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Ayshia Müezzin a.k.a [ a y s h ] b.1986 is a British-Cypriot Intermedia artist who grew up in Cyprus where she attended high school and began her artistic career.
A Different Recollection Than Yours
Edward Lee
Edward Lee’s poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England, and America
Image 001
Richard Hanus
Image 001 is a 20×30” oil completed eight to ten years ago. It reminds the artist of an Eastern European village, and though he likes the pic very much, he’s not done anything like it before or since.
The Gargoyle of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris
Zee Zee
“I love the carved images on the early Minoan seal stones. They are inscrutable, grotesque. The Mediterranean is my culture and heritage.”
Untitled
Despy Boutris
Untitled is a collage constructed of found images, tape, and pen.
Immaculate
Immaculate (9×12 Gouache on paper) by Matthew Felix Sun.
v91: Dark Oddities Series
Joe Lugara took up painting and photography as a boy after his father discarded them as hobbies. His works depict odd forms, inexplicable phenomena and fantastic dreamscapes, taking as their basis horror and science fiction films produced from the 1930s through the late 1960s.
Frequencies
Tara Barr is a lifelong art lover and a working mom in Washington, DC. She recently decided to make painting a high priority in her life after setting it aside for over a decade to focus on her family and her career in technology.
Another Hero – WolveRican
Jaime Cortez
Another Hero – WolveRican, 2005. Colored pencil, graphite, and photo collage on paper. 42’’x58’’.
Dirt
Jerry Seguin is a freelance artist and designer residing in Emeryville, CA. His work stems from a formal training in apparel and textile design as well as photography.
Optical Occlusions 12: Something About Drones
Mary Burger
From the Optical Occlusions series, looking at how perceptions of landscape are altered by technology and infrastructure. This piece is in the collection of the Sutter/California Pacific Medical Center Cathedral Hill Hospital in San Francisco, opening in 2019.
Haven
We flee from the ordinary; yet from the ordinary we come. We seek comfort in the brilliant lights without, but no refuge will we find there. Instead, we must shine from within, and face the electric truth: that the true haven is the private, pervasive sanctuary of our ordinary existence, the burdens of which we can share with each other, and the wisdom of which we can gift to ourselves
Box
Box 2007 graphite, colored pencil and gouache 75 x 56cm (29 1/2 x 22 inches)
Becalmed
Becalmed from the series Traveling Home. Watercolor on paper © 2017 Mattina Blue
Little Brother
About the Artist: Robert R. Thurman is an artist, musician, and poet. His work has appeared in such publications as Coldfront Magazine, 3:AM Magazine, Columbia Journal, Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine the Arts and Humanities, Rune: The MIT Journal of Arts and Letters and Exquisite Corpse.
Thinking of a Star
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines.
Out of the Woodworks 3: Baku Bazaar
The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo is a prolific multimedia artist, performer, and storyteller from The Netherlands, currently residing in Los Angeles, CA.
The Last
The Last was created by multi media, principally chalk, acrylic, watercolour pencil, and photography.
The Weight of Man
By Holly Day
The Weight of Man is a needlepoint piece, approximately 29” x 22” and composed entirely of linen canvas and cotton thread.
La última lluvia (The Last Rain)
The Last Rain is inspired by a photo of mambises posing for the camera moments before a deadly ambush.
Group Study, 2012
Group Study, 2012 (graphite, color pencil and ink on paper,19.75 x 20 inches) is one of a series of drawings in conjunction with Alvarez’s film about high school, The Visitor Owl.
Scene from The Junkyard
John F. Malta was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri. John studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts’ Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program in New York City and is a recipient of the 2012 Xeric grant. His work has been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire Russia, MIT Technology Review, the Boston Globe, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post.
Grasshoppers
Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and
presently resides in Arizona on the Mexico Border.
Winter Reflection, Austerlitz, NY
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi writer and photographer.
Her coffee table book of travel photographs and poems, The Long Way Home, came out in 2013. See more at olivewitch.com.
Variety of Experience
Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in Agave, dislocate magazine, Driftwood, Four Ties Literary Review, Gravel, Iron Gall, On The Rusk, Paper Tape Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and Up The Staircase Quarterly.
A Life of Flowers
Padma Prasad is a writer and painter. Her fiction has appeared in Eclectica, The Looseleaf Tea, Reading Hour, ETA Journal, and The Boiler Journal. She blogs her poem drawings at padhma.wordpress.com. Her art is mostly figurative and can be viewed at fineartamerica.com. In her writing, she tries to capture stillness; in her painting, she tries to paint narratives. She lives in Northern Virginia and works as a federal contractor in records management.
bokeh of grass
Jason Trbovich is an aspiring photographer based in Houston, TX. You can follow him on Flickr. If you would like to contact Jason feel free to send him an email at jasontrbovich@yahoo.com. View more of his work at www.realcowboysdrivecadillacs.com.
Woman in Water: Corrine and the Far Away
Savannah Schroll Guz is an illustrator and mixed-media artist based
in Weirton, West Virginia, just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She
has exhibited her paintings and mixed-media works in New York City,
Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, and is currently at work on a graphic
novella about the Battle of Blair Mountain, part of the West Virginia
mine wars. Learn more about her work at: www.savannahschrollguz.com.
Yearn
Jerry Seguin is a freelance artist and designer residing in Emeryville, CA. His work stems from a formal training in apparel and textile design as well as photography.