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.

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.

Rajab Ali Sayed is a Filipino/Pakistani visual artist, educator, and chef based in Los Angeles, California. Through painting, Sayed explores storytelling, intimacy, memory, and the relationship between human experience and the sensory world around us.

Alexandria Deters creates research-driven works that investigate the construction of memory, belief, and visibility through photography, embroidery, video, and installation. By transforming archival materials and personal imagery, Deters explores how stories are preserved, obscured, and reinterpreted over time.

Nick Pedersen is a contemporary artist whose elaborate photorealistic works examine environmental issues through photography, digital collage, and printmaking. Exploring themes of beautiful decay, nature’s reclamation, and the impact of humanity on the natural world, Pedersen creates surreal narratives that question the legacy we leave behind.

Gherdai Hassell is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, independent curator, and researcher whose work explores identity, memory, migration, and nostalgia. Through layered materials, textiles, collage, and painting, Hassell examines Caribbean heritage, postcolonial narratives, and the histories embedded within materials.

Vučković T. Darko is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationship between organic forms, material transformation, and contemporary artistic language. Working across sculpture, painting, and mixed media, his work investigates the possibilities of clay, natural processes, and three-dimensional form.

Caitlin McCormack transforms crochet and fiber techniques into uncanny sculptural works that examine grief, anxiety, bodily autonomy, and the complexities of contemporary life. Through humor, craft, and unsettling imagery, McCormack considers how making can become a response to uncertainty and a way to connect with shared human experiences.

Metra Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, drawings, and printmaking explore identity, transformation, and the complexities of personal history. Drawing from her multicultural background, Mitchell creates theatrical worlds filled with symbolic characters, emotional narratives, and magical environments that reflect strength, vulnerability, and resilience.

Sarah Detweiler is an American visual artist whose figurative and narrative mixed media paintings explore themes of unmasking, authenticity, motherhood, and the collective unconscious. Through painting, embroidery, and fiber techniques, she transforms personal experiences and transitions into deeply layered works that reflect evolution, connection, and emotional storytelling.

Justin Richel’s sculptural paintings challenge traditional ideas of the painted surface by combining illusion, materiality, and three-dimensional form. Through his unique process of building objects from wood, canvas, and paint, Richel explores perception, trickster mythologies, and the relationship between artifice and reality.

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.

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.

Rachel Le Roux is a British Filipina artist and interior architect based in Manila whose paintings explore the female form, movement, memory, and transformation. Blending her architectural background with a sensitivity to space, texture, and atmosphere, Le Roux creates figurative and abstract works that examine renewal, concealment, and the emotional spaces between what is seen and unseen.

Anthony Vega creates layered contemporary paintings that investigate language, culture, and perception. Rooted in philosophy and personal history, his work invites viewers to slow down, question familiar narratives, and consider how meaning is formed through images and shared experience.

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.

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.

Collage artist and writer Andrea Lewicki shares how cutting, rearranging, and embracing the unexpected has shaped both her artistic practice and her global creative community. In this interview, she reflects on finding belonging through art, the growth of the Special Agent Collage Collective, and the joy of making space for the wonderfully off-kilter.

Tel Aviv-based artist Orit Fuchs creates bold, contemporary works across sculpture, painting, photography, typography, and mixed media. Through her exploration of the female figure, Fuchs examines emotion, identity, vulnerability, and the complexities of modern life. Her direct and intentional visual language has earned international recognition, with exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Asia and works held in private collections worldwide.