Studio Visit Vol. 29 featuring Christina Mariotti

volume twenty-nine

See pg. 110 for works by Christina Mariotti >>

volume twenty-nine A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists.

Foreword

The juror for Volumes 29 and 30, Michael Lash, is someone I have known since my earliest days in the art world, and I think it is fair to say that he is one of the more interesting men operating in this world. He is an artist, who has also been a curator, museum director and, perhaps most notably, the Director of Public Arts for Chicago.

He is also a great provocateur. Lash simply loves art, and he always brings a fresh perspective to any project he is working on.

volume 29 2015 $15 Editor and Publisher: Steven T. Zevitas Associate Publisher: Andrew Katz Design / Production: Kayelani Ortiz Communications Manager: Alexa Kinne

Copyright Š 2015. The Open Studios Press.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any way without written permission from the publisher.

PRINTED IN KOREA All rights in each work of art reproduced herein are retained by the artist.

Front Cover: Brian Dubina, p.50 Back Cover: Jan Randolph Martin, p.112 www.studiovisitmagazine.com

The competition that yielded Volumes 29 and 30 drew more than one thousand applicants.

Of them, three hundred artists were selected for publication and two hundred and twentynine chose to participate. As in the past, and in the interest of producing volumes of Studio Visit that are not overwhelmingly large, I made the decision to split the winning artists into two separate books, Volumes 29 and 30. This division is intended to make the publication manageable for our readership, and, more importantly, to maximize the benefit for participating artists.

The artists featured in Volumes 29 and 30 represent a wide range of aesthetic viewpoints that I think accurately capture the pluralistic time we live in. Some of the artists featured in Studio Visit are self-taught, while others hold graduate degrees. Some have shown extensively, while others are at the beginning of their careers. Regardless of their respective backgrounds, all of the artists featured in Studio Visit are serious about and committed to their work. So, we hope that you take the opportunity to contact any artist that you feel may be appropriate for your gallery or collection.

For your convenience, every artist has contact information provided.

I find it hard to believe that Studio Visit is turning thirty already. As with any new venture, you never quite know how it will be received.

I am thrilled that Studio Visit has served its purpose so well and helped so many deserving artists. As we move forward, the publication’s readership will continue to grow and hopefully its impact will as well.

Steven Zevitas Publisher

Studio Visit: Volume Twenty-Nine Michael Lash, Independent Curator & Former Director of Public Arts for the City of Chicago

Lana Abu-Shamat

Chelsea America

www.lanaabushamat.com

@chelseaamericawork

Brooklyn, NY lana.abushamat@gmail.com / 337 661 1642

My aim is to recreate and revive my family’s demolished soap factory thereby representing a potential for the rebirth of a dormant Palestinian culture. The tower of soap is a nod to an age-old step in the production process, as it was how they dried the freshly created soap.

Masbanet Abu-Shamat (Abu-Shamat Soap Factory) 1500-2002, 2014300 bars of handmade olive oil soap, original Abu-Shamat soap bar (1990), digital image (taken 2010), wooden stool, customized copper stamp, soap wrapping paper, acrylic display cube, dimensions variable

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Modesto, CA chelseaamericatorres@gmail.com / 415 218 6571 GALLERY AFFILIATION Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA

My latest work illustrates moments throughout my day when I have impulses to do absurd actions in response to aspects of domestic life.

I am a mother of three and bound by certain responsibilities, so I let these moments pass, resolving to live out these fantasies on paper.

Tasteless (kitchen scissors) watercolor and gouache on paper, 48 x 48 inches

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Rajee Aryal www.rajeearyal.com Chicago, IL rajeearyal@gmail.com / 612 325 6794

A whole is a block. It is impenetrable. It leaves me out. So I break it into parts and go over each, slowly taking stock. I put the parts back together, again and again, into a different whole that allows me to think about how else it might be.

Colors in a River II, Written acrylic ink and inkjet print on canvas, 50 x 50 inches

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Colors in a River II, Painted flasche and inkjet print on canvas, 50 x 50 inches

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Liliane A. Avalos

Kyle Bader

www.lilianeavalos.com Austin, TX lilianeavalosartist@gmail.com

Layla Sky & Her Prize mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches

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Columbia, MO kbader91@gmail.com Liliane Avalos was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She earned a BFA Studio Art with a concentration in Painting at Texas State University of San Marcos. L. Avalos continues her studio practice as a working artist and Fine Arts figure model in Austin, TX.

Kyle Bader was born in Cape Girardeau, MO and graduated from Fontbonne University in St. Louis with a BFA in painting. After graduation, Kyle spent a year as an apprentice under American artist Tim Liddy. Currently, Kyle is pursuing his MFA at the University of Missouri, studying techniques of photorealism.

Why work? Stealing is faster oil on masonite, 10.25 x 11.5 inches

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Lauren Ball www.laurenballart.com Chicago, IL artinola@gmail.com

Embracing the figurative landscape and domestic scene as stages that summon tradition and the surreal, my hand rests between restraint and experimentation while memory collisions sprout idealized vestiges and formal transitions bearing shape and color. My work invokes familial phantasms, perceptual hierarchies, and an infatuation with fragments and reminders.

Endymion acrylic, oil, and found fabric on linen, 20 x 26 inches

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I’m Sorry You Feel That Way acrylic and found fabric on linen mounted on panel, 24 x 24 inches

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Brian James Bartlett Madison, WI brianjamesbartlett@hotmail.com / 847 565 9117 These painted casts of characters are based on episodic memory. They are an oddly shaped recollection of artifacts, phrases, and characters from my youth.

The Lost Art of Telling a Lie mixed media on canvas, 59.5 x 55.5 inches

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Brainbo mixed media on linen, 56 x 44 inches

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Patricia Beggins www.patriciabeggins.com Atlanta, GA patmagers@gmail.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Inspired by extensive time in India, Patricia Beggins’s paintings are a reflection of her ongoing experience of Eastern meditation practice. Her working methods are organic and spontaneous, incorporating drawing, torn paper, found objects, the written word, ink, beeswax and paint of various kinds to serve the meaning of each piece.

The Infants of Prague oil, beeswax, and chinese money on panel, 24 x 24 inches

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Carry the Moon O Fortunate Son Oil, beeswax, linen, and glow-in-the-dark plastic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

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Justin Behnken www.jbehnken.com Portland, OR behnken@jbehnken.com / 206 898 9170

5:56 AM acrylic on unstretched canvas, 84 x 114 inches

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There are two goals always present each time I start a piece: recognize the painting as an object and then try to overcome this objecthood by allowing color to hold the pressure of the entire piece (deep color is always the goal).

7:00 PM acrylic on unstretched canvas, 84 x 114 inches

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Chris Bingham www.chrisbinghamart.com Dallas, TX royal5design@gmail.com

Family Values mixed media on paper, 20 x 14 inches

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My work is based around the patterns of everyday life in a community that contains an abundance of beauty. They reflect perceived images of places or things that society might deem unattractive, but through the eyes of the artist, nothing could be more untrue. Here I uncover the true beauty of pattern and color that exists within these relics of life, in “My Hood, My Eyes.�

Big Bro mixed media on canvas, 8 x 8 inches

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Joey Brock www.joeybrockart.com Dallas, TX brockjoey@ymail.com / 214 850 8520 GALLERY AFFILIATION Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

Just Below the Surface mixed media on paper, 50 x 50 inches

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Exploring natural and man-made landscapes is an ongoing theme in my work. There is a unique balance that dances between the natural landscapes as they collide with the man-made environment. I find a certain beauty in the collision of these two worlds and the balance that will eventually ensue.

Shot to the Heart mixed media on paper, 50 x 50 inches

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Inga Kimberly Brown www.ingakimberlybrown.com Greensboro, NC Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, painter Inga Kimberly Brown received her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and is currently working on a MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Brown’s current work focuses on images of her family and racial blood mixing in the Antebellum South.

Your Not Alone I’m With You oil on canvas, 48 x 60, 12 x 36.5 inches

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The Belle of a Southern Mix oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

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Marie Bukowski

Robert Tapley Bustamante

www.mariebukowski.com

www.visualsoul.com

Carbondale, IL bukowski@siu.edu GALLERY AFFILIATION Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Through the process of drawing, the mind, eye, and hand sometimes shift in and out of synchronization. Speculation, or the suspension of decision, leads below the surface of order into the ambiguity of conflicting perceptions.

My work becomes a meditation on the meaning of certainty.

Paracosm #1 pen and ink on logarithmic graph paper, 11 x 8.5 inches

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Kansas City, MO rob@visualsoul.com

Nationally recognized Artist and Designer going by the street name of VisualSoul. Rob loves to live-paint at rock and rap concerts such as The Black Keys, Primus, and Eminem. He paints with distinctive bright colors, and his bold lines create soul stirring emotional landscapes best described as “beautifully disturbing.�

Jungle Creeper acrylic on wood, 12 x 16 inches

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Mariela Lechin C www.marielalechin.com Deerfield Beach, FL info@marielalechin.com / 954 770 5249 GALLERY AFFILIATION Curators Voice Art Projects, Wynwood Miami, FL

China mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

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Inspired by the quantum physic’s principle of a Universe made of an endless sea of energy in constant motion, only solid in an illusion we create with our thoughts; in a world that constantly attempts to choose between extremes, my work reflects the idea that contradictions coexist harmoniously as one.

Kansas mixed media on canvas, 72 x 60 inches

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RenĂŠe E. Caouette

Mike Carney

www.reneecaouette.com

www.artbycarney.com

Boston, MA caouette.renee@gmail.com

Dustin pastel, 24 x 18 inches

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As an artist, RenĂŠe is continually creatively nourished by traveling, museum-going, hiking in nature, and collaborating with other artists. After living and working in Paris, France for four years, she is presently residing between Boston and New York working towards her MFA.

Minneapolis, MN carney.mikej1@gmail.com

Mike Carney explores balance through illusion and deception, creating relationships of imagebased representation to tangible, sculptural objects. Often the perceptual and physical space of painting collides through the use of non-traditional materials and interruption of the painted plane. Image becomes object and vice-versa.

Still (Real) LYF 3 paint, wood, and voile, 66.5 x 44 x 1.5 inches

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Veronica Ceci www.veronicaceci.com Austin, TX GALLERY AFFILIATION Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin, TX

Veronica Ceci juxtaposes the detached remove of the digital with the intimate of the body by utilizing outmoded, yet enduring methods of hand done printing to depict the figurative implications of technological saturation. The resulting genre portraiture has a graphic edge which contemporizes old world techniques of image creation.

Two Sitting reductive woodcut, 22 x 44 inches

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Steven Chabre chabre66.wix.com/paintings Alameda, CA chabre66@yahoo.com / 510 301 6442

Pink Vessel oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inches

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These paintings started as automatic drawings.

I make random marks and then develop the subjects suggested. Many of the drawings became pots and flowers, which I then turned into paintings. Some of the drawings and eventual paintings are figures in interiors or in landscapes.

Purple Vessel oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches

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Laura Chasman

Vachu Chilakamarri

www.laurachasman.com

www.vachuart.com

Roslindale, MA laura.chasman101@gmail.com / 617 960 7581

My subject matter is drawn from my daily life, the people and situations I encounter. This is where I find my inspiration. On this summer morning my husband sat reading- a composition in shades of green. I was amused and thought it would make a good painting.

John Wearing His Green Reading Glasses gouache on museum mounting board, 11.5 x 11.5 inches

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Houston, TX vachu11@yahoo.com / 713 541 1374

Egg crackling a flower opens Beak, body and scribbly legs Crawling upon the palm of My hand. Tiny. —— My poems act as catalysts and my biology background draws me to the natural world.

I used complimentary colors for contrast emphasizing simplicity.

Nest acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

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Chubirka www.chubirka.com Dallas, TX info@chubirka.com / 469 371 3550

Take That! oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches

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My mental revenge toward the corporatocracy and it’s media puppets.

Sleeps With The Fishes oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches

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Alexander Churchill www.alexchurchillart.com Norwalk, CT alexfchurchill@gmail.com

Self Portrait as a Merry Toper oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches

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Exploring anxieties and uncertainties towards human interaction and idealogical meaning, my work attempts to evoke confused uneasiness through subtle manipulation of fundamental primal concerns combined with absurd imagery and allusions to symbolism. Presented as meticulously detailed paintings, it provokes conflicts between beauty and repulsion and tensions between empathy and mistrust.

Amylase of the Uncanny Valley oil on canvas, 60 x 36 inches

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Page Coleman

Sally Cooper

www.pagecoleman.com

www.sally-cooper.com

Albuquerque, NM pagecoleman@comcast.net

Bare Trees 1 acrylic on paper, 20 x 20 inches

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Parkland, FL I continue to explore ways of creating an “other world� sense of place in my landscape paintings.

I rely upon memory, simplification of form and finetuning of color relationships to define the inner essence/mood of each painting.

GALLERY AFFILIATION Mary Woerner Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, FL

My work is about a creative process rather than an image or place. Following intuition I apply a gestural mark that comes from within. The surface is built, destroyed and erased again and again creating a history to what has been.

This play continues until from chaos a painting evolves.

Enigma acrylic on canvas, 62 x 64 inches

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Rafael Cronin

Ella Davidson

www.rafaelcronin.com

www.elladavidson.com

Bloomington, IN rafaelcronin@gmail.com

Amalgamation 0.4 paper collage, 10.5 x 9 inches

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Novelty is the antidote to my restlessness.

Because of this, I work primarily with collage and mixed media since these techniques lend themselves as ideal methods of recontextualization. I’m interested in taking things out of their functional context, placing them into new ones and exploring the possibility of new meaning.

Berkeley, CA ella.ma.davidson@gmail.com / 845 705 0371

While the outdoors is traditionally depicted as a place for inward contemplation, I paint the wilderness as a social space, emphasizing the intimate and personal aspects of time spent in the woods. Expressive paint and mark assist in conveying my affection for the people and places chosen for my compositions.

Tall, Strong oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

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Alison and Sam Demke Sandy, UT alisondemke@gmail.com Failed attempts, misunderstandings, and the bizarre. Add in truth or memory and you arrive at “funny.” We strive for humor that is anti-vanity, for both the author and the subject. This body of work illustrates the past lives of Hollywood’s Mike White.

Maiden Voyage oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches

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La Peinata oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches

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Julia DePinto

Yaron Dotan

www.juliadepinto.com

www.yarondotan.com

Hartford, CT juliadepinto@gmail.com

Trust Issues ink jet print, 9.5 x 7 inches

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Our culture demands on the immediacy of communication. We have created a language that disregards etiquette and devalues direct conversation. My practice includes a strong use of repetition, multiplicity and text, echoing the practice of street artists and alluding to collective human experiences of debauchery, shame and indirect communication.

Los Angeles, CA info@yarondotan.com / 917 592 1094

I call this style Optical Expressionism. I am interested in rhythms and shapes that affect perception and in using them as existential metaphors that mirror each person’s relationship with the outer world.

Jacob Wrestling the Angel ink on painted panel, 48 x 36 inches

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Brian Dubina www.briandubina.com Haverhill, MA brian@briandubina.com / 978 500 7220 GALLERY AFFILIATION Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA

Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge oil on panel, 6 x 12 inches

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Brian creates both traditional and modern paintings that reflect his belief in fundamental draftsmanship, challenging compositions and strong color sense. As a trained illustrator, creative design leader, emerging sculptor and former gallery owner, Brian’s award-winning paintings are held in both corporate and private collections.

Beacon Hill, Winter oil on panel, 14 x 11 inches

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Aaron E. Dugger www.aaron-dugger.format.com Urbana, IL adugger2@gmail.com

Untitled (16 Points #1) oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

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My paintings are designed using verticals and horizontals of varying weights. Sixteen points corresponding to the cardinal directions are used as a guide. The materials are wood, cotton and black and white paint. I use simple means and materials to create an infinite number of expressions.

Untitled (16 Points #3) oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

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Mikel Elam www.mikelelam.com Philadelphia, PA mikelartist@earthlink.net / 267 257 3430

Tempest mixed media on canvas, 49 x 49 inches

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My work is a departure from reality. A dream space with a narrative. A reflection of all things within our existence. A transition from the earthly to a certain ethereal boundlessness.

Life is transformative. Life is ever changing.

And so forever ephemeral in nature.

Paradigm acrylic and oil sticks on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

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Susan G. Emmerson www.susanemmerson.com Bloomington, IL sg.emmerson@gmail.com / 309 825 0292 GALLERY AFFILIATION Associate Member, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA

Fierce Chaos (detail) mixed media, 41 x 26 inches

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I explore the many ways drawing can be expanded from traditional surfaces and materials. I paint, draw, cut, burn, and melt Tyvek, plastic, wire, and other materials to create marks on floors, ceilings, walls and objects I create. My imagery is created as a response to the media I use.

Fierce Chaos mixed media, 41 x 26 inches

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Kristina Estell www.kristinaestell.com Duluth, MN Daily encounters with natural and constructed environments generate ideas of implicit action and reaction. Using a variety of processes and materials, Estell creates sculptural installations, found object and watercolor works that create sensitive and dynamic material experiences.

Estell has participated in exhibitions and creative residencies nationally and internationally.

Posture is Everything silicone rubber and wood, Installation

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Outside is the New Inside plant matter, archival paper tape, aluminum and clamps, sculpture

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Benjamin Ferry

Dana Filibert

www.benferry.com

www.danafilibert.net

Washington, DC ben_ferry@hotmail.com

America for Sale oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

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I’ve currently been working within the theme of repetition, which allows me to take on multiple genres of picture making. I find myself being drawn to manmade vessels as the focus of these objects, especially when I have the opportunity to infuse some level of social commentary.

Shelburne, MA dfilibert@gmail.com / 203 470 9581

I aim to transport viewers into a world of playful mischief and memories of childhood innocence.

My work responds to a society where individuals identify with consumer objects as part of their persona. I alter familiar objects with bold finishes and corporeal forms that play with our sense of reality.

Pinto steel, carved high density foam, repurposed objects, epoxy, and paint, 16 x 13 x 7 inches

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Jessie J. Flores www.jessiejflores.webs.com Miami, FL drunkenartz@gmail.com / 305 773 0954

Atoms of Adam mixed media, 41 x 24 inches

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The best way to describe my visual artwork is to say that its form comes from the 90’s like the best rap album from that era, you’ll get a balance of storytelling and raw life issues in a language not understood by many.

Center of The Apex mixed media, 54.5 x 31.5 inches

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John Ford www.johnfordfoto.com Del Mar, CA john@johnfordfoto.com / 858 775 9040

Denali From Wonder Lake archival pigment print, 13.3 x 20 inches

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I travel the world looking for images that convey the majesty of the natural world. I like to say I search for order in the chaos of nature. I hope that these images capture my emotions as I released the shutter.

Pfeiffer Beach, Calif. archival pigment print, 16 x 14.6 inches

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Felicia Forte www.feliciaforte.com San Francisco, CA felicia@feliciaforte.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

Forte’s economical and decisive oil paintings depict uncanny interiors, figures in mid movement, and the push and pull of light and shadow. The reductionist quality of her work allows viewers space to interpret the fleeting moments and transitory emotions conveyed by her subjects for themselves.

Dismantling Something You’ve Worked so Hard to Create oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches

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Black Dog oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches

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Matt Freden www.mattfreden.com Champaign, IL mattfreden@gmail.com

Corpser pencil, ink, and digital coloring, 12 x 12 inches

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These images capture moments in a story yet to be told. A glimpse of two travelers in search of an unknown treasure. A macabre amalgamation of eyes and serpentine tentacles. There is a beauty in the bizarre.

The Travelers pencil, ink, and digital coloring, 24 x 17 inches

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Mateo Galvano www.mateogalvano.com Athens, OH mateogalvano@cybermesa.com

under investigation, cradled within the colossal sheath of cosmos, infinitesimal alchemies are measured, translated. the human body is a site of pleasure and trauma, engaged in ceaseless longing for wholeness, for home. beings both sentient and mute mirror the metamorphoses of land and waters, of weather and the Earth’s volumes.

Diviner acrylic, graphite, and mixed media on acrylic vellum, 40 x 50 inches

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Occurrence acrylic, graphite, and mixed media on acrylic vellum, 40 x 50 inches

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Xiang Gao www.iamgao.com Oakland, CA hello@iamgao.com / 415 265 1816

Just A Shell ink on rice paper with mixed media, 35 x 35 inches

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Gao was born and raised in a mountainous region of southwest China. As a teenager in the city of Guiyang, rock n’ roll and American culture fascinated him. His work blends traditional Chinese themes of nature with expression of the solitude and longing of a “Chinglish” outsider in US.

Flower Funeral #2 ink on rice paper with mixed media, 35 x 35 inches

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Carianne Mack Garside www.cariannemackgarside.com Burlington, CT mackcem@hotmail.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA

Arise oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches

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My work is based on dynamic structures formed beyond my control or conscious decision: tree shadow patterns, water reflections, pooled stains of paint, and most recently, a scattering of organic debris. I collaborate with the natural compositions within these sources, and then paint to unearth beauty amidst the chaos.

Germination oil on panel, 16 x 12 inches

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Steve Gibson www.stevegibsonart.com San Diego, CA My work is an exercise in enigmatic associations. I deconstruct/reconstruct iconographic relationships as I draw on historical and contemporary visual references.

A dialectic narrative is developed to show relational ambiguities as the images are juxtaposed with each other. This queues the viewer to a chronicle yet to be interpreted.

Glass House Mountain oil on linen, 54 x 40 inches

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Grand Canyon oil on linen, 54 x 40 inches

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Mack Gingles

Carol Gove

www.mackgingles.com

www.carolgove.com

Waco, TX mack@mackgingles.com

Wobegon Begone charcoal on rose paper, 35 x 24 inches

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My drawings work as a description of the people around me as seen through a curtain of surrealistic light. Often they are distracted and set against a quiet but visually treacherous space.

Over time I have come to rely on this format to question what I know.

Temple, NH info@carolgove.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ East End Gallery, Nantucket, MA

I draw from nature and personal expression, striking a balance between gesture and embedded collage fragments. Remnants of imagery appear and disappear as the materials are washed and worn by layers of paint. My work appears in private and public collections nationwide, including the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston.

Climb mixed media and collage on panel, 48 x 36 inches

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Michael Griesgraber www.mgriesgraber.com Las Vegas, NV mgriesgraber@gmail.com

Color Chaos acrylic on canvas, 42 x 42 inches

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In this body of work I am painting how I feel, using abstract, action painting as my form of expression. I deliberately avoided using identifiable images because I want the viewer to experience the painting’s dynamics unencumbered by any recognizable imagery that would alter the viewing experience.

Richter II acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

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Mia Tarducci Henry www.miatarduccihenry.com Pittsburgh, PA info@miatarduccihenry.com / 412 370 6916

The Ride (detail) oil on canvas, 60 x 737 inches

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Large works of art have always moved me. I find comfort in losing myself to them. As if they don’t exist in my world — I exist in theirs. The intention of these pieces is to recreate that experience.

Breathing Space oil on canvas, 80 x 144 inches

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Gina Herrera www.ginaherrera.com Bakersfield, CA gina.herrera1@gmail.com

Lost My Mind assorted trash, 48 x 28 x 10 inches

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My military service has contributed to my way of looking at things. Amid the devastation of combat, I recognized our systematic destruction of the planet with excessive detritus and unsustainable consumption. These experiences led me to build three-dimensional forms out of both discarded and natural objects from Mother Earth.

Supernatural Forces assorted trash, 79 x 48 x 20 inches

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Sophia Heymans

William J. Hofstra

www.sophiaheymans.com Minneapolis, MN sheymans@risd.edu

Boise, ID williamhofstra@gmail.com / 208 869 1276 March is part of a series of twelve new large paintings, each representing a different month, and set in the environment surrounding my hometown. I paint them over textural surfaces of found and natural materials. I want to show how contemporary civilized behaviors appear peculiar within the untamed wilderness.

March acrylic, paper mâchÊ, mop strings, moss, prairie grass seeds, and oil on canvas, 50 x 60 inches

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Newspaper clippings, psychology, rural culture, heavy metal, memories, collage, youth, nostalgia, photography, headlines, poetry, psychedelia, individualism, dream analysis, printmaking, found images, clarity, meditation, summer, human relationships, flatness, physicality, techno, comics, horsepower, utopian ideals, girl next door, civilization, semigloss, development of metaphor, surfing, stream of consciousness, mortality, nature.

Women with Car acrylic on canvas, 39.5 x 39.5 inches

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Rachel Jennings

Sarah Lucille Johansen

www.rachel-leigh-jennings.com

www.sarahlucillestudio.com

Minneapolis, MN rachelleighjennings@gmail.com / 217 725 7029

Glutton digital photography, 16 x 20 inches

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Through folklore, religion/morality, isolated geological upbringing, musical influence, personal possessions, nature, and life/death, I am able to visually translate my visions of the world, curating my memories into culturally reflective narratives.

New York, NY sarahlucille.johansen@gmail.com

Through strategies of excavation, collection, and over-romanticization, my work investigates the intersection between local and cosmic phenomena, intimacy, and optimism. Each work functions as a rudimentary experiment, attempting to rectify the heartache of longing through empirical curiosity and distilled wonder.

Searching for Stardust in the Whiskers of the Moon Rabbit c-metallic prints (microscopic images taken from astronaut bodies), 17 x 21 inches

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April Zanne Johnson

Daniel Johnson

www.aprilzannejohnson.com Northwest, NJ aprilzanne@hotmail.com

Holometabolism oil on plexiglass, 48 x 96 inches

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Tucson, AZ danielisaacjohnson@gmail.com / 816 612 0017 April Zanne Johnson paints portals into the possibilities that lie beyond our present visual technology. Her work incorporates perceptions from additional sensory experiences and weaves them into her practice. Her forms do not exist in the physical world, but rather enjoy living suspended in a synesthetic world of infinite possibility.

This piece,Turf War, is an installation and art intervention commenting on the long shadow and scale of our history, as made implicit through Manifest Destiny, the Jeffersonian Grid, land ownership rights, environmental degradation, power bases, class, and the American Dream.

It contains elements of performance, portability, and irony. Its installation subverts the established dynamic of the surrounding space, claiming the land for itself.

Turf War white picket fencing and astroturf, 42 x 70 inches

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John Kane

Matthew Keller

www.johnkanepaintings.wordpress.com

www.matthewkellerart.com

Bucks County, PA jk51paintings@gmail.com

Boston, MA matthewkellerart@gmail.com / 970 443 9551

Cocktail And Green Apples oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches

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There is no democracy in fine art, so in keeping with that sentiment, one is in charge of the picture plane. By rendering easily recognizable shapes the focus can be on spacial relationships.

The options are infinite. Perspective, planes, multiple light sources, the relationship of objects in space...

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA Midway Channel Gallery, Boston, MA Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA

My current goals involve understanding the role of memory and cognition. I explore methods of communication and the inherent problems in language and symbol. The role of artist as communicator and the breakdown of foundation to force conceptual exploration are constant driving forces behind my work.

literal and figurative interpretation of your space mixed media, (variable) 10 x 6 x 3 inches

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Hooshang Khorasani

George Kocar

www.absolutearts.com/hooshang

www.gkocar.com

Ruston, LA hooshangstudio@suddenlink.net / 318 255 9368

Bay Village, OH georgekocar@gmail.com

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Legacy Fine Art Gallery, Hot Springs, AR The Agora Borealis Artist Marketplace, Shreveport, LA Xanadu Studios, Scottsdale, AZ

Color Storm on the Corner acrylic-mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

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Hooshang has a BFA in painting and worked 12 years as a graphic designer/illustrator, becoming self-employed in 1984. His award-winning work has been featured in exhibits, galleries and museums across the U.S. His paintings are in private collections in Europe and America as well as corporate and permanent museum collections.

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Tregoning and Company, Cleveland, OH The Art Gallery, Willoughby, OH

Back in the ‘70’s there was a group called The Firesign Theater. They produced a comedy LP titled “I think we are all bozos on this bus.” That has been pretty much my philosophy towards my art. I paint satire. It is my way of dealing with this crazy world.

What? No Flying Cars? acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

95

Chee-Keong Kung

Albert Yowshien Kuo

www.kungcheekeong.com

www.albertyowshien.com

McLean, VA chee@kungcheekeong.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC Artists Circle Fine Art, North Potomac, MD

Tangent (Dispersion No. 11) acrylic and ink on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

96

Chee-Keong Kung’s work revolves around the tension between intuition and control. Fluid brushstrokes and hard-edged geometry co-exist in precarious balance. Big gestures perceptible at a distance reveal subtle undercurrents when viewed up close. Built up by layering multiple mark-making approaches, each work is an accretion of time and movement.

St. Louis, MO kidakuo@gmail.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Hoffman Lachance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO Concrete Ocean Gallery, St. Louis, MO Pearl Gallery, St. Louis, MO

The best part about the Midwest are the trees.

I always take visitors through a walk in the woods, hoping to give them a memorable feeling to take with them.

Midwest Trees in Blue oil on canvas, 48 x 47 inches

97

Diana Lawrence

David Layton

www.dmlawrence.com

www.davidlaytonartist.com

Vallejo, CA dlawrence7@mac.com

After Us oil on panel, 14 x 14 inches

98

Sometimes I cheat on painting with ceramics.

But my primary medium is paint used to explore contiguous spaces. My process asks the question, how do I infuse a painting small in scale with the assumed importance of a large work? Conversely, how do I make large paintings intimate?

Richmond, CA davidlaytonartist@gmail.com / 510 816 2834 GALLERY AFFILIATION Stay Gallery, Downey, CA

My paintings revolve around the technological, the present, and the personal. Though I focus on commonplace subjects, my works seek out their inherent dynamism through composition.

The use of cropping, saturated colors, skewed angles, and a personal perspective combine together, emphasizing how quickly instances of the present pass us by.

Untitled (Yellow) oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

99

Lisa Letostak

Jane Liang

www.lisaletostak.com

www.janeliangart.com

Columbus, OH Lisa Letostak is a painter and political science professor in Columbus, Ohio. She interned at the Estorick Collection in London while earning a master’s in International Relations and also holds a bachelor’s in Art History and Film. Her paintings are inspired by nature, color, Instagram and Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation.”

I Want To Be Happy #1 acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches

100

Charlotte, NC janeliangart@gmail.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts Gallery, Houston, TX

I am interested in materials, the body (selfidentity), and the relationship in between.

Technically, I choose to make representational pieces as the method to convey my thoughts.

By constantly brushing paint on the canvas, I increase private and close contact with my work, which sets apart my work from photographs.

Extract l oil on canvas, 32.5 x 32.5 inches

101

BiLan Liao

Clarence Lin

www.bilanliao.com Paducah, KY bilan@bilanliao.com GALLERY AFFILIATION BiLan Liao Gallery, Paducah, KY

The Window oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

102

Los Angeles, CA I am a contemporary Chinese artist. I have been an art professor at an American college since 2001 and owner of the BiLan Liao Gallery where I create my series paintings and sculptures and writing my book called The Dragon’s Daughter: Chinese History Through Five Generation of Liao Family.

After the Riots reflects on zones of conflict, public protests, political discontent, and the aftermath of these events. With the world watching, events such as the Los Angeles Riots and Ferguson Riots as well as social unrest abroad have social, cultural, and political implications nationally and internationally.

After the Riots mixed media and photography, dimensions variable

103

Katy Lloyd www.katylloyd.com Detroit, MI katyjlloyd@gmail.com / 248 736 5915

Untitled (green/compress) acrylic and spray paint, 7 x 10.5 inches

104

My recent work explores familiar bodily gestures though paint that is poured, pushed, dripped, brushed, folded, picked, sprayed, peeled, tucked and wrapped to develop paintings, objects, drawings and installations.

Untitled (punctuation) acrylic and spray paint skin adhered to wall, 30 x 18 inches

105

Jeremy Long

Judy Lew Loose

jeremy-long.weebly.com Dayton, OH helion1971@hotmail.com / 607 220 9039 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Saint Louis, MO

Summer Backyard oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches

106

The problems of creating paintings as spatial worlds rather then mere images is of interest to me. This can also be thought of as advocating thoughtfulness over excitement, or poetic meaning over novelty.

Folsom, CA lewloosewatercolors@yahoo.com / 916 835 9910

Whether 3 or 100 multiple panels, I strive to convey an emotional sum greater than its parts.

My style evolved from traditional watercolor to edgy use of aquabord, “canvas” requiring no glass, rendering color more emphatically than paper. I’d love my watercolor approach to land in a museum, alongside oils.

Magnolia’s Splendor watercolor on aquabord, 70 x 80 inches

107

Lucy Maki

Anne Marchand

www.lucymakistudio.com

www.annemarchand.com

Albuquerque, NM lucy.p.maki@gmail.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Oeno Gallery, Prince Edward County, Canada

SeeSaw oil and mixed media, 10 x 17.5 inches

108

The work involves a play between the illusive and concrete resulting in spatial ambiguities that defy boundaries, including boundaries between painting and sculpture. Smaller works become low relief constructions; larger works explore the shaped canvas and painting “events.� Titles point to a moment of realization as disparate elements come together.

Washington, DC art@annemarchand.com / 202 257 2956 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA Porter Contemporary, New York, NY Long View Gallery, Washington, DC

Painting communicates the nature of life.

Abstract form conveys energy and movement.

Texture and mark making are combined in poetic expression. Travel brings inspiration to my work and the mysterious inner life captures my imagination.

Murmur acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 inches

109

Christina Mariotti Fayetteville, AR artist@christinamariotti.com Italian born American artist Christina Mariotti grew up exposed to great works of fine art and timeless design, acquiring artistic influences from modern architecture to vintage fashions and interiors, which play a large role in her painting.

Her work explores scale and form: intersections of the built environment and humanity.

Woman Left Behind acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

110

Twins acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches

111

Jan Randolph Martin www.janmartinartist.com Indianapolis, IN jmartinart2000@yahoo.com

Firestorm Over Blue Mountain oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches

112

My paintings are an effort to orchestrate the realism of aging, decaying surfaces into the larger panorama of land and seascapes, respectful of their conjoined beauty on this finite earth.

Rustic Bay oil and acrylic on canvas, 28 x 42 inches

113

John Beck McConnico www.wishfulstructures.com San Francisco, CA john@wishfulstructures.com

Trajectory 41-48 mixed media on aluminum, 36 x 36 inches

114

My mixed media work incorporates a syntactic process of capturing a precise location, time, and condition. Just as we are not the same being from one moment to the next, structures and environments around us evolve in subtle ways.

The overall unifying theme is the manipulation of context and perception.

Wishful Structure 1138 mixed media on wood panels, (triptych) 34 x 24 total inches

115

Diane Messinger www.dianemessinger.com Truro, MA lizziemessinger@gmail.com / 774 487 7614

Are They Ready? oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches

116

The human figure, paint and conflict come together in astonishing ways.

At The Opera acrylic on paper, 72 x 45 inches

117

Marsha Mills www.artbymarshamills.com Beaufort, NC artbymarshamills@yahoo.com

Reflection of Central Park Angels dry brush watercolor, 24 x 18 inches

118

The National Artist for the 100 Year Celebration of Flight with four paintings in the Smithsonian, Marsha Mills is an accomplished, self-taught drybrush watercolor and oil artist. Her works cover a diverse range from animal portraits, as AKC artist, to award winning landscapes, with styles from realism to impressionistic.

Chicago Reflection Pool oil on canvas, 36 x 18 inches

119

Linda Mitchell www.lindamitchellartist.com Atlanta, GA linda@lindamitchellartist.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Linda Matney Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA Dogwood Gallery, Tyrone, GA

Quartet: Rhino mixed media on wood panels, 96 x 120 inches

120

Mitchell’s narrative works employ real and imagined animals, which become surrogates for human beings and their emotional lives. The natural world juxtaposes that of the subconscious, compelling the viewer to reference oneself within global considerations. The highly textured pieces coalesce into intricate and surreal scenes, reflecting life’s complexity.

Flox mixed media on wood panel, 20 x 16 inches

121

Susanne Alethea Mitchell www.susannemitchell.com Denver, CO susanne.mitchell@colorado.edu

At present, my work draws from my experiences and surroundings in my current studio location in Cape Town. I examine social systems and power dynamics relating to race, class, and gender as they manifest in post — Apartheid South Africa.

The Madam oil, acrylic, and spray-paint on canvas, 56 x 73 inches

122

Crossing Into brown print, gold frame, lace tablecloth, spray-paint, and hat pins, 86 x 69 inches

123

K. Mixon www.kmixon.com Chapel Hill, NC info@kmixon.com

Wax oil and acrylic on panel, 30 x 24 inches

124

The graft from one painting morphs into the next as a body in the act of becoming. Seed paintings are remade from local perspectives and supply the material for future paintings of previous lineages. The autopoietic system spawns fossilized conglomerates of paint skins, as ghosts are continually reborn for sacrifice.

Grit oil and acrylic on panel, 30 x 24 inches

125

Naoko Morisawa

Cynthia Mosser

www.naokomorisawa.com

www.cynthiamosser.com

Seattle, WA naokomoriart@yahoo.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA Dublin Biennial Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Arts Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA

My artwork is hand-crafted of thousands of very small slices of oil-dyed wood pieces on board. The life of a tree and the energy in each grain of wood infuses each piece. Currently exhibiting at Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery, Seattle, WA for celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2015.

Energy IV - New Wave hand-crafted oil-stained wood mosaics, acrylic, oil, and japanese paper on wooden-board, 30 x 24 inches

126

Vancouver, WA info@cynthiamosser.com / 503 807 9126 GALLERY AFFILIATION Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

Cynthia Mosser’s work is influenced by biological elements, folk art, shape and color. Her work has been critically reviewed in ARTnews Magazine and Willamette Week Newspaper. She received a B.A. in Art History from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Sugar Sky India ink, acrylic paint, encaustic medium, and oil paint, 48 x 48 inches

127

Tracy Murrell www.tracymurrell.com Atlanta, GA tmurrellart@gmail.com / 404 438 0707

Torchy high gloss enamel on panel, 44 x 88 inches

128

In this body of work I examine subtle racial and gender stereotypes of female forms that are reminiscent of sophisticated pin-ups. Their true source is from the stunning images of pioneering artist Jackie Ormes (1911 – 1985), the first African–American woman cartoonist.

Tangerine Torchy high gloss enamel on panel, 60 x 30 inches

129

AJ Nafziger

NAHH

www.ajnafziger.com

www.nahhishere.com

Phoenix, AZ ajnafziger@gmail.com

My current drawings reflect on themes of science fiction, scientific knowledge, the conflict of deductive and inductive reasoning, and the imaginative exploration of how advances in science and technology can effect our world and our perceptions of the future.

Out of this World I pencil over liquid graphite monotype on yupo, 34.5 x 22 inches

130

Brooklyn, NY nahhishere@gmail.com

I love street culture as graffiti, skateboard, music, and design. It is always around me, and flesh. I would like to cut and paste some of those to canvas through my ideas.

#SummerNight 2 aclyric, spray, marker, and paper on canvas, 32 x 32 inches

131

Georgia Nassikas www.georgianassikas.com McLean, VA georgia@georgianassikas.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC

The scenes I paint are at once peaceful and reflective but challenge the viewer to see. Wax from my honeybee hives, damar crystals from fir trees and raw pigments – I heat and mix these three core substances to create arresting images of beauty.

Earth Force beeswax, carbon, graphite, and pigment on birch board, 36 x 56 inches

132

In Between encaustic on birch board, 40 x 30 inches

133

Laine Nixon www.lainenixon.com Sarasota, FL Laine Nixon is a contemporary painter known for her non-objective, responsive works. While completing her BFA at The University of South Florida, she was granted the Artbank Award and two solo exhibitions at Centre Gallery. Upcoming shows include Ringling Underground in Sarasota and a solo exhibition at Tampa’s Gallery 221.

Zuhanden 05 acrylic and watercolor on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

134

Zuhanden 06 acrylic and gouache on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

135

Maura Oates

Whitney Oldenburg

mauracaitlyn.weebly.com

artbywhit.com

Old Tappan, NJ mauracaitlyn@gmail.com / 551 497 0407

Crazy Eights acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches

136

Maura Oates, born and raised in New Jersey, is senior at Loyola Marymount University. She loves working with subjects that are reminiscent of her childhood. Painting this pool table reminded her of St. Patrick’s Day parties at Daly’s Pub and hanging around the Bergenfield Bowling Alley on Saturday mornings.

Providence, RI woldenbu@risd.edu

I make my paintings with nontraditional materials.

These materials act as obstacles that I struggle against, as well as guides that I follow. I rethink the context of my work in relationship to the physical index I create by making threedimensional decisions for an idea typically expressed in two dimensions.

crossing ocean avenue oil and rock, 59 x 47 inches

137

Erika Osborne

Nuray Packard

www.erikaosborne.com Fort Collins, CO osborne.erika@gmail.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

The Chasm of Bingham oil on linen, 48 x 90 inches

138

Fort Collins, CO npnp2014@gmail.com / 970 294 6195 My current work is based on the visual language of the American Sublime painters who traveled west during the era of Manifest Destiny. I attempt to address the role these artists played in Expansionism by using their sublime visual structure to paint contemporary artifacts of the sentiment of their time.

I was born in Germany and attended schools in Turkey and the USA. I use a visual language that derived from my memory. It is from my time working as a conservator at the Topkapi Palace in Turkey.

Under the Hagia Sophia, 2014 acrylic, monotype, ink, and pen on paper, 22 x 30 inches

139

Natalya Borisovna Parris www.linkedin.com/pub/natalya-parris/18/a1b/820/ Washington, DC privatenbp@hotmail.com / 301 602 1758 GALLERY AFFILIATION Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Washington, DC

Lilies at Sunrise acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches

140

I teach Russian Folk Art in Gaithersburg, MD and show my students how knowledge and centuriesold traditions of Folk Art can be used to create contemporary artworks. A Learned Cat was inspired by Pushkin’s Ruslan and Ludmila.

Lilies at Sunrise won 1st Place at the Maryland State Fair 2014.

A Learned Cat acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14 inches

141

Colleen Pendry www.colleenpendry.com Lexington, VA colleenpendry@gmail.com / 540 476 2326

My work is a suggestion of memory and place understanding that in an instant our footprints disappear leaving behind only a gesture of where we have been. “fragility� explores the crossover between the past and the future evoking the notion that individual histories are inevitably intertwined.

fragility ii paint fragment, photo transfer, beeswax, and copper wire, 9 x 7 x 3 inches

142

fragility iii paint fragment, photo transfer, beeswax, and copper wire, 13 x 9 x 4 inches

143

Melissa Dorn Richards www.melissadornrichards.com Milwaukee, WI dornrichards@gmail.com / 414 331 3676 GALLERY AFFILIATION Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, WI

Birch III oil on canvas and black velvet, 40 x 40 inches

144

I have an intense interest in shapes, and the characteristics and circumstance that make them human, imperfect, or gestural. I choose bold color and heavy lines to push their distinctiveness. Landscape influences the Birch Series, as I explore shapes as they grow, change with time and weather, and form relationships.

Birch oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches

145

Ralph W. Roether III www.ralphroether.com Pesotum, IL ralphroether@yahoo.com / 217 202 8079

SEXU.S. mixed media on wood panel, 40 x 36 inches

146

Ralph Roether is a professional graphic designer.

He is an artist that typically works with acrylic paint, ink, markers and pencil, usually on paper or some sort of wood surface. His work ranges from cartoon doodles, sexual type graffiti style, to illustrative portraits. He creates what turns him on.

Night Must Fall mixed media on wood panel, 40 x 30 inches

147

Alexandra Rozenman www.alexandrarozenman.com Allston, MA alexandra.rozenman@gmail.com / 651 245 9710

Wrong Choice watercolor on paper, 18 x 16 inches

148

I grew up in Russia. Often disturbing, my work is about misplacement. Familiar colors and objects make my work emotionally accessible.

Juxtapositions stand on visual rhymes. As a whole I testify to the desire of all of us to be understood, no matter what obstacles stand on our way.

Beasts watercolor on paper, 22 x 16 inches

149

Stephanie J. Ryan

Matthew Sadler

www.stephaniejryan.com

www.matthew-sadler.com

Fresno, CA sryan@csufresno.edu / 559 244 1322

A Night Out acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

150

This body of work is derived from family photographs, whose narratives are disrupted to suggest family dysfunction, and the slippage in socially motivated appearances and behaviors, as an investigation into the mercurial nature of memory, of childhood yearning, of nostalgia and loss.

Minneapolis, MN mjsadler@gmail.com

My work explores my personal passage through physical environments with the creation of abstract mindscapes of line, shape and color. I focus on my tactile response to uneven surfaces, small inclines and long distances and produce disorienting geometric designs that echo architectural situations encountered as I navigate through my surroundings.

Wave acrylic on panel, 31 x 23.5 inches

151

Delaney Salt www.delaneysalt.com Berkeley, CA delaneysalt@gmail.com

Not So Fast 002 oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches

152

Truth and tension are companions. I draft a tenuous weave of structure and elasticity, toying with points of deviation so to steep in the tension they provide. In doing so I level with the lightness of fissure, celebrating the fallible nature of construct and the hand.

Not So Fast 001 oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches

153

Mary Saran www.marysaran.virb.com Brooklyn, NY maryjsaran@gmail.com

My work explores the most basic elements of deconstructed geometric shapes, through the blending of colors, across mediums and dimensions. Each painting creates an abstract universe by melting time and space through color theory and texture. I want to present a reality beyond space, beyond time, beyond words.

Turquoise And Purple Circles With Some Gold Accents 1 In C Minor acrylic paint and gloss gel medium on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

154

Confetti Sprinkles acrylic paint and gloss gel medium on canvas, 24 x 24 inches

155

Emmanuel Sevilla www.emmanuelsevilla.com Los Angeles, CA

Clement Street mixed media, 48 x 72 inches

156

Clement Street (View 2) mixed media, 48 x 72 inches

157

Nicole Shaver

Samantha Sherry

www.nicolejshaver.com

www.samanthasherry.com

Iowa City, IA nicolejshaver@gmail.com

Ardent Dingbat Space mixed media and ceramics, 36 x 264 x 84 inches

158

My vocabulary begins with forms that resonate from a fast paced exchange in the concrete world. Accumulations of these moments are reinterpreted through motifs in sculptural and visual form. Plucked from the treacherous and dubious world that formed them, I delight in their new roles and interactions.

Memphis, TN sam@samanthasherry.com

My work examines the relationships between memory, family, identity, and self. The collection and integration of non-traditional materials with more conventional art media aid in the exploration of the continuums between these complex domains. Horse forms and fragments become the language through which these ideas are explored and articulated.

Siblings acrylic, gouache, and conte crayon on paper, 60 x 48 inches

159

Kelsey Shultis www.kelseyshultis.com Detroit, MI kelsey.shultis@gmail.com / 248 933 7300 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS InSitu Works, New York, NY The Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA

der Wald oil on sewn linen, 60 x 68 inches

160

Kelsey Shultis studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Czech Republic and received her BFA from the University of Michigan. She has had solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Princeton and Detroit. Her work resides in private and public collections throughout the United States.

Fairy House oil on linen, 64 x 60 inches

161

Anne Silber

Viviane Silvera

www.annesilber.com

www.vivianesilvera.com

Boston, MA anne.silber@verizon.net / 617 232 8344

All of my works are limited edition serigraphs, hand printed by me in small editions using hand-cut stencils and transparent inks. Many of my works explore the nuances and interplay of light and shadow, and I enjoy working with color relationships, both dynamic and subtle.

Change of Seasons limited edition serigraph, sheet 26 x 20, image 21 x 15 inches

162

New York, NY viviane@vivianesilvera.com

My work is about memory, about coming to terms with the unknowable past and about how the not-knowing leads to invention and creativity.

The Boat Dream is from the series See Memory, in which I use painting and film to make visible the process of memory and how images become layered and transformed over time.

The Boat Dream gouache on archival paper, 19.5 x 25.5 inches

163

Paul Solevad

Mark Stokesbury

www.paulsolevad.com

www.markstokesbury.com

Camas, WA psolevad@gmail.com

Lincoln acrylic on wood panel, 48 x 36 inches

164

Painting is an extension of my drawing process and ideas. I enjoy working a broad range of subjects, from people to urban landscapes and further into metaphysical and social commentary.

Color layers build upon layers, working one image to the next, incorporating linework, shapes and form.

Denver, CO markstokesbury@hotmail.com / 303 968 4454

In the didactic idiom of the self-taught, there really is no speechifying required in the way of explanation for my pictures. I like seeing an animal or a pin-up on fabric, a ferret on a Vespa, or a cat with a rocket on his back.

Fandangled Giraffe mixed media, 40 x 30 inches

165

Leslie Tejada www.leslietejada.com Corvallis, OR leslie.tejada2@gmail.com / 541 929 4202

For over 30 years, I have followed my imaginative vision through processes based on experimentation, painting in many media and sizes. Exhibiting in galleries throughout the country, I have sold to corporate and hospitality markets, lent to the US Art in Embassies program, and rented to the TV and film industries. I am happy to introduce my new Cosm series for representation.

Cosm #25: Rosallia acrylic, modeling paste, and collage on wood panel, 30 x 40 inches

166

Cosm #24: While the World Sleeps acrylic, modeling paste, and collage on wood panel, 30 x 40 inches

167

William H. Thielen www.williamhthielen.com Carbondale, IL info@williamhthielen.com / 618 684 8364

Untitled No. 661 (gone to seed) acrylic on canvas and wood, 70 x 58 inches

168

For over 35 years, the artist has been living and working in Carbondale, Illinois. These works are from a series of over 80 paintings produced since 2013. Using simple elements, they show how opposites can be mediated with an unconventional–even controversial–third component. Visit www.williamhthielen.com, www.artslant.com, or www.thedrawingcenter.org.

Untitled No. 659 (dream catcher) acrylic on canvas and wood, 83 x 48 inches

169

Mimi Chen Ting www.mimichenting.com Taos, NM / Sausalito, CA ting@mimichenting.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, NM

Deflated Mouse Dances on Everest acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

170

Mimi Chen Ting is an abstract painter based in Taos, NM and Sausalito, CA. She recently received the Agnes Martin Award for Abstract Painting and Drawing. Her inexhaustible colorful compositions unfold in a dance of perpetual motion, bringing a personal poetic order and clarity to our entanglement with the world.

It Got Complicated acrylic on canvas, 28 x 25 inches

171

Norma Torti www.normatorti.com North Hampton, NH normatorti@gmail.com / 603 379 2229 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Gallery at 100 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH Children’s Museum of NH, Dover, NH

Farmers’ Market Cauliflower oil on canvas on board, 15 x 11 inches

172

Growing up in a small town in Western Massachusetts influences Norma’s subject choices. Her classical style of representational oil paintings shows her command of the medium.

The new Farmers’ Market Series is perfect for Farm-to-Table restaurants. Artist-in-residence projects, commissions, and private instruction available.

Farmers’ Market Potatoes oil on canvas on board, 7.5 x 17 inches

173

Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer

Grant Wells

www.swalzer.com

www.grant-wells.com

Lexington, MA swalzer@swalzer.com / 781 307 7306 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA Gallery Z, Providence, RI Movimiento Gallery, Boston, MA Cazarti International Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany

In Passages I use the color white to suggest purity and simplicity, and to act as a unifying field for deliberately juxtaposed disparate images. The forms and exaggerations of color choices are metaphors for a search, with clues to content and interpretation, representing different layers of life.

Passages mixed media, pulp, textile, and acrylic on canvas, 28 x 28 inches

174

Santa Cruz, CA gbradfordw@yahoo.com instagram: @grantbwells

Taking a new objective look at our current surroundings is the foundation of my work. In the visual culture that is constantly changing today, it is important to notice how current technology is influencing the way we perceive the environment around us.

Untitled Landscape #1 screen shot on paper, 20 x 15 inches

175

Nathan Westerman

Anika Wilson

www.nathanwesterman.com

www.anikawilson.wix.com/collections

Champaign, IL westerman_art@yahoo.com GALLERY AFFILIATION Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

Nathan Westerman has an MFA in Sculpture.

He exhibits painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. For Westerman, concept determines medium. He reclaims discarded materials to produce color fields, stripes, and patterns. The Slat Paintings repurpose wood and paint. The visual composition of language, musical repetition, and machine rhythm provide inspiration.

Slat Painting 014.019-014.023 latex paint on plywood panel, diameters: 8, 20, 16, 12, 12 inches

176

Cambridge, NY itsanika@yahoo.com GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Halogen Gallery, Seattle, WA Suite 100 Gallery, Seattle, WA Gallery QB, Brooklyn, NY Fragment Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Anika Wilson is an emerging artist working in mixed media. Her work often deals with inner conflict and the complexity of our relationship with ourselves and our lives. She explores loss, confusion, angst, ego and a multitude of other subjects in a playful, quirky and mysterious manner.

Untitled mixed media, 8 x 5 inches

177

Amy Van Winkle

Lauren E. Yandell

www.amyvanwinkle.com

www.laurenyandell.com

Glen Ellyn, IL alvanwinkle@me.com / 773 331 3615 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck, MI Gallerie 520, Santa Fe, NM Renaissance Fine Art, Baltimore, MD Merritt Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD Merritt Gallery, Haverford, PA

Not Complicated encaustic, oil, and thread on wood, 10 x 10 inches

178

My latest series explores the fusing of past, present and future. The struggles we face to accept and embrace our personal histories, to trust in our future decisions, all while striving to live fully, in the present moment.

Houston, TX yandell85@gmail.com

I draw inspiration from the inner monologue that takes place during the moments when I am separate from the distractions of the day.

Commonplace objects that are present in my home become the intangibles of life.

Keep Afloat charcoal and graphite on paper, 33 x 22 inches

179

Abby Zonies www.abbyzonies.com New York, NY abbyzonies@icloud.com

Swirl in Blue and Pink gouache on paper, 30 x 22 inches

180

Swirl in Blue and Pink began as a landscape painting. I began to push the piece in a different direction, leaving behind the remnants of recognizable imagery. It is one of a series of recent works in abstraction. Color, gesture, and movement are the elements that tie my work together.

Thinking About Klimt Today gouache on paper, 30 x 22 inches

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artist index Abu-Shamat, Lana, 6

Ford, John, 64-65

Messinger, Diane, 116-117

Walzer, Sirarpi Heghinian, 175

America, Chelsea, 7

Forte, Felicia, 66-67

Mills, Marsha, 118-119

Wells, Grant, 176

Aryal, Rajee, 8-9

Freden, Matt, 68-69

Mitchell, Linda, 120-121

Westerman, Nathan, 177

Avalos, Liliane A., 10

Galvano, Mateo, 70-71

Mitchell, Susanne Alethea, 122-123

Wilson, Anika, 178

Bader, Kyle, 11

Gao, Xiang, 72-73

Mixon, K., 124-125

Yandell, Lauren E., 179

Ball, Lauren, 12-13

Garside, Carianne Mack, 74-75

Morisawa, Naoko, 126

Zonies, Abby, 180-181

Bartlett, Brian James, 14-15

Gibson, Steve, 76-77

Mosser, Cynthia, 127

Beggins, Patricia, 16-17

Gingles, Mack, 78

Murrell, Tracy, 128-129

Behnken, Justin, 18-19

Gove, Carol, 79

Nafziger, AJ, 130

Bingham, Chris, 20-21

Griesgraber, Michael, 80-81

Nahh, 131

Brock, Joey, 22-23

Henry, Mia Tarducci, 82-83

Nassikas, Georgia, 132-133

Brown, Inga Kimberly, 24-25

Herrera, Gina, 84-85

Nixon, Laine, 134-135

Bukowski, Marie, 26

Heymans, Sophia, 86

Oates, Maura, 136

Bustamante, Robert Tapley, 27

Hofstra, William J., 87

Oldenburg, Whitney, 137

C, Mariela Lechin, 28-29

Jennings, Rachel, 88

Osborne, Erika, 138

Caouette, RenĂŠe E., 30

Johansen, Sarah Lucille, 89

Packard, Nuray, 139

Carney, Mike, 31

Johnson, April Zanne, 90

Parris, Natalya Borisovna, 140-141

Ceci, Veronica, 32-33

Johnson, Daniel, 91

Pendry, Colleen, 142-143

Chabre, Steven, 34-35

Kane, John, 92

Richards, Melissa Dorn, 144-145

Chasman, Laura, 36

Keller, Matthew, 93

Roether III, Ralph W., 146-147

Chilakamarri, Vachu, 37

Khorasani, Hooshang, 94

Rozenman, Alexandra, 148-149

Chubirka, 38-39

Kocar, George, 95

Ryan, Stephanie J., 150

Churchill, Alexander, 40-41

Kung, Chee-Keong, 96

Sadler, Matthew, 151

Coleman, Page, 42

Kuo, Albert Yowshien, 97

Salt, Delaney, 152-153

Cooper, Sally, 43

Lawrence, Diana, 98

Saran, Mary, 154-155

Cronin, Rafael, 44

Layton, David, 99

Sevilla, Emmanuel, 156-157

Davidson, Ella, 45

Letostak, Lisa, 100

Shaver, Nicole, 158

Demke, Alison and Sam, 46-47

Liang, Jane, 101

Sherry, Samantha, 159

DePinto, Julia, 48

Liao, BiLan, 102

Shultis, Kelsey, 160-161

Dotan, Yaron, 49

Lin, Clarence, 103

Silber, Anne, 162

Dubina, Brian, 50-51

Lloyd, Katy, 104-105

Silvera, Viviane, 163

Dugger, Aaron E., 52-53

Long, Jeremy, 106

Solevad, Paul, 164

Elam, Mikel, 54-55

Loose, Judy Lew, 107

Stokesbury, Mark, 165

Emmerson, Susan G., 56-57

Maki, Lucy, 108

Tejada, Leslie, 166-167

Estell, Kristina, 58-59

Marchand, Anne, 109

Thielen, William H., 168-169

Ferry, Benjamin, 60

Mariotti, Christina, 110-111

Ting, Mimi Chen, 170-171

Filibert, Dana, 61

Martin, Jan Randolph, 112-113

Torti, Norma, 172-173

Flores, Jessie J., 62-63

McConnico, John Beck, 114-115

Van Winkle, Amy, 174

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