Sarah Hinckley spent her childhood in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Despite living in New York City for nearly 30 years, her paintings were still informed by nods to Cape Cod, where she returned to live full-time in 2016. Today, Hinckley allows the process to show through her paintings, where gravity pulls at paint, leaving dripping edges or rough skips of brushwork, and simple bands of color highlight the interplay of light and shadow.

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Bassmi Ibrahim was trained as a classical painter in his native Cairo. In the mid 1960s, Bassmi emigrated to New York City and became immersed in abstract art. Later, he moved to Clearwater, Florida, where he began his signature "Isness" series, which he says represents "the fluid dynamism of all life" and "the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual self" rather than the outer shape of the world.

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New Orleans-born artist Anne Marchand has worked with various media throughout her career, but she began experimenting with acrylic mediums in 2010. In 2016, her work increased in scale, and Marchand began using a process driven by the flow of liquid paint, underpinned by a structure of geometric fabrics embedded under translucent paint, anchoring paint and charcoal marks, thread, glass beads, and other elements.

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Stewart Nachmias creates cast paper woodcuts that celebrate the energy of urban life in expressionist images drawn from his own experiences as a musician, performer, and artist.

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Both a professor and an artist, John O'Connor's painting breakthrough came while teaching at the University of Florida in 1984. While there, he realized chalkboards were "the perfect vehicle" for his art. Since then, what O'Connor calls "Conceptual Realism" blackboard paintings have been the bulk of his work, allowing him to explore both the realms of reality and illusion.

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For more than 35, years Lee Saloutos has specialized in color landscape and architectural imagery. He is known for his detailed focus on textured surfaces that result from the gradual weathering of man-made structures. Because he often immerses himself in locations and subjects for weeks-long shoots, his photographs often have a documentary or investigative quality.

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A self-taught artist, Dellamarie Parrilli began painting at the age of three, though she also found success in other forms of art, including music and dance. Parrilli's professional painting career began after a life-threatening illness ended her career as an entertainer. Today, she is the recipient of numerous awards, and her work is held in many private and corporate collections.

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Abstract landscape painter Susan Sommer expresses moods, observations, and insights through vibrant paintings and drawings. Sommer says that her paintings begin with a single arbitrary color and build from there "by way of color patterning based on allusions to rhythm, velocity, depth, foreground, and sound." Her paintings are improvisational, often inspired by natural sounds when painting outdoors or by music when painting indoors.

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Collage artist and painter Gail Hillow Watkins is known for mixed media works, featuring comic strips, decorative motifs, and pigments. Her images are carefully constructed and then destroyed by sanding or distressing the surfaces to expose the material underneath.

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