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Jess Anders

Our Life is Jack-Knifings, 2020

3 ¾ ft x 1 ft

Oil on Canvas

Title of the painting was taken from the first line of poem below:

KATERINA GOGOU

From Now Let’s See What You’re Going to Do: Poems 1978-2002

translated by Angelos Sakkis

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Our life is jack-knifngs in dirty dead-end streets

rotten teeth faded slogans

a basso backstage basement smells of piss and antiseptic and rotten sperm Torn-up posters

Upanddown Upanddown Patission

Our life is Patission Street

The detergent that won’t pollute the sea and Mitropanos* sang his way into our life but he’s been swallowed by Dexameni* like all the expensive dames

We stay with it

A craven life we travel always the same route

Humiliation-loneliness-despair And back

O K We’re not crying We’ve grown up Only when it rains

we secretly suck our thumb. And we smoke. Our life is pointless panting at pre-programmed strikes

stooges and patrol cars.

That’s why I’m telling you.

Next time they’ll let us have it we shouldn’t run. We should hold our line.

Let’s not sell our asses so cheap, man. Don’t. It’s raining. Gimme a smoke.

Painting in the place where you eat and sleep is not ideal in order to keep paint and rags (sealed in a bucket) away from (roommates) cat’s I’ve tucked them halfway into this (not closet) for the time being So my studio currently is my apartment located in North Philadelphia. And when the weather is decent I’m able to paint on the roof.

Self Portrait of the artist Jessica Anderson Dec. 2020

Instagram:@tamyans

Email: jessicaanderson02326@gmail.com

TAYLOR BROWN

There are so many artists today, like millions. So what do I have to say in all of that? For a while I used to just make up meanings to paintings-- like, because I am half black, I would try and make race a huge motivator for my work, or because I am a woman, I had to speak up against women's rights. Not that I don’t care about that, I do, but I think that this year has made me realize that I am very interested in the boring aspects of life Like when you are taking a walk, and take a picture of something, and decide to paint it later. What does the painting say about how you felt during that walk. Or they way someone stages a still life, what makes them feel like the way they staged the objects, beautiful? My intent is to try and create a feeling in someone (doesn’t everyone? haha), I believe that movement in art has a lot to do with that feeling. For example, I had a professor, who used to paint these hyper realistic paintings It was like his brain was a printer, and that is how he taught. All of our work had to look exactly like the photograph. It was very still and you can even tell by the work I created how I felt about it. However, when you look at a painting and you see this person's brush strokes reaching all around the canvas, you can tell that the artist was very literally moved by what they were doing

ARTIST/PAINTER taymobr.com

TAYLOR BROWN

18”x24”�acrylic gouache on Bristol board (2020)

Amy Cook

THROUGH A CHILD’S EYES”

1aecook1@gmail.com

Instagram: @ilikelentils

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”�Pablo Picasso
Amy Cook

Fiona

to Grandma's"
Acrylic on Raw Canvas
x 48"
2020 Acrylic on Raw Canvas
x 48"
Martinez-Krippner Instagram: @Fiona_MartinezKrippner_Art "Going
2020
36"
"Oklahoma"
36"

"Almost Home (Our Favorite Billboard)",

2020 Acrylic on Raw Canvas

36" x 48"

Sketches These paintings were made from memory, so brainstorming and sketching helped me to plan out my images.

SARAH ROWLEY

Social Media: Instagram: @sarahrowleyart

September 2020

October

Acrylic on canvas 24 x 20 in 2020 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 20 in

November

2020

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 20 in

Initial Sketches

These are colored pencil sketches of the paintings above. This helps me to get familiar with the shapes and objects in the painting

“Sugar vs. Spice”

Emily Scarpato, 30” x 40”, oil paint and mixed media on canvas

2020

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

Inspiration for creating “Sugar vs. Spice” painting:

“North American Ride”

Emily

2020

and mixed media on paper

Emily Scarpato

instagram: @scarpato.art

email: emilyscarpato@gmail.com

Scarpato, 5.5” x 8.5”, gouache

chicken noodle soup may be for the soul, but instant ramen is for everything else

I watched my entire life pass Me by in a bowl of instant ramen Expanding and contracting Noodles like Styrofoam Fake vegetables look real if you squint Hard enough what are they even made out of?

I am sitting on Leo’s couch when he tells me that you catch feelings like you catch a cold, that the butterflies threatening to fly

out of your stomach and up your esophagus is just a symptom, a side effect of beginning to love someone too much.

Other side effects, he told me wisely, included, but were not limited to: sweaty palms, extended eye contact, flushed cheeks, and feeling like you were dying

Which explained why, when I first saw you, I wanted

To get hit by a truck, to French kiss the pavement, To hear the cacophony of horns and be buried six feet under, safe from your stare and my own patchwork heart, the stitching resembling an amateur’s handiwork

But you took my heart and stitched it up with a surgeon’s precision

Making sure to tread carefully and trace your steps backwards and backstitch, securing your place so thoroughly that life without you seemed impossible, a mystery painted in shades of blue so deep it was a wonder I had ever climbed out of that abyss

I developed a new theory; that falling in love Was like getting bitten by a radioactive spider, complete With spide-y senses and spider webs able to catch me

If I ever fell Life was in technicolor, brighter

than before, and suddenly, I was superhuman.

But I never got around to watching The Amazing Spider Man sequel, Never got my upside down kiss, And I never knew Gwen Stacy died, Falling from a skyscraper Peter Parker’s webs just Couldn’t get to fast enough.

My mom always said that the best way To cure a cold was to eat chicken noodle soup So I look in my pantry, come up short, and boil Instant ramen Watch the noodles expand into Interlaced webs, taste nothing, walk back to my tv

And watch Gwen Stacy fall again and again and again

Friday Night 30” x 30” oil on canvas, 2020

The Reader in Quarantine

30” x 40”

Oil on canvas

2020

Jamie Murphy Soika is a painter and writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work explores time, human connection, and the figure in space.

Instagram: @jamiesoika

Email: jamie.murphysoika@gmail.com

MeMe, digital, 2020

MuMu(Diptych), 36” x 36”, oil, 2020

SculpturePainting, 18” x 24”, acrylic, 2020

InteruptedbyCOVID, 16” H x 10” W, clay, 2020

Instagram: @mayleesartwork

Email: mayleewolf.art@gmail.com

Follow Me instagram: @renuue renyuezhang@squarespace.com renyue0518@gmail.com LUNA ZHANG upside down Acrylic on canvas

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Oil on canvas

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Gouache

on paper

Mongata Painting

Oil on canvas

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