Gabrielle Chardigny is an installation artist who has exhibited in Germany, France, and Portugal. She has been awarded the Kunst Prize and participated in the Montemero Art Residency. Gabrielle describes her interests “in how natural resources and living organisms are extracted, displaced, and maintained within human-made systems. Industrial and synthetic materials are used not only as a contrast to natural elements, but as infrastructures that organize and condition their ex

Filmmaker, photographer, set designer, actor, & writer Jaina Cipriano from the Boston metropolitan area is working on a new bold film titled Actualization . A project bigger and more ambitious than any of her previous endeavors and she is asking for financial help. The fundraising goal for the film is a modest $20,000 in order to pay for materials, rent equipment, and pay crew / staff. Like all of Jaina’s short arthouse films and photography, Actualization will contain 100%

Zhiqiang Li is an installation artist who has exhibited in the United Kingdom, China, and Mongolia. Recent exhibitions include Bidston Observatory Center for Artistic Research in Liverpool, Inner Mongolia Exhibition Hall Inner, York Art Gallery, The Art and Design College of Hunan University, White Place London, Tate London, and Lumen Studio Gallery in London. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, widely considered to be the finest art school in the world and has been

Katelynn M. Rogers is a fluxus digital and analogue photographer who has exhibited across the United States. Recent exhibitions include Horizons Gallery at Summit Artspace, Lucid Dreams at Penumbra Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Show, HAZ Cooperative Studios in Chicago, photography Biennial at Sol Koffler, Red Eye Gallery, and Triennial at Woods-Gerry Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, OMWP Studios and Woman Made Art Gallery in Chicago, Stonehenge Gallery i

Jungyun Jang is a fashion designer, video and performance-based text artist who has participated at Paris Fashion Week and Fashion Show Echoes of the City in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She has been published by DHC Newspaper and Metropolis M, both based in The Hague. Jungyun Jang describes her process as: “In the videos and images, the body moves between control and release. Movement becomes a way to hold vulnerability and strength at the same time. The work is about existing i

artwork by Petra Brnardic Even a break from recent tradition, today’s contemporary experimental artists are redefining femininity in the digital era. From embracing ‘survival feminism’ to enchanted, mystical, and mythological portrayals, artists such as Mädchen Vivi, Petra Brnardic, HsinYing Lin, and Leni Smoragdova lend their artistic interpretation to explaining the purpose of womanhood in contemporary times. artwork by Petra Brnardic Avant-garde experimental women artists

Written by Joas Nebe. The exhibition spaces have been darkened intentionally, with ceiling lights shrouded, allowing both the rooms and the installations to be accentuated by focused spotlights. In this immersive environment, the artist transports us back to the era of the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th century, a harrowing chapter in history which saw the involvement not only of American shipowners but also countless Europeans and, significantly, Africans themse

Márcia Simões (Masimmo) is a digital and analogue documentary photographer with a background in law. She has been published by Them Frames. Márcia describes her photography as “a mix of life and thoughts, with me is always some of my cameras, either the non-professional or professional…Life has a beauty hidden everywhere…most of my work happens when I'm driving and I pass by places which look incredible to my eyes and then I go back with a model or not and do something there”

Lívia Sá is an experimental analogue photographer and filmmaker who has participated in screenings and exhibited all over the world in countries such as Brazil, Chile, the United States, Japan, Mexico, Germany, and Italy. Her recent exhibitions include Muestra de Videodanza y Cine Experimental in Colima, Mexico, All Street Gallery and CultureHub in New York, Analog Art Festival and Collective Hug in São Paulo, Brazil. She has won awards with International Super 8mm Film Festi

HsinYing Lin is a performance artist who has performed and exhibited in the United Kingdom and Taiwan. Recent exhibitions in the UK include the Tate Library, Five Years Gallery, Candid Arts Trust, and the The Royal Scottish Academy 198th Annual Exhibition in Edinburgh. Her awards include being shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize, a scholarship of excellence from University of Southampton, and multiple recognitions from the NTNU Photography Competitions. The

Leni Smoragdova is a figurative photographer, filmmaker, and performance artist who has performed and exhibited across Europe and in New York. Notable exhibitions include Glasgow Gallery of Photography, LoosenArt Gallery in Rome, The Other Art Fair in London, and The Armory Show in New York. She has been published by Icon mag, Aphro magazine, Picton magazine, Interfashional Magazine, and Glam Essence. The photography, experimental short films, and performances of Leni Smoragd

Mädchen Vivi is an experimental performance-based photographer and video artist, often combining digital and analogue film, who has exhibited in Brazil, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. Notable exhibitions include Cecília Cultural Association (for which she has also won an award),Trackers, Estúdio Lâmina, and Virada Cultural. She has been published by Peach Mag and RageZine, both based in New York. The photography of Mädchen Vivi is a conceptual approach based in horror and an

Petra Brnardic is an experimental photographer, analogue digital and video artist who has exhibited, and participated in film festivals, around the world across Europe and in the United States, Asia as well as the Middle East. She is also a writer who has published several poetry books and has visual art works in the permanent collection of Artemizia Foundation in Bisbee, Arizona. Petra has also been extensively published in her native Croatia. Like a screaming banshee amids

A-B-USED is a video-performance by Fina Ferrara which is both powerful and disturbing. The artist requested Point Pleasant Publishing post minimal images referencing the performance in order to maintain some element of surprise. A-B-USED takes us on a morbid journey of how the viewer interprets the victim of sexual assault. Through repeated dialogue and smashing of ceramics, Fina portrays the rawness and vulgarity of intrusion, complete with nudity and violent tearing of clo

William Josephs Radford is a conceptual photographer who has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Thailand. Recent exhibitions include Art-Icon in Arles and Paris, The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, The Holy Art Gallery in Berlin, UxvalGochez in Barcelona, Florence Contemporary Gallery, and Loosen Art in Rome. The photography of William Josephs Radford is often based on careful light design, no post-

Ida Anderson (Anna Komissarova) is an analogue photographer and writer with a background as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has authored several publications focusing on psychoanalysis in contemporary art and photography as well as an educational course. Blue Valentines , named after the Tom Waits song, is a series of postcard-sized cyanotype photographs turned into ruminations and recollections of memory regarding the Russian diaspora (both literally and metaphorically

Ann Vollum’s solo exhibition at The Brassworks Gallery in affluent Montclair, New Jersey is of the highest quality and comprehensive. These dynamic textile works mainly come in two forms of plush ‘beasties’ and graphic ‘beasties’, all hand-sewn and meticulously assembled from recycled fiber materials. Sharp Teeth, Long Tongues! exhibition runs until May 22nd, 2026 and the gallery is open weekdays from 7am-7pm, with easier parking during latter hours. The gallery will also be

Pig Nasty Cuino was a performance by Fina Ferrara during the era of the pandemic. ‘Cuino’ is a colloquial Spanish term which refers to someone as being dirty. Specifically, in Mexican Spanish, ‘cuino’ implies a person as being a slob or having indecent character. Pig Nasty Cuino is a performance about the excesses of oligarchy and greed. As a result, the series of performances are more relevant today because of the overreaching advancement of Big Tech during the era of arti

Photographers and photography enthusiasts often have a mythological narrative about analogue format photography, but what are the alluring attributes of digital photography? Do not misinterpret this essay, because we are not discussing digitally-enhanced photography, but rather work which was captured with a digital camera. Although analogue format photography has stunning granial texture and rich contrast, digital photography offers a pleasant saturation, potential for remar

Written by Joas Nebe. Diambe, from São Paulo, Brazil, presents at Kunsthalle Basel. Diambe explores the dynamics of collectives (like a swarm of bees), the resistances which arises from human interventions, and their controllability. All three aspects come together in his video work Cera perdida (Lost wax) , 2025, presented in Basel. A swarm of bees is exposed to a wax cast made from various tropical and non-tropical fruits and their remnants over several hours. The work Cera

Minyu Zhu is a textile and installation artist who has exhibited in major cities including London, Sydney, and Milan. Recent and notable exhibitions include Coalition Across Differences by Sijie and Meichen as well as Point One the Textiles Festival in London, Salon of the Rose + Cross in Sydney, Del Dente in Milan, RCA WIP Show and Safehouse in London. She is also a graduate from the Royal College of Art, widely considered to be the finest art school in the world. The texti

Theo Luna is an installation, video, light-based, and performance-based artist who has won major awards at festivals hosted by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Berlin Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include a solo feature at Western Pole Gallery in Chicago as well as collective shows at School of Art Institute, Vagabond Arts, and Site Gallery in Chicago and Universität der Künste Berlin. Using light-based projections, shaped neon lights, texts, a

artwork by Joseph Farbrook The most experimental, alternative, and avant-garde art out there is mainly being financed and supported by specialized institutions and platforms (such as Point Pleasant Publishing). We all know about the cuts which have been made to public funding of the arts, which leaves visual art more reliant on private investment. However, even without these cuts, many of these publicly funded venues and platforms are not willing to reach out beyond their imm

Elisabeth Hogeman is a collage artist who also works with photography and video and has exhibited across the United States as well as in Canada, and Italy. Recent and notable exhibitions and screenings include Gallery 263 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Logan Center Gallery at University of Chicago, Deluge Contemporary in Victoria BC, Canada, ROMAN SUSAN in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Spectacle Theater in New York, and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Vanities