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Leslie Ann O’Dell

VAMPIRES AND LOST SOULS Leslie Ann O’Dell is a self-taught contemporary artist from Denver, Colorado, who uses photography and digital manipulation to produce haunting portraits. Inspired by the “subconscious, empathy for the wrong, [and] people who dream,” her imagery is both delicate and disturbing. Sensual bodies explode into floral arrangements resembling viscera and dripping blood, […]

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Jason Limon

A HIDDEN MESSAGE Jason Limon is a painter and sculptor that was born in San Antonio, Texas: “Over time I have explored a range of subjects, from ideas based on nature to otherworldly beings. As I progress through my work there is one field where I started and tend to gravitate toward the most: history. […]

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Hannah Faith Yata

ANTHROPOMORPHIC AND PSYCHEDELIC CREATURES In her own work, Hannah Faith Yata seeks to interweave political ideas, environmental degradation and themes of moral injustice into increasingly chaotic paintings. She uses masks from a mix of other cultures to speak to the different relationships that native tribes and cultures have with the earth, while giving anthropomorphic qualities […]

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Erik Thor Sandberg

A HUMAN NATURE INHERENTLY FLAWED Using symbolism both established and personal, Erik Thor Sandberg creates narratives without definitive beginnings or ends; he captures pivotal moments and isolates them from time. Upon these suspended moments, the artist abstains from casting judgment and rather, empathizes with the figures that are often transfixed by self-wrought disaster. Traditionally, Sandberg’s […]

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The Richard Balzer collection

A TRIBUTE TO EARLY ANIMATIONS Since first stumbling onto an early type of image projector called a magic lantern, Richard Balzer became instantly obsessed with early optical devices, from camera obscuras and praxinoscopes to anamorphic mirrors and zoetropes. Based in New York, Balzer has collected thousands of obscure and unusual devices such as phenakistoscopes, one […]

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Renzo Razzetto

EROTICISM AND OCCULTISM Renzo Razzetto creates pen and ink collage style illustrations using the inking technique called ‘stippling’ — a method of inking in which hundreds of thousands of very fine dots are used to create texture, shading and other optical illusions. The recurring themes in his work are eroticism, horror and the occult, which […]

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