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Issue #12 Elite Edition 2021

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Marc Olthoff Abraham Darlington Caroline Garza Maxine Leu Craig Wortman Tod Seitz Svetlana Popovskaya Scott Ward Matt Gabler Charles Jones

Elizabeth Osborne Heidi Dehncke-Fisher Jane Hatfield April Fitzpatrick Charlton Corson Eric Hurbina Michael Dorsey George Gonzalez Lynda Gardner Kathryn Cirincione

Spencer Frazer A.D. Herzel Newel Hunter Kyle Minarsky Gerard Huber Stuart Heir Lauren Mantecon Tadhg Slater Edward Mills Laurey Bennett-Levy

Nida Hanif Tak Salmastyan Nickolas Viele Silvia Forni Ken Rabbers Photographic Art Lisa Walker Lee Riley Leo Tujak Maria Coletsis Greg V Smith

Monica Mendes Linda Reymore Ted Barr Wendy Smith Victor Adeniran Nathan Dean Rick Hurst Kathleen Small Alyssa Archer-Cooper Cecilia Anastos

Lon Levin Charles Lehman David McDougall A. Galano Nancy Kozikowski Franklin Silva T.C. English-DuMont Mike Mcgoff David Granger Marie Krajan

Joel Keener Anika Savage Leonardo Montoya Nicole Jeffords Minako Yamano Redford Cruz Freya Gervasi Kong Ho Sheryl Wilson Marcia Pyner

Veronique Toinon Yan Zhang Rustam Tahir Connie Murray Tami Showers Valerie Jargon

Come Photography, Digital Photography on Aluminum W:40 H:60 D:2 cm 2016 Marc Olthoff

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Marc Olthoff Photography

After Graduating as an MSc. in Electrical engineering Marc made a career in the foods industry. 21 years later having reached the position of Engineering and Technology director at Unilever, he decided to make a switch to photography thereby following his passion.

Realizing that he lacked some of the skills needed to produce the fine-art images he envisaged he went ‘back to school’. He graduated in 2015 as top of the class from the ‘Fotovakschool” in Rotterdam and began to develop his ideas in the fine art. In this his technical background has proven useful in helping him to create his images.

As a photographer Marc creates single frame narratives; tantalising fine-art images that capture the viewer’s attention. The intention of his images is not to be aesthetically pleasing, but rather to touch the viewer and to trigger his/her imagination.

Marc often places the viewer in the position of a voyeur. A witness to a strange situation that was most likely not meant to be seen. The images frequently show an incomplete story or an unexpected twist. Studying the image, it can become apparent that there are references to persons or items outside of the frame, or that there are unexpected elements that raise questions. The viewers are invited to ponder and wonder about what it is they are actually seeing, what it means and eventually to decide on a personal ending to each story.

Recent Group Exhibitions (extract): 2021: “Future landscapes” Venice; “London Contemporary” London.

2020: “Seeing women” France 2019: “Kunstschouw” Netherlands; “Zomerexpo Museum de fundatie” Zwolle (NL) 2018: “Kunstgalerie Bleiswijk” Bleiswijk (NL); “Kunsttoer" Lansingerland (NL) Awards Marc received almost 100 awards from international contests split over 55 different images. The most important are: - Overall winner ITSLIQUID International Contest 9th Edition 2021 - Gold award Tokyo International Foto Awards - 2e place category Silhouet 10th International color awards (USA - 2e place category Nude International Color Awards (USA) - 2nd place cagegory “Egality” in Seeingwomen 2020 (France) - Zilver medaille Prix de la Photography Paris (PX3) - Bronz medaille Moscow International Foto Awards - Finalist London International Creativity Contest.

- Finalist Sienna International Photo Awards - Selected for Zomerexpo in Museum de Fudatie in Zwolle The other awards are honorable mentions/nominations from: International Photography Awards (USA); International color awards (USA); Moscow International Foto Awards; Photographers Forum (USA); ND awards (UK); Tokyo International Foto Awards; London International Creativity Contest; Prix de la Photography Paris; Fine Art Photography Awards (UK) biafarin.com/artist?name=marc-olthoff

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Look up Photography, Digital Photography on Aluminum W:40 H:60 D:2 cm 2016 Part of series stories Marc Olthoff

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Voodoo Photography, Digital Photography on Aluminum W:50 H:40 D:2 cm 2017 Part of series stories Marc Olthoff

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Abraham Darlington Digital Arts, Mixed Media, Painting

Originally from Philadelphia, PA, I’ve always had an interest in art, especially tattoo art. It wasn’t until I developed a shoulder injury that I began to thoroughly pursue my artistic interests. I have no formal art training. Everything that I have created has been through hard work, experimentation, and imagination.

I do not follow a specific style or school of thought when I create art. I enjoy all styles and mediums but I have a proclivity for street art, graffiti art, abstract art, minimalism, and cubism. My paintings are typically done spontaneously and quickly being completed within a sitting or two. I use all types of tools including brushes, palette knives, spatulas, combs, sponges, spray paints, stencils, even my own hands. When creating art my only rule is There Are No Rules! It’s a completely free flowing uninhibited experience that I thoroughly enjoy.

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Myrna Painting, Mixed Media W:20 H:20 in 2019 Abraham Darlington

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Caroline Garza Digital Arts, Photography

My name is Caroline Garza and I am a 23 year old wedding and portrait photographer. I was born in San Antonio, Texas and lived there for 13 years before moving to Tucson, Arizona where I currently live and work. I got my Associates of Applied Arts for Photography from Pima Community College in the Spring of 2018. Since then I have been working part time in photography and part time in sales where I later turned my part time photography job to a full time gig.

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Untitled Photography, Digital Photography W:17 H:11 in 2019 Blank Wall Gallery, Athens Greece Caroline Garza

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Maxine Leu Sculpture, Painting

Maxine Leu is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator, and environmentalist from Taiwan. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Tainan University of Technology (TUT), Tainan, Taiwan and her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her work focuses on the environment, communication, and identity. Leu’s work was exhibited at a number of venues including The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany in 2021; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, USA in 2020; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan in 2018; National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan in 2014; PingTung Art Museum, PingTung, Taiwan in 2013.

In 2015, Leu came to New York from Taiwan and became interested in the cultural differences between Western and Eastern cultures. She has been promoting workshops and classes about upcycling and recycling that have been inspired by concerns over global warming, waste production, and other environmental issues.

Leu uses humor as a delivery system for activist work. She transforms materials that's familiar, everyday objects and commonly considered waste materials as the raw materials for her work into situational, humorous, and metaphorical artworks that double back and question our relationship to the commonplace things she started with.

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When Gnomes Need to Clean Their Homes Installation, Sculpture W:10 H:19 D:10 in 2020 Maxine Leu

The sculpture installation of a troop of litter-picking garden gnomes, that she created entirely from street cleaning action. Each sculpture size is about W:10 H:19 D:10 inches.

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Craig Wortman Painting

Craig Wortman is an abstract painter whose comprehensive work conceptually handles the discipline’s medium in a multidimensional, multifaceted progression. His process is predisposed to a sculptural manipulation of the materials and ultimately emerging as paintings.

Craig attended Northern Illinois University, studying fine art, and then moved directly into commercial success as a scenic artist. He has had an integrative career for over twenty years, fabricating and designing both 2D and 3D for corporate events, theatre, retail display, and large-scale art installation, while at the same time moving forward with his fine art development. Together this has afforded him the opportunity to push the parameters of experimentation with countless materials, techniques, and concepts. He was born and raised in Chicago and is now raising his own family in Minnesota as he works mainly on the advancement of his fine art practice.

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Untitled Painting, Acrylic, Muslin on Board - Wood W:49 H:49 in 2020 Acrylic & Muslin on Wood Craig Wortman

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Tod Seitz Digital Arts, Mixed Media, Painting, Graphics, Photography

Tod is an artist and teacher who specializes in unique, visionary creations that inspire and provoke imagination.

A Wizard of many talents Tod creates digital collages with Photoshop as well as analog collages. He also works in design, video, animation, and divination. His art has been featured in exhibitions and publications all across the world, and his videos have been viewed by millions. His most recent project is a self-published art book known as 'Pixelated'. Featuring over four years of artwork in gorgeous full color pages, it is truly a one-of-akind immersive experience!

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Waiting For Time Digital Arts W:24 H:24 in 2018 Digital Arts, Digital Collage Using Found Images and Photoshop Tod Seitz

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Svetlana Popovskaya Painting

Popovskaya Svetlana Dmitrievna, was born in 1976 in Leningrad. She began to draw in 2015. In 2018 she entered the LENINGRAD STATE UNIVERSITY named after V.I. A.S. Pushkin, Faculty of Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Arts, Pedagogical Education, Fine Arts.

By specialty, mid-level medical worker.

Participant of Russian and International exhibitions 2018 . 2nd place at the Saint-Petersburg Art Week Saint-Petersburg Art Week (graphics competition, nomination: abstract composition) . 3rd place at the exhibition-competition Russian Art Week in Cyprus Russian Art Week in Cyprus (graphics competition, nomination: abstract graphics) . 3rd place in 2018 at the XXV International Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Art Russian Art Week Russian Art Week (experimental graphics competition, nomination: abstract composition) . 2nd place in 2018 at III Int. exhibition-competition of contemporary art Abstract Art Festival Abstract Art Festival (abstraction in graphics, nomination: geometric abstraction) 2019 . 3rd place at the exhibition-competition of the Russian Art Week in Israel Art-Transit Russian Art Weeks in Israel (watercolor competition, nomination: synthesis of genres) and participant (graphics competition, nomination: abstract composition) . Diploma for winning the virtual competition congratulations to A.S. Pushkin on the 220th birthday anniversary "Happy birthday, Alexander Sergeevich!" (PUSHKINSKY RESERVE) . 2nd place at the XXVI International Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Art Russian Art Week (experimental graphics, nomination: landscape in the avant-garde style) . 1st place on June 25-30, 2019 at the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION-K

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Muhammad Ali Painting, Gouache on Paper W:30 H:40 cm 2021 Boxer, Muhammad Ali Svetlana Popovskaya

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Huron River II Photography W:27 H:21 in 2019 Scott Ward

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Scott Ward Photography

Though photography has been a part of my life since I was a child, it has operated in the background of my career as a financial manager, largely a private affair, existing solely for my own enjoyment of the world around me. It wasn’t until an unexpected change in my professional status in 2016 that I decided the time was ripe to pursue a more formal manifestation of my avocation.

I chose the name Beartown Road Design for my artistic endeavors as an homage to my father’s birthplace, a small poultry farm located on that road, in Painted Post, New York; a location at which I spent many youthful summers with my family, where I learned to appreciate the subtle beauty of the rolling hills of rural New York.

I rarely now take photos with an obvious focal point, seeking to highlight underlying pattern, form, or texture in my subject, and when possible, to link my images to some theme of social justice or ecological awareness.

I live with my wife and son in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Dusty Miller Photography W:27 H:21 in 2018 Scott Ward

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Native Outcropping Photography W:21 H:27 in 2020 Scott Ward

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Matt Gabler Painting

Matt Gabler grew up in a family of creatives. From writing, designing, and. most importantly, painting. With years and years of cultivating and mastering the creative process, Matt finally allowed himself to be free in his expressive ways and unstoppable energy. Dedicating countless hours to creating and revolutionizing abstract expressionism. throughout that, he found that there is a bigger purpose than changing the genre itself, but utilizing the genre to tell a message. A message that anyone and everyone can understand. Through his paintings, there are depictions, emotions, and more that showcase scenes in our lives or scenes from our heads, and through that process, the message becomes very clear. It’s personalized for each and every single person that views his works. So please, look, enjoy, and share your thoughts.

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Hummingbird Painting, Acrylic, Oil Color W:20 H:24 in 2021 Matt Gabler

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Charles Jones Digital Arts, Photography

My objective is to produce surreal and abstract images through ultra-realism of flowers and plants.

Every part of most of my photos is tack sharp even though the subjects are as small as 1/8 inch. This is what I mean by ultra-realism. I achieve this by using focus stacking. This technique can provide over 150X magnification in 16 x 20 inch prints. Such high magnification allows my images to become surreal and abstract to the point that it is not always obvious what the subject is. This achieves my desire to have people enjoy a purely sensory experience based on color, shape and texture. But people inevitably ask me what the image is of and how I achieve the depth of field. To me, this illustrates that people have a natural curiosity about science.

My sense of awe is always enhanced when I understand the science involved behind an experience. I hope my photos provide this same sense of awe in others.

My two main artistic influences are Georgie O’Keeffe and Dr.Seuss. My ultrarealism is partly influenced by the Harvard University Glass Flowers created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka along with Maria Sibylla Merian who, circa 1700, provided detailed illustrations of the life cycle of insects – especially butterflies. For surrealism I draw on Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali. M.C. Escher also plays a role as do mathematics, science, science fiction, and fantasy.

I am a retired mathematician. My career was in the aerospace industry and included coordinating research with small businesses and universities. I’ve always been a plant person. I’ve maintained gardens and indoor plants since a child and have done some extensive wildflower identification. I became more serious about photography when I retired in 2014. I started using focus stacking at the end of 2015. Besides photography, I have a variety of interests including science, philosophy, secular activism, hiking, marble collecting, weaving, and playing saxophone. I also write the Starting From Doubt blog.

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Spiral Begonia Photography W:20 H:16 in 2019 Charles Jones

Archival Ink Jet Begonia flowers are only so-so until you look closely in the middle. Begonias are monoecious, meaning they have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. Spiral Begonia is of the stamen of the male flower. The width of the subject is about 1/2 inch. Focus stacked.

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Passion Flower Carousel Photography W:20 H:16 in 2020 Charles Jones

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The visual motion in this picture provides the name. This captures the inner base of the flower.

The inner, upward pointing filaments are the operculum, the row of small filaments is the nectary, and the white outward pointing filaments form the corona. About 1 inch wide. Focus stacked

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Passion Flower Yellow Tutu Photography W:16 H:20 in 2020 Charles Jones

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The flowers progress with the stamens and pistils moving up and down. The first shot I took of this wasn’t as good as I wanted but a loved the composition and colors. It took several more flowers and watching their progress to get this position again. About 2.5 inches high. Focus stacked.

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Elizabeth Osborne Digital Arts, Painting

I never knew what I was made for. I love teaching but I never thought I was smart enough at one subject to properly educate. I love talking but I'm too shy to stand up in front of large crowds, I love singing but I have a terrible voice. In my spare time as a teenager I would read tons of books, sketch, paint, write poetry, anything creative I loved to do. I was so pressured to go to college and get a degree. How do I choose? I don’t know what I'm made for. All the personality tests say I should be an artist. My mother would kill me. I have to go to college so I can make money. That’s what is most important. Right? I am the ultimate let down. I failed my mother. I didn't go to college. I "ran away," joined the Navy when I was 20. I figured I could help people by enlisting in the military and maybe be able to discover myself in the process.I was assigned the rating of an HT. The ships pipefitter, plumber, welder, Fire Marshall, Damage Control. I had no clue what any of that was. I've only used a hammer before in my entire life. I can handle it. I can handle anything that comes my way, even when I'm drowning. I adapt because that’s what I had to do to survive. After 10 years in the Navy I finally mentally cracked and realized the self destructive road I was going down. It was an anguishing 30 years of my life but every life event I overcame has led to my personal growth and self-awareness. Through art I have discovered who I am and what I aspire to be.

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Dreamland Painting, Acrylic W:20 H:16 in 2020 Elizabeth Osborne

When I dream I wish to escape. To escape the daily stress, the negativity, the feelings of being lost. I dream of life in color, of happiness and joy. When I look at this I see fantasy and dreams that have been shattered from life's realities.

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Sour Mountain Preserve Painting, Acrylic W:40 H:36 in 2020 Heidi Dehncke-Fisher

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Heidi Dehncke-Fisher Painting, Photography

Heidi Dehncke majored in Illustration and also studied both painting and photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In time Dehncke worked as a video producer, journalist, and editor. Along with the creativity necessary for editing video she was also able to employ her design and photography talents. She worked as a producer for “InSport” (syndicated to NBC), About.com (under the NY Times ownership), PLUM TV (The Hamptons), and more. She also produced, directed and was the filmmaker for “Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11,” which premiered on The Sundance Channel in 2006.

Dehncke’s photography has appeared and placed in several national juried competitions as well as several publications.

Addict Lab: AddictLab.com Global Creative Think Tank Published in Inspiration/Research Books - Voyage # 21 & World Heritage #25 (photos and essays) 2004 & 2006 Finalist, London Photographic Association 2005 Finalist, Half Moon Bay Coastal Arts League National Photography Show 2006 2013 - Photographer - Author's Portrait for "Mr. America Drives His Car" 2014 - Michael H. Kellicutt International Photo Show, Through A Lens She describes her photography as energizing and dramatic and focuses on captivating imagery effected by light and shadow. This includes images that she finds particularly inspiring for her to paint and interpret.

Dehncke has been painting for years and had returned to her roots by placing this as her chief emphasis in her creative endeavors. She showed work in Basking Ridge’s “Exhale” (2020) and was invited to Studio Channel Islands Collector’s Choice 2021. She also recently had work included in Biafarin’s Diversia: Earth - 2021 online exhibition as well as The Rhode Island Watercolor Society.

She finds her biggest inspiration to be rooted in capturing and reinterpreting nature. Dehncke works in Acrylics and Oils.

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Arizona Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:36 H:48 in 2020 McNeal, Arizona Desert at night Heidi DehnckeFisher

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Prospect Park Light Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:48 H:36 in 2021 Heidi DehnckeFisher

Magic light during an early morning walk on Prospect Park's Inner loop by Prospect Park Southwest, Brooklyn, NY. AW127432342

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Jane Hatfield Digital Arts, Photography, Crafts, Sculpture, Painting

I am a rising senior at Colorado College majoring in integrative design on the pre-med track. I am passionate about utilizing science, innovation, and art to promote environmental justice and combat the effects of global climate change. In my free time, I love photographing and surfing on the California coast, where I'm from.

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Faded Photography W:9 H:11 in 2018 Jane Hatfield

Oversaturated Photo. She takes a pull from two juuls. Teenage nights, encased in smoke, wonderings of who can see us.

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America Was Never America to Me Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:30 H:40 in 2020 April Fitzpatrick

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April Fitzpatrick Digital Arts, Painting, Mixed Media

April Fitzpatrick is a registered art therapist, mixed media visual artist, and CCO of Pineapples with Purpose, LLC, a mental health organization that introduces art therapy to communities impacted by race-based traumatic stress. Her artistry marries contemporary abstraction with experimental narrative to produce paintings and collages that capture the layered realities of Blackness, racial trauma, and oppression. She positions her artistic practice within Black psychology, exploring the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement as foundational guides and explorations of identity development within a racialized society. April’s unique spin on the pineapple attempts to demystify the process of expelling racial trauma and uses the fruit’s symbolism to consider narratives of racial tension that have impacted self, family, and community.

Fitzpatrick’s principle purpose is helping individuals uncover, assess, and externalize challenges that affect their wellbeing.

In the past year, Fitzpatrick’s project, The Pineapple Metaphor: Expanding the Narrative, explored the use of art, art therapy and symbolism to activate the inner self. Her work was featured in Black Minds Mag: Issue 2, Art Seen: The Curator’s Salon Magazine, and ART4EQUALITY x LIFE, LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Exhibition Catalog. April has shown her work in over 10 cities with one being a group exhibition in Tribeca, New York which was featured in Forbes magazine and a bus station ad of her work in Miami, FL. To add, she was selected by Ely Center of Contemporary Art for a 2021 Virtual Solo Exhibit and invited by the Curator’s Salon (London, UK) to share her work in an upcoming publication series. Currently, April manages an art therapy program in Tallahassee, FL where she integrates sociocultural theory, symbolic interactionism, and social justice to create a sense of place for her clients. April believes that in order to turn pain into purpose, you must “Make Room for Your Crown!”

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Tales of the Crown Painting, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas W:24 H:30 in 2020 April Fitzpatrick

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A Flower of Many Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:36 H:24 in 2019 April Fitzpatrick

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Charlton Corson Photography

Chuck Corson of Charlton Edward Studios a native of Denver CO USA, is a beginning digital photographer excited to capture timeless moments of beauty in the world of: animals, cars, travel destinations, and people.

He started learning about Black and White 35 mm film photography using a Pentax ME Super during high school classes in the mid 1980s. During this time one of his arts works: Called Power of the 80s of two motorcycles was on display at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities for a student exhibit. His photography instructor encouraged him to submit.

After graduating he pursued other career interests. A few years ago he purchased a used Pentax K-5 DSLR and began revisiting his former passion. Chuck first started taking pictures of his cat, ducks at the park, and the moon or Cat, Moon, Duck series. He soon wanted to gain more experience working with models so he attended a local photography Meetup class called Motorcycles and Models. He then starting taking more Meetup classes and learning at a professional studio regarding lightning, model interaction, camera settings, to capture the wow shot.

On his own he hired a local model for an artistic woodland shoot. One of these pictures called "Julia" was selected for the 2019 Art Show and Sale at the Louisville Center for the Arts Gallery. In addition the photo was also featured on the advertising posted for the event. The event was during the Labor Day holiday.

In the same year 2019 one of his travel artwork of a bronze bull was taken while in Greece at the Olympia Museum called "Bull Market" was selected for the Art Sale and Show at the Littleton Arts Depot Gallery for their Annual event.

During Covid and the year 2020 presented many challenges but did not deter Chuck to create more artwork.

Early in the year he was contacted through Social Media to work with a rising male model called Brendon. In June of 2020 Brendon also involved Dereaye another stellar model. Chuck had purchased at the thrift store several men clothes, suits, ties, and shirts for a purchase of USD 20. At the shoot Brendon and Dereaye quickly went through the clothes and added their own style which is featured here. Chuck looks forward to working more with Dereaye and Brendon.

Chuck is currently attending more Meetups and networking with local professional photographers and models learning working with Gels, multi lighting, props, and advance concepts so he can, on his own, practice and create more art.

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Dereaye Photography W:16 H:20 in 2020 Charlton Corson

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Eric Hurbina Drawing, Painting

Eric Hurbina was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is set to graduate from the University of New Mexico with his Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Summer of 2021. He began drawing at an early age, but decided he wanted to pursue art professionally in high school. Film and nostalgia play significant roles in his life. Eric is influenced by his family ties and family members who are also artists. He fondly remembers being introduced to various movies through family members and the positive experience of viewing films. He also gravitates toward figurative drawing and the expressions within portraiture that remain part of his practice.

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The Mesa Verde Drawing, Graphite Drawing W:30 H:25 in 2019 A selected scene from the film McClintock! (1963) Eric Hurbina

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Michael Dorsey Drawing, Painting

Michael A. Dorsey is a retired Professor and Dean. His career spans 40 years almost evenly divided between art programs at Mississippi State University and East Carolina University. He has served as a curriculum evaluator, exhibition juror and textbook reviewer. He has shown in more than 500 exhibitions and has work placed in public and private collections in the US, UK, France, Italy, Japan and New Zealand.

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The Allegory of the Mask Drawing, Graphite Drawing, Polymer Wash W:35 H:24 in 2020 Michael Dorsey

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George Gonzalez Photography

George Gonzalez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami (FL). His research specializes in environmental politics and policies, including wilderness protection. Since 2015 Prof. Gonzalez's photographs have appeared in art galleries throughout the U.S. He also had an 8 photo show in Berlin, Germany, in 2016 (LITE-Haus Gallery).

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Banyan New 12 Photography W:10 H:20 in 2020 George Gonzalez

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Our House Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:42 H:30 in 2009 Lynda Gardner

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Lynda Gardner Digital Arts, Painting, Photography

After moving bak to Los Angeles from NYC in the early 80's, I began working on low budget, non-union films in the art department for Roger Corman. Malcolm Morley, m painting mentor, suggested I find a job that paid enough so I could afford to paint. Eventually, my friend Rae Fox and I production designed cult favorites such as "SID AND NANCY', 'REP MAN' and "BORN IN EAST L.A." (The last won Best Art Direction at the Havana Film Festival out of 90 films).

I am currently a Union Set Decorator, nominated for two Emmys.

I have continued to paint all these years and now want to become a thriving artist and leave a legacy. I am not necessarily a Photo Realist, but based on my "snapshots" I'm allowed the luxury of pausing to add ideas, stories emotions and humor to the canvas the push the tactile and color boundaries of oil paint. Painting seems to have no consistent solutions and certainly no clear end. That's the joy of it for me, a continuing path of exploration.

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Fox's Vanity Top Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:30 H:26 in 2009 This is my roommate's vanity top showing what a very interesting life she has lead so far.

Lynda Gardner

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Hitchhiker Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:36 H:48 in 2009 Lynda Gardner

"Fascination with How To art books by Walter Foster. Always seems like a step or two is missing in the process."

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Kathryn Cirincione Mixed Media, Printmaking

Kathryn Cirincione is a San Francisco Bay Area artist printmaker, photographer and painter who has been making art since childhood. Having lived and travelled extensively in Europe, Latin America and Asia, as well as the United States. Her work reflects a heritage that includes ancient church art as well as a contemporary social conscience.

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Requiem Printmaking, Monotype, Mixed Media W:18 H:25 in 2001 Kathryn Cirincione

Mixed media monotype with polaroid image transfer depicting the continuing rise of war for corporate profit into the new century and the forces for peace in opposition.

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Spencer Frazer Painting

SF, the founder of SOG Specialty Knives and Tools, is known as one of the industries foremost designers of innovative award winning outdoor gear. He is also a master Japanese aesthetic pruner and garden builder.

Born and raised in Los Angeles he moved to Seattle in the early 90's to be closer to the outdoors. Exploring the wilds of Alaska and Canada, he became passionate about the environment.

Spencer's work is collected regionally and has been shown internationally. He was the artist in residence at Artsfund, one of the leading art organizations in the Northwest. HIs work has been seen by millions on national news features that include CBS This Morning, Washington Post, CNN International, Fox News, etc. as well as numerous on line media.

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Stream Of Consciousness Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:48 H:60 in 2020 Spencer Frazer

Stream Of Consciousness is a commentary about the environmental crisis in the Northwest and the world.

Using a unique visual language, it is interwoven with stories and embedded with subliminal imagery that depicts the struggle that mans interference has created.

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A.D. Herzel Mixed Media, Drawing, Painting, Graphics, Photography

A.D. Herzel is a Korean American Adoptee Artist who has exhibited work for the past twenty years. Her drawings have been exhibited Nationally. She trained as a painter and printmaker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and went on to receive her M.Ed. in Art Education at the Tyler School of Art in 2000. Her digital work has been published in the Manifest International Drawing Annual, INDA 8 and she has won several awards of recognition for her drawings. In addition to exhibiting work in numerous juried shows, she has been recognized by curators from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and The Kimbell Museum of Fine Arts in Texas and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has been represented by galleries in Fort Worth, TX, Nashville, TN and Philadelphia, PA. Her work has also been acquired by the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection. In 2020 her work was included in the Circle exhibition at the CICA museum in Korea.

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Two Plates Mixed Media, Graphite Drawing, Ink, Sgraffito on Board - Clay W:18 H:24 in 2018 Amy Herzel

"There is more of gravy than the grave. E.S. From the stew of humanity justice is measured on two golden plates. What rises and propagates from such a paradigm?"

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Newel Hunter Painting

Born in 1947, Hunter graduated in Journalism from the University of Oregon. He operated his own brand consultancy and design firm in Seattle, Washington for 15 years, followed by a decades-long busy and awardwinning freelance writing career. But making art has always been his first love.

As both writer and artist, Hunter’s paintings are deep and mysterious, employing highly physical gestural marks to create endless possible interpretations. Even at their most abstract his canvases speak to the viewer, replacing words with paint which is scraped and spread into fluid, sculptural compositions.

The reduction of color in Hunter’s work intensifies the impact, where each mark upon the canvas leaves a spectral trace -- like an exoskeleton waiting for flesh. His 'Tales of Dark and Light’ collection features translucent forms with only hints of substance and color, dancing upon deep black surfaces in the artist’s unique calligraphic style.

Hunter’s art is widely represented in collections within and outside the U.S. He has exhibited extensively in regional and national juried shows and consistently appears in curated international art magazines.

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Interlude Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:30 H:40 in 2020 Newel Hunter

Interlude is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, expressionistic style, which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Black and white. Minimalist. Open to interpretation.

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A Tree Atop the Flowing Hills Drawing, Pastel on Wood W:30 H:30 in 2021 Kyle Minarsky

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Kyle Minarsky Drawing, Painting

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. I primarily work with pastels or oil paint on wood. Many pieces are made using a surreal impressionist / pointillist style to get the desired effect, texture, and shadows from the work. My primary influences are the art from the Renaissance, Impressionist, and Surrealist masters. My work is done from thoughts and concepts I come up with prior to starting a piece.

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Umbrella of Certainty Drawing, Pastel on Board - Wood W:30 H:36 in 2021 Kyle Minarsky

The Umbrella of Certainty depicts a silhouette of a man and woman beneath an umbrella surrounded by the night and rain. I envisioned two people in love with the concept that nothing around them matters except each other.

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The View from Different Perspectives Drawing, Pastel on Board - Wood W:24 H:20 in 2021 Kyle Minarsky

'The View From Different Perspectives' is done in pastel on wood in a surrealist, pointillist impressionist style. The concept behind this piece is that people often have different perspective of the same view.

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Trees of Purple Drawing, Oil Color on Canvas W:36 H:36 in 2021 Kyle Minarsky

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An Elderly Man Drawing, Pastel on Board - Wood W:20 H:24 in 2020 Kyle Minarsky

'An Elderly Man' is done in pastel on wood. He has a unique expression of thought and concern as he appears into the light creating cast shadows on his face.

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Gerard Huber Painting

Gerard Huber was born October 2, 1949, in Waterloo, Iowa.

Huber graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking, 1971. Following completion of undergraduate studies, Huber studied Figure Drawing and Contemporary Theology at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, and participated in the Blossom-Kent Art Program at Kent State University, 1973. Huber earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1975, studying with George Ortman.

In 1994 Huber received a Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting.

He has been a Resident Fellow at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (2008); twice at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lynchburg, Virginia (1987, 1988); and once at the Cummington Community of Art, Cummington, Massachusetts (1988). Huber has been a Visiting Artist/Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 2013 and 2015.

Huber’s airbrushed acrylic paintings have been exhibited in more than 60 exhibitions including the Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska; the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; Salmagundi Club, New York, NY; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; and many others. His paintings are represented by the Lizardi/Harp Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

Huber is a tenured professor in the Department of Art at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas (formerly East Texas State University).

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Reflections I Painting, Acrylic on Panel W:47 H:28 in 2016 Gerard Huber

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All is Not Lost Illustration, Digital Painting W:17 H:17 in 2020 Stuart Heir

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Stuart Heir Digital Arts, Illustration, Painting, Graphics, Photography

Stuart Heir is a New York-based fine artist who works in a range of media including digital, watercolor, acrylic, and Sumi ink.

His work draws on the critical eye he initially mastered as an award-winning still life photographer in the world of advertising.

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Apache Blessing Illustration, Digital Painting W:17 H:17 in 2021 Stuart Heir

"May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life.

- Apache Blessing"

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At Sunset Illustration, Digital Painting W:17 H:17 in 2021 Stuart Heir

"At sunset, we are safe at home.

In every city and town, there's no place like home."

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Lauren Mantecon Digital Arts, Painting

When I was nine I would join my Mom with her local art chapter association in a shopping mall in Miami, Florida. I would set up my slightly odd acrylic paintings of unrecognizable planets and galaxies on canvas alongside the chapter members oil paintings of palm trees, nude studies and sandy white beaches. I did not know it at the time, but that experience shaped the beginning of a life-long body of work. Conjuring up the spaces in between the intangible qualities of the cosmos and our physical bodies. Work that reaches to connect body/self with a mysterious universe. My Father is from Mexico, My Mother, New England. I spent my early years moving from the east to west coasts navigating the terrain in the middle I call this the search “the third thing’. An anchor to belonging. I am a multimedia artist, educator and writer. I hold a BA in conceptual photography and an MFA in painting. I have exhibited in numerous gallery and museum shows throughout my career, been the recipient of awarded art fellowships all while maintaining a passion and dedication to facilitating individual expression of creative art makers. I mentor and teach in a multiple of diverse settings that include Universities, Outreach programs, art and retreat centers around the globe. In my passion for painting, I have risked-deconstructed-shuffled-veiled- denied- wrestled- reckoned with and resurrected surfaces over and over again. It’s to date my longest standing relationship and I hold deep reverence to the process. I currently live and work in Santa Fe, NM.

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Grace II Painting, Oil Color, Collage on Panel W:50 H:48 in 2018 Lauren Mantecon

Oil Color, Wax, Collage on Panel

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Tadhg Slater Digital Arts, Painting

Tadhg Slater's work reflects the expression and interpretation of modern events, times, and experiences both public and personal in nature. Always seeking to evoke thought and create dialog. Tadhg does not shy away from the controversial and he shines light into the darkness humanity tends to hide from at times.

Paint, passion, emotion, and drive, combine to create the most raw and emotional expressionism and pop pieces to come down the pike. Inspired by the roughest of beginnings the strokes of each piece are filled with a need to convey that which cannot be left for words alone.

Experimental in nature, expressionist by definition, unique by design. Tadhg Slater uses paints, industrial and alkyd enamels, pigments from modern day, through to the most vintage in Polymer Paints.

From his early beginnings in the projects of Boston Massachusetts, to his 3 years at Harvard University (Constitutional Law Major) Tadhg has never done what was expected of him, nor fit any molds society placed in his way. Tadhg is self taught and has worked under numerous critically acclaimed artists that he refuses to name in his quest for a stronger ability to express himself and the world around him in a virtual world of anonymity most artists refuse to live in.

Tadhg Slater's works are available in fine art galleries in the northeast and NYC.

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Untitled Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:48 H:48 in 2019 Tadhg Slater

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Edward Mills Mixed Media, Painting

Edward Mills, FAIA is principal of Edward I. Mills + Associates, a New York based Architectural firm that is widely known for its high level of design in the making of intricate works of architecture that are characterized by attention to craft and detail, creative use of materials, and inventive forms and spaces.

A native of North Carolina, Mr. Mills received his Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University and received his Masters Degree from Harvard University. Mr. Mills has taught architecture at Columbia, Yale, the Rhode Island School of Design, Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania.

His drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Denmark's Louisiana Museum, the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Architectural Association in London, Columbia University, Cooper Union, New York University, and the Fashion Institute of Technology among others.

Mr Mills attended The National Academy, The New York Academy of Art and The Pennsylvania Academy. He has studied with painters such as Nelson Shanks, Vincent Desiderio, Bo Bartlett, Steven Assael, Stuart Shils, Alyssa Monks, Robert Armetta, John Wellington, Christopher Pugliese and Dan Thompson.

His Painting have been exhibited in galleries and museums in group shows at Mattatuck Museum, New Britian Museum of American Art, Monmouth Art Museum, Barrett Art Center, Site Gallery, the 211 Gallery, the Shirt Factory Gallery, Old Town Arts Guild, Valley Arts in Orange NJ, WAAMuseum, Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts ( Best Painting in Show) and The Kent Art Association in 2018 and 2019 ( Best Oil Painting in Show). His Painting have also been shown on-line with The Idaherma Museum of Art Foundation, Limner Gallery, Site Gallery, Higbee Gallery and the PleinAir Salon.

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Red Game Mixed Media, Encaustic, Cold Wax on Board W:24 H:24 in 2021 Sraight and curved forms painted within offset grids Edward Mills

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Laurey Bennett-Levy Digital Arts, Photography, Printmaking

Born in New York, Laurey Bennett-Levy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at S.U.N.Y Albany where she studied painting. Now she resides in both Los Angeles and NYC. The genesis of her return to painting came when her 13 year old daughter at the time, was studying life sciences under a microscope and then again 4 years later, they came upon the cyanotype. She was the inspiration that helped her move through very difficult moments as she retreated into her studio for years.

As a graphic designer of 28 years which greatly influences her work, Laurey focuses on the cyanotype because the medium unites her endless collection of photography and the medium is endless, graphic and vastly unexplored and few combine it with other techniques.

Her travels have deeply influenced her art and in this series are the basis for each piece. The aggregation of these images from her travels fed her content and she started noticing a repetitive, visual thread with regard to certain images in nature and in architecture.

In addition to painting, Laurey is an art advocate supporting local public schools in greater Los Angeles and has directed curriculum based school-wide art shows and in-class education to support the underserved. She has been selected by Arts for LA and The LA County Arts Education Collective to participate in their Fellowship Programs to ensure that Title One Schools not only receive quality arts education but equal arts education.

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Corridor Digital Arts, Cyanotype W:14 H:18 in 2021 Cyanotype with Chemical Washes Laurey Bennett-Levy

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Nida Hanif Painting, Mixed Media

Nida Hanif is a Pakistani American woman with the least interesting life. All she did during her childhood was attend school and in her past time, in her room, alone, she would draw, paint, sculpt, collage, sew, and create.

Nida is the first woman in her family to attend a University and is currently attending Stanislaus California University for her Bachelors in Psychology. However, her passion for art still burns bright and she is still pursuing art in between semesters.

Publications and Exhibitions The U.S. Capitol; for winning first place in the 2018 Congressional Art Competition in District CA-09 presented

by Congressman Jerry McNerney The first-place winner is flown to Washington, D.C. to attend a reception and to view their artwork on display in the Capitol building The LH Horton Jr Gallery, the Visual Arts Department of San Joaquin Delta College, led by art director Jan Marlese The Mexican Heritage Center Gallery, a local Stockton gallery Nida Hanif’s first interview was with Cyber Escapes, a Los Angeles Digital Flea Market Platform for artists led

by Valentine Gonzales Nida's artwork is also featured on page 5 of a Women's Month History Coloring Book presented by LH Horton Jr Gallery

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Self Portrait Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:16 H:20 in 2020 A self-portrait of my aura.

Nida Hanif

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Tak Salmastyan Painting

Dr. Tak Salmastyan was born in the mountainous Lori province of Armenia during the Soviet period and was named after his grandfather Takvor, whose name means "The King."

In Dr. Salmastyan’s words from his “Window to Freedom Tak Salmastyan Paintings” book: “Takvor is a very ancient and traditional Armenian name, perhaps last used, prior to my grandfather, in the 7th century. Because of its antiquity, my mother told me she was afraid that when I became a young man I would hate my first name. But throughout my youth, as it happens still to this day, my friends greet me with the sentence “Long Live the King!” Is there anyone in the world who could dislike a name like that? Several years ago, one of my friends and collector, looking to some of my work said: “You are a true master and a non-compromising spiritual hooligan.” I was very much pleased, and few years later in my first book “Window to Freedom Tak Salmastyan Paintings” I officially declared myself the King of Spiritual Hooligans.

I am also very passionate and very much enjoy teaching and consider my students as my investments for the society. I believe that a great teacher gives the same energy, love, and passion to teaching them even if they have different cultural backgrounds, skills and personalities. For me, the ultimate reward of being a teacher is when I inspire my students to be good and to do the best they can in all aspects of their life.

My students once wrote the following about me in their college newspaper: “People are easily inspired by this talented professor. His effect on the school is positive and inspirational. The best compliment Tak has ever received was when a fellow professor said to him, “Tak, your reputation precedes you – all students want to be like you.”

Currently Dr. Salmastyan, teaches drawing, painting, animation and other art related and unrelated subjects in Southern California. These days his students call him Doc Tak, which always makes him to smile.

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Music the Food for Love Painting, Oil Color on Linen W:30 H:24 in 2017 Tak Salmastyan

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Nickolas Viele Digital Arts, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography

Nickolas Viele was born in West Covina California in 1982. He grew up the youngest of three children. As an infant his family relocated to Rochester, New York where he still resides today. Growing up in poverty he learned to appreciate all aspects of life around him. Art was an outlet for Nickolas, and he found his place in the world of art as a sculptor. Early in Nickolas’ career, Robert Rauschenberg had been a source of inspiration when it came to Nickolas’ sculptures and the stories he tells through his work. Nickolas completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture at the College at Brockport in the fall of 2019.

Nickolas moved on to completing his Master of Fine Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the spring of 2021. Marc Quinn with his knowledge in casting, and materials, have allowed Nickolas to open his mind up to new and exciting ways to connect with his audience. With his knowledge of traditional techniques with practices in metal-working and fabrication, along with a clarity of form, Nickolas creates minimal visual confusion for the viewer. He still lives in Rochester, and his work has been showcased in the Brockport and Rochester area since 2017.

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Dreamer Sculpture W:96 H:48 D:9 in 2020 Cast Aluminum Nickolas Viele

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Silvia Forni Photography

I was born and raised in Florence, Italy. I moved to New York City in 2004 to purse a career in Photography and Film. I always loved the City at night, no one was really around after a certain time and, at the time, I was helping my friend at a bar, so, every time I would finish to work, I would walk around the East Village to find interesting people/situations/places to photograph.

If I remember well this photo was shot with my old Nikon F at 2 am in the morning. I thought it was dark and cool at the same time. People in New York have the tendency to never stop, they keep walking so fast all the time, that if you stop, the world will crumble around you. I stopped. And this image is the perfect explanation of what happens if you do. Ironically talking, a mess.

I always loved black and white photography. Sally Mann, Robert Capa, Diane Arbus, who said “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”

So that’s where everything started.

I find inspiration in people’s faces, behavior, body movements. It all makes sense there.

I live between Italy and the United States. My husband is a creative, like me. My Art shifted and I became more conscious of the reality and surroundings around me after I had my child, who inspires me everyday.

I feel that we are all evolving and learning all the time, but after you have a kid you understand the absolute importance of taking pauses. That help us seeing the real beauty of life.

I’d like to thank all great family and friends including my husband, my dad Massimo, my aunt Lia and my friend Arda, for their support and kindness.

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Papers Photography W:30 H:20 in 2012 A saturday night in the city with Nikon F. Silvia Forni

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From the Inside - Fall Creek Gorge Photography W:20 H:24 in 2016 Ken Rabbers Photographic Art

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Ken Rabbers Photography

Ken Rabbers discovered his passion for photography more than 50 years ago. Cameras improved and processing moved from the darkroom to digital over the years, as his work in color and black-and-white images evolved into exceptional art.

“Ever since I can remember, I’ve admired those who could compose a photo of a natural scene that would give me great pleasure and a desire to see the location in person, or to wonder what the photographer had to do to get a particular shot,” he says. “I wanted to be there and see it for myself. I still get that feeling today, and I want to give that feeling to those who view my photos.”

A contemplative artist, Ken finds inspiration in nature, architecture and landscapes.

“I love getting outside and viewing our natural environment in differing light. The soft glow of early morning and late evening, eerie fog, star-lit skies, a golden moon, those special times of day,” he says. “I don’t add color while processing my digital negatives. Instead, I coax the colors and hues that nature has provided to achieve the look that my mind interpreted when I captured an image.”

Technical perfection is a goal, but Ken’s quest is pressing the shutter when he finds the “decisive moment” — that fleeting second in outdoor photography when the light becomes absolutely perfect. Getting the shot when the light is just right makes for good photography.

“I like to look for different perspectives from which to compose a shot. I am constantly trying to learn, and to improve my techniques to better express what my mind sees when I look at a scene,” he adds.

“Everyone has the unique ability to see something that no one else does; different colors, different shapes and textures, different contrasts. How the eyes see is very similar in various individuals; how the mind interprets what the eyes see is vastly different. My images and prints are a representation of what my eyes see, my camera captures and my mind interprets,” he says.

In addition to his website, Ken's photos can be seen at Art IN Hand Gallery in Zionsville, Indiana, and Indiana Artisan in Carmel, Indiana.

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Into the Fog Photography W:24 H:18 in 2013 Along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Point Reyes National Seashore - Point Reyes Station, CA Ken Rabbers Photographic Art

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Aspen Grove Photography W:20 H:24 in 2014 Taken in Eagles Nest Wilderness area near Silverthorne, CO Ken Rabbers Photographic Art

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Old Gnarly Photography W:24 H:18 in 2019 Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge - Aravaca, AZ Ken Rabbers Photographic Art

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Michigan City East Pierhead Lighthouse Photography W:30 H:20 in 2018 Ken Rabbers Photographic Art

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Lisa Walker Mixed Media, Painting

Lisa Walker is a 1993 graduate of Bradley University, with an MFA in Mixed Media and a 1990 BFA in Printmaking from Rockford University. Ms. Walker has been teaching at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg Illinois since 2001. She became Program Director in 2005, received tenure in 2008, and had the honor to receive the Illinois Community College Trustee’s Association Faculty of the Year Award in 2009. In addition to Carl Sandburg, she has taught also at Monmouth College. Over the course of her education, she received several grants and scholarships including a Research Excellence Grant, receiving her MFA with Distinction ,Phi Kappa Phi. In 1992 Lisa received the Kotteman Endowed Scholarship in Sculpture. Shows include: • Women's Works 2021 - 34th Annual Show at NAAC Woodstock, IL. • Negotiating Space- Contemporary Art Center, Peoria IL • Storytelling, -a Joint show with Julie Mahoney WCIAC, Macomb IL2017 • Galex 2020- Galesburg Civic Art Center Galesburg IL 2020 • Solo Show Contemporary Art Center, Peoria 2014 In 1992 Ms. Walker worked with artist Alvin Paige on his Flatlanders installation at Bradley University and again the following year in Houston, Texas.

Also in the mid-nineties, Lisa taught children’s’ classes in clay and drawing the Peoria Art Guild and as a visiting artist in the Peoria Public schools. In1997 she was invited to create and install her sculpture “Baba Miko” on the spiral garden at the Brickyard Earth Center for the Arts, Colchester Illinois where it can still be seen. That same year Ms. Walker was invited to be a guest lecturer at Bradley University. In 2001 she spent six months living in a tent doing sustainable building at Dancing Rabbit, an eco-feminist intentional community near Rutledge, Missouri. There Ms. Walker worked as the Co-coordinator of the Skyhouse Project, a two-story timber frame and straw bale, off-grid structure with full solar power.

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Dancing Naked on the Terminus of the Kaskawulsh Glacier Painting, Mixed Media W:30 H:26 in 2017 Blue, yellow and gray abstract figure.

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Lee Riley Sculpture

Riley grew up in Texas where his grandmother, a well-known artist, instilled in him a passion for the arts.

Unfortunately, she had lost a daughter at the age of nine to cancer. This event traumatized his grandmother and mother who ultimately persuaded him to pursue a career as a cancer researcher and oncologic surgeon.

The majority of his life was spent learning and practicing his profession. Ultimately; however, his training left him unprepared for the emotional weight associated with helping patients with cancer. “At times things didn’t turn out well” Riley recalls “I needed to find a way to return to work the next day fully recharged.”

Remembering his childhood roots, he turned to art.

Today he lives in Bethlehem Pennsylvania and his artistic work combines Nature’s vast minerals with all varieties and phases of glass. He has become a self-taught artist, driven by a passion for his patients. The minerals provide a wide variety of color and contrast, but more importantly, he sees them as statistical impossibilities and yet their existence validates his patients’ hope for a cure. He uses blown, kiln-worked, or cold-sculpted glass to manipulate light to showcase the minerals. Conceptually these materials are worked to reflect hope, healing and the underpinning thought that “Life is a gift!”

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Pythagorean Dream Sculpture, Glass Fusing Art on Steel W:8 H:32 D:6 in 2020 Fused and Crystal Glass, Lapis Lazuli, Steel Lee Riley

A combination of fused and cold-worked glass within and through steel. Lapis lazuli is incorporated within the crystal glass and penetrates through the steel.

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Leo Tujak Photography

Contribute to the exhibits at North Shore Towers.

Numerous showings at The Manhasset [solo show April-July 2019], Douglaston/Little Neck, Port Washington & the Glen Oaks (solo show) Libraries photography exhibits.

Photo was accepted at Islip Arts Council and AARP Forever Young Exhibit at the Islip Art Museum.

A qualified participant in Montanha Pico Festival (Azores) International Photography Contest - Mountains & Snow 2020.

Showed at Blank Wall Gallery, Athens in "People & Winter" exhibit & BBA Gallery, Berlin in "Mostly White" exhibit.

Photo was selected to be digitally displayed at Laurent Gallery, Melbourne Photography Exhibition July 2020 & The Space Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, August 2020 Hinterland Galerie, Vienna, Sept.2020.

Photo was selected to be displayed at Studio Gallery B&B, Paris Sept. 2020.

Photo was selected to be Digitally showcased in the "Photographer of the Year 2019" exhibition taking place at Espaço Espelho D'agua, in Lisbon, Portugal and "Solo Single Subject", July 2020.

Also shown at Studio Chanel Gallery, Art Ability/Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital; Art Guild of Port Washington; Vintage Artists Gallery; Tobi Held Art Gallery; FUJIFILM Print Life Photo Exhibition 2018 & 2019 at Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall.

Photo-Competition curators have selected my photos to be included in the Sunsets 2019 exhibition.

One of the grand prize winners of Marriott Rewards Facebook Mega Bonus promotion.

Grand prize winner of Hyland’s Good Morning Photo Contest.

My entry in the Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2019 & 2020 has been published.

Published in Shame Radiant, Lose the Film, Irreplacable Resources also in National Parks Foundation find your parks pics & recs, Travel and Leisure and 2018 NST Calendar.

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River View CR Photography W:14 H:11 in 2016 A view on the river in Costa Rica from the boat we were on.

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Maria Coletsis Photography

Maria Coletsis works with issues concerned with identity and sexuality. Since receiving her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has exhibited her artwork in galleries internationally. A solo art exhibition and book launch at the De Luca Gallery in Toronto for her recently published photography book, Behind the Whip: Dominatrix. Her photographs were included in the East London Photography Festival and chosen by the curator of the Whitney Museum for the Viridian Gallery open call in New York. Maria has contributed editorial photography for many international magazines and newspapers. Many of her images appear on book covers, websites and music covers. She continues to investigate and photograph subculture subject matter and is currently introducing elements from nature to explore human nature.

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Intermission - Carbon Digital Arts, Mixed Media W:20 H:30 in 2020 Digital inkjet print Maria Coletsis

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Greg Smith Drawing, Painting, Photography

I was born in Sydney, Australia and from early childhood I found myself fascinated by the beautiful world of colors. I was seldom found without a pencil or brush in hand and despite attending art classes throughout my schooling, it was drawing with either colored or graphic pencil that really captivated my attention.

Though I was the only one in the family most involved with painting and drawing, it was not until I graduated from high school and preparing to seek a career as a commercial artist (aka graphic designer) that I discovered I was color blind. My optometrist at the time accredited my knowledge and recognition of colors due solely to my artistic talent from childhood.

Over the years I have worked with oils, acrylics, watercolor, inks, and pastels ... but always return to my favorite medium — colored pencil. For quite some time now my style has concentrated on portraits of animals and people — most work being commissioned. When time allows, I find inspiration for my own work in nature and the bountiful array of fascinating faces and characters that surround me.

Apart from the 3 years of high school art classes, I am self-taught but my continual improvement as had my work juried in numerous art shows winning first and second places and people choices.

My artistic style can be described as Realism with an increasing number of my pieces and commissioned portraits finding permanent home in many hearts and homes of families and animal lovers worldwide.

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Millie Drawing, Color Pencil on Cardboard W:14 H:11 in 2019 Millie, the Cocker Spaniel, was a commissioned pet portrait done on colored art board.

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Mestre Zaza Painting, Oil Color on Linen W:28 H:40 in 2020 Monica Mendes

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Monica Mendes Painting

Mônica Mendes is native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She lives for many years in Miami, where she develops relevant works in the arts segment, specializing in oil painting, in the figurative style. The artist has strong artistic roots since childhood. Her love for arts gave rise to the title “master’s degree of Fine Arts in Painting”, in 2016, by the Academy of Art University, in San Francisco.

Awarded for her works in the United States by Focus Brazil for 2 consecutive years and in art shows in Brazil, she regularly participates in several collective exhibitions, fairs and art shows around the world such as Japan, London, France, Italy and Brazil. There are more than 24 collective exhibitions and 5 individual exhibitions, one in the United States, and 4 in Brazil. The artist has 11 publications in art magazines and books in Brazil and the United States.

Monica is also a Co-Founder of Atelier Without Borders, a non-profit social organization dedicated do the arts.

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Os Cabolhinhos Painting, Oil Color on Linen W:28 H:40 in 2020 Monica Mendes

Catopezera: The Sound of Colors is a collection of 22 oil paintings that commemorate a traditional Brazilian celebration known as “Catope."

“Catope" is a ritual of folkloric expression influenced by African culture that has been in existence in the state of Minas Gerais for over 160 years.

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Todos por Um Painting, Oil Color on Linen W:28 H:40 in 2020 Monica Mendes

Catopezera: The Sound of Colors is a collection of 22 oil paintings that commemorate a traditional Brazilian celebration known as “Catope."

“Catope" is a ritual of folkloric expression influenced by African culture that has been in existence in the state of Minas Gerais for over 160 years.

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Linda Reymore Mixed Media, Painting, Photography

Linda Reymore resides in Florida. Her art education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and a Master of Science in Marketing Communications from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. In the 1970's Linda exhibited in a solo exhibition in North Carolina selling a number of her works from that show to a corporate collection.

Linda's subsequent career outside of the art field was supplemented by volunteer activities in local arts agencies using her business, art, and graphic design abilities to market and grow the audiences of these organizations. Upon retirement, Linda returned to creating art and successful pursuit of exhibition opportunities in a number of local, national, and international exhibits and publications.

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See-Saw Painting, Acrylic, Wall Paint W:18 H:24 in 2019 Acrylics, Wall paint, Screen material Linda Reymore

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This "designed" painting uses leveling qualities of wall paint in contrast to the screen material. Modeling paste is used to create raised surface interest. Portions of the canvas are cut out and backed with screen to allow the paste to be pushed through the screen creating texture on the surface.

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Ted Barr Painting, Design, Mixed Media, Print - Limited, Textile Art

Ted Barr was born in Constance Romania, on the shores of the Black Sea. At the age of four, his family immigrated to Israel. In 1975 Barr was drafted into the Israeli army, in which he served as a regular soldier, officer, and reservist for twenty-six years. In 1992 Barr graduated from Israeli Battalion Commanders' Academy and served as a deputy battalion commander with the rank of a Major.

In 1980, after release from his conscripted army service, Barr began seven years of study in his fields of interest: Symbolism, Buddhism, Ancient Egypt, Numerology, and Kabbala and then went on to earn an M.B.A degree in marketing from the Tel Aviv University, graduating in 1990.

In 1995 Barr started seven years of private art lessons under the Israeli master Shlomo Tzafrir in Old Jaffa where his first exhibition opened to the public in 2001.

The leading concepts in Barr's art are Deep Space and celestial elements, the beginnings of life, embryos, ovum, and the development of the embryo in the womb, inspired by the Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson's images.

Barr does not sign his name on his canvasses. Instead, he developed a private symbol that encapsulates his esoteric studies experience and represents his life philosophy written in his FLY book.

Barr has since exhibited his works in New York, Montreal, Palo Alto, Perugia, Guadalajara, Detroit, Chianciano Terme, San Antonio, Cannes, Miami, Toronto, Venice, Mumbai, Delhi, Kathmandu, Jaipur, Udaipur, Berlin, San Francisco, Dallas, Delhi, Tel Aviv, and Paris.

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Girus Galaxy Painting, Oil Color, Acrylic W:120 H:120 cm 2008 Tar, Oil Color, Acrylic Ted Barr

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Wendy Smith Mixed Media, Painting

Despite having taken a few art classes in college, I wouldn’t consider myself classical trained in the arts. My first year in college I took a Creative Behavior class and my love for art began to blossom. In pursuit of a consistent income for my family I chose to pursue a career in education, later returning to my love and passion for the arts after retirement.

The story of my mixed media began with my sons first grade project an author illustrator study of Eric Carle. My son and I created paintings and used a collage approach to make books and posters. Soon after I started teaching and for the next 25 years I taught this very theme. The joy it brought to the children’s faces as their characters came to life from a pile of colorful art cut into patterns.

Additionally, I have created works with colored pencils, oils, painting on glass and most recently mixed media.

Over the years, my art has progressed through metamorphosis and I believe it will continue to. The next stage for me came when my cousin Amy…my best friend died suddenly in her sleep; through the pain I cried , I prayed, and I ruminated on “Why?” In deep prayer, an image came to my mind of Amy and it churned in my heart until I had to draw what I had seen. I had never done a portrait before and wasn’t sure how to create the image in my mind, eventually I began to do what came naturally to me adding cut collage pieces and various mediums.

Upon completion, it was like I could feel the turbulent waves of life’s emotion and the drawing transformed into a vibrant mixed medium. So, I chose to name this piece “Transformation”. God assured me that Amy was not dead but transformed.

A short while later I traveled to Kenya on a mission trip, where I met Victoria Wanjiku, a young girl from the center I visited. When I was leaving, she poured herself into my arms with tears streaming down her face. I will always hold her face and strong faith in reverence. Victoria and the other children inspired my next work “Gods Handiwork” an image of the National bird of Kenya- The Lilac Breasted Rolling Bird.

An interweaving of cut paper which evolved into intricate feathers like the intricacies of the lives of those who live there and how their lives have now been interwoven with mine indefinitely. I used prints of my bird piece to deconstruct and create medium for my next work - “Heavenly Prayers”. This work displayed yet another heartstring tying me to Kenya. While I was there, another young girl at the center Ivy Nafula was always by my side taking care of me. She was like god’s angel here on earth and I was inspired to create an angel in her honor. The bird , “God’s Handiwork“, would have found its way to Victoria in Kenya if was not for Covid striking.

Instead, I posted this piece on social media to bring awareness to the news in Kenya and a viewer liked my work so much that he contacted me and arranged an introduction for me with local renowned artist, Lucretia West. She graciously offered to give me art lessons.

In just a few short weeks after her formal training in perspective, shading etc. I began to see the world differently - in lines, shapes and shadows. Where I was blind as an artist now I could see. I used my new skills in my most recent piece I created called “Refuge”. The background is one of my photos I printed with special effects on canvas. I stretched my abilities by adding sculpture to this piece. My cutting materials Don’t end with paper and photos alone but also with fabric, yarn and other materials. I continue to experiment adding different dimensions to my art and I believe the possibilities are endless.

As each of us humans are connected one to the other….in birth, in death and in daily life. So too is my art.

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God’s Handiwork Painting, Mixed Media W:7 H:5 in 2020 Wendy Smith

"God’s Handiwork was inspired after a trip to Kenya. My soul was touched by the people. Dedicated to Victoria Wanjiku who has the faith of an Angel.

The National bird of Kenya - Lilac Breasted Rolling bird. What started out as a simple drawing evolved into an intricate weaving of cut feather."

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Oya - A Nigerian Yoruba Goddess Digital Arts, Ink W:14 H:14 in 2021 Victor Adeniran

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Victor Adeniran Digital Arts, Painting, Photography, Digital Painting, Illustration

Victor Adeniran was born in Denver, Colorado but moved to Nigeria with his parents soon after that, where he would spend the next 17 years. While living almost two decades in Nigeria, he fell in love with various forms of art — but it was the intersections of dance, painting, sketching, and drawing that held his attention the most.

After moving back to the U.S, he then served in the United States Marine Corps for over 13 years, where he visited a laundry list of countries that ultimately inspired, informed, and enhanced his creativity. Countries like Japan, Thailand, Laos, Australia, Germany and Kuwait were among the various locales where Adeniran admired and internalized the splendor. He found beauty in all these places regardless of what the naked eye might have been seeing and incorporated these elements into his work. His work uses media such as ink, pastel and digital mixed into one to create the pieces you see before you. He has also had the chance to study dance at Paloma’s College in San Marcos, California, where he majored in Dance Improvisation. He also performed for and studied with companies such as Culture Shock San Diego and Debbie Allen Dance Academy Los Angeles. Upon moving back to Denver after his time in the military, Adeniran performed and continued to enhance his skills and knowledge with MOTH Poetic Circus, as well as participating in various immersive events with the locallyowned production company MOXIE Luxe. Victor is always working to improve his skills and bring a sense of love, togetherness and unity to all his work. In the past year, the artist has had the chance to showcase work with companies such as RAWArtist locally, Toronto Ontario ,Canada, in Los Angeles and also at Gallerie Mellanrum in Stockholm, Sweden. He has also shown works at Hillcrest San Diego at the studio door. You can also find his works in recent publications like Bogoss volume 3 released in July 2021, and Observica magazine released in September 2021.

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Collide (a fantasy piece) Digital Arts, Digital Painting W:14 H:11 in 2021 Victor Adeniran

There are times when people from different worlds are seen to be mismatch because we just never seem to be able to fathom them together. This piece in a playful shows that love breaks barriers and crosses lines set by social norms. Two people from different worlds merging and uniting.

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Stronger than Love Itself Digital Arts, Ink W:16 H:20 in 2021 Victor Adeniran

Digital Arts, Ink Drawing I have lost love and sometimes the feeling of that loss becomes so powerful and overwhelming that it takes you over. Perhaps the stronger the passion felt the stronger the loss feels as well.

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Nathan Dean Photography

Born in Tennessee, educated as a physicist at Cambridge University, and honored during a distinguished career in academe, Nathan Dean has traveled the world, visiting and photographing in more than eighty countries. His taut and elegant compositions have been exhibited and won awards in numerous juried shows in Atlanta, New York, Paris, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Now residing in Atlanta, he continues to be recognized for his street portraits, a nine-image portfolio of which received Honorable Mention in the International Photo Awards competition as well as an Award of Excellence in the Black & White magazine Portfolio competition. In addition, one of his photos was selected as the winner of the “Writ Large” competition in the North Carolina Click! Photo Fest and was shown there full-size on a 10x20 foot billboard. He is an articulate advocate of photography, serving on the Board of Directors and chairing the Development Committee of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the city’s leading photography organization.

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The Secret Keeper Photography, Digital Photography W:12 H:18 in 2019 Nathan Dean

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Rick Hurst Photography, Digital Arts

My childhood refuge was to immerse myself in the natural world around me — experiencing the beauty of nature, the vibrancy of color, the variety of architecture. This eventually led to a 1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from the University of Southern Mississippi, and to a 1984 Summer Course in Illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York, NY. Not finding a job in the arts field, I joined the federal government in the mid-80s, and eventually retired in Washington, DC as a paralegal.

After moving to the Gulf Coast of Alabama, I converted my new garage into an artist’s studio, and revived my talents in acrylics and watercolors and my interest in abstract forms. I participated in art markets, artists’ coops, galleries and art shows, even winning awards and mounting a 6-month one-man show. All these venues were in multiple cities in Alabama and western Florida.

To satisfy my cravings for new avenues of creativity, I began experimenting with digital photos of nature, architecture and my own artwork, altering colors and combining images in multiple overlays. By the time I moved to St Petersburg, Florida in 2016, I was wholly committed to the digital art world.

Now my tools for expressing myself as an artist have changed: I work with clean hands — no brushes, no pencils, no splattered acrylics, watercolors or oils — and I can take new photographs and work digitally from any location.

My photography captures the beauty and spirit of nature and the real world. I meld these into digital artworks using multiple exposures, layers, color transformations and advanced art filters – images which may live through many iterations.

Each digital image is my personal expression of inspiration from the real world, explored and revealed through my own artistic imagination.

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Labyrinth - Feast On the Complexities...

Digital Arts W:35 H:35 in 2020 Archival-quality Digital Transformation on Metal Panel Rick Hurst

Then explore your inner self.

(Original digital photos of nature, architecture and artwork, color-transformed and combined in multiple overlays.)

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Kathleen Painting

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by parents of Caribbean heritage. I was always creative; my favorite classes were Art and Math. My initial dream was to become an architect but those ideas were quickly pushed aside, “that is too competitive for a woman!” my mother would say, “you need to become a nurse!” In 1992 I graduated from Nursing school and passed the Nurse’s Boards. God’s plan is never wrong as I also LOVED my career as a nurse! I always dabbled in the arts, self teaching until I discovered my passion for painting (oils). I found my solace, peace, restoration, and survival. By 2015 I was the mother to 4 young adults, a tween and a 4-year-old grandson-still working as a nurse in the field of Oncology. But the itch continued, and I started to offer a mobile paint party/session service just as the “Painting with a Twist” was becoming a household name. I created an LLC in 2017-Smallxpressions Art Studio-“Bringing your Visions to Life!!”- offering a virtual gallery of unique oil/acrylic paintings for purchase, commissions service, mobile paint party, prints/T shirt with images of my art works. Fall of 2018, I started on the Art Festival circuit and showcased in many shows; I was also featured in EVDG magazine in Philadelphia. Spring of 2019, I was also a contractor where I offered paint sessions for the attendants. In 2019, I added creative unique gift items including my recycled jewelry line, wine glass and coaster sets, acrylic pour holiday ornaments, and stand-alone coaster sets using resin. By March of 2020, all came to a halt due to the pandemic and it has been a struggle-my main exposure and new client acquisition was in person and being a nurse, I was a front line worker, which left little time to pivot to a mainstream online presence. As the cities start to open, I look forward to re-integrating with my audience offering the resumption of showcasing in Arts and Crafts shows, 1:1 mentoring/instruction, and continued evolution of my craft!!

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Black Tree of Life Painting, Acrylic W:18 H:24 in 2021 Using the Tree swipe technique I created a Black Tree of Life Kathleen Small

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Alyssa Archer-Cooper Painting, Mixed Media

Alyssa Rae is a multimedia visual artist-entrepreneur based in Montreal, QC, who created Art Today by Alyssa Rae to showcase and sell paintings that evoke happy, free, feel-good energy. Her artwork expresses elements of flow, structure, balance, and details, which are influenced by her backgrounds in dance and martial arts.

Alyssa obtained a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (with distinction) from Concordia University and works as a cultural officer. She is currently creating new artwork, participating in virtual group exhibitions, and experimenting with new and creative ways to promote and expand her business through online platforms.

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Blooming Bouquet Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:18 H:24 in 2010 Alyssa Archer-Cooper

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Cecilia Anastos Painting

I​ am an award-winning, multi-cultural and polyglot artist, My paintings are colorful, profound, and uplifting. I have an eclectic personal and professional background that does not fit into a conventional artist's bio. I am a self-taught artist, and this is my profession. I have learned long time ago to trust the teacher within and go to my inner world to fetch ideas for painting.

Exhibitions and Awards August 7-8 2021 - Powderhorn Art Fair - Juried - Online June 2021 - Las Laguna Art Gallery - Juried - Painterly 2021 June 2021 - Art Room Gallery - Juried - Finalist in the Textures and Patterns art exhibition May 2021 - Grey Cube Gallery - Juried - Finalist at the Botanicals Art Contest May 2021 - Grey Cube Gallery - Juried - Finalist in Season Art Show May 2021 - Art Room Contemporary Art Gallery - Juried - Finalist in the City Contest April 2021 - Grey Cube Gallery selected my painting Au Revoir as finalist for their Colors show April 2021 - Contemporary Art Room - Juried - On m'appelle Giselle and Narciso Romano 2 were selected among the finalist April 1st 2021 - June 1st 2021 - Contemporary Art Station Virtual Art Fair - Juried April 2021 - Contemporary Art Room International Art Competition Abstract - Presented Abstract 16 March 2021 - Premi Internacional d'Art de Barcelona 2021 - Worldwide Artist Award Nominees February 2021 - February 2022 - Featured Artist on Circle Arts, Juried February - June 2021 - Infinite Dream, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine - Juried

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Au Revoir Painting, Acrylic W:36 H:24 in 2021 Cecilia Anastos

Using the blue chromatic, this is a painting of an employee who had worked for the U. S. Immigration Service for 30 years as he waves goodbye to Ellis Island, as the last ferry pulled out on November 12, 1954.

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The Pet Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:30 H:40 D:1 in 2020 Lon Levin

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Lon Levin Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media

Lon Levin has gained international recognition for his whimsical, imaginative children’s art. Since 2004, his work has appeared in books, magazines and gallery showings. He has won many awards over the length of his career as an art director, creative director and illustrator. A native of Los Angeles, Lon completed two Bachelors of Arts; one from UCLA in Painting & Graphics and the other from Art Center College of Design in Illustration in 1977, where he also taught advertising design from 1990-1992. Levin had the good fortune to study with some of the best artists and illustrators in the world, in particular Murray Tinkelman, Richard Diebenkorn, Lorser Feitelson, Alan Cober, Mark English, Berne Fuchs and Herb Ryman. His work is held in private collections in the US and Canada.

In 2008, Levin wrote, photographed and illustrated the book “Treehouses” which was published by Globe Pequot Press. In 2009 he illustrated “There’s A Boy Under My Bed” written by award-winning author Lisa Willever which got an honorable mention for Best Children’s Book at the Hollywood Book Festival in 2009 and was a 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist.

Lon currently lives in San Miguel De Allende , Mexico with his wife Ahavia and their Golden Retreivers Atticus and April Snow.

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Save Us Drawing, Pen, Ink W:18 H:24 in 2021 Lon Levin

The image depicts the current fractured nature of humanity & the way they worship the "latest thing" hoping it will save them from the many physical and mental viruses out there attacking humanity. The effect is humans are more prone to look from an outside force to save them instead looking within.

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False Idol Painting, Pen-Ink Drawing W:18 H:24 in 2021 Lon Levin

Worshipping false idols is a human trait that still exists and seems to be flourishing worldwide.

This piece is a visual presentation of the situation and how it appeals to our most primitive instincts.

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Charles Lehman Photography, Digital Arts

I am just a street photographer, but one with obsessions. Been one since the late 60s, even before anyone thought to call it street photography. I picked up photography while living in Japan and I would just walk around Tokyo photographing people and the streets, learning as much as I could about photography and Japan. My friends would ask why just that and I would reply that that is all I know. I grew up on the streets of the Baltimore around the harbor. There were no scenic vistas or natural surroundings, just row home after row home, night clubs, bars and factories, so I settled on the social landscape rather than the scenic one. Now-adays I see more than just what is in front of me in the viewfinder and manipulate those images. Japan is my second home and I have a non profit site on photography and travel in Japan, The Occasional Gaijin. Over the course of my life I have had careers in cryptography and software development and now I am a fine art photographer. It has been a wild ride.

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Awakening Photography W:20 H:14 in 2020 A composite of two images from the Day of the Dead, Día de Muertos.

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David McDougall Painting, Drawing

Born -1949 Merced,California B.A. degree- Humboldt State University Arcata, California 1972 M.F.A in Painting University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois 1975. I have worked as an art instructor during grad school, part time painting instructor at the College of the Redwoods in Crescent City, California, worked as a carpenter, done wooden boat repair, worked at Hornall Anderson Design Works in Seattle, Washington for five years, been a freelance technical illustrator for the Precor company, and been a flyfishing guide in Northern Wyoming for 8 years, all the while continuing to retain an interest in art which I now do full time in my 72nd year.

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The Tilted Bottle Painting, Acrylic W:48 H:36 in 2020 Commission of living room interior David McDougall

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A. Galano Painting, Graphics, Digital Arts

Traveled to the United States in 1975, from Europe, and has lived in Miami, Florida, since.

The artist produces her work under the brand name of A. Galano, her maiden name. Her passion for art began in her childhood and has continued since. Her formal education is related to business and medical technology, including an AA degree that allowed her to have art training by very experienced and talented professors. Basic training included painting portraits of live professional models, still life, and the techniques necessary to accomplish professional rendering of such work. During the following years A. Galano continued creating as a personal hobby, testing and using new software and techniques for her knowledge of digital art to be developed, and still does so, constantly creating and perfecting her techniques, enjoying every project as her way to preserve her intuitive talent and peace and beauty as part of her work. At this moment in times' history, when a pandemic has shaken all that we had taken for granted in life, she had envisioned creating a market for her work, bringing forth to the public the fruit of her art. Her goal is to have her name known and her art appreciated and supported by art lovers and all people involved with the art market, as they enjoy it as an object in their personal space and environment.

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Particle Painting, Digital Painting, Oil Color W:11 H:8.50 in 2021 Abstract depiction of a microscopic particle, natural or man created, of unknown origin or purpose.

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Nancy Kozikowski Textile Art, Painting

One Person or Two Person Exhibitions 2020 - 2021 Lin Lecheng & His Friends Works Exhibition, Tsinghua Holdings Habitat Development Museum, Beijing, China 2020 From Lausanne to Beijing 11th International Fiber Art Exhibit, Beijing, China 2020 Living in Color, Fine Line Creative Arts Center – Kavanagh Gallery, St. Charles, IL 2018 Arts Thrive 2018, (inclusion in all exhibit aspects - The Collector’s Dinner, Large Format, Small Format), Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM 2018 From Lausanne to Beijing International Fiber Art Exhibition, Special One Person Exhibition - The Evolution of Tradition, Symposium Keynote Speaker 2016 Thousand Islands Arts Center, Clayton, NY, East West Warp Weft: Weaving Connects the World: Lin LeCheng and Nancy Kozikowski Selected Recent Group Exhibitions 2021 San Diego Museum of Art – Summer Artist Exhibition, San Diego, CA 2020 Living in Color, Fine Line Creative Arts Center – Kavanagh Gallery, St. Charles, IL 2019 Twisting Fibers – An Art for All Reasons, Art League of Rhode Island National Gallery, Pawtuckett, RI 2018 Albuquerque Museum (of Fine Art), Arts Thrive 2018, inclusion in all exhibit aspects - The Collector’s Dinner, Large & Small Format 2018 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, The Art of Labor Selected Collections Cabinet Secretary Debra Haaland, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC The Albuquerque Public Library, New Facility on West Central, Albuquerque, NM Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY UCLA Anderson School of Management Collins Building, Los Angeles, CA American Society of Radiologic Technologists, Albuquerque, NM Grand Hyatt Oriental Plaza, Beijing, China Albuquerque International Airport, Albuquerque, NM Sandia Resort & Casino, Albuquerque, NM Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington, DC Ellis Island Collection, Statue of Liberty The Vatican, Rome

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Strings Painting W:24 H:47 in 2015 Nancy Kozikowski

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W I Am Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:30 H:24 in 2020 Franklin Pereira da Silva

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Franklin Silva Drawing, Painting

Franklin started to draw when he was 11 years. When he first started to explore his talents he put particular emphasizes on the surrealist movement. From an early age, he observed nature and its peculiarities. Over time, he tried to utilize his art in a way to understand and explore tiredness and human emotions. He graduated from Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas with a degree in Visual Arts. In his art he uses charcoal, ink, oil, woodcut/linoleum gravure and watercolor.

Franklin worked at Sesc São Paulo as an art instructor and resident artist where he explored and developed a diverse array of art related activities to engage the community. He created string art workshops for children and teens where he introduced a conversation between linoleogravure and drawing with various tools to highlight string art. Franklin created the installation 'Lines and Shapes' recently feature at Sesc in 2018. His work was shown at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, Itu Arts Center.

Recent Exhibitions History Through The Artist's Eye - July 01 to August 15, 2021 Stamford Art Association Us All - June 19 to July 18, 2021 Brookfield Craft Center An Image Is Worth A Thousand Words - May 27 to June 12, 2021 Arts Center East Color Blind Art Exhibition - May 14 to August 27, 2021 Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut Just Faces - May 14 to June 10, 2021 Medford Arts Classically Telling: A Juried Competition - May 01 to 31, 2021 API Online Gallery Focus On: Portraiture - April 10 to May 08, 2021 Ridgefield Guild of Artists Wild Things: April 09 to May 13, 2021 Medford Arts In Bloom - March 26 to April 17, 2021 Arts Center East Black History Month Exhibit - January 30 to February 28, 2021 Medford Arts

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Growing Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:36 H:24 in 2019 Franklin Pereira da Silva

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Individualism Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:20 H:20 in 2020 Franklin Pereira da Silva

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T.C. English-DuMont Painting

T.C. English-DuMont is an artist creating figurative art with surrealistic themes. There is a focus on universal human experiences such as fears and hopes that transcend normal reality. English-DuMont’s work has been shown in wonderful spaces such as The Bridgeport Art Center and The Old Court House in Woodstock. T.C. has won several show awards including The Alice and Arthur Baer Award and The Southshore Arts Salon Show Award in 2020.

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10:10...Subjugation to Time Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:40 H:30 in 2021 T.C. English-DuMont

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Mike Mcgoff Painting

I was born in Scranton Pa. In 1957, the first of nine children.

From an early age I was attracted to drawing and painting. Some of my earliest memories were of finger painting and wanting to help paint when my uncle and his cousin were painting our house. I was four. Finally, someone let me try painting a small area of the back porch floor. As I remember it didn’t go to well. But, over the years things improved.

In middle school I was always drawing. I started copying simple cartoons and eventually progressed to more complex ones. As time went on, I drew whatever I found interesting. As I progressed my folks encouraged me with private lessons, and as a teen they let me paint my bedroom with murals.

I eventually found my way to college after a tour in the US Coast Guard. I attended Marywood University. I started in Art Education and discovered ceramics as part of the curriculum. What a discovery. I was hooked.

Eventually, I changed my major to ceramics and sculpture, receiving a BFA in 86 and an MFA in 89. During these years I also continued to draw and paint under some outstanding professors.

As life progressed after college, I kept up the practice and study of the clay arts. For a short time, I had a studio and gallery which didn’t do well. I eventually lost them. Now without a place to create ceramic sculpture I went back to drawing and painting.

I had tried a couple of drawings with colored pencils during the clay times. The technique seemed to developed rather easily. This media and I meshed perfectly. For years I had been taking photos of things I thought I would make into art at some time. This is where much of the subject matter for my work comes from.

So, this is where I am now, drawing and painting.

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Opposing Forces Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:48 H:48 in 2020 An abstraction of clashing forces.

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David Granger Photography

David Granger is a photographer specializing in Landscape & Nature PhotoArt. I spent many years before my introduction and exploration into Photography with writing. I went to UCLA to get my MFA in Screenwriting but once I earned acceptance into the WGA I found myself mostly unfulfilled and uninspired by the business and shifting interests led me to this!

Once COVID arrived I decided to invest my full-time and efforts into Photography. It's been a short ride but one that continues to challenge and inspire.

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Joshua Tree Photography W:24 H:16 in 2020 David Granger

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Marie Krajan Painting

I spent my formative years in former Czechoslovakia. I studied painting at the School of Art and Design in Uherske Hradiste, Czechoslovakia. After graduating I continued my studies at the University of F. Palacky in Olomouc, where I majored in Art and Czech literature. In 1972 I emigrated to USA. I spent my professional life as an art director at various well known New York City ad agencies, both consumer and pharmaceutical. A few years ago I returned to painting. I found my new home in California. Inspired by Californian sun and lively art culture, I am following a new path to more creative freedom of abstract expression. I participated in numerous exhibitions in New York and San Francisco area.

I subscribe to Henri Matisse’s belief that art should be like an easy chair–feast for the eyes and rest for the soul.

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Dreams 2 Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:28 H:22 in 2020 Marie Krajan

Second in a series. Homage to art movement of the late 1960s counterculture art, featuring abstract, free flowing shapes, full spectrum of bright colors and lots of fun creating these paintings.

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Joel Keener Drawing, Painting, Graphics, Photography, Sculpture

Joel T. Keener considers himself to be an abstract realist having worked in a variety of mediums from pencil to bronze sculpture. his passion for art took off in high school and, after 57 years, his passion is still as vibrant as it was then. His adventures and philosophy in life are reflected in his work from the first hesitant marks that won an award for his watercolor and ink Tree Study, the energetic scribblings that transformed his vision in the 80's to the ongoing pursuit of pushing the limits of drawing ethereal landscapes and expressive portraits.

After serving in Viet Nam Joel was accepted to college and further graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts. He has exhibited locally and internationally, and his work adorns numerous private collections. He enjoys teaching and celebrates his 20th year in higher education. Joel is currently hoping to publish a book presenting his art and unusual technique.

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Heartbeat Drawing, Pencil Drawing on Paper W:24 H:18 in 2018 Joel Keener

This drawing began as a scribble and quickly developed into a fantasy scene of a lush forest deep in some tropical setting and complete with ancient temple ruins. The lone figure adds a presence to the scene.

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Anika Savage Painting

Fine art is Anika’s passion, though not her first career.

Anika holds degrees in architecture from Pratt Institute and UC Berkeley. Among other building types, she designed wineries in the California and served as a corporate architect for a fast growing, technology company.

Upon earning an MBA, Anika consulted in organizational strategy to corporations, healthcare institutions and universities. She led clients in developing future strategies for their organizations. Her work has been published in professional journals and she is the co-author of Life-sustaining Organizations: a Design Guide.

Anika then turned her attention full time to her first love — fine art. She focuses on acrylic painting and porcelain ceramics. Combining abstraction and realism, her work is inspired by nature and design, giving visual expression to a full range of experience — tranquility, strength, peace, power, softness and solidity. The elements of air, fire and water are present throughout.

Anika is an inducted member of the National Association of Women Artists based in New York City. She is an active member of Naples Art and the Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida as well as the Newburyport Art Association and the Experimental Group of the Rockport Art Association & Museum in Massachusetts.

Anika’s work is exhibited widely.

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Rejoice Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:62 H:57 in 2020 Anika Savage

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Kumari Girl Painting, Mixed Media on Canvas W:10 H:10 in 2015 Leonardo Montoya

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Leonardo Montoya Photography, Mixed Media, Painting

Leonardo Montoya was born in Medellin Colombia in 1972. Since his childhood, he expressed a deep interest in art and the human figure. At the age of 11, he began his formal studies of drawing and painting. He entered the Eladio Vélez School of Fine Art in 1985, learning different art techniques.

He returned to Eladio Velez School of Fine Arts in 1994 to study advertising and photography for four years.

From 1995 to 1996 he taught art at the National Academy of Arts in Medellin and worked as an illustrator of medical books for the University of Antioquia.

He immigrated to the United States in 1998, chasing the American dream. Despite the economic hardship and instability, he never lost his interest in art. He worked with interior designers and participated in numerous art exhibits.

Since 2015 he began a series of exhibitions with his Diva collection, a work that highlights the character of the female figure, full of vibrant colors and three-dimensional effects. Based on experimental and mix-media art.

2018 was a great year for his career, he had the opportunity to be part of an international exhibition in the United Arab Emirates at the Ras Al Khaimah fine arts festival where he was awarded the title of Artist of the Year.

His relationship with the Al Qasimini Foundation in the UAE continues to grow and back in 2019 awarded him the First Artist in Residency in the Emirates.

After the challenges of the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic, the Residence period took part on Feb.-Apr. 2021.

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La Paisa Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:18 H:24 in 2019 Leonardo Montoya

Oswaldo Gomez,has died at the age of 64 in 2018. She moved to New York from Medellín in the 1970s after spending years working as a lawyer in the City of Eternal Spring.I wanted to make a tribute to a character who was larger than life. RIP " Miss Colombia"

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Iris Teal Painting, Mixed Media on Canvas W:48 H:60 in 2019 Leonardo Montoya

"Iris Apfel is famous for her eclectic style. She pairs layers of bright colors and oversized glasses and jewelry together with such flair that she was the subject of an exhibit at The Costume Institute in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. An American original in the truest sense."

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Court Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:18 H:20 in 2014 Nicole Jeffords

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Nicole Jeffords Painting

Nicole Jeffords has had two careers, one as a portrait painter, and one as a fiction writer. In college she studied comparative literature but simultaneously managed to rack up hours in life drawing classes and studio art.

In 2006, after years of renting space, Nicole built a studio behind her house in Northwest Austin and has spent most of the time since then focusing on commissions and portraits of people whose faces interest her. She is best known for political portraiture, and for ArtProfiler, an online cultural magazine which she helped found in 2014, acclaimed for its whacky videos, political reporting, art reviews, memes and serialized fiction.

After Trump’s election in 2016, she began — out of horror and rage — a series of paintings of Trump and his administration. The portraits were used as the basis for provocative memes, many of which went viral on social media, earning the ArtProfiler editorial staff furious commentary from right wing observers. In 2020, just as Covid was beginning to hit, Nicole was asked to do a portrait of Lilly Ledbetter for a Time Magazine cover. In the months since Covid struck, she decided it was time to leave ArtProfiler and start her own website, NicoleJeffords.com, dedicated to serialized fiction, portraiture and editorial drawings.

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Texas Mona Lisa Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:18 H:20 in 2014 Nicole Jeffords

This portrait of my daughter Gabriella was painted in a smoother and more polished style than is usually my practice. When it was completed, I found that her natural beauty was easily apparent on the canvas and that she reminded me of the Mona Lisa.

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The Notorious RBG Painting, Oil Color on Canvas W:18 H:24 in 2019 Nicole Jeffords

Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the fiery champion and defender of women’s rights and gender equality, has long been a woman I admire. Her keen sense of fairness and drive to challenge all types of discrimination have paved the way for an entirely new generation of female warriors.

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Minako Yamano Painting

Minako Yamano is a Japanese traditional painting artist known as “Nihonga”.

Education BA, Japanese Traditional Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo MFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, New York Japanese Cultural Ministry three year scholarship for art study abroad Exhibitions and Awards Liquitex Biennale, New Artist Award Thesis Excellence Award, Musashino Art University, Tokyo Soho Biennale, New York "Grain of Rice (Un Seul Grain de Riz)" show at the Galerie Métanoïa, Paris. Awarded Monte dei Fiori award

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LIFE XXXIX (39) - Sea Clock Painting, Mixed Media on Paper - Rice W:70 H:70 D:2 cm 2020 - 2021 Minako Yamano

When I was a child, I saw an image of undersea volcanic activity on TV. I was amazed by the coexistence of fire and water. Boiling water shot from the sea bed every several minutes with clockwork precision. From a billion years ago, the ocean has been breathing, and continues to breathe even right now.

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Redford Cruz Painting

Always enjoyed doodling and drawing Learned to paint from the late Legend Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting" tv show.

Live art in Huntington Beach, CA artwalk, solo exhibit Claremont, CA & Loma Linda University school of nursing has 3 canvases on campus.

Art therapy - painting with a purpose, for fun and to relax.

Oil & Aerosol spray painted sceneries on canvas, long oars, skateboards, walls and body painting.

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Wonderfalls Painting, Oil Color, Spray Paint W:24 H:18 in 2021 Redford Cruz

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Freya Gervasi Sculpture

Freya Gervasi is a stone sculptor who carves alabaster and limestone into abstract pieces that merge her personal style and artistic concepts with natural, organic shapes generating warmth and energy in an otherwise cold medium. Using power tools, compressors and saws, as well as the traditional hammer and chisel, Freya cuts sharp, deep lines to create shapes and spaces that eliminate whatever matter interferes with the unique visual movement that she tries to pull out of every stone.

A Denville, New Jersey resident, Freya received a Bachelor of Arts from Glassboro State College (Rowan University) and a Master of Arts in Printmaking from Montclair State University where she studied under Ralph Vernacchia and Lida Hilton. Her etchings have been exhibited in many venues including the Nabisco Gallery, The Leonardo da Vinci Society, The Printmaking Workshop (Fair Lawn and Fort Lee) and The West Essex Art Association, where they won several awards and prizes.

In 1982 Freya began stone sculpting and during the past 30 years has studied with Leonard Agronsky at the Sculptors Association of New Jersey, Leo Schulemowitz at JCC Metrowest and Larry Umbreit and Ivan Bratko at Riker Hill Art Park in Livingston, New Jersey. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Riker Hill since 2005 and has been elected a full Member of both the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and Allied Artists of America in New York City. Freya’s sculptures have been exhibited and won awards at many juried and non-juried shows and exhibitions in New York, New Jersey and New England.

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Lily Sculpture on Stone W:11 H:37 D:7 in 2017 Stone, Limestone Freya Gervasi

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Flowering of Golden Symmetry Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:24 H:24 in 2020 Kong Ho

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Kong Ho Digital Arts, Painting, Photography

Kong Ho utilizes his bicultural background as a teaching artist and muralist professionally trained in both Chinese and Western visual art to teach and practice art. Currently, Ho is a full-time artist and muralist based in Pennsylvania. He earned a M.F.A. in painting and drawing at Texas Tech University in 1994. Since then, he taught as art professor and practicing artist at several universities. Furthermore, Ho has participated in several residency programs, including Bethany Arts Community in New York, I-Park in Connecticut, and Kingsbrae Art Center International Residence in Canada. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 115 international and national exhibitions including United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Hong Kong. His artworks have been exhibited in venues such as the United Nations Headquarters and Chelsea Art Museum in New York City; World Bank Art Gallery and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC; the US Ambassadors' Residences in Macedonia; Clymer Museum and Gallery in Washington; Amarillo Museum of Art and Brownsville Museum of Fine Art in Texas; Fine Arts Museums in New Mexico; San Diego Museum of Art and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in California, Sunny Art Center in London; Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery in Canada; Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin; Atelier Montez in Rome; National Academy of Art and New Bulgarian University in Bulgaria; Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and Hong Kong Museum of Art in China.

Moreover, his work has been reviewed in APERO, 2020 and 2018; Average Art 15, 2017; Studio Visit, 2012; Direct Art, 2011; New Art International, 2010; Asian Art News, 2004 and The New Art Examiner, 1994 and Art in America, 1994.

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Temporal Botanical Continuance Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:24 H:24 in 2020 Kong Ho

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Dilatation of Botanical Color Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:24 H:24 in 2021 Kong Ho

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Waterlily with Zen Purity Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:24 H:24 in 2021 Kong Ho

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Sun-Scripted Oscillations Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:24 H:24 cm 2021 Kong Ho

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Sheryl Wilson Sculpture

Hello my name is Sheryl Wilson and I was born in Chula Vista California.

As I thought about my art journey, and why I became an artist, it is about so many wonderful and challenging roads that got me to here. As a child I struggled with stress and anxiety and often froze in place unable to move like I was stone, with beautiful buckets of spinning color in my mind, I believe to this day it was God’s way of telling me to become an artist. I am thankful to a Loving God that provided me a new strength as a child to make my way through hardship. I often drew and sang as a child as a way to find peace.

As I got older I often would doodle, but nothing major as far as art, and then I was blessed to marry my wonderful husband of 35 years. And then our amazing artistic son came along 6 years later.

I spent many years being a mother trying to show our son he was more than his condition, that he is a miracle.

Now that he is an adult I have put a great deal of myself, over the last 11 years , into showing the world that art is another way to speak and share through color and movement in a way that I hope changes your day for just a moment. It’s never too late to start a new chapter in your life and find the magic.

Often people get stuck and need a new way to hear your story and find their own magic. Mine is of love, faith and family.

My Dearest husband often expressed he got lost in my art travels, he wondered if I was going to ever land on one art form. I was doing so many different forms of art, from hand painted jeans and acrylic paintings to hand painted wine glasses, and even a children’s story about forgiveness.

And then in 2019 a friend was trying to figure out what to get me for my birthday, she told me the best gift was an art class that I got to choose, I chose hand built clay and found my art love and the most exciting way’s to merge paint and resin and speak in color and movement. My husband was so excited at what he saw he got me a class for Christmas. My husband was excited to see this part of me, because he knew I had not gotten to attend school for long as a child. And then I leapt into a college art class and found excitement in the unknown joy of what others often take for granted. I have learned to take nothing for granted, but be thankful for everything, even a dream, because most of my art comes from a dream.

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Beta Me Blue Sculpture, Paper Mache W:17 H:16 D:13 in 2020 Styrofoam, Paper-mache Airbrushed Sheryl Wilson

Enlarged Beta Fish mad from styrofoam and Paper-mache airbrushed and cover with resin.

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Fall on Your Knees!

Painting, Acrylic W:36 H:24 in 2016 Marcia Pyner

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Marcia Pyner Painting

Marcia Pyner is an American Illustrator and Fine Artist who loves to showcase the incredible beauty that can be found in the natural world. She sees the Divine in every detail and says that we must stop to look and even to listen. Professionally trained, Marcia has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from East Carolina University and a Master of Fine arts in Communications Design from the University of Illinois in Chicago, where she was inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. While living in Berlin, Germany she was President of The American Art Guild. As an illustrator, her clients have included Ballantine, Dell, Zebra, and Barbour Books; The Washington Post, The Williamsburg Foundation, Potpourri Designs, and Guideposts Magazine. Marcia has taught art at every level and was selected for inclusion in Who's Who among American Teachers.

She has been juried into several online and on site galleries over the years and is a Signature Member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters.

Recent recognition includes First Place in The South Carolina Watermedia Society's Spring Digital Show, Second Place in the 2020 International Leaves and Petals Exhibition for Fusion Art Online Gallery, and a Silver Award in the 2021 Flower Power Group Award Exhibition.

Although Marcia enjoys using pastels and colored pencils, her favorite medium is acrylic paint on canvas or watercolor paper. She works in a realistic yet illustrative style and never tires of portraying detail. To make art has been a privilege and joy all of Marcia's life ; and, she looks forward to the next painting as it reveals itself.

She takes each creative step at a time with a paint brush in hand and a prayer on her lips.

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I Lift my Hands to Heaven Painting, Acrylic W:16 H:20 in 2020 Someone reaching up for help and healing. The light shines in the darkness.

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Precious in His Sight Painting, Acrylic W:11 H:13 in 2021 Marcia Pyner

A portrait of my friend who feeds over thirty cats. Every single creature is precious in God's sight, and so is she!

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Veronique Toinon Painting

Veronique Toinon is an artist-painter, born and raised in France.

She is based in New York. Her large- scale paintings, some measure ten by fifteen feet across are abstract compositions.

She likes to explore the metaphysical connections between emotions and a particular moment in time where feelings and space are remembered and distilled into an abstract language of colors, shapes, energy, rhythm and mood. She says, I work until the right moment is released and I have achieved the desired effect, sometimes in quick strokes and at other times adding paint and wiping it off, pushing and pulling my materials. These processes evolve, as the poetry of rhythm and forms unfolds, moving across the canvas in the same way music improvised by a jazz musician progresses. She composes spontaneously, capturing the emotions with her color choices and amplifying movement and energy with aggressive mark making.

Immediacy of the paint drives her expression and captures the essential. Emotion is clearly the driving force in her Art. It must acknowledge a common ground with a sense of belonging.

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Burnt Earth Painting, Acrylic W:91 H:59 in 2017 Terre Brûlée - Canvas unstretched Veronique Toinon

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Life In Swirl Painting, Watercolor on Paper W:35 H:43 in 2021 Yan Zhang

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Yan Zhang Painting

Yan Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Windsor and Detroit area. She has been honing her Chinese painting skill in a contemporary context for the past several years. Originally majoring in Chinese traditional figure painting, she blends watercolor, digital art, and surrealism with her twenty years of Chinese painting experience and creates her meticulous yet imaginative imagery. She has been tempted to push the traditional Chinese painting boundary. Her work aims to explore "the anxiety and struggle" to understand our complex emotions as well as the world around us.

She has already been included in various important exhibitions and received several awards. One of her paintings, Ups and Downs, is part of permanent collections of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto.

Her artwork, Life in Swirl, was selected to display at the Senate Binsfeld Office Building in Michigan from October 2021 through September 2022. Yan earned her BFA and MA in Chinese Painting from Hubei Institute of Fine Art. Now she is an MFA candidate at Wayne State University, USA.

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Crazy Mask series 2 Painting, Watercolor on Paper W:20 H:26 in 2020 Chinese Watercolor on Xuan Paper Yan Zhang

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Floating Digital Arts 2021 Digital work by Maya and Zbrush Yan Zhang

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Rustam Tahir Photography

My photography career began in 1970 when I borrowed a camera to take with me to a job at a salmon cannery in Egekik, Alaska. Encouraged by my results I took a photography course from UC extension where I learned the basics of exposure and darkroom development. My first show (Split Images) was at the UC extension art gallery and was inspired by a suggestion from the instructor to explore the creation of images that arose from overlapping exposures, hence the name split images.

My 2nd show was portrait themed and grew out of my association with a number of photographers who worked out of the UC Berkeley darkrooms and its small exhibition space. My third show was also a group exhibition in Berkeley: “River Nudes”. In 1976 I presented at a group show: “New and Different: Young Photographers Making Their Mark” at The Photographers Place in Los Angeles. In 1979 I had my first solo exhibition: “Near and Far” at Cafe Roma in Berkeley.

My photographic career took a turn when I lived in Chicago from 1984 to 1989. Instead of being a hobby and focusing on Art, I started taking jobs as a commercial photographer. I shot fashion, event, travel, journalism, portrait, advertising brochures, mailers, etc. etc.

In 1993 after moving to Rochester and taking an advanced darkroom workshop led by John Sexton, I presented “Watersong” at the Oxford Gallery, a series of images taken in the gorges of the Finger Lakes.

In 2016 I exhibited my work at the exhibition space of the Canandaigua National Bank. “Lost in Landscape” featured work from the Finger Lakes, California (seascapes) and recent work from southern Utah (Valley of the Gods).

I would say my major influences are Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and way too many painters from Bierstadt to Turner to Monet to Hiroshige to abstract artists such as Pollock and Rothko. I am like a sponge trying to absorb everything that I like.

Currently my work is showing at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Vestige Gallery in Pittsburgh, fotofoto gallery in Huntington, NY, and selected work from “Lost in the Woods” at the Canandaigua Bank Gallery in Rochester, NY.

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Monument Valley 2121 Photography W:42 H:20 in 2018 Digital image on fine art baryta paper.

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Down into the Woods Photography W:40 H:30 in 2018 Digital image on fine art baryta paper.

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Gehry 5344 Photography W:24 H:24 in 2019 Digital image on fine art baryta paper.

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Connie Murray Painting

I was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA in 1949. I studied art at Colorado State University. I have shown work in juried exhibitions, invitational exhibitions, and one woman shows and group shows. I currently reside in Missoula, Montana having moved there in 2013.

Recent Exhibitions Missoula Art Museum, Benefit Auction, Missoula, MT, Juried - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 No Place Like Home - The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO - Juror: Cecily Cullen, Creative Director at the Center for Visual Art, Metro State University of Denver - 2013 Notable past Exhibitions Corporate Woods Art in the Woods Overland Park, Kansas Juror Phillip Pearlstein Western Colorado Center for the Arts Art USA Grand Junction, Colorado Juror Richard Stuart Tietz Selected Invitational Exhibitions Republic Plaza - Denver, Colorado - 1996 West Nebraska Arts Center Imagists Group Show Scottsbluff, Nebraska Danny Fiegenschuh, Director 1991 YWCA Gallery Watercolor Revisited: Unusual Approaches to a Traditional Medium Denver, Colorado Lynn Brown, Director 1987

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Barriers Drawing, Pen-Ink Drawing W:16 H:10 in 2021 Pen and Ink and Dry Brush Ink Connie Murray

Pen and ink and dry brush ink drawing of four pears entwined in barbed wire

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Tami Showers Painting

I am a work in progress. I have a degree in graphic design and I have sold advertising for most of my career. I recently moved from CO to SD and opened a small RV Park with my husband. We wanted to get out of the ‘rat race’ and embrace living in a small town. Currently, I’m selling radio ads, scheduling paint parties, and taking reservations for RV sites when I’m not otherwise busy helping keep our property guest ready. I designed and painted our company logo for use on signage and swag. I’ve sold a few paintings through Cafe and continue to keep my eye peeled for new opportunities. Publishing and beautiful magazines have always attracted me. I subscribe to a new, well designed publication, Girl Camper Magazine that interests me. I have also collected and cherished many years of O Magazine over the years. One day I will reread them ALL cover to cover! The content is so valuable and the design keeps me coming back. Those magazines are a prized possession of mine. I often cut art and/or words out of publications I collect for prospecting purposes and keep them in an ‘idea sketchbook’. I just completed my 3rd class in stained glass - love that form of art!! And I am currently a board member with the Custer Area Arts Council. I was previously involved with the Arts Commission in the Town of Frederick as well. I painted a utility box that still lives on Colorado Blvd and Highway 52 in Frederick, CO. Art in public places is another passion of mine. I am interested in working with wood, metals, glass and fibers... doing some sculpture, welding and 3-dimensional work. Thankfully, my creativity journey continues... opportunity awaits. I am grateful for my faith and my health and every single day that I have been given to think about, explore, find, make and share art. I believe such gifts only become available through practicing patience, kindness, and flexibility. Also, having an open mind, an attitude of joy and a fresh perspective. I’ve certainly been stretched and ultimately blessed with those!

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For the Love of Green Painting, Acrylic on Canvas W:10 H:20 in 2019 Tami Showers

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Valerie Jargon Painting

Valerie Jargon is a Korean American abstract acrylic pour artist from Denver, Colorado. She was previously an online and in-person personal trainer after graduating from Colorado State University Fort Collins with a B.S. in Health and Exercise Science with a concentration in Health Promotion in 2019. Valerie was born in 1997 and started exploring the world of art at age 7, taking many different routes of expression throughout the years.

Prior to expressing art through acrylic painting, Valerie conveyed art through music, mostly through classical piano and within percussion ensembles. Her new-found interest in painting stemmed from wanting to try new things and learn new ways to manifest emotion through art.

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Liquid Atmosphere Painting, Acrylic Pouring W:12 H:16 in 2021 Abstract art piece created with high-quality acrylic paints on stretched canvas.

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