Photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel grew up in Paris and London before relocating to the United States. She studied international law, then in 1997 decided to dedicate herself full-time to photography. Influenced by her late mother’s sculptures and her husband’s paintings and films, she worked on several projects before her series Nocturnes was recognized in 2005 by Harry…

Naomi Schlinke is a Texas-based artist, whose work has been exhibited at the Robert McClain Gallery in Houston, The Dallas Contemporary, Texas State University in San Marcos, D. M. Allison Gallery in Houston, Women and Their Work, D Berman Gallery, and the Dougherty Art Center, all in Austin. Before moving to Austin from San Francisco…

David Quinn is a self-taught photographer in Setauket, New York, who became interested in photography in his early fifties. He focuses mainly on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In his artwork, he strives to evoke an emotion, raise an uncertainty, or create a sense of…

Michael Kesselman loves going to his studio at the Peninsula Museum of Art (PMA) in Burlingame, California. There, he has a clear and simple purpose: create art. It also helps that the studio is only a seven-minute drive from his home. “I leave my window open so I can spit sunflower seeds, but my car…

Nguyen Thi Mai is a self-taught, Vietnamese artist focusing on acrylic and lacquer painting. In 2004, she committed to creating art, moving from Singapore to Hanoi, where she took lessons in oil painting at the Art & Lacquer Club. She has participated in the Beijing International Art Biennale, and her artwork has been featured at…

For the past thirty years, Greg Skol has been an artist, working in Los Angeles and San Francisco before eventually settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990. His artwork has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, and other cities. The Albuquerque Museum; Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas; Springfield Museums…

Mary Reilly’s art has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York City at Garvey/Simon Art Access and the Museum of the City of New York, as well as other galleries, and in numerous group exhibitions. Her work has been included in public collections at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the New York…

Julia Randall’s drawings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and she is the recipient of fellowships and residency awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She earned her MFA from Rutgers University, and her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work…

Zac Benson is an international artist whose work has been shown in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and the United States. He has had public commissions in Australia, California, New York, and Washington, D.C. He graduated with a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2011 and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of…

Karen Fitzgerald’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States, including at the Queens Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rahr-West Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art Design, the University of Arizona Tucson, and the United Nations in New York. Her work is in the Spencer Collection of the…

Nancy Breakstone is a Connecticut-based photographer who calls herself a “water-woman.” Oceans inspire her artistically, and water sports contribute to her physical and emotional well-being. She has travelled to beaches around the world, including Playa Negra in Costa Rica where she took photos of the intricate patterns in the sand. These photos became the basis…

Susan Clinard is a prolific artist known for work that often expresses human struggles, such as mothers protecting children and the strong helping out the weak. Now living in Connecticut, she began her sculpture career over twenty years ago. She works in wood, clay, bronze, stone, and mixed media. Clinard has taught in some of…