my socks | acrylic on canvas | 34"x61"

Featured Artist | Nicole Sullivan

Being born in Truth or Consequences has shaped my outlook on life to be a black and white Rube Goldberg machine. I have always studied and been drawn to the Truth.

My work has focused on human struggles with societal pitfalls induced by the conception of morality, and the enforced standards we try and fail to uphold ourselves. Growing up poverty-stricken and at the hands of extreme child abuse, I feel an urgency in addressing these issues and thus issues of morality before true societal progress can be achieved. I believe that what are referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins along with Karma will define the trials and tribulations a person will interact with in their lifetime, and the demons they will struggle with along that path.

My intentions are to spread the word about the struggles within each of us to remain human at all times, and at times, at all cost. Is it okay to help those who admit struggle? Can we be judgmental without being unfair? I want the viewer to understand truths within themselves through my art, to progress and have a life free of burden. I want the viewer to achieve a visual nirvana and ascend to their further purpose.

three | acrylic & ink on canvasette paper | 18 x 24 inches

Featured Artist | Robert Gorchov

I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for four decades. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Although it involves imagination, this process is affected by chance, so that when I begin a picture I have only a half-formed image of what the finished painting might look like. The completed piece only slightly resembles the image that I had in mind when I began it. I think of this as improvisation. Over the years that I’ve been painting, I’ve learned to trust the brush and the materials – to let them take the lead – and not to think too much about how it will end up . . . until I get to that end.

This is part of what makes painting interesting for me.

A Day at the Beach | Mixed media on panel | 12" x 12"

Featured Artist | Joyce Thornbug

RAW AND INTUITIVE

I am a compulsive artist…I paint everyday because I have to!

My images are raw and intuitive. Colors harmonize in unexpected ways and exuberance often collides with angst.

Faces predominate my work, many in frontal gazes that meets the viewer head -on; faces as maps that reveal places we’ve been…or may be going.

In the words of Zorba the Greek—

I embrace everything…the full catastrophe, speaking to the human condition of joy and triumph, suffering and celebration.

The man with the long mustache and the black cat | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

Featured Artist | Xavier Yarto

Xavier Yarto | El Cajon, CA @xavier_Yarto A Mexican painter who has managed to put in purely abstract work a very unique through the creation of particular colors that give great strength and impact to your work touch. The author seeks to bring a point beyond abstract art by combining this technique with a job in high relief of pre-Hispanic…

Don’t Worry About It. Never Would when I’m Here | Oil on canvas | 42x50 in.

Featured Artist | Hannah Bouchard

Hannah Bouchard | Carlstadt, NJ @Hbouchard_art When registering for her first semester of college, Hannah discovered that Intro to Photography was full. She had to fulfill an art requirement to graduate, and painting was the next best thing. Over the next 3 years at Drew University, Hannah would go on to take classes in painting and drawing, beginning the journey…

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