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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.

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

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.

Create! Magazine 9/25/26 Create! Magazine 9/25/26

Carmen Vranau

Carmen Vranau is a photographer whose botanical images move beyond documentation, using light and darkness to reveal the fragility, presence, and quiet transformation of flowers grown in her own garden. Discover her tactile, print-focused process on archival pigment paper.

Create! Magazine 9/24/26 Create! Magazine 9/24/26

Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy is an art educator and photographer whose six-month series of sunset photos seeks to capture what her son sees in the twilight sky. Discover how vibrant color, cloud formations, and contrast blur the line between realism and non-objective abstraction.

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

Matthew Borowick

New York-based photographer Matthew Borowick explores landscapes from the ground and above, using infrared photography to reveal textures, colors, and perspectives hidden from the human eye.

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Jed Tamarkin

Jed Tamarkin uses high-resolution flatbed scanners to capture mushrooms, sunflowers, lichen-covered branches, and other natural subjects from the Catskills, creating highly detailed and immersive photographs that reflect on time, growth, decay, and the Hudson Valley watershed.

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Leah Oates

Leah Oates’s Transitory Space series captures the movement of time, human traces, and shifting realities through the use of multiple exposures on film.

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Alexandria Deters

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.

Create! Magazine 8/3/26 Create! Magazine 8/3/26

Nick Pedersen

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.

Create! Magazine 7/30/26 Create! Magazine 7/30/26

Von Allin

German conceptual artist VON ALLIN transforms complex emotions into striking minimalist works that invite viewers to reflect on grief, love, identity, and the universal experiences that connect us. Through projects such as The Tears Project, her art becomes a catalyst for conversation and empathy.

Create! Magazine 7/23/26 Create! Magazine 7/23/26

Nuno Serrão

Portuguese multidisciplinary artist Nuno Serrão creates work that exists between poetic narrative and raw minimalism. Through cinematic compositions and an unconventional approach to portraiture, he explores ambiguity, human experience, and the quiet beauty found at the intersection of nature and humanity.

Create! Magazine 7/22/26 Create! Magazine 7/22/26

Emma Bass

New Zealand artist Emma Bass creates luminous floral photographs that bridge fine art, nature, and wellbeing. Influenced by the Dutch Golden Age still-life tradition and informed by her background in nursing, her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and experience beauty as a meaningful form of care. Featured in Create! Magazine's 10th Anniversary Book, Bass shares how her practice has evolved through international collaborations, healthcare installations, and an ongoing exploration of art's restorative potential.

Create! Magazine 5/9/26 Create! Magazine 5/9/26

JeeYoung Lee

JeeYoung Lee’s staged photography blurs the line between reality and imagination through handcrafted installations built from memory, emotion, and introspection. Her theatrical psychological landscapes transform personal experience into poetic visual narratives.

Create! Magazine 4/30/26 Create! Magazine 4/30/26

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.

Create! Magazine 3/26/26 Create! Magazine 3/26/26

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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Jana Astanov

Jana Astanov’s art spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, creating immersive experiences that connect audiences to ancestral memory, ritual, and the cosmos. Drawing on trance, astrology, and Slavic and Baltic folk traditions, her work invites participants into ceremonial spaces where art becomes a conduit for spiritual inquiry, relational healing, and collective transformation.

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Nancy L McCourt

In this contemplative feature, Nancy L. McCourt examines aging as both a personal and cultural experience, questioning societal norms while drawing inspiration from nature’s cycles. Her reflections embrace the realities of time, mortality, and what it means to live with intention in life’s later seasons.

Create! Magazine 3/20/26 Create! Magazine 3/20/26

Corinna Rosella

Based in Joshua Tree on unceded Cohuilla/Serrano land, Corinna Rosella creates immersive works that blend analog photography, collage, and pressed flora. Their art examines grief, ecological awareness, magic, and ancestral connections, inviting viewers to witness unseen rituals, cycles of death and rebirth, and the quiet power of transformation in everyday life.

Create! Magazine 3/9/26 Create! Magazine 3/9/26

Beamie Young

For over four decades, Beamie Young has captured the visual world through photography, blending black-and-white film techniques with modern digital processes. From textures and reflections to double exposures and compositing, Beamie’s work invites viewers to explore light, pattern, and time in unexpected ways. Discover a career dedicated to the art of seeing and storytelling through the lens.

Create! Magazine 1/29/26 Create! Magazine 1/29/26

Jenny Carrillo

Jenny Carrillo’s ongoing series, Reflections, invites viewers into a journey of healing and self-discovery. Through still life photography, traditional in-camera methods, and carefully crafted compositions, she captures the rawness of trauma, the beauty of transformation, and the quiet power of stillness. Each limited edition print serves as both art and reflection, connecting deeply to personal and universal experiences of resilience.