VB-Contemporary - Interviews

The interviews are conducted by VB Contemporary's director, Vian Borchert. Besides being a multidisciplinary noted international artist. Borchert has been a writer and art critic for over a decade contributing with art articles in a national online newspaper. Borchert gets called upon to cover and write reviews for major retrospectives and exhibitions in world-class American museums.

Katsumi Ishikawa

About the artist: Katsumi Ishikawa is a Japanese photographer who resides and works in Hiroshima, Japan. Albeit Katsumi's works by day, yet she dedicates much of her time to her love for the art of photography and to capturing the beauty of the nature around her such as the magnificence and fragility of Japanese flowers along with trees like cherry blossoms. In her photos, Ishikawa captures the exquisiteness of the soft delicate petals of the Japanese flora. She has been a photographer for 8 years. Katsumi uses a macro lens (Nikon D850) to bring attention to the flower stamens and the leaves that protect the flowers.

Victor Griffin

About the artist: Victor Griffin is a British fine art photographer who specializes in flower and botanical photography. Griffin spent his adult life until 2019 in the medical field where he worked with medical imaging devices in technical, educational and commercial roles. Now retired, photography has become Griffin's main focus. Griffin's specialty is nature and specifically flora.

Hermann Lederle

About the artist: Hermann Lederle is a German artist residing and working in Los Angeles. The artist is known for his "Pixels" painting, and more recently for his series “Adaptation". His works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions around the world, and his artistic production is particularly unique and recognizable. Although initially the impression is abstract, Lederle's art features geometric elements that compose, as a whole, figurative elements. Lederle’s work represents the interaction between film and art. Lederle's work suggests a kind of Cubism for the digital age. Moreover, Lederle's work has been widely exhibited in NY, LA, San Francisco, Germany, and France in galleries such as: Media Rare Gallery in Los Angeles, Lawson Galleries in San Francisco, Friedman Guinness Gallery in Heidelberg, and in private collections of Ringo Starr and Eric Stoltz.

Andrew Harrison

About the artist: Andrew Harrison is an accomplished photographer, born in rural Norfolk, UK. Harrison started his photographic journey 40 yrs ago. Harrison worked as a commercial photographer both in the UK and internationally for many years in the fields designs and others. Harrison worked on film in all formats from 35mm to large format 5x4. Studio still life has always been Andrew Harrison’s passion. In the late 1980s, Harrison also lectured on photography for the City & Guild Photography Course.

Lee Kaloidis

About the artist: Lee Kaloidis was born in Philadelphia, PA, to an American mother and a Greek father. Within a year the family was transplanted to South Florida where his mother was an art teacher. At seven, Lee began playing trumpet and was playing professionally and studying with the local pros in his teens. He attended the University of Miami School of Music with a focus on Jazz Studies. Eventually, Lee would move to New York, transition from trumpet to poetry, and spend all of his time with literature. In the 1990s, poetry, trumpet, and the visual arts began to fuse via intense interest in creativity of the mind. In the 2000s, the visual world overtake poetry and music and he worked almost exclusively with paint, though he writes poetry and plays jazz trumpet to this day. He has been a professional working artist since the past 20 years. Kaloidis’s work can be found all over the globe. His main collector is Norwegian Holdings. A documentary film was recently filmed in Lee’s studio in March 2024 and is due to be released soon about Lee’s art for the Norwegian's collection.