Juana González’s paintings unfold as theatrical, baroque compositions where narrative, color, and gesture exist in constant tension. Blending surrealism and expressionism, her work explores uncertainty, storytelling, and the emotional power of figurative painting.

Catarina Diaz’s work unfolds through richly layered compositions that merge memory, dream, and inherited history. Working in collage, oil painting, and mixed media, she explores feminine identity, transformation, and cultural displacement through a visually opulent and emotionally resonant practice.

Cassie Rae Bledsoe’s work examines the fragile boundary between body and mind through raw, expressive imagery shaped by lived experience of chronic pain. Influenced by Francis Bacon and Frida Kahlo, the artist transforms internal states into visceral visual language that confronts vulnerability and perception.

Maiko Kobayashi’s “Liminal Creatures” inhabit a space between human and animal, offering quiet reflections on emotion, resilience, and existence. Through layered mixed media on washi paper, her work invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with inner life and shared vulnerability.

Melanie Tiongson’s practice brings together collage, illustration, and abstraction to form a joyful and layered visual language. Drawing from Filipino folklore, vintage materials, and personal narrative, her work celebrates identity, memory, and imaginative storytelling.

Ella Camlibel creates richly layered works that blend illustration, textile design, and painting into immersive visual narratives. Drawing from travel, memory, and global craft traditions, her practice transforms everyday fragments into symbolic, emotionally resonant compositions.

Catchoo creates emotionally charged, character-driven street art that balances softness with grit, using simple forms to express complex inner states. Rooted in intuition and street culture, their work becomes a collectible visual language of vulnerability, connection, and quiet resistance.

Bianca Paraschiv’s practice bridges painting and graphic expression, forming a refined visual language influenced by philosophy, movement, and human anatomy. With a strong international presence and participation in major global exhibitions, her work reflects a precise balance of structure, emotion, and conceptual depth.

Ornella Pocetti’s practice emerges from a deep engagement with time, memory, and perception, shaped through her studies in Buenos Aires and international residencies. Her work reflects a growing dialogue between personal experience and expanded visual language developed across South America, Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Felicia van Bork transforms printmaking into layered collages that balance intuition and structure, turning discarded monoprints into vibrant compositions of movement and meaning. Her process embraces play, experimentation, and material reinvention, revealing unexpected harmony within fragmentation.

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt’s SCHOOL LUNCH series captures the emotional and social dynamics of student life through direct observation and expressive figurative painting. Rooted in real moments and environments, her work reflects the complexities of human relationships, identity, and shared cultural experience.

Erica Podwoiski’s work invites viewers into quiet, contemplative moments with the natural world. Using cyanotype, one of the oldest forms of camera-less photography, she combines drawing with found objects to capture life at a standstill. Her pieces reflect on the cycles of seasons, decay and renewal, and the subtle beauty of ephemeral life.

Lyubava Kroll’s work merges art, design, and sustainability to examine how material culture and consumption shape our world. Using surrealist-inspired imagery, repurposed materials, and layered visual techniques, she explores ecological disruption, seasonal transformation, and resilience. Winter Fractured invites viewers to see winter as an active, transitional state where vulnerability and recovery coexist, encouraging reflection on our relationship to nature and place.

In this evocative feature, Tiara Knutson merges the macabre with elements of nature, creating sculptural works that honor both death and renewal. Drawing from personal experience and a deep fascination with the afterlife, her pieces invite viewers to reconsider the beauty within life’s inevitable cycles.

Christina Voytko, a Northern California–based mixed-media artist, transforms cyanotypes, watercolor, and ink into luminous reflections on nature, folklore, and the subtle magic of everyday life. Her Winter Solstice series celebrates the quiet threshold of the season, inviting viewers to pause, notice, and reconnect with the enduring cycles of light and growth.

Cecil Ybanez bridges worlds—geographically, culturally, and creatively. Working with polymer air-dry clay, found objects, and everyday materials, his mixed media pieces explore translucence, lightness, and layered perspectives. Each work invites viewers to reflect on memory, perception, and the complexity of contemporary life, offering moments of pause, insight, and subtle illumination.

Colleen Cunningham’s paper collages are a mesmerizing fusion of impulse, control, and layered consciousness. Drawing from myriad sources, her baroque compositions explore the relationships between seemingly disparate elements, transforming space and narrative into psychedelic, cohesive dreamscapes. Each piece invites viewers to linger, uncovering the intricate layers of meaning embedded in her waking visions.

Based in Joshua Tree on unceded Cohuilla/Serrano land, Corinna Rosella creates immersive works that blend analog photography, collage, and pressed flora. Their art examines grief, ecological awareness, magic, and ancestral connections, inviting viewers to witness unseen rituals, cycles of death and rebirth, and the quiet power of transformation in everyday life.

Amy Handy, the creative force behind The Alchemist’s Lair, combines paint, old photographs, mosaics, and found objects into richly layered mixed media collages. Each piece is finished with resin, evoking the feeling of being preserved in time like a fossil in amber. Drawing on her experiences as a costume designer, pottery studio owner, and freelance editor, Handy transforms her multidisciplinary background into artworks that are simultaneously vibrant, mysterious, and deeply evocative. She exhibits widely in Queens, New York, and is preparing for an upcoming show at Maple Grove Cemetery’s cultural center.

Minka Sicklinger transforms the everyday into the magical through hand-drawn illustrations, tattoos, and object-based work. Influenced by anthropology, ritual, and ancestral memory, her art navigates the spaces between figure, form, and symbolism. Every piece invites viewers to connect with fleeting moments, hidden gestures, and stories left behind by those who came before.