Michael E. Barringer
Organic Geometry (Easter Totem I), 2020
Acrylic paint and oil paint on paper
30 x 22 inches, Framed 37 x 29 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Barringer's work is in museums, public, and private collections throughout the country. It ALL seeps in, but, particularly, the written word is important for my inspiration. Poetry, novels, paleoanthropology, cosmology, biology, and art history are all areas where I may find grist for the mill. A question which is always present for me: how does the world fit together from its many parts, and what drives our need to know and create and seek the spiritual. I am fascinated by these spiritual objects and places. Barringer earned his BA degree in English from the UNC at Chapel HIll, and graduate degree from GSU. He is represented by Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta, Momentum Gallery (Asheville), Anne Neilson Fine Art (Charlotte), and L Ross Gallery (Memphis).

Mandy Cano Villalobos
Supplication in Red I, 2018
Thread on tea stained paper mounted on cotton
11.75 x 8.875 inches, Framed: 12 x 15 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Mandy Cano Villalobos is an artist/curator/educator based in Michigan. She works in a variety of mediums Ð installation, painting, performance, sculpture and social engagement) to explore concepts of intergenerational memory and cultural histories. Cano Villalobos is the recipient of a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship, and has been awarded grants from multiple organizations including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation, and the Frey Foundation. Cano Villalobos exhibits internationally and is represented by Lafontsee Gallery in Michigan and drj art projects in Berlin. She earned her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington, DC and currently teaches at Grand Valley State University.

Chris Chambers
untitled (eve of destruction, 1991, c676 frame 27, c685 frame 16), 2021
ink, colored pencil, paper
12 x 18 inches (diptych), 16 x 26 inches (diptych)
Courtesy of the artist.

Chris Chambers has exhibited with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Living Walls Conference, apexart NY, High Museum of Art, as well as in a variety of non-gallery public and improvised venues. He has received commissions and grants from the Hudgens Art Center, Forward Arts Foundation, Dashboard, Center for Puppetry Arts, Elevate Atlanta, Idea Capital, Pelican Bomb of New Orleans, and has been collected by the High Museum. Chambers was awarded the 2013-14 Walthall Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2013 Hudgens Prize, the 2014 and 2016 Forwards Arts Foundation Award, the 2015 MOCA GA Working Artist Project, and the 2016 MOCA GA Working Artist Project.

Manty Dey
Gold Bloom, 2019
Acrylic and ink on paper
30 x 22 inches, 32 x 24 inches

Manty Dey is a visual artist working in Atlanta, Georgia. She received a BFA in painting and drawing from Georgia State University and an MFA from the University of Georgia. Dey's work has been exhibited at MOCA GA, Georgia Museum of Art, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, and Lyndon House Art Center. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.

JOEKINGATL
IS IT FINISHED An American Crucifixion (tryptic), 2020
Spray Paint, Marker, Oil Stick, House Paint on 140lb Paper
24 x 54 inches, unframed
Courtesy of JOEKINGATL.

JOEKINGATL aka Joseph Dreher is an Atlanta based artist and graduate of SCAD with a Master of Architecture degree. His work can be seen primarily in the streets and has been exhibited in numerous group shows. Joe is a Hambidge Fellow and has completed commissions for the High Museum of Art, Arthur Blank Foundation, Passion City Church, Westside Presbyterian Church, Living Walls and is in numerous private collections.

Lydia A. Harris
Heart, 2020
Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle 300 gm hot press paper
10 x 10 inches, Framed: 12 x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Harris focuses on investigating what motivates us individually and as a society, tackling issues of inequality as it relates to power dynamics. Originally trained as a Microbiologist, she holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a Master's degree from the University of Maryland, receiving an MFA at the School at the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston along with a Museum Studies Certificate, and a Professional Certificate in Photography from Maine Media College.

Margaret Hiden
Prototype in Blue, 2016
Unique Cyanotype on Paper
8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches, Framed: 14.75 x 11.75 inches

Hiden is a Birmingham, Alabama native and received her BFA with a concentration in photography from Birmingham-Southern College. She received her MFA in photography from the SCAD in Atlanta, where she now lives and works as a User Experience Designer. She finds reward in and seeks to make unexpected visual conclusions through experimentations in both the digital and analogue photographic worlds. These manifest through the act of appropriating found imagery and play with non-traditional photographic techniques. As media is employed, deconstructed, manipulated and constructed once more, she is curious to expose the photographic medium beyond its usual callings and uses. A common thread in her work, is her personal investigation into loss, attachment, familial mystery and the layering of history in order to create new narratives.

Eleanor Neal
Spirit Dance in the Forest, 2021
Eco-Plant Printmaking, India Ink, Oil Stick
12 x 12 inches, Framed: 14 x 14 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Neal received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eleanor lives in Atlanta, GA. EleanorÕs artwork is in the MOCA GA exhibition at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Invitational exhibitions which include MOCA GA, 2019, Gathered IV where she was an award winner, Best of Show in the exhibition. Her work was selected for the MOCA GA Works on Paper: 1980-2013 Women from the Permanent Collection Exhibition. Eleanor has exhibited at the Sullivan Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eleanor was selected by High Museum of Art curator, Michael Rooks for WonderRoot CSA Program. Permanent Collections include Clark Atlanta University Museum, MOCA GA, Atlanta.

Rana Rochat
Untitled, 2021
Encaustic on paper
20 x 18 inches, Framed 28 x 26 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Rana Rochat has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She exhibits nationally and internationally and her work is in private and public collections worldwide . In Atlanta, she is represented by Alan Avery Art Company. Rochat's paintings try to capture an experience of mystery. One that is pre-verbal, promoting pictorial awareness prior to any explicit formatting of perceptual experiences into narratives. They are meant to be fluid, without fixed meanings. Rochat's paintings are there there to let the viewer's mind run free.

Lisa Tuttle
Thinking of Azaleas, 2019, Artist Proof
Archival inkjet print
20 x 16 inches, Framed: 24 x 20 inches
Courtesy of {Poem88}.

Lisa Tuttle is an artist based in Atlanta. Her artwork combines historical and fictional narratives, and has been described as 'Époetic conceptualism'. Her mixed media artworks, digital prints, works on paper and public art projects layer photographs, texts, illustrations, painting, printmaking, drawing and collage. Her solo exhibition, postcolonial karma, will be on view at Gallery 72 in Atlanta October 8-November 30, 2021. Her studio is at The ArtsXchange in East Point. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of MOCA GA, the City of Atlanta, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Federal Reserve Bank, Jerusalem House and Fulton County Arts & Culture as well as numerous private collections. She is currently represented by {Poem88} Gallery, Atlanta.

Jennifer Yorke
Last Dance (Octopussy), 2014
Collage, Acrylic & Silkscreen on Paper
13 x 19 inches, Framed: 21.125 x 26.125 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Aron Packer Projects.

Jennifer Yorke examines the uneasy relationship between consumption, identity, the physical body and the natural world through installations, collages, drawings, prints, photographs and books. Yorke's work is held in over a dozen public collections, including those of the Auckland Gallery of Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the University Art Museum at California State University at Long Beach and other institutions. Jennifer has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics; the Brush Creek Foundation; the Hambidge Center; the Jentel Artists Residency; Madro-o Ranch; the Millay Colony; La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers France; the Ragdale Foundation; the Ucross Foundation; the University of the West of England Centre for Fine Print Research; and the Vermont Studio Center. To date, Jennifer Yorke's work has been the subject of nine solo exhibitions, and included in nearly 100 group exhibitions. Jennifer graduated from Carleton College cum laude and with Distinction (honors), and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which she attended through a Graduate Trustee Fellowship. She lives with her husband Rob and dog Phoebe in Chicago, where her work is represented by Aron Packer Projects.

Kevin Cole
Downtown Grove I, 2018
Collage on paper
24 x 20 inches, Framed: 25.5 x 21.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Kevin Cole received his BS from the Univ. of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, an MA from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, and an MFA from N. 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 2021, he received the Working Artist Fellowship from MOCA GA and the ArtSpiration Award by the National Society Incorporation. In 2020, he received the Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in Georgia, the Brenda and Larry Thompson from the Georgia Museum, the Trail Blazer Award from Salem Bible Church, and the 2019 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary. Cole's artwork is included in more than 3800 public, private and corporate collections throughout the US and abroad. He just completed an installation for Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.

Kevin Cole
Downtown Grove II, 2018
Graphite on paper
24 x 20 inches, Framed: 25.5 x 21.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Kevin Cole received his BS from the Univ. of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, an MA from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, and an MFA from N. 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 2021, he received the Working Artist Fellowship from MOCA GA and the ArtSpiration Award by the National Society Incorporation. In 2020, he received the Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in Georgia, the Brenda and Larry Thompson from the Georgia Museum, the Trail Blazer Award from Salem Bible Church, and the 2019 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary. Cole's artwork is included in more than 3800 public, private and corporate collections throughout the US and abroad. He just completed an installation for Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.