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EXHIBITION CATALOG July 2021
The Studio Door 3867 Fourth Avenue San Diego, CA 92103-3113 www.TheStudioDoor.com Cover Artwork: Effervescent (Detail) by John Waiblinger (Los Angeles, CA) Back Cover: Boy’s Night Out (Detail) by Ian Shearer (Seattle, WA) Copyright © 2021 The Studio Door, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. The Studio Door, Inc. respects the rights of all artist and copyright holders. Consequently, all works that appear on this exhibition do so with the consent of the artist/s or the copyright holder. No image or information displayed in this catalog may be reproduced, transmitted or copied without the permission of the The Studio Door, Inc., artist or copyright holder. All prices shown are subject to change without notice by The Studio Door, Inc., artists or copyright holder. Prices do not include any sales tax, use, value added goods, customs, duties, tariffs or service charges. 1
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National Exhibition produced by THE STUDIO DOOR July 3 - 30, 2021 Preview Night: July 1, 2021 5 - 10 PM Exhibition Reception: July 17, 2021 6 - 9 PM Curated by Alexis Bard Johnson, PhD ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA The Studio Door 3867 Fourth Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 The Studio Door www.TheStudioDoor.com
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Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 7 PM or by appointment
Alexis Bard Johnson
JUROR
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THE STUDIO DOOR PROUD+ 2021 Alexis Bard Johnson is Curator at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. She most recently curated the online exhibition, Safer at Home. She is currently working on a project with local artists titled, Six (Linear) Feet and Sexual Science and the Imagi-nation, one of the exhibitions in the Getty’s 2024 Pacific Standard Time. Johnson earned her PhD in Art History with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stanford University in 2019. Her dissertation, “Turning the Page: Image and Identity in U.S. Lesbian Magazines,” is the first scholarly consideration of visual culture in lesbian magazines in the United States. Her essay, “The Work of Being Sexed: Andy Warhol on Drag,” appeared in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End (MIT, 2018). She also contributed to the revised edition of Art and Queer Culture (Phaidon, 2019). Before joining the ONE Archives, Johnson worked at the Princeton Art Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. When she is not researching and writing about queer visual culture, she loves to spend time baking and gardening. Originally from Chicago, she now lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their two tuxedo cats. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries is one of the oldest and largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Its mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible LGBTQ historical materials while promoting new scholarship on and public awareness of queer histories. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over 600 archival collections of personal papers from activists, artists, and ordinary citizens, as well as records from LGBTQ political, social, educational, and cultural organizations. ONE Archives contains millions of archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records, and personal papers. ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries since 2010. 6
THOMAS ACEVADO
GALLERY SHOWCASE ARTIST:
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THE STUDIO DOOR PROUD+ 2021 Through the use of acrylic paint and glaze, Tom Acevedo shines a spot light on the dark places of our psyche beautifully. Influenced by Caravaggio and de Boulogne’s desire to include the viewer, Tom also incorporates Trompe-l’oeil as an interactive story telling tool. Tom’s subjects convey a masculine vulnerability and a poise in calamity while his purpose is to paint a moment in time when the spirit of consciousness is pure. Those moments can come not only in the best of times, but as in life, the most challenging of times as well. While Tom’s motivations may be deeply personal, the trials of any life, the beauty of each day and burdens, are universally felt and understood. Studio: Pelham, NY 8
THOMAS ACEVADO
Previous Spread:
Monday Monday Acrylic 22” x 28” $2,000 Hubris Acrylic 24” x 18” $2,000 Current Spread:
Colt Acrylic 24” x 24” $2,000 Lotus Acrylic 32” x 29” $2,800 9
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Starting Over II Acrylic 24” x 30” $3,000 Cutting In Acrylic 24” x 30” $3,000 11
While I am hammering out parts of my psyche, I am painting parts of my life, the joy, the struggles and fantasies. In shining a light on my story, perhaps you will see yours
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Circle Jerk Joseph Abbati Queer
Acrylic 30” x 30” $850 San Francisco, CA 13
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Love Is Love Victor Adeniran Gay
Mixed Media 14” x 11” $600 San Diego, CA 14
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Lean on Me Kevin Bacher +
Digital Photography 24” x 16” $250 Eatonville, WA 15
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Eve’s Kiss Stephen Born +
Wood Sculpture 34.8” x 33.1” $400 Minneapolis, MN 16
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The Look of Love, IV Brandin Barón Queer
Photography on Silver Paper 16” x 16” $800 San Francisco, CA 17
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I Wanna B A Cowboy (Nat,Moustachioed) Brandin Barón Queer
Illustration, Screenprint with MIxed Media 16” x 19.5” $1,000 San Francisco, CA 18
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Lockdown II Aurora Bewicke Queer
Mixed Media 8” x 8” $370 San Diego, CA 19
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Virtual Pride Aurora Bewicke Queer
Mixed Media 8” x 8” $370 San Diego, CA 20
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Number 17 Kaline Carter Gay
Acrylic on Panel 12” x 6” $275 Albuquerque, NM 21
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Number 97 Kaline Carter Gay
Acrylic on Panel 14” x 11” $500 Albuquerque, NM 22
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Gemma Maurice Cassidy Gay
Oil on Arches Oil Paper 20” x 16” $750 San Diego, CA 23
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Salvador Maurice Cassidy Gay
Oil on Arches Oil Paper 20” x 16” $750 San Diego, CA 24
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Village 1-42 Lance Chang +
Photography Archival Pigment 8” x 8” $250 San Diego, CA 25
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Village 1-61 Lance Chang +
Photography Archival Pigment 8” x 8” $250 San Diego, CA 26
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Emotional Still 2 Mike Dowley Gay
Pastel 11” x 15” $200 Arlington, VA 27
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Missing Angels David Dumo Gay
Photographic Collage Dye Sublimation n Aluminum 16” x 20” $600 Palm Springs, CA 28
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Transmorphosis Gamél Gay
Oil on Wood Panel 48” x 24” $3,950 Palm Springs, CA 29
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Pride Maz Ghani +
Photography 8” x 12” $500 Pittsfield, MA 30
HERVEY GARCIA
GALLERY SHOWCASE ARTIST:
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Hervey Garcia 2021 Walk in Art Featured Artist Established Mexican muralist and visual artist, Hervey Garcia Garcia is currently living in San Diego. His work has been recognized internationally with awards, including the prestigious “a! Diseño prize.” Garcia’s murals and paintings are from pictorial genre of magical realism, which seeks to touch the viewer’s feelings and beliefs. His artwork has been exhibited in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Italy and the US. Garcia uses art on canvas and walls of the planet to unite us and not to divide us.
Kiss Without Fear Acrylic on Wood Panels 96” x 144” Triptych $3,000 San Diego, CA 32
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Family Raymond Gilbert Jr Gay
Acrylic 48” x 36” $1,000 San Diego, CA 33
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Quantum Code Jon Grass Mixed Media 36” x 48” $1,000 Marana, AZ 34
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Opal Star Herrera Bisexual
Photography 14” x 11” $250 Ballston Spa, NY 35
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I Kind of Liked the Rebelness of It All Sarah Kahle Lesbian
Watercolor 40” x 32” $2,500 Silver Spring, MD 36
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‘Colorful Dialogs’ Pride Tribute from Film Strip Series John Kazanjian Gay
Mixed Acrylics 60” x 36” $2,450 San Diego,CA 37
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What Are We To You? Forrest Lawson Queer
Queer Blood, Acrylic, Petri Dish, Parafilm and LED lights 32” x 32” $2,500 Athens, GA 38
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Dialogue #2 Chiyomi Longo Mixed Media on Panel 48” x 36” $7,000 Santa Rosa, CA 39
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Born from the Same Building Blocks Sheila Szilagyi-Noseworthy Ally
Glass Mosaic, Glitter Grout 75” x 19” $2,250 Poway, CA 40
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Navegare Mix Luera Transgender
Acrylic 30” x 18” $400 San Diego, CA 41
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Y Que? Mix Luera Transgender
Acrylic 20” x 16” $300 San Diego, CA 42
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Seed Pod / Gay Man William Moore +
Bronze on Granite 25” x 8” $4,000 Solon, OH 43
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Seed Pod / Gay Man Maquette William Moore +
Bronze on Marble 9.5” x 6” $600 Solon, OH 44
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Unraveling Todd Muffatti Gay
Assemblage 10” x 10” $140 San Diego, CA 45
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Rainbow Shadow Todd Muffatti Gay
Photographic Collage 14” x11” $95 San Diego, CA 46
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Love Kryštof Novotný Oil 100 x 100 Centimeters $549 Prague, Czech Republic 47
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Forbidden Love Robert Olshansky Bisexual
Photography 18” x 12” $500 Falmouth, MA 48
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Any Day Now Michael Osborne Gay
Achival Ink on Bristol 12” x 9” $200 Los Angeles, CA 49
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Waggle Gabriel John Poucher Bisexual
Porcelain, Plaster and Hair 10” x 6” x 5” $600 Garrettsville ,OH 50
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L is for Love ... Devon Reiffer +
Charcoal, Gesso and Gold Acrylic 50” x 60” $3,200 Philadelphia, PA 51
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Pride and Passion Danne Sadler Gay
Acrylic 48” x 24” $1,500 San Diego, CA 52
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LGBTQ Equality Carmine Santaniello Queer
Collage 7” x 5” $500 Kew Gardens, NY 53
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Oxumaré: A Self-Reflection Evan Scoggins Queer
Natural Hand-dyed Wool, Cotton and Bamboo 38.5” x 12” $1,000 San Diego, CA 54
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Rainbow Golliwog Evan Scoggins Queer
Natural Hand-dyed Wool, Cotton and Bamboo 29” x 11.5” $1,000 San Diego, CA 55
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Untitled #1 Evan Scoggins Queer
Natural Hand-dyed Wool, Cotton and Bamboo 14” x 9” $300 San Diego, CA 56
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Boys Night Out Ian Shearer Gay
Acrylic 30” x 24” $1,600 Seattle, WA 57
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Love Is ... Tim Stockton +
Oil Triptych 20” x 54” $1,800 Chula Vista, CA 58
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The Kiss Stefan Talian Gay
Acrylic 40” x 40” $14,500 San Diego, CA 59
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Effervescence John Waiblinger Queer
Digital Art 25” x 19” $595 Los Angeles, CA 60
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Nimue, Beguiling Noah S Thompson Queer
Pigment Print 9” x 6” $250 Philadelphia, PA 61
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The Gentle Wind Noah S Thompson Queer
Pigment Print 9” x 6” $250 Philadelphia, PA 62
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Koa (they/them) Kendra VanAllen Queer
Acrylic on Wood Panel 16” x 12” $300 Troy. NY 63
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Maddy (they/them) Kendra VanAllen Queer
Acrylic on Wood Panel 12” x 16” $300 Troy. NY 64
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Drift Roy de Vries Gay
Oil 66” x 36” $500 San Diego, CA 65
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Tropi-Cal Tim Weedlun Gay
Oil on Panel 36” x 24” $1,000 San Diego, CA 66
THE STUDIO DOOR
ADDRESS
In the heart of Hillcrest, The Studio Door is a unique art center located just minutes from Downtown and Balboa Park. Since 2014, The Studio Door has become known for its gallery of contemporary art, working artist studios, special events and museum store. Great destination for locals, tourists and other art lovers.
The Studio Door is located at 3867 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103-3113 between University Avenue and Robinson Avenue in the Hillcrest Neighborhood.
The Studio is gay-owned and operated by Patric Stillman with loving support from his partner Danne Sadler & mother-in-law Evelyn Loss. 67
GALLERY HOURS Tuesday – Saturday • Noon – 7 PM Sunday and Monday • By Appointment Only
GETTING THERE
PARKING
Hillcrest is accessible from three primary directions. From downtown, head up Fifth Avenue, along Balboa Park’s western edge and through Bankers Hill. Once you’ve reached Robinson Avenue, you’ll be in the heart of Hillcrest. As the neighborhood is popular with the LGBTQ+ community, look for businesses flying a rainbow flag and you’ll know you’ve arrived! From the east, exit University Avenue from Interstate 805 and head west. A few short blocks places you squarely in the center of the main shopping and dining area. For those traveling from the airport or Interstate 5, exit on Washington Street, and head east “up the hill” and exit on University Avenue. You’ll pass through Mission Hills (worth the stop too!) before entering Hillcrest.
Metered street parking is available in the neighborhood. Meters are enforced 10 AM – 8 PM.
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The closest parking lot is just next door at 3835 4th Avenue. Pricing varies by day and time. To find other parking options, hop on the free “Access Hillcrest Shuttle” or visit The Uptown Community Parking District’s AccessHillcrest.com to help you pre-plan your visit.
PRIDE CONTINUES THROUGH AUGUST
SAN DIEGO DRAG ICONS • Exhibition Dates: August 7 - 28, 2021 • Preview Night: August 5 • 5 - 10 PM in conjunction with Hillcrest’s First Thursdays Art Crawl Walk in A.R.T.
NICOLE THE GREAT
QUEEN MOTHER OF THE AMERICAS USA - CANADA - MEXICO
CHAD MICHAELS
WINNER OF RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS (SEASON ONE)
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• Reception & Fundraiser: August 21 • 6 - 9 PM
7th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser The Art of Drag features visual arts and drag costumes with a percentage of gallery sales benefiting Emergency Food Voucher Fund and Take What You Need Tuesdays. Confirmed visual artists include Margaret Chiaro, Yvette Deas and Andrew Norris.
PEARL
CONTESTANT ON AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
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LEGENDARY DESIGNER AND GM OF INSIDE OUT
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GENDER QUEER ARTIST
TOOTIE
QUEEN OF LIPS CABARET
Artist Index ARTIST
LOCATION
WEBSITE
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Joseph Abbati
San Francisco, CA
josephabbati.art
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Thomas Acevedo
Pelham, NY
tomacevedoartstudio.com
7 - 12
Victor Adeniran
San Diego, CA
IG @victorinsandiego
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Kevin Bacher
Eatonville, WA
sensualight.com
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Brandin Barón
San Francisco, CA
brandinbaron.com
17, 18
Aurora Bewicke
San Diego, CA
aurorabewicke.com
19, 20
Stephen Born
Minneapolis, MN
bodyshapes.us
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Kaline Carter
Albuquerque, NM
kalinecarter.com
21, 22
Maurice Cassidy
San Diego, CA
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23, 24
Lance Chang
San Diego, CA
changstudio.com
25, 26
Mike Dowley
Arlington, VA
mikedowley.com
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David Dumo
Palm Springs, CA
ddumoart.com
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Gamél
San Diego, CA
jongamelart.com
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Herve Garcia
San Diego, CA
IG @hervey.garcia
31, 32
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WEBSITE
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Maz Ghani
Pittsfield,PA
mazghani.com
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Raymond Gilbert Jr
San Diego, CA
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Jon Grass
Marana, AZ
jongrass.com
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Star Herrera
Ballston Spa, NY
starherrera.com
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Sarah Kahle
Silver Spring, MD
sarahkahle.com
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John Kazanjian
San Diego, CA
johnrkazanjian.com
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Forrest Lawson
Athens, GA
forrestlawson.com
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Chiyomi Longo
Santa Rosa, CA
ciyomilongo.com
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Mix Luera
San Diego, CA
mlueracollections.com
41, 42
William Moore
Solon, OH
wtmsculpture.wixsite.com/sculp
43, 44
Todd Muffatti
San Diego, CA
toddmuffatti.com
45, 46
Sheila Szilagyi-Noseworthy
Poway, CA
IG @Ghostridermama
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Kryštof Novotný
Prague,Czech Republic
krystofnovotny.art
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Robert Olshansky
Falmouth, MA
thenudeportraitgallery.com
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Artist Index ARTIST
LOCATION
WEBSITE
PAGE #
Michael Osborne
Los Angeles, CA
misterosborne.com
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Gabriel John Poucher
Garrettsville, OH
IG @gabrieljohnpoucher
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Devon Reiffer
Philadelphia, PA
devonreiffer.com
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Danne Sadler
San Diego, CA
dannesadler.com
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Carmine Santaniello
Kew Gardens, NY
carminesantaniello.com
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Evan Scoggins
San Diego, CA
IG @all_things_dyed
54 - 56
Ian Shearer
Seattle, WA
ianshearerstudio.com
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Tim Stockton
Chula Vista, CA
timsearthart.com
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Stefan Talian
San Diego, CA
stefantalian.com
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Noah S Thompson
Philadelphia, PA
noahsthompson.com
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Kendra VanAllen
Troy, MI
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Roy de Vries
San Diego
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John Waiblinger
Los Angeles, CA
johnwaiblinger.com
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Tim Weedlun
San Diego, CA
timweedlun.com
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