Featured Artwork - October

Check out our latest visual art submissions for October.

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Brandon Downing is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker, active for the last three decades. His published collections include The Shirt Weapon (2002), Dark Brandon (2005), AT ME (2010) and Mellow Actions (2013). In 2007 he released a feature-length collection of short digital films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, while a monograph of his literary collages from 1996 to 2008, Lake Antiquity, was published by Fence Books in 2010. He's recently completed an inaccurate, sixteen-book translation of Euripides' The Bacchae. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Instagram: @thebrandondowning

Artist Statement

I've been lucky enough to work across the collage form for more than 25+ years; it remains a core part of my practice as a poet, filmmaker, and, well, shit stirrer. Since the pandemic took hold, the studio time, and the voracious work habits, have only increased. This is to say, I got tons of work. Here are three pieces that I hope give a little look into my practice, and yet can stand alone on their own. Hope you like them. Always happy to share more. With best regards, Brandon Downing, Kinderhook, NY

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Reporter photographic and visual artist, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 52 countries.

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Hanna Marie Dean Wright is a self-taught folk artist residing in Keavy, Kentucky. She uses her experiences from growing up in rural South-Eastern Kentucky, teaching special education classes, and living with obsessive compulsive disorder to inspire her unique works of art. Hanna Wright uses bold lines and bright colors to create abstract figures with relatable and at times deeply emotional expressions. Hanna was born in Barbourville, Kenucky on April 15th, 1993. Hanna graduated from the University of the Cumberlands in 2015 with degrees in Special Education Behavioral Disabilities and Elementary Education.

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“My artwork addresses the mute expression and range of heart-felt emotions experienced by the human race. Art is something people should be able to relate to. Art is a visceral experience that can be accessed by all regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, or identity.”
Artist Website: https://www.pinterest.com/hwright4643/artwork-by-hanna-wright-of-keavy-kentucky/
Artist Social Media: Instagram @AppalachianScribble Location: Keavy, Kentucky

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Artisan Crafted Creator, J’Atelier9/J’A9 (@jatelier9) emerged after her Los Angeles based visionary founder, Janine Tang, began her movement towards a circular environment philosophy by sourcing reclaimed materials into her sustainable fine arts. Artisan hand reconstructed, they merge into an insightful tapestry of ethereal, unconventional, whimsical, and sustainability. She experiments with a mixture of flat color palettes, textures, layers, form, and technique. J’A9 translates the interconnectedness of the world through her works by highlighting society’s sensationalism of media, global discourse, planet preservation, glorification of materialism, technological dependence, natural habitat, fashion lifestyle, relatable human experiences, and complex facets of duplicity. IG: @jatelier9

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PUBLICATIONS Quibble Lit Review, Issue 9, 3/2023: https://www.quibblelit.com/let-me-be-frank-with-you-by-jj-brewer Harpur Palate Literary Journal, Volume 21.2, 2/2023: https://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu Blood Orange Review, Vol 15.1, 2/2023: https://bloodorangereview.com/artists/j-atelier9 Audience Askew Literary Journal, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1/2023: https://audienceaskew.com Create Magazine Exclusive Interview, 10/2022: https://www.createmagazine.com/blog/j-atelier9-and-the-circular-movement-in-art EXHIBITIONS 22nd Japan International Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 6/2023 J'ATELIER9 Art Pop Up Experience (Solo Exhibition), Vives Experience, 2/2023 Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach Art Center, 1/2023 J‘Atelier9 Art Pop Up (Solo Exhibition), Vives Experience, 10/2022 SeeMe exhibit & catalog, Sasse Art Museum, 8/2022: https://view.publitas.com/inland-empire-museum-of-art/see-me/page/114-115 ACCOLADES ZO Magazine's Touch of Blue Expo - Selected as Top Finalist Internationally, 1/2023: https://zomagazine.com/blue-expo-final-judging

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Beat poet and mixed media artist from Central Kentucky. This is an 11 x 14" acrylic with pen and ink.

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Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium. He came to the States where he spent his teens in Brooklyn. After graduation, he joined the Medical Corps in the Air Force. He earned a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Russian Literature. He worked as a Green Beret language instructor at Fort Bragg, NC from 1975-78. In 1988 he received a B.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Spanish Literature. He worked as a language teacher at the University of Alaska (1978-1997). He worked as a house builder, pipe-fitter, orderly in a hospital, gardener, landscaper, driller for an assaying company, bartender.

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I began my life as a writer, publishing numerous poetry collections and graduating to novels and plays and now paintings. My artwork could be described as somewhat surreal. Crossed realities usually yield amazing and sometimes shocking results. I would describe my art as eclectic. The natural world is in constant flux and so animals and plants mutate to create a surreal tapestry. Nothing is ever as it is “supposed to be.” The images are a blend of the natural world and imaginary creatures.

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Rachel Coyne is a writer and painter from Lindstrom, Minnesota.