Artist Spotlights
Juan Hinojosa
“In America we are bombarded with advertisements in more ways than ever before. And thanks for the pandemic, I have been glued to my TV and my iPhone as my only source of information, entertainment, and communication. That being said, the power/cleverness of advertisements has led me to focus on the use of color when building a collage. Color can be a delicate playground for which to exist in.”
Cara Lynch
“I collect, make, accumulate, and assemble. My work emerges from play and experimentation in the studio. It is a back and forth process, a conversation between my subconscious and conscious self..”
Nathan Catlin
“I reference a lot of classical works, church paintings, comic book pages, and tattoos. Themes I focus on are human interaction, morality, and cause and effect. Essentially I am interested in the human condition.”
Lina Puerta
“ As a mixed media artist, I work with different materials that I love and feel attracted to, I mix and arrange them while responding to them intuitively and paying close attention to what is happening. The materials themselves help guide my process.”
Craig Zammiello
“…I feel there’s a very thin line between the smoke and mirrors of illustrative rendering and that distinct magic where it’s pushed just a bit farther into a signature language of the particular artist. It’s a balance of these approaches that I struggle with for my own drawings.”
Jennifer Schmidt
“During Covid, I’ve been more focused on connectivity, bearing witness, and community than going to galleries and museums. I’ve been observing the rhythms and patterns of my neighbors on my block, and behavior on the streets and sidewalks. The effect of the pandemic on everyone’s wellbeing, commerce, sanitation, nature, and how people can come together to share resources has been huge.”
Erica Mao
“I take a lot of inspiration from hidden parts of my childhood home — dense forests, winding creeks, and wetlands that snake their way around the cookie cutter suburbs I grew up in in Maryland. These natural features emerge in my landscapes and usually act as either an obstacle or a vehicle for the protagonists in the paintings.”