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air that i can breathe

mary ann wakeley

acrylic, mixedmedia painting, 11″ x 11″ on birch panel

“Self-taught painter and maker of inspired objects.”

white cuff

SCRAPdannymansmith

wrist cuff, 5″W, 9″diameter, interfacing, thread, buttons, chain, steel piece, elastic, fabric

“it’s more interesting to make things with the wrong tools-adapt and to be engaged with your work “

gently

heather wilcoxon

collage and oil on canvas, 40″ x 41″

“I see the world as a dangerous place. However, I am seasoned enough to see the absurdity of it all. My cartoon characters represent both the comedy and tragedy of humanity. In their childlike iconography, they embody a sense of innocent playfulness, yet in their monstrous rendering a dark humor is reflected. This dichotomy creates an interesting tension. In my larger paintings, I invite the viewer in with nice colors and pretty surfaces. But if you look closer, the bite is there.”

Self Portrait with Pink Dress and Blue House, American Flag series 2006

Carmen Lizardo

gum bichromate photographic process, 22″ x 30″

“The fact that I am writing to you in English
Already falsifies what I wanted to tell you.
My subject: How to explain to you that I
Don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere else.
- - - Gustavo Perez Firmat.”

untitled, 1955

robert rauschenberg

combine painting, 15.5″ x 20.75″

“Robert Rauschenberg has been one step ahead of and influential to all the major post war art movements since Abstract Expressionism. Often categorized as a pop artist, he remains independent of any affiliation. His lifelong commitment to collaboration with performers, printmakers, engineers, writers, artists, and artisans from around the world is the manifestation of his expansive artistic philosophy. His artistic vision is a manifestation of the changing world and it’s ideology as he moves through life. His “Combines” of the early ‘50’s seem to have developed in response to the inundation of disparate imagery we are subject to in the 21st Century.”

rest in peace.

our hell is the good life

cara ober

mixed media on canvas, 60″ x 50″, 2006

” I find beauty in all the wrong places. In my paintings, a cigarette butt with fuchsia lipstick kiss prints, or a soiled gingham tablecloth, can function simultaneously as holy icon and ironic joke.”

daydream directly

deborah t. colter

acrylic and mixed media on canvas,  48″ x 36″

“Often these marks will reflect architectural landscapes, roads, maps, repeated patterns, or colors as if seen from above or as recalled from within, a sort of visual record book of the mind.”