Each annual release capsule features cover artworks by a single artist.
Alexandra Strenfel (2024)
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Alexandra Strenfel is an artist living and working in Seattle, Washington. She received her BA in Studio Art from University Of California, Berkeley in 2013, with a primary emphasis on painting. Her current work draws from a large library of online and physical images to create dream-like and emotive scenes that are heavily influenced by myth, fantasy, media, and culture. While painting remains her primary focus, she has expanded her practice to include charcoal and pencil figure drawing, collage, and occasionally, ceramics.
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Lara Rouse (2023)
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From Lara: "I find images from books and magazines, cut or rip out the pages and make a new image with what I’ve found. The collages I make are surreal, and sometimes abstract. My subject matter varies greatly. In a way I’m at the mercy of the source material; it’s very difficult for me to make a collage with a specific vision or subject in mind and this constraint has freed me to make so much more than I could ever have imagined. With these pieces of paper I can control everything, I can forget about the rest of the world for a moment and be peaceful. I don’t know what inspires me. I definitely am fascinated with music and it’s ability to transport the listener to a different time and space, and I feel transported when I see a beautiful collage. Collage is beautiful. There would probably be no collages without music.
The main things I allow myself to consider are colour palette and balance. The fun and accessibility of collage making keeps me making new art. Before I collaged I painted, before I painted I drew pictures and was into acting. I always knew, it was more of a matter of declaring myself to be an artist. Sometimes I forget and my daughter will tell me “You’re an artist!” And I’m like “yes! Yes I am!” I never wanted to do anything else." |
Rachel Mulder (2022)
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Rachel lives in Portland, Oregon, with her two cats, Opal and Tomasina. She was born in rural Wisconsin and when she was small she spent a lot of time sitting in the grass staring, obsessing about animals, drooling over the nastiness of cartoons, and peeling her skin off. She vacillates between obsessive and loosey-goosey ways of working but refers to it all as Drawing. She explores many types of media, including water-soluble graphite, pen and ink, cyanotype, and her wet hair on the shower wall. She earned her BFA in printmaking at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2009, and though she indulges in the one-of-a-kind-ness of drawings, the images she makes are often tinged with a longing for printmaking in texture and feeling.
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Aleksandra Apocalisse (2021)
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Aleksandra Apocalisse is a Portland-based artist spilling her thoughts in many colors and forms.
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Sara Swoboda (2020)
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Sara has been drawing everyday since June 17, 2008 and is currently creating a mile-long drawing. Check out her work on Instagram.
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Hellsea (2019)
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Hellsea is an Asian American multidisciplinary artist in Portland, OR. Her work centers around romantic existentialism: expressing the love within the reality of simply living, and how to create in art the moments and sentiments she finds about life that are intimate, joyous, and magical.
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Holger Lipmann (2018)
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Holger is a generative visual artist based out of Wandlitz, Germany.
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