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Gemma Di Grazia

Gemma Di Grazia creates vibrant floral landscapes and food arrangements in oils and soft pastels, transforming carefully curated color palettes and layers of pigment into luminous, immersive works inspired by nature, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.

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Erin Middleton

Erin Middleton’s Chroma series began with shadows on a wall and evolved into an exploration of time, observation, color, and perception. Through photography and invented duotones, Middleton transforms fleeting geometries into vivid works that invite viewers to experience an image before naming it.

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Annie Straka

Cincinnati abstract painter Annie Straka explores the emotional and structural possibilities of color through layered, playful compositions. Drawing from her background in dance and an intuitive studio practice, her work brings together geometric and organic forms, unexpected color, and a sense of joyful embodiment.

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Melyssa Beshara

Cleveland ceramist Melyssa Beshara creates vibrant hand-built works using pigmented stoneware and the nerikomi process. Through cheerful colors, bold patterns, and unexpected forms, her ceramics explore the relationship between color, light, joy, and the experience of finding beauty during difficult times.

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Evi Antonio

Evi Antonio’s practice reveals the extraordinary within the overlooked. Combining her background in natural history illustration with digital painting and hand-finished techniques, she magnifies the intricate details of butterflies and other natural forms, inviting viewers to pause, look closely, and reconnect with the living world.

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Shari Ellen Schwartz

Shari Schwartz brings extraordinary precision to ordinary subjects, creating hyperrealistic pencil drawings that invite close observation. Working from photographs and preserving a flattened perspective, her practice focuses on precision, repetition, and refinement.

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Nikki Storer

South Shore Boston artist Nikki Storer creates paintings inspired by the ocean, coastal landscapes, and the gardens surrounding her home. Blending realism with abstract elements, expressive brushwork, layered color, texture, and 24K gold leaf capture the light, movement, beauty, and emotional connection found in the natural world.

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Jeanette Bayoumi

Jeanette Bayoumi explores identity, cultural memory, and self-discovery through vibrant paintings that blend realism with surreal elements. Working with bold, limited palettes, she uses color as a psychological environment to explore memory, perception, cultural identity, resilience, and transformation.

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Giulia Aim

Italian multimedia artist Giulia Aim explores perception, nature, and contemporary visual culture through painting and mixed media. Her Slices of Life - The Time of Nature series transforms fruits and vegetables through enlarged scale, vibrant colour, and meticulous observation, inviting viewers to rediscover the beauty and vitality of familiar forms.

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Alycia Earhart

Alycia Earhart is a colorist artist whose rhythmic mixed media works celebrate marks, strokes, colors, and texture. Combining wax crayons, markers, acrylic paint, and handmade paper, she creates spontaneous compositions rooted in intuition and emotion, exploring loneliness, nostalgia, motherhood, mindfulness, and joy.

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Pamela A Beck

Pamela Beck works at the intersection of photography, abstraction, and conceptual inquiry, transforming familiar imagery into immersive compositions through light, color, space, and experimentation. Her FLOWER POWER and LAYERCAKE series explore transformation, perception, and the emotional resonance of visual experience.

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Katie Aronat

Katie Aronat creates vibrant abstract works that blend digital design with hands-on craftsmanship. Working with acrylic and laser-cut wood relief, she explores color, form, shape, and dimensionality through bold palettes and puzzle-like layered constructions.

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Shelby Shadwell

Shelby Shadwell creates large-scale drawings and paintings of non-traditional imagery, including black plastic trash bags, emergency blankets, and anthracite coal. Through meticulous, hyper-realistic rendering, his work explores contrasts between vulgarity and beauty, ephemerality and permanence, and low and high status in artistic subject matter.

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Monica Shulman

New York-based artist Monica Shulman creates richly layered abstract paintings that explore memory, nature, identity, and self-reflection. Through gestural mark-making, oil, oil stick, and pastel, her work translates lived experience into color, texture, and rhythm.

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Lu Loveless

Lu Loveless is a Dallas-based painter and designer whose vibrant, pattern-driven work explores how the spaces we inhabit shape how we feel. Discover how her background in architecture and interior design shapes digital collages of imaginary rooms that feel mostly real.

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Carmen Vranau

Carmen Vranau is a photographer whose botanical images move beyond documentation, using light and darkness to reveal the fragility, presence, and quiet transformation of flowers grown in her own garden. Discover her tactile, print-focused process on archival pigment paper.

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Theresa Hong

Theresa Hong is an artist and longtime art therapist whose intuitive, color-driven compositions balance free-flowing abstract forms with clean, hard edges. Discover how her therapeutic practice shapes an art process rooted in spontaneity, rhythm, and joy.

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Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy is an art educator and photographer whose six-month series of sunset photos seeks to capture what her son sees in the twilight sky. Discover how vibrant color, cloud formations, and contrast blur the line between realism and non-objective abstraction.

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Michele Aschenbrenner

Michele Aschenbrenner is a surface pattern designer turned painter whose "feel-good florals" balance vintage nostalgia with a fresh, contemporary feel. Discover her hard-edge gouache and acrylic paintings, made to bring warmth, comfort, and personality into everyday spaces.

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Lesley Luce

Lesley Luce is a late-blooming Canadian mixed-media artist who builds concentric compositions from thousands of hand-placed paper fragments. Discover how a single fragment, like a fluorescent yellow safety vest in The Daily Route, sparks a vibrating pattern that shifts between abstraction and recognition.