About the artist
Irena Brokas Chambers is a multi-media artist, working in oils, pastels, watercolor, and collage. For the past several years, she has explored the synthesis that painting can provide among visual elements, intellectual pursuits, memory, and meaning. Today, the Appalachian landscape provides her most persistent inspiration.
About the artist
Leroy Johnsons was a native Philadelphian and mixed media artist who explored the nature of urban life on a personal as well as metaphysical level. He created paintings, drawings, pottery, and assemblages, inspired by contemporary events as well as memories. His work explores the meaning of the “beautiful” and attests to the power and attraction of the “unbeautiful”.
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Kitty has had a full and illustrious career as an investigative journalist, focused on organized crime. At the same time, she has pursued her passion for art and is a noted printmaker, lithographer in Philadelphia. In recent years, she has created encaustic studies of space, time, gravity, and communication and turned her attention to photography.
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Tim is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His work explores the land, aboriginal peoples, as well as other aspects of human life. Tim works in various media and formats including encaustic, acrylic, text painting, and collages. In one series called “The Treaty Suites”,
Tim created landscapes to explore the power of the aboriginal presence in Manitoba. He also painted series of works on horses (In the Absence of Horses), dogs, and public bathrooms, examining their understated and undefined significance.
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Deborah Conn is a watercolor painter and teacher based in Virginia. She is especially drawn to painting people and often experiments with different materials and textured surfaces. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the local, regional, and national levels, and she belongs to several juried watercolor groups.
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Maya is an American artist currently residing and working in Shanghai, China. Maya’s work explores the human relationship to the environment through immersive installations and sculptures. Some are made from the pollutants themselves: coal and fake diamonds made into a night sky; a tiger skull constructed from laundry detergent and designed to dissolve during an installation; or a jungle crafted from the pages of The New York Times.