Contemporary Art Gallery

Sharon Blu is a Tel Aviv based visual artist whose practice spans large-scale painting and clay sculpture. Since 2020, she has developed an intuitive, material-driven approach that combines painting, drawing, and three-dimensional elements. Working primarily on large canvases, her process integrates a wide range of materials including acrylic, oil, charcoal, watercolor, markers, and recycled organic components. Through this layered methodology, her works explore the relationship between material, memory, and the human figure.

Her work centers on the human body as an unstable and evolving site, positioned between the personal and social sides. Figureness in her practice is often fragmented, reconstructed, or mechanically echoed, creating tension between vulnerability and structure, softness and control.

Blu has exhibited  in Israel and internationally. Her exhibition history includes solo and group exhibitions at Danielle Peled Art Gallery (Michigan), ADC Fine Art Gallery (Cincinnati), 187 Contemporary Art Gallery and Soma gallery, as well as participation in Red Dot Miami (2022). She has also shown work in curated group exhibitions at Ben-Ami Gallery and in thematic exhibitions addressing social and cultural questions. Since 2020, her work has been consistently presented in gallery contexts in Israel and the United States.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B) and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (B.A) from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Fordham University, New York. Alongside her artistic practice, this academic background informs a rigorous conceptual framework and a sustained engagement with issues of structure, ethics, and human systems.

Urban abstract expressionism artist Tommy Lennartsson draws on the visual culture of street and pop art when creating his original vibrant mixed-media artworks. He employs a mix of abstract and figurative elements that give nods to neo-expressionism, faux-naїf, pop, and geometric abstraction schools of art.

Lennartsson builds up his canvases with charcoal, acrylic, gouache, ink, and spray paint, and occasionally sews and stitches elements together to create striking scenes that ignite the viewer’s imagination.

Color interactions and the interplay of light and darkness are important to Lennartsson. The unique and playful compositions range from geometrical forms to figures, objects, and pop culture icons layered over fluid gestural expressions.

Because of his intuitive style, no two works are the same and each one explores something fresh and exciting.
“When I look at my paintings, I’m taken back to my childhood of endless doodling on my bedroom floor,” the artist describes.

His work has been featured in the Spanish arts and culture magazine Lamono and was selected as the cover art for the Spring 2019 issue of New England Review.

In 2020 he was  also published in the Saatchi Art Catalog as an featured artist. Lennartsson has exhibited extensively in both group and solo shows across the world, including the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and China.

1999-2001 Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem
2017 – 2023 Painting studies at the “hatahana-studio” in the masterclass program, with the artist David Nippo

2023- Teaches painting in a private studio in Herzliya

Specializes in the pastel medium in portrait, landscape and still life paintings

A variety of paintings were sold to collectors

American Artist Shilo Ratner received her degree in design in 2000 from Curry College in Milton, MA.
She furthered her studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as well as at Massachusetts College of Art.

Her pursuit of a career in the arts brought her out west to San Francisco where she earned her MFA in painting from the Academy of Art University in 2006.

Ratner’s life long pursuit has been for a deeper understanding of truths in spiritual
traditions and the common thread that unites humanity.

After earning her MFA, she traveled internationally with intention, intrigued by the symbols and practices of many religions. During her travels she visited Buddhist and Hindu temples in Malaysia and
Indonesia.

In a rural village in Brazil, she had a powerful shift in consciousness that continues to inspire her studio practice. These significant experiences have influenced her work, embracing various spiritual and cultural experiences through a visual language.

In 2009, Ratner was recognized with an award juried by Bay Area Figurative artist William Theophilus Brown in a San Francisco based exhibition. In, 2016 she was once again presented with an award at the “The 105th Exhibition”, Mystic Museum of Art by Jurors Darby Cardonsky and Will Lustenader in Connecticut.

In 2017, Ratner’s work was again awarded at the“116th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”, New Haven Paint and Clay Club by Juror Richard Klein. Ratner’s work has been exhibited in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Mystic Museum of Art and The Slater Memorial Museum. Ratner’s work can be found in myriad of private art collections in the United States and abroad. Shilo Ratner currently lives in New Haven, CT

In 2022, Sally Dunbar completed her degree in print-media and drawing from the Australian National University. Subsequently, she relocated back to Canberra, Australia, where she currently resides and works.
During her time in Japan, Sally was captivated by Japanese Woodblock Prints and Wagara, which focus on utilizing design and pattern in printmaking. She draws inspiration from the use of repeated motifs to create structure, rhythm, and order in her own work. Sally seamlessly intertwines human stories with these foundational elements by exploring everyday human interactions and scenes.

Sarah Svetlana is a Los Angeles based artist who, as a painter, explores the fragmentation of the subject in an ongoing search for home.

An agency model, turned art model, Sarah Svetlana used her body as the first medium in her initial search for identity and self-expression—her upbringing in the irreconcilable cultures of Soviet Belarus and Immigrant America, has drawn and painted roadmaps between two worlds.

Her paintings do not only suggest hectic movement, but the stillness locked in each gesture of that movement.

Her work is “rooted somewhere between the insanity of Kandinsky and the line-certainty of the early 20th century Futurists.” Each painting is a piece to the complex topography that defines both her identity and her work.

Through the narratives created by a methodical application of color, she delivers an invocation of home— spectral and surreal, but familiar too.