Rebecca Saylor Sack
quaking leaves and black eyes
2014
oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1.5"

About the Work
My paintings draw from the traditions of landscape and still life painting, speculative fiction and natural science. Material and color are invoked for their visceral ability to create sensations of seduction and repulsion. The works court the extremities of stability and riot, beauty and impending violence.

Bio
Rebecca Saylor Sack earned her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BFA from The Cooper Union.

She is a recipient of the Fleisher Wind Challenge, and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the United States Department of Education. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationwide, including Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York, NY); Westbeth Gallery (New York, NY); Seraphin Gallery (Philadelphia, PA); Fette's Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); and Silas Marder Gallery (Bridgehampton, NY); The Michener Art Museum (Doylestown, PA); West Chester University (West Chester, PA); Stockton University (Galloway, NJ); The University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and internationally at the National Art Museum of China, (Beijing, China); Galleria Glance (Torino, Italy); and Donn Roca Gallery (Odense, Denmark). Sack's work is in the collection of the National Art Museum of China, Alter Hall Collection, and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, in addition to national and international private collections.

She is currently the program director of the Fine Arts Program and Painting emphasis coordinator at The University of the Arts.

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Kevin Broad
Expanse
2015
Oil pigment wax on paper
22" x 30", (framed 32" x 40")

About the Work
Study of nature has brought an inherent organic quality to my work. My aesthetic focuses on capturing sensations of light and color along with the emotions these can inspire. My style gains strength from my exploration and direct handling of various mediums - paint that I have an intimacy with because I make it myself. Painting is this process of discovery without fear or repression with the potential of bringing forth new forms of expression.

Bio
Kevin's work expresses a passion for his surroundings and a powerful need to create. He lives in Philadelphia with his husband Gus and two cats, Princess and Margaret.

Donna Backues
Mountain Spirit
2016
Acrylic, ink, graphite on board
24" x 24" x 0.5"

About the Work
This piece is part of a large body of work called, "Imagined Landscapes" which reference aerial landscapes, volcanoes, craters, bodies of water and land-based forms inspired by places I have lived, visited or viewed from the window of an airplane. Some of my works are imaginary islands like inner landscapes of memory seen from above and others are emotional responses to specific events or historical paintings. They are all created with landscapes in mind.

Bio
Donna Backues has a BA in Studio Art and Graphic Design from Southern Illinois University, an MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and an MA in Urban Studies & Community Arts, from Eastern University.

After working for several years as a graphic designer, Donna moved to Indonesia. For 18 years she integrated her visual art skills with grassroots development in West Java. Later when she returned the US, she taught at the Village of Arts and Humanities, Mural Arts Philadelphia and Fleisher Art Memorial. Donna has been awarded numerous artist residencies including the Philadelphia Art Museum's Delphi Art Futures and Art Partners program, Spiral Q and Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts. In 2013 Donna won first prize in the American Batik Design Competition, in 2014 she was awarded the Art & Change Grant by the Leeway foundation and in 2017, the NewCourtland Fellowship.

Along with her community/social work with immigrants and refugees in South Philadelphia, Donna continues to work as a studio artist, teaching artist & community artist. Four of her paintings are in the Philadelphia Convention Center's permanent collection. Her public murals can be seen in Philadelphia, Camden New Jersey and in Leeds, England. Her paintings have been collected and exhibited internationally in Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Stuart Lehrman
On Paper #46
2019
Chalk, oil, wax pastel, lacquer, acrylic & oil enamel paint, on archival paper
30'' x 24''

Su Knoll Horty
Color Pops 3
2015
Oil on canvas
12'' x 12''

About the Work
The sensation of color, the lushness of oil paints, the thrill of creating, and the surprise of abstraction are what drive me to paint--Add drama to the canvas, and I'm hooked! At the inception of my paintings, I select colors inspired by nature, random places, or other artists' paintings, whatever catches my eye, stirs my curiosity, or challenges me. I explore fluidity, in all its measures: organic form, undulating movement, saturated 'liquid' color, and stylized gestural marks. It's through this fluidity that I find color to be most expressive. Color relationships are very important to me, as are tonal variations. I place color next to color, with the goal of finding just the right combination so that each will make the other shine, or as in this series, "Pop!"

My hope is that my paintings' lushness, power and mood-altering color will affect the viewer on a visceral, not practical level. I want to excite the viewers' imagination so that they pay attention to, remember, and ultimately discover something new through color!

This series is called Color Pops.

Bio
In 2012, Su completed the CE Core Curriculum Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Su continues to study with Abstract teachers, Kassem Amoudi at Pafa, and Peter Bonner at The Art Students League of New York. Su has been been published in The Woven Tale Press literary and visual arts magazine as well as interviewed on ArtWatch radio. She recently received an Honorable Mention in the Visionary Art Collective online exhibition, Finding Sanctuary, 2021, a 3rd Place award in The ArtList September Artist of the Month contest, 2019. She also received an Award of Merit from Manhattan Arts International in the online exhibition of The Healing Power of Art, 2019. Su is a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and received two Honorable Mention awards for her entries in the Absolutely Abstract shows, in 2012 and 2013, as well as being a juror in the 2015 Absolutely Abstract show. Su exhibits regularly and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including The Biggs Museum of American Art, the Hamptons Virtual Art Show with Bluestone Fine Art Gallery, SOMA NewArt Gallery in Cape May, New Jersey, Hardcastle Gallery in Centreville, Delaware and The Delaware Contemporary. Her work is held in the Camden County Art Bank in New Jersey and in numerous private collections in the United States and Mexico.

Timothy Gierschick II
Untitled
2015
Latex and enamel on panel
18" x 14"

About the Work
Watch the horizon closely. Nothing may be as it seems.

Bio
Timothy Gierschick II (b. 1976, Reading, PA) is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. His paintings and works on paper have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally, including by Duane Morris LLP offices worldwide, and Capital One Bank NA. Timothy earned his Bachelor of Arts, concentrating in Printmaking, from Messiah College in 2000. He is also employed by the Barnes Foundation as a preparator.

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Ira Upin
Orange and Green
1997
Oil on panel
13" x 13" x 1-13/16"

Courtesy of Corridor Contemporary, Philadelphia/Tel Aviv

About the Work
This painting is one of many over the years that I have done with 100% of the surface area made up of figures. They deal with the tactile sense of close physical contact as well as my reaction to the human condition of population growth and in particular to the density of urban living in which I have lived most of my life.

Bio
Born in Chicago, IL USA in 1948, went to college in Illinois and Maryland and settled in Philadelphia, PA in 1973 and stayed. For 35 years I'd go back and forth between working at construction and working in my studio. At age 57 I decided to spend the rest of my time in the studio.

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Michele C. Kishita
Water Hyacinth at Sunset
2021
latex on birch panel
20" x 20"

About the Work
My current work investigates the dialogue between the wooden surfaces on which I paint and the trees from which those panels were built. I highlight the interconnectedness of humans and nature, while addressing life's impermanence and transience. The wood grain's undulations, which mark the tree's growth and annual water intake, record a tree's experiences and are a historical account of the landscape itself. In my paintings, I strive to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each panel while expressing the visual contrast and harmony where human-made structures and nature intersect.

Bio
Michele C. Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses landscape as her primary subject. Her paintings are strongly influenced by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Kishita's paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections, including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog, and the Studio Break and Thyme in the Studio podcasts, as well as in several literary journals. She has participated in artist residencies in New Mexico, Russia, and Iceland and exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts and is represented by Troxel Art Projects, Carrie Coleman Fine Art, James Oliver Gallery, and is affiliated with Crossing Art, Cufflink Art, and Susanna Gold.

Lauren Rinaldi
Relentless Pursuit
2021
Oil on panel
24" x 16 3/4"

Courtesy of Paradigm Gallery + Studio

About the Work
Lauren Rinaldi makes work that lives in the space where objectification, female power, and empowerment intersect and blur. She uses oil paintings, mixed media drawings and sketches as her vehicles to explore ideas about intimacy, gaze, body-image, sexuality and self-identity. She looks to the women in her life for inspiration and works to weave their experiences with her own, creating a shared narrative that celebrates women while acknowledging obstacles they often face.

Bio
Lauren Rinaldi (b. 1983, Brooklyn, NY) is an American artist living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and drawing at Tyler School of Art, where she earned her BFA in 2006. Since then, her solo shows have included Representative (2020); Still Standing (2018); Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters (2015); At Arm's Length (2014); and An Accidental Masterpiece (2011), all at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia and she has exhibited her work extensively in group shows throughout the United States. In 2012, Rinaldi completed The City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program's Training Program and has since worked on a number of public and private murals in the city. In addition to her active studio practice, Lauren is a mother, and is involved in local political organizing and volunteering.

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Richard King
Mixed Use
2022
Acrylic and oil pigment on wood panel
16" x 12"
(framed)

About the Work
My art practice has grown out of a need to manage bouts of insomnia over many years, drawing to distract myself from the realities of sleeplessness. I am fascinated by curious geometries and shapes from the world I see around me, from objects, to architecture to letter form. I work to conflate their formal, spatial and figural qualities, tapping into the perceptions and memories of the viewer, creating something that is foreign, yet familiar.

Working with tools from my architectural training, I develop drawings in graphite, ink and paint as well as in digital form. Pieces are drawn in layers, subtracting and adding lines to clarify interesting qualities that begin to emerge, often reworking them over long periods of time. I see this work as adding to the collection of shapes/spaces that we unconsciously absorb, as we make sense of our every day world.

Bio
Based in Philadelphia, Richard works as an artist, architect and educator. His art practice is focused on abstract drawing, painting and sculpture, exploring shape, geometry and light. Educated as an architect, he holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Temple University and a Master of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. Richard is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

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Mikel Elam
We have always been here
2020
Mixed medium of acrylic, ink, resin, paper on wood panel
18" x 14"

About the Work
My ongoing exploration of human equality is a life long narrative within my work . This work explores the imagined story of shady promises told on a warm day in Cameroon.

Bio
I am a practicing artist who has been fortunate to show both nationally and sometimes internationally. In the last few years I have been in a great deal of exhibition with favorable outcome . My work has also been used in publications films and music culture.I was a 2021 Cohort Fellow through The Mural Arts . I am an Artist in Residence at The Fitler Club . I have an upcoming solo exhibition at Cerulean Gallery . I am also represented by Black Bird Gallery in Detroit

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Kimberly Neff
All the Best to You
2022
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
24" x 36"

About the Work
My work is an exploration of things unseen. I like to use bright, bold, playful and feminine colors and textures to evoke emotion and ask the audience questions. Art can be healing for most people, and I ask audiences to go within to see, think and feel, and process pain, trauma, or unanswered questions in their lives. In the recesses of the mind, one can access new places. I believe creativity is a portal to the divine and that every being on earth can be creative in their own way.

I work in acrylic, mixed media and collage and have been creative for my entire life. My vision is that viewers of my work will feel something new, perhaps recall a new childhood memory, enter a new place of understanding their world in their mind and spirit. Art helps give meaning to which there are no words - I hope this work moves someone to experience something authentic and meaningful that they have been looking for.

My background professionally is in marketing and advertising although I've been called to the visual arts consistently as both a viewer and as creator. I have a Master's in Science degree from Drexel University in the management of arts and cultural organizations.

Bio
Kimberly Neff is a Philadelphia-based abstract and mixed media artist. A life-long creative, Kimberly uses acrylic, spray paint, oil pastel, and mixed-media collage to tell stories that explore joy, spirituality and connection.

Using bright, playful and feminine colors, Kimberly's work is provocative, urban and ethereal, inspiring and asking questions about the things we know that are unseen.

Linda Fernandez
Ritmo
2022
Acrylic paint on polytab installed onto plywood
24" x 24"

About the Work
My identity is shaped by a connection to multiple cultures which gives me a unique perspective and ability to relate to people from all different cultural backgrounds. I'm inspired by how culture and history shape our identity; what it means to be part of a multicultural diaspora living in the U.S. and how this affects our daily lives. Some of my recent work is inspired by tiles of Spain and Morocco, which became popular throughout Latin America and the Caribbean through colonization of these lands. In response to this colonial influence, I use symbols of Latinidad to remix the status quo and proclaim identity. The tile paintings bear symbols representing natural elements such as sun, water and earth. I draw a lot of inspiration from nature, I love color and some of the most amazing color combinations and contrasts can be found in plants and flowers. In other tile paintings I use elements of culture such as percussion instruments to symbolize music and the connections within Latinx culture to the African diaspora.

Bio
Linda Fernandez is a multicultural artist, educator and advocate for the arts in public spaces. She is a founding member of Amber Art and Design, an artist collective based in Philadelphia that creates public art through engagement with community members. Linda's artistic practice is rooted in collaboration. Her work involves coordinating the creative exchange of messages, artwork and personal artifacts between people across physical, social and cultural divides. As a result, interactions through exchange create solidarity, unity and a sense of belonging which are important human needs. These collaborative works bring a diversity of voices, ideas and dreams to the table. Linda has earned a Bachelor's degree in Art Education from Tyler School of Art, a certificate in Contemporary Art from Metafora Escola de Arte Contemporaneo in Barcelona, Spain, and a Master's in Public Administration from Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. She is an alumni of National Urban Fellows and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Intercultural Advocacy Fellowship.

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Jacqueline Unanue
Meditations XVI
2020
Acrylic on canvas
18" x 18"

About the Work
My series titled Meditations was created during the COVID-19 quarantine. This body of work was intended to interpret that moment of the whole of humanity: the isolation, the loneliness, and at the same time, the connections that unite us as humans, all giving us hope. During the process and through daily meditation, an internal calmness has allowed me to focus on my creative process. It has also allowed me to revisit my roots and accept inspiration from Mother Earth's palette. While painting, I listen to The Buddha's Tears, Armenian music performed with its ancient traditional instrument, the duduk. It imparts a powerful connection and with it, the sounds of a collective lament inherent of the current situation.

Bio
Jacqueline Unanue is a Chilean-American artist living and working in art in Philadelphia since 2000.

She studied graphic design at the Universidad de Chile, Valparaíso, and received formal training in drawing, painting, art history at Fines Art School of Vina del Mar, Chile. While a student, she became interested in the rock art found in Chile, meeting renowned archaeologist, Hans Niemeyer, who soon became her mentor. Unanue traveled extensively through Chile's Atacama Desert doing on-site rock art research in the solitary valleys, mountains and cliff areas where original ancient rock paintings and carvings exist. In Spain, she studied the pre-historic paintings of the Altamira caves in the Basque Country, the home of her paternal ancestors.
In 1989, Unanue received the Critic's Award in Visual Arts from the Valparaíso Art Critics Association in Chile. She was awarded grants sponsored by the Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile (DIRAC) for her solo exhibits at Guayasamín Foundation in Ecuador (1997), and at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC (2000). In 2015, she received the Latin American Women in Art and Cultural Tribute recognition in New York. Recently in 2022, she was selected by The Woodmere Annual 80Th Juried Exhibition in Philadelphia.

Since 1983, Jacqueline Unanue's work has been numerously shown in both solo and group exhibitions around the world, specifically Chile, Spain, Finland, Ecuador, Argentina, and the United States in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York.

Her work resides in many private and public collections in the Americas and Europe. Among them: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA; The PNC Bank Tower Collection, Pittsburgh PA; Gabriela Mistral Campus, Queens, NY; Gabriela Mistral Foundation, New York NY; Diners Club Collection, Quito, Ecuador; and Corporación Cultural, Vina del Mar, Chile.
She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Ricardo Guajardo who is a designer and artist as well. Currently she is represented by Muse Gallery Philadelphia.

John Howell White
Pulse
2018
Oil on board
36" x 36"

About the Work
Paintings hover about, unattached to their referents. They differ, in time, reference, and ambience, from film and photography. They welcome their viewers through their visual impact and, like ghosts, haunt them through their visual omissions. They conjure an absence, which ferments attachments and invites future visitations.

Bio
John Howell White is Emeritus Professor of Art Education, Department of Art Education, Kutztown University. He earned his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute and his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Experience Painting, a Davis textbook for secondary art students. White was named the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year nationally (2012) and statewide, Pennsylvania (2009). He has conducted research and published extensively about the history and philosophy of art education. He has served as Director of the Higher Education Division of the National Art Education Association and Chair of the National Art Education Association's Research Commission, the Department of Art Education, Kutztown University, and the Council for Policy Studies in Art Education.

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Lyn Godley
Conflict Zones #2
2022
Watercolor on paper
9" x 12", framed 12.25" x 16.25"

About the Work
Watercolor sketch for larger projection mapping project. Reactions to a world at war.

Kathleen Shaver
Small Painting 11-C (red& brown)
Oil on paper
36" x 28"

About the Work
My paintings are best described as a search for the primal. My approach is informed by abstract expressionism and a love of paint. I work from a place where intuitive gestures and mark-making record a quest for a pre-linguistic awareness. I am inspired by the Lascaux cave painters, whose images transcend time, culture, and language. This quest for a primal, wordless image touches, what is to me, the deepest mystery of human existence: Where did I come from and where am I going? My paintings invite viewers to consider an existence that is not limited by words, preconceptions, or conventional identities, yet one that is framed by an unknowable mystery.

My artistic process can also be described as a primal searching. Although I work within the tradition of paint on canvas, I am constantly shifting my approach in pursuit of the unexpected. Discovery happens when I paint faster than I can think. I work on multiple pieces at a time, with canvases ranging in size from very large to very small. I may start with thin washes of paint combined with calligraphic lines, eventually building up to a thick, textured surface. To apply the paint, I use a variety of spatulas, palette knives, rollers, and misshapen old brushes as well as my hands. I let the work dry between sessions. I do not plan my approach.

Motivated by a kind of anxiety or doggedness combined with belief, I allow my intuitive and emotional self to react to the canvas and to determine the next step. Building up the paint surface and then scraping it down in areas, I seek to reveal something unknown. I hope that the viewer senses a discovery, beyond words, and is touched by the mystery of human existence that my work explores.

Bio
Kathleen Shaver is a Philadelphia painter who studied at Moore College of Art & Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Her work has been included in a major survey of contemporary Philadelphia artists at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and in exhibits at PAFA, Woodmere Art Museum, the James A. Michener Art Museum, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and Moore.

In addition to the Rodger LaPelle Galleries and 3rd Street Gallery in Philadelphia, Kathy has exhibited in galleries located in Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Texas. She is the recipient of numerous awards for painting and her work is included in both private and corporate collections. Currently, she serves as the President of the Moore College of Art & Design Alumni Council.
Kathy is also a 1976 graduate of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her first position was staff nurse and evening charge nurse on the Older Medical Unit at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Kathy also worked as an operating room nurse at Hahnemann and Graduate Hospitals in Philadelphia and was among the first group of nurses to be certified in operating room nursing.

In 2011, she completed a permanent installation of 27 paintings, The History of Nursing as Seen Through the Lens of Art, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. This work was presented as a gift form the HUP Alumni Association to celebrate 125 years of nursing at Penn.

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Greg Kelly
Untitled
Oil on panel
14" x 11"

About the Artist
Greg Kelly is an artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Kelly received his BFA in Painting from the University of Delaware in 1990, and an MA in Arts Education from the University of the Arts. Kelly has worked as a picture framer for over 35 years, including owning and operating the Kelly-Webber 201 Gallery in the Crane Arts Building from 2006-2010. Kelly maintains a studio practice making small scale abstract works out of his Fishtown home.

John Klinkose
Treading Water
2006
Oil on canvas
24-1/2" x 24-1/2"

About the work
Blue; my world is variations of blue. I fell in love with sky and water at an early age. In my life I have been a pilot, sailor and swimmer. I paint against the background of these experiences. To float or fly is to be free or apart from the world, to be in defiance of gravity. My paintings are populated with airplanes and swimmers defying gravity. History, Science and Politics are important to my world view but, there is something more, something transcendent about sailing out of sight of land, flying solo in a small plane or night swimming under the stars. On the edge that can only be viewed when loose or free of the normal moorings. This is what I try to paint about. Paint as an exploration of the transcendent.

Bio
John Paul Klinkose began pondering history, aviation, space exploration, and the human condition at an early age. While experiencing the usual Hoosier childhood, he could just as easily arrive home after a hard day of bike-riding to find an impromptu polling place set up in the garage as he could find mac and cheese on the table.

His earliest dreams of astronauts and World War II aviators, led John to pursue a degree in aviation at Indiana State University. Facing the realities of the world, he switched to the more practical pursuit of Aviation Administration. Yet, quickly discovered after graduation that running an airport would not fulfill his adventurous soul and feed his artistic spirit. So, he did what any lifelong, land-locked kid would do, he ran away to join the United States Coast Guard and see the world - well at least the slice that ran up and down the East Coast and into the Caribbean. John ably served four years in ships making harrowing runs to Jamaica, living the sailor's life in Key West and finally navigating the treacherous waters stirred up by Hurricane Bob and the "Perfect Storm" off of Rhode Island.

While taking art classes in the suburbs of Maryland, a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts recruiter spotted his raw talent at the Corcoran Museum of Fine Arts in Washington, DC and said, "Now son, those abstract schools that are trying to woo you are all well and good. But, when you want to paint a foot, you need to know how to paint a foot - not some swirly patch that could be a foot or a fishtail." Well, the recruiter was probably a bit more professional than that, but you get the point.

Upon receiving his Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, John lived and worked from a garret in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia where he painted whimsical pictures of swimmers and aircraft which he showed in Philadelphia and New York's Chelsea district. Apart from painting John worked as a conservation technician at the prestigious firm of Kreilick Conservation LLC, working on famous sculptures and architecture all over the east coast and midwest including sculptures such as Andrew Jackson, the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capital, in Washington D.C. as well as scraping the bird do off the giant Oldenburg' clothespin in Philadelphia among many others.

After 27 years on the east coast, John and his lovely partner Jennifer decided it was time to return to their roots in Indiana, moving to the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood of Indianapolis where John continues to paint his whimsical pictures of water and sky

TJ Walsh
Untitled
2015
Crayons and paint pens, acrylic
14" x 11"

About the Work
Words like improvisation make believe, invention, whimsy, and intuition are words that have been used to describe my work. My work reflects an investigation into what it means to make marks on a surface to convey emotion. It is informed by many hours of listening to people share their stories of transition or struggle with me in the therapy room. The immediacy of mark making is therapeutic and healing. Making marks and pushing paint is about breaking through the noise of life to unearth the conversation beneath.

I care very deeply about all the formal elements of art and how they come together in a composition, but the subject matter of my work I leave to the process of painting, and start each and every one by making something out of nothing. I am an intuitive painter who relies on a process that is visually directed and which leads to the finished piece. I have no idea of the painting I am about to start, and until the very last moment of conviction, have no certainty that it will remain in the form that is in front of me. Through a very long series of moves--changes, cancellations and additions--an idea unfolds. It is an exhausting process, but it keeps a forward moving momentum to my work. There is a certain level of ambiguity in the work, allowing the viewer to interpret the content or meaning. I believe this is the best way for me to arrive at authenticity. When I respond viscerally then I know I am moving in the right direction. I am searching for a psychic energy and trying to make sense out of something enigmatic, organizing bits of dreams, memory, imagination, worldly concerns and ethereal elements. In the end, I hope it is about an unseen essence and an existential beauty.

Bio
TJ Walsh, BFA, MA (b. 1985) is a: Artist, Psychotherapist, and Higher Education Administrator in Philadelphia.

TJ received his BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Received his MA in Counseling Psychology at Eastern University, Saint Davids, PA.

Prior to his work in higher education administration and mental health, Walsh was a Creative Director and Director of Communications for several national and international nonprofit organizations. He has professional experience in brand development, corporate communications, non-profit marketing, social media engagement, fundraising communications, project management, and strategic planning.

TJ's work as a painter has garnered acclaim at home in the Philadelphia region as well as across the country and overseas.

Walsh writes and speaks on the topics of art, culture, faith & mental health. His work is exhibited and published internationally.

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Marcelo Daldoce
Segmentos 1
2019
Watercolor monotype on BFK paper
20" x 28" (framed)

Courtesy of Sugarlif NYC

About the Work
Marcelo Daldoce (b. 1979, Brazil) is a contemporary artist whose paintings address current personal, social, and environmental issues through ethereal, idealized landscapes.

Daldoce's work speaks to the many migrations he has taken throughout his life - both physical and cultural. His process is a personal journey of self-discovery and self-identification, of finding belonging in the unfamiliar, and drawing passion from his heritage. As Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues identified, "Brazil is not a country, it is not a nation, it is not a people: it is a landscape."

Structuring his pieces within a storytelling narrative, Daldoce's meditative imagery explores subjects of loss: through migrations, power, and environmental disaster. Metaphors inspired by mythology, folktales, and stories are woven with forests, violence, and hubris. Believing in the power of allegory, Daldoce lets nature become his stage to tell these stories on: creating a sublime image that holds and espouses a hidden drama within it.

Bio
Marcelo Daldoce is a Brazilian artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In 2016, he received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, and has earned residencies at the Leipzig International Art Program in Germany and the Eric Fischl Residency in Maryland. His work has also been featured in group exhibits in Brazil, New York city, Sotheby's, and many other galleries around the world, as well as on the cover of various art publications and mainstream magazines like There and GQ. Daldoce was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2017 and 2019. Daldoce currently teaches at the NY Academy of Art and Art Students League of NY.

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Paul Fabozzi
Petro #1
2018
Ink and colored pencil on paper mounted on gouache on paper
19" x 13"

About the Work
How can painting and drawing evoke the physical sensations and conceptual associations one has while navigating architectural spaces that can't be reduced to its purely visual elements? By suspending a temporal experience within a static image, my paintings and drawings offer an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which bodily experience is overlaid at every turn with informational and mental pulsations. My overarching goal is to make images that remind us of our deep need to actively establish visual, tactile, and reflective connections to our physical world.

Bio
Paul Fabozzi's paintings and works on paper have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Rome, London, Busan, and beyond. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Frost Museum of Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and New York Public Library. Awards include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He edited an anthology of writings on contemporary art-titled Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and around American Art since 1945-published by Prentice-Hall and is currently Professor of Fine Arts at St. John's University in New York City.