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Jeremy Hush draws from a wealth of sources and influences. An avid world traveler, and a recognized initiate of the heavy metal and punk scenes, Hush has been creating work for zines and bands for years. His work is haunting and beautiful, wild and chaotic, dark and saturated, but entirely unique. Influenced by the linear styles of 19th century prints and drawings, Hush’s pieces feel like Grimm fairy tales, in the most visceral way possible. They are raw but meticulous, conveying both and ancient solemnity, and the guttural impulses of a nightmare. Website

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Joe Keinberger's work is largely influenced by mythology, folklore, classic horror films and an appreciation for the dark and macabre that can only be instilled by growing up through many a New England autumn. He uses a variety of media and techniques in his pieces, resulting in explorations of textural surface involving drawing, painting, sanding, scratching and carving. He presents these ghosts, demons and devils as they are: complicated beings with secrets to hide and protect, and histories forged in chains that bind them to the melancholy of the mortal world. Website

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Ellie Livingston's goal in creating artwork is to put on paper the bizarre inner world that has swirled in her mind since childhood. She combines her radical love of nature, her childish heart, and her fascination with the surreal and the terrifying to create a world where pain and sadness coexist with beauty and humor. She aims to show tenderness in the bizarre and haggard through depicting broken, misunderstood—but fundamentally good—creatures and the beautiful and wild worlds they live in. Website

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Max Moon creates objects and text at the meeting place of play and magical thinking. As a classically trained master of none, Max is a game designer, educator, writer, printmaker, musician, and blasphemer. Regardless of media, their work seeks to erode the rational mind fertilizing it for imaginative play. Website

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Nathan Reidt's figurative works, sometimes depicting the forms of what are still recognizably people (albeit covered in growths, protrusions, and fleshy abnormalities), and other times bringing to life altogether more unusual beings, peel away at our conceptions of what being beautiful truly means. Rendered with an obvious love and attention to detail, Reidt’s creations skillfully toy with his audience’s emotional alliances creating a tug of war between the opposing sides of repulsion and attraction. Website

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Arik Moonhawk Roper attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1991-1995 specializing in cartooning, illustration, and screen printing. He began his early career primarily working with bands creating album art for cds and records for which he developed a devoted following. He soon moved into storyboarding for commercial and ad agencies, then onward into animation design, book and magazine illustration, visual design for music industry artists, and art direction for creative groups and game companies. Roper’s work encompasses a diverse field of design and distinct style, ranging from black and white illustration, to meticulous lettering and logo design, to rich abstract psychedelic color and landscapes that often seem to exist in their own universe. The imagery springs from the depths of a fertile imagination, invoking psychedelic visions, ancient dreams, and idyllic natural environments. With an interest in mythology, consciousness, psychology, religion and other timeless subjects, Roper mixes the light and the dark within his art to reveal imagery which is at once strangely unique, distantly familiar and always soaked with an earnestly fantastic aesthetic. Website

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Saprophial is an ink illustrator. She depicts wishes. Thanks to a tendency towards elaborate, skeletal, lyrical, and grotesque imagery, she works often—happily—in the metal scene. Website

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Janaka Stucky is an author, publisher, lifelong RPG player, and founder of the Chaotic Good Dance Party. The publisher of indie press Black Ocean, he is also the author of a few books. His work has been featured in VICE, The Believer, BOMB Magazine, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. He teaches classes on ritual and the creative process—and has spoken about the occult at NYU's Occult Humanities Conference, Necronomicon in Providence, and the Texts & Traditions Colloquium in Seattle. Website