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  • Grasping For Air
    Acrylic on Fabric24
    Size: 24 x 18 x 3.5
    I am attracted to both the flow of fabric and the elements of construction that transform an unstructured surface into a sculptured form that fits a human body. Seams, edgings, buttons, zippers and all the other ways that cloth becomes clothing find their way into my current body of work. Like an abstract painting, my work emerges from a process of deconstructing and then reassembling the fractured elements from my collection of discarded clothing.
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  • Sculpture Grasping for Air 18 x 24 x 2 in. I am attracted to both the flow of fabric and the elements of construction that transform an unstructured surface into a sculptured form that fits a human body.  Seams, edgings, buttons, zippers and all the other ways that cloth becomes clothing find their way into my current body of work.  Like an abstract painting, my work emerges from a process of deconstructing and then reassembling the fractured elements from my collection of discarded clothing.  I hand stitch the garment fragments into a low relief sculpture, then solidify the surface by applying multiple layers of canvas priming gesso.  Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Alas . . . I Knew Him, Horatio Acrylic on Fabric Size of Piece: 13 x 12 x 4 I choose articles of clothing for my images in an intuitive manner. For this work, I dissected a man's dress shirt, then reassembled and stitched the pieces into a composition that felt aesthetically pleasing. I discovered that it reminded me of the scene where Hamlet contemplates the skull of Yorick. In this case the relic is an everyday article of clothing that may be resurrected in the future. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Grasping for Air Acrylic on Fabric Size of Piece: 24 x 18 x 3 I enjoy working with fabric, especially the intimate qualities associated with clothing. In this piece I captured the essence of an emotional drowning: The twisted garments and hands grasp for a way out of a socially and politically suffocating situation. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Acrylic, Oil pastel, Ink 2017 36 x 36 in    
  • Secrets White Carrara Marble Size of Piece: 18 x 22 x 20 Throughout her life, a woman receives confidences, and secrets that cannot be shared. She stores them within, little by little this bag of secrets becomes part of her. She is the guardian of thoughts and actions that must remain hidden. A heavy burden to carry. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Sculpture 5 x 9 x 7 in.  

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  • Sculpture 14.5 x 14.5 x 6" The vessel that carries hope, The promise of a better life, Globally overextended. To stay or abandon? To push or restrain? To think of me First Others maybe.

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  • Hey Will You Look At Her Now! Collage Size of Piece: 30 x 22 Framed Size: 33 x 25 Working in collage allows for free association. I use vintage periodical and book images to create discrete worlds merging image, color, and placement. I play with concepts and redefine reality, combining their elements intuitively sometimes with an idea of what I want to achieve and sometimes just letting the elements drive the image, one thing leading to another. There is always something of a surrealist element to collage, letting logic and reality go. In these two images, I tweak the idea of the "proper" woman to let the viewer know she may not be quite who you want her to be. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Women in the Sticks
    carved cedar with branches
    Size: 36 x 50 x 6.25 I work both 2 and 3 dimensionally and always with the female figure often layering the form with marks or in this case branches. These two figures represent my love of ancient forms, natural environments and are to allude to the spirits I encounter in the woods. Lastly, as a child I lived in a rural place, which my friends all called “the sticks” so I have come back full circle to my origins. The figures are carved cedar 5 x 5 x 36 inches and the branches reach and shroud and surround them. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Hand embroidered on linen
    8 x 7"
    Wildfires happen every year where I live in California. They are scary and even if they’re not too close by, the air gets polluted with ash and smoke. Panic was inspired by the ongoing wildfires the year this was made. Hand embroidery gives me options that other mediums do not. Sewing and growing an image, stitch by stitch, adds to its narrative. The long process of stitching an encroaching fire, roiling water, or a flooded landscape raises the drama. The process of hand embroidery is engrossing and exciting. Including the weave and textures of the background textile into the piece adds to the possibilities. The potential of this medium draws me into my studio every day.   Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • I Never Told Anyone Encaustic and Graphite on Carved Basswood Size of Piece: 65 x 60 x 60 My work has always been figurative and focuses on the negative impact of contemporary culture on women and girls' self-image and identity. I Never Told Anyone: is based on research and interviews with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. I carved these figures in wood from sketches I made from direct observation and from my imagination. Each piece refers directly to one individual narrative reiterating when the abuse started, I stenciled that age at the base of each piece, and distilled the titles down to that one word my subject kept repeating, I was so humiliated, I was so frightened, I am so ashamed, guilt, insult, injury, denial. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • photopolymer lithograph with chine collé 25 x 33"
    This piece is inspired by my mother’s loss of independence towards the end of her life. We exchanged letters and I used them as text over my image to cope with her circumstances and projection towards my own. I did some research into my background and based some of my texts on these family secrets; both mine and others. I explore the changing relationships of parenthood, family, identity, love and loss, and am always concerned with the downward social spiral I see around me. I find I use artmaking as a means of negotiating a way through some of the irreconcilable behaviors I encounter in myself and in the world around me.  
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  • monoprint with graphite 17 x 23"

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  • oil on linen 30 x 30 x 1.5"
    "When I paint, I feel content and, in a sense, complete. It's the process and the immediate nature of my painting that is satisfying. I painted "After Dark' from my memory of the field near home. I'm happy to have my landscape painting in the 135th NAWA exhibition to highlight the contemporary landscape genre. Partly, because, my inspiration comes from nature and my predecessors, Nell Blaine, Rosa Bonheur, Joan Mitchell, women landscape painters overlooked for their contribution. “- Lully Schwartz 2024  
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  • oil on linen 30 x 30" In the work titled 'Chapter One' a young child faces a group of animals. As I painted the colors became brighter and the subject matter representational rather than exacting. In the end I saw this to be a bit of an autobiographical piece as most of my work is. However, the narrative is open to interpretation.

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  • Oil on panel 7 x 13"
    I believe the connection between an artist and their viewer is possible through the recognition of familiar imagery. While presenting most challenges for the artist, traditional realism is the easiest way to ensure that connection. Realism is not a thing from the past that only belongs in museums but rather a clear, eloquent language that can get a contemporary message across, be serious or whimsical, humorous, or even playful.  
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  • graphite 27 x 23 x 1"
    The positive and negative spaces created by a chair in space intrigue me. Using the frottage technique, I am imagining these spaces as absorbing part of the energy of those who might sit in that chair, in a sense carrying a 'memory' of that person. The "#14" in the title refers to a particular bent wood style chair, now ubiquitous, first designed in 1859 in France and known since then as "Number 14."  
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  • Cut and Paste Encaustic Size: 12 x 12 I have used the chair as my motif of choice in most of my work, drawing on its use as a metaphor for the human being and human nature. The artwork "Cut And Paste" was created as I was thinking about how the chair travels; that no matter where we find ourselves, no matter the environment the chair will always be be there, marking our place. "Prototype" is heavily layered, scraped and collaged as I explored the basic shape and ubiquitous quality of the chair throughout the history of mankind. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Through the Hollow Wood
    Monotype: Acrylic on Sumi Paper and YUPO, Collage
    Size: 5.5 x 5.5
    I use stencils and masks which I have made from YUPO, a synthetic material, to use in creating monotype prints. The build up of color and pattern on the stencils/masks over time creates interest of its own which, in turn, adds an intriguing element when combined as a collage elements with my monotypes. I use a chair motif in much of my work as a metaphor for human feelings. The chair in this piece may suggest a sense of reflection or, perhaps, a journey, or something uniquely personal to the person viewing it.
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  • oil pastel on yupo 7.5 x 7.5" Using collage, I explore memory, perception and the layering of one upon the other. There is a layered history to the collage pieces used as they are remnants taken from another artwork. The nicks, smudges and reductive linework of these pieces are expanded upon, adding to the developing narrative. The chair is my motif of choice. As a ubiquitous presence in our day to day lives, it has rich metaphorical meaning. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • colored pencil 12 x 8 x 1" PeaceWood is from my Revealed series showing the beauty that can be found even among erosion.

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  • Legacy watermedia on arches wc paper
    Size: 15 x 21
    Watermedia allows me to explore the beauty of nature in all of its forms. The spontaneity, unpredictability, and serendipitous journey I take each time I layer watermedia motivates my continuous exploration of this unique medium. Incredible contrasts of light/dark, warm/cool, transparent and opaque reveal new patterns, symbols and shapes inviting further definition and mark making. I endeavor to discover new and unique combinations of watermedia. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • collage with mixed media 21 x 19"
    She-Tree is part of an ongoing series exploring the many roles of women as myth-makers, healers, storytellers, peacemakers, earth mothers and warriors. These mixed media dreamscapes are constructed on tactile substrates such as my paintings, handcrafted papers, fabrics, monoprints, photographs, antique books and wallpaper. Adding and subtracting the elements randomly, I then glue, sew, paint, and manipulate them into a slowly evolving composition. Layered with patterns and symbols, metaphor and archetypes I unite often- disparate worlds into new relationships—compositions and artworks that reveal the interconnectedness of nature, life, spirit and time.  
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  • watercolor 21 x 28 x 1" I am inspired by the mystery, magic and beauty of Mother Nature. Watermedia allows me to explore and interpret this theme intuitively. Layered with patterns and symbols, metaphor and archetypes, I unite often disparate worlds into new relationships-compositions and artworks that reveal the interconnectedness of nature, life spirit and time.

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  • Photoencaustic Jules Size: 24 x 18 Framed Size: 25 x 19 “Strong” and “Woman” These principles come together in Jules, my muse for a season. During this season of collaboration, Jules became an artist alongside me, using her body to share her story—our story as women—of resilience and choices made. For this piece, I chose monochrome to emphasize form and lines: her feminine jawline and curl given to her by nature combined with her powerful muscles developed by her choices. By combining the photograph with encaustic wax, I sought to combine the physicality of the wax and texture with the physicality of her presence and inner beauty. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Mixed Media Red Skirt 12 x 18 x 1 in. Movement, ecstasy, yearning-all are revealed in the dance! Fascinated, I find the dancer-art leading me to look at my creativity with new eyes. As a photographer, I start each piece with a camera, portraying an impressionist view of the dance. In this piece, I noticed details of her hand and her flaring skirt. I print and embed the image in encaustic wax, then listen to it tell its tale. As I spend time with it, I add encaustic wax to build layers, also using other media. This tactile approach connects me deeply to the work. This body of work has challenged me to grow as an artist and human. I feel myself asked to look into my very soul to rediscover the multiple facets of my own humanity. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Reverie
    photo-encaustic on wooden cradled panel
    Size: 16 x 12
    My dancer-muse paused after her stretch upward, seemingly to let the music flow around her. Movement catches my eye, and portraying this fluidity has become one of my overlying themes. After decades of photographing, I often see my world through the lens of a camera. In my more recent photo-encaustic work, I first portray my subject photographically. Then I more fully explore the image and its meaning, I add encaustic wax and build layers of layers of texture and depth.
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  • Explorer Acrylic on Paper Size of Piece: 20 x 15 Framed Size: 28 x 20 Madeleine Lord is a multimedia artist, with paintings, prints and welded steel sculptures public and private in her resume. The "Beach Walk" an acrylic on paper painting, was a reverie on couples when Lord was freshly divorced. Piggyback, an oil pastel drawing on an enamel steel oven side, was drawn from a photo of Lord with her then young daughter at a school picnic. "Time is on My Side" is a recent welded steel scrap work that sums up how Lord feels as she navigates her seventh decade. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Detainee Welded Steel Scrap Size of Piece: 40 x 26 This work is sadly timeless. The figure stooped with dismay, arms restrained is currently a growing statistic. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Piggyback Oil pastel on enamel steel oven side Size of Piece: 36 x 24 Madeleine Lord is a multimedia artist, with paintings, prints and welded steel sculptures public and private in her resume. The "Beach Walk" an acrylic on paper painting, was a reverie on couples when Lord was freshly divorced. Piggyback, an oil pastel drawing on an enamel steel oven side, was drawn from a photo of Lord with her then young daughter at a school picnic. "Time is on My Side" is a recent welded steel scrap work that sums up how Lord feels as she navigates her seventh decade. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Refugee Family Welded Steel Scrap Size of Piece: 25 x 27 Much of my work is a series I call "talking back to the news." The upright scrap of a sidewalk grill started this one, and the family followed. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • Winter Lilac
    woodcut print, artist proof
    Size: 30 x 25
    One winter the ancient lilac framed by the window over the kitchen sink was dramatic when covered with fresh snow. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • welded steel scraps 30 x 12 x 12" This figure is the first in a series of ten that I started in 2021. I am concerned about families in flight - cloaked in dignity and hope under impossible conditions. Garments in tatters are implied by steel scraps, long legs bowed head indicate a will to continue. I believe art may give the viewer a chance to pause and consider stories in the world that are difficult, that it helps us see through the cracks of the world we live in, and instills empathy.

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  • oil 10 x 10" All I ever wanted to be was smaller. I’ve found refuge from this compulsive desire by allowing myself space in the work. In my body of work, autobiographical paintings depict tender moments from my day to day life. Portraits of my partner and I provide queer representation void of hyper sexualized or traumatic imagery, with this I begin to disrupt heteronormative narratives, and provide images of queer joy. In focusing on the figure through a queer feminine gaze I create colorful and carefully composed oil paintings that allow bodies that are often asked to shrink, a place to be vulnerable and take up space. Candid photos often acting as my source material allow insecurities to penetrate the most loving of works. Through eye level and framing the casual nature of the references invites the viewer in as a participant rather than a voyeur. There is sympathy and authenticity to the rendering of each subject, with careful consideration put into capturing the volume of the forms. My emphasis is always on the sense of touch, creating works that are tender and where each push and pull of the skin is felt. Thoughtfully placed line and vivid color works to exploit the most tense areas of the work, helping each to feel uncomfortably intimate.   Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • photography/digitally enhanced
    12 x 10 x 2"
    Nature has always provided my soul with comfort and peace. I seek those moments to be present in a natural environment to experience joy. Visiting a nearby park with the it’s blossoming cherry trees offered me an opportunity to capture a fleeting moment of solace and enchantment.   Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • oil on canvas 40 x 30" Summer 2022, I spent time in Roussillon, France. Roussillon has been the major source of ochre pigment for thousands of years. I walked the ochre quarry paths and filled a sketchbook with drawings. These colorful paintings reflect the excitement I felt.

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  • New Heaven
    digital print on metal
    Size: 18 x 24 As a digital fine artist, my primary focus is on conveying biblical context through the use of flower characters.By integrating divine words with the form of flowers, I create a unique blend of art and spirituality. My work is further enhanced by the simulated backgrounds, which serve as a stage for the spiritual imagery drama I aim to portray. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • digital art on metal 24 x 18 x 1"
    Often my artwork is inspired by divine beauty of flowers, and I use them to explore spiritual themes. I aim to connect viewers with the power of biblical words through the motif of flowers. The artwork Spiritual Thirst is a visual interpretation of biblical words through the flower image. I digitally created this piece by arranging cut tulips on the lifeless place surrounded by water droplets. The tulips represent our yearning for the living water that Jesus offers us for eternal life.  
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  • Digital Art on Metal 2020 30 x 22 in  
  • digital art on metal print 30 x 24 x 1" My artwork is a pictorial depiction of abstract words in spiritual concepts through the use of flower forms. By utilizing a central floral motif, I create digital images that place the flowers in a simulated environment, conveying the spiritual ideas and materializing them through digital alterations. For the artwork "Spiritual Birth," I chose a tropical flower that I captured in a photo on a trip to Florida. Its striking shape and vibrant colors inspired in me the idea of a spiritual awakening, which is an essential component of spiritual rebirth.

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  • Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 24 x 1.5"
    The vast distance and rich smell of the lavender fields entice the viewer to become immersed in the beauty of Provence. It invites the viewer to move through the fields to a distant place of openings and new beginnings.

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  • Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 24 x .75"
    The mountains and ponds of Acadia National Park extend an invitation to the viewer to explore and make new discoveries. By looking to the horizon and taking steps toward the future, one can experience forward movement towards a new destination. In taking a bold step forward, one can discover the pathway to new experiences and opportunities.

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  • bronze 4 x 14 x 17"
    A country, locality, or situation in which cultural assimilation results in blending the heritage and traditions of previously distinct ethnic groups. Yes, America has been labeled a melting pot of society, we encompass all colors, religions, nationalities to become a cohesive society, but our history also speaks of something else. A time when not all people who came to this country were treated the same, when people were spit upon, enslaved, and treated as second class citizens. We have spent the past few hundred years trying to rectify that mistake. We falter, some never learn, and when you put people with so many different ideas, beliefs together there beg to be differences. Will we ever.  
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  • bronze
    8 x 7 x 6" Maidy Morhous expresses herself through the medium of bronze which allows her to portray the extremes of the soft flow of water to the harsh asphalt pavement of our world. The artwork encompasses the pop theme of presenting commonplace objects as fine art. It is meant to engage the viewer and allow them to contemplate and pull from within, and for a moment disengage from the outside world. Referred to as contemporary still life sculptures Morhous continually searches to portray her environment in the world today. These sculptures expose the view to and pull them in to react and question what is being viewed – be it life and one’s existence, the world’s plight or just to bring a smile. Idiomatic titles prompt metaphorical interpretations to these works with hints at multilayered meanings.
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  • bronze
    10 x 7 x 7" Maidy Morhous expresses herself through the medium of bronze which allows her to portray the extremes of the soft flow of water to the harsh asphalt pavement of our world. The artwork encompasses the pop theme of presenting commonplace objects as fine art. It is meant to engage the viewer and allow them to contemplate and pull from within, and for a moment disengage from the outside world. Referred to as contemporary still life sculptures Morhous continually searches to portray her environment in the world today. These sculptures expose the view to and pull them in to react and question what is being viewed – be it life and one’s existence, the world’s plight or just to bring a smile. Idiomatic titles prompt metaphorical interpretations to these works with hints at multilayered meanings.
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  • Tethered
    bronze sculpture
    Size: 18 x 14 x 3
    Decisions are made every day, but depending on the hierarchy we make them or are merely those who orchestrate them. Our arms are tied by those who dictate the rules and our lives. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  
  • bronze 6 x 8 x 6" In 2017 a man opened fire upon a crowd that were attending an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada. The people ran to escape but were caged in by the barriers that were installed to prevent non paying customers from entrance - they were basically sardines in a can, unable to escape the onslaught of gun fire. "Child Proof? was created with the Las Vegas shooting in mind; although not carried out by a child our country has since experienced far too many gun killings.... and now even by children.

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