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Gabriela Mazur

Gabriela Mazur visualizes what is invisible yet deeply felt in human relationships.

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Monica Mohnot

Monica Mohnot builds the surface itself as the painting, weaving, stitching, and layering time into form.

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Via Li

Via Li's fragmented figures emerge, dissolve, and reappear within shifting fields of color.

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Debra Ferrari

Debra Ferrari's abstract mixed media paintings follow the mathematical proportions that govern nature.

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Junhan Shen

Junhan Shen lets diluted paint move like water to explore impermanence, memory, and finding footing in a changing world.

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John Sousa

Springboro, Ohio mixed-media artist John Sousa layers imagery, texture, and visual association to explore language and perception.

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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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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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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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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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Umbreen Hasan

Minnesota-based artist Umbreen Hasan creates luminous abstract works inspired by nature, shifting landscapes, light, and memory. Working with alcohol inks, encaustics, and cold wax, her practice explores healing, contemplation, and emotional resonance through color and movement.

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Carolyn Sweeney

Carolyn Sweeney’s practice explores the relationship between color, place, and the natural world. Working with botanical and mineral colors, handmade pigments, folded paper, and pastels, she creates works rooted in material, memory, and the ecosystems of Oregon.

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Monica Henry

Monica Henry’s richly textured textile works explore colour as both a visual and tactile experience. Working with punch needle and wool, she creates immersive surfaces shaped by repetition, botanical forms, material, memory, and her family’s connection to Geelong’s wool industry.

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Rachel Grace Borntrager

Rachel Grace Borntrager creates abstract paintings rooted in memory, physiological awareness, and lived experience, using her Soma-Line Method™ to transform the body’s sensations into a visual language of line and color.

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Lola Fischer

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.

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Malia Gomez

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.