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Artist Profiles
from Issue 45
Artists
David A. Goodrum
David A. Goodrum lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His photography has been juried into many art festivals in cities such as St. Louis Missouri, Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio, Ann Arbor Michigan, Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana, and Madison Wisconsin. Additional work can be viewed at www. davidgoodrum.com and www.instagram.com/goodrum/.
C.R. Resetarits
C. R. Resetarits is a writer and collagist/artist. Her collage art has appeared on the covers and in the pages of dozens of magazines and book covers. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Janus
Visual artist. He studied Graphic Design at the University of the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur. His worldview comes from figurative and abstract art along with his experiences as a resident in the cities of Mexico, Puebla, Tijuana, Los Cabos, and, for a long period of his childhood and adolescence in Tennessee, United States. An innate inclination for the arts, a family environment that fostered a culture, as well as a revealing visit to a painting workshop at the age of six, defined his vocation as an artist.
Ronald Walker
Ronald Walker lives in the Sacramento area of CA where he paints and teaches art for a living. He holds both an MFA and an MA degree in painting and his work has been shown in more than 45 solo exhibitions over the years.
Rainy Batroff
Rainy Batroff is a multidisciplinary artist based out of Albuquerque, NM. They started their career in Phoenix, AZ where they were born and raised through creating zines, designing t-shirts for the restaurant they worked at, and tabeling art events through the valley. Primarily self and community taught, Rainy’s current medium focus tends toward digital, acrylic, graphite, and ink. Rainy moved to New Mexico in 2019 where they are now learning the trade of relief printmaking. Their current ongoing project is a study of gender perceived through the lens of their own identity as a trans nonbinary person.
Kristina Erny
Kristina Erny is a third-culture poet who grew up in South Korea. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her poetry has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize and the
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Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, Blackbird, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. After over a decade of living as an alien abroad, she currently lives and works in central Kentucky with her family.
Reem Rashash-Shaaban
Reem Rashash-Shaaban is a poet, writer, and photographer. After spending thirty-three years teaching at the American University of Beirut, she decided to go back to her passion: art. Reem uses her original photographs to reconstruct a new view of life and cities and mixes collage, pastel, ink and paint in her effort to keep the culture, thoughts and traditions of people alive.
Kelwin Coleman
Raised in New York City, Kelwin Coleman is a well rounded traveler. As a queer multi-racial cis male, he champions new discussions of social narratives rather than the regurgitation of racial and sexual traumas often found in contemporary art. Coleman attended Purchase College (BFA)and received his MFA from Tulane University. From private to public print shops and galleries, he has been able to work with/ for a wide range of artists. He has also curated several grassroots shows of artists he feels are underrepresented in the aft world. Coleman currently lives in New York City.
Catherine Skinner
Catherine Eaton Skinner illuminates the balance of opposites and numerical systems – ranging from simple tantric forms to complex grids, reflecting mankind’s attempts to connect to place/each other. Skinner’s creativity stems from growing up in the Pacific Northwest, her Stanford biology degree and Bay Area Figurative painters Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell’s painting instruction. Between Seattle and Santa Fe studios, she concentrates on painting, encaustic, photography, printmaking and sculpture.