Front Cover: Fela Raymond, Tyler Rosemond, Darren Agboh Botanical Genesis Photograph 16in x 16in
Top: Siggy Hungry Sculpted in ZBrush, rendered in Blender, composited in Photoshop 71in x 120in
Back Cover: Fela Raymond, Tyler Rosemond, Darren Agboh Botanical Inversion II Photograph 16in x 16in
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Image: Solar Acrylic and Ink on Linen 41in x 55in
Right: Cactus of San�ago Acrylic and Marker on Panel 11in x 14in www.instagram.com/ �anxingxu.art/
TIANXING XU
Page 10-11: Heavens of Simula�on Acrylic and Marker on Linen 100in x 72in
Image: boxed organic Acrylics and Relief Print on Canvas 70cm x 100cm
Right: We're just friends Acrylics on Canvas 70cm x 100cm www.carstenwagner.com
CARSTEN WAGNER
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Right: Botanical Genesis Photograph 16in x 16in
FELA RAYMOND TYLER ROSEMOND DARREN AGBOH
Page 10-11: Heavens of Simula�on Acrylic and Marker on Linen 100in x 72in
Image: Botanical Inversion II Photograph 16in x 16in
Fela Raymond: Fela Raymond's work naturally expresses his vision. He directs his lens to capture moments with minimal edi�ng, aiming to present the world untouched as he first encountered it. A percep�ve observer, he masterfully handles each frame's light, textures, and pa�erns.
Darren Agboh: Darren Agboh is a Photographer and Social Psychologist (PhD) specializing in visual storytelling. His work seamlessly blends crea�ve skills and psychological insight to cra� engaging narra�ves that shed light on the experiences of underrepresented individuals.
Image: Botanical Inversion I Photograph 16in x 16in
Tyler Rosemond: Tyler Rosemond is an interdisciplinary ar�st and model, tracing her roots in movement to Rhythmic Gymnas�cs, a sport combining elements of gymnas�cs, contor�on, apparatus handling, and ballet. She is a former U.S. na�onal team member and has competed globally. Tyler's corporeal inquiry has led her to explore Pole dancing, Aerial Hoop, and Freeform movement. She's also studied Ballet, Graham, and Horton techniques.
Image: A�ernoon Summer Storm Acrylic on Canvas 16in x 20in
Right: Field of Lupines Acrylic on Canvas Panel 8in x 8in www.instagram.com/caliblustudio
ADRIANN SPARRE
Adriann Sparre is an acrylic ar�st based in North Carolina known for her landscape and figura�ve pain�ngs. Pain�ng has always been a means for her to express herself and find inner peace. Throughout the day, Adriann finds herself cap�vated by the subtle beauty of the world around her. She aspires to convey these �ny, magical moments through her pain�ngs, allowing viewers to experience the same elegance and tranquility that she does.
Image: Regular Bu�erflies Airbrushed Acrylic on Paper 15in x 20in
Right: Warm Bu�erflies Airbrushed Acrylic on Paper 15in x 20in
LOU BREININGER
Page 10-11: Nocturnal Roses Airbrushed Acrylic on Paper 9in x 12in www.annabreininger.com
Lou Breininger (b. Hagerstown, MD) is an ar�st currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Their work explores place and home through landscape and pa�ern. They grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania and found early on that art-making was a way to connect their interest in architecture, nature, gender, and the decora�ve. They received a BFA in Pain�ng from Arcadia University (Glenside, PA) and an MFA in Pain�ng from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI). They have a�ended studio programs at Goldsmith’s College (London, England) and the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY). Selected exhibi�ons include Odd Ark LA (Los Angeles, CA), FOCA (Los Angeles, CA), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA).
AGNES GIANNAROS
Image: We meet at 9 Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas 100cm x 100cm www.agnèspaints.eu
Agnès Giannaros, is a half Greek and half French ar�st who was born in 1993 in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Design Products from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019. Before star�ng her Design Products studies, Agnès studied Graphic design and visual arts at the ESAG Penninghen in Paris, France. She now lives and works in Munich, Germany.
Image: Tomato picker in his best shirt Acrylic on canvas 80cm x 100cm
BAILEY JEAN THOMAS
Bailey Jean Thomas is a visual ar�st from Kentucky who works with drawing, mixed media, and anima�on. Her colorful, colored pencil illustra�ons explore our rela�onships with domes�cated animals and the food we digest. She uses drawing to process her fears of the environment outside of her body as well as within.
Image: Night Hound Colored Pencil Drawing on Paper 9in x 12in www.baileyjeanthomas.com
Image: In The Warm Colored Pencil Drawing on Wood Panel 12in x 16in
KAREENAZEREFOS
Image: Masked Pencil Drawing on Paper 9cm x 13cm www.kareenazerefos.com
Image: Milkbar Pencil Drawing on Paper 29cm x 29cm
Born in Sydney, Australia, Kareena Zerefos is a Greek / Australian ar�st living in Lisbon, Portugal. Kareena's ar�s�c approach is anchored in her belief that crea�vity is a conduit for authen�c connec�on, a no�on that fuels her dedica�on and feeds her exploratory journey. She weaves intricate life narra�ves in her colored pencil drawings, skilfully intertwining themes of isola�on, connec�on, and dichotomies of the natural and ar�ficial. Through her art, she evokes a sense of nostalgia and eerie tranquility, challenging the borders of reality and imagina�on.
ZHENGWEI LI
Zhengwei Li is a Chinese ar�st from Shenzhen currently living in London. A�er spending years studying tradi�onal Chinese pain�ng and calligraphy, she con�nued a Fine Arts MA degree in Central Saint Mar�ns. She is presently making works focusing on the anonymity of modern ci�es. Her works are partly mixed with her understandings based on the athle�c and space arrangement principles in tradi�onal Chinese pain�ng. Through pain�ngs and ceramic sculptures, Zhengwei archived the separa�on of natural sensa�on and feeling moments. Her works are related to mysteries, uncanny feelings, and fluid iden�ty based on her experience of living in mul�ple cultural socie�es and a digital equipment-dominated lifestyle.
Image: Fireworks Acrylic on Canvas 70cm x 140cm www.cargocollec�ve.com/
Image: Close, Near, Far Acrylic on Canvas 180cm x 120cm
Image: [whenitma�ers] Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Oil pastels on Canvas 80cm x 120cm www.skmsart.com
SUSAN SCHMOLL
Image: [anima] Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Oil pastels on Canvas 80cm x 120cm
SOFIAEFREMENKO Sofia Efremenko is a Russian ar�st born in 1999 whose artworks consist predominantly of acrylic pain�ngs and drawings. In 2017, she moved to Berlin to pursue studying pain�ng at the Weißensee Academy of Arts. She graduated with a diploma in Free Arts/Pain�ng in Summer 2022. Over the years, she exhibited her works na�onally and interna�onally, with the most notable group show at the Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst Spandau in Berlin. Her works and texts have also been featured in several ar�s�c publica�ons. In 2022, Efremenko was a co-organizer of a cycle of fund-raising exhibi�ons in solidarity with Ukraine �tled "Ausstellung für Frieden und Solidarität." Sofia is s�ll based in Berlin, Germany, where she con�nues developing her ar�s�c prac�ce.
Le�: Ini�a�on Acrylic on Canvas 50cm x 100cm www.instagram.com/sofia_efremenko_art/
Image: Nude Acrylic on Canvas 65cm x 85cm
Image: Selbstbildnis Oil on Canvas 80cm x 100cm www.evelinareiter.com
EVELINAREITER
Image: Uber 1 Oil on Canvas 80cm x 100cm
Evelina Reiter lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Reiter graduated from Weissensee Art Academy in Berlin in 2022. Ac�vely engaging in the social and poli�cally ac�ve scene in Berlin, organized and par�cipated in several charity exhibi�ons for Ukraine and Syria. As an ac�ve feminist, her current works represent the lives and struggles of being a young woman in a modern-day metropolis, Berlin, and the strategies to overcome them. Her characters are based on real people or live events and communicate the issues of her genera�on. Reiter is currently working on a project, "I always hold a key in my hand," in Berlin, which will bring more awareness to visitors about the safety of women and nonbinary persons in Berlin. Evelina Reiter works with oil and canvas, which he does herself, and uses pigments to mix her pallet.
Image: Middle age rage Oil on Canvas 85cm x 105cm www.isabellatheys.com
ISABELLATHEYS
Image: Proud owner of his balls since 1963 Oil and Acrylics on Canvas 100cm x 120cm
SANDRACURITORE
Image: Pink Lemonade Acrylic on Canvas 10in x 10in www.xoscuritore.com
Sandra (Cho) Curitore, Korean American Ar�st/Art director, breast cancer survivor, Wife, and Mother living in Los Angeles, is an alumnus of O�s College of Art and Design. She majored in Communica�on Arts - Graphic design and con�nued a professional career of 20+ years within the beauty industry, reaching the level of Crea�ve Director. In 2022, her role as CD came to an end. The layoff was a surprise, but it didn’t consume her because a year prior to COVID-19, she ba�led stage 3 breast cancer and survived. With her new perspec�ve on life, she chose to pivot and dedicate most of her �me to acrylic pain�ng. She’s inspired by her family, nature’s beauty, and anything colorful, and she is applying the design skills from her previous professional life to her next chapter in fine art.
Image: Sour Self Acrylic on Canvas 10in x 10in
Image: DIRECTION Image 74cm x 97cm www.sophiemaiphotography.co.uk
SOPHIE-MAI PEMBERTON
As a photographic ar�st, Sophie processes an existence through a peculiar eye. In the eye of an au�s�c individual, this narra�ve explores personal trauma through a rela�onship between memory and photography. Sophie u�lizes archival and contemporary imagemaking techniques to produce the poten�al of photography to be a therapeu�c tool. Through ques�oning the aesthe�cs of memory and trauma, Sophie explores their connec�on to the fundamental context of society. This project is a fugi�ve reflec�on of past trauma and the road to recovery. A collec�on of all that is good and bad. Through a vessel gripping the intense source of pain and the truth of the past, present, and future of memories. Sophie u�lizes the contextual bases of the ‘Punctum’ a source explored within Roland Barthes’s seminal text Camera Lucida (1980), enac�ng a reflec�on within a trauma�c photograph. In this essence, that bruise or s�ng is defined within photography. Through the juxtaposi�on between images, Sophie has developed a process of construc�on within the concept of crea�ng a book. Using tradi�onal analog processing, Sophie translates the state of a woman’s expression through the concept of �me filled with complexi�es of space and history. This methodology has allowed Sophie to portray the layering of mul�ple iden��es defined within her upbringing. Times through her analog and contemporary image-making have given meaning to self-reflec�on. She is crea�ng a rupture in habitual ways of seeing.
Image: SCARS Image 6cm x 5cm
Image: Float Graphite, Pastel, Watercolor and Colored Pencil on Paper 11in x 16in www.instagram.com/woosikchoi_/
WOOSIK CHOI
Woosik Choi is a visual ar�st based in New York. His work explores the history of individuals, communica�on, and rela�onships based on drawing. Through his ar�s�c prac�ce, Woosik visualizes the world he faced in art forms through his visual vocabulary by capturing not only the real-life situa�ons and moments he experienced but also the history of others. He received his MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2022. Woosik has exhibited his work at venues including New Collectors Gallery, SVA Chelsea Gallery, Main Street Arts, Starta Arta, and LIC-A. He was selected for “Honorable Men�on” by Main Street Arts.
Image: So� Landing Graphite, Pastel, Watercolor and Colored Pencil on Paper 16in x 11in
Image: Erin Oil on Canvas 30in x 40in www.peyton�erneykramp.com
PEYTON KRAMP
Peyton Kramp is an emerging ar�st based in Tribeca, New York City. She is known for her vibrant oil pain�ngs of magnified flowers. Enlarging the �niest petals to fill large canvases, Kramp emphasizes subtle nuances of color and strongly defined shapes - consistently making nature appear abstract.
Image: Sweet Pea Oil on Canvas 30in x 40in
Image: Hungry Sculpted in ZBrush, rendered in Blender, composited in Photoshop 71in x 120in www.instagram.com/theothersiggy/
SIGGY
Los Angeles-based ar�st Siggy has been crea�ng digital artwork since 2020, based on his fi�een years of experience in mixed media fabrica�on. Originally an orchestral composer, Siggy blends his knowledge of classical symbolism with his skills as a sculptor to make the historical queer art he wishes existed. Mixing forms from the past with contemporary media, Siggy provides a neoclassical and revisionist approach to digital art.
Image: Falling Sculpted in ZBrush, rendered in Blender, composited in Photoshop 112in x 80in
Image: Once There Was Digital Pen Illustra�on 16in x 20in www.yamiracastellano.art
YAMIRACASTELLANO
Image: Galloping Waves Digital Pen Illustra�on 16in x 20in
Yamira Castellano is a full-�me ar�st who divides her �me between Clearwater, Florida (her hometown), and Spain (where her parents are from). She has been exploring and developing her crea�vity using diverse mediums, including tradi�onal and digital techniques, since she was young (shoutout to Windows Paint). Her illustra�ve pen style has been maturing from high school-notebook-portraiture to surreal composi�ons inspired by surrealist ar�sts such as Dali, Escher, and Magri�e, not to men�on the countless incredible ar�sts she follows online. She graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. in Digital Arts and Sciences in 2019 with a focus on Game Design and Anima�on, and since then, has been freelancing as a digital ar�st.