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.

Based in Devonport, New Zealand, Jenni Stringleman creates expressive figurative paintings celebrating feminine confidence, friendship, and the beauty of everyday moments. Through bold color, textured surfaces, and rhythmic compositions, her work explores joy, resilience, and the complexities of the human experience.

Jazlyne Sabree is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, land, and the persistence of African diasporic histories. Through immersive installations, collage, and material exploration, Sabree creates powerful visual narratives that honor lineage, resilience, and the stories embedded within the spaces we inhabit.

Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist Damon “Creative Lou” Brown creates powerful works rooted in community, cultural memory, and storytelling. Through painting, illustration, murals, mosaics, and public art, Brown transforms shared experiences and histories into enduring visual narratives that connect people to place and one another.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Chris McGuire creates illustrative works that explore the tension between humans and nature through oversized animals and quiet, everyday encounters.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Shelby Austin Tourney creates mixed media works exploring memory, comfort, and discomfort through spaces shaped by nostalgia and self-reflection.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Allie Sutherland creates subconscious dreamscapes rooted in mythology, architecture, and surrealist automatism, exploring the space between structure and intuition.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, David Buetsche creates layered mixed media works that investigate erosion, memory, and the instability of place. His practice blends archival imagery and material intervention to explore fragmentation and transformation.

Featured in the Time Capsule exhibition, Gina Gwen Palacios uses painting and mixed media to explore Mexican American identity, family history, and cultural memory. Her work reflects on belonging, displacement, and inherited narratives across generations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Melanie Tiongson’s practice brings together collage, illustration, and abstraction to form a joyful and layered visual language. Drawing from Filipino folklore, vintage materials, and personal narrative, her work celebrates identity, memory, and imaginative storytelling.

Ella Camlibel creates richly layered works that blend illustration, textile design, and painting into immersive visual narratives. Drawing from travel, memory, and global craft traditions, her practice transforms everyday fragments into symbolic, emotionally resonant compositions.