Art Opening: Cafe Culture at Atelier Cafe BCN

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Atelier Cafe BCN presents "Cafe Culture," a group show of works by the following five artists:

Marlon Jay Truman (n.1976) is a multimedia painter. He is inspired by Holbein, Mitchell, Twombly and O'Keefe, as well as portraits of Egyptian tombs. Despite his passion for art history, he paints in a contemporary way, using found images and objects, digital collages and high gloss varnish with a joyful abandon.

Hazr (n.1988) specializes in street scenes and landscapes on paper. His goal is freshness: he uses paint markers, the perfect medium for recording rapidly changing weather conditions, and has developed an expressive shorthand of color and line to capture still moments in a world in constant motion.

Izzi Knott (n.1987) is a gender-non-conforming, self-referential performance portraitist. She examines and questions the cultural, biological, political and social constructions of femininity and masculinity. She is inspired by the powerful women of history, and the great painters of the Baroque period.

Freddie Leigh Whitman (n.1977) is a transcendental landscape painter. He seeks to immerse himself in nature and portray a world "beyond civilization". The scenes are painted deliberately sparse: Whitman chooses wildlife scenes when possible, and the signs of human presence are minimized, as in his new series, Montjuic Bucolia.

Thom Alexandr (n.1969) brings the sensitivity of the Grand Master to queer subculture, and vice versa. He considers life drawing a community experience where artists can circulate ideas about body image, relationships and identity. His semi-autobiographical series "River Gods", which emerged from such sessions in New York, represented a personal rite of passage in the form of statues that come to life.