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William T. Carson's work is influenced by the landscapes and cultures in which he grew up — a cattle ranch in rural southeastern Montana and a small island in the Salish Sea. His artwork raises questions about our cultural understandings of fossil fuels and how we value natural materials. 

Erin Cone's portraits are commanding, enigmatic mirrors of the human condition.  A fusion of traditional portraiture and magical realism, Cone's paintings evoke the perspective and emotional complexity of the sitter's interior world.  Detached, yet imbued with raw emotion, Cone places her subject in abstract settings devoid of reference to the material world.

American born artist Rose Masterpol has worked for decades as a contemporary abstract painter. Her work is distinctive and ever-evolving because of her vast array of interests - her poetry, music, graphic design, sculpture, and landscape photography. They all feed her creativity. Masterpol’s work is the language of non-objective, organic and pure painting.

Lloyd Martin is an American artist known internationally for his rhythmically constructed abstract painting. In these paintings, each note holds its own, yet there is a velocity of linear, connective movement. Martin's work is characterized by a sensuous quality in the sometimes-brushy aggression of one vibrant color pushing against another. For the viewer, there is a visual pleasure in editing details of the work, allowing the eye to settle on a square here a rectangle there, imagining paintings within paintings. In exploring an architectural framework and structure, a sense of gravity provides weight to his flights of vibrant color. A pictorial truth radiates, where a strong engagement with the work of abstraction is palpable.

Beverly Kedzior is known for her organic shapes and richly layered abstractions. As a child she was enamored of animated movies and cartoons. She had books from those movies and traced and drew the images found in them continuously. In art school, variations of the organic forms she had been obsessed with as a child consistently appeared in her work. When she discovered a genetic disorder deep in her family history, she searched for answers in medical and DNA books. She found a correlation between the illustrations there and the bulbous images she was already using. Mining ideas from animated film, cartoons and medical textbooks, Kedzior creates pop paintings that merge these seemingly disparate elements.

 Guillaume Seff is a French artist whose abstract paintings explore the balance between surface tension and symbolic language. His work is a form of pictoral writing, whereby words, ideas, gestures and emotions become fragments of the threads that are represented in his paintings. 

Anne Kaferle is a landscape painter based in Helper, UT. She was raised in Connecticut and received a BA from Colby College in Maine where she studied art and geology. 

Willy Bo Richardson married himself to a single mode of working as a formal recognition of the power of remaining in one place and as a way to honor consistency and quietude.

Joseph Ostraff's paintings evoke the varied shapes and motifs of human activity and geography. Using subtle color gradations and rich patterning, Ostraff creates works with startling compositional depth. While choices found in these paintings suggest a personal sense of value, more generally these decisions reflect the processes people use to make sense of the commonplace. His work is a visual documentation of the things that convert spaces into places.

First and foremost a colorist, Phill pieces together organic shapes in his abstractions and teases images from splatters of paint. Known mostly for his abstracted botanical imagery, the paintings bear his signature bold strokes and improvised gestures.