Steve Parker
Steve Parker, originally from Orange County, CA, currently resides in Orlando and has a Bachelor in Art & Design from Full Sail University. In addition to being a studio artist, Steve also works as a freelance designer as well as Curator of Redlight Redlight Art Events and Co-owner of Redefine Gallery. Steve’s work comes from 20% Life, 30% subconscious, & 50% unexplainable.
Eric Althin
Eric was born and raised in Sweden, and currently resides in New York City as a studio artist as well as Owner/Curator of Bold Hype Gallery.
The focus of Eric’s work is to remind himself and the viewer of the amazing natural world around us. The idea in Eric’s work is to revive that feeling of fascination we have for animals and nature when we’re young that somewhere gets lost as we grow accustomed to this planet and everything on it.
Scott Donald
Scott Donald is an illustrator, painter and designer from Orlando. Florida-born; he has also lived in Tennessee, Delaware and Northern Virginia. Most of his illustrations and paintings are part of a larger narrative involving myth, inherited memory, and transient glimpses into nature’s interconnectedness.
Mr. Donald currently works as Creative Director for Alarie Design Associates, Inc., contributes regularly to Neon Forest Gallery projects and is a partner in the Phantom Limbs artist collective.
Johannah O’Donnell
Johannah O’Donnell, a Florida native, grew up in the city of Sarasota. She graduated from Ringling School of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art in 1995, and three years after moved to Orlando. O’Donnell has been in numerous exhibitions both locally and nationally, she recently completed a solo show at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City.
Influenced by the American Pop Art movement, Spanish Surrealism, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy, O’Donnell’s paintings use natural and figurative symbolism to comment on the ever-evolving human condition.
Jasibe Cure – Twede
Jasibe Cure – Twede’s work focuses on the grotesque disconnection between ourselves and each other, and the things we are desperately in search of. Jasibe Cure – Twede graduated from UCF with a BFA. She currently resides in Portland, OR where she continues to focus on her body of of work.
Ted Leary
Ted Leary’s work is a portrayal of the internal struggle to define and understand both good and evil. It is a celebration of a constant and eternal state of moral and metaphysical confusion. The drawings, like life, are both gravely serious and completely absurd. Ted Leary is currently working towards a BFA from UCF in Orlando, FL.
Paul Finch
Paul Finch’s work is an exploration of gender, iconography, religion, and material culture. Inspired by image-making traditions dating back to Neolithic cave drawings, his artistic process allows a personal system of symbolic images to arrange itself. Paul Finch is currently working towards a BFA from UCF in Orlando, FL.
Nathalie Chikhi
Nathalie Chikhi was born in Quimper, France and currently lives in Orlando, FL. She received a Diploma in Visual Communication in 1996 from Le Paraclet and a Degree in Multimedia in 1999 from The Gobelins. Her work was selected for a group show at the Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, in 2008. She also participated in group shows inHuntington Beach, Orlando, San Francisco and Chicago. Her video work has been part of the exhibition “an exchange with Sol Lewitt” at the MassMoCa, MA in Jan-March 2011. The upcoming exhibition at Twelve21 Gallery will by Chikhi’s first solo show.
Brian Phillips
In his own words, Brian has “always been helplessly drawn to the visual aspects of everything I encounter”. His interest is in recontextualizing images to convey intentional and incidental associations and the space that objects occupy and leave vacant. He has had several solo and group shows in the Orlando area.
Bryan Carson
Bryan Carson’s work is derived from the energy and mystery of large bodies of water, in particular the ocean. It represents a stage in between reality and dreams or consciousness and unconsciousness when thoughts are neither fact nor fiction, but seem to be a combination of both. Bryan’s approach has been to depict this middle ground of reality by showing a connection between real, mysterious, and dreamlike objects; showing a transformation between each of these three stages. Bryan focuses on the foundation of drawing while adding layered elements through painting, printmaking, transfers, and other various media. Through this approach and due to the subject matter, the work tends to focus on radial forms that repeat to provide a continuous pushing and pulling movement of objects towards and away from each other.
Particular with works on wood, each wood substrate is carefully chosen so that the natural grain and knots become a part of the overall design representing moving water and/or focal points. Using this visual concept many areas of the wood remain unchanged and what was once negative space becomes the positive space to give way to skin tones and textures of the human form.