Maddie Saunders

Maddie’s work deals with human nature, body image, and finding both meaning and humor in life’s mundane moments.

Title: Dinner With Marcy
Caption: Part of an ongoing mixed media comic project.
Description: Ink, colored pencil, and collage.
Title: Happy Girl
Caption: Illustration for a personal project
Description: Digital
Title: banana boy
Caption: Illustration for Costume Design
Description: digital
Title: One
Caption: Illustration from the Children's Book Silly Numbers
Description: Digital
Title: One
Caption: Illustration from the Children's Book Silly Numbers
Description: Digital
Title: Counter
Caption: Illustration for a personal project
Description: Digital
Title: Freddie
Caption: Illustration
Description: Digital
Title: House
Caption: Plein Air
Description: Gouache
Title: Guitar Girl
Caption: Puppet and guitar made for Stop Motion Animation
Description: Clay, Sewn, made with love
Title: Suspicious Girl
Caption: Illustration for a Comic
Description: Brush Pen with Digital Color
Title: Oh Happy Day!
Caption: Illustration and Typography for a Greeting Card
Description: Brush Pen and Digital
Title: Mr. Monkey
Caption: This Mr. Monkey hand puppet is bananas for bananas.
Description: Sewn fleece and cotton.

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www.maddie-art.com/
mersaunders@gmail.com
818.653.8046

HI-HO! I'm Maddie! I was born and raised in bright n' sunny California. I majored in Illustration and fine art and graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 2017. My work has been shown at galleries throughout LA including Pop Secret Gallery, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, GR2, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, and others. I am skilled in both digital and analog media, including sewing and printmaking. I'm inspired by all things kitsch, retro, and wonky. My work deals with human nature, body image, and finding both meaning and humor in life’s mundane moments.

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Preston Craig

Painting and drawing allows me freedom to address some of the social ills that plague our modern society and to paint what I feel, not necessarily what I see. Having grown up in a rural setting and having had opportunities to travel and live overseas, I decided to paint what I saw in my mind’s eye while referencing what I experienced around me.
The nature of my work is that through the use of varied imagery, classical and digital painting techniques and humor, I sometimes utilize teddy bear images to address contemporary, social issues that are relevant and that affect the human race on a physical and spiritual level. Some paintings are a result of investigating my Native American roots (Choctaw), while others are a result of my spiritual quest and studies in Jungian symbology, Shamanic practices and Aboriginal Dreamtime myth. Through my Twisted Teddys” series and other imagery, I hope the viewer is inspired to be more aware of their global connections to each other and to take personal responsibility for effecting positive change in society.
I’ve worked with drug addicts, the homeless, victims of sexual abuse, young people who have been incarcerated, and have friends in the porn industry so I have definitely seen some of the seedier side of life. I’ve seen how people can make a bad decision and get trapped in that decision. They are unable to figure out how to get out of the situation in which they find themselves. With that in mind, my artistic goal is that I aspire to achieve positive social change with my art.

Title: AlasFairTeddy
Caption: Alas Fare Teddy
Description: The image was inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and targets suicide prevention.
Title: BodybuilderTeddy1
Caption: Bodybuilder Teddy
Description: This image addresses the prevalence of sports enhancing drugs in our society.
Title: GangstaTeddy1
Caption: Gangsta Teddy
Description: This image addresses not only the loss of innocence but how that innocence can be twisted.
Title: HomelessTeddy
Caption: Homeless Teddy
Description: This image addresses the plight of the homeless and how they are viewed by society.
Title: RedneckTeddy
Caption: Redneck Teddy
Description: This image addresses racism and bigotry in our society and how that is passed on to our children.
Title: CruciTeddy
Caption: Cruci Teddy
Description: This image addresses the theme of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children. The teddy bear is an iconic image of childhood innocence. Christ on the cross is a premiere image of innocence sacrificed. When a child is abused, their innocence is sacrificed.
Title: CruciTeddy
Caption: Cruci Teddy
Description: This image addresses the theme of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children. The teddy bear is an iconic image of childhood innocence. Christ on the cross is a premiere image of innocence sacrificed. When a child is abused, their innocence is sacrificed.
Title: CruciTeddy
Caption: Cruci Teddy
Description: This image addresses the theme of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children. The teddy bear is an iconic image of childhood innocence. Christ on the cross is a premiere image of innocence sacrificed. When a child is abused, their innocence is sacrificed.
Title: BookCover
Caption: The Goggle-Eyed Green Hairy Monster and Me
Description: Book cover I designed for a children's book
Title: HairyMonsterPage5
Caption: The Goggle-Eyed Green Hairy Monster and Me.
Description: (Interior illustration) of The Goggle-Eyed Green Hairy Monster and Me.
Title: S Stotzer
Caption: Okay, You Have My Attention
Description: Commissioned piece for a promoter of AA.
Title: MurderbyGaslamp
Caption: Murder by Gas Lamp
Description: Jack-the-Ripper prowls the dark streets of London.
Title: ShadowsintheDarkness9x12
Caption: Shadows in the Darkness
Description: A Queen under the sea, surveys her empire and ponders the threat of impending evil. Illustration for a Sci-Fy magazine

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Angela Hsieh

Title: The Cavioliths
Description: The Caviolith mountain range is a curious and oft-overlooked geozoological phenomenon. Despite its unique formations, research potential, and undeniable charm, it is often bypassed in favor of the charismatic Anuran Falls to the south. In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate the Cavioliths in depth, but much of it still remains a mystery; navigation is tricky, and maps must be updated each time one of its formations awakens to wander to a new location. Cavioliths are docile by nature and tolerate human presence. If you plan to visit during feeding season, make sure to bring earplugs to protect your hearing, as pre-feeding wheeking can reach thunderous levels.
Title: NPR: International Adoption
Description: For a piece on NPR about an adoptee's journey to find her biological family.
Title: NPR: Book Concierge
Title: NPR: Best Albums of 2018
Title: NPR: Green Spaces
Description: For a episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the restorative power of natural spaces.
Title: NPR: The Cassandra Curse
Description: For an episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the psychology of warnings.
Title: NPR: Horror Readers Poll
Description: Created for NPR's callout for submissions to their yearly summer reader poll.
Title: Doujiang Youtiao
Description: When it comes to doujiang youtiao, the food itself—a steaming bowl of fresh soy milk and a crispy-on-the-outside-fluffy-on-the-inside stick of fried dough—is of course the main attraction, but the ambience is just as much a part of the experience. To wit: no doujiang youtiao breakfast is truly complete without you almost wiping out as you slide your way back to your table over tiles slicked with decades of fryer oil while a group of a-ma argue politics in a corner.

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Chuck Grieb

Be careful what you say to your children. Watching Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts with his father, four year old Chuck Grieb asked how the skeletons “came alive”. His father’s answer, “They got skinny actors” led the boy to a quest for the truth and a lifelong love for the fantastic.

Inspired by old stories, the world around him, and many artists who have come before Chuck Grieb enjoys creating fantastical imagery.

Currently a full time teacher, Chuck continues to create art and animation, pursuing his love for storytelling and the magic he felt when seeing Ray Harryhausen’s skeletons come alive. Most recently, Chuck has been exploring illustrative art, his work having been featured in esteemed publications including Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Infected By Art, and Exposé.

Title: DogFight_ChuckGrieb
Caption: Dogfight
Description: Hummingbird riders battle in the skies with Goblins in their steam powered fliers. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
Title: Beowulf_TheMere_ChuckGrieb
Caption: The Mere.
Description: Beowulf descends to battle Grendel's mother. Selected to be published in Spectrum 23. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
Title: Arcturus_ChuckGriebSILA
Caption: Arcturus - A Garden Clan Knight
Description: Oil on panel
Title: LizardMorning_ChuckGriebSILA
Caption: Lizard Rider Greets the Morning
Description: Oil on panel.
Title: Beowulf_InAToughSpot_ChuckGrieb
Caption: In a Tough Spot
Description: Beowulf and Wiglaf confront the Dragon. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
Title: TuckersRace_SILA
Caption: Tucke'rs Race! Faerie's race their winged steeds. Painted in Casein on 300 lb HP watercolor paper.
Title: Discovery_WM_SILA
Caption: Rabbit faeries stumble upon unexpected ruins.
Title: InHisFootSteps_ChuckGrieb_SILA
Caption: Tanner Longfoot teaches his son, Lucky, how to shoot a bow.
Title: Squire_ChuckGrieb
Caption: Squire
Description: Hummingbird rider squire. Selected to be included in Infected By Art 5
Title: SleepyTroll_ChuckGriebSILA
Caption: Lucky and Tavi stumble upon a sleeping troll.
Description: Oil on paper
Title: HummigBirdRidersLand_SILA
Caption: The Hummingbird Riders Land
Description: The Hummingbird Riders land to be greeted by the rabbit faeries.

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