Emanation: Beyond Our Dreams
Featured Artists
Keith Garubba
Keith Garubba creates spirited abstract visual artworks on paper, glass, and panel to inspire playful contemplation. Formally trained as a printmaker, he uses graphic techniques to build colorful worlds of pattern.
Garubba was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1987. He fell in love with storytelling early, surrounded by brothers and friends who were collaborators in comic book and video projects. Drawing became his voice. At Keystone College he studied visual arts, meeting mentors who inspired his curiosity and gave him a foundation of principles and craft. He graduated from Keystone College as the Outstanding Graduate in 2010. In 2014, he earned his Masters of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University, where his mind was opened to contemporary ways of working and ideas that would fuel work for years. The artist returned to Pennsylvania that year, where he built his studio and began working in the Lehigh Valley, creating his artwork and teaching art in all contexts and all ages. Garubba was awarded the Arts Ovation Award as Emerging Artist of the Year by the Allentown Arts Commission in 2016; he felt he had a home-base for his art, and a community in which he could grow.
His works are exhibited regularly throughout the US. He holds leadership roles in regional arts organizations, and recently served as President of the Printmakers Society of the Lehigh Valley from 2018 to 2022. Visiting higher education institutions across the country as a visiting artist offering talks and workshops is one of his honors and joys. He is a resident artist at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, where he holds a studio, participates in community activities, and teaches private lessons. Garubba continues to make work in marbled paper, glass, printmaking, paint, multimedia installations, and interactive performance.
Garubba's Midnight Pilgrim project is mixed-media creations aiming to capture the aesthetic experience of the night drive, and imbue the driving activity with romance and importance. The Zen of the road speaks to the mind and the soul on a meditative level at times. The moving body, lulled by the hum of the road, carried in the cocoon-like chariot that is the modern car, prepares for its destination while active in its course. A fever dream of reds in a dark field fills the mind, spiraling to meaninglessness while surely a sign that other travelers are out there, with destinations of their own. It is a reminder: no matter how personal our journey may feel, we are never quite alone
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Tammy Kushnir
Tammy Kushnir has been an artist her whole life. She finds her passion in her creations. She originally studied art history at Temple University with the intention of working in an auction house. Instead, she decided to stay home with her children and raise them shortly after getting married. While staying home with them, she discovered a love of mixed media art. Having only drawn her whole life, working with various objects to create keepsake boxes and book art was an amazing challenge and helped get her into many publications and write two crafts books. As her boys got older, she began going back to drawing and introducing painting to her palette as she created digital art. She began working with various licensing companies and started creating for Oopsy Daisy, ElephantStock and Mixtiles.
In 2017, she got serious about painting after visiting Alaska. Painting mainly animals, she has now expanded that to abstract landscapes vacillating from dark to light. Working mainly in acrylics, she also enjoys going back to the roots of mixed media, incorporating ink, colored pencils, modeling paste, and other textures into her creations.
Her artwork has won awards and has been seen in various brick- and -mortar and online gallery shows.
She is currently represented by M &H Custom Framing in Warminster, PA, JRB Art At the Elms in Oklahoma City, OK, Gallery 50 Contemporary Art & Frame Shop in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Wilde Meyer Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, Joseph Gierek Fine Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, Aeon Gallery in Richmond, IL and, Graphite Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. She resides in North Wales, PA.
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Julia Lundy
"The question of how we understand the human experience is a complex and significant force that influences my artistic practice. In order to interpret this, I create oil paintings that depict our reality as a constitution of affairs that cumulate to form our perspectives. These pieces are reflective of the various levels of connection that humans experience with themselves, between one another, and with their environment. Stylistically, I harness qualities of realism alongside heightened elements of space, color, and form to portray intimate, figurative scenes involving entanglements of human anatomy and observations of behavior. Placing these figures into a surreal space, I experiment in depicting the ways in which people interacting with the world around them can influence our understanding of the human experience. Motivated by the conflict between reality and our understanding of it, my paintings are based on subjective perspectives that are highly influenced by the variability in perception and connection."
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Rob DiTeodoro
"Raising people’s vibrations with my art!"
I am an artist and lover of life. A dedicated husband and father of four awesome children, I am inspired by my kid’s enthusiasm and curiosity for life and nature. I am also an ex-Marine and Combat veteran and I apply that same discipline earned in the Marine Corps to my practice of creation.
My art is very playful and uplifting and is meant to bring a smile to your face. With harmonious color schemes and fluid lines, these one-of-a-kind pieces are sure to keep your eyes and mind moving. My first love was drawing and I have stayed true to a very illustrative style, focusing on original characters and abstract shapes. I mainly work with acrylic on canvas, but have also painted several large-scale outdoor murals for the HUE Fest, organized by the City of Houston.
In addition to painting, I hold a BFA in Graphic Design from West Chester University and have created many graphics and logos over the years.
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