Forty Five Group Show Artists

Bharat Ajari

Bharat Ajari is an artist and photographer. He is an adjunct instructor in English Composition and Psychology at a university in St. Louis, MO. He teaches creative writing to incarcerated men in a Missouri criminal center. He is currently a resident teaching artist with the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis. He was a contributing writer for All The Art, a former visual arts quarterly magazine in St. Louis, MO. He has a Doctorate of Ministry and Masters of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He has a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing.

Brindha Anantharaman

Brindha Anantharaman is an independent photographer from India, currently living in St. Louis Missouri. With over nine years of image making experience, she works with a multitude of storytelling approaches including documentary, conceptual, constructed photography and audio-visuals. Her work tends to focus on stories about Gender issues, Mental health, Environment, and personal narratives. She works across various genres of photography and film making, and believe different genres have a subliminal interconnection. She believes curiosity, awareness, honesty, and a bit of humor brings out the best in a photographer.

Foster Owen Atkinson

Foster Owen Atkinson was born in Birmingham, AL in November of 1998. He spent most of his childhood in Norman/Oklahoma City, OK. Foster moved to St. Louis to attend college at Webster University, where he studied art history, philosophy, and English. Currently, he works and maintains a studio in St. Louis, MO.

Click here to see more by Foster Owen Atkinson.

Joshua Chapman

I began tattooing in Madison during my final year of college. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin and spending a few years honing my skills, I moved to Saint Louis after receiving a job offer to work at Iron Age Tattoo Studio. While tattooing affords me an immense artistic outlet, I have continued to explore the more traditional approach of brush and paint. It has also afforded me the chance to travel and be influenced by the visual traditions of other cultures.

The last few years I have gone to tattooing by appointment only, focusing on larger custom projects. This has given me more time to focus on painting, exploring ideas and techniques, which are not always possible in the tattoo medium.

Troy Chebuhar

Troy Chebuhar is a multi disciplinary artist, a midwesterner from birth to adulthood with loads in between. Troy studied at Iowa State University and received a degree in fine arts, mainly focusing on printmaking, ceramics, and mixed media projects. Growing up near Chicago, Troy decided to move back, and into the city. He started with a few jobs to pay the bills, and then he landed a position with Theaster Gates on the Southside of Chicago. He worked as an art fabricator/ installer, maker, carpenter, mover, amongst many other tasks.

He then purchased a 35-ft transit bus with dear friend, Austin Lemoine and together they transformed the bus into a self-sustaining mobile collaborative workspace and home that would enable them to live comfortably with very little income. They believed that their imagination and creativity was bound by day to day jobs and constant attention to money. After the buildout was complete the two set off on a circumnavigation through out the United States, presenting their project at schools, offices, and backyards. The two spent most of their time in culture rich cities of all sizes and in remote areas.

Along these travels the two made frequent stops to St. Louis to visit family and friends. They enjoyed the amazing cohesive brick architecture, presence of grit, resourceful artwork, the midwest folk, and the affordability didn’t hurt. Troy now calls St. Louis his home and lives and works in south St. Louis.

Samantha Clarke

After graduating with a BFA in printmaking, a mode of art making that shaped her as a painter, Samantha dipped in and out of creating for nearly 12 years. While five months pregnant with her second child during a pandemic, she reconciled her relationship with art and committed to a painting practice that transformed her life. She works obsessively in her South City home studio with two dogs at her feet, two curious and maniacal and adorable young boys, and a supportive husband (who also happens to be a creative!)

Greta Coalier

Greta resides in St. Louis Missouri, USA where she was raised and had access to free art, history, and science museums as well as local libraries which helped shape her love of art and the mysteries of the natural world. She began sewing as a child and moved on to all forms of handwork and art-making. She received her BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 with a focus on textiles and painting.

Click here to see more by Greta Coalier.

Rachel Cox

Rachel Cox is an acrylic painter focusing on surrealist artwork. She grew up in Smithton, Illinois, a small town about 45 minutes from Saint Louis. After high school, she moved to Saint Charles, Missouri, to pursue her Bachelor’s in Graphic and Web Design at The Art Institute. Her love for fine art has played a significant role in her life and forever will. Her memento mori is closely connected to her journey to learn more about mental health and daily realizations. She focuses on knowing that we all have conquered battles and can still be fighting.

Cullen Curtis

Cullen Curtis (b. 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist from St. Louis, Missouri working in the two disparate modes of printmaking and sculptural painting. His love for printmaking took hold in Tom Hück’s Woodcut Bootcamp in 2015, and continued at St. Louis Community College - Meramec before he transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute in 2017. Cullen’s work from Meramec placed first in Speedball’s national printmaking contest “New Impressions,” and won “Best in Show” at Meramec’s end-of-year exhibition. Although he continued to make prints at KCAI, his frustration with the print curriculum inspired a transition to painting in order to deepen his concepts and learn a new medium. His interest in materials and the reductive process of carving led to research on decomposition and entropy in the built environment–and he began to create abstract sculptural panel paintings based on his observations.

Cullen’s sculptural paintings were featured in the 149th issue of New American Paintings and have been exhibited at Dodge Gallery, The Kansas City Artists Coalition, Granite City Art and Design District, Vulpes Bastille, and the EKRU Project. His prints have been exhibited at Art St. Louis, Utah State University’s Projects Gallery, Pärnu Town Hall and Gallery (Estonia), Concrete Ocean Gallery (St. Louis), the Mary R. Koch Arts Center (Wichita), Bedford Gallery (Los Angeles), Meramec Contemporary (St. Louis), Parkside Gallery (Minocqua), Museum of New Art (Detroit), and others, and have been published in The Hand and Under the Bridge magazines.

SLIME

SLIME, aka Tyler Gross, is an award-winning illustrator and graphic artist. He has worked for a growing list of national and international clients including The Boston Globe, WIRED UK, The Globe & Mail, Sierra Club, United Way 211, and more.

Click here to see more by SLIME.

Greg Edmondson

Edmondson earned his BFA from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including Fulbright and DAAD fellowships to Germany, and residency fellowships to Artpark, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Kuestlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse. His recent solo exhibitions include The Impermanence of Objects - works on paper 2014- 2020, Stephen F Austin University, Nacogdoches TX, Before Language, Blanden Art Museum, Ft. Dodge IA, and DARK MATTER, The Smalter Gallery, Kansas City MO.

Suzy Farren

I approach my work with vigor and openness, never knowing how a piece will turn out. My process is organic, intuitive and physical, always a work of the hands. Stitches, marks and fragments of cloth and paper are recurring components in my art. After a career as a writer, I began to express myself visually. I was surprised to find myself drawn to grays, rusts and browns, which I recognized as the colors of the New Jersey countryside where I grew up. When Covid forced our world inside, I sought refuge in my studio. The longer I stayed isolated, the more colorful my palette became. At first I was perplexed by the bright colors of my new work. Now I realize I had gone deep within – deeper than things remembered – to a time when all the world was new and every day brought joy.

Barbara Ferrari

During the 1980’s I was part of the burgeoning downtown art scene in NYC.

My involvement consisted of doing performance art, street art as well as curating guerrilla art shows. Among the artists that I was associated with were; Alice Neel, Keith Haring, Ed Higgins III & Buster Cleveland of The Rivington Street School as well as Geoff Hendricks & Ray Johnson of Fluxus.

This period of my career has been documented in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC as well as in the accompanying book by the same title: 'CLUB 57, Film, Performance and Art in the East Village 1978-1988'.

Michelle Graf

I live and work from my home studio in St. Louis, Missouri. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Truman State University, with an emphasis in printmaking, and a Master of Education from Maryville University. I spent seven years teaching high school and middle school art and I adored my time as a teacher. Now, when I’m not chasing after my own two children, I paint. I would say it’s a way for me to relax and let-go, but I feel like that description falls short. Like many people who create, it gives me a sense of purpose. I find a sense of belonging in the process of creating. While I love printmaking, I felt a need to expand into a medium that I could make my own, without being weighed down by preconceived notions and ideas. Gouache is the medium that has given me the freedom to find my own voice as an artist, again. The freedom to play and experiment as I’ve grown as a person, spouse, and mother.

Macayli Hausmann

Macayli Hausmann is an analog photographer based in both Oakland, CA and St. Louis, MO. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Art Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016.

*The Cat Women of Alexandria Find Their Fairest of the Seasons AKA Congenital Contempt for the Heteropatriarc Takes a Brief Pause* (SOLD)

Massoud Hayoun

Massoud Hayoun is a self-taught artist as well as an award-winning author and investigative journalist born and based in Los Angeles. He paints out of mourning for his Egyptian-Moroccan and Tunisian grandparents who raised him, some nostalgia for his experiences with socialism as a reporter in China, and a desire to convey his particular experience with gayness. His work treads a line between glorifying his grandparents’ bygone era of style and romance epitomized in the Golden Age of Egyptian cinema of the 1950s and 60s and appreciating what is deeply flawed about their legacies.

Massoud began to paint after years of solitude, wherein the pandemic compounded the loneliness he experienced after his grandmother’s death. The subjects of his paintings are wounded and hopeful. They seek to emerge from the depression and anxiety that are part and parcel of not just his family or life in his various communities but the human experience.

He published two novels in 2022. Ai Weiwei called the first “exquisite”. He has worked internationally for news outlets including Al Jazeera, CNN’s Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, and Agence France-Presse.

Bear Howl

Bear Howl’s an artist in St.Louis who is known for his graffiti style artwork using stencils and spray paint. He has been a regular at Wall Ball STL!

Cary Horton

Cary lives with her husband and two children in St. Louis, MO, where she frequently exhibits her photographs. She has shown her work nationally at galleries such as Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL; Eagle Art Gallery, Murray State University, KY; and BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA. Cary's work was selected by St. Louis' Arts in Transit to be featured at Metrolink light rail and Metrobus stations. Her photographs have been published in journals, such as The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and 52nd City magazine and in books, such as Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide, and Exile in Erin. In 1995 Cary received her B.A. in photography from Webster University, Webster Groves, MO. She has worked in the photography industry for eighteen years and is currently the Object Photographer and Imaging Specialist for the Missouri History Museum

Jacob Janes

Jacob Janes is a painter living in St. Louis. He is a lifelong wrestler, returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and mediocre skateboarder. Prior to earning his MFA from Marywood University, he also studied fine art at Lindenwood University and Mount Gretna School of Art. His paintings are figurative poems; playful, simplistic abstractions of common subjects, born from a sense of necessity.

Click here to see more by Jacob Janes.

Sheldon Johnson

My current work reflects on my fascination with adding very expressive color, line and shapes to create an emotional explosion of nature’s beauty. This emotional outburst was influenced by the recent Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly plant drawing exhibition at SLAM that I viewed years ago. I loved the linear aspect of the show and decided it would be enlightening to add both motion and color to the mix. Also, the largescale drawings influenced me to increase the size of my paintings which I execute by painting on very large on stretched canvas stapled to my studio wall. Also, the importance of drawing is stressed as I begin each canvas my drawing loose shapes and lines in charcoal before I paint.

Sam Kampelman

Sam Kampelman is an abstract representational painter living in St.Louis, MO with his wife, son, and two dogs. He grew up in St. Louis, then went on to further painting study at Maryland Institute College of Art for his BFA and Indiana University(Bloomington) for his MFA. Art is an integral part of Kampelman's life and recently he has shifted from a full-time house painting entrepreneur to a full-time artist.

Jeff Kapfer

Jeff brings a lifetime of experiences into his bright, nature-inspired works, drawing on a childhood filled with feathered friends and pet chickens. Jeff’s uncanny, upbeat personality is expressed in a wide range of colors, which brings his birds to “life” on canvas in a graphic manner. Ironically, it was not a love for birds that originally inspired Jeff’s passion for art. His mother, Patricia, was a stay-at-home mom who loved to work on fun, creative projects with her two sons, often drawing pictures for the boys to color. In preparation for a second grade open house, each student was asked to draw what they would like to be when they grew up. Jeff, enamored with his home art projects, pictured himself as an artist, and his path was laid.

He graduated with a BFA from Webster University in 2002, after spending time studying abroad in Vienna, Austria. Truly a bird of his own feather, Jeff created his first studio in the Art Loft Building on Washington Avenue—far before it was the hip neighborhood in which to do so.

Jeff continues to draw inspiration from the world around him. Although he admires the works of famed artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, and Wassily Kandinsky, he says the bulk of his inspiration comes from “the people I interact with, real life experiences, emotions.” Only now, the things that inspire him manifest as birds, creating a collection as unique and colorful as the people and events from which they evolved.

Click here to see more by Jeff Kapfer.

Philip Padilla & Katie Calfee

Katie Calfee and Philip Padilla live and work in St. Louis, MO. After meeting at a roller skate party in 2017, they began collaborating as a way to explore and express their relationship. Combining a variety of media, their work investigates the reasons we love, the value of memory, and the power of collaboration.

Justin King

Justin King is a St. Louis-based painter and sculptor. He creates animals and pop-influenced sculptures from unexpected media such as cardboard and paper-mâché. His animal busts fool your eye into believing they’re cast bronze, while his cardboard sculptures surprise you with their details and form.

Justin works out of his home studio in the historic neighborhood of Tower Grove Heights, where he lives with his wife, son, and dog. Commissions are available through the Gallery.

Click here to see more by Justin King.

Deborah Kraft

Born in 1988 in Davenport, IA, Deborah Kraft earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Iowa State University in 2011. Kraft currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her abstract works are richly layered treasure troves; her not-quite narrative pieces are at once dark, mysterious, and beautiful. She is inspired by the toil and devotion to craft inherent in grottos, wunderkammers, decorative arts, and matte paintings on film. Her work has been exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair, in New York, NY and was recently featured by The Jealous Curator.

Zac Lassen

Zachary Lassen is a Saint Louis-based oil painter focused primarily on portraiture. He graduated from Webster University, where he majored in animation and figure drawing. Here, he discovered his fascination with portraits and character-focused art. He favors impressionistic methods of painting and capturing moments of people in their own worlds, unquestioning their realities that resemble our own.

Lassen has been using his love of paint to depict people in worlds that feel familiar but ambiguous. He’d like for the viewer to look at the paintings as if they were a memory - faded, fuzzy, and possibly untruthful. Keeping it a blur except for the important parts.

Click here to see more by Zac Lassen.

Laura Lloyd

Laura Lloyd is a full-time painter and clay slinger in St Peters. Missouri. Born in Wisconsin, she remembers drawing faces on everything since she was little and watching TV just to see the faces. She received a degree in commercial art in Wisconsin and worked as a graphic designer for a silk-screening firm. Family changes brought her to Missouri where she decided to pursue a career as an independent artist. She has shown her work in exhibitions and art fairs both locally and nationally.

Laura creates fun and weird stuff to make people smile and to remind them that it’s ok to be happy. When she’s not happily immersed in creating something, she can be found hiking, biking or digging in the garden.

Sarah Lorentz

Contemporary painter Sarah Lorentz creates energetic, striking compositions full of bold brushwork and electric color. Though the subject matter of her work ranges from evocative figurative commentaries to pastoral plein air landscapes, the physicality of material and deliberate remnants of the process reveal the same confident hand behind the brush. Sarah’s academic training has been traditional with apprenticeships and extended studies in Europe. She earned her Bachelor's of Fine Arts with a focus in studio painting from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and now has an active presence in the art scene of St Louis where she lives and works.

Click here to see more by Sarah Lorentz.

Peter Manion

Peter Manion is a native Saint Louisan who returned in 2000 after studying and living in Chicago and Louisville, KY. Though he completed his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Peter spent nearly 10 years away from the art world. For the past seven years, however, he has returned to his studio painting, making, and showing his work continuously. Focused on the idea and the process of making a work of art, Peter's work has been evolving, challenging both him and his audience. Using an assortment of tools, techniques, and mediums, his paintings contain subtle abstract details and images built around a central form that frequently demands of the viewer to ask "how is that done?"

Click here to see more by Peter Manion.

*There was a Sky Before People Sang Songs*

Jordan McGirk

McGirk’s work explores the anxious embodiment of western hypermasculinity, and represents the fragility of living out fragmented ideologies. His most recent paintings investigate fantasies of power and privilege performed at hardcore and heavy metal shows by posturing young men.

His paintings sing Rock-and-Roll with praise and distrust—they indulge the fantasy of superstardom while subsequently warning against the dangers of privilege. In these paintings, both spectators and rock stars reimagine themselves as misanthropic antiheroes in their own narratives. However, their exaltation betrays their stories as fragmented and anxious—they are star-struck, delusional, and entirely too eager to sacrifice themselves to the hyper-masculine altar. They loudly rally against the heroic power they secretly long for; they brashly protest the western mythos they inevitably embody. Hoping to feel a sense of belonging, these desperate cartoons entangle their tropes, limbs, and desires into a well-intentioned mess.

Jordan McGirk is an artist living and working in Boston, Massachusetts.

Click here to see more by Jordan McGirk.

Metra Mitchell

Metra Mitchell’s unique background has allowed her to construct an identity that truly reflects the social, economic, and ethnic histories that have formed her. Her mother immigrated to America from Iran during the Iranian Revolution. Her father was born and raised in Kentucky, the American South. The diversity of her background allows her to represent and bring forth the experiences of those with multicultural backgrounds as well. Metra Mitchell earned her BFA in Painting & Minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work can be seen in publications such as Studio Visit Magazine, All the Arts Magazine, and LUXE Interior + Design Magazine. Commercial galleries include Houska Gallery in St. Louis, MO & Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, MO, and Good Weather Gallery in Edwardsville, IL. Special collaborative projects include collections at the Angad Arts Hotel & Metro Theater Company in St. Louis, MO.

She has also taught studio and art history courses at many institutions such as Maryville University, St. Louis Community College, St. Charles Community College & Southwestern Illinois College. She has led Museums and Galleries as well as Drawing courses in Florence, Italy through the Missouri Study Abroad Intercollegiate Consortium (MOSAIC) via the Global Studies Department at Maryville University for many years. Through the consortium, she has also taught courses in Madrid, Spain, and Lugano, Switzerland, and broadened her own cultural experiences through excursions visiting museums and major monuments in many other countries. Travel encourages a broader view of art history and teaches us the importance of seeking a comprehensive overview of all civilizations and analysis of their artistic production in terms of their own cultural values. In addition to teaching coursework abroad, she has also coordinated the scheduling of all classes, organized ticketing, and managed the budget. This experience has been one of the many where strong leadership and organizational skills were of essential importance in her professional artistic career.

Click here to see more by Metra Mitchell.

Misato Pang

Born and raised in Hong Kong to Japanese and Chinese parents, Misato migrated to the United States during late adolescence. Up until recently, she lived in New York City and relocated to St. Louis in the past year. Misato's works overlap personal narrative and cultural events, some of which allude to current social phenomena and political discourse in Asia. She has participated in various residencies and exhibitions in the United States and Japan. Her most recent solo exhibition, "Breakdown", was a two-part exhibition that guides viewers through phases of the artist's creative process using verbal and visual languages. The synthesis of visual and auditory cues recreate spaces and moments in time, hence inviting the viewers to reflect and enter these intimate spaces that happened in isolation and solitude.

Click here to see more by Misato Pang.

Zackary Petot

St. Louis based fine artist, educator, and curator, Zackary Petot, has been honoring his skills in printmaking, utilizing monotype and screenprint over the past several years. He graduated from the University of North Texas with his Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 2018, his work explores themes of queer codes within the LGBTQ+ community which are still referenced or long lost to our current queer culture. His work has been exhibited nationally, along with being published in several art magazines. He currently is the Exhibition Coordinator at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, and an adjunct professor at St. Charles Community College.

Click here to see more by Zackary Petot.

Jasmine Raskas

Jasmine Raskas lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. Their work has been shown across the region, including at Duane Reed Gallery, Fenix Arts, The Foundry Art Centre, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis Public Library, The Jacoby Art Center, 31 Art Gallery, Osage Arts Center, The Stone Spiral Gallery, and St. Louis Lambert International Airport. They are a resident artist at Silver Sycamore Gallery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and Artisans in The Loop in St. Louis, Missouri. Publications and features have appeared in Create! Magazine, Gesso Magazine, HEC-TV, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, KDHX radio, and Art Saint Louis. Awards include grants from The Luminary’s Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Regional Art Commission (RAC) in St. Louis, in addition to graduating from the RAC-Teaching Artist Institute.

Jasmine’s teaching experience includes work at the intersection of creativity and wellness as an ICF-certified coach and now a counseling student pursuing a master’s degree in clinical mental health at Webster University in St. Louis. They previously worked as the Lead Art Facilitator at the non-profit inclusion-oriented studio, Artists First, and continue to remain involved with community-based and inclusion-oriented arts initiatives.

Lu Ray

Trip into a twisted wonderland of sensual figures, coiling plants, and energetic landscapes. Lu Ray is a contemporary abstract artist focusing on the human figure through gestural mark-making. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1997, Lu is a self-taught artist and former elementary art teacher. They create abstract, botanical, body-centered art. They focus on the female form using acrylic, oil, graphite, and collage. They are influenced by the relationships queer female-bodied people have with their images and nature. They aim to tell stories through visual compositions while allowing open interpretations with abstraction. Their application of pattern and texture encourages viewers to stay for a while and use their emotional bodies to reflect on experiences with shame and joy.

Byron Rogers

My name is Byron D. Rogers, I am an educator and artist born, raised and educated in St. Louis, Missouri. I received my BA in Art History from Webster University, Master‘s in Art Studies from Fontbonne University and a Master’s Degree in Education emphasis in Curriculum Design from University of Missouri St. Louis. My motto is, "Be a unique creation" In your work and life. I continue to work to make a difference in my community and inspire change through the arts. I seek to connect with my audience by creating works that reflect themes of family, music, faith and love, giving voice to my heritage and my personal experiences, influenced by the works of artists, like Jacob Lawrence, Ernie Barnes, William Johnson and Elizabeth Catlett, to name a few. My desires are to evoke the same energy and spirit they infused in their works, where it touches the very soul of the viewer. My goal in my work is to provoke conversations and self-discovery, that empower and elevate through imagery, telling a story, embodied with a glimmer of hope.

Amy Firestone Rosen

Amy Firestone Rosen is a native of St. Louis, who returned after obtaining a BFA in Visual Communications from the University of Kansas. She worked as a graphic designer for over two decades. A growing interest in printmaking led her to further education and eventual studio practice as a printmaker. She enjoys inventing visual vocabulary as she creates large-scale, experimental prints that incorporate artifacts of our time. She organizes patterns and texture to create works that range from fully non-objective arrangements of shapes to representation of figures and apparel.

Her recent work addresses themes of fantasy of women and fashion, the Party Dress. Using up-cycled garments to create prints is the basis of her work. The hunt for dresses at second-hand stores is an important part of her practice. She searches for intriguing textural patterns that will translate into strong figurative images. The garments serve as printing plates and never to be worn. The first phase of her process begins as she destroys the item of clothing by applying black ink and printing them on dampened printmaking paper. The garments are up-cycled and transformed into collagraph prints. These ghostly, x-ray-like prints are used as bases for mixed media artwork. She adds color and new patterns by using other printing techniques such as silk screening, mono-print, lino cut, and digital collage. She views this technique as painting with the press.

*The Thing with Feathers that Perches in the Soul*

*A Small Matter of Gravity (Pluto 2.0)* (SOLD)

Deanne Row

Deanne Row grew up near St. Louis, MO in a family of artists and musicians, which influenced her interest in the arts from an early age. While in college, she worked as a traditional candle carver on the Savannah Riverfront; little did she know that wax would come back into her artistic life much later. To the horror of her parents, she dropped out of the Savannah College of Art and Design halfway through her BFA program and became a professional picture framer for over a decade. Deanne now works from her studio in St Charles, Mo. She has been concentrating on developing her sculpture practice, but still paints whenever she can. Recent solo shows include Myth or Memory (canceled due to covid); The Ship of Theseus, at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild; and the combined works of these shows at the Quad Cities Airport, Moline IL. She has received IEA’s Emerging Artist Grant and an Artist Support grant from CERF+ to improve her studio. Deanne was recently humbled by an invitation to exhibit alongside many of her encaustic and cold-wax heroes at the Texas A&M Wax Applications Invitational. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Encaustic Art Museum in Santa Fe and has recently been on loan to the Field House Museum in St. Louis.

Linnéa Ryshke

Linnea Ryshke (American, born in Los Angeles, CA) is a visual artist, writer and educator who creates paintings, drawings, objects and poetry. She understands art as integral to the shaping of cultural ethical landscapes, and positions her work as part of an effort to restore reverence for nonhuman life. Her work is based at the intersection of animal ethics, ethnography and the poetics of imagery and materiality. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute and M.F.A. in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she released her first book, Kindling, with Lantern Publishing and Media in the fall of 2021. She is currently based in St. Louis, MO.

Cory Sellers

Cory Sellers’ work deals primarily with the investigation of space. He’s greatly interested in pictorial drama and illusionism within that space, while also pushing the qualities of paint. Sellers want the viewer to luxuriate in the rich luscious paint applied, as well as the speed and mark-making that takes place. Certain features get manipulated or exaggerated; this continues until he feels the composition has developed its own characteristics, reminding himself that the finished product does not have to look like the initial intention. The space that the forms live in has a certain feel of solitude, which Sellers believes goes along with the mystery. Not always real, this is a contradiction that adds to the complexity of the painting. The image, space, and interaction of playful forms and placement are what interest him, and he intends to explore these interactions with no regret.

Cory lives and works in the St. Louis area. He received his BFA in Studio Arts from McKendree University in 2007, and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, in 2011.

Currently, Cory is an Assistant Professor at Art-Southwestern Illinois College. He teaches Art and Art History as an Adjunct Professor at many St. Louis area colleges and has exhibited his work throughout southern Illinois, St. Louis, Chicago, and New York City. He has worked in private and public collections nationally and internationally.

Click here to see more by Cory Sellers.

Austin Roberts Toledo

Austin Roberts Toledo is an artist from St. Louis, Missouri. He has been Influenced greatly by his experiences as a traveling musician and uses photography as spontaneous interpretation of the events that happen in front of him. His work has been exhibited locally in group exhibitions at Flood Plain Gallery, Art St. Louis, and St. Louis Community College as well as in solo exhibitions at Cunst Gallery, South City Art Supply, HOEL and 2720 Cherokee St. Austin has also been highlighted as a featured artist in Natural Bridge Literary Magazine and presented a talk on photography at Granite City Art and Design District (G-CADD).

Lauren Michelle Tracy

Lauren Michelle Tracy is a fiber artist working in St. Louis, Missouri. A graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, Lauren has explored her craft in various applications including soft sculpture, wearable pieces, home decor, and wall works. Dreams, mantras, and self-evolution are themes of interest explored through image, text, and material. Lauren is currently the curatorial director of Houska Gallery.

The current work of Lauren Michelle Tracy is a combination of traditional silk painting and batik techniques, woodworking, and experimental application of plaster as an alternative to quilt batting. The mixed media assemblages include existential queries and playful reminders of human-ness, styled with sophomoric sophistication.

Click here to see more by Lauren Michelle Tracy.

Dana Tyrrell

Dana Tyrrell is an artist and curator from Niagara Falls, New York. A graduate of University at Buffalo (2015), Tyrrell's artwork is held in private collections throughout the United States, and is in the permanent collections of the Castellani Art Museum, the University at Buffalo Department of Art, the Pride Center of Western New York, Hostel Buffalo-Niagara, and the State University of New York at Fredonia.

His artwork has been exhibited across Western New York, including credits with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the Castellani Art Museum, the University at Buffalo, Dreamland, and BOX Gallery, among others.

Jim Wilson

A native Missourian, James Wilson attended Missouri University before graduating with honors with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute. While in Kansas City, he was awarded a Full Fellowship to The Yale University Summer School of Music and Art. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Era, after which he spent a summer in Wilberforce, Ohio in a "Black Studies" program. James received a Teaching Fellowship to the Graduate Program at Boston University where he later received an MFA Degree in Graduate Painting. While there, he received the President’s Drawing Award and was voted by the faculty as the Outstanding Graduate Painter for two consecutive years.

While in Graduate School, James helped start the Bowery Gallery in New York City, where he also exhibited for several years. Allen Frumkin selected James to exhibit in a portrait show in his gallery. James also had one-man exhibitions in the Aaron Berman Gallery and was in many reviewed group exhibitions in such renowned galleries as the Phyllis Kind Gallery, The Blue Mountain Gallery, and the Munson Center for Creative Arts. He has had reviews in The New York Times, Arts Magazine, The Philidelphia Inquirer, among others. He also helped start The Artist’s Choice Museum and curated the largest exhibition of living figurative artists – 156 artists in eleven galleries.

In 1990, James took a six-month vacation to Alamos, Mexico. In Mexico, his work moved from the explosive competitiveness of New York Art to paintings that were involved with an intimate love of the human condition. James stayed in Mexico for ten years, married, and now has two children. In 2000, James and his wife moved to Missouri to educate their children in a first-world nation.

*FRIEND WHO IS GOOD AT PERSONAL FINANCE* (SOLD)

Jen Wohlner

Jen Wohlner was born in Illinois in 1988. She received her BFA from the University of Southern California in 2010 and will receive her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024. Wohlner has exhibited in a solo exhibition at Wildfruit Projects in St. Louis and the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Wohlner has been included in group exhibitions at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, CA and the Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis, MO. Jen Wohlner lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jen Wohlner's website is jenwohlner.com, and her Instagram is @jensface.

Click here to see more by Jen Wohlner.

Aly Ytterberg

Aly Ytterberg is a color block artist who is inspired by nature and the memories that we all connect with different landscapes. She works primarily with acrylic paint, but also ventures into the world of watercolor, ink, and collage. Aly received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She has since shown her work in local and regional shows and galleries as well as having pieces in collections across the United States in homes, corporations, residential buildings, and healthcare institutes.