Beach

'This is a self-portrait of the artist enjoying time on a local beach in the Dominican Republic. Despite being known as a popular tourist destination - the promotion of recreation and leisure, in fact, predominately benefits foreign visitors (financially), rather than natives of the Republic. In this painting, Dominicans are seen in leisure, on their birth-land, in an attempt to reclaim elements of their own culture and industry.' - Bryan Fernandez

'The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location. The third version of this motif, I also enjoy it's reference to the image of the chevron. To separate each version, I add a subtitle of the two colors used in the sky. The lines pointing straight down perhaps to the nadir on the other side of the world - a point on this earth we could never see at the same time as what we look around what is in front of us.' - Matthew F Fisher

'Castaway depicts a figure swimming towards an island shore at the top of the painting. The island is largely reflected in the water, and the reflection of a tall white pine jutting out of the general foliage begins to interact with the ripples made in the water by the swimmer. This is a response to a painting called "the Astronaut" I created in 2019 of a similar subject, only there was no visible shore, and the tree did not interact with the swimmer. I think of it as part 2 of a journey. Most of my paintings are very still and almost posed, but with this I exaggerated the ripples by creating gooey, oozy shapes with a kind of oil slick that spills out from the swimmer. The upside-down tree functions as a kind of dream-like apparition, a non-concrete view of some future.' - Madeleine Bialke

'This painting continues my interest in exploring how landscapes can become sites of memory, as well as how ''exotic'' locations project certain desires or fantasies. My aim is to invite viewers to a semi-fictional world to question those very desires and fantasies, and to reflect on how landscapes can become a space to dismantle fixed notions of place.' - Cara Nahaul

'Simplified gestures are used to build an image consisting of five distinct locations within a single memory of a day spent with a loved one. The painting acts as a marker of an experience. It is a visualization of an attempt to find meaning.' - Ryan Nord Kitchen

'A figure is jumping into this abstract idea of a whirlpool. This painting is based off a photo I took of a friend of mine at a lake in Connecticut. It is the second time I have used this image for a painting. In this version, the temperature and colors are much cooler as I wanted to explore the range that summer can have and the quickness of rolling storms and how they can affect a singular day.' - Dominic Musa

'A crab enjoyed from the source in Bodega Bay, CA.' - Jake Sheiner