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Meet Dion Johnson, a Los Angeles-based painter whose abstract compositions pulse with color, movement, and the charged energy of lived experience. Working between hard-edge structure and atmospheric depth, Johnson builds compositions intuitively — introducing color, inventing form, and trusting the …
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Los Angeles-based painter Heather Gwen Martin works at the edge of hard abstraction — where color becomes almost physical, with flourishes of elegant movement akin to dancing. Her palette is hot and bright, with hand-mixed tones that play off each …
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Jeff Sonhouse is a New York-based painter and mixed media artist whose works examine Black identity, masquerade and self-preservation through a layered visual language drawn from European modernism, African folklore and the American vernacular. Known for his masked figures adorned …
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Kurt Lightner has spent more than two decades mining his familial landscape — the farms, forests and laboring lives of rural Ohio that shaped him and continue to define his practice. Born and raised in Troy, Ohio, Lightner works from …
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Clare Rojas is a painter, sculptor, installation artist and musician whose cross-disciplinary practice bridges abstraction, folk imagery, feminism, ecology, spirituality and storytelling. Born and raised in Columbus, she spent much of her career in Northern California before recently returning to …
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Jacob Hashimoto builds worlds from a single object. Working across sculpture, painting and installation, the New York-based artist layers thousands of hand-crafted kites, modular blocks and collage elements into accretive compositions that reference video games, virtual environments and cosmology — …
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