Art & Beyond Studio featured following artists in the January/February Online Art & Beyond Magazine

CHICAGO - Jan. 18, 2015 - PRLog -- Art & Beyond Magazine is the bridge between artists and the art world. It is an essential marketing and promotional tool every artist needs to have when exhibiting their work, whether at art shows, art expos, or small exhibitions.

Art & Beyond Magazine is proud to present the incredible artists featured on the pages of this issue. Each possessing their own style, unique ideas and vision of the world around us. From scratch they are able to create things that inspire and enhance our lives.

Art & Beyond is continued to publish a series of articles titled "From Artist to Artist" where artists share their experiences working in the chosen medium, interesting stories from their life and career, leaning and teaching tips. In this issue of Art & Beyond Magazine we have published a first part of the article written by Debbi Chan titled "Let's talk Sumi".

Read and learn about our Cover and Content competition winners for the January/February issue.

Cesar Santos
his artwork “Assoluta” was chosen as Art and Beyond Front Cover Competition winner.

Grace Schlesier
her beautiful artwork “Doubling Up!” was awarded to be published on the Inside Front Cover of Art & Beyond.

Tania Bakalartz
her artwork “Flirtatious 7” was awarded to be on the Back Cover of the magazine.

Yulia Altas
her wonderful work “Trees in the mounting” was awarded to be on the Inside Back Cover of the magazine.

We also proud to announce list of artists who won a Published Choice Award to be published in the Art & Beyond Online January/February issue: Tom Bollinger, GK Brock, Ileana Collazo, Stephanie Holznecht, Gayane Karapetyan, Maria Fernanda Lairet, Rosy Lofer, Maquiamelo, Patty Margalotti, Magaly Barnola Otaola, Magaly ”Moby” Otaola, Natalya Parris, Charles Fletcher, Francene Levinson, Diana Whiley, Patricio Moreno Toro, Marcelo Wong with One Page article and Nira Chorev, Tatiana Roulin and Carol Staub  with Two page article.

Jim Lively
is an attorney who left the practice of law to pursue his passion full-time as a contemporary figurative and abstract artist. His works have been recognized in numerous juried competitions and publications. He was named to the 2013 and 2014 list of Art Tour International Magazine’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art (www.arttourinternational.com). In addition, he has participated in several group and a solo exhibitions across North America and in Europe. Jim has published four books containing images of his art including two novels.

Patricio Moreno Toro
Born in Santiago, Chile in 1943, Toro began his art career as a self-taught watercolorist, selling his work at prestigious galleries in Santiago and the annual Parque Forestal where one of his first steady customers was Dr. Salvador Allende, who later became president of Chile.  At the age of 16, he exhibited in his first solo show at Sala de Exposiciones de “El Diario Ilustrado” in Santiago.
In 1983, he met international artist and University of California, Berkeley art professor,   Mary Lovelace O’Neal.  Embarking on a 30-year creative odyssey together, the two became fast friends and professional colleagues and eventually married.  Living in Oakland, for a time Toro painted in the studio of artist, Oliver Jackson, and taught Jackson’s class for semester at California State University-Sacramento while Jackson was working in Carrara, Italy.  It was during that time that Toro began to paint large-scale unstretched canvases and the Terra Nostra series was born.

Maruka Carvajal
was born in Bolivia and she is a naturalized Spaniard. Maruka have lived in Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, and currently in Washington DC. She ws educated to be an architect but her passion led her to dedicate herself to the visual arts instead. “I enjoy painting so much! It is a chance to get involved with my thoughts, my memories and my feelings; it’s my moment.”- state Maruka

Gabi Domenig
was born in Austria. She is a through and through figurative artist. She tries to capture moments and build up emotional tensions. She does not want to shock, stir up or provoke. The viewer of her images should be touched by a positve energy. He should feel the music she has listened during her painting. He should feel something of her passion when she paints. There are so many negative messages every day which cause bad feelings. For her art should be life-affirming and beautiful, touching and connecting. A language without words.

Arthur Jacob
Throughout my life I have always had a greater visual sense about how the world looked versus other senses. This visual dominance in perceiving the world has profoundly affected my work as an artist. My art offers an infinite variety of visual perceptions and interpretations for the viewer.

Dan McCormack
studied Photography from 1962 - 1967 at the Institute of Design in Chicago and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1967 to 1970. His work was exhibited in number of solo shows at the Photography Center of the Capitol District in Troy, NY. “Nude at Home”, twenty-six images made from 2003 to 2012 at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Christophe Kiciak
Christophe is a 36 years old self-taught hobbyist, living in France.  He deeply enjoys creating unusual images, by combining his own photos into surreal, conceptual, or fantasy oriented pictures.

Sandy Den Hartog
Sandy has had an interest in stones since childhood. Wherever she went, even as a young person, whether it was picnics, vacations, or field trips; she always made sure she had a cup along to collect rocks which were precious to her at the time. Once in high school she took numerous classes in gemology and geology. Then she graduated, got married, and had children. Rocks and gems had to be put on hold for a while.

Art & Beyond Magazine is the Online Publication that brings artists and their work to numerous Gallery Directors and Owners. Artists are given the extraordinary opportunity to be published in this bi-monthly online magazine and will be given a chance to present their work to a wider audience using the World Wide Web as a powerful tool to promote their work. Majority of artists featured in the online magazine are active members of Art & Beyond Publications.

To view online magazine go to http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/online_mag/2015/0...