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Rachel Romano

Rachel Romano’s surrealist figurative paintings weave together myth, memory, and human experience through expressive storytelling. Working in oil, her practice explores resilience, absurdity, and the emotional complexity of contemporary life through narrative-driven imagery.

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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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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.

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Allison McClay

Allison McClay’s paintings explore solitude, memory, and the fragile balance between humanity and the natural world. Working in layered acrylic on wood, her practice reflects on meditative states and landscapes shaped by beauty, crisis, and reflection.

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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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Anouk Wolse

Anouk Wolse’s paintings inhabit a space between landscape and psychology, where natural environments reflect emotional states and human presence. Through subtle color, composition, and ambiguous narratives, her work explores memory, tension, and our shifting relationship to nature.

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Emi Avora

Emi Avora’s practice bridges Greek heritage and life in Asia, weaving together interior spaces, still life, and landscape into layered compositions. Her paintings explore identity, mythology, and perception through color, scale, and symbolic encounters between objects and forms.

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Talana Hudgens

Talana Hudgens’ figurative paintings explore the quiet terrain of inner transformation through symbolism, psychology, and myth. Using restrained compositions and archetypal imagery, her work reflects on identity, autonomy, and the subtle strength found in stillness and self-awareness.

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Buakow Phasom

Buakow Phasom’s work emerges from a deeply personal space of healing and reflection. Through painting, the artist transforms emotion, memory, and imagination into visual language that explores sadness, joy, mystery, and self-acceptance.

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Nicole Shannon

Nicole Shannon’s Rare Roses reconsiders how we define beauty, worth, and difference. Inspired by real roses with rare genetic abnormalities, the series challenges the tendency to equate variation with deficiency, offering instead a powerful visual argument for intrinsic value and dignity.

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Lauren Bergman

Lauren Bergman creates narrative paintings that reframe historical memory through the female experience, transforming archival photographs into imagined worlds of beauty, loss, and resilience. Her work reflects on individuality, humanity, and the urgent need to preserve personal stories within collective history.

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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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