Visual Art

We are Soul Birds

Xiao Faria daCunha was born and raised in China and eventually came to the United States to chase her dream for art. She is currently based out of Kansas City, MO. Through her seven years in the States, she navigated through the ups and downs of life as someone with a multicultural background. The challenges she faced as a woman, a foreigner and a young artist channeled back into her creation and allowed to her continually progress on her path as an artist.

Xiao’s works are mostly watercolor and mixed media illustrations and were heavily influence taken from traditional Asian literature, theater and mythologies. She reinterprets classic lores, symbolisms and tales in order to make sense of the world and the happenings around her. Her works have been exhibited locally, regionally, and nationally across the States.

Xiao is a writer, a researcher, and a painter, at the same time an avid crafter. She was previously represented by Agora Gallery in New York City. In the future, she wants to explore the realm of visual installation, printmaking and 3D art as she believes medium and discipline should not restrict an artist’s creation but rather aids an artist to manifest his or her philosophy and ideology. Find her on Instagram: instagram.com/xiaochineseart and Twitter: twitter.com/xiaochineseart

Drifting Eastward

Dominique Elliott is a documentary filmmaker, poet, and multimedia artist. She holds an MFA in visual design from UMass, Dartmouth. Her work has been showcased internationally and her documentary “Flying the Beam” is included in the Eisenhower Presidential Library collection. Her poetry has been featured on the Apple podcast Words In The Air and the Ekphrastic Review. She lives on a daylily farm in Georgia with her husband and their four cats. Find her on Twitter: @ElliottDominou or Instagram: plexipuspitstop

Bad Case of Loving You

GJ Gillespie is a collage artist living in a 1928 Tudor Revival farmhouse overlooking Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island (north of Seattle). In addition to natural beauty, he is inspired by art history -- especially mid century abstract expressionism. The “Northwest Mystics” who produced haunting images from this region 60 years ago are favorites. Winner of 19 awards, his art has appeared in 56 shows and numerous publications. When he is not making art, he runs his sketchbook company Leda Art Supply. Find him on Instagram: @garygillespie7 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/garjog/ Twitter: @gj_gillespie Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorthWhidbyArtist Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gj-gillespie-4587447/ or on his website: https://www.gjgillespieartistic.com/

Daughters of the Dust

Owen Brown was born in Chicago, trained as a classical musician, took his first art class at 23, and much of what he’s wanted to do since then has been paint. Brown holds degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. He lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where he was represented by Meridian Gallery. He now lives in Minneapolis. Brown has exhibited in juried shows and solo exhibits throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. His works have been acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nature Conservancy, the Minnesota Historical Society, the University of Chicago and the Weisman Museum of Minneapolis, and can be found in collections in this country, Europe, and Asia. Brown has had residencies at Air Le Parc in France, and at the Land Institute in Kansas, where he created his first installation: “Units of Measure.”  He is represented nationally by Holly Hunt and Gallery 13, he shows regionally at Veronique Wantz and Grand Hand, and has collaborated with artists of other disciplines, such as Emily Wolahan and Anat Shinar.

His art has been reviewed or published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Vostos, the Dew Drop, the Exeter Bulletin, Aesthetica, The Land Report, A2, F3LL Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Beyond Words, Closed Eye, The Space Between the Stars, Fauxmoir, Harbor Review, and Paragon. Meridian Gallery Press published a monograph of Brown’s work for the opening of his show “Ideasthesia.” His work was also included in the Society for Art Publications of the America’s final publication: “Trees of the Field.” he was an invitee at Art Prize Nine and invited to show at the now-cancelled 2020 Kochi Biennale, in Kochi, India.  Find him on Instagram: @owen_artist or on his website: owenbrownartist.com

Formula Lisa B

Gary Nolan is a semi-retired employee of the U.S. space program, having worked for many years in the imaging technology group at NASA Glenn Research Center on projects ranging from microgravity research on the Space Shuttle and ISS to developing NASA's first online image archive (NIX). More recent artistic work has focused on generating imagery from code using reinforcement learning, artificial intelligence and self-organizing systems. He is currently an avid programmer, photographer, artist, organic gardener and beekeeper. Find him on Instagram: @_phase33

Bold

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Camilla Fallon graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, attended the Skowhegan School and is an M.F.A. graduate of the Yale University School of Art. Camilla makes paintings that are about being inside the female body. The female glaze is unleashed upon herself using patches of light to suggest a feeling or state of mind. Camilla has exhibited widely in group shows around NYC, at Michael David in Bushwick and the Lesley Heller Gallery, most recently at the Equity gallery, The Painting Center and The National Arts Club. Other venues include a solo show at the University of South Carolina Aiken at the Etheridge Gallery. Well represented in both private and corporate she is included in collections including Yale University and Capital Crossing. Early in her career she received many artist residency fellowships notably from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and also completed residencies at VCCA, The Millay Colony, and the Vermont Center for the Arts.

Withdrawal

Nazanin Karbalaei is an Iranian architect and illustrator born in 1996, Tehran. For her, literature and music blends with illustration in order to create artworks that while retelling her experiences and her culture, goes further than the geographical limits and builds a bridge between her world and everything beyond.