Segun Caezar celebrates the richness and diversity of Black identity through realistic portraits that capture the unique stories, beauty, strength, and resilience of the Black community. Drawing inspiration from the De Stijl movement, he uses simple shapes and vibrant colors in the backgrounds of his portraits to evoke emotions and highlight the essence of his subjects. This interplay of geometric forms and primary hues serves as a visual language, amplifying the narratives of the individuals portrayed. Through a harmonious blend of realism and abstraction, Caezar’s work honors and elevates Black voices, inviting viewers to engage deeply with the multifaceted experiences of Black life.

Schmidt Patrick's work engages with abstract shapes and forms to confront the complexities of today's hard-edged, overtly political environment. As a natural colorist, he uses color to express both internal dialogue and outward observation, employing a network of color schemes to suggest the convergence of disparity. Transparent geometric shapes within his work hint at a false sense of control or perception, reflecting his interest in the concept of "and." His process involves generating new, hybrid images from fragments of older works, which he finds both comforting and challenging. Schmidt's work references modern predecessors such as Op-art, hard-edge abstraction, and the P&D Movement of the 1970s, while incorporating a contemporary twist through color theory, geometric abstraction, and digital manipulation. Balancing harmony and chaos, his art mirrors the complexities of our times, revealing a reflection of who we are.

Betti Brillembourg’s artistic work centers on the theme of repetitiveness and the way separate elements combine to form a cohesive whole. Through the accumulation of similar pieces, she creates visually harmonious and conceptually meaningful structures, where each element contributes to the unity and strength of the entire composition. Her art invites reflection on how individual simplicity, when combined, results in a complex and powerful entity. This exploration underscores the importance of interdependence, illustrating how our connections with others enrich and strengthen our collective experience.

Trace Chido's series, "The Striking Faces of Golf," features abstract illustrations inspired by the unique surfaces of vintage wooden golf clubs. Drawing from his golf experiences, Chido uses line, shape, and color to capture each club's distinct beauty. The illustrations are reduced to minimalistic forms, creating a geometric visual language that evokes nostalgia and sparks curiosity.

Trace Chido's series, "The Striking Faces of Golf," features abstract illustrations inspired by the unique surfaces of vintage wooden golf clubs. Drawing from his golf experiences, Chido uses line, shape, and color to capture each club's distinct beauty. The illustrations are reduced to minimalistic forms, creating a geometric visual language that evokes nostalgia and sparks curiosity.

Juliana Plexxo's art is a vivid exploration of life, death, and the cyclical nature of existence, deeply rooted in her early experiences growing up in a Colombian bullring. The bull, a symbol of strength, nobility, and sacrifice, serves as a central motif in her work, reflecting her personal connection to themes of violence and resilience. Using engraving on copper plates, Juliana ensures the uniqueness of each piece by destroying the plate after the process, emphasizing the fleeting nature of life. Her inspiration draws from diverse cultures, particularly the indigenous cultures of Latin America, where she developed a profound love for Mother Nature and the cycles of life. Her work honors the role of women in these cultures, blending mysticism, cultural heritage, and the natural world. As a female artist, Juliana is committed to breaking down barriers and empowering women in the art world, using her art as a platform to challenge stereotypes, promote respect for life, and advocate for a deeper connection with nature. Her work is a call to action, inviting viewers to engage with the deeper messages of empowerment, equality, and respect embedded within each piece.

Susan Detroy, an Oregon-based artist, is renowned for her inventive digital stories that blend multiple techniques and tools. Her art, known for its layering methods in both digital and analog formats, encompasses still and video formats, often using mobile technical tools alongside occasional hardcopy production. Detroy's major project, "Portrait of a Woman," integrates natural world elements with self-portraits, exploring themes of aging and self-perception over an eight-year period. Influenced by the natural world, political events, and her experiences as an aging disabled woman and lesbian, her work aims to reflect commonalities and promote self-reflection, caring, and peaceful action amidst global and personal strife.

Su Kaiden Cho, a Korean-American contemporary artist from Seoul, South Korea, explores his mixed cultural identity through a diverse artistic practice that includes painting, sculpture, and installation. Blending Eastern Asian and Western influences, Cho delves into phenomenology and the interplay between the visible and invisible, aiming to evoke feelings of absence and contemplation. While primarily a representational painter, he has recently focused on studying color values and texture, experimenting with monochrome and color-field compositions through post-minimal and conceptual approaches. His work often involves material studies in sculptural paintings, integrating philosophical hermeneutics to create cohesive, dimensional objects that extend beyond visual spectacle. Cho holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Bachelor of Visual Arts with a focus on installation art and sculpture from the University of Colorado. His award-winning work has been exhibited widely across Chicago, Denver, Boulder, and the Front Range in Colorado.

Polly Merredew is an abstract geometric artist known for creating vivid, kaleidoscopic paintings that delve into the visual impact and language of color. She views color as a multifaceted means of communication, capable of evoking emotion, joy, and a range of moods—from quiet and meditative to explosive and energetic. Her work employs bold, systematic hues to craft subtle nuances of movement and progression, resulting in visual effects that shimmer and shift in unexpected ways. Merredew's geometric order is intentionally disrupted with varying tones, tints, and shades to create both harmony and discord, reflecting her personal experiences and feelings. She uses clean, straight lines for seamless transitions between colors but leaves visible traces of the artist’s hand, such as pencil marks and imperfect lines, distinguishing her hand-painted work from machine-produced art. These marks become an integral part of her artistic signature, inviting viewers to engage with and treasure the human touch in her creations.

When Jordan Scott was young, his mother took him to a press proofing for a printed product advertisement. Looking into the glass loop, he was amazed to see that the seemingly solid colors were actually tiny individual dots. Sometime later, while visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, he encountered Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" and was introduced to the technique of pointillism. Often using or reusing materials outside their normal context that can be acquired in large quantities, Jordan finds freedom in not overthinking the materials or the process, engaging in one-at-a-time construction with great repetition. Currently, he uses canceled postage stamps as his primary medium, pondering their origins, who sent them, and the letters they carried. Each stamp represents an unknown story and the expanded web it was once connected to, touching on both the individual and the collective. His artwork reflects his fascination with the collective unconscious and the interconnectedness of the universe, drawing from various schools of Eastern thought and mysticism. The postage stamp pattern fields are his interpretation and reinvention of mandalas, or meditative microcosms. Using resin like liquid glass, he creates and holds together this interconnectedness of individual elements, heightening and clarifying their qualities. Like the ink dots he discovered under the loop or Seurat’s paint spots, the layered stamps create a blended whole, connecting hundreds or thousands of singular parts.

Doug Frohman is a visual and metaphysical artist working in Chicago and New York, known for his distinctive series that engage in a visual dialogue with each other and the viewer. Inspired by meditation and yoga psychology, Frohman's expansive imagination informs the themes and motifs of his work. He paints in oils using a cement trowel and often incorporates diverse elements like encaustic, sand, found objects, and x-ray film to energize his surfaces. His work charts a path through geometric abstraction, utilizing symbolic and narrative elements that explore themes both seen and unseen. Frohman's use of line, shape, and color creates illuminated atmospheres that invite viewers on an associative journey, connecting with the underlying relationships in nature and the wider world.

BOJITT's work is inspired by people and their stories, painting them large and bold in abstract shapes and bright colors. Using simple materials like acrylic and spray paint on canvas, BOJITT simplifies narratives, creating portraits that are not of specific individuals but of the time and space we create for deeper connections. The original installation at Château Orquevaux, featuring large paintings through windows, represents artists who bonded, laughed, cried, and inspired each other. These paintings symbolize looking into the world through our unique perspectives and stories. Each piece, named after real people like Nicola, Arina, Jason, Kevin, Phoebe, Zous, and Izzy, creates a safe space and inspires others to love more deeply and freely.

Francisco Marin, an architect and photographer, explores geometric forms through his work, capturing their natural essence in abstract photographs. He interprets these forms by observing geometric elements in his surroundings and finding unique perspectives that may not be immediately obvious to others. The resulting images are flexible and can be rotated or displayed in any orientation, allowing the audience to engage with them as they see fit. Francisco is committed to maintaining the integrity of his observations, avoiding excessive digital manipulation to ensure that his work remains true to the geometric elements he captures.

Asandra's paintings reflect a profound connection with the realm of Spirit. As a professional channel and author with a global clientele, this spiritual presence permeates her artwork. Drawing universal and archetypal inspiration from sacred cultures, her work evokes realities beyond the mundane world. Through the use of patterns, symbols, geometry, and vibrant colors, her paintings serve as meditative expressions of spiritual communication. Utilizing acrylic on wood panels, Asandra's paintings are bold and vibrant. She employs a unique method involving large-scale stamps impressed on the panel to suggest dimension and spatial configurations, blending traditional printmaking disciplines with painting techniques. Each painting can be appreciated for its surface beauty as well as its role as a meditation on higher worlds.

Judy Bales is a fiber artist, fashion artist, photographer, and public art installation designer. Bales creates art that is the improbable marriage of cold industrial materials and the sensuous qualities of nature. Utilizing industrial materials, many of which are found, recycled, or salvaged, the broad range of Bales’ work is unified by a sensibility that asserts the power of an artist to create beauty from anything. With combinations of fiber, metal, wood, wire, and plastic, she takes seemingly intractable disparities between the visual and the tactile, between the industrial and the aesthetic, and reconciles them in favor of beauty. Ananda Kesler is an abstract painter, photographer, and print-maker. Her paintings are abstracted dream-scapes. Working with acrylic paint, ink, and charcoal, her work references internal spaces and emotional states. In a world that demands our attention be placed on fast-paced external stimuli, the paintings inspire a slow, quiet introspection, and a re-connection with the rich tapestry of our inner worlds. Judy Bales and Ananda Kesler have been collaborating on art exhibitions and art projects together for almost a decade. They have exhibited their work together in various galleries and museums such as the Blanden Art Museum in Iowa, the Freeport Art Museum in Illinois, and the Monmouth Art Museum in New Jersey.

Judy Bales is a fiber artist, fashion artist, photographer, and public art installation designer. Bales creates art that is the improbable marriage of cold industrial materials and the sensuous qualities of nature. Utilizing industrial materials, many of which are found, recycled, or salvaged, the broad range of Bales’ work is unified by a sensibility that asserts the power of an artist to create beauty from anything. With combinations of fiber, metal, wood, wire, and plastic, she takes seemingly intractable disparities between the visual and the tactile, between the industrial and the aesthetic, and reconciles them in favor of beauty. Ananda Kesler is an abstract painter, photographer, and print-maker. Her paintings are abstracted dream-scapes. Working with acrylic paint, ink, and charcoal, her work references internal spaces and emotional states. In a world that demands our attention be placed on fast-paced external stimuli, the paintings inspire a slow, quiet introspection, and a re-connection with the rich tapestry of our inner worlds. Judy Bales and Ananda Kesler have been collaborating on art exhibitions and art projects together for almost a decade. They have exhibited their work together in various galleries and museums such as the Blanden Art Museum in Iowa, the Freeport Art Museum in Illinois, and the Monmouth Art Museum in New Jersey.

Lisa Kinzelberg's new series, "Cities of the World," features oil paintings depicting aerial views of cities across the globe. This series celebrates the diverse, powerful, and dynamic nature of the places we live, travel to, and love. While resembling maps, these paintings are creative interpretations of the energy, spirit, and soul of the cities, expressed through color, texture, movement, and style. The concept originated when her mentor remarked that her abstract paintings resembled city grids, inspiring her to apply her abstract technique to real maps. This transition marks a meaningful departure from her previous style, connecting her work with people through their identification with specific places around the world.

Lisa Kinzelberg's new series, "Cities of the World," features oil paintings depicting aerial views of cities across the globe. This series celebrates the diverse, powerful, and dynamic nature of the places we live, travel to, and love. While resembling maps, these paintings are creative interpretations of the energy, spirit, and soul of the cities, expressed through color, texture, movement, and style. The concept originated when her mentor remarked that her abstract paintings resembled city grids, inspiring her to apply her abstract technique to real maps. This transition marks a meaningful departure from her previous style, connecting her work with people through their identification with specific places around the world.

Delsy Rubio's monochromatic and minimalist geometric abstraction emphasizes volumes, reliefs, multi-level forms, and interrupted lines. Using circles as a base, her forms imaginatively complete themselves beyond the created space. Deeply inspired by nature's perfect geometry, Rubio employs diverse techniques and technologies, such as automotive acrylic paint for wood and pigmented aluminum through molecular transfer. Her dynamic installations are adaptable, fostering unique viewer interactions and creating intimate, reflective connections that enrich any exhibition space.

Delsy Rubio's monochromatic and minimalist geometric abstraction emphasizes volumes, reliefs, multi-level forms, and interrupted lines. Using circles as a base, her forms imaginatively complete themselves beyond the created space. Deeply inspired by nature's perfect geometry, Rubio employs diverse techniques and technologies, such as automotive acrylic paint for wood and pigmented aluminum through molecular transfer. Her dynamic installations are adaptable, fostering unique viewer interactions and creating intimate, reflective connections that enrich any exhibition space.

Delsy Rubio's monochromatic and minimalist geometric abstraction emphasizes volumes, reliefs, multi-level forms, and interrupted lines. Using circles as a base, her forms imaginatively complete themselves beyond the created space. Deeply inspired by nature's perfect geometry, Rubio employs diverse techniques and technologies, such as automotive acrylic paint for wood and pigmented aluminum through molecular transfer. Her dynamic installations are adaptable, fostering unique viewer interactions and creating intimate, reflective connections that enrich any exhibition space.

Marianela Perez's work explores emotions, changes, memory, ruptures, and the interpretation of her environment. She uses the fracture of form in space and color as expressive resources, evolving from gestural painting to digital work and integrating photography to capture everyday life and nature. Her process involves drawing, painting, photographing, and transforming elements to express her ideas, creating harmonious compositions with bold colors. Whether using collage, paper sculptures, digital media, or paintings, her work focuses on the fragmentation of space, shape, and color. Through her art, Marianela seeks to highlight emotions and moods, transforming her environment to recreate a vibrant, magical world.

The artistic discourse of Wuilfredo Soto rest in the concept of abstraction, expressed in works with movement and optical perceptions. To do this, it builds structures with geometric figures that through repetitions end in successive and perfectly balanced constructions.The system that Wuilfredo Soto generally uses is based on sequences and progressions developed on all four sides of the surface of space. So each form is closely linked to a whole and its relationships depend on a previously established system. These optical structures create a visual impact and establish a connection with the viewer.

LUMINOUS WHISPER captivates with its dynamic interplay of light and shadow, were a circular form and golden or silver hue transform surrounding colors to subtly reveal the growth and concealment of olive brunches. This piece embodies my deep fascination with movement and light, inviting viewers to explore the Earth‘s mesmerizing beauty and diversity of life.

LUMINOUS WHISPER captivates with its dynamic interplay of light and shadow, were a circular form and golden or silver hue transform surrounding colors to subtly reveal the growth and concealment of olive brunches. This piece embodies my deep fascination with movement and light, inviting viewers to explore the Earth‘s mesmerizing beauty and diversity of life.

Paula Valenzuela is an artist fascinated by the interplay between light and darkness within the human psyche. Her mixed media abstract paintings capture the emotional and spiritual resonance of this dynamic, exploring the space between reality and daydreaming where unconscious aspects surface. Confronting both light and shadow, Valenzuela delves into how experiences, memories, and emotions shape perceptions. Inspired by nature, particularly desert textures, skies, and ancient symbols, her process is archaeological. She applies layers of paint, collage, and mixed media, then excavates to reveal hidden histories and complex interplays of marks, textures, and shapes. Valenzuela's work seeks to uncover the hidden depths of our inner worlds, exploring the interweaving of our conscious and unconscious selves.

Paula Valenzuela is an artist fascinated by the interplay between light and darkness within the human psyche. Her mixed media abstract paintings capture the emotional and spiritual resonance of this dynamic, exploring the space between reality and daydreaming where unconscious aspects surface. Confronting both light and shadow, Valenzuela delves into how experiences, memories, and emotions shape perceptions. Inspired by nature, particularly desert textures, skies, and ancient symbols, her process is archaeological. She applies layers of paint, collage, and mixed media, then excavates to reveal hidden histories and complex interplays of marks, textures, and shapes. Valenzuela's work seeks to uncover the hidden depths of our inner worlds, exploring the interweaving of our conscious and unconscious selves.

Nerea Azanza describes her vision as "Art in Expansion," where each artwork begins with a small portrait that she transforms and expands in space using modules, resulting in larger-scale paintings. An abstract figurative mixed-media painter, she works on paper, wood, linen, and eco-friendly textiles. Her installations resemble puzzle pieces connected by organic, precise lines following an intuitive process. Azanza aims to challenge viewers' perceptions in the abstract field, akin to the effect hyperrealist painters have in the figurative realm, painting high-definition lines entirely freehand. Her art captures an innate rhythm where complexity is distilled into a dynamic flow, illustrating that despite disruptions and impermanence, the world remains resilient and interconnected. Influenced by Japanese aesthetics, nature, and the human condition, her visual language draws inspiration from Picasso's portraits, the vibrant colors of hard-edge painting, and the lines of Chillida, Zaha Hadid, Antoni Gaudi, and contemporary parametric design.

Nerea Azanza describes her vision as "Art in Expansion," where each artwork begins with a small portrait that she transforms and expands in space using modules, resulting in larger-scale paintings. An abstract figurative mixed-media painter, she works on paper, wood, linen, and eco-friendly textiles. Her installations resemble puzzle pieces connected by organic, precise lines following an intuitive process. Azanza aims to challenge viewers' perceptions in the abstract field, akin to the effect hyperrealist painters have in the figurative realm, painting high-definition lines entirely freehand. Her art captures an innate rhythm where complexity is distilled into a dynamic flow, illustrating that despite disruptions and impermanence, the world remains resilient and interconnected. Influenced by Japanese aesthetics, nature, and the human condition, her visual language draws inspiration from Picasso's portraits, the vibrant colors of hard-edge painting, and the lines of Chillida, Zaha Hadid, Antoni Gaudi, and contemporary parametric design.

Nerea Azanza describes her vision as "Art in Expansion," where each artwork begins with a small portrait that she transforms and expands in space using modules, resulting in larger-scale paintings. An abstract figurative mixed-media painter, she works on paper, wood, linen, and eco-friendly textiles. Her installations resemble puzzle pieces connected by organic, precise lines following an intuitive process. Azanza aims to challenge viewers' perceptions in the abstract field, akin to the effect hyperrealist painters have in the figurative realm, painting high-definition lines entirely freehand. Her art captures an innate rhythm where complexity is distilled into a dynamic flow, illustrating that despite disruptions and impermanence, the world remains resilient and interconnected. Influenced by Japanese aesthetics, nature, and the human condition, her visual language draws inspiration from Picasso's portraits, the vibrant colors of hard-edge painting, and the lines of Chillida, Zaha Hadid, Antoni Gaudi, and contemporary parametric design.

Deborah Pearlman creates abstract three-dimensional collages that delve into the human condition, capturing the shared experiences, emotions, and challenges that unite us all. Her work exists in a space between the real and the imagined, where logic bends, sending the message that life is not straightforward but a complex tapestry of compromise, questions, acceptance, mystery, and the unknown. Her art serves as visual metaphors for issues that impact her, from environmental concerns and global conflicts to the quest for inner peace. Through her work, Deborah invites viewers to explore these themes, fostering deeper connections, introspection, and a recognition of our shared experiences.

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja is a Southern California artist with a multidisciplinary approach, creating non-objective and figurative abstractions using acrylic, printmaking, digital collages, and other media on various substrates. Color plays a crucial role in her work, establishing an atmospheric feel through layers of warm and cool hues that shift with light and angles. Visual imagery of people, animals, and nature emerges through shadows, silhouettes, and intersecting lines. She infuses positive manifestation words and phrases into her blank substrates, encapsulating energy and intuitively building layers to balance the conscious and unconscious. Recurrent motifs of dots explore the connection between humanity in an abstract way. Her paintings evoke femininity, spirituality, and nature, reflecting the relationship between nature and humanity and influenced by her Yoruba culture.

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja is a Southern California artist with a multidisciplinary approach, creating non-objective and figurative abstractions using acrylic, printmaking, digital collages, and other media on various substrates. Color plays a crucial role in her work, establishing an atmospheric feel through layers of warm and cool hues that shift with light and angles. Visual imagery of people, animals, and nature emerges through shadows, silhouettes, and intersecting lines. She infuses positive manifestation words and phrases into her blank substrates, encapsulating energy and intuitively building layers to balance the conscious and unconscious. Recurrent motifs of dots explore the connection between humanity in an abstract way. Her paintings evoke femininity, spirituality, and nature, reflecting the relationship between nature and humanity and influenced by her Yoruba culture.

Betti Brillembourg’s artistic work centers on the theme of repetitiveness and the way separate elements combine to form a cohesive whole. Through the accumulation of similar pieces, she creates visually harmonious and conceptually meaningful structures, where each element contributes to the unity and strength of the entire composition. Her art invites reflection on how individual simplicity, when combined, results in a complex and powerful entity. This exploration underscores the importance of interdependence, illustrating how our connections with others enrich and strengthen our collective experience.

Lois Stone, a Chicago-based abstract painter and creative entrepreneur, has been self-taught and creating art for over thirty years in various mediums. Her work focuses on mark-making, color, shape, texture, and form, drawing inspiration from music, movement, human emotion, and nature. The contrast of thick and thin paint markings in her paintings represents life's changes. Stone is interested in the emotions and energy experienced by the audience while viewing her work, aiming to give visual expression to the inner consciousness of humanity.

Paulina M. Johnson is an artist whose work is rooted in a minimalist design aesthetic and a deep love for paper. Inspired by nature, she captures its complexity and beauty using simple elements like circles and lines. Johnson works exclusively with paper, a humble yet versatile medium that has historically documented and shared humanity's greatest ideas across science, art, culture, and personal narratives. She believes paper can be both the story and the storyteller in art. Driven by curiosity, she explores how paper strips adhered on edge interact with their environment, coming to life when pushed beyond the flat surface into the three-dimensional realm of light and shadow.

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Harry Matti Hukkinen's work reflects his physical and spiritual relationship with the world, challenging the socially engineered reality that often conflicts with his personal convictions. Through questioning beliefs and confronting societal issues, he aims to embrace holistic thinking, using art as a universal language to transcend cultural barriers and foster heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind communication. Freedom is essential to his creative process, and he believes meaningful artwork is crucial to developing healthy societies. Exhibiting his work alongside international artists has inspired him to view his art community globally, opening his eyes to new perspectives and ways of thinking.

Dina Toporska's artistic exploration seeks to encapsulate the essence of nature's marvels through three-dimensional geometric collages. Using natural objects like seashells and sea glass, she juxtaposes the organic against the man-made to narrate the story of our planet's delicate biodiversity. Her work emphasizes natural form, color, and texture, with each tiny seashell carefully positioned to celebrate its individuality while contributing to a cohesive whole. This dialogue between the resilient and the fragile mirrors the life within a coral reef, vibrant in life and pallid in death. By integrating sea glass and found objects, Dina reflects on humanity's imprint on the natural world, with her series serving as a visual metaphor for the erosion of biodiversity. As a custodian of these natural artifacts, she ensures her practice is sustainable, harvesting only what the sea relinquishes, and through her art, she shares a profound connection to the earth and its rhythms. Dina's work is a testament to the fragile beauty that surrounds us and a plea for its preservation.

Lee Morrison's paintings pay homage to trees and nature, which continuously cradle and challenge us both individually and collectively. His work captures moments when perspectives collide and coalesce, reflecting the idea that we perceive the world through our own tinted glasses. The Fractal Forest Collection invites viewers to appreciate the beauty of nature and the diverse ways we perceive our world, uniting diverse viewpoints in a harmonious visual narrative.

Philip Noyed creates luminous art that explores light, color, and space in both two and three dimensions. His work stems from a profound appreciation of the psychological and physiological effects of color. Understanding that light and color frequencies can transform mood, energy, and physical health, Noyed focuses on creating immersive light and color experiences that transport viewers to new levels of engagement. His Geometric Mobiles, composed of multiple Geometric Illumination images, function like large-scale stained glass windows, illuminated by natural or spotlights, allowing color to pass through to viewers. These free-floating mobiles continually change, activating and transforming the 3-D space they occupy.

Andrew Ekins' paintings delve into a confection of degraded beauty that is enduring, imperfect, and time-worn. Works like "Skin Deep," "Gone Girl," and "Not I" begin with repurposed canvases made from pre-loved clothing or cushions, coated with impasto brushstrokes in corrupted fleshy colors. Themes of memory, loss, growth, and renewal are embedded within the tarnished, decorative motifs surfacing through an imperfect skin of paint. Ekins combines personal memories of loved ones, friends, or foes with self-reflective, non-representational likenesses, aiming to portray the lustre of human presence and trace elements of lost moments. His patterned paintings, formed over time, explore the relationship between the sublime and abject, embodying memory and sensual presence. These abstract portraits challenge social media's digital dominance of surface values and the contemporary culture of magazine-perfect features.

Cheryl Eggleston's work is characterized by angles, lines, repeating patterns, and circles for relief, reflecting her affinity for boundaries and structure. As an introvert, she finds solace in these elements, which provide comfort and familiarity amidst the chaos of the world. Her compositions are a means to work through her thoughts and ideas, inviting viewers to examine their own reflections. Some pieces offer a lighthearted, playful perspective on life from an introvert’s viewpoint. Eggleston begins by sketching patterns on paper, dividing space to focus her thoughts and allow ideas to emerge. These sketches are then transferred to canvas, where she paints with alkyd and acrylics. Her process involves finding balance and harmony through smooth color fields, edgy transitions, and the interplay of angles and lines, with circles offering a sense of relief.

Clifton G. Webb's art celebrates his African American heritage, aiming to inspire and break down negative stereotypes through his work. As an arts educator and professional fine artist, Webb creates positive images that serve as dialogue starters, incorporating symbols that encourage viewers to explore and appreciate his culture. He carefully considers how coloration, subject, and medium affect viewer responses, whether using colored pencil, bronze sculpture, or handmade paper bas-relief. Webb's goal is to create visually impactful art that compels viewers to stop, ponder, and integrate new insights, ultimately striving to make a difference in society.

Lisette Cedeño's ceramic art explores the connection between nature's botanical beauty and the human form, using clay to transform concepts into tangible expressions. She employs multiple hand-building techniques to capture nature’s textures and forms, creating functional art pieces. Her "Elegant Blooms" series delves into the geometric patterns of decorative motifs and simplified organic forms found in botanical structures, reflecting their delicate yet bold nature. These natural structures, depicted as both growing and decaying, embody the struggle to survive. The interplay of shapes and patterns in Cedeño's work creates vessels that harmonize form and function.

In "Chromatic Thesis," Maria Andreina Gonzalez Vivas arranges small, vividly colored elements within a confined space resembling a box, enclosed by a metallic grid. This setup allows her to experiment with color perception and interaction, creating saturated areas across various depth planes. The complexity of the experience is enhanced by the reflective effect of the metallic surfaces, the vibration introduced by the grid, and the luminous plays produced by the transparent acrylic boxes that house these structures.

Michele Renee Sherlock's work is characterized by unusual angles, contemplation, wonder, and diverse personal perspectives. Having traveled globally to view the most provocative paintings and architecture, she synthesizes the shapes, colors, and feelings from these experiences into her current collection of geometric paintings. In these works, she aims to create structure and order on the canvas, challenging the chaos of modern life and proposing that simplicity is still accessible, with each individual defining what simplicity means to them.

Drawing is at the core of my creative practice, allowing for an intimacy with the subject that photography cannot match. The poetic line—thick and thin, hesitant and confident, straight and wandering—continually draws me back to drawing. I use geometric symbols that hold philosophical meaning in Eastern traditions, exploring themes of contradiction, abstraction, and unity. Drawing on my cultural heritage of abstraction, calligraphy, and non-representational art, my work has been exhibited internationally. Recently, I received a medal for my work in the XII Florence Biennale exhibition in Italy, 2021.

With unparalleled mastery of foreground, size, and color supremacy, PICARDO's art transcends mere representation, offering a mesmerizing blend of abstraction and enigmatic expression. His long, oval-shaped faceless bodies evoke a profound sense of mystery, inviting viewers into a realm beyond our own. Through the captivating richness of his oil and acrylic mixtures, PICARDO skillfully unveils the intricate harmony of societal values, often in conflict yet beautifully intertwined. Each stroke of his brush reveals a world both familiar and ethereal, compelling audiences to explore the depths of his creations and the truths they unveil. Experience the captivating allure of PICARDO’s Afro-Caribbean art and immerse yourself in a journey of discovery and enlightenment.

Asandra's paintings reflect a profound connection with the realm of Spirit. As a professional channel and author with a global clientele, this spiritual presence permeates her artwork. Drawing universal and archetypal inspiration from sacred cultures, her work evokes realities beyond the mundane world. Through the use of patterns, symbols, geometry, and vibrant colors, her paintings serve as meditative expressions of spiritual communication. Utilizing acrylic on wood panels, Asandra's paintings are bold and vibrant. She employs a unique method involving large-scale stamps impressed on the panel to suggest dimension and spatial configurations, blending traditional printmaking disciplines with painting techniques. Each painting can be appreciated for its surface beauty as well as its role as a meditation on higher worlds.

Asandra's paintings reflect a profound connection with the realm of Spirit. As a professional channel and author with a global clientele, this spiritual presence permeates her artwork. Drawing universal and archetypal inspiration from sacred cultures, her work evokes realities beyond the mundane world. Through the use of patterns, symbols, geometry, and vibrant colors, her paintings serve as meditative expressions of spiritual communication. Utilizing acrylic on wood panels, Asandra's paintings are bold and vibrant. She employs a unique method involving large-scale stamps impressed on the panel to suggest dimension and spatial configurations, blending traditional printmaking disciplines with painting techniques. Each painting can be appreciated for its surface beauty as well as its role as a meditation on higher worlds.

Segun Caezar celebrates the richness and diversity of Black identity through his realistic portraits. Each face tells a unique story, reflecting the beauty, strength, and resilience of the Black community. Drawing inspiration from the De Stijl movement, the backgrounds of his portraits utilize simple shapes and vibrant colors to evoke a range of emotions and highlight the essence of his subjects. The interplay of geometric forms and primary hues serves as a visual language, amplifying the narrative of each individual portrayed. Caezar's work aims to honor and elevate Black voices, creating a harmonious blend of realism and abstraction that invites viewers to engage deeply with the profound and multifaceted experiences of Black life.