Featured Artists
JC Alfier’s (they/them) most recent book of poetry, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include The Emerson Review, Faultline, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Vassar Review. They are also an artist doing collage and double-exposure work.
Artist Statement: "Though interpretive narratives are left to the viewer's eye, some of these pieces depict partial, oblique, or frontal female nudity to illustrate Carl Jung’s concept of the Anima: the female part of the male psyche — sensual, often oblique female archetypes where allegories give shape to dreamscapes of the unconscious, even as the faint image of the female reflects an abstracted, fluid persona — the objective and subjective. My intents touch upon transgender femininity. Overall, my artistic directions and aesthetics are informed by photo-artists Yoko Mizuki, Francesca Woodman, and especially Katrien De Blauwer."
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Xiao Faria da Cunha was born and raised in China, and eventually came to the United States to chase her dream for art. She is currently based out of Kansas City, MO. Through her seven years in the States, she has navigated through the ups and downs of life as someone with a multicultural background. The challenges she faced as a woman, a foreigner, and a young artist channeled back into her creation and allowed to her continually progress on her path as an artist.
Xiao is a writer, a researcher, and a painter. She was previously represented by Agora Gallery in New York City. In the future, she wants to explore the realm of visual installation, printmaking and 3D art as she believes medium and discipline should not restrict an artist’s creation but rather aids an artist to manifest his or her philosophy and ideology.
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Xiao is a writer, a researcher, and a painter. She was previously represented by Agora Gallery in New York City. In the future, she wants to explore the realm of visual installation, printmaking and 3D art as she believes medium and discipline should not restrict an artist’s creation but rather aids an artist to manifest his or her philosophy and ideology.
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Irina Tall Novikova is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design.
Her first personal exhibition, "My Soul is like a Wild Hawk," was held in 2002 at the Maxim Bagdanovich Museum. In this exhibition, she explores themes of ecology. In 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, and frequently draws on anti-war themes. Her first big series, "The Red Book," was dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. She additionally writes fairy tales and poems, and illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, and especially likes the image of a man - a bird - siren.
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Her first personal exhibition, "My Soul is like a Wild Hawk," was held in 2002 at the Maxim Bagdanovich Museum. In this exhibition, she explores themes of ecology. In 2005, she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, and frequently draws on anti-war themes. Her first big series, "The Red Book," was dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. She additionally writes fairy tales and poems, and illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, and especially likes the image of a man - a bird - siren.
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