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Alycia Earhart

Alycia Earhart is a colorist artist whose rhythmic mixed media works celebrate marks, strokes, colors, and texture. Combining wax crayons, markers, acrylic paint, and handmade paper, she creates spontaneous compositions rooted in intuition and emotion, exploring loneliness, nostalgia, motherhood, mindfulness, and joy.

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Shelby Shadwell

Shelby Shadwell creates large-scale drawings and paintings of non-traditional imagery, including black plastic trash bags, emergency blankets, and anthracite coal. Through meticulous, hyper-realistic rendering, his work explores contrasts between vulgarity and beauty, ephemerality and permanence, and low and high status in artistic subject matter.

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Lu Loveless

Lu Loveless is a Dallas-based painter and designer whose vibrant, pattern-driven work explores how the spaces we inhabit shape how we feel. Discover how her background in architecture and interior design shapes digital collages of imaginary rooms that feel mostly real.

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Michele Aschenbrenner

Michele Aschenbrenner is a surface pattern designer turned painter whose "feel-good florals" balance vintage nostalgia with a fresh, contemporary feel. Discover her hard-edge gouache and acrylic paintings, made to bring warmth, comfort, and personality into everyday spaces.

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Courtney Kenny Porto

Courtney Kenny Porto is a multidisciplinary artist based in Omaha, Nebraska, known for vibrant color palettes and uplifting subject matter. Her work explores nostalgia, femininity, and the beauty in everyday life

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Reuben Cheatem

After a stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis at 42, Reuben Cheatem began a collection of artwork documenting his treatment, recovery, and renewed outlook on vulnerability and experimentation. Discover the story behind his healing-green painting Clutch.

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Umbreen Hasan

Minnesota-based artist Umbreen Hasan creates luminous abstract works inspired by nature, shifting landscapes, light, and memory. Working with alcohol inks, encaustics, and cold wax, her practice explores healing, contemplation, and emotional resonance through color and movement.

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Tasneem Arif

Tasneem Arif creates vibrant art inspired by flowers and the natural world. Her practice grew from a deeply personal journey, with art becoming a source of solace, beauty, joy, and optimism.

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Carolyn Sweeney

Carolyn Sweeney’s practice explores the relationship between color, place, and the natural world. Working with botanical and mineral colors, handmade pigments, folded paper, and pastels, she creates works rooted in material, memory, and the ecosystems of Oregon.

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Cynthia Young

Cynthia Young creates atmospheric landscape paintings inspired by the quiet power of nature, capturing shifting light, subtle moods, and the deeply felt experience of being immersed in a moment.

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Kimberley Kermode

Kimberley Kermode creates fragmented figurative paintings that explore cultural mosaic, identity, and the emotional landscapes shaped by migration and memory. Through vibrant palettes and layered compositions, Kermode examines how personal histories and cultural backgrounds continue to influence the way we understand belonging.

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Lola Fischer

Lola Fischer is a painter and graphic artist whose lifelong creative practice is rooted in abstract forms, intense colors, and expressive compositions. From international exhibitions including the Beijing Biennial and Venice Biennale contexts to her feature in Create! Magazine’s The Magic Issue, Fischer’s work explores humanity, imagination, and the healing potential of art.

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