Talin Megherian (Massachusetts, USA) Iridology, (Well Series), 2020 uncollage, gouache, ink, liquid watercolors 12.25 x 19.75 inches Hearing and reading stories of wells informs an ongoing series of paintings I created to collect the memories of the Armenian people. My Well Series invites the viewer …
Ginnie Gardiner (New York, USA) Interlusion 37, 2021 uncollage, oil, linen 50 x 38 x 1.5 inches In my Interlusion paintings and collages, aesthetically, the colors are important but not for the optical effect of phenomenal transparency to work. It’s the values that have to …
inkjet print
16.95 x 26.3 inches
Images reconfigured from past work to connect to future possibilities are the continuum of my interest in playing with form and image to reach mysterious, synergistic connections and possibilities in their readings. My process is intuitive: sculpting in wire and netting, then photographing the 3D forms to digitally manipulate layers of color and light into a final inkjet print. My work refers to the ambiguous body, using forms that oscillate between a sensory perception of interior and exterior. While also using the illusion of fabric to suggest feminine materiality that is both soft and hard, transparent and opaque, concealing and revealing; curves and drapery sub-vert structure, order, or control. Netting facilitates glimpses of the body and layers of identity. I address negative space with ma, the Japanese intention of evoking stillness to connect forms yet allow contemplation within limitless space.
The possibility of fluidity over stasis.
Danila Ilabaca (Valparaíso, Chile) Matria, 2020 collage 30 x 47 x 5 inches The bridge is a leap of the imagination. In my work, Matria, I reimagine a world, a trans-generational coven, that brings together known and unknown women from the past. An imaginary spell …
Walden Booker (Texas, USA) Crush, 2021 photogrammetry render 30 x 40 inches A photogrammetry program was used to merge 40 images of my girlfriend’s and my body into a model that I can manipulate within a 3D modeling program. The warped models are due to …
collage, acrylic, canvas
20 x 10 inches
Spirit focuses on the climate crisis with attention to voices left out of the conversation. The tendency to nurture, combined with the tenacity to affect change, make women an important component in finding solutions to the problems we all face. Spirit explores elements of the climate crisis—fire, flooding, drought, and the outcry and silencing of those impacted. The voices of those most affected, women and minority groups, stand as a beacon and a bridge between our current situation and the solutions required to win the fight against climate change.
Chukwudumebi Gabriel Amadi-Emina (Maryland, USA) She Stands Above the Lies They Made, 2021 photography, digital collage, dybond metal 45 x 19 inches She Stands Above the Lies They Made is a piece that was born from a conversation with a friend, Dom. She told me …
Priyanka Jain (Victoria, Australia) The Forest on My Flesh # 2, 202 digital illustration 16.5 x 11.7 inches The Forest on My Flesh refers to the forests of microbiome lining the skin and the internal organs of the human body. Research on the Brain-Gut …
Onionskin dye, onions and garlic skins, acrylic paint, yarn, upholstery tacks, Stonehenge paper
91.4 x 457.2 inches
Unconnected Yet implies that a bond might develop between disparate beings, objects, places, natural phenomena, sounds, and ideas or that existing bonds might come undone. For me, both cases prompt uncertainty, hope, dread, or satisfaction. My work discovers connections between the science of natural plant dyes and imagination to draw together elements in the composition and the subject. I connect the past, present, and future; the physically and geographically estranged; and perceptions of reality and the imaginary.
Michael Waraksa (Wisconsin, USA) Lid, 2020 digital collage 22.8 x 15.5 inches In this piece, I am attempting to visualize the bridging of the natural world with the industrial/technological world that humans have created over the past century. Although the rapid advancement of post-industrial revolution …