Yana Tymoshenko
Yana Tymoshenko’s work blends realism and imagination, using vivid colors and photorealistic subjects with a unique abstract twist. Drawing from her experiences across multiple cities and her fascination with the human mind, her art explores emotion, thought, and the eccentricities of life in ways that are both playful and profound.
Leisa Rich
Leisa Rich is a Canadian experimental artist whose work pushes the boundaries of fiber art, sculpture, and interactive design. Using techniques like embroidery, weaving, tufting, 3D printing, and laser engraving, she transforms everyday and recycled materials into wall-hung artworks, wearable sculptures, and sensory environments. Rich’s practice invites audiences to engage through touch while exploring memory, childhood, and the tension between stability and change. Her work has been collected by major institutions including Delta Airlines, Hilton Hotels, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Julie Pelaez
Julie Pelaez transforms abstract painting into a tool for reflection and personal empowerment. Working in layered mixed media, her collections explore human experience, subconscious patterns, and emotional healing, inviting viewers to engage deeply with each piece. From intimate home installations to large-scale corporate commissions, her work bridges interior design, narrative, and symbolic abstraction.
Svetlana Matveeva
Working under the name HandmadeHome, contemporary artist Svetlana creates surreal fantasy sculptures that feel as though they’ve emerged from hidden magical realms. Combining polymer clay with naturally grown crystals, her mixed media works explore the threshold between energy and matter, nature and imagination, resulting in otherworldly beings rich with texture, symbolism, and quiet wonder.
Chris Beaty
Chris Beaty’s collage-inspired paintings and drawings transform fragments and interruptions into layered visual narratives. His work maps the nonlinear rhythms of perception and identity, inviting viewers to navigate spaces where meaning dissolves, reforms, and flows with intensity.
Tori McLean
Tori McLean’s interdisciplinary practice transforms childhood curiosity into playful, thought-provoking explorations of female identity. Through interactive prints, sculptures, and installations, she invites viewers to engage with kinetic figures and participatory works that question societal expectations and celebrate imaginative inquiry.
Evie Hinojosa
Evie Hinojosa’s work transforms fragments into cohesive, pattern-driven compositions that honor traditionally female crafts such as quilting, sewing, and embroidery. Influenced by folk art, kaleidoscopes, and Islamic art tiles, her art bridges the gap between craft and fine art while celebrating overlooked feminine traditions.
Leyla Cui
Leyla Cui’s work visualizes the unseen energy of introverts through symbolic and surreal illustrations. Her compositions—featuring eyes, birds, plants, vessels, and other motifs—explore resilience, vulnerability, and the creative potential of solitude, transforming inner worlds into imaginative, reflective narratives.
Cindy Ruskin
Cindy Ruskin’s work transforms anxiety into tranquil, life-affirming paintings and drawings. Her inner landscapes—meadows, big skies, and safe spaces—invite viewers to reflect, dream, and find humor, hope, and beauty, even in uncertain times.
Hagar Vardimon
Hagar Vardimon’s Which Way the Wind Blows series transforms found photographs through hand-sewn embroidery, creating layered images that obscure and reveal memories. Her work explores time, perception, and the beauty in everyday life, both nationally and internationally.
Morgan Humphrey
Morgan Humphrey blends oil paint and pastel to explore memory, identity, and the ripple of girlhood into adulthood. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work transforms cowboy archetypes, self-portraits, and intimate vignettes into layered, expressive paintings that balance humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth.
Kristin Marie Steinke
Kristin M. Steinke creates mixed media art rooted in joy, color, and allyship. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work blends vibrant aesthetics with intentional messaging, exploring inclusivity, empowerment, and emotional resilience while inviting viewers to experience beauty and justice side by side.
Jennifer Warren
Featured in AQ Volume VII, Jennifer Warren brings playfulness and wit to contemporary painting through vibrant color, mixed media, and textile elements. Drawing inspiration from everyday observations, interiors, and organic textures, her work transforms the familiar into thoughtful, imaginative compositions that reflect the nuances of human experience.
Emily White Tousley
Emily White Tousley’s work invites viewers to explore the complex ways we inhabit space with our inner selves. Blending sculpture, painting, photography, and digital media, her art examines how past consciousnesses influence the present and how incorporeal entities leave traces on physical spaces. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her pieces resonate with themes of spirituality, memory, and the uncanny, offering a meditation on presence and absence.
Jesusjoints
Meg Hadley (alias Jesusjoints) transforms glass into a canvas for exploring the fragile, mystical intersections of belief, reality, and the human psyche. Her layered oil paintings capture the tension between imperfection and control, creating dreamlike, psychologically charged scenes. Featured in The Spirit World, a virtual exhibition examining the spiritual, mystical, eerie, and uncanny, Hadley’s work invites viewers to consider the unseen and the ephemeral in deeply personal and evocative ways.
Shannon Nahara
Shannon Nahara’s art merges photography, collage, and mixed media to explore memory, myth, and the unconscious. Her layered compositions invite reflection, bridging past and present while evoking transformation and healing. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her work illuminates unseen narratives and the delicate interplay between personal and collective histories.
Jacqueline Strano
Jacqueline Strano transforms garments and vintage imagery into vessels of memory, identity, and resistance. Through hand-stitched embroidery and mixed media, she merges past and present, revealing the threads that connect women’s lives across time. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Strano’s work invites viewers to explore the intimate dialogues between femininity, power, and ornamentation.
Anne Spalter
Anne Spalter, a pioneering visual artist in both traditional and digital media, presents immersive, symbolic landscapes in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition. Her work blends surrealism, science fiction, and archetypal imagery to explore the boundaries between the natural and the cosmic. Through her series Surrealist Landscapes and Future Landscapes, Spalter merges dreamlike geometry, luminous color, and algorithmic processes to create worlds where inner and outer realities converge. Featured internationally in major collections and publications, her practice invites viewers to encounter transformation, intuition, and the mythic dimensions of contemporary experience.
Ama Romp
Amalia Romp, a New York native now based in Los Angeles, is a multidisciplinary artist and set designer whose work spans papier-mâché sculpture, avant-garde tableaux portraits, and immersive storytelling. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her art draws on surrealism, expressionism, circus motifs, and global cultures, creating fantastical worlds that invite viewers into her imaginative process. From brainstorming to building, photographing, and editing, Amalia handles every stage of creation herself, crafting deeply personal and visually striking works.
Estelle Spinner
Somerset-based artist Estelle delves into the human psyche and the enigmatic depths of the subconscious through painting, illustration, digital art, and installations. Her work, featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, fuses darkness and surrealism, from ethereal landscapes shrouded in mist to haunting figures that seem to gaze into the soul. Each piece invites viewers to explore their innermost fears and desires while experiencing a hauntingly beautiful vision of reality intertwined with the fantastical.

