Oil on canvas, 2021

Size US: 37 x 37 in

Size EU: 95 x 95 cm

Paton Miller’s natural talent as an artist was apparent from an early age when his family noticed Miller drawing caricatures of the family. This interest in the family condition grew into an interest in the human condition, leading him to his early studies of Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya, and William Hogarth. The family moved to Hawaii when he was quite young. In 1973, following his formal art studies at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Miller embarked on a year-long journey that took him west from the island of Oahu, Hawaii, to the Philippines, China, much of Asia and Europe, finally returning to the United States.

Acrylic on canvas

Size US: 60 x 132 in

Size Europe:  152 x 335 cm

The esteemed Chicago painter Corey Postiglione uses semiotic abstraction in his work to portray themes and metaphorical subjects that include labyrinths, mazes, and the ancient symbol of the Ouroboros. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, the classical symbol of the Ouroboros depicts a snake in the act of eating its own tail, signifying infinity or the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. A champion of geometric abstraction, Postiglione uses line to depict a labyrinth of chains, circles, and ovid shapes nesting inside one another. The labyrinth in his paintings signifies a rite of passage or the passage from a centered self to a decentered self. The interlocking connectedness and disconnectedness relate back to the entanglement and interconnection of those navigating a global pandemic.
Postiglione applies an austere technique to depict hard-edged geometric patterns and shapes in his canvas paintings Baroque Tango #2 and Tango Interlude #25, which deliver harmonious color schemes distributed evenly between warm and cool hues. His paintings reference late Modernism through post-painterly abstraction and an emphasis on shape, color, and composition. The result of his concentrated efforts is geometric patterns executed in elegant lines that dance across the flat canvas surface.

Upcycled Shirts, Resin, Nylon Fibres, Acrylic and Sodium Crystals

Size US: 36 x 16 x 10 in

Size EU: 92 x 41 x 26 cm

Contemporary painter and sculptor Noah Kashiani is a provocateur of style and taste. Kashiani utilizes a gem-encrusted fossilization process to stiffen second-hand fabric and clothing pieces, creating unique rigid sculptures from once malleable objects. The result is crystal-covered hybrids of human-made objects and what appears to be a natural mineral-esque coating. The up-cycled materials are reinvented as lavish objects, a testament to high fashion, with natural hues produced from the crystallization of chemicals. The process of growing crystals makes the objects appear as if they have withstood the test of time.

Kashiani’s elegant sculptures exhibit surreal effects, as they appear both fluid and rigid, ancient and contemporary on account of the stunning deployment of sparkling minerals over a cluster of discarded objects made anew.

Charcoal, chalk, acrylic on raw canvas

Size US: 60 x 108 in

Size EU: 152 x 275 cm

Michael K. Paxton is a well-established, Chicago-based artist and sixth-generation West Virginian. He is currently the subject of a documentary film Work at Hand  released in 2018. Paxton was an adjunct faculty member of Columbia College for sixteen years, he retired from teaching in 2021 and is currently Professor Emeritus. Paxton has his BA in Art from Marshall University, 1975 and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from The University of Georgia, 1979.

Paxton’s career spans more than four decades of one-person gallery and museum exhibitions, national and international grants and fellowships, private and public commissions, and decades of critical support for his work. Paxton’s many awards include a grant from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York; Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Art Award and two Professional Development Grants; Fellowships with both Air le Parc, Project and Research Center, Pampelonne, France and Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming; a Marshall University Alumni Award of Distinction; five Professional Development Grants from Columbia College, Chicago and the documentary film Work at Hand , Michael K. Paxton  Official Selection of the 17thAnnual Great Lakes International Film Festival.

Major one-person exhibitions include Miami University Museum of Art, Oxford, Ohio; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA.; Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL; Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. He has been published in New American Paintings; featured artist/educator in issue of Line Work; been the subject of both radio and television features on NPR, Chicago, and WVPBS and selected and published in Art and Soul, highlighting fifty of the most noted West Virginians in the Arts.

Made from coins, Unique Piece, 2021

Size Europe: 40 x 25 x 37 cm

Size US:  15 4/5 x 10 x 14 3/10 in 

Kim Seungwoo is a contemporary Korean sculptor, lives in Seoul, South Korea.

Seungwoo is famous for his sculptures made from coins and buttons. He creates hyper-realistic, life-size sculptures of human figures and spinning objects.

The Artist uses coins to build complex, surprisingly detailed, three-dimensional sculptures. Each sculpture consists of as few as hundreds of thousands of coins, up into the thousands. Assembled in flowing, swirling patterns, the coins make up Kim's sculptured human forms almost seem to be alive and create fascinating effects.

Money have an unexplainable ability to attract and hypnotize the viewer, and Kim Seungwoo's spinning sculptures magnify the beauty of shining and sparkling coins.

Just like a wizard, Kim Seungwoo creates the sculptures that enchant the viewer. His work examines our relationship with money, while also taking advantage of the physical beauty of the coins.

Art is Money, or Money is Art? — questions Kim Seungwoo

Photograph, Archival Pigment Print

Size US: 36 x 53 in

Size EU: 92 x 135 cm

A native of Tacoma, Washington, Tim Klein is a photographer based in Chicago, Illinois. The foundation of Klein’s artistic practice is rooted in journalism photography. His career spans almost twenty years. Klein exhibits in Chicago’s River North Gallery District and he has been published internationally and nationally in newspapers and magazines such as New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Time Out, Variety Magazine, Out Magazine, Wired Japan, W Magazine, Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, and Forbes, among others. Klein’s photography is located in the collections of DeGroot Fine Art Acquistions, The Draper, Flats Studios, Chicago Department of Transportation, The Otis, Terrell Place, Presence Health Chicago, and The Ardus, among others.

Klein approaches contemporary photography with an awareness of the power the photograph possesses in documenting an ever-changing world. Preserving the sublime qualities of nature, the humbling scale of forests and mountains for generations to come. Klein has an eye for ephemeral beauty, such as the dreamy fog that brushes high altitudes and slips away in a mist. Klein’s photograph titled Mountain Mist was taken on the winding Inca trails through the Andean mountains in Peru.