This time Dannielle Tegeder is extremely busy getting ready for her upcoming exhibition. However, she found time to meet with me and talk about her work. When I came to Dannielle’s studio we immediately began to exchange information. Listening to Dannielle and asking questions, I looked around at her paintings and graphics hanging on the walls and I thought that our conversation is much like her work whose style is simple and laconic. Composition is clearly lined up and balan

Yesterday I visited Caty Wooley. With her funny dog, Caty just has moved to a new place in New Jersey and vivid saturated paintings still are crowded along the walls. Large-scale and inticate in texture Wooley’s painting called up an association with a jam session. Variegated colorful layers form a real orchestra, where each layer is different, but all together they create a complex composition. At some place on a canvas strokes are put thickly and bold, while at the other -

Graciela Cassel is an artist working in a variety of genres and materials: video, installation, drawing and painting. Her artwork investigates questions of identity, reality and fantasy, the objective and the subjective. In her art statement Graciela says: "It is my belief that artwork, a place of intersection and metaphors, is not an isolated event but explores concepts that can exemplify a way of thinking, living, and working." Graciela came to New York from Argentina, and

Yanina Boldyreva lives and works in Novosibirsk. She is dealing with art photo, video-art, painting, mix-media, makes photo- books and many other interesting things. Her interest relates to the notion of subjectivity of human perception, recognition, connection to reality and mysticism, disruptiveness, unknown areas, unconscious, a hidden manifested in the banalities. Photographer Maxim Loskutov I have known Yanina for a long time and I cannot see her photography without hers

My second visit was to the Etty Yaniv’s studio. Etty Yanive's artwork is the layering of memories, experiences, and stories embodied in material. Scraps of drawings, photographs, found objects and debris form abstracted landscapes. Significant and insignificant things, personal and universal, appear in Yaniv's works as inseparable parts of a single narrative. It reminded me of archaeological strata in which pottery shards, toothbrushes and fallen leaves coalesce into a holist