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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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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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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.

Create! Magazine 9/29/26 Create! Magazine 9/29/26

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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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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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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Ashley Hendrix

Ashley Hendrix is a painter, paint carver, and longtime art teacher who builds dozens of paint layers and carves back through them to reveal the hidden colors beneath. Explore her tactile, meditative process and her vibrant floral paintings made to bring comfort and joy into the home.

Create! Magazine 9/16/26 Create! Magazine 9/16/26

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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Kimberley Kermode

Kimberley Kermode creates fragmented figurative paintings that explore cultural mosaic, identity, and the emotional landscapes shaped by migration and memory. Through vibrant palettes and layered compositions, Kermode examines how personal histories and cultural backgrounds continue to influence the way we understand belonging.

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Jody Hewgill

Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill creates highly detailed acrylic paintings that explore the intersection of representation and fabrication. Drawing inspiration from 18th-century naturalist art and the landscapes of Northern Ontario, her work reflects on ecological relationships, storytelling, and our connection with the natural world.

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Sarah Creasman Barnett

Sarah Creasman Barnett creates bold, saturated figurative paintings that explore beauty as agency, visibility, and the relationship between appearance and narrative. Based in Dallas, her acrylic and mixed media works combine personal storytelling with layered marks and unexpected moments of collaboration.

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Gordon Leverton

Self-taught artist Gordon Leverton transforms architecture, city streets, and everyday environments into bold contemporary paintings defined by striking geometry, vibrant colour, and atmospheric shadows. Through his travels and international residencies, Leverton continues exploring how place, memory, and visual storytelling connect us to the world around us.

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Resh Ramrattan

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.

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Georgina Gray

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Georgina Gray creates vibrant acrylic paintings inspired by Singapore’s wildlife and urban landscapes, blending nature, travel, and playful imagination.

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Jeff Dillon

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Jeff Dillon creates expressive landscape paintings that balance representation and abstraction. Drawing on observation, memory, and the Canadian landscape, his work explores movement, atmosphere, and the emotional resonance of place.

Create! Magazine 6/4/26 Create! Magazine 6/4/26

Johanne Bossmann

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.

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Marketa Hopkins

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.

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Winibey Lopez

Winibey López’s expressive figurative paintings center on feminine identity, emotion, and vulnerability through bold color and layered compositions. Her work transforms portraiture into a vivid exploration of resilience, presence, and emotional truth in contemporary life.

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Alexandra Niculescu

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.

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Sofía Cristina Jiménez

Sofía Cristina Jiménez’s work blends magical realism and surrealism to explore emotion, nature, and the relationship between humans and the animal world. Through painting and poetic visual language, her practice invites reflection on perception, tenderness, and contemporary existence.