UGallery Mixed Media

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Artist Jennifer Ross depicts a white horse with a stunning display of autumn colors in the background. She references the piece after a poem by Richard Wilber about wading through a fall meadow. Jennifer composes the equine portrait using her Kintsugi eggshell technique, a Japanese art form of repairing broken objects with gold lacquer. The white shell fragments form a striking image of the majestic creature, highlighted with a few touches of metallic gold to catch the light.

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Artist Jennifer Ross creates intimate portraits of birds, nests and horses. Jennifer grew up surrounded by the art of her mother and grandfather. Her attempt to follow in their footsteps presented detours, however, and she ended up working in art galleries selling other's work. But her desire to paint continued to grow throughout the years. In 2008, a gift certificate...

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Artist Linda Shaffer expresses a vibrant multi-layered abstract in a gridded network of squares. She embeds hand-printed papers, ...

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Artist Yelitza Diaz displays a modern piece of climbing figures in four minimalist panels painted in flat shades of white and blue...

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Blending the minimalist and modern, artist Yelitza Diaz displays a sculpture of figures climbing the canvas. The three bronze beings appear in different stage...

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Artist Yelitza Diaz displays a modern sculpture of three bronze figures climbing geometric designs. The first figure clings to a circular cavity carved from a...

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Nude figures climb minimalist structures in bold shades of yellow and red. Artist Yelitza Diaz presents a conceptual piece representing the human journey of ...

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Artist Yelitza Diaz exhibits a metallic figure sitting on a bold white rectangle with another vertical rectangle directly above it...

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Unifying minimalist and modern styles, artist Yelitza Diaz builds a figurative sculpture of three figures settled on geometric pedestals. She manipulates the wooden elements to give it the roughness and apparent strength of metal. The first being climbs the block as the remaining two await sitting down. Yelitza's conceptual piece represents the human journey of spirituality and elevation of being.

About the Artist
Born in Venezuela, Yelitza Diaz;s life has been wrapped in the arts since childhood. She founded a gallery with her husband, who is also an artist, and was successful for many years until the crime and corruption in the local government became unbearable. They now live in South Carolina, where she makes art that explores human existentialism and the political and social developments of her native country. Her sculptures are made with ceramic techniques using a minimalist contemporary style. Fun fact: Yelitza designed the town seal for her native Municipio Falc;n in Venezuela.

Words that describe this painting: expansion, spiritual growth, elevation of being, maturity, spirituality, sculpture, drawing, painting, spiritual connection, connection with the universe, climb up, climb,, people, modern , mixed media artwork, black

Small Beings Sitting on Logs...

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An ornate flower crown rests on a young girl's head in artist Darlene McElroy's expressionist portrait. "It is a Hispanic tradition to be offered to the churc...

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Artist Joey Korom creates a collaged abstract with elements of cardboard and fabric. He slathers the paint like butter onto the canvas to create a thick impas...

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Artist Gail Ragains exhibits a gestural abstract of a woman in a state of affecting tenderness. Dynamic layers of collage establish the subject's form gracefu...

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In this abstract portrait, artist Gail Ragains suggests two figures defined by strong, bold, and simple shapes. She captures the raw emotion of gestural strok...

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Artist Darlene McElroy demonstrates a contemporary collage of vintage ephemera. She imposes the image of a lady with butterflies and paints a luscious apple h...

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Artist Darlene McElroy displays a contemporary portrait of a woman with her hair flowing in the wind. Bold patterns in vibrant colors establish her dynamic silhouette. "The winds of life moved her to new places and new experiences full of secrets," reveals Darlene. The unconventional materials create a sculptural and dimensional aspect.

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Darlene McElroy sees creating art as similar to reading Turkish coffee grounds. A story becomes revealed as one looks at the surface, texture and color. Her works use a variety of materials ranging from acrylic paints to photo transfers and collage. She currently lives in New Mexico and has been greatly influenced by the work of Robert Rauschenberg. She encourages viewers to search for their narrative interpretation when viewing a work.

Words that describe this painting: woman, feminine, figurative, stylized, narrative, storytelling, flower, wind, face, eyes, portrait, mixed media, contemporary, small, profile, people, contemporary, mixed media artwork, beige

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Darlene McElroy
Acrylic paint and collage on masonite...

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Artist Gail Ragains displays a dynamic rendering of a female figure sitting. The gestural and expressive paintwork create an emotionally charged atmosphere. C...

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Artist Patrick O'Boyle produces an abstract aerial view of a landscape. "I use aerial photos taken from various places I have traveled," says Patrick. He creates an organic shape filled with colors, lines, and patterns. The structures fill the canvas forming a new and larger image, open to the interpretation of the viewer.

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Patrick O'Boyle primarily paints in a studio, rarely using reference material other than his own thoughts and dreams. He always paints in a series of five - at the end of the fifth painting he revisits and reworks all of them until he feels they're complete. Using extra-long handles on his brushes, Patrick paints at a distance from the canvas so he can see the works evolve as a whole from the one color he starts with to the vibrant array at the end.

Words that describe this painting: abstract, landscape, small, bright, colorful, acrylicpaint, mark-making, abstract, mixed media artwork, white

Aerial Landscape...

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Fields of color map out artist Terri Bell's colorful abstract piece. The composition combines grid-like structures and segments contrasting with organic shape...

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Artist Libby Ramage presents a modern expressionist piece collaged from abandoned students' works. She comes up with a composition clamoring in joy. Cartoonis...

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Combining handmade paper with old postcard ephemera, artist Libby Ramage demonstrates a modern abstract piece. She forms whimsica...

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Artist Diana Elena Chelaru depicts three expressionist female figures in a wavy dance. Their flowing dresses burst into a joyous explosion of blue flowers. She achieves a unique consistency through dripped and dried enamel paint layered with acrylics. Diana patterns fine pointillism details for more playful elements.

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Artist Diana Chelaru paints colorful expressionist interpretations of human emotion. “Art is a means of communication, it is how I express my thoughts, hopes, regrets, and joys,” says Diana. She experiments with working on large-scale paintings using the visual language of form, lines, and color to create compositions that exist only in her imagination. Growing up in Romania, she draws inspiration from Byzantine mosaics as well as Gustav Klimt’s subject matter and use of decorative patterns. She received her BFA in Painting from George Enescu Art University and finished her MA in Art History from Queens College. Diana simply goes with the flow rather than dwelling on the formulaic process. It all depends on how and what she feels at the moment. She indulges in music while she creates her work.

Words that describe this painting: patterns, dance, music, figurative, figure, expressionism, movement, wind, Klimt, people, women, eyes, mixed media, pointillism, drip, flowers, fashion, friends, dress, celebration, expressionism, people, mixed media artwork, blue

Beach Dancers...

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Artist Crystal DiPietro displays an impressionist view of flourishing Palo Verde trees. It blooms with bright yellow flowers in th...

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Artist Nava Lundy paints an impressionist portrait of a woman demurely looking over her shoulders. Sandy orange and blue colors fill the background in thick h...

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Artist Terri Bell demonstrates a patterned abstract piece consisting of spheres enclosed in cubes. She envisions an ode to dreaming of simpler times living in...

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Artist Yelitza Diaz crafts a sculpture of three men on podiums. Inspired by minimalist art, she introduces a new concept where she adds the human form as part...

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Artist Yelitza Diaz builds a wall sculpture of five people sitting on a wooden block. She paints the background a distinct unvarnished beige to bring attentio...

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Artist Yelitza Diaz sculpts one man on a pedestal and another man dangling from it, trying to climb. She proposes a new concept wh...

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Artist Scott Dykema exhibits a hefty brown bison with a thick bushy mane. A psychedelic Aztec background in blue and red, with gold metallic accents draws int...

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Linda Shaffer creates a vibrant multi-layered abstract heart. She paints it a crimson red over a turquoise and purple background. Monoprints with unique marks...

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Artist Patrick O'Boyle draws inspiration from a childhood memory of going to the carnival. He paints an abstract interpretation of his jubilant experience. "T...

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Artist Patrick O'Boyle demonstrates an abstract landscape with distinct formations. He uses acrylic glaze and washes to establish color, shape, and pattern placement. Pages of old dictionaries and collage papers add points of interest to the composition. "This painting is purely an abstracted reference to places I have sketched on location," says Patrick.

About the Artist
Patrick O'Boyle primarily paints in a studio, rarely using reference material other than his own thoughts and dreams. He always paints in a series of five - at the end of the fifth painting he revisits and reworks all of them until he feels they're complete. Using extra-long handles on his brushes, Patrick paints at a distance from the canvas so he can see the works evolve as a whole from the one color he starts with to the vibrant array at the end.

Words that describe this painting: abstract, landscape, bright, mixed media, collage, abstract, mixed media artwork, yellow...

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Part of artist Patrick O'Boyle's Dream Land series. Ethereal places that only exist in his mind. "I aim to share the experience with the viewer," says Patrick...

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Artist Margriet Hogue expresses an abstract composition in different shades of blue. She layers paper for the base and paints ov...

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Artist Margriet Hogue presents a collaged abstract piece with a gentle pastel palette. Distressed papers constitute the lively canvas. Enigmatic patterns in i...

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Artist Margriet Hogue demonstrates celestial alignment through collaged printed papers and tissues. She decorates each planet with unique stencils. Patterns over patterns layer the piece strikingly. The bold contrasts bring the experimental piece a distinguished flare.

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Artist Margriet Hogue creates layered mixed media paintings inspired by "the contours of the land, the distressed surfaces and the colors of the different seasons," as she explains. Born in the Netherlands, Margriet's family moved to Venezuela when she was 6 months old, and then immigrated to Canada when she was in middle school. As a child, her mother taught her various fiber crafts. Buying her first loom allowed Margriet to pay her way through college, and after graduating, she spent years producing textiles and clothing. Unfortunately, the dust from weaving aggravated her child's asthma, so she started a needlework business called The Essamplaire (old French for sampler). "Whenever we would be on holidays I'd make appointments with museums to see their sampler collections and would request licensing agreements to reproduce them in the form of needlework kits," explains Margriet. "Samplers were part of a girl’s education from the 1500s to the early 1900s and consisted of them stitching alphabets, pictorial images and quaint verses." In 2014, Margriet attended an acrylic painting workshop, which she describes as very freeing after the fine and detailed work involved in needlework. Today, when she's not painting, she enjoys road trips through the mountains to the west coast, visiting family who live far and wide, and continuing to oversee her needlework business.

Words that describe this painting: Abstract, circles, mixed media, collage, crayons, inks, planets, lines, text, pattern, abstract, mixed media artwork, grey

The Planets...

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Margriet Hogue paints a black tree over a lively collaged composition. Birds nest within its meager branches. Margriet affixes pages from various materials t...

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Artist Terri Bell expresses an emotional abstraction of fragmented feelings. These small recollections span universally and happen to every one of us. She pai...

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Artist Joey Korom expresses a vision of medieval sport in this mixed-media composition. He attaches strips of cloth to the canvas representing elements of jou...

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A seventh-grade algebra homework, a book page, acrylic paint, and charcoal constitute artist Libby Ramage's whimsical mixed-media piece. She affixes pages of ...

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Artist Libby Ramage takes inspiration from her seventh-grade son's algebra homework. She imposes a sheet of equations on the face of a prince's portrait. Libb...

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While camping in the Sonoran Desert, artist Crystal DiPietro beholds the sight of the mesas lighting up at dawn. Soft purple shadows cast over the foothills a...

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Part of artist Yelena Sidorova's Street View series. This piece features predominantly vibrant red roofings covering most of the city's structures. "Prague is...

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Part of artist Scott Dykema's series of the majestic bison. Mist clears in the dead of the night as an eye emerges from within wisps of bright vivid clouds. I...

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While climbing mountains in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, artist Crystal DiPietro couldn't help but appreciate the tall saguaro...

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Artist Melissa Gannon explores various methods and techniques in her art career to create a captivating image of ferns and underbrush deep in the woods. Utili...

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“This painting was inspired by the desire to come together, visit, share, and feel the comfort of good neighbors at the neighborhood block party,” says ar...

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A multi-media abstract with subtle blocks of organic and geometric elements by artist Terri Bell. "Each element is unique and contributes to the whole," says ...

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A glowing portrait of a young woman by artist Scott Dykema. Part of Scott's series of bold, strong women, this piece is rich with heavy texture and dynamic us...

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Artist Libby Ramage portrays the mischievous god, Eros in a quaint assemblage of wine labels and charcoal. Inspired by the illustrations on the wine label, Li...

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Artist Libby Ramage portrays varying figures in a compelling mixed media artwork. An ornately designed silhouette of a woman walks with her arms spread wide o...

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"The light that comes with adversity is almost a badge of honor," states artist Scott Dykema. "A badge of honor that nature wears anonymously. It is a badge o...

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“This painting was inspired by love and gift-giving," says artist Linda Shaffer. "When we love someone we like to give them pre...

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"Autumn begins with a burst of color and as the leaves fall, winter arrives," says artist Melissa Gannon. "Color is still present but more muted." Utilizing w...

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"This painting has traveled with me through six moves and four cities," shares artist Agata Kijanka. "It's a very slowly transforming piece that evolved over ...

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An energetic cascade of color in free form by artist Scott Dykema. Part of Scott's series on vibrant abstractions, this piece features bursts of spirited hues with etched and dripping details. Eye-catching metallic features cleverly capture light from different angles.

About the Artist
Scott works out of a 1947 Chevrolet school bus that is parked permanently in his Texas backyard. His highly expressionistic, figurative work is reminiscent of contemporary street art, largely due to the inclusion of spray paint in his arsenal of media. Scott is inspired by images he comes across in books or in daily life. His bold statement pieces demonstrate artful yet fanciful interpretations of world cultures. Each painting, through its dynamic layers of color and metallics, presents a story that awaits the imaginative viewer.

Words that describe this painting: abstract, colorful, bold, statement, gold, metallic, vertical, reflective, mixed media, large, abstract, mixed media artwork, green, yellow

Going Up...

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"It's a muted meditative exploration of how physical distance, as well as the distance created by the passage of time, affects our experiences of memory and p...

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"This piece is about the universal feeling of comfort to sing lullabies and memories of childhood," shares artist Tomo Mori. "I make tiles with fabrics, then ...

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A burst of colorful squares with various patterns intricately arranged by artist Tomo Mori. "I make tiles with fabrics, then utilize a traditional mosaic technique with acrylic painting," explains Tomo. She carefully cuts each square of vintage kimonos and sets them in a mesmerizing fashion. "The image has layers and slight three-dimensionality to create an interesting texture. The canvas is linen and it adds warmth to the overall feeling. Gold colors reflect light and the painting looks different during the day and night."

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Tomo Mori finds herself drawn to images that are melting, dripping, streaming and flowing. Her process is extremely meticulous yet spontaneous in its execution, allowing natural instinct to guide the creativity and fluidity of the work. Tomo's signature technique is collage made of canvas on canvas, a style that adds depth and dimension to her work. Born in Osaka, Japan, her family moved to Tokyo when she was four, where she recalls happy family memories under the cherry blossoms. She is now based in New York, and when she's not making art, Tomo likes spending time with her family and dancing.

Words that describe this painting: mosaic, collage, abstract, nursery, childhood, fabric, pattern, contemporary, kimono, Japanese, mixed media...

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I call this technique 'canvas mosaic' which I developed over the last nine years. The square shapes are cut and painted pieces of canvas fabric that I adhered to the stretched canvas. Initially inspired by digital pixels, but harkens back to traditional mosaic making. Cranes are one of symbolic creatures in Asia. Mysterious and always a little lonely in a beautiful way. I painted a dreamy crane with traditional Japanese Kimono patterns...

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I call this technique 'canvas mosaic' which I developed over the last nine years. The square shapes are cut and painted pieces of canvas fabric that I adhered to the stretched canvas. Initially inspired by digital pixels, but harkens back to traditional mosaic making. In Japan, we use red string...

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I call this technique 'canvas mosaic' which I developed over the last nine years. The square shapes are cut and painted pieces of canvas fabric that I adhered to the stretched canvas. Initially inspired by digital pixels, but harkens back to traditional mosaic making. In Japan, we use red string...