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Gemma Di Grazia

Gemma Di Grazia creates vibrant floral landscapes and food arrangements in oils and soft pastels, transforming carefully curated color palettes and layers of pigment into luminous, immersive works inspired by nature, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.

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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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Evi Antonio

Evi Antonio’s practice reveals the extraordinary within the overlooked. Combining her background in natural history illustration with digital painting and hand-finished techniques, she magnifies the intricate details of butterflies and other natural forms, inviting viewers to pause, look closely, and reconnect with the living world.

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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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Jeanette Bayoumi

Jeanette Bayoumi explores identity, cultural memory, and self-discovery through vibrant paintings that blend realism with surreal elements. Working with bold, limited palettes, she uses color as a psychological environment to explore memory, perception, cultural identity, resilience, and transformation.

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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.

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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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Shelby Shadwell

Shelby Shadwell creates large-scale drawings and paintings of non-traditional imagery, including black plastic trash bags, emergency blankets, and anthracite coal. Through meticulous, hyper-realistic rendering, his work explores contrasts between vulgarity and beauty, ephemerality and permanence, and low and high status in artistic subject matter.

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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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Lesley Luce

Lesley Luce is a late-blooming Canadian mixed-media artist who builds concentric compositions from thousands of hand-placed paper fragments. Discover how a single fragment, like a fluorescent yellow safety vest in The Daily Route, sparks a vibrating pattern that shifts between abstraction and recognition.

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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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Rosie Fitzgerrel

Rosie Fitzgerrel’s vibrant paintings examine the meeting point between humanity and nature, using intense color, graphic compositions, and naturalistic scenes to explore reverence, wonder, tension, and harmony.

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Claire Godbee

Based between Birmingham, Alabama and New York City, Claire Godbee creates symbolic figurative paintings that examine transformation, identity, and the relationship between destruction and renewal. Through mythology, landscape, and contemporary womanhood, her work explores the emotional complexities of becoming and regeneration.