Subterrestrial City
Mathieu Fournier
Mathieu Fournier is a French visual artist based in Paris. His work explores transitional spaces—between the real and the imagined, the intimate and the collective—through photography, digital art, and painting. He creates visual metaphors of emotional states and inner landscapes through the use of abstraction, layering, and poetic composition.
Verano II
Veronica Scharf Garcia
Veronica Scharf Garcia has exhibited extensively in South Florida, California, New Jersey, and Peru. She was awarded four residencies as an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Florida, and the Deering Estate in Miami, Florida. She was also selected as a member artist at Oolite Art Center, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, and the Bakehouse, Miami. She currently lives in Europe.
Empty Night
Quiet
Todd J. Donery
Todd J. Donery is a Minneapolis-based freelance photographer, photo assistant, camera operator, and stagehand. He earned his degree in photography and digital imaging at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. He has also attended Minneapolis College of Art and Design and studied film at Minneapolis Community College. Todd has had numerous solo and group exhibits of his photography and published photos in online journals and print publications. Todd has worked with musical acts to create album cover art, promo photos, event captures, and visuals for live performances. He enjoys working with start-ups and small businesses, photographing their products and personnel to help them establish their presence and grow their business. Todd also donates his time and talents to nonprofit organizations and fellow artists and is also a founding member of the Homewood Photo Collective in the Twin Cities. The submitted photographic works by Todd, Empty Night, and Quiet are examples of his taking a new look at what he sees almost every day in the world, capturing a moment in time that will never be seen the same. This persistence of vision allows us to understand in a new way that what we see every day looks different each time we see it.
Abstraction
Abstraction
Cyrus Carlson
Cyrus Carlson is an abstract painter whose small, colorful work creates moments of attention in a distracted world.
Water Still 25
Penobscot Bay Light
Holly Willis uses text and image to wonder how we might reimagine our relationship to the world, not as autonomous beings moving through isolated landscapes, but as embodied forces intimately enmeshed with the matter around us. These images capture sunlight and water from Penobscot Bay in Maine, shot with a camera that moves in tandem with these elemental forces.
Holly Willis
Holly Willis is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer whose work examines the materiality of the image within a broader context of new materialist philosophy and the histories of experimental film, video, and photography with the goal to design encounters with media that spark an embodied sense of curiosity and wonder. Using a variety of analog, digital, and computational image-making tools, Willis explores the ways in which we might reimagine our relationship to the world and its varied spaces and landscapes, not as independent beings moving through separate realms, but as transcorporeal forces enmeshed in dense relationships with the matter all around us. She asks if we can imagine the world not as some inert backdrop to human activity but as a dynamic array that we engage with in ongoing relations, how might we care for our world differently? Her body of work overall attempts to capture this sense of active matter, of sensation, and dynamism, and strives for what Anna Tsing, in The Mushroom at the End of the World, calls the “arts of noticing.”
#3, Fred’s Shoe Repair
Wilson is a designer and photographer. Central Illinois has been his frame of reference for a lifetime. His well-seen perspective provides him with an intimate, unique notion of the artfulness of this region, quintessentially Midwestern. He was a medical and generalist photographer and writer in the healthcare and library science fields for 36 years. He received a BA from the University of Illinois and is an Illinois Artisan for Photography. You may view more of his work at stephencurtiswilson.com.
