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Allison McClay

Allison McClay’s paintings explore solitude, memory, and the fragile balance between humanity and the natural world. Working in layered acrylic on wood, her practice reflects on meditative states and landscapes shaped by beauty, crisis, and reflection.

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Cassie Rae Bledsoe

Cassie Rae Bledsoe’s work examines the fragile boundary between body and mind through raw, expressive imagery shaped by lived experience of chronic pain. Influenced by Francis Bacon and Frida Kahlo, the artist transforms internal states into visceral visual language that confronts vulnerability and perception.

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Maiko Kobayashi

Maiko Kobayashi’s “Liminal Creatures” inhabit a space between human and animal, offering quiet reflections on emotion, resilience, and existence. Through layered mixed media on washi paper, her work invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with inner life and shared vulnerability.

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Olena Zubach

Olena Zubach’s practice exists between photography and painting, where everyday objects are transformed into sculptural, minimal compositions. Through repetition, reduction, and subtle variation, her work investigates perception, form, and the shifting nature of visual language.

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Anouk Wolse

Anouk Wolse’s paintings inhabit a space between landscape and psychology, where natural environments reflect emotional states and human presence. Through subtle color, composition, and ambiguous narratives, her work explores memory, tension, and our shifting relationship to nature.

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Emi Avora

Emi Avora’s practice bridges Greek heritage and life in Asia, weaving together interior spaces, still life, and landscape into layered compositions. Her paintings explore identity, mythology, and perception through color, scale, and symbolic encounters between objects and forms.

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Talana Hudgens

Talana Hudgens’ figurative paintings explore the quiet terrain of inner transformation through symbolism, psychology, and myth. Using restrained compositions and archetypal imagery, her work reflects on identity, autonomy, and the subtle strength found in stillness and self-awareness.

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Melanie Tiongson

Melanie Tiongson’s practice brings together collage, illustration, and abstraction to form a joyful and layered visual language. Drawing from Filipino folklore, vintage materials, and personal narrative, her work celebrates identity, memory, and imaginative storytelling.

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Buakow Phasom

Buakow Phasom’s work emerges from a deeply personal space of healing and reflection. Through painting, the artist transforms emotion, memory, and imagination into visual language that explores sadness, joy, mystery, and self-acceptance.

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Kathy Ruttenberg

Kathy Ruttenberg’s work moves between fantasy and raw emotional truth, blending human and animal forms into powerful allegorical narratives. Rooted in ecofeminism and mythology, her sculptures and ceramic works invite viewers into symbolic worlds where instinct, vulnerability, and transformation take shape.

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Nicole Shannon

Nicole Shannon’s Rare Roses reconsiders how we define beauty, worth, and difference. Inspired by real roses with rare genetic abnormalities, the series challenges the tendency to equate variation with deficiency, offering instead a powerful visual argument for intrinsic value and dignity.

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Ella Camlibel

Ella Camlibel creates richly layered works that blend illustration, textile design, and painting into immersive visual narratives. Drawing from travel, memory, and global craft traditions, her practice transforms everyday fragments into symbolic, emotionally resonant compositions.

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Lauren Bergman

Lauren Bergman creates narrative paintings that reframe historical memory through the female experience, transforming archival photographs into imagined worlds of beauty, loss, and resilience. Her work reflects on individuality, humanity, and the urgent need to preserve personal stories within collective history.

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Maria Cobas

María Cobas creates poetic, reflective paintings that question contemporary systems of speed, productivity, and consumption. Through hybrid figures and atmospheric compositions, her work proposes alternative ways of seeing rooted in care, ambiguity, and relational presence.

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catchoo

Catchoo creates emotionally charged, character-driven street art that balances softness with grit, using simple forms to express complex inner states. Rooted in intuition and street culture, their work becomes a collectible visual language of vulnerability, connection, and quiet resistance.

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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.