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Corinne Geertsen, 1953 | Digital photo collage


Corinne Geertsen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah. is an Arizona artist who creates digital photocollages.
Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, is in collections worldwide, as well as in the permanent collections of museums.
Geertsen received her BA and MFA in drawing and printmaking from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

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Octavio Ocampo, 1943 | Optical Illusion painter


Octavio Ocampo (born 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican surrealist painter.
He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from early childhood.
At art school, Ocampo constructed papier mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were used during carnival parades and other festivals.
In high school, Ocampo painted murals for the Preparatory School and the City Hall of Celaya.

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Jeremiah Goodman | Interior designer

"A portrait of a room, should express the personality of the person who lives there - whose character has shaped it" - Jeremiah Goodman.

Jeremiah Goodman (1922-2017) was an illustrator who signed his work with his first name only.
Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior.
His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers.
He painted original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients.
For almost twenty years he created the covers for Interior Design magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.


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Man Ray | A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux, 1970


"A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux" is considered to be one of Man Ray’s most iconic images.
The lips featured in the composition are those of Man Ray’s photography assistant and lover, Lee Miller.
Her lips appear as a motif in a range of Man Ray’s work from throughout his lifetime, from a photograph in MoMA’s collection from 1929, to a major series of paintings in 1936, and even a cast-gold version.
They have gone on to inspire a number of images in pop culture, most famously the iconic lips from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Paola Grizi, 1968 | Surrealist sculptor


Italian sculptor Paola Grizi has spent her entire life immersed in the art world.
As the granddaughter of a well known Italian painter and sculptor and the niece of a ceramicist Piero Grizi (1885-1976), her creativity was fostered from a young age.
This has translated into a successful career as an artist, where she is particularly known for her unique terracotta and bronze sculptures.
For many years Grizi has produced incredible sculptures of faces that seem to emerge from the pages of books.