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Annie Straka

Cincinnati abstract painter Annie Straka explores the emotional and structural possibilities of color through layered, playful compositions. Drawing from her background in dance and an intuitive studio practice, her work brings together geometric and organic forms, unexpected color, and a sense of joyful embodiment.

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Evi Antonio

Evi Antonio’s practice reveals the extraordinary within the overlooked. Combining her background in natural history illustration with digital painting and hand-finished techniques, she magnifies the intricate details of butterflies and other natural forms, inviting viewers to pause, look closely, and reconnect with the living world.

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Nikki Storer

South Shore Boston artist Nikki Storer creates paintings inspired by the ocean, coastal landscapes, and the gardens surrounding her home. Blending realism with abstract elements, expressive brushwork, layered color, texture, and 24K gold leaf capture the light, movement, beauty, and emotional connection found in the natural world.

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Jeanette Bayoumi

Jeanette Bayoumi explores identity, cultural memory, and self-discovery through vibrant paintings that blend realism with surreal elements. Working with bold, limited palettes, she uses color as a psychological environment to explore memory, perception, cultural identity, resilience, and transformation.

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Giulia Aim

Italian multimedia artist Giulia Aim explores perception, nature, and contemporary visual culture through painting and mixed media. Her Slices of Life - The Time of Nature series transforms fruits and vegetables through enlarged scale, vibrant colour, and meticulous observation, inviting viewers to rediscover the beauty and vitality of familiar forms.

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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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