Metra Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, drawings, and printmaking explore identity, transformation, and the complexities of personal history. Drawing from her multicultural background, Mitchell creates theatrical worlds filled with symbolic characters, emotional narratives, and magical environments that reflect strength, vulnerability, and resilience.

Sarah Detweiler is an American visual artist whose figurative and narrative mixed media paintings explore themes of unmasking, authenticity, motherhood, and the collective unconscious. Through painting, embroidery, and fiber techniques, she transforms personal experiences and transitions into deeply layered works that reflect evolution, connection, and emotional storytelling.

Justin Richel’s sculptural paintings challenge traditional ideas of the painted surface by combining illusion, materiality, and three-dimensional form. Through his unique process of building objects from wood, canvas, and paint, Richel explores perception, trickster mythologies, and the relationship between artifice and reality.

Lyz Wendland is a visual artist based in the Twin Cities whose mixed-media paintings and paper installations explore fragmentation, healing, and transformation. Through her practice, Wendland reshapes lived experiences of trauma into a visual language that reflects resilience, strength, and the possibility of beauty emerging from what was once broken.

Alyson Khan is a painter whose geometric abstractions explore transformation, perception, and symbolic space through the quiet narrative of the psyche. Drawing from ritual practice, architecture, design, and esoteric symbolism, Khan creates layered compositions that examine protection, transcendence, and the relationship between inner and outer worlds.

Laurén Gerig is a visual artist based in Lansing, Michigan, whose abstract paintings translate moments of observation, memory, and stillness into intimate visual records. Through layered abstraction and calligraphic mark-making, Gerig explores the emotional relationships formed through daily encounters with the landscape.

Rachel Le Roux is a British Filipina artist and interior architect based in Manila whose paintings explore the female form, movement, memory, and transformation. Blending her architectural background with a sensitivity to space, texture, and atmosphere, Le Roux creates figurative and abstract works that examine renewal, concealment, and the emotional spaces between what is seen and unseen.

Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill creates highly detailed acrylic paintings that explore the intersection of representation and fabrication. Drawing inspiration from 18th-century naturalist art and the landscapes of Northern Ontario, her work reflects on ecological relationships, storytelling, and our connection with the natural world.

Pittsburgh-based artist Jake McCauley creates paintings rooted in mundane realism, exploring themes of observation, memory, place, and perception. Through cinematic compositions and recurring imagery of windows, his work examines how we experience the spaces between ourselves and the world around us.

German conceptual artist VON ALLIN transforms complex emotions into striking minimalist works that invite viewers to reflect on grief, love, identity, and the universal experiences that connect us. Through projects such as The Tears Project, her art becomes a catalyst for conversation and empathy.

Brooklyn-based artist Chris Weller creates striking hyperrealistic charcoal drawings that capture New York City's iconic architecture while exploring themes of climate change, belonging, and the delicate balance between nature and urban life.

Portuguese painter Filipe Assuncao creates expressive figurative paintings that transform people, emotions, and imagined creatures into richly colored visual narratives. Through a balance of careful planning and spontaneous gesture, each work becomes its own immersive universe.

Anthony Vega creates layered contemporary paintings that investigate language, culture, and perception. Rooted in philosophy and personal history, his work invites viewers to slow down, question familiar narratives, and consider how meaning is formed through images and shared experience.

Katty Huertas creates richly detailed figurative paintings that merge magical realism with folklore, mythology, and personal history. Drawing from her Colombian heritage and immigration journey, her imaginative worlds invite viewers to experience stories where identity, memory, and landscape intertwine.

Zienna Brunsted Stewart creates expressive oil paintings that move between highly rendered realism and playful abstraction. Inspired by the figure, photography, and art history, her work explores intuition, experimentation, and the possibilities of a more spontaneous creative process.

Sarah Creasman Barnett creates bold, saturated figurative paintings that explore beauty as agency, visibility, and the relationship between appearance and narrative. Based in Dallas, her acrylic and mixed media works combine personal storytelling with layered marks and unexpected moments of collaboration.

Young Shin is a collage artist whose paper-based works examine the delicate balance between control and release. Drawing from her background in fashion and postwar abstraction, Shin transforms paper through folding, tearing, layering, and compression to create immersive compositions that explore structure, tension, and the unexpected possibilities of material.

Michela Sorrentino’s multidisciplinary practice blends painting, printmaking, collage, and drawing to explore the relationship between materials, mark-making, and personal experience. From her farm studio on the west coast of Canada, she creates intuitive abstract works shaped by nature, curiosity, and a lifelong connection to creativity.

Portuguese multidisciplinary artist Nuno Serrão creates work that exists between poetic narrative and raw minimalism. Through cinematic compositions and an unconventional approach to portraiture, he explores ambiguity, human experience, and the quiet beauty found at the intersection of nature and humanity.

Collage artist and writer Andrea Lewicki shares how cutting, rearranging, and embracing the unexpected has shaped both her artistic practice and her global creative community. In this interview, she reflects on finding belonging through art, the growth of the Special Agent Collage Collective, and the joy of making space for the wonderfully off-kilter.