Los Angeles, CA https://anatebgi.com/cpt_artists/alec-egan / @alec.egan Fragmented and yet fully whole, Alec Egan tackles the psychology of the domestic interior through a maze of lushly wallpapered rooms. Blooming flower arrangements, a window, a ru

Los Angeles, CA Jill Mulleady (b. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1980) lives and works in Los Angeles. Mulleady’s practice shifts between close observations of everyday reality and highly elaborated imaginary worlds. In her work, references to historical paint

Carson, CA deitra.charles@gmail.com / www.deitracharles.com / @deitrac My work is sourced from a personal place and evolves into a shared experience. It is broad in scope and connected by threads of memory, history, and hope. I step into the past to

Los Angeles, CA 310.281.0961 (Shulamit Nazarian) studio@amirhfallah.com / www.amirhfallah.com Amir H. Fallah creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that utilize personal history as an entry point to discuss race, representation, the body, a

Yucca Valley, CA 323.641.7177 (Ochi Projects) @bfgf Lilian Martinez’s work reconciles past with present and future, combining elements from art history and classical architecture with contemporary pop-cultural references. Martinez is interested in ex

Los Angeles, CA 212.255.5735 (De Buck Gallery) tahneelonsdale@gmail.com / www.tahneelonsdale.com / @tahneelonsdale Each of my paintings peers into my personal journey, juggling the ambiguous roles of a twenty-first-century mother and artist. There is

Los Angeles, CA studio@kohshinfinley.com / www.kohshinfinley.com / @kohshinfinley Kohshin Finley’s work depicts his friends and community as strong, resilient individuals on the other side of adversities they’ve faced. The subjects of his paintings u

Vancouver, WA 503.222.0063 (PDX CONTEMPORARY ART) www.pdxcontemporaryart.com/ellen-george I begin each painting with a thin line of silverpoint or gold point. Many of these delicate markings are layered within the chalky gouache brushstrokes. Visible

Stanford, CA gregoryrick@cca.edu My life has been full of tribulations. I look at them as initiations. My father went to prison when I was seven for attempted murder. Although losing my dad was rough, his giving me two books, one on history and one o

Newark, NJ bygracelynne@yahoo.com / www.bygracelynne.com / @bygracelynne Grace Lynne Haynes creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to

Los Angeles, CA Alexandra Noel’s small-scale paintings and sculptures deal with issues of representation, agency, age, scale, and our relationship with digital media and screen time. Her work concerns the tension between flatness and depth in a psych

Napa, CA 503.312.2192 justynhegreberg@protonmail.com / www.justynhegreberg.tumblr.com / @justynhegreberg As if in a dream, free-floating hands, eyes, and mostly mouths coexist with doodles, calculations, and inscriptions. I make this discrete body of

San Francisco, CA info@stodor.com / www.stodor.com / @_stodor_ Through multiple layers of Mylar, transparent colored plastic, and spray paint, under resin, I create minimalistic, nonrepresentational abstractions. Each piece is a study of color, color

Juror’s Pick p52 Amir H. Fallah is best known for his vibrant, ornate, and dynamic figurative and still-life paintings. His canvases at once digest his own immigrant experience, interrogate systems of representation, and celebrate hybridity through t

Pasadena, CA dchendrickson1@gmail.com / www.dhendrickson.com / @dvdhndrcksn My paintings recombine, repeat, redact, and crop elements, materials, and objects to elicit a sense of absurdist absence and alienation. Digitally manipulating and collaging

Portland, OR judith@judithsturdevant.com / www.judithsturdevant.com My process utilizes traditional painting techniques together with collage, textile arts, and digital manipulation to evoke transformative states and spaces inspired by a feminine aes

Los Angeles, CA www.gregito.xyz / @gregitooo Attuned to beauty in tragedy, Greg Ito’s paintings and installations operate like quasi–film sets though pared-down, minimal, and dreamlike, emphasizing mood and symbols rather than crystalized detail. Ito

San Diego, CA bryan.ali.sanchez@gmail.com / www.bryan-ali.com / @bryan_ali_sanchez My paintings deal with the inequalities of class structure, depicting the hardships of the working class. As a first-generation Mexican American, I also investigate th

Los Angeles, CA erichuebsch@hotmail.com / www.cockandoodle.com / @cockandoodle I consider the sponge my “spirit animal.” Constantly absorbing, filtering, and releasing: that’s how the sponge survives, and as an artist I am doing the same. I strive to

San Francisco, CA 323.589.1135 (Night Gallery) www.christinetienwang.com My paintings combine photorealistic images and mannered texts. The text is oftentimes humorous and sardonic, commenting on current events, pop culture, sexual desire, commodity

Los Angeles, CA misiaarmstrong@gmail.com / www.misiaarmstrong.com / @takingtigermtn The main theme of my work is personal wayfinding. Self-trust and self-belief. Nature being the only relevant point of comparison, the only source for the guidelines a

New York City, NY 212.560.0670 (Martos Gallery) jennie@jenniejieunlee.com / www.jenniejieunlee.com Jennie Jieun Lee uses rich imagery and textured marks to create her ceramics and installations. Busts, masks, wall works, and vessels covered in abstra

Berkeley, CA www.lavathomas.com / @lavathomas Through an oeuvre that includes drawing, sculpture, and sitespecific installation, I strive to connect people across distance and difference, using my practice to bridge our common humanity while addressi

San Francisco, CA 833.278.5683 (Jen Tough Gallery) tamiavery2217@comcast.net / www.tameraavery.com / @tameraavery My work is a celebration of youth, where the young are the champions of change in flawed social, political, and environmental landscapes