Danielle Krysa (Canada) has a BFA in Visual Arts, and a post-grad in graphic design. She is the writer behind the contemporary art site The Jealous Curator (est. 2009), and she has curated art shows all over North America. Krysa is also an artist herself, and her mixed media collage work is held in private collections worldwide. She is the author of several art books, including “Creative Block,” “Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk,” “A Big Important Art Book - Now with Women,” and two children’s books: “How To Spot An Artist” and “Art and Joy.” Danielle has had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx, PIXAR, and Creative Mornings, and she was interviewed in series of video segments on www.oprah.com about breaking through creative blocks and self-doubt.
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Emily Somoskey is a 2-D mixed media artist and painter living in Walla Walla, Washington. Her work explores the complexity of perception through the layered use of oil paint and collaged photographic imagery. Somoskey’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, most recently at Chatwin Arts in Seattle and Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland, Oregon. She pursued a BA in Art Education at The University of Akron and her MFA at Michigan State University. Somoskey is currently an Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Her mixed-media paintings use a balance between representation and abstraction to explore the ways we simultaneously experience physical and mental space. In combining photographic imagery with the language of abstract painting, she weaves together moments of clarity and ambiguity that both articulate and disrupt, as well as complicate, a singular understanding of the work, akin to our own perceptions of the world. Along with the discourse of historical and contemporary methods of image-making, her work branches into areas such as psychology, anthropology, material culture, humanist geography, cosmology, and the natural sciences. In reaching into these varied aspects of our world, Somoskey’s work reflects the complexity of what it means to live in our current world.
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