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Heather Sandifer

September 20th – November 15th, 2023
Solo Exhibition

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Pandemic Portraits No. 56, Barbara Leiner, painting, oil on canvas

Sarah Hinckley, The Sun is Fading Into a Passing Dream (1)

Drew King, "Get on the Bus," acrylic, oil on canvas

Pauline Galiana, "Shredded Impression 7," paper collage on Mylar

Reflections VIII, Claudia Mengel, work on paper, monotype

Cynthia Kirkwood, "Two, Red, Pink, and Blue," ink on Fabriano paper

Swimmer in Orange, Geoffrey Moss, mixed media, work on paper, graphite pencil, dry pigments and waxes on paper

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Sep 19

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Get to know artist Claudia Mengel in the studio as she creates, explaining an exciting new process and collection of works. “It’s gonna be fun to get to know the process and be part of something that controls me as much as I try to control it” Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art⁠
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Sep 13

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“In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt." - Pablo Picasso⁠
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#CBCAartist Jill Moser, "Pink Mama," 2018, 12 color screen print on Rives BFK, 35h x 30w in. ⁠
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Image 2: "New Morning," 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 37h x 35w in.⁠
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Image 3: "Cycle X-27, 2013," unique monoprinted screenprints; etching, lithographic, and silkscreen inks on Rives BFK, 40h x 43w in.⁠
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Image 4: Blues, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 55h x 56w in.⁠
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Sep 6

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CBCA in the Studio with Will Clift⁠
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Sculptor, Will Clift, virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, his motivations, and his creative process. Clift explores gesture in sculpture through the interaction of form and balance. His sculptures consist of intersecting parts that stand in equilibrium. No part is extraneous, and the delicacy of this balance reveals the fine line between weight and weightlessness, motion and stillness. He captures the moment between being grounded and taking flight, the pure potential of movement that has not quite commenced.⁠
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Beginning each sculpture with a form or moment in the world around him that captures his attention, Clift’s process relies on intuition and a carefully honed sense of balance and proportion.⁠
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For each of his elegant sculptures, Clift’s hope is that, ‘the balance between movement and stillness evokes a sense of harmony, playfulness and wonder.'⁠
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CBCA: What thoughts go through your mind when you create?⁠
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Will Clift: All sorts of thoughts go through my head day and night, and it’s no different when I’m creating a new work. But over the years I’ve learned to let go of those thoughts, to allow them to come and go but to not encourage them, not listen to them. So many thoughts bring with them ‘shoulds,’ comparisons, or intellectual ideas, and these can get in the way of something truer that is what I’m trying to allow out. When I can get past the thoughts, that’s when I can reconnect to that old intuition that I had when I was young, to get my head out of my own way, to work in a way that is largely naïve to the world and to the art world in particular. ⁠
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Read Will Clift's full interview at https://www.cynthiabyrnes.com/will-clift-interview-september-2023/⁠
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Aug 25

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Aug 23

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"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us." - Maya Angelou⁠
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Image 1: Laura Fayer, "Light Matter," 2015, acrylic and Japanese paper on canvas, 36h x 48w in.⁠
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Image 2: Emily Hamilton Laux, "Fences Half Consumed: Finny," 2015, archival pigment print⁠
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Image 3: Perry Obee, "Marshall I," lithograph, chine colle, 15h x 18w in., ed. AP⁠
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Image 4: Vittorio Masoni, "Sweet Dreams," 2010, acrylic on canvas, 16h x 19 1/2w in.⁠
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Aug 15

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CBCA’s Alice Roosevelt 🐶 is who you have to impress during studio visits. Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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Aug 9

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"Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson⁠
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Image #1: Benice Horowitz, 'Sag Harbor Series 2,' 2010, acrylic on paper, 22h x 30w in.⁠
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Image #2: Ann Conrad, "Casco Bay 22," 2004, solar intaglio with hand coloring, printed/painted on gray magnani pescia, 22h x 30w in.⁠
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Image #3: J. Henry Fair, "Doors to Nowhere," 2013, chromogenic print, ed. 8⁠
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Image #4: Joy Moser, "Far Point," 2011, oil on wood, 24h x 24w in.⁠
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Aug 5

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Watch @syragomez unglazed porcelain flower installation come alive! Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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Aug 2

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Painter Mike Filan virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, “The Freedom Series.” Michael Filan’s painting process has become brushless. The gestures, drips and splashes that unite his work have become increasingly more intricate over time and address viewers in a language that is private, intense and consistently self-referential. ⁠
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Within the context of abstraction, Filan is constantly inventing a new vocabulary that employs gesture, form and notation. The intensity of color is used as a mystical guide that leads him through the creation process. Spacial planes are created on the painting’s surface that offer resting points for viewers to pause before further embarking on a journey of exploration.⁠
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CBCA: What is your work/ this new body about?⁠
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Mike Filan: The paintings in ”The Freedom Series” express his euphoric sense of freedom that he feels when creating artwork. I put pieces together, reliving memories and inventing new alphabets to create compositions that have a frenetic, phonetic, energetic, and sympathetic inclusionary invitation to viewers. The series explores my sense of freedom, joy, and pleasure mixed together with a childhood and adult understanding of some of life’s mysteries — combined with many surprises.⁠
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Read Mike Filan's full interview at https://www.cynthiabyrnes.com/mike-filan-interview-august-2023/⁠
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Jul 31

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Jul 21

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#repost from @gideonmendelson Adding two works on paper by #CBCAArtist @jeanettefintz elevates this already stunning kitchen Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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Jun 16

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CBCA Presents: ON THE CUSP OF SOMETHING an exclusive online exhibition through August 16, 2023 Walk the gallery-link in Bio CBCA is proud to present ‘On the Cusp of Something,’ a solo exhibition featuring the photographs of Sarah Benham. Benham’s black and white photos of family and friends taken through the 1970’s and 1980’s challenge our expectations of the lightheartedness of childhood with the seriousness of adulthood. #CBCAartist #sarahbenham @sbenham41 #cynthiabyrnes #contemporaryart #photography #chromogenicprint #CBCA #curatecollaboratecollect #abstractart #buyartonline #onlineartgallery #projectmanagement Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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Jun 7

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“What’s past is prologue…” (Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1564-1616) No series ever leaves me; I continually return to the visual vocabulary of past pieces, abstraction follows. The progress of my work is based on my previous works, a searching to distill the essence of a subject. I become my harshest critic, not always moving forward but going back and exploring." - Geoffrey Moss⁠
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Painter Geoffrey Moss virtually sat down with us to discuss how his work has progress throughout his career, his creative process, and what success means to him.⁠
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Moss’s work straddles a line between representational references abstraction. A self-identified colorist, Moss explores the interaction between shape and color through his creative process.⁠
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CBCA: How has your work progressed? How has your practice changed over time?⁠
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Geoffrey Moss: Witness my “Black Drawings” series; begun at Yale, there has always been a tug to simplify negative and positive space. Critically I am considered a colorist; I often feel color is a trap, it can become a sentimental, romantic, “pretty” device. Since my early 20’s I find that Black pigments allow me to get to the essence of form. Exploring each subject to it’s fullest, is like using new words in my visual language. My series are my constant addition, part of the Opus. There’s a lot of skywriting, and shadows before I commit to canvas or paper. New bodies of work inescapably reference “past bodies of work” that live with me.⁠
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May 17

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"It's a happy talent to know how to play." - Ralph Waldo Emerson --⁠
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May 11

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See how CBCA makes it simple to find extraordinary art. Explore now at CYNTHIABYRNES.com. Link in bio.

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May 9

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Join us at the D&D Building’s Spring Market Keynote event on Wednesday May 10, at 2pm in the Gloster showroom in suite 1601!⁠
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CBCA joins Anthony Barzilay Freund, Neal Beckstedt, and Joshua Smith for a panel called Art Today: Consulting, Collaborating, Collecting⁠
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As every designer knows, finding the right art to fit the taste and budget of an increasingly sophisticated clientele can become daunting. Guided by noted arts journalist and editor Anthony Barzilay Freund from 1st Dibs Introspective Magazine, designers Neal Beckstedt, and Joshua Smith share experiences and solutions that they have encountered searching for the right art for client projects. ⁠
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Art consultant and gallery owner Cynthia Byrnes of Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art describes the unique digital approach to art selection that she has developed for design professionals and collectors.⁠
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Register Now > ddbuilding.com/spring-market⁠
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May 3

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CBCA In the Studio with Dana Saulnier⁠
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"Making art is a way of life. It really gets a hold of you. The demands and tensions are not easy to balance. There is an abundance of dissatisfaction, but the antidote to this is the life of the forms themselves." - Dana Saulnier⁠ ---
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Painter Dana Saulnier discusses his recent body of work, what motivates his practice, and how quarantine impacted his work. ⁠
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Saulnier creates a singular dialogue with the history of painting. Clues include a nominal subject matter encompassing Titian and DeKooning: the ‘figure in landscape’. Significant also is Saulnier’s constant practice of drawing. His work arises in drawing and he terms his color, a ‘drawing palette’. It is through drawing that Saulnier has both worked out and transcended issues of appropriation so prevalent within his generation of artists.⁠
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CBCA: Describe the concepts/motivations behind your work/creative process.⁠
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DS: I try to make work that generates experience rather than work that presents preconceived content. Over time it becomes difficult to explain the work because, like a living thing, it keeps gathering up many ideas and potentials. Nonetheless, I can say that landscape experience has been a constant framework throughout my life and deep ecology a ground for my values. The subject of the figure in landscape is a persistent reservoir in the history of painting which leads me to many philosophical questions regarding our relationship to the world and to each other within the world. ⁠
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Apr 26

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PAULINE GALIANA: MIND AND BODY I A Solo Show⁠
Through June 14th, 2023⁠
A CBCA exclusive online exhibition⁠
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CBCA is proud to present Mind and Body, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Pauline Galiana. Through this survey of Galiana’s practice, we consider her nuanced expression of the point at which life transforms from something technical to something profound.⁠
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Best recognized for her series, 'Shredded Impressions' and 'Shredded' Series, abstract artist, Pauline Galiana, woks in collage and painting to explore the tension between construction and deconstruction.⁠
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Inspired by color, light and the concept of chaos, Galiana uses shredded papers, documents, notes, and paper artworks – what she refers to as ‘literal leftovers from different stages of [her] own work,’ – as materials for her intricate collages and wall sculptures. She constructs each piece through a meticulous, meditative process of shredding, looping, stitching, ordering and reordering each strip of paper into a collage of color and geometric patterns.⁠
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�Ultimately, Galiana seeks to explore the resilience of the human mind to seek and find meaning and order in entropy.⁠
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- Tessa Rosenstein, Curator⁠
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Apr 17

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Don't miss CBCA's collaboration with award-winning designer, Young Huh, who will be featuring "Rangeen Phool" by CBCA artist, Mary Manning.⁠
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DESIGN ON A DIME⁠
APRIL 19 - 22, 2023⁠
The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York, NY⁠
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Design on a Dime is back for its 18th year! Shop stunning vignettes curated by the nation's top interior designers and filled with premium home décor merchandise donated by hundreds of top brands and makers. Items are marked up to 80% off retail prices and sold to benefit Housing Works' efforts to provide housing and healthcare for all!⁠
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Wednesday, April 19, 6PM⁠
Groundbreaker Awards Dinner⁠
The night before Design on a Dime opens, Housing Works will host its Ninth Annual Groundbreaker Awards Dinner. Housing Works’ closest friends and supporters will come together for a celebratory evening to honor outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the fight to end HIV/AIDS and homelessness. Set among the stunning room vignettes, guests will get an exclusive sneak peek at the Design on a Dime creations.⁠
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Thursday, April 20⁠
Design on a Dime Opening Night⁠
5:30-6:30 PM - VIP Cocktail & Preview Hour⁠
6:30-9:30 PM - General Admission & Sale⁠
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Public Sale Days⁠
Friday, April 21 - 10AM-7PM ⁠
Saturday, April 22 - 10AM-5PM⁠
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CBCA In the Studio with Perry Burns CBCA is thrilled to announce our new series, "In the Studio," where CBCA artists speak about their practice, background, and inspiration in their own words, and in their own spaces. --- “For me, painting is the soul seeking its highest self, an existential search for joy, meaning, understanding, an attempt to freeze a moment of enlightenment.” Painter Perry Burns virtually sat down with us to discuss his background as an artist, what inspires his practice and what failure means to him. Deeply influenced by Islamic art, Perry Burns creates vibrant mixed media artwork which blends eastern and western aesthetics. Using a ‘visual language of abstraction, Burns merges the traditions of Islamic pattern and abstract expressionism, thereby consciously crossing boundaries of culture, history religion, race, ideology and politics. --- CBCA: What are you trying to communicate in your work? PB: For me, painting is the soul seeking its highest self, an existential search for joy, meaning, understanding, an attempt to freeze a moment of enlightenment. I strive for a painting to be at once ancient and new, forever and fleeting, primal and metaphysical, actual and enigmatic. The power of painting lies not as much in the reproduction of nature as in the dynamism of visual forces. I do not want to merely illustrate an event, I want to create a visual experience. If vision is “seeing”, then perception is “knowing,” which introduces to the visual experience the spiritual nature of perception. In essence, a painting offers a visual opportunity for “seeing” to become “knowing,” that fully unnamable but universal experience of realization, understanding and connection that lies beyond our will or intention. Read Perry’s full interview at cynthiabyrnes.com/artist-interviews/ @lovemyperry12 ---
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In the Studio with Will Clift

September 6th, 2023

Sculptor, Will Clift, virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, his motivations, and his creative process.

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In the Studio with Mike Filan

Artist Interview

Painter Mike Filan virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, “The Freedom Series,” and his increasingly brushless painting process. Filan addresses viewers in an intensely colorful abstract language of gestures, drips and splashes that unite his new series.

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In the Studio with Irene Yesley

Artist Interview

Multimedia artist Irene Yesley virtually sat down with us to discuss the details of her creative process and influences. Yesley’s work explores shapes, patterns, colors, as well as positive and negative space without the limitations imposed by the reproduction of a specific image.

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Subject to Change, Photographs by Vicky Stromee

Exhibition

In the Studio with Geoffrey Moss

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Mind and Body: Pauline Galiana Solo Show

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Beauty/Destruction

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In the Stuido with Dana Saulnier

Artist Interview

The D&D’s Spring Market Keynote Event, May 10, 2023

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Are We There Yet?

Exhibition

CBCA curates a colorful collection for Farrow & Ball’s Virtual Home

Showhouse

Tour the Showhouse

Design on a Dime Benefit

Event

Congrats to Liz Dexheimer

Artsy Editorial

In the Studio with Rebecca Welz

Artist Interview

In the Studio with Kaz Strankowski

Artist Interview

In the Studio with Zemma Mastin White

Artist Interview

Rooms with a View 2022

Showhouse

In the Studio with Sarah Hinckley

Artist Interview

In the Studio with Perry Burns

In the Studio

Normal For Now

Exhibition

Introducing Katrine Hildebrandt

New Artist

Collect, Collaborate, Decorate

Past Event

In the Studio with

New Series

Introducing Rebecca Welz

New Artist

Introducing Michael Filan

New Artist

The Face of America Feature

Press Highlight

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Case Study

Press Highlight

In the Studio with J Henry Fair

Artist Interview

Designing With Fine Art & Wallcovering

Event

Introducing Christina Watka

New Artist

That’s a Wrap!

Press Highlight

Introducing Emily Hamilton Laux

New Artist

CBCA Collaborates with Kevin Isbell

Press Highlight

Brilliant Gems

Press Highlight

In the Studio with Bastienne Schmidt

Artist Interview

Introducing Brian Walters II

New Artist