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Ryan Bubnis’ clean yet chaotic style has been described as “urban folk” or an electric
folk pop explosion. Through his paintings, he comments on themes relating to the
human condition. Vibrant, abstracted shapes and faces radiate joy and optimism
while they float in and out of rich, multi-layered realms. He currently resides in
Portland, Oregon with his wife Cecilia and their cat Mr. Boo.

Nick Deakin is a UK-based artist and illustrator. He was born and raised in the cultural backwater of an ex-mining village in Yorkshire, England. His work sights an aesthetic strongly influenced by cartoon and street imagery. The remains of torn down fly posters and urban decay has prompted the worn and weathered surfaces which he uses as a vehicle for his drawings, upon which he contrasts this disintegration with clean and naive imagery. Nick will often use found ephemera which he integrates both digitally and by hand with the drawn elements of his work.

Nick has been a freelance illustrator for the last eighteen months and has worked with clients such as The Guardian and The New York Times. Although primarily an illustrator working within the advertising and editorial sectors, Nick continues to pursue his personal artwork through private commissions and exhibitions.

Thirty-six year old Rik Catlow was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He studied illustration at The Kubert School and The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He now resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife, Wassa, daughter Becca, and a fat tabby cat named Bo.

Rik Catlow's urban pop art is a stream of unrelated images that form one unified composition. Using found objects like discarded beverage cans as canvas his work has an organic quality and sense of whimsy. He has most recently shown his work in Los Angeles, Nashville, Austin, Seattle, Santa Fe, Atlanta, and Australia.

Colin Johnson has been a professional freelance illustrator and gallery artist since his graduation from The Maryland Institute College of Art in the Spring of 1995. His work has received honors from Print’s Regional Design Annual, The Society of Publication Design, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, American Illustration, and Society of Illustrators Los Angeles from which he received the Gold Award in the Editorial category for the Illustration West 43 contest. Some of his Freelance Illustration clients include American Airlines, The American Medical Association, Audubon, Better Homes and Gardens, The Chicago Tribune, Converse, Epoch Films, Fast Company, The Harvard Business Review, National Geographic, The New York Times, Newsweek, Raygun, Time Inc., and U.S. News and World Report. He has recently been a part of gallery shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Portland, Hamburg (Germany), and Melbourne (Australia). Colin enjoys collecting art and toys, driving mac trucks, building quonset huts, circumnavigating the globe in his custom made hydrofoil, and is also a huge fan of both music and film. He lives and works in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.

Jeremiah Ketner’s imagery has been shown extensively across the U.S. and tends to describe a more casual and carefree side of life. His paintings transport their audience out of reality into a dream-like world that is filled with candied tones and imaginative creatures. The work is open to interpretation, but grounded in a fantastical place. Jeremiah currently lives and works in
Chicago, IL.

Jeffery Laneright, "Mildred" is a San Francisco based artist who is know for his quirky
characters and unique street art style. Among creating hand made stickers and painting
on found objects he enjoys taking pictures, drinking, skateboarding and making music.

Originally from Milwaukee WI, Gabe Lanza is a fine artist and illustrator who lives and works out of his studio in Chicago, IL. You can see his work at LANZA STUDIO.

Jason Limón was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas in 1973. He first showed his artistic expression at a fairly young age doodling characters and sceneries inspired by his bustling neighborhood and surroundings. He studied fine arts and graphic design at the Visual Arts & Technology Center at San Antonio College and entered the field of commercial graphic design in 1995 acquiring comprehensive knowledge of type, color, and composition. Following twelve years of commitment to producing award winning logos and designs he then turned his focus and concentration to where his heart truly began: developing artwork by hand and brush, no longer by the clicks of a mouse. He is currently creating gallery work and commercial illustrations, some of which can be seen in Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, American Illustration, Print Regional Design and Graphis.

Parskid was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest where he draws inspiration from his childhood, the weather, nature, and rusty surfaces. He experiments with paint, plush, and digital mediums. His work has been exhibited in many cities in the United States including Los Angeles and New York City and abroad in Australia, Taiwan, Spain and the UK. His work has been published in the magazines Hi-Fructose, King Brown, Art Prostitute, Cool'eh, Novum, Beautiful/Decay, Day in the Life, and Dirty Soup, as well as the books Dot Dot Dash, Canceled Flight, War of Monsters, Pictoplasma 2, and Monstaah!. When he's not curled up in his dark underground lair he enjoys dripping marsh ink, spraying rustoleum, and playing by the tracks.