FLASHBACK ISSUES

This publication features interviews on women as warriors, emphasizing resilience, hope, and truth in journalism and art. It highlights role models like Ana Menendez and Christina Vazquez, exploring their careers, challenges, and advocacy for empowerment, freedom of expression, and community engagement. The themes focus on courage, storytelling, and societal impact across arts and media.

This issue highlights contemporary portraiture, emphasizing social themes, technical mastery, and the emotional depth of sitters. It discusses major artists, competitions, and the importance of capturing inner life through eyes and expression. Portraiture remains vital, with awards and exhibitions fostering recognition, while artists explore honesty, identity, and societal change in their work.

This issue highlights diverse artistic and literary works, emphasizing innovative storytelling, poetry’s influence on prose, and themes of identity, migration, and emotional complexity. It features interviews with Ana Menéndez on narrative structure, humor, poetry, and Cuban identity, alongside visual art by Cindy Jackson and Patrick Earl Hammie exploring internal psychology, struggle, and transformation.

Frank Bernarducci emphasizes talent and originality as key for gallery representation, favoring innovative, modern realist work. He highlights the gallery’s expansion, challenges in market stability, and reliance on artist followings. His personal collection includes landscape, photography, and classical art, with future plans to showcase leading realist painters and attract new collectors.

This issue features artists and poets exploring emotion, transformation, and perception through diverse media. Highlights include Michael Shapcott’s layered paintings, Brandon Lewis’s poetic reflections on history and environment, and Kris Cahill’s energetic reverse paintings. The collection emphasizes innovative techniques, emotional depth, and the interplay of language and visual art, fostering ongoing experimentation and support for emerging artists.

This issue features diverse artworks and poetry exploring migration, identity, and emotional resilience. Themes include personal reflection, cultural history, and artistic collaboration. Artists address inner struggles, memory, and transformation through varied media. The publication emphasizes creative expression, with next steps likely involving submissions, exhibitions, and ongoing dialogue on art and identity.

This issue is a curated art publication featuring diverse artworks and insights from artists, centered around the theme "Anything but Figure" with commentary from curator Jan Anders Nelson.

"Painting the Figure Now" showcases diverse contemporary figurative art emphasizing skill, emotional depth, and individual expression. Curated by Didi Menendez and others, it features works exploring identity, mortality, societal pressures, and personal narratives. The exhibition highlights the enduring relevance of figurative painting amid digital culture, emphasizing psychological complexity, technical mastery, and the power of the female gaze.