality.

Robert van Bolderick

Robert van Bolderick is of both Swedish and Dutch descent. He works as an artist mostly in mixed media, with inspiration from his travels to Central America, Asia and Europe.

Drawn to places that are overlooked, like the beauty that might be glimpsed from a car window, Jon Macadam’s current body of work explores beauty in our modern age.

Andrés Alvira is an Uruguayan artist born in the city of Maldonado. Andrés paintings portray constant movement, experimentation, and learning inspired by the states of our being and his internal atmosphere.

“I am Sondos, an illustrator and digital artist, I do not like to be classified into particular categories, genres, and styles. All I know is that I am fascinated by nature and her energy, especially trees, which I try to interpret in all of their geometric forms. Welcome to my world of dreams and imagination.”

Güell plays with uniting the continuous actual present and future through illogical reflections with a touch of surreal humor.

Nathan Spotts is an adventurous image-maker who creates fresh and unique artworks combining elements of photography, 3D design, and illustration.

Conchi Ororbia plays with color schemes as she creates both figurative and expressionist fine art paintings.

Guillermo De Rosa

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1964, Guillermo studied at the Panamerican School of Arts, and currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. He is a professor of abstract and figurative painting techniques.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Nico Amortegui, or "MALO", has lived and worked in the Southeast since arriving to the United States in 1996. MALO focuses on painting and sculpting and woodworking with found objects.

Troy Bunch’s paintings, which he would call imaginative realism and/or surrealism, usually depict women juxtaposed with images from nature and dreams.

Viktor Shatunov

Viktor Shatunov is an illustrator and painter who creates realist images of fantasy scene. He is inspired by the possibility of self-expression through the creation of images.

Jakub Exner Zoombies

Jakub Exner Zoombies is a Digital Artist and Vector Illustrator. Visual Communication, Acrylic Paintings, Manual Studio Live Act drawing, Manual Traditional Graphics and Studio Model and Art Photography are his hobbies.

Alan is an award winning photographic realist Artist, who creates Steam Punk, fantasy, historical, portraiture, wildlife and domestic Art. Alan has exhibited at many shows and exhibitions in the UK.

Visual Artist/Photographer Raúl Cantú belongs to the generation that has grown up professionally in parallel with the explosive development of new technologies.

McGinnis has drawn ever since he could hold a pencil and whether he works in ink, paint, or digital media, his ideas begin their lives as pencil sketches.

Sandra Vucicevic

Sandra is a multidisciplinary artist of Serbian origin, who lives and works in Queens, NY. Her earliest work was published in the book of poetry and drawings - The Gate (Kapija) in 1995.

An-Stefaniya has developed her own style and voice and hastens to share it with the world!

A sculptor, maker, photographer, and art teacher, this artist trained as a ceramicist and has always loved the physical process of making objects from different materials. He explores two themes, fantasy faerie figures as Impsandthings, and steampunk creations as The Professor's Steampunk Emporium.

Mikhail Batrak's photographs feature air and sea, play with colors, lines, reflections, and transformations. Most importantly, they include a spiritual search for the self and the fullness of existence. Mikhail is seeking to expose absolute freedom in his still-life on glass, zoological metamorphoses, portraits, and landscapes.

Nadia La Moretti

La Moretti. L'Amore. Love. Love for beautiful arts, fashion, style, history, good cuisine, travelling, fantastic views and landscapes. Love for Italy.

Antonio is a mixed media illustrator, combining clean digital illustrations of sensual beauties with geometric shapes, photography and paint. The results of this combination are surprising images of unconventional beauty where each technical component fights for your attention.

A New Yorker at heart, Jesse Sanchez has been a momentous part of the Expressionism graphic art movement.

Born in the UK, David Whitlam has been producing Surrealist art for over a decade.

Flavio Ramos is a Brazilian illustrator, animator and graphic artist. He studied Printmaking at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná, and is currently working as a freelancer.

Maribel Ruiz Figueras

Maribel Ruiz Figueras is a multifaceted artist, painter and sculptor. In her artistic series of abstract expressionism she uses color and matter with a great sense of balance and a mastery of the techniques of color interaction.

Iakovos Tsaparas

Iakovos Tsaparas first attended drawing and painting courses while studying at the Architecture School in Athens. His works and the media/software that he uses to draw them have evolved over time, and he considers himself an illustrator, rather a digital artist. His images are in the genre of depictive expressionism with fauve influences.

For over twenty years, Jennifer R. Cook makes it no secret that she is always on the creative prowl. Jennifer often professes to have lost four of her nine lives in the last twenty years, becoming somewhat of an expert of always landing on her feet.

Jean Maurice Damour

Jean Maurice Damour is a digital artist based in Lyon, France. In addition to his extensive photo-manipulation abilities, he has developed his own talent as digital artist. He has cultivated a mainly surrealistic style with an ethereal mood, sometimes in black and white and sometimes with the use of vibrant colors.

Rene was born in Germany in 1969 and raised within a traditional middle class background. Despite all the efforts of his family to follow down the easy and comfortable and middle class life style he early discovered his love and passion for the unconventional. The lack of understanding and nonacceptance of his surroundings triggered the exploration of different forms of expression with a strong focus on painting and specifically surrealism.

Vidal Escalante Perez

The paintings of Merce Flores has dynamic brush strokes, both, vigorous and determined, not aiming to model reality, but to explore the possibilities in expressive color, that predominates above the line, and with the color as impulse and goal, creates a world that is holds to itself by its authenticity.

wild life artist

Lori Hutchison is an award winning photographer, who has been creating digital art and unique photography for over twenty years, photographing people and places from east to west coast.