LILY by Patty Carroll Photograph, 2014 40"x 40" Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970's. Her most recent project, "Anonymous Women," consists of a 3-part series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. By camouflaging the figure in drapery and/or domestic objects, Carroll creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and the Anonymous Woman. The photographs are published as a monograph, Anonymous Women, officially released in January, 2017 by Daylight Books. The Anonymous Woman series has been exhibited internationally and has won multiple awards including Carroll being acknowledged as one of Photolucida's "Top 50" in 2104. Her work has been featured in prestigious blogs and international magazines such as the Huffington Post, The Cut, Ain't Bad Magazine, and BJP in Britain. Her work has been shown internationally in many one-person exhibits in China and Europe, as well as the USA. (White Box Museum, Beijing, Art Institute of Chicago, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, among others.) She has participated in over 100 group exhibitions nationally and internationally, and her work is included in many public and private collections. After teaching photography for many years, Carroll has enthusiastically returned to the studio in order to delight viewers with her playful critique of home and excess. She is currently Artist in Residence at Studios Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri. www.pattycarroll.com FMV $3000 **Juror's Top Ten List** **Tony Karman's Picks**

COW AND GOAT by Tony Collias Acrylic on canvas 72"x 60" These two paintings are part of an animal series I have been working on for the past four years. In these paintings the animals act as an anchor for each piece. I use the lines that form the image of the animal to work within and against. My hope is that the end picture is an accumulation of colors, shapes, drips, and whatever else is left over from a process of repainting and rethinking. Artist Tony Collias completed a B.A. in English at Western Michigan University in 1996. He is a self-taught painter that paints in a representational style. A few of his solo showings include the Whitdel Arts Gallery in Detroit and the Chicago Creative Space Awards Ceremony in Chicago and later this year at the Harold Washington Library. He had work featured in Chicago Literati Magazine in 2015, and also private and public collections including, The Mars Agency, Headquarters Southfield, Michigan, and Vibes Media, Chicago, IL. www.tonycollias.com FMV: $3,500

PSYCHOLOGICAL LOCKS by Lissa Karpeh, Oil and Acrylic on canvas 54"x72" The following painting is from a series of paintings called Finding Complacency. The work was completed in 2015. The painting is about the killing of true self-expression in today's women. I am a 23 year old, Liberian-American painter, based in Minnesota. I create undeveloped works of art on large canvas. I use oil, charcoal and acrylic in some areas and leave other areas with just raw canvas. My work explores emptiness, potential, struggle and the relationships between them. I am most interested in the process of making from these ideas. FMV: $1,500

CONSUMER by Joey Knox Mixed media and resin on panel 48"x 48" The dreams I am concerned with are dreams that limit us. Moving beyond these limitations forces an examination of birthplace and childhood. Images that divide us, built on tiered opportunities, inequality, and walls of false expectations. Presenting a freedom from place; a new exploration of self. Joey Knox is a mixed media artist living in Chicago. www.joeyknoxart.com FMV: $2,000

Rhythms 83 by Rashelle Roos Acrylic Ink on Canvas, 72" x 30" The RHYTHMS series are created through ecotherapy in the great outdoors. Fueled by our innate biological connection with nature, I use rhythmic brushwork, color, intention, and chance. Through this meditative and invigorating process, I seek to bring an essence of nature indoors via artwork. Rashelle earned her BFA at The School of the Art Institute, her MA and MFA at University of Illinois, and her MAC-Art Therapy at Adler University. She is an artist, art instructor, and art therapist. Her studio overlooks Miller Beach and Lake Michigan, from which she gains much inspiration. FMV: $2,000 **Juror's Top Ten List** **Tony Karman's Picks**

Panic by Jack Winthrop Mixed Media 48" x 72"