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Exodus

Chamenou Mikey Chang


Photography & Imaging

33.12" x 12"

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Chamenou Mikey Chang is a Milwaukee based Hmong Artist (Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) and Medical Healthcare Professional working with photography and digital art. As a first-generation artist, Chang’s interdisciplinary practices delves into fictional story-telling that is used to explore different immigrant stories using photographic sequencing.

UNTITLED

Mario Loprete

 

Concrete sculpture

Real, 2022

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Painting is the his first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which he wants to send a message , it’s the base of his painting. The sculpture is his lover, the artistic betrayal to the painting. That voluptous and sensual lover that gives him different emotions, that touches prohibited cords…

Held in Perfect Balance

Roy Torda

 

Oil paint on canvas

24 x 20 inches, 2022

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Roy Torda is a young artist from the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Their oil paintings explore themes of nature, folklore, and surrealism. “Held in Perfect Balance” depicts the cycle of life and death as delicate flowers consume a veil of man-made cloth, transforming it into something beautiful and new.

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Wayfinder

V Holecek


Acrylic on Canvas

24 x 20 in

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V Holecek is an American visual artist, making paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Media includes acrylic paints, charcoal, colored pencil, and polymer, stone, and paper clay.

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Catching Stars

Bethany Allred


Acryla Gouache, Color Pencil, Watercolor

10.5" x 8.5"

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Bethany Allred is a 25 year old artist. She graduated with a BFA in illustration from Utah Valley University. Bethany loves working traditionally and making art using all sorts of different mediums. She especially loves creating collages that are full of texture, pattern, and depth.

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Golden Hour

 

Allison Kufta


Digital Painting

10" x 10", 2021

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Allison Kufta is a medical student and artist based in Chicago. She enjoys exploring different traditional and digital media and creating art inspired by nature and medicine.

Homesickness​


Connor Rothe


Acrylic on canvas

36" x 36", 2023

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I explore painting through my experience with derealization/depersonalization (two dissociative disorders that have left me feeling mentally detached from my surroundings/sense of self). My paintings are both photographic and blurry. In this, I attempt to straddle the line between real and unreal.

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Blackbird Flock

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Ava Stotz

 

Collograph prints on Rives BFK

3'x3', 2023

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Ava Stotz is a senior at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. She works in printmaking, and is interested in the translation of elements of the natural world into art. She is especially fascinated by birds, and the formation of flocks.

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Sealight II

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JC Alfier 

 

Collage

400 DPI, 2023

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JC Alfier’s (they/them) most recent book of poetry, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, River Styx, Southern Poetry Review, and Vassar Review. They are also an artist doing collage and double-exposure work.

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作品图宇文任杰丝巾5丝绸

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Yuwen Renjie

 

Silks

120cm*120cm, 2022

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Independent artist from China, member of China Arts and Crafts Association. His artworks cover sculpture, jewelry, graphic design, painting, etc. He specializes in creating globalized art using East Asian crafts, raw materials and aesthetics. She advocates that art and aesthetics are the common language of the world.

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The Wisdom of Silence

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Mahsan Ghazianzad

 

Acrylic on canvas

35x47x2 inch., 2023

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Mahsan Ghazianzad was born in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. She pursued her terminal degree in Fine Arts (MFA) at the University of Nevada, Reno and Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) from Soore university in Tehran. Primarily interested in works that convey personal meaning, Mahsan works to capture the essence of her experiences through her paintings. She uses color, line, and shape in harmonies and abstract compositions to express emotions, thoughts, and sensations. A wide variety of sources influence Mahsan’s artwork including personal history, poetry, philosophy, music, and also the works of artists that she admires. Mahsan is currently working as an adjunct art professor at Los Rios Community College in Sacramento.

Kunik

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Hiokit Lao

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Digital Art

8x10.5 in., 2024

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Hiokit Lao is a 29-year-old self-taught artist from NYC. Through surreal, abstract, and vibrant pieces, she aims to create meaningful art that instills hope and positivity.

 

Her art is a kaleidoscope of surrealism and abstract expression, a vibrant fusion echoing the various cultures that have shaped her worldview. Inspired by her diverse upbringing and a deep fascination with the world, her work resonates with the colors, traditions, and social causes around the globe. Each piece is a homage to cultural diversity, intertwining social narratives and her own artistic vision. 

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Aftermath

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Jessica Aul 

 

Acrylic on canvas

22 x 32 in., 2022

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Jessica Aul is a senior at Pennsylvania Western University's Edinboro Campus.  In the future, she hopes to work in a public school, teaching art while continuing to make her own.

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Cherry Branch 1

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Ann-Marie Brown

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Encaustic & oil on canvas

30 x 30 in., 2022

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Ann-Marie Brown is a Canadian artist working in oil and wax. She is currently painting out of a studio on the British Columbia coastline in the company of rain and bears.

 

Adam

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Sylvia Sykes

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Acrylic

18 x 24 in., 2022

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Sylvia Sykes is a portrait artist from Akron, OH.  Her work spans across acrylic, oil and digital mediums in both caricature and realistic styles.  Sykes obtained a B.A. in psychology and a minor in sociology from the University of Akron.

 

Shadows on a Kobra Mural

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Allan Gorman

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Oil on panel

40 x 30 in., 2022

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Allan Gorman's artwork has been exhibited in numerous museums and commercial galleries throughout the USA and Europe.  Selected as one of the 100 Grandmasters of Realist Art by Salon Des Beaux Arts, he has several fellowships and awards to his credit.

 
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Wharf Boys

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Damien Jackson

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Photography

2017

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Damien Jackson tells the stories of Black and Brown people in America and worldwide.  A graduate of Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, TN, Damien's work embodies a deep respect for culture and history with an intent to uplift the spirits of those he photographs.

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#368 Tropical Camo IX

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Josh Stein

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Metallic and fluorescent acrylics on canvas

36 x .75 x 48 in., 2022

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Josh Stein is a creative artist, musician, writer, and professor with multiple advanced degrees from the University of California and the University of Liverpool.  He is currently an MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

 
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End of the Circus

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Gary Ruddell

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Oil on panel

60 x 60 in., 2022

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Gary Ruddell is an American figurative artist whose work is displayed across the globe at various galleries and private collections. Known for his representational fine art paintings and early illustrations, Ruddell is a BFA graduate from California College of Arts & Crafts.

 
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Coneflower 2

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Erica Matthews

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Photography

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Erica Catherine Matthews is an emerging photographer based in Kingston, NY.  Her work has been published by Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and Defunkt Magazine.

 
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Top Heavy

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Charles B. Bowers

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Ink on watercolor paper

22 x 30 in., 2022

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Charles Bowers is a Virginia-based painter and illustrator whose work is focused on nature and the blessing of life.

 
Top Heavy
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White Dress at Sunset

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Roger Camp

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Photography

16 x 20 in., 1988

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Roger Camp has taught photography and English at the University of Iowa, Columbus College of Art & Design, Eastern Illinois University, Golden West College, and the city Internationale de Universitaire de Paris.  His work has appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, Pank, and New York Quarterly.

White Dress
Fool Me Twice
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Fool Me Twice

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Surelle Schewe

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Acrylic paint on canvas

18 x 24 in., 2020

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Surelle Schewe's paintings are often inspired by fairy tales, folklore, bible stories, and mythology.  She uses deep and complex female characters to create visual story boards.

 
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DUALITY

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Olena Donichenko

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Olena Donichenko is a Ukrainian painter and engraver.  A graduate from National School of Architecture of Grenoble, Donichenko's work have been exhibited in Paris and elsewhere. Donichenko is one of many Ukrainian artists whose life and work has suffered irrevocably since Russia-Ukraine war started in 2022.  She continues to express her support and solidarity with suffering Ukrainians through her art.

 

Immensidad

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Marlene Jorge

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Digital art

11.66 x 11.66 in., 2022

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Marlene Jorge is a neurodivergent, autodidact pop surrealist artist who addresses the true nature of unconsciousness. Her work is currently in several private, public, and corporate collections throughout the Caribbean, the U.S., and Europe. Jorge lives in Texas, U.S.

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Valley of the Trolls

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Jane Zich

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Acrylic on mulberry paper

20 x 16 in., 2022

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Jane Zich is a San Francisco Bay Area artist whose paintings use imagery from the unconscious to explore human relationships with nature and with each other. Her award-winning paintings and drawings have been juried into numerous national exhibitions and published in literary, art, and psychology books and periodicals.

Immensidad
Trolls
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Close Up

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Ashley Miller

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Duratrans print

13 x 17 in., 2022

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Ashley Miller works in photography, found objects, and installations. Born in Syria and raised in Guam, she studied art at The Evergreen State College and The University of New Mexico.

Close Up
Monica
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Monica

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Joony Ly

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Film photography

8 x 12 in., 2020

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Joony Ly is an Asian American artist based in Boston. He uses film photography to explore the concept of memory, time, and relationships. He hopes to find common ground between artist and viewer through his works.

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Teal Oranges
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Teal Oranges

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Jennifer Frederick

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Collage

10 x 7 in., 2022

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Jennifer Frederick's work has appeared in Coffee People Zine, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and 1807: An Art and Literary Journal. An interdisciplinary artist, they have recently received their law degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

 
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