Leyla Cui’s work visualizes the unseen energy of introverts through symbolic and surreal illustrations. Her compositions—featuring eyes, birds, plants, vessels, and other motifs—explore resilience, vulnerability, and the creative potential of solitude, transforming inner worlds into imaginative, reflective narratives.

Cindy Ruskin’s work transforms anxiety into tranquil, life-affirming paintings and drawings. Her inner landscapes—meadows, big skies, and safe spaces—invite viewers to reflect, dream, and find humor, hope, and beauty, even in uncertain times.

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.

Andrew Traub blends his experience as a chef with his artistic practice to create paintings and drawings that elevate food into myth and narrative. His work examines culture, memory, and the future of how society perceives the everyday act of eating.

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.

An AQ Volume VII Artist, Beth Shadur is known for a prolific career spanning international exhibitions, large-scale public murals, and influential residencies. Her work weaves watercolor, mapping, and landscape into poetic reflections on place, history, and human connection.

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.