On View till March 31st

Daring to Be Avant-Garde

In the realm of art and innovation, the avant-garde stands as a beacon of experimentation, challenging conventional norms and pushing the boundaries of creativity. It is a movement characterized by its fearless pursuit of new forms, ideas, and expressions. As we embark on this journey through the avant-garde, we invite you to explore the vibrant tapestry of unconventional visions and concepts that have reshaped the artistic landscape.

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alphabetized by last name

Beibei Chen and Leilei Chen

email: chenbeibei2000@gmail.com
socials:

Bio:
In their series, Twins Chen employs AI painting software to craft digital abstract art, conveying the idea that human reality can be understood through digital virtualization. Integrating ancient Chinese I Ching hexagrams with computer-generated graphics, they unveil the universe's inherent patterns. Mathematical principles, from quantum mechanics to general relativity, offer a language to decipher reality's essence. Constants like light speed reveal numerical laws in reality. Wave-particle duality suggests digital expression of complexities. Their art showcases how math unveils universal order, blurring lines between physical and digital realms. This prompts contemplation: in a future where reality and simulation merge, how do we discern true existence from AI-generated spectacle?

Title: Chaos
Med: Digital Print
Size: 16” x 16” x 1”
Price: $2,500

Title: Chaos I
Med: Digital Print
Size: 16” x 16” x 1"
Price: $2,500

Title: Chaos III
Med: Digital Print
Size: 16” x 16” x 1"
Price: $2,500

Marc Chicoine

email: mchincoin@pratt.edu
socials:
@marcchicoine
www.chicoine.studio
Foundwork.art/artists/marcchicoine

Bio:
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as we dance.
- Proverb from Tokushima

As a painter and freestyle dancer, my work is driven by an appreciation for corporeal experience and its possibilities for expression. Heavily inspired by embodied cognition and the research of pioneers such as George Lakoff, I believe that bodily narrative and sensorial perceptions are responsible for how we conceive of and engage with every aspect of our lives. Cognition, emotionality, and the metaphors we live by are all married to our bodies.

When creating visual stories, be it with brush or on the dancefloor, I strive to bridge the universal with my own intimate psychosocial experiences. I aim to inspire viewers to consider how they ~wiggle~ through this life, and how seemingly isolating experiences may be vantage points for shared truths. I hope to peel away the divisive constructs we fashion around ourselves in order to reveal the shared patterns of experience and behavior at our core.

Title: The Sun Gently Dries
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24” x 36” x 1.5”
Price: $3,500

Thomas Crawford

email: th.n.crawford@gmail.com
socials: @tomcrawford175

Bio:
My recent work uses satellite photos to create landscapes of factories, warehouses, and residential construction sites, all seen from above. These aerial landscapes are overlaid with enlarged and carefully camouflaged hand tools (hammers, hatchets, shovels), yielding figure-ground compositions that are initially difficult to see.

Whereas figure-ground compositions normally emphasize sharp contrasts, their delineation here is subtle and delicate instead. Depending on how they are viewed, the tools either emerge from or disappear into the aerial landscapes below. Cycling from one layer to another, the eye alternates between vast urban worksites and tools once used to build them. The longer we look, the more the imagery morphs, the boundaries blur, and our familiar orientation slips away.

With careful inspection, you may recognize some of the neighborhoods used in these visual puzzles -- they are all set in Dallas and Fort Worth.

Title: 7 Hammers
Med: Digital Print on Cotton
Size: 17” x 37”
Price: $750

Title: Split Asunder
Med: Digital Print on Cotton
Size: 17” x 39.5”
Price: $750

Title: Three Shovels
Med: Digital Print on Cotton
Size: 27.25” x 17”
Price: $750

Anindita Dasgupta

email: aninditasart@gmail.com
socials: @aninditasart

Bio:
Art for me was an immense love while growing up. However, life took me to a whole different path and into different careers for over two decades, but then I found an opportunity to call the same love a profession and I began painting again.

I am particularly in love with the ‘Post Impressionistic’ era artists and their work. I paint lush landscapes and stories around those and I also like painting flowers in a unique way! My enchantment and admiration for the beauty of nature guides me thru my paintings. I am an avid traveler and travel extensively to National and State parks. A large part of my creative mind occupies the various land forms that I have been awed with over the years. I try to envision these landscapes and start a painting with a random color palette and then my subconscious mind takes me on the journey of creating my own interpretation of those land forms!

I envision the landscapes I have seen and start a painting with a random color palette and then my subconscious mind takes me on the journey of creating my own interpretation of those landscapes. I create the way I feel at a certain time yet maintaining a uniformity in all my creations. Each of my landscapes through its title, tells a story of some aspect of my life. I hope to connect with the viewers at a deeper level, with my art. I create for the joy and to celebrate Earth, the beauty we all call home.

Title: Sunny Conversations
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30” x 24”
Price: $2,000

Title: The Tropicana
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30” x 24”
Price: $2,000

Title: The Sky Emboldened
Med: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30” x 24”
Price: $2,000

Shanoor Devarj

email: devarj@devarj.com
socials:
@shanoorart
shanoor.com

Bio:
Shanoor's creative opus serves as a testament to the American Dream. His perspective is informed by a life that has experienced great tragedy and triumph. Throughout his artistic career, Shanoor's work has been engaged with themes of human rights, social justice, and freedom.

His journey as an American informs a deep appreciation for freedom, justice and tolerance. These concepts reside at the heart of his artistic practice. Shanoor's work is perhaps all the more relevant as we find ourselves at a crossroads in American Democracy - he has experienced the devastation that occurs when society fails to value individual liberties.

Through his art, Shanoor hopes to access and expand the viewer's humanity. His style combines expressionism, pop art, street art and symbolism. By inventing original characters and extraordinary visual landscape, one that is purposefully exotic, he challenges the viewer to step outside of their comfort zone, asking us to overcome unseen prejudices.

Title: Cozy Corner
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 48” x 36” x 2.5”
Price: $35,000

Jill Dietrich

email: jilldietrich@comcast.net
socials: @jilldietrich

Bio:
I combine unrelated images into elaborate and thought-provoking visual compositions. After cutting out bits of photos, graphics and patterns from various print materials, I piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle without pre-determining what the final picture will be. Each individual piece has no specific meaning or identity once it is removed from its original source. But when the pieces are cohesively combined, a new and fantastical scene evolves with its own connotations. The eye moves throughout the composition as the elements interact with each other in new and unexpected contexts. Viewers form their own associations and interpretations as they attempt to make sense of what is both familiar and unfamiliar before them.

Title: Zippety Doo Dah
Med: Mixed Media Collage
Size: 17” x 14”
Price: $550

Hufreesh Dumasia

email: hufreeshart@gmail.com
socials: @hufreeshart
www.hufreesh.com

Bio:
In my artistic voyage, I am driven by a singular inquiry: "Who am I?" This question, guides me into a deeply meditative self exploration. With each brushstroke, I delve into the unseen realms, unearthing the essence of authentic beauty concealed beneath the surface of reality.

Inspiration becomes my North Star, leading me through uncharted territories of the psyche where profound truths lie in wait. Through the act of painting, I channel the light that illuminates the hidden corners of consciousness, revealing truths that transcend the boundaries of the known.

As I navigate these ethereal landscapes, I not only uncover my own truths but also contribute to the collective tapestry of human experience. My art becomes a vessel for shared introspection, inviting others to embark on their own journey of self-discovery and artistic expression.

Title: Inner Light
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36” x 36”
Price: $4,000

Title: Cosmic Heartbeat
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50” x 120”
Price: $8,000

Julie England

email: julie@julieenglandart.com
socials:
@julieenglandart.art @julieenglandart_botanical
julie@julieenglandart.com

Bio:
The Earth’s diverse surface is fascinating. The vegetative environments invite viewers to visit a place. Local light and atmosphere affect the plant life that thrives, the colors we see and experience of mood and energy. These botanical paintings explore memory and landscape with complex spatial environments that hover between painterly realism and abstract passages. Outdoor energy can be comforting like connecting with family. Raised in rural Wisconsin and moving seven times in thirteen years piqued my interest in diverse landscapes, flora and fauna. Whether a mass of color blur or the focal point of a bloom like a botanical illustration, each is recording its environment and time. A meditative connection to the wild land comes with observation and ecological awareness. I am part of the Planet Earth’s complex system with respect for the Earth and its environment. We are all part of this system which weaves a connectedness to the spirit, emotion and texture of the Earth.

Title: South go Taos
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 16” x 22”
Price: $700 unframed, $850 framed

Title: Landscape 106
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 12” x 12” unframed
Price: $450 framed

Title: Yellowstone
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30” x 36”
Price: $2,400 unframed, $3000 framed

Heather Freeman

email: heatherfreeman245@gmail.com
socials:
@heatherfreemanartist
www.heatherfreeman.studio

Bio:
Heather Freeman's paintings are visual adventures, inspired by life's joy, despite its challenges. Each artwork is an experiment of play with color, organic shapes, and more identifiable doodles layered into a dynamic visual journey that explores the complexity of our lives and how we choose to show up in the world. Her recent work relies on the symbolic, whimsical, and abstract. Heather explains, "I find inspiration in the every day. The people who defy the challenges they face, push their limits, and find a place of gratitude and joy."

The actual process of playing with layers, color, and shapes also inspires the final story of the work. The thoughtful pushing back and pulling forward are intentionally presented in all of Freeman's paintings. The paradox of life, hints of courage, hardship, and intuition all present themselves within the adventure that unfolds and reveals itself through Freeman's art.

Title: This is My Life & I Feel Like Dancing
Med: Acrylic and graphite on canvas
Size: 40” x 40” x 2”
Price: $2,700

Jai Gervin

email: jgervin15@gmail.com
socials: @j.gervin.art
www.jgervin.com

Bio:
I was born, raised, and still live in Johnson City, TN. I believe that this small, typically conservative, town forced me to find alternative creative outlets even as a child. As I grew up, my artistic nature was not valued in my family, so I didn’t tap in to my creative side for many years. During the pandemic I began to desire to create again, this time as an adult with no rules or lines to color within. I find the most joy working with mixed media by combining ordinary things with other mediums that don’t traditionally “fit” together; much like myself. I have found great joy and healing via this avenue and am excited to be able to share it with folks that appreciate it and find their own joy through my lens.

Title: Embrace Your Quirks
Med: Acrylic paint and Watercolor
Size: 24” x 36”
Price: $400

Title: The Mouse with the Big Red Shoes
Med: Mixed Media Collage
Size: 24” x 36”
Price: $1,000

Title: Complicated
Med: Acrylic paint and Charcoal pencil
Size: 11” x 16”
Price: $275

Richard Glick

email: richard@richardglickstudio.com
socials: @RichardGlickStudio
www.richardglickstudio.com

Bio:
Richard Glick's paintings explore his inner travels through the universe and his way of seeing stars, planets, moons, and other celestial bodies. While the work is abstracted and reflects representational matter, Glick focuses on each works formal qualities; it's shapes, colors, textures and overall composition. Ultimately, his work asks an existential question that anyone can relate to-will you always be the observer or be able to break through and participate?

My paintings explore my inner travels through the universe and my way of seeing stars, planets, moons and other celestial bodies.

Many of my BLOCKED works have circular and free flowing forms that seem to be restrained by distinct, unyielding grids or borders. Come fly with me into space...

Richard Glick lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Title: Pink Horizon-Blue Moon
Med: Acrylic, spray paint, inks, and stencils on canvas
Size: 40” x 40” x 1.5”
Price: $3,100

Title: BLOCKED— Tangerine Skies
Med: Acrylic, spray paint, inks, and stencils on canvas
Size: 40” x 40” x 1.5”
Price: $3,100

Marilyn Henrion

email: marilynhenrion@mac.com
socials: @marilynhenrion2
@Marilyn.henrion (facebook)
www.marilynhenrion.com

Bio:
These linen collages are created with fabric images derived from my digitally manipulated photographs of places in which I have lived or visited. They evoke the feeling of a particular place in an impressionistic style rather than a representational one, conveying a mood rather than a literal depiction. Reflective of fleeting impressions one experiences when traveling in a moving vehicle or on a fast walk, they also reveal the deeply embedded verticality of my urban psyche.

My work is included in museum, corporate, and private collections internationally. I am also represented in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

Title: Impressions 12
Med: Mixed Media Linen Collage on Canvas
Size: 14” x 11” x 1”
Price: $800

Title: Impressions 44
Med: Mixed Media Linen Collage on Canvas
Size: 14” x 11” x 1"
Price: $800

Title: Impressions 35
Med: Mixed Media Linen Collage on Canvas
Size: 14” x 11” x 1"
Price: $800

Skyris Jorgensen

email: skyrisart@gmail.com
socials: @abstractskyris
www.skyris.org

Bio:
Color is a tool used by the subconscious mind to demonstrate the journey of discovery in self reflection. To create a psychic automatism painting, the artist must surrender to their humanistic impulses and build upon those steady foundations using curiosity to better understand the nature of their life. In other words, the style is central to the artist’s way of processing thoughts and developing ideas.The process of creating can be compared to the same instinct trees possess as they grow and create leaves. The artist connects to intuition and refrains from pre-planning the execution of the piece. The point is to strengthen the bond between us and our internal truths that, while unique in development, remain a core part of human life in nature. This connection is both powerful and honest when bringing people together.

Title: The Universe Within
Med: Acrylic
Size: 32” x 32”
Price: $3,240

Title: Warm Fall
Med: Acrylic
Size: 40” x 30”
Price: $3,000

Title: A New Life
Med: Acrylic
Size: 24” x 30”
Price: $1,800

Ted Larson

email: tedlarson8461@comcast.net
socials: @tedlarsonart
@theoson1.618 (facebook)
www.tedlarsonart.com

Bio:
The three works submitted for consideration are all large abstract color driven designs based upon the relationship of music theory to modern day digital color. In my explorations I expanded the Munsell color palette from 10 to 24 distinct hues. In my color system I created a 600 hue/tone set of color mixes. All of my current work begins with the selection of a dominant root chord color say orange or blue green. Then the creation of a harmonious chord of colors is explored. Once the color set is settled upon I translate them to simple cells of geometric shapes. Then I employ concepts adopted from classical music's sonata form to explore pattern with rhythm intervals and foreground/background layers. Once the overall composition is established I custom mix all the colors to be used and monoprint them upon archival acid free paper. The final shapes are all cut and assembled upon a prepared canvas.

Title: Orange Slushie
Med: Acrylic painted collage on Canvas
Size: 48” x 60” x 1.5”
Price: $2,000

Title: The Reach
Med: Acrylic painted collage on Canvas
Size: 40” x 30” x 1.5"
Price: $1,000

Title: Dream Team
Med: Acrylic painted collage on Canvas
Size: 48” x 38” x 1.5"
Price: $1,500

Janet Lay

email: janet@janetlayfineart.com
socials: @janetlayart

Bio:
Janet Lay is a native Texan and gets inspiration for her abstract landscapes and seascapes from nature. “My job as an artist is to convey the feeling someone has when observing God’s handiwork. I start a painting by writing down the feeling I want the painting to convey. I complete it with my choice of colors and brush strokes. “

Title: Reflection
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 12” x 12”
Price: $435 framed

Title: Secrets
Med: Oil on board
Size: 12” x 16”
Price: $520 framed

Tatiana Leimkueller

email: tatiana.aspasia@gmail.com
socials:

Bio:
As a historian, I decided to translate ancient aesthetics into modern conditions. One of the areas of my creative activity is the use of classical designs in combination with new modern materials. This is how I got Venuses, cast from epoxy resin, or embodied in papier-mâché and painted with bright colors. I like to use the Romans of the Republican era as a basis for male portraits. Or dress my contemporaries in Roman and Greek clothes.

In today's world there are many materials that make the work of a sculptor easier. So, it is not necessary to use heavy plaster when you can use injection molded plastic. Therefore, now is the time for women in sculpture - so it seems to me.

In addition, material abundance allows us to introduce unusual details into sculptural forms. So, I use natural things together with paints. My images are made up of grains, nuts, flowers, insects. My next step will be to use paper, fabric, earth and other constituent elements of our world.

Title: Death of Caligula
Med: Resin, thread, color, insects
Size: 12” x 9” x 16”
Price: $2,990

Steven Maddox

email: stevemaddoxart@gmail.com
socials: @stevemaddoxart
www. stevemaddoxart.com

Bio:
Steve Maddox is an experienced educator and abstract minimalist artist. After over 40 years devoted to public school leadership, he now focuses on his art and providing community service as a gallery teacher at The Blanton Museum of Art on the grounds of the University of Texas at Austin. “I have always been drawn to abstract art and minimalism. I appreciate the ways paint and various materials can create emotion in the viewer, leading to untold stories within. Each piece I make takes me on a journey as I express myself. Layers upon layers of paint finally meet its destination.”

Title: Horizon of Hope
Med: Acrylic and Paint Markers
Size: 40” x 40” x 1.75”
Price: $1,050

Title: Thinking About Tomorrow
Med: Acrylic and Paint Markers
Size: 36” x 36”
Price: $950

Nicole Melnicky

email: nmelnicky@gmail.com
socials:
@nicolemelnicky
www.nicolemelnicky.com

Bio:
I create colorful abstract paintings on feminism, gender, and queer sexuality. Bold reds, pinks, and purples surface in my color palette, exuding a potent bodily and visceral quality. Through abstraction I transform my pain into power, by reclaiming my core wounding through electrified color, fluid tubular shapes, and the queer body. I transcend my pain, by pouring light into my wounds, and transmuting it. By utilizing my intuition, I create paintings that evoke a mysterious and futuristic sensibility. As I envision the emergence of a mysterious, supernatural, and romantic queer future. By the imagining of a queer utopia, glimmering with the light of ultraviolence, and luminescence of healing, and love. I manifest my own ethereal dream and vision of a queer utopia, a manifesto.

Title: Jacuzzi Rollercoaster
Med: Mixed Media on canvas
Size: 54” x 34” x 1.5”
Price: $2,500

Jamie Rix

email: jamierixaustin@gmail.com
socials: @jamierixart @jamierix04
http://www.jamierixstudio.com/

Bio:
As an abstract artist, my artistic style revolves around my fascination with color and form. I place great emphasis on the beauty and expression that color can bring, often layering different hues together to create visually captivating compositions. I find myself drawn to more modern aesthetics, preferring clean lines and distinct forms in my artwork. I am particularly drawn to the simplicity and precision that clean lines and forms offer. Whether incorporating geometric shapes or organic forms, I seek to create a sense of balance and order within my artwork.


In my creative process, color takes center stage as the main element of my expression. I enjoy exploring a wide range of colors, and mixed media, experimenting with their various shades, tones, and combinations. By layering colors together, I aim to evoke a sense of depth and complexity in my pieces, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the visual experience.

Title: Unbound
Med: Acrylic and Oil Pastels
Size: 30” x 30” x 1.5”
Price: $900

Title: Unfold
Med: Acrylic and Oil Pastels
Size: 30” x 30” x 1.5”
Price: $900

Title: Beauty Inside
Med: Acrylic and Pastels
Size: 24” x 48” x 1.5”
Price: $1,250

Lars Westby

email: larswestbyclay@hotmail.com
socials: @westbylars
www.larswestbyclay.com

Bio:
These are a new series of paintings I have been creating that showcase a new approach to the painted surface. They are very colorful with a highly textured surface that protrudes from the surface like small stalactites. Coming from the sculptural field I view myself as creating a low relief sculptural painting as opposed to creating a picture. The paint is the theme and subject itself.

Title: Abstract Painting #5 Geomorphology
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 25” x 25” x 3”
Price: $5,000

Title: Abstract Painting #9
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 26” x 26” x 1.5”
Price: $5,000

Laura Williams

email: info@lauraclearywilliams.com
socials: @lauraclearywilliams
Artsy: laura-cleary-williams

Bio:
My paintings trace the boundaries of my imagination. Patterned with gestural lines inspired by the abstract expressionists, each piece is a collection of choices that together are alive. My work breathes like a cobweb in the wind - faint, delicate, and ephemeral.

No matter the material or discipline, my work is rooted in drawing. This process - drawing, examining, finding a flaw, and making changes - is the heart of my creative practice. With each line and every stroke, I document my existence. Each painting is a stolen moment of peace and beauty amid the never-ending battle between my dreams and desires, my regrets and pain. My work is a love letter to the girl I was and to everyone who yearns to express what cannot be said with words. Each piece is an imperfect sonnet to the power of imagination and joy of expression.

Title: You Swept Through My Life
Med: Ink and Graphite on paper
Size: 31” x 50”
Price: $3,100

Title: A Part of Separate
Med: Ink and Graphite on paper
Size: 38.5” x 25”
Price: $1,925

Title: I’m Still Tangled Up in You
Med: Ink and Graphite on paper
Size: 47” x 42”
Price: $3,950

Jono Wright

email: jwright9378@gmail.com
socials: @jonowrightart
www.jonowrightart.com

Bio:
Wright was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1978, and grew up within the American Buddhist community called Vajradhatu, led by the meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. His early exposure to Buddhist meditation and philosophy; his teenage explorations of graffiti, and classical Italian atelier training have made a lasting impression on his artistic sensibilities. His education includes study at the Boulder Academy of fine Art under Elvie Davis, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Studio Art Centers International in Florence, the New York Studio School in Manhattan, the Metropolitan State University of Denver where he received his BFA, and the Louisiana State University where he received his MFA.

Title: The Dining Table
Med: Oil on Canvas
Size: 45” x 49”
Price: $2,200

Betty Wolfe

email: betty.wolfe@comcast.net
socials: @bbjwolfe_art

Bio:
I am a contemporary artist who specializes in surrealism, and animals. My work heavily influenced by my love for 20th-century animation, surrealism, and color.

My art is a creation from an unknown origin. Often my ideas just come to me. They come with no explanation, or relativity. They are nonsensical but make total sense.

I enjoy painting with acrylics. Learning to blend acrylics was a challenge. I have a fascination for bright colors. Layering acrylics helps me get the bright colors I am looking for. Always live life in full color.

Title: Vegan Tacos
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20” x 16” x 1”
Price: $1,000

Title: Purrrcaso
Med: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 20” x 16” x 1”
Price: $800