Everyday Unseen 2022 Art Exhibition

 
 

A gap has two sides. Gaps can be spaces between identities, aspirations, histories, or expectations. To cross a gap you must work through it, build over it, or learn to exist within it.

Find the Gap is about exploring how we interact with these rifts in our lives. It is an act of being present and examining the spaces within us.

It is time we are given space to acknowledge, reach through, and expand ourselves. Let's find our gaps.

 
 

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Presented in alphabetical order by artist name.

Hover over artwork for image descriptions.

 

Ally Pack-Adair

A painted pine tree against a blended background of teal and yellow. The pine tree has 3 shades of layered green, decorated ornaments, sparkly popcorn garland, and a large white star on top. It resembles a traditional Christmas tree display.

Light of the Pine

2021
11x14”, acrylic and gouache paint on mixed media paper
prints available here

A red oil pastel apple in a realistic style with purple and white shading. The main image lies against a blue blended upper background and a brown blended lower background resembling a table

Untitled

2021
11x14”, oil pastels
prints available here

A pointillism-style koi fish in the colors of orange, red, and yellow. The fish sits against a multiple colored blue background resembling a moving water path.

Swimming in Dots

2021
11x14”, Crayola markers against mixed media paper
prints available here

 

Abstract shapes in the colors of light pink, hot pink, and gold against a black background splattered with white paint. The shapes resemble nebulas

Floating Nebulas

2021
Metallic and acrylic paint on canvas
prints available here

A worm’s- eye view photograph of tree branches in the springtime. Many of the branches hold pollen clusters A worm’s- eye view photograph of tree branches in the springtime. Many of the branches hold pollen clusters

Looking up

2021
photography
prints available here

 

Alyson Zeller

 

bright and colorful tie dye pattern busy black outlines of a doodle style

Doodle Mind

2021
digital art
merchandise available here

Colorful doodles of color on the wild side

Rock and Roll

digital art
merchandise available here

 
 
Doodle filled page with lots of color

Doodle filled page with lots of color

Doodle Max

digital art
merchandise available here

Doodle filled page with lots of color

Doodle Daze

2021
digital art
merchandise available here

 

Brianna Blanchard

 

Image of two betta fishes in a black void. One is a white, red, and burgundy color with orange and red scales, and the other has a blue body with orange and red fins. They are overlapping with the white one in the upper left and the blue one in the lower right, and are pictured in the middle of the image.

The Dancers

2022
3x1.5’, acrylic on masonite
Contact briannabrookeblanchard@gmail.com for more details about pricing

Bettas are known to live in shallow rice paddy gaps and muddy river basins. The streams in which they burrow are slow-moving and in the dry season can easily evaporate to almost nothing. When this occurs, bettas are forced to live in shallow puddles and work to jump from scarce bodies of water to larger bodies of water. They are often met with droughts and pollution in their environments, making survival during these months no easy feat.

I think of bettas in relative terms to individuals who grow up in areas where it is difficult to thrive. Despite their environments being small, murky basins that often dry up or become polluted, bettas are still some of the most beautiful, tiny little creatures that I have come across. Despite harsh living conditions or having odds against them, their vivid and lively colors always shine through.

In this pop art style piece, a somber woman is shown with her eyes closed facing the lower left corner of the canvas. She has bright cyan colored hair and bright red lips, and the background of the piece is a bright yellow.

Her

2022
10x8”, acrylic on canvas
Contact briannabrookeblanchard@gmail.com for more details about pricing

 
 

In this painting, two koi fish are shown swimming in a pond. the image has a lily pad border, with a single lotus flower on the middle right side. The koi on the right is orange and white, and the koi on the left is red, black, and white. Small petals and leaflets float surrounding the two fish, and the fish are shown moving towards bright blue water.

Koi

2019
14x13.5”, acrylic on wooden shelf

In this pop art style painting, the facial features of a curious looking woman is on the middle left of the canvas. The woman has red, cherry colored lips, and is looking to the upper left with bright blue eyes. A pattern of squares and circles are shown in the background, colored in yellow, pink, red, blue, and white.

Cherry-Colored Funk

2020
10x8”, acrylic on canvas panel
Contact briannabrookeblanchard@gmail.com for more details about pricing

 

DonYale Artis

This is a digital painting made by the app Ibis Paint x. A smiling person with curly hair and yellow visor, eye shadow, nails with a colorful striped shirt.

Sunny Girl

2020 (Edited 2022)
digital art

Made by the app Ibis paint x. A young person leaning on their hand with rosey make-up.

Untitled

2020 (Edited 2022)
digital art

A black girl with a rainbow in the background with raindrops…no special meaning,I just had a art block.

Raindrops

2021-2022
24x16”, acrylic and watercolor paint

$25-$35
contact dondon.artis@gmail.com for purchase

 

Made with IbisPaint x. Person with curly dark red hair and pink eyeshadow with teal squares on face, leaning on left hand. Right hand is posed forward with an open mouth on it.

La’Trisha

2021
digital art

Some of my favorite scary movie characters.(Halloween,It,Friday the 13th,Saw,Childsplay/chucky and Nightmare on elm street)

Main characters in horror

2021
15x10.5”, acrylic paint and mod podge

 
 

Ilah Walker

In the foreground, a person in fishing overalls stands on a dock on the ocean while pulling glowing orbs out of the water with a net. In the middle ground, there is a large head coming out of the water with more of the orbs seen through a hatch on the side of their head. There are more dim glowing lights throughout the water, and the night sky is visible with stars and a crescent moon in the background.

Untitled

2022
8x10.25”, colored inks, pen, marker, paint marker, colored pencil

Sometimes, the narratives and ideas that circulate all of us feel less like a stream and more like an ocean. It's important to select only the thoughts that will bring the most growth to you when they take up space in your mind.

 

Isabel Warn

 

A beam of light centers on two characters, one older, one younger. The older one is holding the younger one in embrace, as the younger one cries.

Mirror

2021
11x14”, digital

"Mirror" depicts resolving the gap between two sides of yourself. This piece displays my character Mew, a character who has grown with me from early highschool. She is embracing her younger self. In this piece, it reflects my own personal feelings of making peace with my younger self.

 

Izze Peña

 

A reflection of a brightly colored silhouette of a woman surround by phrases such as "I don't understand" "I can't understand" and "I want to understand" as the walls reflected through the drawn mirrors.

Alexithymia

2022
oil pastels, paper mache, pen

Alexithymia: (noun) the inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions; a common symptom of autism. This piece explores the anxiety of being unable to identify or express emotions the same way as an individual's neurotypical peers as well as the societal pressures surrounding that disconnect.

 
 

White background with colorful dots connected. the black connecting lines have different street names written in black. The words punk brain are bright yellow and orange.

Punk Brain

2022
panel, gouache, ink

Punk Brain is a colorful mind map with roads of different negative thought.

a blue circle behind pink and orange colored headphones in a sketch style with the words way too loud in the same colors.

Way Too LOUD

2021
digital

As an autistic person one of my most vital aids are my headphones without them the world is Way Too LOUD.

 

Lora Kwon

I illustrated yellowface in the context of Old Hollywood through a black and white painting of an actress with her eyelids pulled back.

I illustrated yellowface in the context of Old Hollywood through a black and white painting of an actress with her eyelids pulled back. I contrasted the glamorous vibe of the painting with the racism that was not only normalized but revered in the film industry.

Beautiful

2021
18x24”, acrylic

I wanted to show the use of Yellowface in Old Hollywood through the glamorous lens it was once presented through.

In the painting is a family from an older decade in a grocery store where all the foods available are pills. The window in the back peaks into space.

Retrofuturism

2021
24x36”, acrylic


I tried to juxtapose images from the past with images that look like the future to evoke a style called retrofuturism. I wanted people to think about what we thought progress would like in the past vs the society we live in now.

I illustrated the three fates shown in greek mythology looking tired and bored as they cut a string of life to show how we feel our fate is unfair.

Fate

2021
24x36”, acrylic

 

While often we see a lack of toys that cater to racial minorities, especially those with darker skin tones, in my painting all of the toys reflect people of color. In turn I wanted people to consider the normalization of racism in toys for children and how that affects our society at large.

Unspoken

2020
24x36”, acrylic

I tried to demonstrate an unspoken lack of diversity in children's toys by reversing traditional roles in my paintings.

I wanted to do a fun piece with a young woman in a bright red dress ins a flooding subway. Through this piece I wanted to celebrate being unique and different.

Oddity

2018
20x30, acrylic

 
 

Prisha

There is a brain and heart which are not connected on either end of a black canvas, there are sparks in between the heart and brain indicating a connection

Feels

2022
1410x2408pxl, digital

When we make decisions it's often with either our brain or our heart. When things get tough we turn to logic or following what our heart says is right. But sometimes when our brain and heart don't work in unison there are problems. When we start thinking with only our brain we can get swayed with materialistic ideals. If we start thinking with only our heart we can get carried away with emotion. There is often a gap of communication within ourselves. Any decision should be made in harmony between our brain and our heart. We should think logically but also with our emotions at the same time. When we learn to bridge this gap we learn to see more beautifully we learn to live more happily.

 
 

Santoshi Kakani

Not all days are bright, but that does not stop me from wanting to strive towards being confident about my feelings and show them proudly written across my face instead of hiding them within. In my artwork, I convey this message through the portrait

No more pretense

2021-2022
25.5x21”, color pencils and bristol paper

Wearing my heart on my sleeve does not come easy to me. But when I see a peer walking with her head held high even after a rough day at school, I feel the first stirrings of change within me. Maybe it’s time to stop hiding behind a stoic façade and false bravado but instead, show my honest and vulnerable face to the world.

Taking care of one’s mental health has not been more important than it’s now with the current trying times. I believe, by being my authentic self, I am positively impacting the world around me through bridging the gap among our internal conflicts. It’s Time to Talk, it’s Time to Change.

 
 

Shriya Patel

Point of view looking out from a cave at a dark, lush forest with a light on the horizon.

Cave of darkness

2022
digital art

We all know that a cave is a dark place, with all kinds of creatures, and none would want to get stuck in one. My art piece is about finding the light in a dark time, like how you find the light when you're stuck in a cave. As humans, in unfortunate situations our mind automatically goes to the negative, and we imagine the worst possible outcomes. But what if we think of the positive, what if we think of the best possible outcomes? The gap in our lives is our perspective and the way we see things versus how they actually are. Like how your not stuck in a dark cave forever, a light will guide you out.

 

Spencer Owen

 

Woman with large drops out of her torso surrounded by reddish print.

Release

2022
10.5x13”, acrylic

 
 

Blueish drops coming from a bucket carried by a man.

Receive

2021
10.5x13”, mixed-media (magazine clippings, craft paper, watercolor, printer ink, emergency blanket)

Two heads kissing with interlocking brownish drops coming from their necks.

Embrace

2022
10.5x13”, mixed-media (magazine clippings, craft paper, watercolor, printer ink, emergency blanket)

 
 

Syd Walter

Image description for podcast cover: A constellation of hand-sewn stars that spell out "Remember" on black construction paper.

Remember

2022
digital art

To live in a gap is to exist a space worth diving into its emptiness. For the past couple of years from the pandemic, I have been grappling with this gap of loss, and what my own loss means. Specifically within the context of remembering.I think about passing often and what comes to mind is the legacy that I leave behind, the gap I would no longer get to fill with words of my own meaning, they would be constructed by my presence and the weight my presence pushed into the universe. In this 12 minute audio piece, I (Syd Walter) explore with a delicate tenderness, what it can mean to be remembered and what it can feel like to see glimmers of your own demise. Music is created by a good friend, Noah Reasoner.

 

Taylor Aiello

 

Sat in a pink tub, a young women watches as a young cooke says their goodbyes at the bus stop across the street. The water fills the tub, in a dark bathroom with a checkered floor. Near the window is a rising sink to describe the suffocating feeling

An Evening Bath

2022
20x24”, acrylic

“When being alone drowns you, you find solace in the young couple across the road”
“An Evening bath” pictures a young lady longing for the love others have. Sat in a rising tub, she stares out her window as young lovers across the road say their goodbyes, so utterly in love. Both the bath water and sink are continuously flowing, this represents the drowning feeling loneliness presents.

 
 

A clear sits in front of a purple background. Pink flower petals lay on the ground. No stem in the vase.

The Empty Vase

2022
20x24”, acrylic

“Petals lay surround the empty vase, as a lonesome lover longs for love.”
“The Empty Vase” symbolizes unrequited love. The dying rose petals represent the love as roses are a symbol of love and romance. The empty space in the vase signifies the idea that the other person feels nothing, leaving a gap where a stem should be. Painted as though it was a still for an assignment to show the capture of emotions.

A Sunset overlooks a grass field with a river going down the middle. A small dock rests along the river, where a person sits. a shadow of a bridge balances the background.

A Lonely River

2022
20x24”, acrylic

A women sits on a dock along a lonely river, having the time to think all the things we push away.
‘’A lonely River” recognizes the time between the everyday chaos of life, the moments where we have a second to think. The river represents the flow of relaxation, while the surrounding field shows the barriers we put up; against others and against thoughts we don’t want to think.

 

Valentine Wulf

A black leather jacket with knit strands of red yarn hanging out of the sleeves, and two poodles--one black and one white--facing each other on the back.

A black leather jacket with knit strands of red yarn hanging out of the sleeves, and two poodles--one black and one white--facing each other on the back.

A black leather jacket with knit strands of red yarn hanging out of the sleeves, and two poodles--one black and one white--facing each other on the back.

Lavinia II

2021
acrylic on leather, cotton yarn, Czech glass beads

Lavnia from Titus Andronicus with a kitschy '50s spin. Finger-knit strands of stylized blood threaded with Czech glass beads are sewn into the lining of the sleeves. Two poodles face off on the back.

$125
contact valentinejwulf@gmail.com for purchase

 

A puppet in the shape of a wolf's head, made of white yarn, with red ribbons hanging from it and a ruffly red bow on its head.

Granny

2021
paper mache, wool, found objects

The wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, disguised as Granny. This paper mache hand puppet is made of found objects and recycled materials, bringing the fairy tale to life with excessive ruffles and ribbons.

A character with moth antennae and long, dark hair sits at a kitchen table with a mug and cereal on it. Flies surround a lamp above her, and the wall is lined with rifles.

Time Flies

2021
1080x1350pxl, digital

$30
contact valentinejwulf@gmail.com for purchase

 
 

A boy in a green sweater holds the hand of a woman in a fur-trimmed yellow coat. Her head is out of the frame, and snow is falling in the background in front of streetlights.

Misery Loves Company

2021
10x8”, digital

$35
contact valentinejwulf@gmail.com for purchase

A fox shakes hands with a rooster, as dead chickens hang in the background, their blood turning into a stylized rising red sun behind the fox and the rooster.

Henhouse

2021
digital

$20
contact valentinejwulf@gmail.com for purchase

 

Xandra Yugto

A red-tinted girl with red lights hovering over her hands, and three white masks floating above her head.

3 Masks

2019
744x744pxl, photography

The feeling of having to codeswitch in different environments as if one were to wear different masks.

A person centered sitting in a chair surrounded by flame-like lights. They are holding a plant that grows towards the floor. The image is a warm orange tone.

Drowning w/flames

2020
750x741pxl, photography

Working through a state of anxiousness so severe that it feels like fighting through fire.

A person wearing colorful clothing is sitting down holding a camera in both of their hands. The left side of the photo is vibrant, and shows a lot of art-related items. The camera displays a bright image. The right side of the person is wearing a black hoodie. The tone is drained of vibrant colors. They are surrounded by crumpled water bottles, crumpled paper, and an opened sketchbook. The camera displays a black image.

Time Flies

2021
1125x728pxl, photography

It's possible to fall into a slump, in which creativity is drained. It's a gap that can feel empty. Despite this, it is possible to fall out of a slump and find a way towards a more colorful feeling.

 

A yellow and pink toy house with a table seen inside it. The table is surrounded by darkness. Outside the toy house is white stars in front of it. On the right of the house is a gold star. On the left of the house are a stack of polaroid photos.

A Multidimensional Home

2018
1044x1178pxl, photography

Born in America, but of Filipino heritage. It can make me wonder, what is home? Is home the Philippines? Is home here? Or do I consider both places home? Sometimes society makes it easy to feel pressured to have to identify as one. But at the end of the day, I am multidimensional.

There is a framed colorful painting that looks a little childish. It is of a small Boston Terrier surrounded by a vibrant sky and grass. Around the framed painting, there is a tennis ball, a squeaky toy, a dog collar, a dog crown. There are words placed on the painting that read, "till a little girl pointed out the car window and yelled for her mom to wait and stop. A bunny! But to their surprise, in this dark night, the bunny was actually a pup."

Not a Bunny

2022
1125x860pxl, photography

Loss can feel like a blurry gap. I had my dog since 2nd grade (around the time that I created the painting of her) and losing her is a gap that I am continuously moving forward through. She was a sweet soul and my best friend. When I was little I would love to write stories about how I met her, and the words are an adaption of the story I wrote about her in elementary school.