Our Newest Artist Partners – Fall 2022
We’re so excited to welcome the talents, perspectives, and diverse practices of our newest cohort of artists who have joined our Artist Partners Program. We can’t wait to introduce their works to our clients in upcoming projects. Get to learn a little more about each one of them below.
Leslie Adkins
(she/her)
b. Urbana, Illinois 1984
Lives and works in Topanga, CA
Leslie Adkins is a mixed media artist and figurative painter, who investigates identity, symbiology, heritage, and decolonization through painting. At the core of Adkin’s work is a longing to express and celebrate the complexity of Black identity, as well as highlight an essential connection to nature, and the fluidity inherent in the masculine and feminine. As a mixed media artist and figurative painter, much of Adkin’s work involves painting with acrylics on canvas, linen, and reclaimed wood, gravitating towards these specific materials because of the organic qualities they imbue within her work.
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Stella Nall
(she/her)
b. Bozeman, Montana 1997
Lives and works in Missoula, MT
Stella Nall is a multimedia artist and poet from Bozeman, and a First Descendant of the Apsáalooke Tribe. Nall’s work is driven by three primary forces: to process her experiences, to connect with others, and to advocate for change. Growing up being exposed to traditional beadwork from her mother, Nall observed the stitches, palettes and patterns used, which still influence her work today. Nall combines beadwork with other two dimensional forms of art-making such as printmaking, painting, and illustration, with the intention of challenging existing stereotypes and expectations viewers may hold about what Indigenous art should look like.
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Lydia Cecilia
(she/her)
b. Sevilla, Spain 1979
Lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
Lydia Cecilia’s collage work explores the infinite possibilities of creating unique and relatable identities. Working with vintage magazines as a source of inspiration and material, Lydia utilizes the realistic and romantic perspectives of the human figure as captured in older media to re-contextualize and recreate into depictions of contemporary identities.
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India Solomon
(she/her)
b. Sydney, Australia 1996
Lives and works in Ferndale, MI
India Solomon is an abstract visual artist from Detroit’s Westside. Through her work, she invokes a distinct sense of home, blending space, shapes, and unified contrast as a means of wayfinding through the intersecting cultures that make us whole. With roots in the city and family across the globe, Solomon leverages the full spectrum of her existence to build connections, spaces, and collaborations that nurture talent, prioritize freedom, shift definitions of value, and help people thrive.
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Sara Cardona
(she/her)
b. Mexico City, 1971
Lives and works in Dallas, TX
Sara Cardona uses the analog process of cut-and-paste to create collages in the tradition of early twentieth century assemblage and in a nod to the editing process of film. These collages become the foundation for large scale sculptures in paper and metal, which are inspired by the idea of distributive, human networks of capital and consumption. As an artist who grew up in a family involved in the film and theater industry, her work is informed by the intersection of artifice, spectacle, photography and scenic construction.
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Call for submissions
We’re currently accepting artist applications for our Artist Partners Program whose practices fall under one or more of the following categories:
Sculptural or dimensional
Figurative painting
Mixed media
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