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Christina Klein

Christina Klein reimagines quilts as immersive, light-filled structures in her series The Quiet Hours. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work blends patterns in nature with traditional textiles, inviting viewers to experience color, texture, and space in a wholly unique, interactive way.

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Trish Mitchell

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.

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Lois Pluskey

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.

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Anja Wülfing

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.

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Barbara Drobot

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.

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Katherine McMahon

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.

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Beth Shadur

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.

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Sandra Keja Planken

Sandra Keja Planken’s practice bridges art, ecology, and emotion. Working with textiles, glass, and spatial design, her sculptural installations explore impermanence, sensory experience, and our relationship with nature. Featured in AQ Volume VII, her work extends beyond the gallery, transforming discarded materials into living artworks that invite coral growth, reflection, and renewal.

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Heidi Keith

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.

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Jennifer Warren

Featured in AQ Volume VII, Jennifer Warren brings playfulness and wit to contemporary painting through vibrant color, mixed media, and textile elements. Drawing inspiration from everyday observations, interiors, and organic textures, her work transforms the familiar into thoughtful, imaginative compositions that reflect the nuances of human experience.

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Airco Caravan

In AQ Volume 7, Airco Caravan presents a striking body of work that blends humor, activism, and historical reckoning. Using spray cans and cast resin objects as symbols of resistance, her work challenges systems of power while imagining what it might mean to literally erase injustice. From guerrilla interventions to deeply researched historical narratives, Caravan’s practice invites viewers to reconsider the past and envision a more conscious future.

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Emily White Tousley

Emily White Tousley’s work invites viewers to explore the complex ways we inhabit space with our inner selves. Blending sculpture, painting, photography, and digital media, her art examines how past consciousnesses influence the present and how incorporeal entities leave traces on physical spaces. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her pieces resonate with themes of spirituality, memory, and the uncanny, offering a meditation on presence and absence.

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Jesusjoints

Meg Hadley (alias Jesusjoints) transforms glass into a canvas for exploring the fragile, mystical intersections of belief, reality, and the human psyche. Her layered oil paintings capture the tension between imperfection and control, creating dreamlike, psychologically charged scenes. Featured in The Spirit World, a virtual exhibition examining the spiritual, mystical, eerie, and uncanny, Hadley’s work invites viewers to consider the unseen and the ephemeral in deeply personal and evocative ways.

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Erin Fitzpatrick

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.

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Sinem Beles

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.

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Shannon Nahara

Shannon Nahara’s art merges photography, collage, and mixed media to explore memory, myth, and the unconscious. Her layered compositions invite reflection, bridging past and present while evoking transformation and healing. Featured in The Spirit World exhibition, her work illuminates unseen narratives and the delicate interplay between personal and collective histories.

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Leo Rebolledo

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.

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Colleen Francis Smith

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.

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Mariel Andrade

Mariel Andrade is a Brazilian American contemporary painter whose work explores duality, illusion, and psychological tension through myth-infused imagery and playful paradox. Using saturated and pastel palettes, her paintings blur the line between one reality and another, inviting viewers to question perception and uncover hidden emotional narratives. Her work is featured in The Spirit World virtual exhibition, which examines the spiritual, mystical, eerie, and uncanny.

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Matthew Carver

Matthew Carver’s work invites viewers into alternate realities, where time travel, ghostly encounters, and cyberpunk landscapes intertwine with spiritual and mystical themes. Featured in The Spirit World virtual exhibition, Carver’s paintings and graphic novels explore how stories, myths, and belief shape our understanding of the unseen.