Lola Fischer is a painter and graphic artist whose lifelong creative practice is rooted in abstract forms, intense colors, and expressive compositions. From international exhibitions including the Beijing Biennial and Venice Biennale contexts to her feature in Create! Magazine’s The Magic Issue, Fischer’s work explores humanity, imagination, and the healing potential of art.

Malia Gomez creates atmospheric paintings influenced by metaphysics and contemporary light artists, using color, mark-making, and visual perception to cultivate mindfulness and conscious presence. Her work invites viewers into moments of stillness and reflection through immersive contemporary painting.

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.

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.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Resh Ramrattan creates luminous abstract paintings built through thousands of individual marks, encouraging viewers to slow down, reflect, and engage with the passage of time.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Allie Sutherland creates subconscious dreamscapes rooted in mythology, architecture, and surrealist automatism, exploring the space between structure and intuition.

Johanne Bossmann paints without brushes. Working exclusively with her hands, she spreads highly diluted acrylics across raw canvas until the pigment merges with the textile fibers in a process that is, as she puts it, irreversible and honest. The result is a series of ethereal, flowing horizons that function less as landscapes and more as invitations to breathe.

Marketa Hopkins paints movement, patience, and the gradual passage of time into every brushstroke. In her studio she developed a signature technique that gives her large-scale acrylic works their distinctive visual rhythm, balancing the elegance of darker tones with the warmth and energy of her more luminous pieces.

Rebecca Santry paints the Pacific Northwest the way it feels from the inside. In her Soft Fascination series, layered brushstrokes and an earthy palette translate nature's quiet rhythms into a visual meditation, an invitation to slow down, breathe, and reconnect.

Beatrice Findlay’s paintings merge abstraction, figuration, and landscape into dynamic explorations of movement and life energy. Her work uses color and gesture to evoke emotional resonance, drawing from decades of artistic practice and a continuing series of running figures.

Alexandra Niculescu’s large-scale paintings merge abstract expressionism with Rococo influences to explore the body as a site of memory and transformation. Her work channels gesture, emotion, and lived experience into a visual language of resilience, healing, and feminine strength.

Emi Avora’s practice bridges Greek heritage and life in Asia, weaving together interior spaces, still life, and landscape into layered compositions. Her paintings explore identity, mythology, and perception through color, scale, and symbolic encounters between objects and forms.

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.

Shelly Thanner is a German contemporary artist whose meditative paintings explore the quiet spaces between inner and outer worlds. Through acrylics, natural pigments, and textured mediums, her Liminal Landscapes series invites viewers into moments of stillness, connection, and transformation.

Yian Lee’s work invites viewers to pause and reflect on the idea of belonging. A self-taught painter from Taiwan, Lee blends abstract geometry, meditative processes, and layered forms to explore subconscious landscapes and inner states that resist fixed meaning. Her paintings act as a gentle meditation on self, memory, and the spaces where belonging emerges from within.

Michael Hambouz, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and curator, creates work deeply informed by chromaesthesia and personal history. Drawing from music, memory, and his Palestinian-American heritage, Hambouz experiments across mediums—painting, printmaking, sculpture, and animation—to explore themes of loss, transformation, and resilience. His vibrant abstractions, often influenced by sound and architectural forms, invite viewers into layered reflections on identity and generational experience.

Portland-based abstract painter Chad Glazener presents his evocative, gesture-driven work in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Each piece emerges from silence, offering a visual record of presence and inviting viewers to explore their own interior landscapes. Glazener’s paintings nurture contemplation, blending playfulness, embodiment, and spiritual awareness to reveal the subtle lightness that arises when we fully inhabit the moment.