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  • This is an ugly duck like figure with white feathers, and orange hair, wearing an earing in her human ears, her body resembles a reptile with only one leg, green in color, and her skin is scaly. Her somewhat like heart is black and bleeding, detached from her chest, broken into pieces, dropping down to the ground. There are letterings on the painting, the paragraph one on top of the page is written in Spanish and says: "Soy una Elitista". The second one placed on the right side of the page is written in English and it reads: "I am an Elitist. I Quack & Lie!".
    “The snob is out-of-touch”
  • orange, pink and purple petals with green stems and leaves are suggested in this abstract work.
    Abstract Flowers
  • A fleshy shape with multiple eyes peers out of black darkness. The eyes are human, including one with an arched eyebrow, and gaze in several directions.
    All Eyes on Me
  • A large outline of a house is in the center. Inside of that is a blurred photo of Haley House. Underneath the large outline is a dark grassy area with a few lighter grass highlights.
    Alone
  • An abstract work in yellow, red, blue, black and gray. The piece is made up of four main parts stacked one on top of the other in a way that might evoke a comic strip (one without figurative objects)
    Ardent
  • A mortar and pestle in the center surrounded by blue, yellow and gray markings around a large poppy-shaped stencil outline
    ast (love)
  • A black and white, abstract collage of a fragmented female portrait split in half.
    Black and White Thinking
  • Blue and green brushstrokes resemble flowers on a busy, abstract background of red, orange, and yellow.
    Calm
  • An abstract in oranges and blues, full of triangles and circles. The design evokes tambourines and drums, as well as a dancer bringing their leg around in a high leap.
    Capoeira
  • Smudges of pink, white, red, crimson, brown and green color against an orange background compose and abstract whole. Several scarce and doodling pencil lines are subtly visible.
    Cellular containment I
  • White lines make two erratic round shapes with the same center. Another smaller such shape is inside them with a dark pink layout and an orange-brown fill. Blots of dark green, green, and yellow are against blurry background. An abstract whole.
    Cellular containment III
  • Abstract oil painting of clouds in blues, greys, and shades of white.
    cloudscape
  • A pink octopus partially seen inside two halves of a coconut.
    Coconut Octopus
  • An abstract sculpture made with red silk, twisted tightly and coiled upon itself.
    Coil
  • Swirling golden calligraphy layered over red and magenta calligraphy. The designs / letters overlap and blur, with golden threadlike arc intersecting them, forming a tower.
    Devi
  • Blends of hot pink, blues, and yellows over a textural background. Gold flake and intentional scribbles peak through from behind the texture and color.
    Discovery and Rebirth
  • Drippy ink drawing of rocks in water made with broad brushstrokes in tones from light gray to black on 40" x 50" warm white translucent Japanese paper.
    Drawing #4, Grist Mill Series 2023
  • A torso is in the middle of the canva, with it's arm extending ourwards. There is an array of arms below it following the motion upward. There are hands reaching out to the torso's extended arm, and reaching for it's back. The arms and torso are in shades of greens, pinks, purples, and oranges. Laid on top of the canvas is a sheet of clear acetate with gestrual marks in black tracing the rendered colorful forms underneath.
    Embrace
  • An abstract, heavily textured oil painting with layers of thick brush strokes. In a field of mottled white, an organic funnel shape in mixed orange, red, and green appears at center, the narrowest part at bottom right, and the trumpet-like bell at center. Two smaller trumpet shapes in lighter orange emerge from it at top, facing right.
    Fat Lip Serenade
  • Damp white and grey gull feathers, with grains of sand scattered on top.
    Feathers and Sand
  • Collage with colorful and patterned patches. Dominant colors are different tones of yellow. A blue line with mini polka dots frames the majority of the composition.
    Finding Space #1
  • Collage with colorful and patterned patches. Dominant colors are different tones of pink. Dominant pattern is wide and narrow stripes.
    Finding Space #2
  • Landscape based image in numerous tones of blue from light to very dark with small amounts of bronze on multiple sheets of folded Japanese paper.
    Folded Drawing #2, 2023 Series
  • A sphinx flying through a dark night sky with a starry border.
    Freedom
  • Countable fruits in orange surrounded by expanse of leaves in green.
    Fruition
  • Abstract composition of swirling dark blue, green, yellow, red, and white.
    Garden Party
  • Curved outlines of the petals of a rose in different shades of purple on a dark background.
    Gothic Rose
  • The image is blurred, with large blocks of color like an abstract painting. Green to the lower left and right, yellow at upper right, and a white rectangular mass at the center. Several squiggles, like marks from yellow and white pens, can be seen in the upper half of the image. A strip of beige at the lower center draws the eye to a bright area at the center of the image.
    Harvard Yard
  • Vertical narrow panels of Christian figures, of a city under attack by a Godzilla, of an explosion, of fire, of trees with dark red trunks and golden leaves. The panels seem to form a structured corner (reminiscing a sanctuary) on the roof of which is an image of a hurricane and lightning. Dominant colors are yellow-gold and red.
    Image 2 “Inner Sanctum”
  • Bright pink and yellow, some grey and some strokes of blue and red compose an abstract piece. Parts of ineligible words float around.
    Incandescance
  • Triptych of mixed media pieces. Each piece is 6"x6". The imagery starts with a tee shirt and morphs away from representation.
    Jack’s Tee Shirt #1
  • Triptych of mixed media pieces. Each piece is 6"x6". The imagery starts with a tee shirt and morphs away from representation.
    Jack’s Tee Shirt #2
  • A female figure is reaching to the left of the page, reaching for a bold heart.
    Love
  • A mixed-media tonal collage of a fragmented female portrait.
    Me, Myself, and I /
  • The image consists of blobs of color - white, red, blue, yellow, at the center band of the picture, with a dark blue-green sky and light ground foreground, as if you squinted while crossing a street.
    Memorial Drive
  • A black and white piece featuring 6 cells all showing black and white abstract designs of circles in the center with radiating lines as well as white patterns against a black background.
    Mitosis
  • Tall and slim figures emerge in different parts of the canvas. The most prominent of them is dressed in a white gown and faces forward with one of her hands open and welcoming, like protecting or presenting the other figures around. A somewhat built environment of town buildings is hardly visible in the background. Prominent colors are grey and dark, with some smudges of yellow and orange.
    Mnemosyne, Mother of the Muses
  • An angelic figure with blurry features extends their hands down with palms facing open in the front. Their wings, body mid trunk and one of their legs have variants of red to crimson. Grey and beige colors compliment the rest of their body.
    Nirvana
  • Blurred beach and ocean with a pink sky.
    Ocean Breeze
  • Wall sculpture of antique keys and keyhole on blue taffeta.
    Open
  • Sharp, jagged structures representing a a flowing landscape in greens, blues, and yellows.
    Otherworldly
  • Burnt umber crescent shaped abstractions cut through rough waters like large boats with flickering sails. A large ominous red landscape-like shape is in the background.
    Painting for the Spouter Inn
  • Three separate embroidered panels using the same design but different colors and stiches, mainly blues, greens, and purples.
    Pilgrimage Into Power
  • An abstract woman made of and decorated with swirls and spirals.
    Pop, Swirl, Divine
  • Bright red poppies and smaller flowers on a black background.
    Poppies
  • Figure is resting on amidst a blaze of color and cloud like repose.
    Repose
  • Blurred MBTA subway cars from the red, green, and blue lines.
    RGB
  • A 3-d lattice of iron and copper rust stained wood strips with large pieces of scrap metal throughout.
    Scrap Lattice
  • Multi layered psychedelic digital painting of the silhouette of artist's headshot manipulated to look like swirling tentacles emitting from the head.
    Self Portrait No. 18: In the Face of Madness
  • Multi layered psychedelic digital painting of the silhouette of artist's upper body manipulated to look like two tentacles emitting from the head.
    Self Portrait No. 20: In the Face of Madness
  • A mosaic of black and white squares cut from photographs and pinned into foam makes a larger image, an abstraction with dots of light and subtle gestures of hands making shapes.
    Signs
  • Finding ourselves in an open space. On the background abstract colorful scenes alluding to the natural and cosmical space, as well as with a person’s face in one of them, decorate a all the walls of a corridor. On the foreground, rays of steel blue marble pattern open in a vignette. Between them are small obelisks of light blue with floral designs.
    Space and Time
  • pink and purple sunset with islands and hills looking out on the camden hills across Penobscot Bay, Maine
    Sunset over the Camden Hills
  • An abstract piece featuring maroon, brown and black designs printed atop an orange background with white designs.
    Symbiosis
  • A vibrant fall scene in a woodland clearing by a fallen log covered in purple oyster mushrooms. Next to the log, surrounded by autumn leaves, glowing mushrooms, and Ghost Pipe plants, a partly-buried human hand emerges from the dirt next to a torn piece of paper reading "Thank You."
    Thank You is Not Enough
  • Broad strokes of white and grey, smudging with each other. Several sharp thin lines of dark and of orange paint travel from the upper part of one edge of the painting to the lower part of the other, diagonally in three irregular rows.
    The Deep, 2023
  • Rectangular fields of color, from the bottom, black, gray, red, yellow.
    TOAD
  • An abstraction of a brown craggy mountain with a strange red lava pool at its base. The sky is blue with glittering gold leaf shapes like birds in the distance.
    unknown sacred mountain
  • Two-dimensional abstract mixed media artwork. Swirls and stripes of black, as well as swirls and smudges of beige give an abstract shape to a round emblem with grey stipes on the one side of its background. Looks like a belt clasp or a necklace pendant, since it has one small hole in its right and one in its left side.
    untitled
  • Two-dimensional abstract mixed media artwork. Swirls of black and beige give an abstract shape to a round emblem with stuttered grey panels. Looks like a belt clasp or a necklace pendant, since it has one small hole in its right and one in its left side.
    untitled
  • A black ink on white paper semi-abstract linear sketch of a few items that might reminisce a shovel, a rake, a crop field.
    untitled
  • A black ink on white paper semi-abstract linear sketch of 4 different items that might depict a crop field, a tree, a bush, and a scarecrow.
    untitled
  • Repeated geometrical designs of rectangular and triangulars which are diminishing, form a tunnel perspective of a white construction with colorful wall panels.
    Walnut St Bridge
  • An abstract, heavily textured oil painting. Against a mottled yellow and orange field, an earthy green funnel shape appears at lower left, with a yellow-white opening at top. Its bottom narrows and curls behind it in the distance at center.
    Weir Dream
  • Broad strokes of beige, white, blue and some brown swirl around towards the center.
    Whirlpool, 2023
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