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Juana González

Juana González’s paintings unfold as theatrical, baroque compositions where narrative, color, and gesture exist in constant tension. Blending surrealism and expressionism, her work explores uncertainty, storytelling, and the emotional power of figurative painting.

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Catarina Diaz

Catarina Diaz’s work unfolds through richly layered compositions that merge memory, dream, and inherited history. Working in collage, oil painting, and mixed media, she explores feminine identity, transformation, and cultural displacement through a visually opulent and emotionally resonant practice.

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Cassie Rae Bledsoe

Cassie Rae Bledsoe’s work examines the fragile boundary between body and mind through raw, expressive imagery shaped by lived experience of chronic pain. Influenced by Francis Bacon and Frida Kahlo, the artist transforms internal states into visceral visual language that confronts vulnerability and perception.

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Maiko Kobayashi

Maiko Kobayashi’s “Liminal Creatures” inhabit a space between human and animal, offering quiet reflections on emotion, resilience, and existence. Through layered mixed media on washi paper, her work invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with inner life and shared vulnerability.

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Olena Zubach

Olena Zubach’s practice exists between photography and painting, where everyday objects are transformed into sculptural, minimal compositions. Through repetition, reduction, and subtle variation, her work investigates perception, form, and the shifting nature of visual language.

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Maria Cobas

María Cobas creates poetic, reflective paintings that question contemporary systems of speed, productivity, and consumption. Through hybrid figures and atmospheric compositions, her work proposes alternative ways of seeing rooted in care, ambiguity, and relational presence.

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catchoo

Catchoo creates emotionally charged, character-driven street art that balances softness with grit, using simple forms to express complex inner states. Rooted in intuition and street culture, their work becomes a collectible visual language of vulnerability, connection, and quiet resistance.

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Mar Figueroa

Mar Figueroa’s paintings unfold as layered, symbolic landscapes where human and nonhuman forms coexist in states of quiet metamorphosis. Drawing from Andean traditions, ritual practices, and ecological interconnection, her work transforms everyday interiors into spaces of care, memory, and spiritual reflection.

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Alice d'Apolito

Alice d’Apolito’s practice transforms lived experience into a visual diary of sculptural figures, blending animation-inspired aesthetics with artisan craftsmanship. Through recurring characters and bold cobalt blue linework, her work explores identity, memory, and the emotional duality of movement and stillness.

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Bianca Paraschiv

Bianca Paraschiv’s practice bridges painting and graphic expression, forming a refined visual language influenced by philosophy, movement, and human anatomy. With a strong international presence and participation in major global exhibitions, her work reflects a precise balance of structure, emotion, and conceptual depth.

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Ornella Pocetti

Ornella Pocetti’s practice emerges from a deep engagement with time, memory, and perception, shaped through her studies in Buenos Aires and international residencies. Her work reflects a growing dialogue between personal experience and expanded visual language developed across South America, Europe, the United States, and Asia.

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Felicia van Bork

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.

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Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt’s SCHOOL LUNCH series captures the emotional and social dynamics of student life through direct observation and expressive figurative painting. Rooted in real moments and environments, her work reflects the complexities of human relationships, identity, and shared cultural experience.

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Ozlem Thompson

Özlem Sorlu Thompson’s work bridges the worlds of science and imagination, transforming botanical forms into expressive, dreamlike landscapes. Inspired by her upbringing in Istanbul and shaped by her life in London, her paintings invite viewers into colorful, emotionally rich environments rooted in nature, curiosity, and storytelling.

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Erica Podwoiski

Erica Podwoiski’s work invites viewers into quiet, contemplative moments with the natural world. Using cyanotype, one of the oldest forms of camera-less photography, she combines drawing with found objects to capture life at a standstill. Her pieces reflect on the cycles of seasons, decay and renewal, and the subtle beauty of ephemeral life.

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Lyubava Kroll

Lyubava Kroll’s work merges art, design, and sustainability to examine how material culture and consumption shape our world. Using surrealist-inspired imagery, repurposed materials, and layered visual techniques, she explores ecological disruption, seasonal transformation, and resilience. Winter Fractured invites viewers to see winter as an active, transitional state where vulnerability and recovery coexist, encouraging reflection on our relationship to nature and place.

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Tiara Knutson

In this evocative feature, Tiara Knutson merges the macabre with elements of nature, creating sculptural works that honor both death and renewal. Drawing from personal experience and a deep fascination with the afterlife, her pieces invite viewers to reconsider the beauty within life’s inevitable cycles.

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Christina Voytko

Christina Voytko, a Northern California–based mixed-media artist, transforms cyanotypes, watercolor, and ink into luminous reflections on nature, folklore, and the subtle magic of everyday life. Her Winter Solstice series celebrates the quiet threshold of the season, inviting viewers to pause, notice, and reconnect with the enduring cycles of light and growth.

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