Tag: mixed media artist

Jane Bauman's creative practice brings together painting, photography, mixed media, found materials, and personal history. From her early experiences with art and the East Village art scene of the 1980s to her current studio practice, Jane has built a body of work shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and transformation. She often revisits old works, discarded materials, childhood images, and studio remnants, allowing fragments of the past to become part of something new. Her fascination with apophenia the human tendency to find patterns and meaning in unrelated things also plays an important role…

Michelle Dumas transforms forgotten thrift-store paintings into dazzling contemporary artworks using thousands of individually applied sequins, breathing new life into vintage florals, landscapes, portraits, and found treasures. Rooted in a love of thrifting, upcycling, and creative reinvention, her practice challenges traditional ideas about value, beauty, and permanence by rescuing discarded artworks and turning them into vibrant, light-filled pieces that constantly shift with their surroundings. Working through an intensely time-consuming process, Michelle carefully builds layers of colour, texture, shimmer, and pattern that invite viewers to slow down and experience the work from…

Nicole Garcia blends gothic and whimsy into bold, imaginative portraits and mixed media works. Her art celebrates strangeness, play, and fearless self-expression

For Stephanie Swilley, art and care are inseparable. Her practice weaves beauty, ecological awareness, and mutual aid into a single gesture proving that tenderness can be radical, and art can help reshape how we live together.