Cecil Ybanez bridges worlds—geographically, culturally, and creatively. Working with polymer air-dry clay, found objects, and everyday materials, his mixed media pieces explore translucence, lightness, and layered perspectives. Each work invites viewers to reflect on memory, perception, and the complexity of contemporary life, offering moments of pause, insight, and subtle illumination.

Colleen Cunningham’s paper collages are a mesmerizing fusion of impulse, control, and layered consciousness. Drawing from myriad sources, her baroque compositions explore the relationships between seemingly disparate elements, transforming space and narrative into psychedelic, cohesive dreamscapes. Each piece invites viewers to linger, uncovering the intricate layers of meaning embedded in her waking visions.

Audrey Bialke transforms historical and natural imagery into intimate oil paintings where animals, antiques, and pastoral landscapes meet magical narratives. With meticulously detailed borders and intuitive color choices, her work invites reflection on memory, connection, and the non-linear flow of time. Explore how Bialke’s practice merges folk art, Illuminated Manuscript references, and ecological storytelling to reveal the hidden narratives of our world.

Based in Joshua Tree on unceded Cohuilla/Serrano land, Corinna Rosella creates immersive works that blend analog photography, collage, and pressed flora. Their art examines grief, ecological awareness, magic, and ancestral connections, inviting viewers to witness unseen rituals, cycles of death and rebirth, and the quiet power of transformation in everyday life.

Amy Handy, the creative force behind The Alchemist’s Lair, combines paint, old photographs, mosaics, and found objects into richly layered mixed media collages. Each piece is finished with resin, evoking the feeling of being preserved in time like a fossil in amber. Drawing on her experiences as a costume designer, pottery studio owner, and freelance editor, Handy transforms her multidisciplinary background into artworks that are simultaneously vibrant, mysterious, and deeply evocative. She exhibits widely in Queens, New York, and is preparing for an upcoming show at Maple Grove Cemetery’s cultural center.

Yula Bulanov, known as Ulien, works intuitively with acrylic on canvas to explore the meeting point between inner and outer worlds. Her meditative paintings balance light and shadow, stillness and renewal, offering viewers a contemplative space to reflect on transformation, harmony, and the subtle language of the soul.

Minka Sicklinger transforms the everyday into the magical through hand-drawn illustrations, tattoos, and object-based work. Influenced by anthropology, ritual, and ancestral memory, her art navigates the spaces between figure, form, and symbolism. Every piece invites viewers to connect with fleeting moments, hidden gestures, and stories left behind by those who came before.

Deema Alghunaim (b. 1984, Kuwait) merges architecture, performance, and visual art to explore the tension between language and land. Her interdisciplinary practice uses site-specific performance, watercolor, and improvised methods to document and reimagine contemporary landscapes and human interaction within them. Alghunaim invites viewers to witness spaces of memory, transience, and possibility.

Trish Tillman creates immersive mixed-media works that bring memory, identity, and social rituals into physical form. Drawing on childhood play, nightlife aesthetics, and DIY activist spaces, her art combines stretched leather, shiny embellishments, and figurative gestures to explore how we perform identity and navigate social hierarchies. Her work balances critique, humor, and visual allure, inviting viewers to reconsider the connections between appearance, power, and personal expression.

Andrea Mitchell (b. 1973, Massachusetts) is a New York City–based multimedia artist whose work investigates the unseen realms shaping perception and consciousness. Working with collage, watercolor, stained glass, and mixed media, Mitchell uses color, sacred geometry, and ritual-based processes to create art that invites deeper states of awareness, embodiment, and presence. Her practice reflects a dialogue between nature, memory, and multidimensional energy, offering viewers a quiet space to pause, sense, and reflect.

Christine Beals’ work invites viewers into a meditative space where color, form, and energy converge. Drawing on her background in antiques and furniture restoration, she transforms wood and thick acrylic into layered compositions that celebrate ancestry, nature, and intuition. Each piece offers a moment of grounding and quiet reflection, revealing beauty and meaning within complexity.

Kerry Krogstad’s latest series with The Meta Muse invites viewers into a liminal space between endings and beginnings. Through hand-cut collage, digital compositing, and symbolic imagery of mirrors, ritual, and cosmic landscapes, her work illuminates the quiet moments of introspection and transformation that emerge when darkness is met with reverence rather than fear.

Clare Kim’s work celebrates curiosity, wonder, and the small moments that weave us together. Working across drawing, painting, and ceramics, she brings intuition, memory, and playful exploration into her layered pieces. From solo exhibitions at Chinatown Soup to group shows across Brooklyn and beyond, her art invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with the subtle magic around us.

Nikki Painter’s mixed-media Garden works on paper transform observation and pattern into meditative, vibrant compositions. Combining drawing and collage, her Night Gardens explore depth, energy, and the quiet edge of beauty in nature. Through her work, she invites viewers to reflect on the fragility and astonishing richness of life.

Michael Aakhus is a contemporary artist whose practice spans painting, printmaking, and digital experimentation. Born in Minnesota near the Canadian border, Aakhus studied art and art history at Bemidji State University before earning his MFA in printmaking, painting, and drawing from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. A recipient of a Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program grant in 1976–77, he spent a formative year creating work in New Mexico. After a long academic career, including serving as Professor of Art and Dean for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana, Aakhus returned to Roswell, where he continues his studio practice. His work has been widely exhibited and is included in public and private collections across the United States and internationally.

Seoul-based contemporary painter Hyun Jung Ji creates evocative works that explore the invisible emotional threads shaping memory and human connection. Through braided forms, flowing hair, and recurring motifs such as cranes, serpents, and flowers, her Threadscape series weaves together inner landscapes that feel both dreamlike and deeply personal. Her paintings invite viewers to reflect on quiet emotional bonds and the delicate truths that exist beneath the surface of everyday life.

Shelly Thanner creates layered, atmospheric paintings that explore the thresholds between light and shadow, stillness and motion. Working primarily with acrylics and natural pigments, her meditative approach transforms forests, seasonal cycles, and inner emotional landscapes into visual portals, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the quiet magic of life’s in-between moments.

Mexican-born, Lisbon-based artist Nayeli Lavanderos creates detailed drawings that bridge ancestral cosmology and contemporary minimalism. Through precise linework and sacred geometry, her work reflects the spiritual presence of animals and the Mesoamerican concept of the nahual, the belief that each person carries an animal spirit connected to their inner life. Her intuitive process transforms drawing into a quiet, meditative practice where observation, spirit, and form come together.

Bay Area artist Jessica Snow draws inspiration from the moon, shifting tides, and the vast night sky. Her Tides and Starlight series reflects the rhythms of nature, exploring celestial light and mythology through atmospheric paintings influenced by her time along the San Francisco Bay and residencies on the Aegean Sea. Through works like Nyx, Snow connects ancient stories of the cosmos with contemporary observations of the natural world.

Inspired by life and layers, Cara Jane Murray creates vibrant, multidisciplinary works that explore joy, struggle, and human resilience. From her roots in Southeast Alaska to her current home in Montana, Cara’s art blends graphic design, contemporary folk influences, and expansive landscapes. Her expressive acrylics, oils, and watercolors invite viewers to reflect, heal, and connect with the beauty of the human experience.