Katie Abplanalp - web.mac.com/kaitabplanalp Katie Abplanalp, a graduate of Washington & Lee University with a BA in Studio Art, moved to New York City in 2005 to work in documentary production with Engel Entertainment. After two years of preparing and conducting interviews, reenactments, and research for television shows, Katie decided to transfer these skills to the study of law. She is now a patent paralegal at Ropes & Gray and will begin law school this fall. Katie will continue her art, in the hope of sharing stories and personal experiences through painting and photography. She was awarded the Todd Jones Scholarship (2004), Fine Arts Award (2005) and Class of '64 Art & Music Award (2005) for her excellence in the arts.

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Robert Aitchison - robertaitchison.com Robert Aitchison's paintings and drawings explore the natural world, expressing the experience of nature through an investigation of its structure, details, and ephemeral characteristics. His creative process involves extensive layering and reordering of distilled, fragmented imagery informed by nature and natural phenomena. The synthesis of organic lines and diffused fields of vibrant color establish compositions which move beyond the depiction of specific locales and allude more to the act of seeing and contemplating the natural world. Aitchison was raised in Spring, Texas and studied painting at the University of Texas at Austin. His art has been exhibited in Texas, New York, and Europe and can be found in private collections in the United States, Europe, and South America. He currently lives and works in New York City. In addition to his studio work Aitchison also instructs art therapy workshops for mentally ill adults and works as an arts specialist for children with special needs.

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Araceli Cruz The only form of self expression is through creation. My way of breaking free from my journalistic constraint is to produce work that chronicles the ongoing journey that has led me from my home base of Los Angeles to university studies in San Francisco, through various stints in Mexico and Europe and now to New York. Writing and art have been fundamental elements in my life since I was a child, all the while having pop culture stimulating these aspects. My visionary process is to use these thriving ideals and merge them with inspiration from my family, my Latin culture, music and love.

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Joey Kilrain - kilrain.com Raised in South Philly, I learned art through my family, catholic school, and adventure. My work can be divided into 2 topics, the whimsical paintings and raw drawings. The paintings have 3 parts: the medium, subject, and aftershocks. The medium is predominately acrylic sometimes with other artistic accents. The subject is based on: my personal life, friends and family, and corporate America. Usually the paintings talk about past memories. The aftershocks are what make my paintings unreal. How they have premonitions of my future or planetary events. These aftershocks have left everyone wondering 'Why didn't he / we see it coming?'. My drawings talk about past childhood / adolescent memories and situations. The detailed, starch black and white visuals, and sheer energy make each drawing intense. A very personal insight in my everyday thinking. Artist Statement The world, to me, is a place filled with adventures. I don't agree with the fact that the world is full of mean people, just a society that refuses to look for the good in people. In my paintings, I search for these meanings in the world. All of my work is based on relationships with friends and family, corporate America, and the cycles life has put me through. Both this jubilance and search for meaning is portrayed through my art. The paintings use bright colors and superficially has a fun style. When one looks closer into the paintings he/she can realize the depths of the messages - deception, greed, corruption, death, unity, perseverance, rebuilding, positive thinking, and faith. In 2001 I wanted to start a written diary based on my past. Before I wrote a single word, my mind switched and the idea to turn my diary into a visual masterpiece began. With seven years passed, I've drawn different scenes from my most gruesomely sad and wildly insane moments of my first 30 years into one book. Page after page, one can immediately feel the massive emotional undertow of the work. The drawings are created solely with pencil and marker. Some critics have even said my paintings have no meaning when compared to my diary. This diary is entitled 'When God was asleep'. Presently I am working on 'When God was awake'. A counter-balance to my first diary, this book will visualize all the positive and insane moments in my life.

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Susu Pianchupattana Rapeeporn "susu" Pianchuchupattana was born in Bangkok, Thailand and moved to the United States in August 2002 to pursue a formal education in painting. She graduated from the New York Studio School and got a full fellowship as a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Susu won many awards including Hohenberg Travel Grant and full scholarship - Drawing Marathon in Orvieto, Italy. She then took a chance to travel to Italy during the summer 2006. Currently she lives and works in New York City. Artist Statement My current work is inspired by my Italy trip and intensive artist retreat to Skowhegan woods where I quickly found that nature is never still, never calm, but always vibrating, violent and ever-changing. These are paintings of the constant current flowing through all life and I have tried to capture certain moments when nature collides with itself. Exercises in maintaining an open channel for this energy, my work is all about the immediacy of painting outdoors, combined with memory and imagination. I am a city person and was incensed by the beauty and the mystery of land I never get to see. A twelve-year career in advertising that involved extensive traveling exposed me to the world’s most exciting cities. Cities are a great source of inspiration and my desire to find and paint an inner peace has been brought into stark relief by the many physical and emotional challenges of this way of life. I am not a religious artist nor do I focus on religious themes in my painting, but I am from the Buddhist nation of Thailand and my country’s spiritual views do inform the way I see the world and the manner in which I approach my work. It is clear looking at my development as a painter over the past five years that my work has evolved from more strongly representational forms to the abstract. As my influences amass, my ability expands, and my ideas grow, it seems that a balance of both styles needs to be found. It is a journey from the familiar into the unfamiliar and where I want to paint is in the space between.

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Laura Resheske - lauraresheske.com From journalism and creative writing to studio art, Laura Resheske explores her world driven by her insatiable curiosity. In the past, Laura has used video, mixed media, installation and photography to convey her interests in identity, contradiction and texture. Currently, Laura is focusing on painting as a way to express emotion and spiritual connection through use of color and layering. Laura was raised in Redlands, California and studied visual media at the University of California, San Diego and studio art at the University of California, Riverside. She has exhibited in California and New York. Laura currently lives in Brooklyn and works in publishing and design in New York City.

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Anthony Santella - santella.org I have a broad background in the arts that spans traditional media as well as research and development in digital imagery. I have painted and sculpted instinctively from an early age and am primarily self-taught. In contrast, I have an extensive academic background in digital imagery. In 2005 I completed a PhD at Rutgers University in computer science. My thesis work applied cognitive principles and artistic practice to imbue computer generated imagery with some of the carefully controlled abstraction of fine art. My research and fine art work is spanned by a concern for visual clarity in pursuit of meaning. It is important to me that every work suggests an ongoing narrative, a story carefully crafted, but only half told, that the viewer must complete. These stories speak of the spiritual in a modern context and explore the central question of how to find meaning in dreams and visions while staying involved and in love with the people and reality that so often seem to betray those dreams. My work draws on many recognizable traditions, Medieval religious art, 19th century British art: Pre-Raphaelitism, Symbolism, Fairy painting, as well as contemporary fantasy and comic book art. However, I do not identify myself primarily as a practitioner of any of these styles. Above all, I care about a unifying element of the best of all this work, a sense of wonder, a suggestion of the beauty and mystery of life, illuminating the mortal world from inside. For better or worse, I don't think visual art can teach, but it can tell stories that remind people of the important things in life: hope, wonder, love. I cannot make a viewer share my worldview, but I can suggest a theme, a story. I try to pass along the spark of wonder that inspired me and allow the viewers to complete the story and take their own lesson.

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