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Elbow-Toe

I love the city, for many of the same reasons I love nature. There is a quiet to it when you really let go. When it is quiet I can see through the visual chaos and find amazing beauty. For several years now I have been working with the energy provided by the urban environment […]

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Rick Castro

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a traditional Mexican holiday that celebrates and honors the dead through colorful expressions in art, costumes, music, food, dance, and drink. It’s an important annual event culminating in “una fiesta en el cementerio” (a party in the cemetery.) Rick Castro is the curator and owner of […]

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Inna Moshkovich

In my paintings I experiment with the use of layers of color. In my wool collage works, I want to reflect the same experimentation with layers of color and texture.     In my paintings I experiment with the use of layers of color. In my wool collage works, I want to reflect the same […]

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Hans Johansson

"Born in the northern part of Sweden near the Arctic Circle, the Northern Light plays an important role in the work of Hans Johansson. Combining both figurative and non-figurative elements with his love of strong lines and vivid colors, he creates bold, poetic works."   Jill Smith is a writer for NY Arts Magazine. Hans […]

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Ingrid Stiehler

Ingrid Stiehler began her intensive work in art with landscape photography. Inspired by the different cultural trends of Asia, Africa…     Ingrid Stiehler began her intensive work in art with landscape photography. Inspired by the different cultural trends of Asia, Africa, and North America, she combines new impressions with traditional techniques learned on her […]

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Anal-Oral Issue Kitty

“This past October, on a lovely fall day just before Halloween, I took a stroll with my mouse friend through Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Maybe it was obvious that I was a tourist, or maybe twelve-foot cats are rare in Chicago, but the local inhabitants noticed me right away and started migrating across the […]

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Laurie Lipton

I think in images. My work is inspired by strong emotions. I have been drawing since the age of four. I was a perfect, polite, cute little girl in a perfect, polite, cute little suburb of New York. One day, while I was out playing, a mental patient escaped from a nearby hospital and sexually […]

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Anna VanMatre

Critics have described Anna VanMatre’s works as “symphonies of blackness, gray and light” and a significant step in “liberating…”   Anna VanMatre   Critics have described Anna VanMatre’s works as “symphonies of blackness, gray and light” and a significant step in “liberating” the drawing idiom. Many of her paintings (some large as 20 feet in […]

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Anna VanMatre

Critics have described Anna VanMatre’s works as “symphonies of blackness, gray and light” and a significant step in “liberating…”   Anna VanMatre   Critics have described Anna VanMatre’s works as “symphonies of blackness, gray and light” and a significant step in “liberating” the drawing idiom. Many of her paintings (some large as 20 feet in […]

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Christopher Zane Gordon

Frumpity-frippity frops.  52 forget-me-nots stuffed into slots. bushy bush lohan tush. sunset waters remind me to “shush” and when i do:     Frumpity-frippity frops.  52 forget-me-nots stuffed into slots. bushy bush lohan tush. sunset waters remind me to “shush” and when i do: the dew from spoonfed media cake, trickles from heavenly fluff clouds, […]

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