Rich in a mixture of cultural and iconic symbolism, artist Brandon Maldonado paints scenes with an intense overlap of imagery. Dualities such as life & death, good & evil, and the antique & modern are omnipresent themes and ideas represented in his work. This `harmonism’ as he refers to it, is inspired by the growth of cultural communication in our global community, and reflected in the visual vocabulary of his paintings. Common themes in his works are a result of his immense interest in graffiti art, the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration, and the mythological ideas of Joseph Campbell.

There is a core of ancestry and nostalgia translated into the paintings of Sarah Sohn. Distortions help extract certain emotions and ideas, while old photographs take part as reference material. She uses a staining effect on wood that preserves the integrity of the grain, creating a circuit of texture and information to communicate personal narratives from her life. By using a collage of images associated with the organic and mechanic, she invents a playful web that illuminates the fantastical functioning of organisms between nature, women and relationships. Patterns including lace and flowers are symbolic in her work, representing a unified stream of consciousness in combination with folk and femininity.