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Artist Statement: My work grows out of observation as a reciprocal relationship with the world, a conversation between myself and the visible environment. Through painting, I organize and distill what I encounter in order to reveal something specific about my experience of the world’s vastness and complexity. I think of a painting as the crystallization of a moment, distinct from photography in that the image is inseparable from the process of its making. My point of view is woven into the work through material, gesture, color, and structure, and ideally technique becomes an unconscious servant to lived experience rather than an end in itself.

I am interested in how direct engagement with observed reality can lead to images that are both specific and open-ended. Through simplification, selection, and arrangement, I try to illuminate moments that resist fixed interpretation while remaining grounded in the physical world. The surfaces of my paintings carry evidence of this exchange, records of sustained looking and material negotiation.

Coriander Focus is a full time creator, working most in the mediums of multimedia photography and written word. Coriander spent her youth deep in the mountains of rural Appalachia where her love of wild places was cultivated, out of that passion came original art and poetry inspired by the natural world and its influence on our internal experience. Coriander explores work that tells a story about how we relate to ourselves and our bodies using photography, poetry and multimedia art that frolics through the forest.

She has worked as an artist and has had her work displayed nationally across galleries, shows and publications since 2010. Notable highlights of Coriander Focus’ recent career have been Peter Bullough Foundation – Summer AIRS (2025) Her Voice, Her Vision – Chesapeake Arts Center (2024)Windows to the Inside – Woman Made Gallery (2023). https://corianderfocus.myportfolio.com/

Patrick Lysaght is a multidisciplinary artist based in Santa Fe, NM, whose practice spans photography, digital media, kinetic sculpture, immersive installation, and computational art. 

Educated as an electrical engineer, Lysaght’s artistic practice is rooted in an investigation of impermanence, entropy, and the complex dialogue between human systems and ecological realities.

Lysaght’s work has been exhibited globally, including presentations at Entropy Gallery, the Santa Fe Gallery Association, and the Venice International Art Fair. Recent work has explored themes of Surrealism, Western Surrealism, and Quantum Entanglement, reflecting his ongoing interest in the unseen structures that connect perception, consciousness, and the physical world.

Ann Calandro is a writer, artist, and classical piano student. She received a 2026 Individual Artist Finalist Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Serving House Books published her short story and her poetry collections. Her artwork has appeared in the 2023 NJ Arts Annual, juried museum and gallery shows, and literary journals. Shanti Arts Press published three children’s books she wrote and illustrated. See artwork at ann-calandro.pixels.com

Robb Kunz hails from Teton Valley, Idaho. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Idaho. He currently teaches writing at Utah State University and is the Art and Design Faculty Advisor of Sink Hollow: An Undergraduate Literary Journal. His art has been published in Peatsmoke Journal, Phoebe, and Reed Magazine. His art is upcoming in Blue Mesa Review and Thin Air Magazine.

Gabrielle Miller is a Virginia-based painter and fiber artist. She earned her BFA in Studio Art and the David Diller Outstanding Student in Studio Art Award from James Madison University in 2024. Her practice centers on self-portraiture, symbols of desire, and intimate views of female identity. Using oil paint and hand-stitched embroidery, Miller explores themes of self-image and sexuality to create vulnerable, dream-like compositions. Her work has been exhibited at Second Street Gallery, Hanbury Design Studio, and ArtWorks Gallery. In 2024, she held her first solo exhibition, Underbelly, at James Madison University. Miller has been awarded residencies at McGuffey Art Center and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Artist Statement: My sculptural and digital photography imagery is a reflection of my past and present forces and the imagination of my life’s stories. They represent an evolutionary process of these ideas and how all of life’s forces are interconnected, embraced, and expressed thru creative art forms.