M. Hyatt’s acrylic paintings explore the playful nature of foxes through bold color and simplified forms. His storybook-inspired works invite viewers into imaginative worlds where wildlife embodies peace, charm, and the magic of childhood.

Sandra Attales’ botanical and landscape paintings capture the beauty of place and memory. Drawing from her childhood in the Florida Keys, her work explores identity, narrative, and the enduring romance of the natural world.

Kim West’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, and performance-activated installations. Using gestural marks and layered translucence, her work explores memory, natural forms, and historical artifacts, from intimate canvases to California’s largest hand-painted murals.

Denise Brook blends narrative, color, and layered acrylic techniques to explore complex contemporary issues. Her paintings bend reality, balancing clarity and ambiguity, inviting viewers to engage with questions of gender, identity, politics, and culture.

Los Angeles-based artist and chef Andrew Traub creates bold acrylic paintings that merge geometric forms, surreal landscapes, and food-inspired imagery. Through playful yet thought-provoking compositions, Traub explores how objects, symbols, and shared experiences shape cultural identity.

Pierce Scantlin’s figurative paintings draw from shared mythologies, archetypal forms, and a deep longing for historical connection, creating works that speak across time through memory, line, and color.

Cecelia Wilken transforms personal trauma, chronic illness, and fascination with the macabre into evocative traditional artwork. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her pieces explore death, decay, and the fragile beauty of human vulnerability, offering viewers a tender yet striking reflection on life and resilience.

Morgan Humphrey blends oil paint and pastel to explore memory, identity, and the ripple of girlhood into adulthood. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work transforms cowboy archetypes, self-portraits, and intimate vignettes into layered, expressive paintings that balance humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth.

Meghan Murray turns found family snapshots into evocative oil paintings, exploring mid-century American suburbia, memory, and cultural clichés. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work examines the tension between personal storytelling and collective identity, transforming ephemeral photographs into enduring, thought-provoking art.

Trish Mitchell’s oil paintings transform overlooked moments in nature into meditative still lifes. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work celebrates the hush of shadow, the curve of a petal, and the interplay of light and presence, offering viewers a space for reflection and soulful connection.

Lois Pluskey’s art blends realism and painterly techniques to capture moments full of emotion, narrative, and whimsy. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work ranges from playful depictions of toys to reflections on everyday life, offering viewers a personal and evocative visual experience.

Anja WŸlfing’s portraits focus on presence over identity, using muted tones and soft abstractions to evoke quiet introspection. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work offers viewers a space to pause, reflect, and experience emotion through stillness, restraint, and subtle detail.

Barbara Drobot’s work transforms the human body into a vessel of emotion. Using layered oil textures, marks, and abrasions, her paintings capture subtle states of feeling and stillness, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the present moment. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her art explores silence, movement, and the inner rhythm of human experience.

Katherine McMahon’s latest series reimagines neon signs as vibrant, two-dimensional paintings that capture the seductive glow and cultural weight of urban life. Exploring themes of nostalgia, consumerism, and hauntology, her work reflects on how objects shift from everyday signage to cultural artifacts while challenging viewers to consider the traces of lost futures embedded in contemporary visual culture.

Beth Shadur’s work reflects her deep love for nature and examines the fragility of places considered sacred and pristine. Her newest series focuses on National Parks and Tribal Parks, exploring iconic landscapes and the human impact on remote and exquisite environments.

In AQ Volume VII, artist Heidi Keith presents ink-based works that explore the body as a shifting, porous form shaped by time, environment, and lived experience. Through flowing marks and dissolving figures, her paintings reflect cycles of transformation, vulnerability, and collective connection, offering a meditative reflection on becoming rather than being.

Erin Fitzpatrick’s colorful, patterned portraits explore the intersections of memory, spirituality, and cultural ritual. Featured in The Spirit World Exhibition, her work reflects her time in Mexico City and her fascination with Santa Muerte, Día de Muertos, and syncretic spiritual practices. Fitzpatrick’s paintings, including Quiromancia, Hey Van Gogh It’s the Same As It Ever Was, and The Sage, invite viewers to experience the mystical and uncanny, bridging the visible and unseen.

Sinem Beles creates portraits and figurative works that capture the subtle presence of those we love, even after they are gone. Her painterly realist style and softened brushwork evoke memory, spirit, and emotional depth. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her paintings invite viewers to explore the mystical, unseen, and lingering energies that connect past and present.

Architect and oil pastel painter Leo Rebolledo creates meticulously rendered scenes where classical technique meets the uncanny. Drawing from subconscious impulses, symbolism, and magical realism, his work transforms familiar spaces into poetic, unsettling dream worlds. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Rebolledo’s paintings invite viewers to step beyond surface reality and explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions that quietly shape human experience.

Working at the intersection of myth, personal narrative, and psychological space, Colleen Francis Smith creates richly hued oil paintings that challenge inherited ideas of femininity. Her dreamlike gardens and forests become sites of transformation, tension, and escape, where figures merge with plant life and reality bends. Featured in the Spirit Worldexhibition, Smith’s work invites viewers into liminal environments that reflect the spiritual, political, and emotional complexities embedded in the feminine psyche.