Celebrating the Body

Celebrating the Body

Anna's Hope by Yana Ushakova

Rosy Brown Anna's Hope

Yana Ushakova

Anna's Hope

The artwork 'Shower Ritual' depicts a bathroom self-portrait scene with muted teal and gray tones. A figure is shown taking a mirror photo, conveying intimate, contemplative moments. The oil painting features expressive brushstrokes and a moody atmosphere with floral curtain details. Oil on canvas by Amanda Ba.

The artwork 'Shower Ritual' features a figure capturing a self-portrait in a bathroom setting. The painting showcases expressive brushwork in oil, with a muted palette of blues, pinks, and flesh tones. The composition emphasizes intimate personal moments through bold strokes and atmospheric lighting. By Amanda Ba.

Amanda Ba

Shower Ritual

The artwork 'Sleeping By Myself' features a reclining figure on a patterned surface with blue and cream geometric squares. A yellow-green striped garment adds contrast against the soft background. The oil and Guerra painting technique creates fluid, watercolor-like textures in warm flesh tones and cool blues. 42x36 inches canvas by Hanna Brody.

The artwork 'Sleeping By Myself' features a modern impressionistic painting depicting relaxed figures on a striped blue and white surface. The composition uses warm earth tones, olive greens, and soft pastels, executed in oil and Guerra on canvas with loose, expressive brushstrokes. The abstract style combines figurative elements with contemporary artistic interpretation. By Hanna Brody.

Hanna Brody

Sleeping By Myself

U can't touch this by Christian Perdix

Light Pink U can't touch this

Christian Perdix

U can't touch this

The artwork 'Conceal' by Amy Hughes features delicate layers of translucent fabric in soft pink and beige tones, creating an ethereal abstract composition. The oil painting showcases subtle folds and creases, with a gentle interplay of light and shadow across the textured surface, displayed in a white frame measuring 10x10 inches. By Amy Hughes.

In an Exhibition

Amy Hughes

Conceal

The artwork 'Let Bright Happen' by Linden Eller features a minimalist figure outlined in red against a white background, with vibrant yellow splashes and subtle watercolor textures. The abstract mixed media composition on canvas combines bold linear elements with delicate color washes, creating a dynamic contrast between simplicity and energetic expression.

The artwork 'Let Bright Happen' by Linden Eller features a minimalist composition with delicate red linear outlines against a pristine white background. Splashes of vibrant yellow and subtle collage elements add dynamic contrast to the piece. The mixed media on canvas artwork, measuring 40x30 inches, combines abstract forms with intentional negative space, creating a light and airy aesthetic.

Linden Eller

Let Bright Happen

The artwork 'Hand in Between Legs' by Mari Sarai presents an artistic black and white photograph showcasing an abstract form with dramatic light and shadow. The composition features smooth contours and elegant lines, professionally matted and presented in a sleek black frame. The monochromatic technique enhances the sculptural quality and artistic expression.

The artwork 'Hand in Between Legs' by Mari Sarai, displayed in a black frame with white matting on a white wall. Modern interior setting features a black wooden chair, brass floor lamp, and vintage pink rug. Clean minimalist composition with a metallic basket as accent. Framed photograph measures 8.5x11 inches. By Mari Sarai.

Mari Sarai

Hand in Between Legs

The artwork 'Fantasy' depicts a figure reclining on vibrant green grass against a dreamlike landscape with distant houses. The sky bursts with swirling pink, blue, and golden clouds. Rich, expressive brushstrokes create a post-impressionist style scene with mountains and water. The composition features bold, warm colors and whimsical architectural elements in the background. Oil painting by Jadie Meprivert.

The artwork 'Fantasy' by Jadie Meprivert depicts a vibrant landscape with rustic houses perched on rolling hills, rendered in expressive brushstrokes. A winding path leads to small buildings with red roofs against a colorful sky of pink, blue, and yellow hues. The foreground features emerald green vegetation and a tranquil blue lake, creating a dreamlike pastoral scene in oil on canvas.

Jadie Meprivert

Fantasy

The artwork 'Crepuscular' features a ethereal silhouette in deep indigo blue cyanotype against a coffee-stained canvas background. A textured, abstract landscape pattern fills the lower left corner, creating a dramatic diagonal composition. The figure emerges from the textural elements, rendered in atmospheric blue tones. By Johanna Ryan.

The artwork 'Crepuscular' by Johanna Ryan features a dramatic composition in cyanotype on coffee-dyed canvas. Abstract forms divide the piece diagonally, with deep indigo blues contrasting against warm cream tones. Textural elements create a crackled, organic pattern in the lower left, while the upper right shows ethereal, cloudlike blue washes characteristic of the cyanotype process.

Johanna Ryan

Crepuscular

Untitled embrace - curina

The artwork 'Untitled embrace' by James Kane features an expressive oil painting on wood depicting two figures rendered in soft, muted tones of pale yellow and peach against a deep navy background. The brushwork is loose and gestural, creating a dreamlike quality with fluid forms and emotional depth. The 24x32 inch composition showcases a contemporary expressionist style with emphasis on human form and connection.

James Kane

Untitled embrace

Dim Gray Best Friends

Rosy Brown Best Friends

Nikki Shapiro

Best Friends

White Smoke A well balanced diet

Black A well balanced diet

Cole Richard Puetz

A well balanced diet

View from her bed - curina

Amelia Galgon

View from her bed

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Yana Ushakova

Yana Ushakova

An anastomosis is a connection- an opening of tubes, vessels, branches, often used to define surgical steps. It’s also used to define Yana Ushakova’s latest body of work. In her figures she reshapes those bodily pathways in a way that bypasses the male gaze. Inspired by her chemotherapy experience, the painted forms embody survival, restructuring, and growth.
Amanda Ba

Amanda Ba

Amanda Ba (b. 1998) is a painter who lives and works in New York City. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, but spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Diasporic memory is central to her work—vivid paintings that combine personal memory with psychosexual fantasy, featuring figures that challenge a predominantly white Western canon of figural painting. Working closely with queer and post-colonial theory, her interventions in the Cannon do not aim to solely celebrate her cultural identity and its inclusion, but to interrogate its formation.
Hanna Brody

Hanna Brody

Hanna Brody lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated with a BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Lewis and Clark College in 2016. Her paintings embody friends, family, loved ones, herself, and those who surround her. She paints to evoke a sense of intimacy and understanding towards her subject’s emotions and psychological states. She uses layers of water based and oil paint to obscure and transform elements of her paintings, sometimes including multiple integrated angles to create a seemingly whole portrait. Through portraiture she explores themes of alienation and isolation as well as empathy and collective emotion. She has been a member of NYC Crit Club since 2018 and will be participating in a residency program with Dear Artists Projects this coming April.
Christian Perdix

Christian Perdix

Christian Perdix is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1987.
Amy Hughes

Amy Hughes

What do a juicy fillet of salmon and a body half-submerged in bath water have in common? Through soft-colored, naturalistic paintings, Amy explores the beauty of female bodies in everyday life - the beauty of vulnerable, soft flesh itself safe from the glare of cameras and gloss of magazine pages.
Linden Eller

Linden Eller

Born in 1984, Linden spent her youth in the urban Sonoran desert of Phoenix, Arizona before moving to Southern California to obtain her BA in Studio Art. She's since lived and worked across Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Linden's work has been published and exhibited internationally. She has participated in residencies at La Filature des Calquières (France), Tiapapata Art Centre (Samoa), Cowwarr Art Space (Australia), and Tenjinyama Art Studio (Japan). She currently lives in Santa Fe.
Mari Sarai

Mari Sarai

Mari Sarai is a Japanese Art photographer who has worked in New York, London, and Tokyo. MARI was born in Nara, Japan. She studied photography and English at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles when she was a teenager. After beginning her career as a photojournalist in New York, Mari moved back to Japan and transitioned to fashion photography. After 6 years fashion photographer's carrier in Tokyo, she relocated to London where she became a well-established fashion photographer, shooting for magazines such as i-D, Harper's Bazaar UK and Dazed & Confused. in 2014, she moved back to New York to seek her American dream with her family. Her work appearing in the likes of Interview Magazine and Vogue Japan, shooting likes of Adele, Scarlett Johansson, and in late Amy Winehouse.
Jadie Meprivert

Jadie Meprivert

In her work and in her life, Jadie strives to educate, inspire, and uplift others. Her work reflects her passion for fostering human relations and connection, inspired by connections made not only through her pursuit of visual art but through dance and her work as a vocalist and actor. Jadie’s loose, colorful brushstroke places those concepts on canvas, creating warm imagery that links to the divine and human nature as a whole.
Johanna Ryan

Johanna Ryan

What if we saw nature not as distinguishable things like trees, mountains, and soil, but as a cloud of influences that surround us? Harkening back to her memories growing up in nature and a personal interest in Ecofeminism, Johanna's method of printmaking is in itself a dialogue with nature. In cyanotypes, the intentional outlines of base drawings intermingle with spontaneous factors like the angle, brightness, and hue of sunlight - even the canvas it is printed on is candidly frayed at the edges. In her other prints also, watercolor-like effects make even the ground appear buoyant.
James Kane

James Kane

At its core, James' work is about intimacy. His sexual identity and personal relationships form a prism, through which the content of his paintings bend and refract as they examine intimacy between strangers. People on the street, the subway, and couples sharing private moments in public are all viewed from a queer stance to ask questions about loneliness, contact, and communication. By combining collected images and personal experiences, James creates composite sketches that repurpose the initial encounters captured in them.
Nikki Shapiro

Nikki Shapiro

Nikki was a musician most of his life. In 2014, he decided to teach himself painting by diving in headfirst with the approach of learning by doing. Embracing the unknown and trusting his intuition, he has been producing many works both haunting and decorative.
Cole Richard Puetz

Cole Richard Puetz

Cole Puetz is an American artist based in Tucson, Arizona. His depictions of the modern queer experience offer an access point into the subconscious mind of both artist and viewer. Objects and symbols within his work leave vague imprints of familiarity as if existing within a memory. Sharp divergences in style and specificity form a detailed collage of dynamic, powerfully charged imagery. Each buried, unseen detail unlocks a new door, revealing private, concealed thoughts and desires. Puetz’s creative practice is a form of inner contemplation and subconscious realization. Internal conflicts existing in the present moment of the creation process are transformed into emblematic visual stories that bring the artist and viewer on a journey of self discovery. Each fragment having separate connotations that merge to form a larger, complex narrative.
Amelia Galgon

Amelia Galgon

Amelia Galgon has lived and worked in Brooklyn since receiving her B.A in Art and B.S. in Computer Science from Lehigh University in 2017. Her work predominately focuses on the portrait and the figure and typically depicts close friends and family as well as her own self. Her most recent work uses the body as a vessel to play and experiment with line and color as a way of exploring queerness and her own queer lens. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across Philadelphia and New York City and in multiple online exhibitions, including with Tussle Projects, Visionary Art Collective, and Philadelphia Sketch Club. Most recently, she received the award for Excellence in Watercolor from Philadelphia Sketch Club in their 2021 Works on Paper Juried Exhibition.

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