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Exodus
Chamenou Mikey Chang
Photography & Imaging
33.12" x 12"
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
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
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.
Wayfinder
V Holecek
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 20 in
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.
Catching Stars
Bethany Allred
Acryla Gouache, Color Pencil, Watercolor
10.5" x 8.5"
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.
Golden Hour
Allison Kufta
Digital Painting
10" x 10", 2021
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
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.
Blackbird Flock
Ava Stotz
Collograph prints on Rives BFK
3'x3', 2023
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.
Sealight II
JC Alfier
Collage
400 DPI, 2023
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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Yuwen Renjie
Silks
120cm*120cm, 2022
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.
The Wisdom of Silence
Mahsan Ghazianzad
Acrylic on canvas
35x47x2 inch., 2023
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
Hiokit Lao
Digital Art
8x10.5 in., 2024
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.
Aftermath
Jessica Aul
Acrylic on canvas
22 x 32 in., 2022
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.
Cherry Branch 1
Ann-Marie Brown
Encaustic & oil on canvas
30 x 30 in., 2022
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
Sylvia Sykes
Acrylic
18 x 24 in., 2022
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
Allan Gorman
Oil on panel
40 x 30 in., 2022
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.
Wharf Boys
Damien Jackson
Photography
2017
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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Josh Stein
Metallic and fluorescent acrylics on canvas
36 x .75 x 48 in., 2022
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.
End of the Circus
Gary Ruddell
Oil on panel
60 x 60 in., 2022
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.
Coneflower 2
Erica Matthews
Photography
Erica Catherine Matthews is an emerging photographer based in Kingston, NY. Her work has been published by Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and Defunkt Magazine.
Top Heavy
Charles B. Bowers
Ink on watercolor paper
22 x 30 in., 2022
Charles Bowers is a Virginia-based painter and illustrator whose work is focused on nature and the blessing of life.
White Dress at Sunset
Roger Camp
Photography
16 x 20 in., 1988
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.
Fool Me Twice
Surelle Schewe
Acrylic paint on canvas
18 x 24 in., 2020
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.
DUALITY
Olena Donichenko
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
Marlene Jorge
Digital art
11.66 x 11.66 in., 2022
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.
Valley of the Trolls
Jane Zich
Acrylic on mulberry paper
20 x 16 in., 2022
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.
Close Up
Ashley Miller
Duratrans print
13 x 17 in., 2022
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.
Monica
Joony Ly
Film photography
8 x 12 in., 2020
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.
Teal Oranges
Jennifer Frederick
Collage
10 x 7 in., 2022
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.