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