Visiting Artists

Tyler K. Smith

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

New York artist Tyler K. Smith draws upon a storied career spanning art, illustration, theatre, television, and film to create a world of fantastical creatures and futuristic machines. Combining traditional formalist concerns with the visual language of comic books and science fiction, Smith draws, paints, and constructs armies of lifeforms…

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Kelsey Bowen

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Kelsey Bowen grew up in the rural California foothills, spending summers making up stories and picking thistles from her socks. Her figurative sculptures serve as vessels for her self-reflection and storytelling in clay; inspired by memories from her youth and interactions with her peers as an adult. While often dark…

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Fong Choo

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

In early January of 1983, Choo, a native of the Republic of Singapore, a tiny independent nation in South East Asia came to the US to pursue a college degree. His educational endeavor quickly took a career change after signing up for a beginning ceramics class where he was immediately…

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Alex Boyd

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Alex Boyd is a sack of chemicals and electrical impulses that somehow managed to attain self-awareness. When not consuming replacement chemicals, staring at its phone or ruminating in existential dread it compulsively creates, trying to satisfy some mysterious aesthetic sensibility that ultimately can’t be satisfied. The results are objects that…

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Mara Colecchia

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

I create dazzling ornaments weaving precious seed and repurposed vintage lucite beads. Born and raised in Urbino, an art town in mid-northern Italy, I graduated from IED and I worked in the animation industry in Rome till 2009, when I relocated to California, to work in children entertainment. In Los…

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Jamie Bates

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Jamie Bates, originally from Cameron, Missouri, is a ceramic artist celebrated for their exploration of identity and mental landscapes through figurative sculpture. Holding an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Kansas and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Central Missouri, Bates skillfully employs scale, composition, and…

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Mary Garrish

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Mary Garrish is a landscape painter known mostly for her seascapes and coastal scenes in oils. She also travels extensively and teacher in France and Italy. She started out in a career as an ENT surgeon and become enthralled with landscape painting through a number of Plein Air workshops with…

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Melissa Sixma Lingo

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Melissa Sixma Lingo is a senior print artist for fashion brand Lilly Pulitzer. Since 2012, she has helped design original clothing prints, paint canvases and murals for the Lilly retail spaces, artwork for their communication channels, and live paint at various company events. She attended the Savannah College of Art…

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Rafael Lima

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Rafael Lima is a Miami novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and journalist. Based on his experience as a stringer reporter during the civil war in El Salvador, Rafael Lima’s first full-length play, “El Salvador,” was developed and staged at the Circle Repertory Theater in New York and published by Samuel French and…

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Carl Bretzke

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February 8 @ 7:42 am

Carl Bretzke is a contemporary realist oil painter who is known for his original compositional choices, realistic light effects, and diversity in subject matter, ranging from plein air landscapes to more complex city scenes, often after dark.  The Washington Post once described his work as “simultaneously intimate and detached…The artist’s…

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