Louiveste La Croix
Louiveste La Croix is an artist born in Haiti and currently based in South Florida. His artwork is a unique combination of multimedia techniques, gestural figures, and abstract color schemes that captivate viewers. He studied Fine Art at Broward College and has exhibited his work internationally, including at Escape2NY in Brooklyn, NY (2022), Moves Love Miami in Wynwood, FL (2021), and A Night for the Culture Juneteenth Art Show in Los Angeles, CA (2021). His latest work was showcased in Cosmic Ledger at 1310 Gallery in Fort Lauderdale in 2023.
La Croix uses his art to convey messages of spiritual awareness, unity, and consciousness through natural elements while also paying tribute to historical roots to promote conscious evolution. He believes that true artistry comes from taking risks and doing something that has never been done before, as well as expressing oneself authentically.
Oscar Montoya
Born in Medellin, Colombia, Oscar Montoya studied classical painting at the Institute of Fine Arts of Medellin with the Maestro Gabriel Restrepo and apprenticed with the Maestro Horacio Sanchez at his atelier. Celebrating the timeless allure of classical oil paint, he embraces this traditional medium as an integral part of his artistic process, enabling him to add depth and emotion to his creations. Evoking a sense of nostalgia, he captivates viewers, inviting them to journey into the realm of art and imagination.
Montoya has participated in several exhibitions of his work in Colombia at Gallery Atifaz de Medellín, Comfama de Envigado, and House of the Culture of El Retiro. After moving to the US in 1999, he has been influenced by a variety of artists including Abdon Romero and Cesar Santos at their respective ateliers in Miami, FL; Lee Bianco at the Coral Springs Museum of Art; and Vadin Zanginian at his atelier in Los Angeles, CA. Montoya recently participated in a group exhibition in Miami at the Hispanic Cultural Center and continues to take classes and excel in the realm of the Old Masters.
Read more about Oscar in a featured Article here in Spanish in the magazine Somos La Revista: Arte y curación el poder transformador de Oscar Montoya.
Djerlens Chery
Djerlens Chery displayed artistic promise at a very young age. His innate talent was nurtured at Dillard High School/Center for the Arts and the Visual Arts & Design Academy (VADA) at Broward College. Excelling in murals, his expansive works can be viewed at several prominent locations in Fort Lauderdale, while his smaller scale creations have been displayed at the Bonnet House Museum & Gardens Orchid Festival, Young at Art Museum, Made in Broward, Joseph C. Carter Park, Parker Playhouse, K.C. Wright Art Show, FatVillage and Mass District Artwalks.
The Haitian-American artist has referenced his mentors’ inspiration as being a formative influence, and now today, he shares his love of art as a teacher for the Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Fort Lauderdale at Southside Cultural Arts Center, where he shares his skills and creativity with young children, teens, and seniors.
T.M. Pride
Terrence “T.M.” Pride is a multifaceted artist, with an expansive career showcasing many roles including director, choreographer, dancer, costume designer and teacher. A graduate of Florida A&M, he has choreographed over sixty pieces of work, including musicals, and commissioned ballets. T.M. is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, with Off-Broadway credits including For Colored Boyz; Regional credits in American Black Princess and American Son; along with Film/TV credits in: First Ladies, Lovecraft Country, and Underground Railroad. He currently serves as the producing artistic director for Brévo Theatre and director of the dance program at Dillard High School for the Arts.
An alum of Florida International University with a Master of Science degree in Urban Education, T.M.’s career as a professional teaching artist began in 2012, as the director of the arts program for 21st Century Fun2Learn Camp for four years in Gadsden County. He continued his teaching at the Joan Kroc Atlanta Theater Camp, Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, FL, and the Ailey Camp Miami at the Adrienne Arsht Center. He is also an advocate for arts in education and serves on several community panels to secure access to arts programming for underserved youth. In 2018, he curated Definitive Arts: Arts Integrated Education, lessons for the classroom teacher that infuses common core with fun and energetic elements of drama and dance.
Walter O'Neill
Walter O'Neill had been a painter for over 30 years, exhibiting his oil and fresco paintings in group and solo exhibits in New York, Maine, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. In 2017, his artistic focus changed after taking a clay class and now ceramics is his primary art form. The Deerfield Beach resident has exhibited his work at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale, Gallery 21 in Wilton Manors, Sugar Sand Community Park in Boca Raton, and in several venues as a member of the LGBTQ arts group ArtsUnitedFlorida.
In 2023, he received an Artist Support Grant from Broward County Cultural Division to mount a two person exhibit of ceramics by O'Neill and Wayne Pelke at The Deerfield Beach Historical Society and Museum. Inspiring others to explore the beauty of ceramics, O’Neil teaches clay sculpture in the adult evening program at Northeast Community Art School in Oakland Park.
Renee Rey
Renée Rey’s art reflects a vision for an inclusive, just, and healthy world. In both large and intimately scaled paintings, mixed media, and assemblage artwork, she creates other-worldly ecospheres that celebrate connection and kinship among diverse people, cultures, nature, and technologies. As she considers these concepts, Rey experiments with combining abstraction, realism, and surrealism, and varied media including oil, acrylic, paper, sandpaper, pins, clay, and wood branches.
Born in Japan, and now residing in South Florida, Rey’s artwork has been selected for national awards and exhibitions by art professionals, museum curators, and gallerists. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.
Rey was invited to the School of Visual Arts Summer Painting Residency, New York, NY in 2019 and Sun Peak Center for Art and Sustainability, Colorado Springs, CO in 2016. The artist has studied drawing, painting, 3-D design, film, performance art, computer art and art history on the undergraduate and graduate levels in New York and Florida.
Alejandra Abad
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Alejandra Abad is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who explores belonging and mutual compassion as key parts of collective wellness. Through layering, abstraction, and light, she creates new landscapes that relate to place, family, and community. Her playful storytelling often features fragmentation, folklore, and mythology. Abad’s installation work creates environments that include sculptural elements and video projection that relate the history of anticolonial movements to international surrealism and magical realism.
Abad’s art features conceptual and collaborative pieces that work to break down the barriers between artist and audience. Her style is informed by architectural studies at Florida Atlantic University, Film/Video/New Media/Animation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices at The University of Colorado. This has led to a series of works centered on environmental futures and the implications of the Anthropocene.
Michele Del Campo
At the age of twenty, Michele Del Campo began a global artistic journey, resulting in his work being exhibited in numerous international galleries. His familiarity with different cultures has fostered a visual repertoire that is a fusion of different places; mixing elements that shifts focus to stories and moods. While his portraits are more than simple individuals; instead, capturing autobiographical moments and a broader humanity. His figurative works include large-scale oil paintings and intimate charcoal drawings.
Del Campo’s list of exhibitions includes solo shows in Galería Ansorena (Madrid), Galería Enlace (Lima), Ron Hall Gallery (Dallas), CK Gallery (San Francisco), Imago Art Gallery (Lugano) and Mark Jason Gallery (London). He won the BMW Painting Prize in 2006.
Born in 1976 in San Nicandro Garganico, south Italy, he received a BA (Hons) Degree in Illustration from University of Dundee (UK, 2001), and a BFA and subsequently an MFA from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain, 2007).
