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Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interiors and decorating. This work of 20 yrs lead him to his fascination with textiles and paint, along with custom furniture. After creating and selling dozens of unique pieces of furniture, here began his transition from wall, to wood on furniture, to canvas. Painting on canvas was the culmination of his creative outlet. William feels that his lack of formal training in Fine Art has afforded him a freedom to paint what he envisions and feels, rather than conform to specific style or genre that he feels is limiting. Inspired by hard edge abstraction and color field art such as Kenneth Noland, Joseph Albers, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Imi knobel.William is showing his work locally and nationally and being collected in Palm Beach Island, Washington and New York.

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Marianela Perez is a Venezuelan visual artist specializing in painting and photography, inspired by the vibrant colors of her hometown, Caracas. She studied Commercial Art at Endicott College and later earned a degree in Environmental Design in Venezuela before refining her painting and photography skills under renowned artists and at institutions like the Boca Raton Art School. Her early work embraced gestural abstraction, evolving into digital collages and geometric abstractions influenced by urban landscapes and nature. Since 2001, she has exhibited extensively, with her artistic focus deepening after relocating to Miami in 2017. Today, her work continues to explore abstract-geometric forms that reinterpret reality through color, structure, and movement.

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Jill Hotchkiss holds a BFA from the University of Florida and an MFA from Pratt Institute, with residencies at the School of Visual Arts and Oolite Arts. Her work, featured in major publications like Architectural Digest and Forbes, is part of prominent collections worldwide. Recently commissioned for a large-scale mural in West Palm Beach, she explores nature’s recurring patterns, particularly dendritic forms seen in trees, water, and human networks. Her latest work focuses on fungal networks and their vital ecological role, encouraging sustainable coexistence with nature. Through large-scale scrolls and gold-accented designs, she highlights the urgency of preserving the natural world.

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South Florida-based artist Clarence "Skip" Measelle has been a full-time creative since 1978, blending traditional and contemporary techniques in his dynamic works. With a Master’s in Art Education, his career launched with a solo show at the Norton Museum of Art, propelling him to international exhibitions and prestigious collections like the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Skip’s art spans airbrushed photorealism to textured mixed media made from recycled materials, each piece reflecting his embrace of experimentation and “the aesthetic of uncertainty.” His work invites viewers into a world of layered meaning and vibrant discovery.

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https://measelleart.com/

@skip.measelle

Born in New York City and raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, Lisa Pearlman discovered her passion for photography as a teenager. She earned a degree in Semiotics from Brown University and later rekindled her love for photography after raising her family in New York City. She studied at the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts, building a successful portrait business before eventually turning her lens to a new muse, the flower, and hasn’t looked back since. Now based in West Palm Beach, she begins each day by photographing fresh blooms that she garners at the local markets. “I am so in awe of the beauty of flowers that I need a dose of them daily through my lens."

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Emily Zuch is an observational painter. She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from New York Studio School. Emily has received grants such as the Hohenberg Travel award and the Fulbright Fellowship in Painting and Printmaking to Germany in 2014, where she was an artist in residence at the theater Lindfels Westflugel. 

Emily has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and has attended art residencies including Yaddo, the Golden Foundation, Jentel Foundation, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Chautauqua. She has previously taught at Skidmore College, Pratt Institute, 

CUNY-BMCC and Wagner College, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut.

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Eleanor Woolems Born and Raised in Palm Beach County. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Also, I have studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Ireland's Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and Christ Church in Oxford England. My work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout South Florida as well as Ballycastle, Ireland. As an artist I am interested in the exploration of the process relating to self- understanding and patterns of familiarity as an expression of growth and enlightenment. The starting point is the feminine figure. Referencing instinctively the archetype of “wise women” and development of soul qualities…my journey embraces investigating awareness not exclusively in the psyche of women's lives, but also patriarchy. I search intuitively and impulsively looking for complex and synchronistic patterns, shapes, hues, darks, and lights. The oil paint charcoal, pencil, gouache, painted pallets, paper and canvases all excite me.   

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