Tarik Talk

As you may have guessed it, Raissa Mendes is Tarik's sister. Originally from Brazil, she has lived and traveled around the world and today calls Shenzhen, China her home, with her french husband, two cats and a house full of plants. Raissa is a marketing professional, entrepreneur, RTY200 yoga teacher. In this episode, Raissa and Tarik talk about their bond as siblings, upbringings in Brazil, movi...

Jonathan Levine Projects is committed to new and cutting edge art. Our roots go back to 1995 when LeVine's life-long participation in punk and underground music grew into a curatorial experiment with the visual culture that surrounded him. In 2005, he opened Jonathan LeVine Gallery in the Chelsea district of New York City and had great success nurturing the careers of many celebrated artists. In 2...

Michael Casalinho, a Jersey City restaurateur, chef and entrepreneur sits down to discuss his passion for food, cooking, travel, his entrepreneurship journey and much more!

Born in Minneapolis, MN, painter Thomas John Carlson holds a BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design and earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art where he also stayed on as a fellow. Living in the NYC area for the last 12 years, he founded the Jersey City Art School in 2009. He shows his works around Jersey City, Eden Rock Gallery in St Barthelemy, and group shows around Manhattan....

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typic...

Kyle Hamilton Fine Art was founded in 2016. Catering to wide range of clientele, providing a comprehensive range of services for individual collectors and corporate collections. Offering clients tailored services to maximize personal, cultural, and financial returns.

Heidi Jahr Kirkeby is a Norwegian visual artist. She is educated at Vika School of Art and Nydalen School of Art in Oslo. She mainly works with nature abstractions with acrylics on canvas. Her artistic goal is to create interacting atmospheres by expressing her personal interpretations of nature. She aims to highlight the meditative value of nature in today’s hectic society. In a deeper sense the...

June Sira was educated at the Oslo National Academy Of The Art where she studied painting, printmaking and sculpture from 1985 to1992. She has a Master of Fine Art in painting from Chelsea School Of Art, 1999/2000. After graduation she was selected for the UBS Art Award and received the national winner prize from a jury including Sir Nicholas Serota. Her work has been purchased by museums and inst...

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typic...

Teena Soni is a New Jersey based artist working within the traditional Indian-Miniature painting in a contemporary art setting. Her training belongs to the artistic region of Udaipur, Rajasthan where she apprenticed with both her grandfather, Badri Lal Chitrakar, the renowned Indian-Miniature painter and National Award /Shilp Guru Award recipient, and her father, artist Shri Sharad Soni. The rigor...

Shakirra Torain Is A Creative Director, Producer, & Brand Director, PR Dedicated To Helping Creative Entrepreneurs In The Fashion, Beauty, And Luxury Industry Become Successful In Their Respective Career Field. During High School Shakirra Torain Was Accepted Into A Paid 4 Year Internship As A Graphic Designer & Intern For Marc Ecko Enterprises’ Sweat Equity Enterprises; Founded By Marc Eck...

ARTIST STATEMENTI am interested in capturing a sense of shifting time and space in my work. I want it to not quite inhabit the known world but be more like a dreaming space where meaningful and whimsical fragments of the day happen to have washed up. In this space, elements melt into one another - feelings into ice-cream, sea markers into volcanoes, London Underground tiles into lochs, colourful p...

As an African conceptual artist, author and life coach, my artwork focuses on consciousness, spiritual science, human, self and personal development, self-leadership, critical thinking and identity: including other multidisciplinary subjects. My work explores how we humans relate to the world around us, our connection to the universe, and what interventions we can take in our environment in order...

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typic...

Leonard is a figurative artist whose focus is emotion expressed through the body language of the subject. He finds it interesting, fascinating in fact that the viewer can empathize emotional experience simply by observing body language. This emotive body language maybe the result of the interaction of the subjects or possibly a shared experience where each subject individually expresses emotion in...

My imaginative universe of art is inspired by nature, music and eastern spiritual concepts. The art forms of abstract expression I create in my paintings are unique and alive, full of bursting and positive energy. I try to capture the moments from memories and emotions for my creation. I hope my abstract paintings can invoke dialogues and stretch the imagination. My intention is to actively create...

Yiding Yang (he/him), a private collector based in Hoboken, NJ, predicts a paradigm shift with the growing role of artificial intelligence in creative fields, both democratizing art commissions and prioritizing human involvement. Yang's journey as a collector began with frequent visits to local and international art fairs, places where he discovered a vibrant array of artists and a diversity of ex...

Alexander Yulish (b. 1975, New York) works within an unfolding narrative of improvisation and abstraction in paintings that convey the inner psychology of both human and external forms. Working predominantly in large scale formats, Yulish utilizes a direct, impasto brush, building irregular shapes layer by layer into gestural, complex color arrangements in order to reveal abstract figurative forms...

Tris McCall is a music journalist, novelist, and rock musician from Hudson County, New Jersey, described by The New York Times as "the plugged-in, Internet-era muse of Jersey City." In 2010, he became the music critic for the Newark Star-Ledger. As of 2017, McCall has released four solo albums; songs intended for two future albums are previewed alongside his short stories in a web project called M...

Josh Urso is a contemporary sculptor in Jersey City, NJ working in concrete, stone, and various pigments. He studied engineering and product design at Carnegie Mellon University and owned and operated Josh Urso Design, a furniture and lighting design business for over 20 years before pursuing sculpture full time. His background in producing functional objects and his familiarity with manufacturing...

Kim Bricker is a contemporary printmaking artist currently living in Jersey City, NJ. She received a BA in Fine Arts with a concentration in 2D Media from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University in 2004. She has worked in furniture design, graphic design, and even jewelry design, always seeking out opportunities to be creative. Travel to the...

LAWRENCE CIARALLO is an artist, designer and muralist from the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. His work is an eclectic mix of portraits, pop art and mixed media pieces that address a myriad of topics and honor a diverse group of individuals. As part of his art practice he is a member of the YNY Alliance for Young New Yorkers, an organization that provides diversion programs for court-involved young p...

Georgina Billington is an internationally acclaimed makeup artist, renowned for her bold and imaginative vision of feminine beauty. With over two decades of experience in the industry, she has worked with top-tier international editions of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, and at prestigious events like Milan, Paris, London & NYC Fashion Weeks. Georgina has worked with some of the biggest...

Fabricio Suarez is an artist from Uruguay working in NY/NJ area. He received his BFA in Fine Arts and illustration from the School of Visual Arts. He has been a part of numerous group shows in NJ, NY & LA and has done residencies at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City and Artists Off-the-Grid, in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. His current studio practice described as Abstract Baroque, consist of mo...

Mindy Gluck Artist Statement: My desire to create visual imagery using abstraction, to create worlds that don’t exist in reality, reflects my belief that there will always be truths we can’t prove: mysteries, the unknown, truths that are beyond science and mind. Enter the realm of imagination to create worlds that can’t be proven or seen until they are brought into the light. This is the journey I...