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Maiko Kobayashi

Maiko Kobayashi’s “Liminal Creatures” inhabit a space between human and animal, offering quiet reflections on emotion, resilience, and existence. Through layered mixed media on washi paper, her work invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with inner life and shared vulnerability.

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Anouk Wolse

Anouk Wolse’s paintings inhabit a space between landscape and psychology, where natural environments reflect emotional states and human presence. Through subtle color, composition, and ambiguous narratives, her work explores memory, tension, and our shifting relationship to nature.

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Emi Avora

Emi Avora’s practice bridges Greek heritage and life in Asia, weaving together interior spaces, still life, and landscape into layered compositions. Her paintings explore identity, mythology, and perception through color, scale, and symbolic encounters between objects and forms.

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Talana Hudgens

Talana Hudgens’ figurative paintings explore the quiet terrain of inner transformation through symbolism, psychology, and myth. Using restrained compositions and archetypal imagery, her work reflects on identity, autonomy, and the subtle strength found in stillness and self-awareness.

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Buakow Phasom

Buakow Phasom’s work emerges from a deeply personal space of healing and reflection. Through painting, the artist transforms emotion, memory, and imagination into visual language that explores sadness, joy, mystery, and self-acceptance.

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Nicole Shannon

Nicole Shannon’s Rare Roses reconsiders how we define beauty, worth, and difference. Inspired by real roses with rare genetic abnormalities, the series challenges the tendency to equate variation with deficiency, offering instead a powerful visual argument for intrinsic value and dignity.

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Lauren Bergman

Lauren Bergman creates narrative paintings that reframe historical memory through the female experience, transforming archival photographs into imagined worlds of beauty, loss, and resilience. Her work reflects on individuality, humanity, and the urgent need to preserve personal stories within collective history.

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Maria Cobas

María Cobas creates poetic, reflective paintings that question contemporary systems of speed, productivity, and consumption. Through hybrid figures and atmospheric compositions, her work proposes alternative ways of seeing rooted in care, ambiguity, and relational presence.

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catchoo

Catchoo creates emotionally charged, character-driven street art that balances softness with grit, using simple forms to express complex inner states. Rooted in intuition and street culture, their work becomes a collectible visual language of vulnerability, connection, and quiet resistance.

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Mar Figueroa

Mar Figueroa’s paintings unfold as layered, symbolic landscapes where human and nonhuman forms coexist in states of quiet metamorphosis. Drawing from Andean traditions, ritual practices, and ecological interconnection, her work transforms everyday interiors into spaces of care, memory, and spiritual reflection.

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Alice d'Apolito

Alice d’Apolito’s practice transforms lived experience into a visual diary of sculptural figures, blending animation-inspired aesthetics with artisan craftsmanship. Through recurring characters and bold cobalt blue linework, her work explores identity, memory, and the emotional duality of movement and stillness.

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Bianca Paraschiv

Bianca Paraschiv’s practice bridges painting and graphic expression, forming a refined visual language influenced by philosophy, movement, and human anatomy. With a strong international presence and participation in major global exhibitions, her work reflects a precise balance of structure, emotion, and conceptual depth.

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Ornella Pocetti

Ornella Pocetti’s practice emerges from a deep engagement with time, memory, and perception, shaped through her studies in Buenos Aires and international residencies. Her work reflects a growing dialogue between personal experience and expanded visual language developed across South America, Europe, the United States, and Asia.

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Lauren Browning

Lauren Browning’s figurative paintings invite viewers into moments of stillness and connection, where subtle expressions and hidden tones reveal the essence of her subjects. Through a slow and intentional process, she captures not just likeness, but the emotional presence that defines each individual.

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Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt

Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt’s SCHOOL LUNCH series captures the emotional and social dynamics of student life through direct observation and expressive figurative painting. Rooted in real moments and environments, her work reflects the complexities of human relationships, identity, and shared cultural experience.

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Ozlem Thompson

Özlem Sorlu Thompson’s work bridges the worlds of science and imagination, transforming botanical forms into expressive, dreamlike landscapes. Inspired by her upbringing in Istanbul and shaped by her life in London, her paintings invite viewers into colorful, emotionally rich environments rooted in nature, curiosity, and storytelling.

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Audrey Bialke

Audrey Bialke transforms historical and natural imagery into intimate oil paintings where animals, antiques, and pastoral landscapes meet magical narratives. With meticulously detailed borders and intuitive color choices, her work invites reflection on memory, connection, and the non-linear flow of time. Explore how Bialke’s practice merges folk art, Illuminated Manuscript references, and ecological storytelling to reveal the hidden narratives of our world.

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Yula Bulanov

Yula Bulanov, known as Ulien, works intuitively with acrylic on canvas to explore the meeting point between inner and outer worlds. Her meditative paintings balance light and shadow, stillness and renewal, offering viewers a contemplative space to reflect on transformation, harmony, and the subtle language of the soul.

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