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Candida Rodriguez, Miami, Winter 2022, painting/drawing Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Candida is a graduate of the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Matanzas and Escuela Nacional de Arte Cubanacan in Havana. Candida has been exhibiting her work in the Miami area for the last twenty years. She has taught art in Cuba and done art restoration/conservation work for the Centro Nacional de Conservación del Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes in México City, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. Candida has been an illustrator and done graphic design work, as well. She principally utilizes the human figure, and the personage of fairies and centaurs, as symbolic elements to treat the theme of the feelings and attitudes in her artwork, utilizing several, and mixed, techniques. Her paintings and drawings reflect her recognition of the emotions of danger, sadness and beauty.

Mary Pratt, Maryland, Winter 2019, painting/drawing Mary Pratt, a Georgia-based artist, is known for her impressionistic yet modern oil paintings that capture the world with a jovial poise. Her soft, ethereal palette is complemented by the occasional bright pop of color. The artist’s aesthetic choices are intuitive rather than premeditated. Through her gestural brushstrokes, Mary’s paintings summon a joyful, even childlike, emotional response. Her style is nuanced by a range of inspirations, including synergy from the state of Georgia. The personal edge that Mary brings to each painting alters and enhances recognizable subject matter, cultivating an imaginative visual experience.

John Lunar Richey, Maine, Fall 2018, poetry John Lunar Richey has poetry published in Rolling Stone and many literary magazines. Lunar often contributed to Long Shot, which now has every copy in the prestigious, Beat Museum in San Francisco. Lunar has also published erotica. Most notable publications are London's, The Best Of The Journal Of Erotica and The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, published by Carrol & Graf in both UK and USA. Click here to read more/less Lunar has read with New York's CBGB luminaries, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch, Jennifer Blowdryer, and Jim Carrol, author of The Basketball Diaries. Lunar's first gig with the experimental noise band, Machine Gun, was at CBGBs, and included a guest appearance by legendary, jazz guitarist, Sonny Sharrock. Machine Gun released multiple recordings which received favorable reviews from both Rolling Stone and Spin. Machine Gun's final performance was at the Netherlands, Avant Festival in the city of Groningen. Lunar's spoken word and music project, Lunar Bear Ensemble, released one recording, which was received well by college stations and listed that year, as the top ten in The College Music Journal. Lunar Ensemble, which followed, still performs and has released many recordings to favorable reviews. Recent publications are his book of poetry and songs, Dark Pastures and the most recent Lunar Ensemble CD entitled, Acts of Love.

Peter Myers, New Jersey, Winter 2018, music & poetry Peter Myers is a singer-songwriter whose career began with a music publishing contract and songwriting position at April/Blackwood, a music publishing division of CBS Music in New York City. During that time, Myers formed his own band based out of the Jersey Shore. The Peter Myers Band (PMB) began opening for national acts and working the showcase-club circuits of the Jersey Shore and New York City. Click here to read more/less Myers continued to focus on his solo career and has now become a recognized, acoustic music artist with three CD releases; Jigsaw Monet, Flying Dream and Family Portrait. Jigsaw Monet received the Top Award in the Folk/Americana category at the 2013 Jersey Acoustic Music Awards. Peter Myers is an independent, Folk/Americana, acoustic music artist available for house concerts, clubs, coffee houses, festivals. To learn more about Mr. Peter Myers visit www.petermyersmusic.com.

Manuel Ojea, Las Tunas, Cuba/Valencia, Spain, Summer/Fall 2017, painting To feel nostalgia is, in its strict sense, to notice a deep pain when remembering something that is no longer here: a person, the longing for a particular time or the place or origin of each one. To get used to it is to live constantly in the memory of an idyllic time. Click here to read more/less The gesture by Manuel Martinez Ojea refers to a particular melancholy, shaping a visually anachronistic poetic set that, in a symbolic way, makes us reflect on universal themes brought to the individuality of each being. Visually, his work may seem nice, but you only need to be a few seconds in front of it to suspect that the issues he deals with refer to existentialist principles. We enter, then, in a figurative almanac only suitable for those who make of memory their favourite pastime. Raquel Baixauli Department of the History of Arts, University of Valencia

Kyle Baker, Tennessee, Fall 2016, painting Kyle Baker was born in Nashville, Tennessee and has been scuzzin' and buzzin' for the better part of his life. He has traveled to many places throughout Europe and Asia, including spending a year in Vietnam. He now lives and works in Beijing, China.

Ulf Enhorning, Sweden, 2017 & 2017, painting, music, audio/video Ulf Enhorning, born in Stockholm, Sweden, grew up in Sweden, Canada and the United States. At an early age his grandmother, Louise Peyron, also a painter, introduced him to the works of old masters at galleries in Stockholm. She told him stories about their lives and also encouraged his interest to draw and sculpt his siblings. Salvador Dali was Ulf's greatest hero at this time, but when he later immigrated to Toronto with his family at the age of 15, he was greatly inspired by the mystical landscape paintings of Lawren Harris. Click here to read more/less At the age of 21, Enhorning was introduced to oil painting at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Later he studied briefly at the Victoria College of Art, Victoria, Canada, but did not stay long. During his twenties he experimented with colour discovering a vast world and means of expressing emotion and a simple but elegant technique for mixing shadow colours. In 1983, at the age of 27, Enhorning returned to Sweden retracing his roots. In Uppsala, he began a series of geometrical com-positions, exploring colour and its relative nature. In 1987, he had a solo exhibition in Toronto's Yorkville which he called "visual music". Later that same year, he returned to British Columbia where he continued to paint, write songs for voice and guitar, and study electronic music at the University of Victoria. He had previously worked with one of the first computer music systems in the world, the Structured Sound Synthesis Project (SSSP) at the University of Toronto. For Ulf's more complete bio, visit www.sommarmoln.com/bio.php.

Alesandra Valenzuela, Sebastian, Florida, 2016, music "I accomplished more in 2 weekends at STOUTHOUSE than I did in a year in my closet 'music studio'."

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