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These original cyanotypes mine mythology, archetypes, history, and fairy tale, employing the imagery of the natural and human world interchangeably.

SIEN Collective is the collaborative work of visual artists Siobhán Arnold and Meagan Shein. Siobhán Arnold is and artist/educator living in San Diego, California. She is a mixed media artist who works with photography, textiles, sculpture and installation. She received a BA in Art and Design from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Art Studio from UCSB. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Charles Wright Museum, Detroit; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles CA; SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, and at San Diego’s Space 4 Art.

Meagan Shein lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and works with paper, ink and encaustic. She received her MFA from Hunter College, her MA in Art History from Williams College, and her BA with honors from University of Chicago. She has shown nationally and internationally including at the Charles Wright Museum, Detroit; the Maya Polsky Gallery in Chicago; the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, DE; Miller Block Gallery, Boston; the University of Massachusetts, and in Zurich, Switzerland.

Greetings FROM San Diego: Adventures in recycled, handmade postcards encouraging creative thoughtfulness on the go.

After nearly a decade of professional marketing/branding experience, Kemp traded in her blazer for a Postmaster uniform. She created FROM, a create-it-yourself greeting card concept on wheels. In Al Green, a 1971 neon green postal Jeep, others can make cards from all recycled materials, design them using rubber stamps from reclaimed wood, and send the card right from the postal Jeep.

Claudia Cano is an interdisciplinary artist with an interest in performance, photography and video. Her studies include developing projects involving interactions and influences between the Mexican and American cultures, the relationship amongst the body and physical labor and its boundaries. Her recent works include reflections on invisibility and inequality of women in our society.

Originally from Mexico, Cano has lived in San Diego, where she received her MFA at SDSU, since 2002. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from Technological Institute of Monterrey. She also studied photography at the University of Wisconsin and advertising at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico where she taught photography for several years. Cano later opened her photography studio.

Materializing tensions in the intersections of my identity. Allowing the emotional strain that develops within the layers to speak, and the queer space I inhabit to surface.

Yasmine K. Kasem, a San Diego-based artist, received her BFA from Herron School of Art and Design in 2015 and is currently an MFA candidate UC San Diego. She received the Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture award in 2015 from the International Sculpture Center. Her solo exhibitions include: Masricani at the San Juan Island Museum of Art in WA; Mwasah at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA; and Jihad of Bitter Petals at UCSD. She has participated in group shows in New Jersey at the Grounds for Sculpture and Mana Contemporary and at Happening, 2018 in Tijuana.

My work explores the fantastical and states of lore , the unseen and unbelievable. I challenge the viewer to look deeper.

Schaefer has lived in San Diego for the past 20 years, and served in the military for nine. Growing up in Silver Springs, Maryland, he spent his time with encyclopedias, rock-collecting, and relief maps. He was particularly excited by electron microscope images brought home by his father, a National Institute of Health employee.

His father’s microscopic film influences his work even today. Schaefer has participated in group exhibitions at Ashton Gallery, The Poway Performing Arts Center with the SDMA Artists Guild, the Escondido Art Municipal Gallery, Visual Gallery, Mesa College Art Gallery, and I have curated the Francis love show; a charity benefit with all proceeds going to Alpha project.

My art and poetry celebrate the sacred feminine with swirls of caran d’ ache, acrylics, and layers of visceral texture.

Deborah Ramos, an Ocean Beach native, is a graduate of SDSU, where she studied art, textiles, costume design and history of theatre. She is a member of the San Diego Watercolor Society and the La Jolla Art Association. Deborah's art and photography can be seen in galleries throughout San Diego, at Balboa Park’s Spanish Village, Poway Center of Performing Arts, and the Expressive Art Institute. Deborah is an award-winning poet and author of From the Earthen Drum of My Body, a poetry chapbook.

This series of stereoscopic landscapes mythologizes existing habitats disrupted by human actions as preemptive artifacts for a future virtual tourist looking back at lost landscapes.

Jessica Ling Findley is a multimedia artist, musician, designer and professor with roots spanning from Omaha to Hong Kong. Her work imagines the impossible, plays with perspective, blurring the line between spectator and participant. She received a Masters from ITP, Tisch School of the Arts where she studied the intersection of art and technology. Her public participatory inflatable bike ride, Aeolian Ride, toured over 20 cities around the world. Past exhibitions and awards include: Dublin Museum of Science, New Museum, Issue Project Room, and Deitch Art Parade in NY, Tokyo Wondersite Residency. She recently received a commission for a public participatory work of art from the Port of San Diego for 2019.

Tiny sweater drawings based on questions floating around.

Michelle Montjoy is an Oceanside based visual artist. Her work ranges from room sized knitted installations to tiny drawings, centered around ideas of connection, loss, comfort and protection. Montjoy has shown at numerous art venues in San Diego and beyond, notably at MCASD and in the San Diego International Airport.

This is a collection of 41 botanic portraits of flowers and cactii that act as little memories of this local southern California region. The floral portraits are of native species of plants that populate the countryside whereas the cactii are more whimsical representations of the landscape, carrying with them the strength, light and energy of this geographic region.

Chitra is a graphic designer and painter with a great affinity for new media and traditional craft forms. Co-founder of an artisan-centered social enterprise called Kara Weaves, Chitra also has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and from the ESAG Penninghen, Paris. Her studio practice is informed by various aspects of her business and life. She creates works that question the spaces women inhabit in contemporary society and their relationship to the world around them.

Contemporary artist Lee Puffer's sculpture, mixed media and installation works are playful, and absurd with an edge of dark humor.

Born in Long Beach, CA, Lee Puffer grew up in Coastal Massachusetts and Maine, Mexico, Venezuela, and the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York. She graduated with Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from SDSU. Her work ranges from life-sized figurative ad kinetic sculpture in ceramic and mixed media, to installation, textile and painting. Puffer has exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, and The Women’s Museum of California, among others. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at Palomar College, San Diego City College and Grossmont College.

Recompense

This is a new series of limited edition prints by Ivy Guild that explore art-world consumerism, copies or records of artworks, the research of Silvia Federici in regard to women’s unpaid reproductive labor in the household, the gender-based wage gap, sex-based discrimination in the employment process, and the site-specificity of selling work in a vending machine. The targeted message of the work confronts the longstanding sexism and discrimination that Capitalism and patriarchal structures profit from. The physical delivery of the work subverts the normal consumer nature of a typical exchange associated with a vending machine. Instead of purchasing a traditional consumer product, the buyer is actually purchasing a proposed invoice of payment or recompense to be given to an individual as a victim of the antiquated, exploitative infrastructure that has been imposed upon them. The prints were made on two-part receipt paper and Guild has separated the yellow or secondary print of each work to keep as a record of the exchange.

Ivy Guild’s ongoing research investigates materiality, intimacy, the uncanny, and the abject through contemporary women’s issues, the body, and domesticity.

Ivy Guild, a Los Angeles based artist, is a first-year MFA in the Studio Art program at the University of California, Irvine, and graduated from the University of San Diego in 2016 with a dual-degree in Visual Arts and Art History. She works in sculpture, photography, film, performance, and installation. Her ongoing research investigates materiality, intimacy, the uncanny, and the abject through contemporary women’s issues, the body, and domesticity.

Whether using Matanuska Glacier water or a broken sledgehammer handle, Amery’s art practice is a means to be outside and in the world. He creates sculptures about vulnerability and relationships by subverting and embracing the function of objects.

Trevor Amery received his BFA from MICA, MFA from UC San Diego, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. He is a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Hungary, a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award, and residencies at the Fountainhead, Arteles Creative Center Teton Artlab, and more recently at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. He represented the U.S. at the 2012 Kathmandu International Art Festival and has exhibited at such venues as Kiasma, the Skanzen Museum, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, MAMU Galerie, Moore College, and Gallery Protocol.

Small oil paintings of influenced by Otomi textiles.

Katie Ruiz is a Chicana artist who resides in San Diego. She was raised in LA and Northern Arizona. Ruiz is known for her blanket series, which portrays couples standing or lying under colorful Mexican blankets. Her travels to over 22 countries have influenced her work, especially in the use of Latin American textiles, and she uses bright colors and geometric patterns. Ruiz grew up with her single mother and younger sister, and draws strength from the female figures in her life. Relationships play a large role in Ruiz’s paintings. She also feels a powerful connection to nature, and incorporates natural objects into her weavings and sculptures. She has BFA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture in NYC.

Small paintings on paper exploring abstract forms from Glasson’s subconscious.

Aaron Glasson is a multi-disciplinary artist from New Zealand now based in California. Aaron’s art covers a diverse range of mediums consisting of installations, vibrant murals, paintings, illustration, and films. His art explores themes that discuss the human relationship to the natural environment, community empowerment and education.

Geometrical drawings outlined and layered with colored plastic.

Best known for her optically stimulating sculptures of twisting paper and drawings of detailed geometric patterns, Melissa Walter visually explores concepts concerning Astronomy and astrophysical theories. Walter has worked as a graphic designer and science illustrator for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and as a team member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her experience has inspired her to visually articulate wonders of the Universe, such as black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, dark matter and more recently, dark energy.

Nudes (drawings and paintings) with collaged text from the 1950s marriage manual, "Enduring Passion"

Anna Stump is an artist and arts educator living in San Diego and Los Angeles. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Occidental College and her Master of Fine Arts at San Diego State University. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Turkey in 2006-2007 (kloeamongtheturks.com) and was recently awarded residencies at Cill Rialaig, Ireland, Centre Pompadour, France and Guapamacataro, Mexico. Anna teaches studio art courses at Grossmont College.

“My work as a painter, performance artist, and curator is intimately connected. Interest in body politics, feminism, and physicality is grounded in community building and education, which I challenge personally by cultural risk-taking. My job is to both please and provoke.”

"Images from the Ruins" proposes a post-time, post-Mexican temporality where the ruins and fragments of contemporary culture stand as analogues for the failed promises of Modernism, revolution, and identity.

Raised in Tijuana and San Diego, Alan Luna is a Mexican-American contemporary artist and academic living and working in Southern California. His interdisciplinary practice questions the stability of personal and national identity by examining the migration of humans, objects, and ideas across space and time. Luna received his BA in Visual Arts, Studio and Art History, Theory and Criticism from UC San Diego in 2019, under the mentorship of Ruben Ortiz-Torres and Mariana Wardwell-Razo.

This is a collection of botanic portraits of flowers and cacti that act as little memories of this local southern California region. The floral portraits are of native species of plants that populate the countryside whereas the cacti are more whimsical representations of the landscape, carrying with them the strength, light and energy of this geographic region.

Chitra is a graphic designer and painter with a great affinity for new media and traditional craft forms. Co-founder of an artisan-centered social enterprise called Kara Weaves, Chitra also has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and from the ESAG Penninghen, Paris. Her studio practice is informed by various aspects of her business and life. She creates works that question the spaces women inhabit in contemporary society and their relationship to the world around them.

Brian & Ryan Shrinkages: Have Fun tracing and coloring Brian & Ryan Images. Then pop them in the oven and watch them shrink! Plastic Shrink packages with exclusive Brian & Ryan Images. Complete with colored pencils.

Brian Black and Ryan Bulis have been working collaboratively in Southern California since 2004. The artist duo appropriates iconic activities and challegnes preconception of masculinity, athleticism, and identity.

Brian Black (b. Chicago, Illinois) received his MFA degree in Sculpture from Northern Illinois University in 2000 and has exhibited artwork in several galleries and alternative venues. His artwork focuses on sculpture, installation and new genre.

Ryan Bulis (b. San Diego, California) holds an MFA from UC Santa Barbara and a BFA from UC Davis.

Collections of custom-written poetry in volumes for children and adults.

Kevin Devaney is a writer, entrepreneur, and professional typewriter poet. For the past three years, he has been traveling the country, writing custom poems on a typewriter in cities from Provincetown, MA to San Diego, CA. He is a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence MFA program, a regular performer with the Poetry Society of New York, and has been granted residencies from the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, the Steelville Arts Council, The Santa Cruz Arts Council, Iconica Social Club, and the North Street Collective (forthcoming). From the founding of Northampton Poetry in 2009, a significant portion of his artistic expression has been dedicated to honing how to present poetry, how to cultivate poetry communities, and how to get poets compensated for the value of their work.

Contemporary artist Lee Puffer's sculpture, mixed media and installation works are playful, and absurd with an edge of dark humor.

Born in Long Beach, CA, Lee Puffer grew up in Coastal Massachusetts and Maine, Mexico, Venezuela, and the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York. She graduated with Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from SDSU. Her work ranges from life-sized figurative and kinetic sculpture in ceramic and mixed media, to installation, textile and painting. Puffer has exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, and The Women’s Museum of California, among others. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at Palomar College, San Diego City College and Grossmont College.

Inspired by the need to excavate her roots, this series became an effective way to help document her family history. Upon the pages of her late great aunt’s prayer book, Mai has incorporated family photos and imagery drawn from both personal memories and the memories of various family members.

Trinh Mai is an interdisciplinary, California-based artist whose work is driven by innovative narratives of storytelling. Her artistic creations re-imagine personal and inherited memories, family roots, and spiritual connections that alter conceptions of our identities and shared histories. Since receiving her B.F.A. in Pictorial Art from San Jose State University and furthering her studies at UCLA, Trinh continues exhibiting, with works taking residence in public and private collections internationally. In addition to exhibiting with well-respected institutions such as the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Naples Museum of Art, her passion for intermixing arts and collaboration has inspired her community involvement. Among her various roles, she has served as Project Director for the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, Master Teaching Artist for the Bowers Museum, Course Developer for the Pacific Symphony, and Curator at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

Yahyai explores themes of anxiety with familiar domestic scenes. The multi-color and uncanny atmospheres of faceless figures visualize the unconscious mind as it battles the pressures of modern life. Coupled with a written poem to compliment each portrait by Zachary Abramson.

Kurosh Yahyai is a San Diego-based artist exploring the mental landscape of the subconscious. Yahyai focuses on painting, but also makes site-specific installations and work in 3D. He holds a BA in art from Sacramento State and an MFA in painting from San Diego State University.

Sorg creates wildly colorful drawings, installations and street art pieces in tape and dichroic film, as she puts it, “as an antidote to these dark times.”

Sorg received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States, including: WorkSpace in New York City, The Copley Society of Art, The Photographic Resource Center and Forest Hills Trust in Boston, Eric Phleger Gallery, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Torrance Art Museum, SDAI and MOPA. Her awards and honors include a MacDowell Colony fellowship in Peterborough, NH; juror’s awards in numerous group exhibitions, and a travel grant from the Massachusetts College of Art to create work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Moctezuma’s artwork is an ironic critique of society from a feminist perspective. The Museum of Man series features male fragments from iconic artworks.

Alessandra Moctezuma is Professor of Art and Gallery Director at San Diego Mesa College, where she supervises the Museum Studies program and teaches Chicano Art. A Mexico City native, she earned a BA and a painting and printmaking MFA at UCLA . She has exhibited her paintings, prints, drawings, collages and videos nationally and has completed several murals, including Homage to Siqueiros with muralist Eva Cockcroft. As a feminist, her paintings and videos critique social gender conventions and assumptions through the use of irony and satire.  She has collaborated with Judith Baca, her mentor; Leda Ramos, ADOBE LA, and Collage Ensemble, among others.

Alessandra Moctezuma is Professor of Art and Gallery Director at San Diego Mesa College, where she supervises the Museum Studies program and teaches Chicano Art. A Mexico City native, she earned a BA and a painting and printmaking MFA at UCLA . She has exhibited her paintings, prints, drawings, collages and videos nationally and has completed several murals, including Homage to Siqueiros with muralist Eva Cockcroft. As a feminist, her paintings and videos critique social gender conventions and assumptions through the use of irony and satire. She has collaborated with Judith Baca, her mentor; Leda Ramos, ADOBE LA, and Collage Ensemble, among others.

This work stems from moments when perception kindles memories and becomes emotional residue— what’s left when the moment is gone.

Jennifer de Poyen is an artist, writer, teacher, and arts administrator. Born and raised in the Canadian West to an Anglo-Canadian mother and Franco-American father, she studied philosophy at McGill University and journalism at Stanford University before embarking on an award-winning career as a journalist. She was a mid-career fellow at New York’s Columbia University, where she studied painting and drawing with Archie Rand, legendary teacher and frequent collaborator of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery. A resident artist at Space 4 Art, she currently serves as that organization's Executive Director. Jennifer also writes fiction and teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga.

The underlying intent of Beloin’s work is to offer an accessible invitation to engage with visual language. Beloin’s writing, public art, and studio art practice all converge with this belief: visual language is universally learnable--and essential.

Ry Beloin has a BFA in Drawing & Painting from Laguna College of Art & Design, a dually accredited college also endorsed by the Art Renewal Center. Ry’s art career includes writing about art, curating, teaching, and a studio practice with emphasis on both invented and observed imagery and sculptural forms.

These miniature paintings come from photographs Armer has taken over the years. This particular series focuses on the color of the sky at the time she took the photographs. She then fills in the rest of the image as if she were sketching it to create quick, playful paintings.

Armer’s art practice began at Grossmont College, and involved a wide variety of classes and media. She transferred to San Francisco State University, where she received her BA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Photography. After receiving her degree, she returned to San Diego, where she now works in galleries and museums. Her recent work primarily consists of small-scale paintings. She enjoys working in miniature because the works become, as she puts it, “precious objects” which require time and close looking to fully appreciate.

Porcella seeks to transform low-brow materials and elevate them to a high art context, creating a highly imaginative world that pokes fun at the human condition.

Don Porcella was born and raised in Modesto, California. His artwork has been exhibited at galleries and museums across the U.S. and in Berlin, Paris, and Copenhagen. He holds a BA in Psychology from UCSD, a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. Porcella has received grants from the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, the Brooklyn Arts Council, an EAF Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park, and the 2012 West Collects Prize. He completed residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design and Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai. Porcella also created multiple installations for Hermes retail spaces in Manhattan and Shanghai.

A collection of botanic portraits of flowers and cacti that act as little memories of this local southern California region. The floral portraits are of native species of plants that populate the countryside whereas the cacti are more whimsical representations of the landscape, carrying with them the strength, light and energy of this geographic region.

Chitra is a graphic designer and painter with a great affinity for new media and traditional craft forms. Co-founder of an artisan-centered social enterprise called Kara Weaves, Chitra also has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and from the ESAG Penninghen, Paris. Her studio practice is informed by various aspects of her business and life. She creates works that question the spaces women inhabit in contemporary society and their relationship to the world around them.

Zoya Sardashti is a performance ethnographer, live artist and cultural mediator working within the domain of socially engaged art. Her work has manifested itself as devised theatre, dance, performance and performative interventions.

Sardashti holds an M.A. from Roehampton University in Performance & Creative Research 2014 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at The European Graduate School under the supervision of professor Judith Butler. She has created performances in Seoul, London, Los Angeles, Glorenza, Venice, Florence, Bolzano, Milan and San Diego.

Triad - A work in multiple media, depicting forms of communication through sound, visual art, and the written word.

Brian is a sound and visual artist exploring the beauty and strangeness that surrounds our lives. He has followed his creative muse all his life, and is now reaching further to explore things beyond what most would call conventional.

Becky Guttin (b. Mexico City) lives and works in San Diego, California. Guttin has been a guest lecturer at biennales, institutes and universities, and has done several art residencies and set designs for the theater. She has received art prizes and has been featured in thirty five solo exhibitions. She has been working in numerous countries all over the world. Forty four of her art works are part of permanent public collections in museums, as well as private and public spaces in universities, consulates, sculpture parks, cultural centers, hospitals, and schools. Becky participated in ten biennales and in nineteen international sculpture symposia. She has an independent studio where she continues to create sculpture, drawings, photography, jewelry, installations and video.

Mini Collection of custom-written poetry in volumes for children and adults.
Kevin Devaney is a writer, entrepreneur, and professional typewriter poet. For the past three years, he has been traveling the country, writing custom poems on a typewriter in cities from Provincetown, MA to San Diego, CA. He is a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence MFA program, a regular performer with the Poetry Society of New York, and has been granted residencies from the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, the Steelville Arts Council, The Santa Cruz Arts Council, Iconica Social Club, and the North Street Collective (forthcoming). From the founding of Northampton Poetry in 2009, a significant portion of his artistic expression has been dedicated to honing how to present poetry, how to cultivate poetry communities, and how to get poets compensated for the value of their work.

A collection of botanic portraits of flowers and cacti that act as little memories of this local southern California region. The floral portraits are of native species of plants that populate the countryside whereas the cacti are more whimsical representations of the landscape, carrying with them the strength, light and energy of this geographic region.

Chitra is a graphic designer and painter with a great affinity for new media and traditional craft forms. Co-founder of an artisan-centered social enterprise called Kara Weaves, Chitra also has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and from the ESAG Penninghen, Paris. Her studio practice is informed by various aspects of her business and life. She creates works that question the spaces women inhabit in contemporary society and their relationship to the world around them.

Jennifer Chamberlain created Mesmerize in 2019, an art business featuring hand-painted objects. As an active member in the Arts Council Menifee she promotes art through events in the community.

Primarily consisting of performative video and photography, Corona’s art practice revolves around one question: “What does it mean to be human?”

Lissa Corona is a San Diego based Artist, Educator, Independent Curator and Arts Administrator. She is a co-founder of Not Nothing Projects, NAH NAH, and Loud. She received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.

Permanent Dreams

This piece is an effort to concretize the ephemeral human experience of dreaming, using transcription of a close friend’s extraordinary dreams. The normally-fleeting memories are etched permanently in recycled ceramic tiles. They can be used or displayed as art objects, but can also be included in permanent construction, as you would use any ceramic tile.

Joe Cantrell is a musician and multi media artist. His work is inspired by the implications and consequences of technological objects and practices. Cantrell’s practice examines the incessant acceleration of technology and media production, the ownership of same, and its effects on our collective identities and memories. He utilizes a variety of techniques to accomplish this including re-purposed materials, feedback, and computer-generation. Cantrell holds a BFA from CalArts, an MFA in Digital Arts from UC Santa Cruz, and a PhD in integrative studies from UC San Diego.

Aesthetically, CATAPHANT's art uses a combination of synesthetic shapes and textures with human elements to communicate disembodiment and absolution. These small works are mixed media collage on paper.

Catalina Bellizzi-Itiola (CATAPHANT) is a designer and fine artist with a background in music who arranges shapes, textures, and human elements to create artwork that communicates spiritual states of being. She graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts & emphasis in Art Education before teaching visual art in the Chicago Public Schools for several years and producing music. ​ CATAPHANT grew up in the midwest and is a half-Colombian, half-Argentine first generation American. Using the cultural complexity of her upbringing to bring nuance and a sense of "in-between-ness" to her work, her art practice thrives on seeking liberation and transcendence of the human experience.

Amanda Kachadoorian is a contemporary painter who creates botanical hybrids based on individuals multicultural history.

Amanda Rose Kachadoorian is an emerging Californian artist who was born and raised in San Diego, California. She is a recent graduate from the University of California, Berkeley with a BFA in Art Practice. Her art practice has been focused on painting and drawing while experimenting with mix media, sculpture, and installation. Her body of work aims to express the notions of identity, psychology, ephemerality, and nature. Every concept has an underlying relationship with one another which she intends to create a dialogue around. She derives these ideas from the human anatomy, diverse plant life, and individuals multi-cultural background.

McHugh’s recent body of work, deconstructs the myth of the Marlboro Man through collage and video installation-- a truly American figure, manufactured to represent freedom, manifest destiny, and rugged masculinity-- while simultaneously concealing and coercing a cancerous, addictive product. This recent series is a reflection, a meditation on the western notion of complete power or control over the landscape, exploring the consequences of manifest destiny, and exposing the semiotics of advertising and addiction.

Justin A McHugh lives and works in San Diego, and is a BFA candidate at UCSD. His work often appropriates or assimilates familiar imagery, in ways that cause the viewer to question their preconceived notions of truth and of myth.

Cheryl Sorg. Intersecting Rainbows, 2017. Mixed media (tape, drafting vellum) 30 x 30 inches framed, 1/1

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Remi Dalton’s work explores the romance, loneliness and desperation of the social media landscape. Currently in her final year of San Diego State University’s Master of Fine Arts program, Remi attended the University of San Diego for her dual Bachelor degrees in Visual Arts and Chemistry. She has resided in San Diego for nine years, and is originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Remi Dalton. OMG Love Camping, 2019. Oil on Canvas, 72 x 72 inches

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