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Mar Figueroa

Mar Figueroa’s paintings unfold as layered, symbolic landscapes where human and nonhuman forms coexist in states of quiet metamorphosis. Drawing from Andean traditions, ritual practices, and ecological interconnection, her work transforms everyday interiors into spaces of care, memory, and spiritual reflection.

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Alice d'Apolito

Alice d’Apolito’s practice transforms lived experience into a visual diary of sculptural figures, blending animation-inspired aesthetics with artisan craftsmanship. Through recurring characters and bold cobalt blue linework, her work explores identity, memory, and the emotional duality of movement and stillness.

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Bianca Paraschiv

Bianca Paraschiv’s practice bridges painting and graphic expression, forming a refined visual language influenced by philosophy, movement, and human anatomy. With a strong international presence and participation in major global exhibitions, her work reflects a precise balance of structure, emotion, and conceptual depth.

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Ornella Pocetti

Ornella Pocetti’s practice emerges from a deep engagement with time, memory, and perception, shaped through her studies in Buenos Aires and international residencies. Her work reflects a growing dialogue between personal experience and expanded visual language developed across South America, Europe, the United States, and Asia.

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Felicia van Bork

Felicia van Bork transforms printmaking into layered collages that balance intuition and structure, turning discarded monoprints into vibrant compositions of movement and meaning. Her process embraces play, experimentation, and material reinvention, revealing unexpected harmony within fragmentation.

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Lauren Browning

Lauren Browning’s figurative paintings invite viewers into moments of stillness and connection, where subtle expressions and hidden tones reveal the essence of her subjects. Through a slow and intentional process, she captures not just likeness, but the emotional presence that defines each individual.

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Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt’s SCHOOL LUNCH series captures the emotional and social dynamics of student life through direct observation and expressive figurative painting. Rooted in real moments and environments, her work reflects the complexities of human relationships, identity, and shared cultural experience.

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Anese Eun Cho

Anese Eun Cho creates immersive worlds where memory and imagination converge, inviting viewers to reconnect with a sense of home and possibility. Through her "Lighthouse" and "Second Floor" series, she transforms personal narrative into powerful, shared experiences of safety, empowerment, and inner light.

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Ozlem Thompson

Özlem Sorlu Thompson’s work bridges the worlds of science and imagination, transforming botanical forms into expressive, dreamlike landscapes. Inspired by her upbringing in Istanbul and shaped by her life in London, her paintings invite viewers into colorful, emotionally rich environments rooted in nature, curiosity, and storytelling.

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Erica Podwoiski

Erica Podwoiski’s work invites viewers into quiet, contemplative moments with the natural world. Using cyanotype, one of the oldest forms of camera-less photography, she combines drawing with found objects to capture life at a standstill. Her pieces reflect on the cycles of seasons, decay and renewal, and the subtle beauty of ephemeral life.

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Lyubava Kroll

Lyubava Kroll’s work merges art, design, and sustainability to examine how material culture and consumption shape our world. Using surrealist-inspired imagery, repurposed materials, and layered visual techniques, she explores ecological disruption, seasonal transformation, and resilience. Winter Fractured invites viewers to see winter as an active, transitional state where vulnerability and recovery coexist, encouraging reflection on our relationship to nature and place.

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Jana Astanov

Jana Astanov’s art spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, creating immersive experiences that connect audiences to ancestral memory, ritual, and the cosmos. Drawing on trance, astrology, and Slavic and Baltic folk traditions, her work invites participants into ceremonial spaces where art becomes a conduit for spiritual inquiry, relational healing, and collective transformation.

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Tiara Knutson

In this evocative feature, Tiara Knutson merges the macabre with elements of nature, creating sculptural works that honor both death and renewal. Drawing from personal experience and a deep fascination with the afterlife, her pieces invite viewers to reconsider the beauty within life’s inevitable cycles.

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Nancy L McCourt

In this contemplative feature, Nancy L. McCourt examines aging as both a personal and cultural experience, questioning societal norms while drawing inspiration from nature’s cycles. Her reflections embrace the realities of time, mortality, and what it means to live with intention in life’s later seasons.

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Christina Voytko

Christina Voytko, a Northern California–based mixed-media artist, transforms cyanotypes, watercolor, and ink into luminous reflections on nature, folklore, and the subtle magic of everyday life. Her Winter Solstice series celebrates the quiet threshold of the season, inviting viewers to pause, notice, and reconnect with the enduring cycles of light and growth.

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Megan Hyde

Megan Hyde is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist whose work traverses performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Drawing on dreams, memories, and somatic responses, her practice examines transformation, grief, and desire, creating spaces where binaries dissolve and viewers can experience the connections between micro and macro realities. Her immersive projects invite reflection on ways of being outside the frameworks of Western capitalism.

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Cecil Ybanez

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.

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Colleen Cunningham

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.

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Audrey Bialke

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.

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Corinna Rosella

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.

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