Richard Resnick is a new Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Brooklyn, New York.

Upon retirement from the Metro Transit Authority, Richard Resnick’s interest turned to photography. They took classes in various venues including Kingbird Community College and International Photography Institute. They show their photos at art shows.

See more work, visit facebook.com/richgray51.

Ayafor Leonel is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Yaounde, Cameroon.

Ayafor Leonel is artistically called Sunng Nnu, a masters student at the University of Yaoundé I studying performing arts and cinematography. Sunng Nnu is an astral painter. His style is called Astral Navigational Painting which is a painting concept that he has been developing for the past thirteen years. He hopes that the style will grow as a tool of innovation and education. He has participated in workshops that have helped him promote his painting ideological experience, imagination, and spirituality.

To realize his dream, Ayafor has organized personal solo exhibitions in Yaoundé and Bamenda under the Astral Navigational theme to promote and made known the ideology and concept. As a painter, he has taken part in the Beijing international arts Biennale in 2015 where he was one of the three artists called upon to represent Cameroon. Locally, he has taken part in the international festival of arts and culture organized by the Cameroon’s Ministry of Arts and Culture.

To see more work, visit: instagram.com/abstralleo

Traci Meitzler is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania.

As an artist, Traci Meitzler works hard to develop art that speaks both to her and others about her emotions and frame of mind while creating. She classifies her style as chaotic architecture. Traci enjoys the juxtaposition of straight edges with organic curves. She believes that a painting or any design cannot have just one element, but that each element exists in harmony because of the others.

Traci creates artwork using acrylic mediums along with other materials such as marker, charcoal, spray paint, and modeling paste. She likes to add non-standard items to create texture such as clear acrylic sheets, textured wallpaper, cheese cloth, and coarse sand.

To see more work, visit mad7studio.com

John Edwe is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Group Exhibitions

• Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, New Jersey (2022)
• Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2021)
• Pleiades Gallery, New York, New York (2020)
• Gallery Zero, Milan, Italy (2017)
• Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, New Jersey, Curated by Brian McCormack (2016)
• Galerie Metanoia, Paris, France, Curated by Marc Hinnonet (2015)
• Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, New Jersey, Curated by Brian McCormack (2015)
• Second Saturday Gallery, York, Pennsylvania, Curated by Ken Husband (2015)
• Gallery La La Artisan Market, New York, New York (2015)
• Institut Francais, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (2010)
• Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2004)
• Pennsylvania Convention Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (2004)
• Gallery One, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2003)
• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2001)

Solo Exhibitions

• Haitian Embassy Brussel, Belgium (2018)
• Liberty Shop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2013)
• Academy Art University, San Francisco, California (2009)
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2005)

Commission

• Fresco, Ambassador of Jesus Christ (Church), Brooklyn New York (2002)

Education

• MFA Academy Art University, San Francisco, California (2009)
• BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2005)

See more work, visit johnedwe.com.

Carlos Alves is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Miami, Florida.

Carlos Alves has been serious about art since he was a child. It shows in his passion for making things out of clay, glass, metal, salvaged artifacts, and recycled objects. His mission to make art from anything is encapsulated in his motto, “Chip it, crack it, smash it. Put it back together and give it whole new life.” He draws from his Cuban / Puerto Rican roots and South Florida upbringing, communicating the themes that encompass love, hope, history, culture, politics, nature, and a kinship with the sea.

Education

Carlos graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Illinois State University, Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Miami, and scholarship to Scuola Lorenzo Di Medici in Florence, Italy. He started his post-college career with a free-flowing tile installation located on the floor and walls of the Art Center South Florida. The project eventually led to commissions by several public and private clients in the United States, London, and Hong Kong. He is excited by making artwork that is seen in large public art settings such as airports, parks, fountains, courthouses, libraries, restaurants, galleries, and private residences.

Public Art

Recently, Carlos designed and completed a courtyard featuring a sculpture fountain, garden benches, planters, seating rocks, and bamboo railing at a rehabilitation facility in Fort Lauderdale; mosaic sidewalk “Save Our Water” for Miami-Dade Water/Sewer Department; and entrance / ticketing area for the Port Everglades’ Holland America Terminal.

He often enjoys projects with local youth and has accomplished many public artworks working with them including “The River Poetry Project”, “The Miami Children’s Museum”, and a 186-foot mural at the entrance of the new Miami-Dade County Children’s Court House. Carlos works closely with his wife and partner of over twenty years, JC Carroll, in all aspects of public art from concept, design, and manufacturing, to completion.

Private Work

As much as Carlos enjoys the public art arena, he loves creating pieces for private clients, museums, and gallery exhibitions. He is currently working on a series, “Animal Instincts”, creating large, animal shaped clay bodies filled with recycled figurines and glass. The final piece in the series is a globe that will show the animals and sea life of each region and the fragile ecosystems of the world with emphasis on showing the planet’s need for our protection.

See more work, visit carlosalvesmosaics.com

Audrey Dowling is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Westfield, New York.

Audrey Kay Dowling received a BS in Art Education at SUNY New Paltz and a MS from SUNY Fredonia. She works in her clay, painting, and printmaking studios full time. Audrey is an award and grant winning artist and the gallery owner of Portage Hill Art Gallery in Westfield, New York.

See more work, visit audreykaydowling.com

Carlos Pardo is a new Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Katy, Texas.

Born in Bogota, Colombia, Carlos Pardo was always surrounded by beautiful things. His grandfather’s house in the countryside was a good escape from the city. Nature has been a good part of his life since early on. His father is a photographer, art director, and a great painter. He is one of Carlos’ greatest influences because he taught Carlos to never follow, copy, or be influenced.

Carlos graduated from high school in 1994. He attended Community College in Miami. He graduated with a degree in photography and a minor in design. Carlos enjoyed college because his teachers let him explore art by guiding him with their experience. He started teaching nine years ago, showing people that they can be creative and explore their imagination.

Art has always been Carlos’ escape from the incoherence of life. It makes more sense because he can leave his feelings on paper. He hopes people see their own feelings in his pictures.

Carlos’ art is edgy, but sometimes very mellow. Photos are never retouched. He thinks the way he photographs the first time is the most honest, even if it is not perfect. He loves contrast, not only with light but also colors, shapes, and ripples in time that keep moving after they are printed on a piece of paper. Carlos wants to change the way people feel about light, show them something new, and help them understand or like art more.

See more work, visit carlosapardo.wixsite.com/photo

Linda Fitzgerald is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Fort Collins, Colorado.

Linda Fitzgerald was born in the Hudson Valley area of New York State and has been a Fort Collins resident since 1988. Before settling in Colorado, Linda’s path took her to San Francisco and Santa Fe where her passion for both visual and culinary art began to blossom.

In San Francisco, Linda befriended nationally acclaimed sculptress Ruth Cravath Wakefield and fine art painter Charles Farr. Both inspired and influenced Linda on her creative journey. In 1978, Linda moved to New Mexico where she had the honor of working as a Companion/Chef for Georgia O’Keeffe at Ms. O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu home. There were many conversations about creativity. Linda took to heart the advice Ms. O’Keeffe gave her, “Paint the way you paint! Don’t allow others to tell you how your painting should look. Instructors want you to paint like them, but then it’s not your work, it’s theirs’.”

Awards and Exhibitions

• World Art Awards (2023): 6th Place
• American Arts Awards (2022): 6th Place
• Side Arts (May 2022): 1st Place – Monthly Online Competition
• City of Lafayette Group Show (January – March 2020): Lafayette, CO
• Jones Gallery Group Show (February 2020): Kansas City, MO
• Public Art Program reproduction and installation of “Flamingos” utility box wraps (January 2020): Pompano Beach, FL
• R Gallery Group Show (October – November 2019): Boulder, CO
• R Gallery Group Show (September – October 2019): Boulder, CO
• Gateway To the Rockies National Art Show (October 2019): Aurora, CO
• Art Santa Fe International Art Show (2019): Santa Fe, NM
• Gateway To the Rockies National Art Show (October 2018): Aurora, CO
• Art in Public Places reproduction and installation of “Spirit Buffalo” at the Phillip S. Miller Regional Park (August 2018): Castle Rock, CO

See more work, visit lindafitzgeraldgalleryandgifts.com

Gayle Printz is a Side Arts Certified Visual Artist from Johns Creek, Georgia.

Gayle Printz is an internationally recognized American abstract artist whose work is part of the Permanent Exhibit of Le Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou in France. Using color, rather than purely tangible structures, to express herself, Ms. Printz creates paintings that transcend the familiar. Her work is known for drawing the viewer into the painting and inviting them to assign personal meaning and universal context by listening to the whispers of their imagination and emotional memory.

Gayle’s paintings have been lauded by critics and collectors of abstract art, abstract expressionism, art-resilience, art informel, and tachisme. Although she has developed her own distinctively recognizable style, her work has been compared to that of Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, and Jackson Pollock.

Among other honors she has earned, Gayle Printz was one of eight American painters whose work was selected by the Jury of the 2020 International Art-Resilience Competition. Two Printz paintings, “Pond” and “First,” were on exhibit for a month at Le Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou in France as part of the International Art-Resilience Exhibition, the video presentation of which remains in the Museum’s Permanent Archives.

Four of her paintings – “Bird,” “Blue Dog,” “Pigtails,” and “Yellow” – were selected by the Jury of The International ArtisTTable “Are You Serious?” Competition. They were on exhibit through January of 2021. Printz’s painting, “Brush,” was selected by the Jury of Fine Art America for display in their National “On The Beach” Exhibition.

See more work, visit gayleprintz.com