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Emilio Apontesierra-Paretti

Actor; Photographer; Poet; Visual Artist

I am an experimenter of the arts with a mixture of Influences. My Undergraduate degree has labeled me as a Fishing Engineer and My Master Degree of Education is what allows me to navigate the world of Guidance Counseling, but art is at the center of my life and it will continue influencing me and my work always. Paper manipulation, Ink on canvas, Photography and Poetry. Soy un experimentador del arte con una mezcla de influencias. Mi grado de licenciatura me ha etiquetado como un Ingeniero Pesquero y mi Maestría en Educación es lo que me permite navegar por el mundo de la Orientación y Consejería, pero arte está en el centro de mi vida y continuará influyendo en mí y en mi trabajo siempre. Manipulación de papel, Tinta sobre lienzo, Fotografía y Poesía.

sylvain Denis

Photographer; Photographer

BIO: Sylvain Denis is a photographer born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Currently residing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he works as a freelance photographer specializing in portrait, fashion, physique, commercial and promotional work. Sylvain’s interest in photography began at a young age, influenced by his own experience as a model for a fitness publication based in New York City. While living in New York City, Sylvain’s work encompassed a wide spectrum of commissions, running the gamut from assignments for Time Magazine, photographing athletes in the USA and Europe for American and European publications to shooting high fashion, collaborating with top stylists and designers. Sylvain’s commercial work has appeared in magazines both nationally and internationally. CREDENTIALS: Sylvain studied at the International Center of Photography in New York City. He did further study at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, mastering his skills in photography, lighting, graphic design, and Photoshop techniques. In 2018, Sylvain will return to Philadelphia to be a guest speaker in photography at the University of The Arts. Featured artist and curating the “Art for the Heart” show for the Poverello foundation 2016. EVENT NOVEMBER 5, 2016 Sylvain Curated a show called Art With A Heart sponsored by the foundation called Poverello who operates as a not for profit critical needs food pantry. The mostly all-volunteer organization enhances and promotes life by providing food to youth, women, and men living with HIV / AIDS who are at poverty level or below and residing in Broward County. Sylvain donated a portion of his art to the foundation to be auctioned off November 5 – 2016. The proceeds went towards the foundation, which will continue helping children in our community. After its great success, the event will be taking place again on October 3rd, 2018 at our gallery, 1310 SW 2nd Court, Fort Lauderdale, FL. AWARDS: In 2014, Sylvain was a finalist in the prestigious One Eyeland worldwide award competition. His photographs appear in the Best of the Best Photographers 2015, One Eyeland Book Volume 5. Sylvain’s work was featured in the Scope SeeMe Exhibition at Art Basel 2014 in Miami, Florida. In 2017 Sylvain was featured as a creative professional photographer on an episode of PBS South Florida.

Lawrence Jean-Louis

Photographer; Poet; Writer; Jewelry Artist

Born in Haiti, and the youngest of three. Lawrence is a self-taught photographer and a beaded jewelry artist. They say that art is supposed to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed… at best, I hope my art makes you stop, pause, and reflect. Some of the places where she’s exhibited her work include CONTINUUM West Palm Beach, The Box Gallery, Maker Faire, and the Rust Market in Lake Park which takes place the 3rd Saturday of each month. You can find my handcrafted jewelry at beyouteous.com or visit my online portfolio for photographic works. Author of Drunken Philosophy.

Niki Lopez

Filmmaker; Photographer; Storyteller; Visual Artist; Writer; Graphic Designer

Niki Lopez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and activist who is best known for her vibrant color palette and often “other-worldly” art. Her unique pieces have been exhibited across South Florida, New York and California. Lopez has been curating and programming avant-garde art shows and creative events since 2008, including her signature annual art exhibits at Fort Lauderdale’s 1310 Gallery.Lopez’s representational work allows her to share and explore stories, symbols and concepts from ancient cultures and ideologies, as well as provoke thought about the probability of life in other dimensions, multiple universes and galaxies… showing how they are all inter-connected with us here on earth.She is a core team member, pre-visualization artist and producer of the 1310 Bandits, an award-winning women-lead team of visionary filmmakers creating stories that advocate consciousness and social responsibility.Lopez founded “What’s Your Elephant,” a movement that creates a safe space for people to use expressive arts. It includes visual and performing arts, creative community building, hands-on projects, workshops and events.Lopez is one of 4 members of the Artists for Black Lives Matter collective. Artists for Black Lives Matter #a4blm is a space to express yourself creatively around issues pertaining to Black Lives Matter. A4BLM combines exhibits, workshops, social engagement & peaceful awareness campaigns surrounding Black Lives Matter issues including police brutality and the loss of life due to racial injustice.A well-rounded curator, Lopez has used her skills for various private group exhibits within South Florida, including working with cultural groups, grassroots initiatives and nonprofits such as African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Arts United, Drag It Out, LadyFest Miami and Spoken Soul Festival.Known for her community spirit and advocacy, Lopez has donated artwork for fundraising initiatives to support breast cancer awareness and help orphanages in Haiti and Rwanda.In addition, Lopez runs her independent, award-winning Graphic Design company, Niki Lopez Creative.http://nikiartstudio.com http://nikilopez.com https://www.facebook.com/nikilopezart https://twitter.com/nikiartstudio https://instagram.com/nikilopez19 https://instagram.com/whatsyourelephant #nikilopez #nikilopezpresents #whatsyourelephant #1310bandits #artistsforblacklivesmatter #nikilopezcreative Press: August 16 -Speaking Out About the Elephant in the Room https://www.artscalendar.com/speaking-out-about-the-elephant-in-the-room/ July 2018 http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/art/sf-niki-lopez-fort-lauderdale-cult-sex-slave-20180711-story.html April 25 2018 https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/Ali-Cultural-Arts-Hosts-Dramatic-And-Revealing-Exhibit-By-Artist-Niki-Lopez-20180425 April 6 2018 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/these-eyes-a-retrospect-exhibition-by-niki-lopez-at-ali-cultural-arts-10235157 September 2013 http://nikiartstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/The_Voice_09102013_sa_pg9Final.pdf July 2013 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-07-18/calendar/many-paths-one-universe/ July 2012 http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-20/entertainment/fl-sh-art-072012-20120720_1_sexual-orientation-extraterrestrials-alien-fetus July 2011 http://nikiartstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/sunsentinal-cover-july27.jpg

Rafael Montilla

Photographer; Visual Artist; Art Performance, art installation, street art

“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.” Sir Thomas Browne Ever since I can remember, I have given importance to two things in my life: internal seeking and art. My works of art are concrete and essential approximations of my own inner and outer experiences. They are simple; they reflect me. I have based my work on the flower of life and Metatron’s Cube. Geometric Abstraction allows me to convey deeper thoughts to my audience as a divine human gift. My art is a strong response to the chaotic world around us. Exploring the elements of geometric shapes, light, and color in the combination, I try to bring about harmony, unity, and balance. I would like to reduce my artistic vocabulary to dots, lines, and shades of white. My biggest challenge is to simplify my art expression. Born in Caracas, Venezuela. I have exhibited my artwork in various cities in the United States such as Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Weston, Las Vegas, Coral Gables, New York, and the world as Canada, Spain and Venezuela HONORS AND AWARDS: Special recognition for contribution to the Art in the community, delivered by the Mayor of the City of Doral (Miami Dade), Juan Carlos Bermudez, April 27, 2017 Tomas Regalado, City of Miami Mayor proclaimed August 19, 2016 as Rafael Montilla’s Day.

Linda Quakenbush

Filmmaker; Photographer; Visual Artist; Writer

Linda V. Quakebush Short Bio Linda V. Quakenbush is an American-born, Fort Lauderdale-based multi-disciplinary visual/teaching artist and filmmaker working professionally in the arts for many years. Whether via painting, photography, film, installation, or written word, Linda’s artistic practice aims to allow viewers to sense a shared experience, while at the same time realizing something personal, transformative, and new. Linda’s photography, paintings, films, and installations have been exhibited throughout the U.S.A, South America, and in Europe. Linda Quakenbush is a first-time recipient of a CIP Grant (2019-20) from the Broward County Florida Cultural Division. Her CIP proposal, In Memoriam, a provocative memorial card-inspired art-making workshop and pop-up exhibition of small-works is currently being created and curated for the NSU Art Museum’s Day of the Dead festivities, the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society’s DOTD Ofrenda exhibit, and the ArtServe galleries. A frequent traveler who has lived and worked in LA as well as in Colombia, SA, Linda enjoys capturing the flavor of new places and images. Her latest photographic work reflects a re-discovery of her childhood residence in South Florida. Linda shoots near-daily photo-journals; diverse images of homes, street culture, found abstracts, text, light studies, landscapes, flora. Classical training and a painter’s palate inform Linda Quakenbush’s work. Her subject matter is often unplanned, unexpected, and quickly captured using self-described “drive-by folk-photography”—images made with available light and her pocket or iPhone camera. Linda has worked on several popular film, tv/cable productions. She is the co-owner of Space Bass Films with her husband (Director/Animator Corky Quakenbush). Among other publications, her award-winning photography has been published in the International Photography Awards Book (2015). Linda Quakenbush currently works as a visiting instructor at Pine Crest School Fort Lauderdale, and previously taught the Getty Museum Art Appreciation and Art History-based art classes for several years in Los Angeles. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and an avid swimmer. She holds an MA in Studio Art from NYU and completed her undergrad studies at UF. She very much appreciates your interest in her work! For More Information, full cv, artist statement, etc: please contact: Linda Quakenbush Lvq12@hotmail.com (310) 890-6870

Paula Rucket

Photographer; Photographer

Paula Rucket is originally from Kansas City Missouri and currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Rucket picked up a camera a few years ago and has been making pictures ever since. She is a self-taught photographer with a passion for creating art from a photographic image. Her belief is that out of the simplest things around us art can flourish. She enjoys photographing wildlife, places, and people with the goal of combining all the elements of design to tell a story. Paula’s talent as a photographer has been well established. She has received numerous awards and special honors for her pictorial creations and her work has been exhibited widely in juried and group exhibitions throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. She has been honored with three Best in Show awards as well as art magazine and newspaper recognition. Ms. Rucket can be contacted via email. Her email address is: paular@ontheflyfotos.com

Brooke Trace

Photographer; Visual Artist

Brooke Trace is a photographer best known for her nature landscape images. She first took up photography as a hobby when she was a child. Her mother gave her a point and shoot camera to take photographs of her cats and dogs. She took photographs with five to six Newfoundland dogs. She posed them with sunglasses, hats and bandanas. Her interests in photography lead to her taking courses in junior high school and high school. She built her own pin-hole cameras. She developed film and prints in the darkroom. Attending college she majored in business and minored in photography. She particularly liked black and white high speed film thus she could shoot photographs at night and low light situations creating very artsy images. Digital photography was a new medium in photography. She is self taught in the digital medium. The post shooting, editing and printing process was an evolution in the process. Once she mastered that she began to use settings when shooting to create her own style. Finishing the process of creating her style is done through editing the images once downloaded from the camera. Through shooting photographs at the break of day she has created an extensive collection of surreal, beautifully inviting seascape images. She has two different printing mediums that she uses to create two completely different looks with her work. She has them printed on canvas creating a traditional look of a painting. The other method is a very modern look. She has them printed on metallic paper and sublimated under acrylic. Through the iridescence of the metallic paper the images shimmer and come to life. Brooke has exhibited in numerous galleries in Fort Lauderdale. She has had her works on public display including Fort Lauderdale City Hall. She has participated in art & international marine shows. She has been commissioned by private and corporate collectors. She has been published in magazines both commercially and for her fine art photography. Brooke also paints acrylic on glass. She has a collection, Water Works” that she moves the paint like water flowing. She uses this technique to create her images of waves crashing. Additionally she has another collection of Hearts on glass. She puts her heart into her work.

Matthew Valera

Photographer; Visual Artist

I go by Valera. I am an emerging artist in the Fort Lauderdale. My work ranges from photography to painting. My approach for each is different. My photography started in documentation and then progressed to making work. In that way I aim to capture something genuine and honest above all. Painting is a more internal subconscious approach. It’s a way of putting subjects and tangible means to feelings that seem to have no origin in my brain. A means of understanding the world around me while giving my hands a way of dealing with anxiety. Photography I capture the world in front of me. Painting I create the world from the canvas up. Together the tie between the two provide a balancing yin yang effect, satisfying my creative nature.

Melissa Vlahos

Dancer; Photographer; Visual Artist

Melissa Vlahos studied at Youngstown State University in Ohio and majored in Visual Art and Multi-Age Licensure in Art Education. She received a Bachelors of Science in Education, and taught high school art before falling in love and being swept away to the magical land, Greece. Vlahos says, “Living here has shaped and solidified my choices of subject matter because I explored and discovered my passion for the beauty in nature and how it mimics my inner emotions. Nature has showed me all her raw, natural magnificence and I feel a connection to it that I enjoy transmitting through artistic expression. I’m drawn to it; I center myself and become present in the moment. The experience moves me and the feelings inside of me flow from my internal world out onto a canvas or through a photograph.”

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