Hungh’s paintings fluctuate between the sweet and the grotesque, as she takes auspicious imagery out of traditional context into perverse landscapes where naughty children assume adult behavior, and where objects have a life of their own. There is a tension being played out of when visual metaphors and symbols perform an allegory that can become meaningful omens, or can become cute commodified objects purchased in Chinatown.

Laura Krifka

makes paintings, sculptures and videos that dissect common fantasies of power and identity dealing with fantasies of beauty and nobility, myth, power, identity, seduction and the American dream. Her work explores the relationship of light and dark through a range of influences from art history to fairyland all with a post-modernist twist. Her investigations reveal a landscape where fantasies and clichés of the western world can combine and breed, creating a sublime and sinister world that reflects the oddity of our own.

Naida Osline

Naida Osline is a photo-based artist living in Southern California who has had an abiding interest in the transformative, mythical and ethereal nature of existence. Using digital photography as her primary medium, she combines and manipulates images to explore a number of themes related to biological processes, documentary photography, cultural anthropology, and the natural world in tension with the synthetic or human-engineered. More recently the mystical, social anthropology and personal identity. Each series evoke ideas about identity, power, representation, gender, fame, beauty, aging and fashion.