Tomás Carlos Ortolani creates paintings that connect the viewer with worlds beyond perception, using symbolism, dreams, and personal narratives to explore the unconscious. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, his work blends technical mastery with deeply psychological and spiritual themes, offering a contemplative journey into the unseen.

Mehgann Maiellano’s work captures the delicate balance between humor and eeriness. Through photography and mixed media, she places ghostly figures in rural landscapes, inviting viewers to reflect on memory, solitude, and the uncanny in familiar places. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Maiellano’s art transforms ordinary settings into spaces of mystery, wonder, and quiet unease.

Lauren Davies blends photography, sculpture, and textiles to investigate the hidden histories and layered narratives of place. From abandoned Rust Belt factories to haunted mansions, her experimental works merge archival research with striking materiality and ironic perspective. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Davies’ art evokes the mystical, eerie, and uncanny while proposing new ways of seeing personal, cultural, and institutional histories.

Maya Sumile creates mystical work that bridges the tangible and intangible, blending self-portraiture, Gothic literature, and Romanticism to explore the human condition. Her paintings and environments evoke the uncanny while balancing dread and serenity. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Sumile’s work invites viewers to experience narratives that give form to silence, dreams, and enduring human stories.

Jacqueline Strano transforms garments and vintage imagery into vessels of memory, identity, and resistance. Through hand-stitched embroidery and mixed media, she merges past and present, revealing the threads that connect women’s lives across time. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, Strano’s work invites viewers to explore the intimate dialogues between femininity, power, and ornamentation.

Anne Spalter, a pioneering visual artist in both traditional and digital media, presents immersive, symbolic landscapes in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition. Her work blends surrealism, science fiction, and archetypal imagery to explore the boundaries between the natural and the cosmic. Through her series Surrealist Landscapes and Future Landscapes, Spalter merges dreamlike geometry, luminous color, and algorithmic processes to create worlds where inner and outer realities converge. Featured internationally in major collections and publications, her practice invites viewers to encounter transformation, intuition, and the mythic dimensions of contemporary experience.

Emily Ezell, born in Monroe, Louisiana, creates apocalyptic and surrealist paintings that blend neon, mutated creatures, and corpse-like nymphs with historical references to the Old Masters. Featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, her work explores the uncanny, pop surrealism, and Southern Gothic themes, creating images that are simultaneously provocative, grotesque, and mesmerizing. As an educator and professional artist, Ezell continues to push the boundaries of narrative, technique, and the surreal, inviting viewers into worlds that challenge perceptions of beauty, desire, and decay.

Sophia Conroy Iglesias, a British-Spanish artist, creates intimate and psychologically charged works in oil, graphite, and hand-bound books. Featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, her art blends historical figuration with contemporary perspectives, exploring mythology, touch, memory, and the feminine experience. Each canvas is paired with a handwritten poem, extending her visual narratives into an interior world where presence, absence, and the spectral intertwine. Her work invites viewers to encounter bodies, gestures, and spaces that hover between reality and the unseen.

Amalia Romp, a New York native now based in Los Angeles, is a multidisciplinary artist and set designer whose work spans papier-mâché sculpture, avant-garde tableaux portraits, and immersive storytelling. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her art draws on surrealism, expressionism, circus motifs, and global cultures, creating fantastical worlds that invite viewers into her imaginative process. From brainstorming to building, photographing, and editing, Amalia handles every stage of creation herself, crafting deeply personal and visually striking works.

Somerset-based artist Estelle delves into the human psyche and the enigmatic depths of the subconscious through painting, illustration, digital art, and installations. Her work, featured in the upcoming Spirit World exhibition, fuses darkness and surrealism, from ethereal landscapes shrouded in mist to haunting figures that seem to gaze into the soul. Each piece invites viewers to explore their innermost fears and desires while experiencing a hauntingly beautiful vision of reality intertwined with the fantastical.

Jessica Burke, who goes by J.B., is an award-winning artist and Associate Professor of Art based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her labor-intensive colored-pencil drawings use magical realism to explore memory, personal narratives, and the darker sides of human nature. JB’s work has been exhibited internationally, published in top art journals, and is held in private, public, and corporate collections. In this feature, learn more about her approach, inspirations, and the meticulous process behind her vibrant, thought-provoking art.

Explore the haunting, meticulous world of artist Kuang Chu, whose Red Balloon digital drawing series is included in “The Spirit World” exhibition. His work blends European engraving traditions with contemporary meditations on solitude, resilience, and the mystical. In this feature, learn more about the artist’s influences, symbolism, and the powerful imagery behind his signature red balloon.

Carolyn Hampton, artist, psychic medium, and entertainment attorney from Los Angeles, channels her spiritual gifts into deeply personal fine art. Her “Childhood Dreams & Memories” series, created in collaboration with her daughter, draws on visions, memories, and spirit encounters to explore trauma, intimacy, and symbolic meaning. Carolyn’s work has been exhibited worldwide, published in books, magazines, and album covers, and continues to expand into painting and her “Constructed Fairytales” photo series inspired by myth and folklore.

Kim Tateo's art invites viewers into a world of vibrant imagination and heartfelt reflection. Her dreamlike, layered landscapes transform internal emotion into meditative visual journeys, exploring themes of interconnectedness, impermanence, and inner light. Through intricate layers of color, glitter, and blacklight-responsive paint, her work evokes dreaming, playfulness, and peace. Rooted in her experiences as a shepherd and her studies of plant spirit medicine, Kim crafts immersive experiences influenced by nature, music, and mindfulness. Her art is part of The Spirit World virtual exhibition, a showcase exploring ghosts, myth, and the mystical unseen, revealing the magic hidden within her creations.

Dive into the artistic journey of Allison Moyers, a multi-disciplinary artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. In her latest feature, learn how her large-scale oil paintings challenge societal norms surrounding femininity and vulnerability. From her beginnings in Paris to her reflections on motherhood, Moyers invites you to experience the emotional depth and beauty in her art, blending traditional techniques with contemporary themes. Join us as we explore her creative process and the profound stories behind her stunning works.

Discover how Lorene Eiferman transforms gathered branches into intricate wood sculptures, inspired by the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript's botanical illustrations and her lifelong passion for art. Also, explore her mixed media “morning drawings,” featured in The Spirit World Exhibition