There is no single way to understand an abstract piece; what we bring to it becomes part of the experience. Bold gestures, unexpected shapes, and wild pops of color invite us to let go of representation and respond instinctively. Big, loud, and always moving, PURE ABSTRACTION turns color into motion and motion into feeling. Together, these works celebrate abstraction as freedom, perception, and absolute visual energy.
PURE ABSTRACTION
Best of Show- Orbit
Director's Choice- Moves Through
Hayley Perry
mixed media collage, recycled clothing, wool, linen, paint
Swansea, Massachusetts
Director's Choice- Brain Blast
IT IS
Between What Remains
A Tall Order
Kate Stiassni
textile; improvisational cut, arranged, and stitched motifs
Salisbury, Connecticut
Idle Hands (Freak Flag)
Journal
Jamie Hirano
mixed media - textiles, paper, ink and paint
Anchorage, Alaska
Untitled #2
Lisa Lenox
water-miscible oils
Montgomery, Alabama
Distraction
Mind and Body
Ascend
Fire Fall
Kathy Sayad Zatari
mixed media
Paradise Vly, Arizona
RSA_01_LIGHT
Release
Paula Jacobson
color pencil and metallic ink on paper
Tacoma, Washington
CODE
Malcolm Ian Cross
acrylic, oil pastel, ink marker on stretched canvas
Los Angeles, California
Tangles
Out of Context (Boat Dock Lake Geneva)
I Dream of Mountains and Oceans
Victoria Charters
acrylic & household paint
Santa Barbara, California
Choose A Path & Go
New Directions-New Meaning
John James
mixed watermedia
Va Beach, Virginia
Rumination
Sparkling Coral
Veronica Hauresz
photography
Weston, Connecticut
City Beyond the Crossing
Alone Together
Fictional Matters: Morphologic Shifts No. 2
Deb A. Davis
open acrylics, wet-strength tissue, book images, Bristol
Toledo, Ohio
Dreamscape
Abstract 23
Marc Kemeny
watercolor
Fairfield, Connecticut
Orange You Glad
Gail Sacharczuk
oil and collage
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Looking Back
Wisdom of the Sage
Corridor Blues
Tumbled
Abstract I
I Feel Your Payne's
Semaphore
California Citrus
Oceanic Drift
Refraction V
Summer landscape
Cubist Cola
Dane Bass
photography
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Between the Green
The Coming Storm
Shoshanna Ehrlich
acrylic with collage elements
Brookline, Massachusetts
Marseilles
Swimming with my head in the clouds
This Not That
Sun and Moon 2
Ken Bishop
assemblage
Sonoma, California
Tropic of Abstract
Untitled #1009
Bone of My Bone
Dance of Crosses
The call of possibility
Ines Guemard
drawing
Toulouse, France
Chrysanthemum White
Feet First Multiple
Nebula #1
Garden Ramble 3
Homage to Klee
Tides
Monique Stanton
driftwood assemblage
Brooklyn, New York
Metamorphosis
Tom Gainer
photography
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Corners and Curves
Covid Diaries #1 "Gone People Gone"
Three Reds
Misty Rae Marshall
MDF, acrylic paint
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Emerging Star
Celebrating A New World
Jelly Bean Melt
Eclipse
John Diephouse
digital collage
Lansing, Michigan
The Fabric of Seeing
Gerrit van Ommering
photography
Gold River, California
Georgia
Dissolving Boundaries
Barbara Terris
photography
Lincoln, Massachusetts
Completely Still
Dorje Chang in Blue
Équilibre Fragile
Weathered Light
Tangent LXXXV
Catherine Eaton Skinner
encaustic, oil stick, encaustiflex paper, ink, on panel
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Before Memory
Blue Lotus
Brett Nickell
media fusion: aerosol, acrylic, graphite, collage, crayon
Vandalia, Ohio
Off Kilter
Shattered Dreams
424 Solstice
Silent-Renewal
Craig Zuckerman
3d art, metal print, dye sublimation process
White Plains, New York
