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Volcano Frederick Woodruff
Ladder Work Frederick Woodruff	Bee Boxes Frederick Woodruff	Blue Black Frederick Woodruff	Pink Moon Frederick Woodruff
In the Orchard Michael McDevitt	Still Life With Hell Mouth Michael McDevitt	The Date Michael McDevitt	A Damnable Position Michael McDevitt
The Objectivist Michael McDevitt	Cotton & Thorns Michael McDevitt	Afternoon Bike Ride Marty Crandall	Dim Phrasing Marty Crandall
Bourbon & Ginger Marty Crandall	Patio Silhouettes Marty Crandall	Windowed Room John Morse	Laptop Still Life John Morse
Beijing 3 Leah Oates	Rene Mill 10B Leah Oates	Rene Mill 11 Leah Oates	Rene Mill 15 Leah Oates
Beijing 4 Leah Oates	Confetti Danna Ray	Small Branch Danna Ray	Yellow Lawn Chair Danna Ray
Bird Flu Ann Tracy	Over Under-Tybee Island Ann Tracy	Cross Rye Twombly	Question Nico Vassilakis
Series 4, #1 Liz Meyer	Series 4, #4 Liz Meyer	Series 5, #8 Liz Meyer	3 Turn and Spin Liz Meyer
Cat's Cradle Melissa Harshman	Constant Negotiations Melissa Harshman	En Garde Melissa Harshman	Megaphone Melissa Harshman
Causeway John Howard	Ephemeral John Howard	Impact Velocity John Howard	Land of Enchantment John Howard
Disk John Howard	Heaven John Howard	Witnesses John Howard	Spectra John Howard
Caesar Roger Shurtleff	Glyph Roger Shurtleff	Demography Roger Shurtleff	Steady Wrecker Roger Shurtleff
Cruiser Roger Shurtleff	8 Susanne Friedman	Asian Pear Susanne Friedman	Fall 1 Susanne Friedman
Lost In The Morning Fog Susanne Friedman	Rose Moon Susanne Friedman	The Feather II Susanne Friedman	Untitled 2 Susanne Friedman
Vertigo Angielena Chamberlain	Protection Angielena Chamberlain	#4 Andie Francoeur	#5 Andie Francoeur
#6 Andie Francoeur	#7 Andie Francoeur	Jealousy Christine Elcee	Emerge Christine Elcee
shot from a moving car 23 Christine Elcee	Stinger Christine Elcee	Whip Kathryn Andrews

Artist Statements

Frederick Woodruff "I live on Vashon Island in Washington state and work as an astrologer and writer. Painting preserves the link (and balance) between the rational and irrational parts of my nature. Everyone should paint, the world would be less tense if that were the standard. I like painting abstract work because I like creating things that have never been seen before. My tumblr is here, check it out and say hello."

Michael McDevitt is a Portland-based painter who uses the tropes of traditional Americana to explore the absurdity of modern America. He holds a BFA in Painting & Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BS in Biology from the College of William & Mary. He has also studied at Gage Academy of Art, Anderson Ranch, and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. To see more of his work visit www.mmcdevitt.com.

Marty Crandall is a musician (Sad Baby Wolf, The Shins) and photographer who divides his time between the sodden, verdant landscape of his adopted home of Portland, Oregon and the parched, thirsty high desert of his native Albuquerque, New Mexico. Marty has played music all over the world, and has had several gallery exhibitions of photography in Portland. He also enjoys lawn games,keeping abreast of the ludology vs. narratology debates, and sushi.

John Morse is an artist/musician living in Shoreline,WA. John's favored forms in the digital realm are fractal-inspired gradient art, photoshop collage, and abstract digital painting. In the "real" world he also enjoys working with Sumi ink on paper. More examples of his work can be found at: www.johnmorse.com/visual.htm.

Leah Oates is a photographic artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been seen in numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. The multiple exposure images seen here come from her current series entitled, "Transitory Space" which presents overlooked spaces as temporary monuments to the ephemeral nature of human existence in a constant state of change. More of her work can be seen at www.leahoates.com.

Danna Ray grew up in a log cabin in the woods of rural South Carolina. Surrounded by forest and lots of crayons, she enjoyed drawing tiny bugs, and tiny plants, and tiny kittens driving trucks. She later received her BFA in Illustration from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her current work is an exploration of the inherent transience and connectedness of all things. For more information visit www.dannaray.com

Ann Tracy is a Sacramento-based “digital alchemist” and photographer whose fine art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work explores the edges of perceived reality and draws from her earlier work in theatre and modern dance.

Rye Twombly is currently creating miniature works to be carried in a pocket and viewed by fingertip. For more information, visit: ryetwombly.com.

Nico Vassilakis works with alphabet both textually and visually. Recent books include Protracted Type (Blue Lion Books, 2009), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), staReduction (Book Thug, 2008), and Text Loses Time (Many Penny Press, 2007). His Vispo videos have been shown at festivals and exhibits of innovative language art. Nico is a founding member of the Subtext Collective.

Liz Meyer studied drawing and painting at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since moving to Highland Park, Illinois fifteen years ago she has rediscovered figure skating and has found a way to capture the designs the blade leaves in the ice. The rubbings of the etchings in the ice form the basis for her artwork. For more information visit: www.lizmeyerdesigns.com. .

Melissa Harshman is a printmaker, painter, and photographer. She incorporates imagery from a variety of sources in her work. She often scours flea markets and antique stores, seeking printed ephemera to provide her with inspiration. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia and Chair of the Printmaking Department. Her work can be seen at melissaharshman.com.

John Howard lives, teaches and creates in Greenwich, Connecticut. With a background in painting, he has moved into the realm of the digital. Further inquiries can be directed to JHoward@greenwichacademy.org

Roger Shurtleff is a Seattle painter working with historical and cultural narratives. Using layered abstraction, contoured figures, and emotive, contrasting line, his subjects from the past extend into the present, and become mythic. To see more about his art or to contact him, visit his Web site. His paintings were photographed by Tim Aguero.

Susanne Friedman is a Seattle-based painter who likes the depth and transparency of encaustic painting, incorporating found metal objects and organic materials into her work, such as rice paper, leaves, seeds, coffee grounds and tar. The colors and textures of these materials inspire the direction of her work. Visit http://susannefriedman.com for more information.

Angielena Chamberlain studied painting and printmaking at the Gage Academy of Art and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She draws inspiration from early-20th-century printmaker, Käthe Kollwitz. Angielena seeks to balance intensity with a sense of reverent playfulness in her work. She is currently the director of the Georgetown Art Center in Seattle. For more info: www.achamberlain.com

Andie Francoeur is a photographer who focuses mostly on self-portraits and outdoor settings. She is currently living/traveling around S.E. Asia and is putting a portfolio together in hopes of publishing a book of photos someday. She is also a musician and song artist and has just finished recording a CD called "Project: Landing," which will be released in November of 2009.

Christine Elcee is a multimedia artist, interested in creating evocative environment installations. "My depictions tend to be of internal states in which I bring some bold element into juxtaposition with the most tender and vulnerable counterpart to it." Further inquiries can be directed to zoeypenelope@gmail.com

Kathryn Andrews is a Maryland-based artist who works in a variety of media, including paint, fiber, photography, computer graphics and decoupage under glass. Her background in opera informs her work with a lyrical bent, as she combines traditional techniques with contemporary subject matter. Her blog and links to her work can be found at www.pricklygirl.blogspot.com.