Melike Kara negotiates the relationship between forms and gestures to explore social relationships and individual subjective states. she focuses on the immediacy of bodily forms rendered through frenetic accumulations of lines or small, misshapen clay figures.

   Conceptual artist He Xiangyu is perhaps best known for his headline-grabbing work The Death of Marat (2011), which featured a life-like resin sculpture of the corpse of Asian dissident artist Ai Weiwei placed in the window of a German gallery.

   Andy Denzler weaves nostalgic photorealism
with gestural expression in his wholly original style of painting. He achieves the look of his works—at once a paused film still and a sweeping abstraction—by alternating bands of unmoving,impastoed detail with horizontal sweeps of brush.

   Figures of Color is a study of black skin that explores the relationship between light and dark. This work diverts from my other photographic approaches,underscored by an appreciation for fine art painting.