Kate Hendrickson’s art intertwines faith, movement, and personal expression. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her recent series blends colored pencil drawings and pastel backgrounds to explore spirituality, joy, and the freedom to be fully seen, creating works that are both intimate and universally resonant.

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.

Alexis McKeown’s studio photography challenges viewers to confront the intimate conflicts behind everyday experiences. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her FIGURING series combines self-portraiture, still life, and classical lighting techniques with humor and vulnerability, inviting dialogue around food, identity, and personal reflection.

Kristin M. Steinke creates mixed media art rooted in joy, color, and allyship. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work blends vibrant aesthetics with intentional messaging, exploring inclusivity, empowerment, and emotional resilience while inviting viewers to experience beauty and justice side by side.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.