ARTISTS
Robbie austin
Robbie’s artistic voice finds the positive and possibilities in all things. He draws from, on, and in collaboration with timeworn materials: maps, postcards, ledgers, tablecloths…platforms with an inherent story. “Whether labeling my voice and method naïve, hopeful, elating, or suspicious,” explains Robbie, “all harmonies are essential and lead the charge both in weighing choices and encouraging chances. Locking into materials is a gift, giving the voice that already exists. I try and channel what the divine provides. I’m just the filter.” Robbie Austin is an artist, a teacher, a father, and a husband – though that order fluctuates regularly. He lives in a 115-year-old house, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the town where he was born, one-half mile from his high school alma mater, where he has taught for 20 years. Robbie holds a BFA from CalArts, an MFA in sculpture from UCLA, and takes pleasure in the routines of ordinary living.
BIEKE CAMPOS
Bieke Campos is a Mexican-American artist from Austin, Tx. As a first generation student, Bieke currently studies Studio Art with a concentration in painting at Texas State University. He is anticipated to graduate with a BFA in Studio Art in Fall 2026. His paintings are influenced by his environment, specifically his experiences and trauma with poverty in East Austin. He uses oil paint to portray contemporary subject matter, reflect Art History and social issues. Bieke's work has received notable awards including the Scholastic Gold Medal (2022) and Americans Visions award (2022).
DREW CARMAN
Drew Carman is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning landscape architect living in Austin, Texas. While pursuing an MLA at the University of Georgia in the early 2000s, he was introduced to oil painting through the friend and mentorship of renowned painter, musician, and folklorist Art Rosenbaum. Like Art, he developed a multifaceted approach to creative work, overlapping storytelling through music, oil paintings, and in Drew’s case, even the design of public parks and open spaces. This diversity of mediums, what Carman refers to collectively as his "design cohort" ensures his artistic ideas have a variety of outlets to be developed, refined, destroyed, and finally realized.
Marcella Colavecchio
Marcella Colavecchio is an Italian-American contemporary visual artist whose work explores the tension between memory, identity, and constructed narratives. Known for her evocative paintings and photographs, Marcella's recent work takes a more intimate and cinematic turn, drawing deeply from her family’s immigrant history and the emotional textures of 20th-century Americana. Her latest series reimagines ordinary spaces like department stores, diners, and laundromats through the lens of her mother’s journey as a young Italian immigrant in 1970s America, infusing each setting with quiet longing, stylized composition, and retro color palettes. While her earlier work was defined by exaggerated lighting and vibrant, theatrical worlds, her current practice leans into stillness and restraint, merging nostalgic realism with painterly softness, influenced by both Wes Anderson’s visual symmetry and the emotive brushwork of figurative painters like Amy Dury. Whether she's working from vintage photographs or staging scenes inspired by personal history, Marcella’s paintings maintain an emotional undercurrent that speaks to belonging, labor, memory, and the delicate space between past and present. Marcella is largely self-taught but studied classical drawing at Lyme Academy of Fine Art under the master draftsman Deane G. Keller. Her work has garnered national attention with exhibitions at Anya Tish Gallery in Houston, TX, and Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX, and she was a finalist for the prestigious No Dead Artists exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, LA.
B SHAWN COX
B Shawn Cox is an artist living and working in Austin, Texas. He creates to the calm light of pop philosophy with fragments of the written word and iconography from our collective social mythology. As a native Texan, after a West Texas rural ranching upbringing, careers as an architect and an attorney, he finds meaning by creating works that resonate from his past but are transformed with the filter of urban life explores themes of contemporary social mythology by reassembling, transforming and reimagining icons. Cox has degrees in Architecture and Law but has maintained and developed an art practice for over 35 years. His vibrant and diverse art practice has been exhibited widely and his represented by numerous galleries. A large-scale solo museum exhibition entitled “WESTWARD, FAUX!” opened in 2024 near his hometown in Odessa, Texas. His work is in corporate, museum and private collections across the United States.
Elizabeth Dryden
Texas native Elizabeth Dryden is a Contemporary Southwest Artist in the Dallas/Fort Worth area making a wave and grabbing the attention of the Texas art scene and beyond. The many layers intertwined together in her mixed media work make each piece a lawless mystery to unfold. While colorful and lively in spirit, there are volumes of information to be discovered below the textured surface. Elizabeth is inspired by the mystery of the desert as a whole, but focuses her artwork on the enchanting and indestructible flora and fauna that reside there. The subjects of Elizabeth’s work are primarily cacti and indigenous animals, which she uses metaphorically to express various life virtues hidden within the brushstrokes of paint and various paper and textured mediums. The natural beauty of the American Southwest has always fascinated Elizabeth, as well as her historic relative Buffalo Bill Cody helped to shape that interest. She breaks down subjects and themes into a magical exploration of color and shape. Further exploring cacti and various desert inhabitants in bright, vibrant Southwest scenes, Elizabeth combines the paradoxes between longstanding traditional ideals against modern society. Elizabeth grew up in Dallas, Texas and has since relocated back home after leaving for college and life’s adventures at the University of Arizona in 2000, which began her lifelong fascination with the mystic of the desert. Graduating from Texas Woman’s University with a degree in Art Education in 2005, she has since lived in Arizona, Washington State, Kentucky, and Boston, before returning back home to her favorite state of Texas. Recently married, Elizabeth resides now in Grand Junction, CO working as a fulltime artist and has recently designed the first pair of commercial women’s Cowboy boots “The Yellow Rose” boot for Dixon Boot Company and is currently working on projects for Double D Ranchwear and Fringe Scarves. Her work can currently been seen at Texas Treasures Fine Art Gallery in Boerne, TX, Western Gallery in Austin, TX, Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, OK, Your Private Gallery in Granbury, TX, and Canvas35 in Fruita, CO.
Rachel English
Rachel English is an American contemporary painter known for her vivid, hyper-realistic cloudscapes. Inspired by her late grandfather’s passion for astronomy, she developed a fascination with the sky at a young age that has sustained her craft. Hand-painted stars, bolts of lightning, and crisp clouds are rendered in striking detail, forming connections between the physical laws of nature and spiritual themes like meaning and morality. English grew up in Austin where she earned a BA in Studio Art at the University of Texas, and currently lives and works at her ranch in Spicewood, Texas. Her career has led her to attended artist residencies in Iceland, where she documented and painted the Northern Lights, and at the prestigious Vermont Studio Center. She has taught workshops both privately and at public institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art and the Cedars Union, and has exhibited her paintings in juried shows across the country. She is currently represented by Fort Works Art in Fort Worth, Texas, and at Square One Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri.
Abbey Engrav
I spent eight years working in advertising in New York, while art remained in the background as something I did for myself. I never took an art class in school, but painting and drawing were constants—something I returned to again and again. Five years ago, I committed to developing my practice more seriously, a focus that deepened over the past year and a half as I went after an MFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Over the past year, I moved to Dallas, Texas, a shift that has only expanded my artistic perspective. Now, my work blends vintage comics, Western iconography, and the unexpected intersections of past and present.
Stephen Gay
Stephen Gay (b. 1993) is a painter living and working in Bozeman, MT. He completed his BA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016 and earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2023. While at the Academy he received an Academy Scholar Award for both years of study and received a Patrons Scholar Award. Stephen has received a Fulbright Grant to work in India and was selected for a residency at the Kylemore Notre Dame Global Center in Ireland. He has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions.
Justin Giunta
I am a multidisciplinary artist who works on a continuum of art and design. Rooted in a European aesthetic traditions, I explore themes of value, access, and potential through the mixing of traditional techniques and modern materials. Moving to the Southwest has infused my work with a sense of personal identity as I reflect on how frontier stories echo my own pursuit to freely chart my own creative path in nonrestrictive spaces.
Michael Wayne Hall
Michael Wayne Hall approaches painting as a meditative and deeply intentional practice. Working entirely by hand, he mixes and remixes each color individually, applying pigment without the use of tape or masking. Wobbles, smudges, and subtle imperfections are left intact—deliberate traces of the artist’s hand that underscore the humanity within each precise composition. His abstract works draw on the flat color fields and hard-edged aesthetics of vintage screenprints, infused with his own quietly luminous gradients that suggest movement, depth, and transition. The result is work that feels both contemporary and timeless—at once calming and kinetic. Michael studied film at the University of the Arts and learned screenprinting at Philadelphia’s artist-run collective, Space 1026. He is a self-taught painter, muralist, and woodworker whose work has been commissioned by clients including the Kosovo Mural Fest, Facebook, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Perkins&Will, TIAA, Nordstrom, BP, and the City of Smithville, Texas, among many others. His paintings are held in many private collections and have been exhibited in Rome, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Marfa, Palm Springs, and across the U.S. Beyond painting, Michael has long been engaged in experimental and underground art forms. He co-founded the nomadic Lost Film Fest in 1999, toured as one half of the sound and print duo Ospreys, and has published stories about two decades of freight train travel for Faded Glory and the French book Outside the Box, which documents North American boxcar art.
Felice House
Felice House is a figurative painter based in Texas whose work reclaims the portrayal of women in visual culture. Through bold, large-scale portraits, she offers an alternative to the passive or idealized depictions of women found in art history and media. Her paintings challenge stereotypes and invite viewers to reconsider assumptions about gender and power. House has exhibited across the U.S. and internationally. Her work is included in public and private collections such as the Booth Western Art Museum, New Mexico State University, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Google Headquarters, and Prentice Women’s Hospital. She has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, Vice Magazine’s The Creators Project, and BBC News. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, an MFA in painting from the University of Texas, and an MS in Visualization from Texas A&M University. She also studied classical painting and portraiture at the Schuler School of Fine Arts. House is an Associate Professor in the Visualization Program at Texas A&M University.
Olga and Aleksey Ivanov
Olga and Aleksey Ivanov Olga and Aleksey Ivanov are the internationally acclaimed husband-and-wife artist team whose fine art paintings are found in exclusive galleries and collections around the world. Today, they live and work in Colorado, in a studio nestled high up in the Rocky Mountains, where they find inspiration every day in the natural Western beauty surrounding them. In the early days of their career, they experimented with mastering a host of mediums, but it was when they explored the European Renaissance, learning the beauty, grace, and poetic harmony of egg tempera and gilding, that they knew they had found their highest passion. They love the challenge and extreme level of detail demanded by this highly sophisticated medium, the way it commands their full attention, and the perfect blending of skill and sensitivity. They both work on every painting and have done so in total harmony for a quarter of a century. They approach each painting with an open heart, building up the surface with thousands of tiny strokes, one on top of the other, to develop depth and luminosity. Egg tempera dates back to early Greek and Roman art and they love being part of that continuum. Building upon history, they feel they are singing a contemporary song using the beauty, grace, and elegance—the visual poetry of Western images—of an ancient tradition.
Ruel Loehr
Ruel Loehr is an Austin Texas based artist who is inspired by the flavors of regional culture and nostalgic images that provide throwbacks to an upbringing in a small Indiana town. A self taught artist, Ruel finds refuge in a variety of mediums exposing his unique views of Americana. His work explores the interactions of people and places while using color and shape to convey the emotions of the scene.
Jacob Lovett
Jacob Lovett (b. 1995) is an American artist best known for his contemporary Western oil paintings. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Lovett grew up surrounded by the Western lifestyle — always at arm’s length, close enough to observe but never fully immersed. It wasn’t until later in life that he came to recognize how profoundly this world had shaped his perspective and, ultimately, his artistic practice. In 2018, he picked up a paintbrush for the first time, initiating a creative journey that would evolve into a distinctive visual language — one in which the American West remains both subject and catalyst. Lovett’s work serves as both personal reflection and narrative vehicle — a means of honoring and interpreting the lives, labor, and landscapes that define this evolving frontier. Over the past four years, he has deeply engaged with the region, traveling across its expanse capturing these scenes — from secluded ranches to iconic landscapes — while forging meaningful relationships with the cowboys, wranglers, and Western communities whose stories continue to shape his practice. These firsthand experiences are embedded in his paintings, enabling him to render rugged terrain and moments of stillness with emotional clarity and narrative depth. His work extends an invitation not only to witness but to reflect — to consider one’s own relationship to time, place and purpose. Central to his visual approach is what he calls, Western Windows: a signature synthesis of classical oil painting techniques and a minimalist, contemporary aesthetic, where his compositions often resemble the experience of looking through, entering, or exiting a window — serving simultaneously as literal framing devices and metaphoric thresholds. In a relatively short period, Lovett’s work has garnered national recognition, with features in leading publications including Southwest Art Magazine ("21 Under 31: Young Artists to Watch"), Western Art and Architecture, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Western Art Collector, Cowgirl Magazine, and Fort Worth Magazine. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States, including the 2024 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale’s Young Guns Show in Denver, Colorado, and the 2023 C.M. Russell First Strike Friday in Great Falls, Montana.Today, his work is held in public and private collections nationwide and beyond, and he is currently represented by Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, Texas, and The Gallery at Bowie House in Fort Worth, Texas.
Jacob Lovett
Jacob Lovett (b. 1995) is an American artist best known for his contemporary Western oil paintings. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Lovett grew up surrounded by the Western lifestyle — always at arm’s length, close enough to observe but never fully immersed. It wasn’t until later in life that he came to recognize how profoundly this world had shaped his perspective and, ultimately, his artistic practice. In 2018, he picked up a paintbrush for the first time, initiating a creative journey that would evolve into a distinctive visual language — one in which the American West remains both subject and catalyst. Lovett’s work serves as both personal reflection and narrative vehicle — a means of honoring and interpreting the lives, labor, and landscapes that define this evolving frontier. Over the past four years, he has deeply engaged with the region, traveling across its expanse capturing these scenes — from secluded ranches to iconic landscapes — while forging meaningful relationships with the cowboys, wranglers, and Western communities whose stories continue to shape his practice. These firsthand experiences are embedded in his paintings, enabling him to render rugged terrain and moments of stillness with emotional clarity and narrative depth. His work extends an invitation not only to witness but to reflect — to consider one’s own relationship to time, place and purpose. Central to his visual approach is what he calls, Western Windows: a signature synthesis of classical oil painting techniques and a minimalist, contemporary aesthetic, where his compositions often resemble the experience of looking through, entering, or exiting a window — serving simultaneously as literal framing devices and metaphoric thresholds. In a relatively short period, Lovett’s work has garnered national recognition, with features in leading publications including Southwest Art Magazine ("21 Under 31: Young Artists to Watch"), Western Art and Architecture, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Western Art Collector, Cowgirl Magazine, and Fort Worth Magazine. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States, including the 2024 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale’s Young Guns Show in Denver, Colorado, and the 2023 C.M. Russell First Strike Friday in Great Falls, Montana.Today, his work is held in public and private collections nationwide and beyond, and he is currently represented by Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, Texas, and The Gallery at Bowie House in Fort Worth, Texas.
Paul McCreery
Paul McCreery is a visual artist based in Austin, Texas. He earned his BFA in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design and has spent much of his career working as a freelance illustrator. In recent years, he has been steadily transitioning into fine art, with a focus on watercolor paintings. McCreery's work explores contemporary landscapes, still life, and portraits, often grounded in the quiet rhythms of everyday life. Influenced by David Hockney’s “slice of life” sensibility and Wayne Thiebaud’s playful pop realism, his paintings balance observation with stylization—transforming ordinary scenes into vivid, contemplative compositions. Rooted in both commercial and fine art traditions, McCreery brings a clean, illustrative sensibility to his gallery work, creating images that are both accessible and emotionally resonant.
Ellen Mote
Ellen Mote is a multidisciplinary artist based in Waco, Texas, specializing in metalsmithing and painting. Her work challenges the pursuit of perfection by confronting the unattainable nature of societal expectations through symmetrical yet imperfect lines, colors, and shapes. In her latest series, Sheer Disposition, Ellen explores the ideals and pressures that culture places on women, mothers, and their bodies. She holds a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design from Texas Tech University and has studied various art disciplines in Florence, Italy. Having traveled to over 30 countries, her work is deeply influenced by her global experiences.
Jinn Olasmo
Jinn Olasmo is a painter based in San Antonio, Texas. He’s been painting since 2006, spending many of those years working in acrylic, often using skeletons and nostalgic themes to tell stories. His work has been shown in galleries across the U.S. and parts of Europe. About three years ago, he switched to oil painting—a change that had been in the back of his mind since childhood. Oils offered more time and flexibility, and felt like the right fit for the more traditional imagery he had always imagined painting. While the subject matter has shifted, some things have carried through: a focus on old packaged products and carefully chosen objects that, when paired together, suggest a story or a feeling. The goal now is to create pieces that feel like puzzles—open enough for viewers to bring their own meaning, but specific enough to leave an emotional mark. Before painting full-time, Olasmo worked as a graphic designer for over a decade.
Zoe Sauvé
Zoe Sauvé is a 24 year old representational mixed media painter based in Syracuse, NY. She earned her Bachelor of Art from Hamilton College in 2023 with majors in both studio art and economics. Her work centers around her identity as a fat woman and her analysis of the world around her through that lens. Often drawing inspiration from abandoned imagery such as derelict architectural sites and garbage, Sauvé aims not only to challenge fatphobic ideologies through her paintings but to question why certain spaces and people are disregarded in the first place. The connections revealed through the juxtaposition of abandoned imagery to the fat figure run deeper than feelings of neglect, as both symbolize a subversion of societal expectations and control. With no clear owner, abandoned spaces and objects exist outside the normal idea of ownership and, by extension, control. Likewise, the fat body exists outside of the societal norm. By loving the fat body, one is defying the expectation that it is only desirable to be thin and renouncing the control society has on them.
Paul Schexnayder
Paul Schexnayder is a Louisiana-born visual artist, illustrator, and educator whose vivid, narrative-driven works celebrate the culture, spirit, and storytelling traditions of the American South. A professional artist for over 30 years, Schexnayder’s distinctive, color-saturated paintings are both whimsical and poetic, drawing on Southern iconography, Cajun folklore, and personal memory. Despite being color-blind, he developed a powerful and recognizable style that Southern Living once described as “vibrant, vivacious paintings of Bayou State life.” Originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, Schexnayder began drawing at a young age but didn’t start painting until college. He earned his BFA in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University in 1988, where he studied under Walter Rokowski and Robert Warrens—mentors whose advice to “draw every day” still shapes his daily practice. After four years of teaching art in the Boston area, Schexnayder returned to his hometown to pursue art full-time. Over the years, he has built a multifaceted career that spans studio painting, public murals, arts education, and children's books. His paintings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and have earned him roles as the official artist for many local and state festivals. Since 2018, he has completed five murals in and around New Iberia and has also received awards for his short animation films. Schexnayder is also an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books. His “In the Time Of” picture book trilogy was published by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press between 2017 and 2019. His popular book The Gumbo Gators was released by Pelican Publishing in 2022, followed by I Know My Louisiana Colors (2024), I Know My Texas Colors (2025), and The Gumbo Gators and the Swamp Circus (2025). His first early reader, The Adventures of Boudin Boy, will debut in 2025. Beyond his personal art practice, Schexnayder has played a vital role in shaping the cultural landscape of his community. He has taught art for over three decades and currently teaches visual arts in the Talent Program in Iberia Parish. He and his wife Lee have owned and operated A & E Gallery in New Iberia for over 15 years, showcasing the work of more than eight local artists. He has also helped found or co-found numerous cultural institutions and events, including the Bayou Teche Museum, George Rodrigue Park, the James Lee Burke statue (2024), and the New Iberia Art Walk.Schexnayder’s work is known for its emotional resonance, painterly charm, and strong storytelling—a visual language that ranges from lighthearted and humorous to quietly lyrical. As the Salem News put it, “Schexnayder's works represent the heart and soul of Louisiana.” He continues to work in series, letting ideas evolve organically “as fluid,” he says, “as a backyard bayou.” Paul Schexnayder lives with his wife and three kids in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Amanda Snyder
My work brings lost mid-century snapshots back to life. So often it is the times when we didn’t have a care in the world that we look back on and cherish the most. We gave ourselves the rare permission to relax, and reflect on what deeply matters to us personally. These are the moments that become the souvenirs of our lives. Working on stretched canvases with acrylic, I recreate these small moment on a larger scale. Inspired by their dusty color plates, nostalgic subject matter and mix of shapes and sizes. They draw you into their stories. The narrative of each piece is open to the viewer to imagine their own stories or personal experiences within the painting. “Picnic on the way” romanticizes a simpler place in time when our lives (and landscapes) were not overly cluttered with distractions. One could stop along an untouched roadside for a picnic and just sit in conversation with friends.
Jose Sotelo Yamasaki
Based in San Antonio, Jose Sotelo Yamasaki is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, screen printing, and illustration. Rooted in themes of nature, sustainability, and existentialism, Jose’s creations reflect a profound connection to his environment and heritage.
Christopher St. Leger
I am a perceptual painter working in oil and watercolor. My work renders and explores the visual and emotional qualities of place. My influences are the Midwest of my childhood, my suburban birthplace of creative endeavors. Its post-war houses atop a network of straight sidewalks were a background to my longing for elsewhere and beyond. It was a landscape in-between (an imbalanced relationship of mass and void, private property and forest preserves, work and play). My innate desire to create led me from drawing and architecture school to watercolor, and from watercolor to my current work in oil. The idea of place and how we see are the foundations of my work. I paint places that I stumble upon when thinking about something else. I take photos of these indifferent and nonspecific places as they are, whether it is a street corner in central Texas or a building in central Europe. My goal is to create a scene that is familiar and also unknown. My work is a balance of control and chaos. I select an image from my photo library that sparks interest and project that photo onto the surface of the canvas. The canvas becomes a textural work surface where I push and pull thick and thin grey color like an environment unto itself. I build layers of paint with palette knives and wide brushes, looking at tone, horizon, and light and shadow. The visible layers of the finished canvas tell the story of how the piece was created. When I’m painting, I forget my zip code or who I think I am. The noise of the real world is overpowered by attention to design and tone of plain beauty. My choice of what to paint is based on my wish to transform how I see my immediate environment- the joy in light and shadow and in the hue that is relative and unique to this angle of the sun. My paintings create a space of comfort. These places are so close and familiar and are where I can finally talk to myself and dream about what matters most. My work invites viewers to experience the work in the same way; to experience the freedom of solitude that I value so immensely and to see beauty in the visual and emotional qualities of place.
Nick Stevenson
Nick Stevenson is a Texas based artist. A multidisciplinary artist by way of New York and by long way of Sydney, Australia. Nick, a local to Austin Texas and Terlingau, has navigated his way through film and television as an actor/director/writer/producer. Having taken a hiatus from the industry Nick’s been living barge in his studio. As an actor Nick has been a recurring cast member on shows like Orange Is The New Black, The Son, Person Of Interest, many feature films, theatrical productions Off Broadway - way off Broadway. As an artist Nick has been fortunate enough to have had his works on display at the New South Wales art gallery, Sydney Australia, Texas, New Mexico, New York and Boston. Nick’s inspiration is rooted in community, change, no change, colors, animals, characters and the many scenes I have playing out in my head daily.
Heather Sundquist Hall
Heather Sundquist Hall (b. 1982) is a Central Texas–based artist, originally from Long Island, NY and Philadelphia, PA. Working primarily in gouache, her work explores the emotional terrain of memory, nostalgia, and place. Deeply narrative and detail-oriented, Heather's paintings are visual souvenirs—an attempt to hold on to fleeting moments like those from a road trip or a quiet Thursday afternoon at home. The vast landscapes of the romantic Southwest, where she has lived for over a decade, serve as both backdrop and metaphor, often contrasted with intimate, domestic details: a forgotten object, a floral curtain, the plaid of a grandmother’s couch remembered from 1986. Heather’s work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the magic embedded in the everyday—the textures, colors, and artifacts that shape personal history and collective memory.
Lily Timberlake
Lily Timberlake is a painter based in Austin, Texas, currently working on a series of oil paintings that lean into the joyful, tender, and transient moments that sustain a life. Drawing from her immediate environment, her work seeks to capture the fleeting nature of experience, and encourages the viewer to slow down. Her paintings are often built up in washes of both thick and thin paint, leaving certain areas open and gestural, while rendering others more defined and dense. After receiving a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2018, she relocated her practice to Austin, where she lives with her partner, painter Christopher Miller, and their cattle dog Rio. Her work has been shown at Cloudtree Gallery, the Dodge Painting Gallery, and has been featured in I Like Your Work’s Winter 2024 Exhibition Catalogue.
Diego Vilela
Diego Vilela, aka SUPERDAY is an artist residing in the Bay Area known for his energetic and bold portraits. His portrait work features bright, colorful palettes drawing inspiration from summers he spent in Brazil as well as rough and dynamic line work which serves as both a rebellion against years of perfectionism and a reflection of the messiness of being human. By using limited detail and simple backgrounds, the viewer is given the opportunity to fill in the gaps; To finish the story and make their own connections.
Ernest Wood
My first job out of college was as an editor at a newspaper that used linotype machines to set text in hot lead. So I learned to read upside down and backward. Printing as art seemed only natural. Since then, I've worked as a writer and editor, splitting my career half in journalism and half in advertising. As a journalist, I've written about art and architecture for newspapers, and I've been Editor of North Carolina Architect and Design Editor of Southern Living magazines. I've written a number of non-fiction books on architecture and a time travel novel about places and times.I've lived in Austin, Texas since 1984, but I was born in New York City, grew up in North Carolina, and earned my BA in English Literature from Hamilton College in upstate New York. Art always was there. As an undergraduate, I was one Art course shy of what might have been a double major in English and Art. I later did graduate work in Architecture at North Carolina State University, where I also studied printmaking. In 2015 I returned to printmaking, studying at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and at Austin Community College, which has purchased my work for its permanent collection. My work has accepted into juried exhibitions in 10 Texas cities and across the US from California to New York and Boston, where in 2023 one of my prints was included in the prestigious Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial.
Nick Woodall
Nick Woodall and SPUN GOLD studio is the realization of a 7 year old northern new mexico kid cutting his teeth on a construction site alongside his father. Grateful for parents that encouraged every outlandish endeavor I ever sought to make mine. Amidst a community of cultural and influential diversity encouraged my work ethic and curiosities. I sought out a formal arts education in printmaking and photography in New York. Later returning to New Mexico to get my Masters of Architecture. I took the long way around to land where I started in fundamental creativity. But along that path my appreciation for trades and my fascination for manufacturing techniques had given me a wide creative birth. Currently I live alongside my sculpture studio and printshop all under the same roof. If you find that concept palatable then were cut from a similar cloth. Between the printshop and the metal shop im able to experiment and explore every day. I use many vintage metal forming machines and techniques, you don't often see outside the heavy industrial shop. Even my printing presses are vintage pieces that I have inherited from the people that have fostered my skills over the years. I live with the machines and processes as becomes evident in my work. Additionally I include modern technology of CNC and computer modeling for 3d printing and materials integration. I teach those techs and precision tig welding at the community college to foster that in others that I have benefitted from I am ever growing and always contributing because its an integral part of my process. Your not likely to find me without ink and grease under my nails. I hope this gives some context to my work, it's the only way i know how to.
