carlacontreras.net

@carla.contreras.art

Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Carla Contreras is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in Atlanta since 2016, when she came to pursue her M.F.A degree in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work explores the human condition impacted by the uncertainty and overwhelmingness of our current individual and collective existence through mixed media works on paper and canvas. Contreras's work has been exhibited at MOCA Ga, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Callanwolde Fine Art Center, The Johns Creek Art Center, The Lovett School, Pace Academy, The Coca-Cola Head Quarters, SCAD Art Sales, The Hambidge Auction, the ART PAPERS Auction, O/Art and The City Auction, and local contemporary galleries like MINT, EYP/100, Besharat, FreeMarket Gallery. Contreras has been featured in publications, and reviews for SCAD Connector, BuckHaven Lifestyle Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, BURNAWAY, ArtsATL, SHOUTOUT Atlanta, The VoyageATL Magazine for their "Thought Provokers: celebrating artists & creatives" Series, Univision 34 Atlanta, La Vision Atlanta Radio and Newspaper, ELYSIAN Magazine's Arts and Culture 2020 issue, and the AJC Journal.

@saramurphyme

NYC-braised and Atlanta-based, Sara Murphy is a former television producer turned mixed media artist who combines ink drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage. Mixing detailed line work with vintage or commercial imagery and text, her work focuses on themes of nostalgia, mortality, and the juxtaposition of urban landscapes with natural elements, manmade objects with living things.

artistkcole.com

@kevincole2378

Kevin Cole received his B.S. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.A. in art education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and an M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University. Within the last 32 years, he has received 27 grants and fellowships, 66 awards in art, 51 teaching awards. and over 45 public art commissions. In December Mr. Cole received the 2020 Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in the State of Georgia Earlier in February he received the 2020 Brenda and Larry Thompson from the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, The 2020 Trail Blazer Award from Salem Bible Church, in Atlanta, GA and the 2019 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. His artwork has been featured in more than 475 exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Cole's artwork is included in more than 3800 public, private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad.

@ErinSledd

Academic and artist Erin Sledd works at the intersection of the humanities, art, and technology. She is deeply fascinated by the nature of form and structure, of transformation and permutation. Her research and creative interests span the connections between text and image, the analog and digital world, virtual and material structures, metamorphoses, and hybridity. She has taught literature and composition in the United States and graphic design and exhibition design in Pakistan. Her most enduring obsession seems to be the labyrinth, in all its manifestations; currently she teaches a World Literature course that focuses on labyrinth and labyrinthine texts ranging from Greek Mythology to contemporary novels, films, and stories.

Visually, she draws from a well of knowledge in literature, images, history and science to create images that surprise and delight. Often ornamental and intricate, her work is nevertheless firmly conceptual in origin, reflecting her conviction that compelling art and design is rooted in meaning. She loves designing for print and reproduction because, in a sense, each image is the original. As Fornassetti said, "A thing does not become less beautiful because it is reproduced 20,000 to 30,000 times."

lorihaasart.com

@lorihaasart

Lori lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She obtained a BFA from the University of Georgia. A major body of her work have been private commissions, enabling a personal collaboration with the artist but she has also exhibited in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Cortona, Italy.

www.jwpaclipan.com

@jeffreywilcoxpaclipan

Jeffrey Wilcox Paclipan was born in Balibago, Philippines. He is currently residing in College Park, GA. He received an AA from International Fine Arts College in 1989 in Miami, Fl. His gallery solo and group exhibitions include Hathaway Contemporary Gallery, MINT Gallery, Jennifer Balcos Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Galerie Tew, Bill Lowe Gallery, Mammal Gallery, Life on Mars, NY, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NY. Atlanta-area museums and public institutions include Marietta Cobb Arts Museum, Slotin Folkfest, Chastain Arts Center, Fulton Country Arts and Culture Acquisition Program, High Rise Show with ShowerHaus Gallery, The Atlanta Financial Center, Lenox Square, ARTFIELDS 2021. Paclipan's mixed media college submission "Salvador Del Mundo" was highlighted in a Miami Herald art review of the 36th Hortt Museum Exhibition in 1994. Jeffrey is currently a resident of the Studio Artist Program at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.

www.roxanehollosi.com

@roxanehollosi

Roxane is an Atlanta based, multi-disciplinary artist. Originally from the midwest, she was influenced by the Native American spiritual sensibilities and respect for the Earth she encountered there. The foundation of her work is an exploration of the energies nature around her and the energies it emanates.

Roxane is a 2020 Hambidge Fellow and a recipient of the 2020 Fulton County Virtual Arts Initiative Grant for her project "Breathe". Roxane actively exhibits locally and nationally, some select exhibits include: Denise Bibro Fine Art NYC; National Association of Woman in the Arts NYC; ARC Gallery Chicago; MOCA GA; Kai Lin Art Atlanta; Gallery 72 Atlanta; MESA Cont. Arts Museum AZ; Hudgens Center for the Arts; Artfields SC; Abernathy Arts Center Atlanta;

Collections include: City of Atlanta; Atlanta Office of the Mayor; DuPont Beijing; Broadway Crowne Plaza NYC; EMC Outdoor PA; Spalding Wealth Mgmt Atlanta; and numerous private collections.

www.donnamhorn.com

@donnamhornart

Donna Horn is primarily an oil painter working in abstract imagery, often derived from landscape and the natural world Her work is intuitive and process driven. She layers paint, scraping it back then repainting, while balancing gestural marks with larger shapes. Allusions to connections or pathways can often be seen. Drawing, mark-making, and experimenting with materials and techniques are additional means of artistic expression. For her, painting is a manifestation of life's struggle to attain satisfaction while accepting its limitations.

After transitioning out of the corporate world, Donna earned a BFA from Georgia State University. She participated for two years in the Fine Arts Atelier of New York painter Michael David. Her work has been shown at Bill Lowe, Swan Coach, Spruill and IDEA galleries. While an active member of the Women's Caucus for Art, Georgia chapter, she exhibited in their juried and annual member shows. She also served for many years on their Executive Board. In 2013, Donna was honored to receive a two week residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in Rabin Gap, Ga.

Growing up in suburban Philadelphia, she never anticipated spending most of her life in the South, but now considers Atlanta home. She maintains a studio at Little Tree in Avondale Estates, GA.

www.donnamhorn.com

@donnamhornart

Donna Horn is primarily an oil painter working in abstract imagery, often derived from landscape and the natural world Her work is intuitive and process driven. She layers paint, scraping it back then repainting, while balancing gestural marks with larger shapes. Allusions to connections or pathways can often be seen. Drawing, mark-making, and experimenting with materials and techniques are additional means of artistic expression. For her, painting is a manifestation of life's struggle to attain satisfaction while accepting its limitations.

After transitioning out of the corporate world, Donna earned a BFA from Georgia State University. She participated for two years in the Fine Arts Atelier of New York painter Michael David. Her work has been shown at Bill Lowe, Swan Coach, Spruill and IDEA galleries. While an active member of the Women's Caucus for Art, Georgia chapter, she exhibited in their juried and annual member shows. She also served for many years on their Executive Board. In 2013, Donna was honored to receive a two week residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in Rabin Gap, Ga.

Growing up in suburban Philadelphia, she never anticipated spending most of her life in the South, but now considers Atlanta home. She maintains a studio at Little Tree in Avondale Estates, GA.