Lavely Miller draws from her background in clinical mental health to paint vivid and unsettling large-scale portraits exploring the effects of trauma and suffering. The gaze of Miller’s subjects in works such as Flowers on Her Shoulder (2020) or September (2019) is direct and confrontational, but also vulnerable, suggestive of great internal grief and self-reflection. In lieu of live models, Miller paints from a library of reference images, sometimes creating composite images from multiple sources and portraying faces which are utterly unique but who represent a shared universal experience. Working directly with her fingers instead of a brush, Miller paints on paper-covered canvas, applying layer after layer of acrylic paint and transparent glaze; this process imbues her images with textural depth and an aged quality reminiscent of Renaissance portraiture.

J. Adam McGalliard, a Contemporary Realist artist, blends classical oil painting techniques with cutting-edge technology to investigate identity, myth, and societal divides. His layered work delves into personal narratives, archetypes, and human-nature relationships.

Lorena Lepori's figurative oil paintings have a narrative based on the representation of feminine figures beyond gender, relating to everybody who can express the power of femininity. She uses cross-dressing to reach out and create iconic alter egos to expand and embrace a hidden part of her models’ personality through look transformation. She relies on myths, fairytales and clichés challenging the traditional representation of the matters, re-introducing them in a contemporary setting, mixing old and new symbols to relate more with universal concepts.

Jillian Evelyn’s paintings combine the contorted female figure with graphic shapes and a limited color palette. Her work explores the struggle of womanhood and the anxiety that arises from societal expectations.

Megan Elizabeth Read (b. 1982) is an American figurative artist living and working in Charlottesville, Virginia. Largely self-taught, she now works almost exclusively in oil with pieces ranging from small still life to large scale paintings mostly focusing on the female form. Mae grew up in rural Virginia where she spent most of her time exploring the fields and farmland around her home or drawing for hours on end, both of which were clearly formative. After living in Los Angeles in her early 20’s she returned to Virginia and after many years working in the tech field she finally began making space for drawing and painting again and this has since become her sole focus.

June Sira is a gifted Norwegian painter whose works have featured in exhibitions, prizes and publications across Norway, Switzerland, China and the UK. Inspired by life and everyday reflections, she creates paintings characterized by rich interior landscapes, compositional confidence and a distinctive stillness.

One of the most lauded figurative painters working today, Kerry James Marshall challenges the marginalization of African Americans with canvases that both revere and subvert the Western canon. The artist’s extensive knowledge of art history, including Black folk art, contributes to the formal rigor of his compositions.

Hilda Palafox paints elegant, commanding women with outsized bodies in compositions that envision a matriarchal society. Trained in graphic design, Palafox is best known for large-scale canvases in which these women are accompanied by symbols like snakes, vessels, columns, and celestial orbs.

Ross F. Littell (July 14, 1924 – April 17, 2000) was an American textile and furniture designer known for his practical, innovative, and minimalist style as part of the Good Design movement of the 1950s. His three-legged T-chair, designed in 1952 with William Katavolos and Douglas Kelley, is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, along with the Art Institute of Chicago.

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YE FAN (Chinese, b.1986) After earning a degree in Marketing from Pepperdine University in 2010, she began working in the live entertainment industry in Asia, overseeing regional sponsorship for acts including the Rolling Stones, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Sir Elton John, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, and others. During this period, she also photographed Metallica on their second tour of Asia.

Tim Okamura (born 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Japanese Canadian artist known for his contemporary realist portraits that combine graffiti and realism. His work has been on the cover of Time Magazine and has been featured in several major motion pictures. Okamura's paintings are featured in major permanent collections around the world such as London's National Portrait Gallery and Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery. He was also one of several artists to be shortlisted in 2006 for a proposed portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England.

Gregory Prescott is an emerging, self-taught photographer residing in Los Angeles, CA. His work consists of an array of photographs of portraits, humans adorned and the human form.

Dai Li was born in Sichuan, China in 1987. She moved to Australia in 2009 and now lives and works on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Dai Li is an artist mainly working on ceramics and watercolours. She graduated from Jindezhen Ceramic Institute majoring in ceramic arts in 2009. Dai's artworks are drawn from everyday life and the art and culture of the world at large. Her work focuses on people's emotional states, how these manifest externally, and the mystery of how they arrived at this point.

After twenty years of experience as a commercial illustrator and 3D artist, Donna Bates, a native from Southern California, has evolved into a career in oil painting. She is known for her own mash-up style of urban, tough-chic edgy strong independent women and men or “Badasses”. Her subjects aren't pin-ups nor portraits, they are a different vision of power and sex flavored with leather, metal, graffiti, sunglasses and fantasy!

Australian contemporary Realist painter, Dianne Gall is known for her meticulous and detailed large-scale Artworks that are cinematic, intensely colour saturated oil paintings depicting mostly solitary women. Working from her private studio, situated 5 minutes from the CBD in Adelaide, a small coastal city of Australia she has been painting for more than 30 years since graduating from the South Australian School of Art and has been focusing on her current Femme Noir paintings, since 2012.

Jerome Lagarrigue was born in 1973 to a French father and an American mother, and was raised in Paris. He moved to the United states in 1992 and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (class of 1996). He has since received several awards for his work, including the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award as well as the Ezra Jack Keats Award (2002).

Social media sensation Devon Rodriguez makes most of his hyperrealist oil paintings on the New York City subway, furtively painting intimate portraits of unsuspecting straphangers. In 2020, Rodriguez began posting timelapses of his process on TikTok, each video ending with him surprising his subjects with his art. A year later, he made his auction debut with Girl on Subway (2021), which sold for $22,680 —more than three times its high estimate. Rodriguez also became the most-followed visual artist on TikTok with more than 17 million followers; on Instagram, he boasted more than two million fans. While Rodriguez creates self-portraits and larger portraits of friends, executed on a proper easel, he is best known for his depictions of everyday people encountered on their daily commutes.