They Call Me Mellow Yellow

2021

11.5" x 11.5" x 1.5"

Acrylic paint skin and resin.

b. February 5, 1981. Cluj, Romania. Before moving her home studio to Millburn, NJ in 2020, Calina has spent 20 years in New York City, 2 in Italy, and 17 in her native Romania. Driven by an innate inquisitive nature, Calina's work has evolved over the years into the abstract. She pushes the limits of the medium beyond the intended use, as creation is the only way to overcome the mundane and to generate anew. The series embodies her artistic transformation over the years and speaks to her desire of first confronting the undesirable, subsequently revealing its beauty. The usually discarded, dried medium is encased in resin, layer by layer. The result is an aesthetically striking and perfectly still moment of calculated discord. Traditionally-trained in the fine arts from a young age, Calina holds a BFA and AA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

FMV $2200

Emerald Ruffian

2022

16x21in

Digital output.

For artists, new media can create two things. The first is a novel set of tools to represent established visual ideas; the shiny new oil paints of the Renaissance led to shiny new renditions of the Baptism of the Virgin. The second is the realization that new materials create new art forms, which both annihilate and embrace the old ones. Picasso fractured the constructed object-in-space of the Renaissance, thanks to the museums. Now, not lapis lazuli in linseed oil, but light, not found objects, but found digital configurations. The unfolding of art through time is both metaphorical and simply concrete. Can the matter of art be created and destroyed? My work is an ongoing meditation on the shape of this question. I create my own soundtracks, and animate my own images. Forms, sounds and time appear as a single organism to the viewer, but appearances are deceptive. They are a result of my method - "Disegno" as they used to call it.

FMV: $2500

#131

2019

48"x48"x2"

Acrylic on Canvas

Gary Lee is a perpetual creator, born to discover and contemplate. He has an intimate relationship with the built environment, a dialogue explored in his paintings. Using acrylic paint, Lee responds to the colors, textures, and materials that surround us, creating an experience through his search for solace and subtlety. Using a burnishing technique, he shares this journey through various brush movements and the layering of unexpected color palettes. The method is active. Lee uses sweeping arm movements, often in a circular fashion, to spread and reveal the many layers of paint. Each composition arrives at a unique destination, baring the relationship between Lees movements and what the viewer sees.

FMV $4800

We'll Get There, It's Fine.

2021

40 x 30 x 1.5in

Acrylic on Canvas.

Bumpy Wilson graduated in 2018 with a degree in Visual Arts with a focus in Expanded Media at The University of Kansas. He started in the Visual Arts Program without a clear path but he felt compelled to be creative. Bumpy did not fit the typical art student mold, he was in a fraternity and was provided an ultimatum at one point, drop my class or drop your fraternity. He looked towards Illustration in the Design School because the creative but formal structure was appealing to him at that time. He was later kicked out for gaining notoriety for partaking in other forms of visual art. His approach is informed by climate change, social issues, love and the lack of. He believes that the overwhelming aspects of his everyday life helps generate his ambition to create artwork. After exploring many different creative avenues he found the most genuine medium to be painting.

FMV $600

Green Scab

2020

20x24

Oil, oil stick, and plywood on wood panel.

Loren Myhre received his BFA from the University of Florida and his MFA in 2004 from Parsons School of Design in NY. Upon moving to New York in 2002, Myhre had the privilege of studying under sculptor Tom Butter and painter Louise Fishman. Those years would prove to be the most formative for Myhre as he developed both an interest in sculpture and painting. For a number of years, Myhre spent time in St.Augustine, FL where he taught sculpture at Flagler College until in 2017 he uprooted and moved to Kentucky. Loren has exhibited his art nationally in New York, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Florida. He currently lives and works in Louisville, KY.

FMV $1500

Aquatic Dance

2022

36x36in

Oil on canvas.

Self taught artist of 27 years working in oil medium. Born in Austin Texas now residing in southern Colorado my work is a reflection of my life. I have a hard time with Bio stuff. I'm not great at talking about myself and any achievements or lack of. I really paint what feels good to me with no direction other than the color pallets I start with and move me thru the work. I enjoy movement with flow and want to create pieces that feel good when you view them. My work is very original I feel to the abstract and contemporary modern work out there these days. I try to stay humble and enjoy that people enjoy my work.

FMV $3900

Frog Eyes

2021

17x24in

Photography on paper.

Ami Watanabe is a poet, blogger, and visual artist from Chicago, IL. She attended South Suburban College, Purdue University and Governor's State University. She won the Scriblarean Best Poem Contest, and was Second Place Winner of the Sigrid Stark Undergraduate Poetry. Her poems and articles have appeared in the Spindrift, Scriblarean the Pond, The Calumet Press, and the Southeast Observer. Her photography has appeared in the Chicago Star and Performance Response Journal.

FMV $400

Halographic

2021

20 x 30in

Photography on paper (Framed).

Adamm started experimenting with photography in high school but really honed his photography skills in university. While in university, he studied international relations and linguistics, which is why he speaks 9 languages. However, nearly all of his free time was spent honing his photography skills through photography clubs, meet-ups, help from his mentor and test shoots with local models and actors.

FMV $800

I Feel Pink

2019

9x12in

Photography.

Isabella Scott is an illustrator and fine artist from Winnebago, Illinois. She currently lives in Chicago. She has created a wide range of art in a variety of mediums from ballpoint pen to photography. She loves creating a world where she combines fact and fantasy. She has dedicated her career to creating diverse and inclusive work that celebrates the uniqueness of everyone and the world around her. IsabellaÕs work has been seen in galleries, magazines, murals, and editorial publications. Her strong understanding of visual storytelling has helped her create unique, diverse illustrations that have been on display all throughout Chicago and even internationally in Korea. Her work has been featured in the Chicago Reader and Southside Weekly. She has been in numerous gallery shows including Columbia's March of Minis, Portrait Show, and Illustrate the Vote.

FMV $400

Primary Structure, No. 2

2017

H 12.9 x W 9 x D 6 in

Powder-coated & assembled 3 in. (7.6 cm) aluminum tubes.

David Versluis works extensively as an artist, teacher, and graphic designer. He actively produces prints and sculpture, exhibiting regularly in international, national and curated art exhibitions. Versluis has had solo exhibitions at Trinity Christian College, Indiana and Purdue Universities at Fort Wayne, Chicago State University, South Suburban College (in collaboration with Roy R. Behrens), Dordt University, Luther College, and Simpson College. Versluis's larger-scale sculptures have recently been selected for year-long display by the Sioux City Art Center Sculpt Siouxland Inc., Sioux City, Iowa; Public Art Edina (Minnesota); and permanent display on the Dordt University campus. Additionally, he was a contributing artist in the Geometric Complexions exhibition in 2017, curated by Sergio Gomez for the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago.

FMV $1462