Let’s celebrate the imperfections in art, where every flaw tells a story, and every mistake launches us into the unpredictable beauty of the creative journey. BEYOND THE SCARS invites us to stop and reflect on the raw and the real, pushing us to rethink what perfection means. These works highlight the charm of irregularities and asymmetries, turning so-called defects into striking focal points. Within these stories, emotions, and scars, we find a raw vulnerability that uncovers the true beauty in it all.
BEYOND THE SCARS
Best of Show- Dissolution
Erin Zerbe
blown glass vessel with text from divorce papers superimposed
Lakewood, Washington
Director's Choice- Vertical Landscape #6 [Ruined Emulsion Series]
Director's Choice- Untitled
I am not a Greek Vase
Untitled
After the Fire: Water Damaged Film, Self-Portrait with Riple
Psychotic, Depressed, and All The Rest
Forlorn
Lyrin Bailey
tattoo ink, pen, pencil, acrylic on bristol board
East Setauket, New York
The 2010 Dodge Challenger
Taking Responsibility for Your Part in the Conflict
Rebecca Talbot
ceramic and quilted prints
Nacogdoches, Texas
Riviera Faul Lines (Cannes Shadows in Wenz)
Thomas Carroll
photography
Wilton, Connecticut
Baby Belly
Daughter: Heavy burden, gentle heart
Michael Prater
charcoal on paper
Muncie, Indiana
(W)hole
For Your Eyes Only (Daguerreotype Disaster)
John Diephouse
photography
Lansing, Michigan
Carya glabra
Katie Simmons
ballpoint pen, pignut hickory bark dye
Loveland, Colorado
Incarnate
Ashley Smith
fabric, embroidery floss, gauze
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
Mr. & Mrs.
Pericardium
TELL ME ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU
Maritza Ranero
enamel and varnish on watercolor paper
Hyde Park, Massachusetts
Glue Skin #2
Trapped
Heel
The Longing
The Importance of Scars 9
Shelley Baird
construction: mended tarps, screenprinted with dyes, paints
Columbus, Ohio
Remains of the Day #2
SIBLINGS
Transformation
Eric Lintala
cast bronze
West Wareham, Massachusetts
Topography of Temperament #18
armour for your innocence
Sofia Bongarzone
plastic doll with tattoo ink and metalwork
Chicago, Illinois
Jezebel
Heather Newton Brown
encaustic, found metal, shellac burn, india ink
Casco, Maine
Scatter the Scars
Colleen Couch
handmade abaca paper, bailing wire, dandelion seeds
Memphis, Tennessee
You must believe in spring #04
train of life
Karl Pont
photography
Koblach, Austria
Imperfect #1
Vista of Serenity
Infinite Balance
Australian Fires
Wake Up
Coco Maya
acrylic painting, oil pastels, acrylic pencil on canvas
Studio City, California
Shifting Perspectives
Broken tradition I
Begoña Herranz
ceramic, glaze, metal
Spring, Texas
Oxala
ContreCarré.e.s
Chantal Tichit
recovered objects in wood and metal, fabrics, paper
Montigny Les Cormeilles, France
Lana Medium Retinal Burn
Poppie
Kara Donatelli
maps, paper mache, plaster, string
Lubbock, Texas
Reality Check
Michelle Ryan
glass
Springfield, Illinois
Estrangement 02
Just a Phase
Otherworldly
Once Upon A Time
Waterville #34
Save the Best for Last
Abe
Great and small, Greenville arising from the Dixie Fire
Entropy 1
Serena Buschi
Kitakata and Gampi paper, ink, sari silk, yarn, thread
Bedford, New York
Still life with stitched fruit
Seasonal Poetry
Christina Hammond
acrylic, mixed media, graphite, plaster on board
Tucson, Arizona
Unbalanced Load
Madame Récamier
Accidental
Displaced. Fragments in the Diaspora
Why
Lydian - One Note Higher
Twist
TAKEMEWITHYOUPLEASE
Peeling Tasmania
Sensible rebellion
Look at the Eye
Gray
Patrick Perry
oil
Evanston, Illinois