San Francisco-based artist Jessica Hess is a photorealistic landscape painter. Her depictions of the urban environment both celebrate and validate the art of graffiti through a fine art lens of oil paintings on canvas and gouache on paper.

After photography, collage is the most democratic modern art technique.
Stuff piles up in everyone’s life and memory, but few, even among collage makers, can reorder it as artfully as Berkeleyan Michael Cutlip.

Lyle Carbajal is a multimedia artist focusing on the social commentary of cultural and economic perception and their implications in contemporary art. Romancing Banality is his current traveling installation exploring these ideas, in which viewers are fully immersed into the environment of his subjects for a truly distinctive, engaging, multi-sensory experience that challenges perspective and social beliefs. By inhabiting the city of upcoming exhibitions in advance, Carbajal creates a unique audience experience- a manifestation of experiences, people, attitudes, and perception- which is in a constant state of transformation as it evolves, with each location simultaneously serving as both subject and muse.

Flora Borsi is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss.

Elusive Muse shares the work of illustrator Ana Bagayan.

Gabriella Barouch is an illustrator based in Paris. She had a B.DES from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Department of Visual Communication, majoring in Illustration and is working on worldwide commissions, books and projects. Gabriella Barouch’s work is showcased at the international 3×3 new talent gallery, NY.

Born in 1987, Nimit Malavia is an award-winning Illustrator from Ottawa, Canada.
He has produced work for clients including DC Comics, Shopify, Marvel Comics, IDW Publishing, the National Post and 20th Century Fox.

Andrea D’Aquino has always resisted labels like “art director”, “illustrator”, “graphic designer” and finds herself happiest straddling the line between all those things. For several centuries, she was a senior art director for major advertising agencies. As an illustrator and designer, clients include Anthropologie, The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveller, The Washington Post, Elle Magazine, One Kings Lane, Vegetarian Times, Family Fun, Chronicle Books, Uppercase, Flow Magazine, PlanSponsor Magazine, and many others. Her work has been recognized by Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Art Director’s Club, Communication Arts, 3×3 Magazine, The One Club, and The Type Director’s Club.

Jessica Roux is a Brooklyn based illustrator and designer. She is originally from the woodlands of North Carolina, where she grew up surrounded by an abundance of nature. Using subdued colors and rhythmic shapes, she renders flora and fauna with intricate detail reminiscent of old world beauty. She is currently available for freelance work so feel free to contact her. Her work has been honored by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration.

Meredith Pardue is an abstract artist with an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in New York and a B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited and collected worldwide and published in Architectural Digest, Dwell, New American Paintings, and Austin Monthly Home. Her work is included in the corporate collections of J. Crew Corporate Headquarters, Genstar Capital, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Oceania Cruise Lines, Scott and White Children’s Hospital, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. She lives and works in Austin, TX.

Katharine Morling is an award-winning artist working in the medium of ceramics. She set up her studio in 2003 and has since gained international acclaim for her work. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2009, she has won the Arts Council ‘Award for the Arts’ two years in a row and was awarded First prize at the 2010 World Crafts Council Triennial in Belgium.

Founded in November 2007, Doubleparlour is Ernie and Cassandra Velasco. They are a husband and wife artistic duo living in San Francisco, CA. Cassandra has a B.A. in Fine Art from Humboldt State and Ernie is a self taught artist. Doubleparlour’s work includes solo and collaborative pieces in a variety of mediums and materials. They strive to produce well-crafted artwork with an emphasis on peculiar, humorous, and melancholy characters.

Timothy Cummings was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1968 where he grew up in the midst of Spanish Catholic and Native American culture, fertile with religious imagery and iconography in the churches. Murals and retablos he saw depicting death, martyrdom, and Day of the Dead imagery influenced him. Cummings is completely self-taught. While most of Cummings’s paintings are dream-like fantasies filled with myriad detail and discovery, each has a figure or figures. Much of Cummings’s work addresses the issue of youthful turmoil, of that awkward moment between childhood and adulthood, of identity, of gender.

Anna Schueler born 1955, lives and works as a full-time artist in a small town in Germany. She is a painter and mixed media artist focused on abstract paintings and collages Her work is shown in solo and group exhibitions, including Art Fairs such as the Biennale Internationale, Florenz, Italy in 2005 and the Women’s Art Museum, Bonn, Germany in 2011.

Zoe Keller is an illustrator and designer exploring the intersection of art making, activism and the natural sciences. She uses graphite and ink to create highly detailed images that blend hints of narrative with images from the natural world. Since graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, she has set up camp on the rocky coast Maine, on a Michigan blueberry farm, and in New York’s sleepy Hudson Valley. She is currently working out of Philadelphia, with plans for westward travel come spring.