Mortazavi questions biases views towards nudity and its place in our societies. While the female body has become a place where power is exercised for conquest and control, She seeks to reconcile the body with nature and society.

Patricia Schappler creates psychologically complex oil paintings, along with graphite and mixed media drawings. Influenced by Baroque attention to light and form, and Eastern love of pattern, Schappler focuses on the human condition with themes of adolescence, motherhood, and the intimacy of partnerships. Native to New Hampshire, Schappler’s expressive narratives focus on body language and reflect her interest in family through the rituals of home…’across the world our environments from our wall hangings, to the flooring beneath us, to the colors and patterns we wear, become our objects of hope, central to our sense of self, home, and community.’

Marianna Foster was born in 1982 Nikolaev, Ukraine. She relocating to Phoenix, Arizona in 2012. In Ukraine she was classically trained, graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev with a Master of Arts degree. Prior to the Institute, she studied for five years at the Children's Art School in Nikolaev, Ukraine. In addition to classes, Marianna studied for two years painting and drawing privately with famous masters of Ukrainian and Russian art.

Erica Calardo is a figurative painter living and working in Italy. Her works in oils, watercolors, and pencils are windows on the solitude of lost souls. She explores the realm of Beauty, Grotesque, and Magic, by creating eery oneiric feminine figures who tell tales of long forgotten dreams, of an imaginary timeless past.

The New York painter John Hyland specializes in portraits and figure studies, though his oeuvre also includes still-lifes, floral studies and depictions of the land, the sea and the city. Whether the subject is a friend, a model or a flower, John’s paintings utilize color, form, light and line while exploring emotional and psychological beauty and truth. His decades-long background in journalism — as an editor at The New York Times and before that as a reporter and an editor at The Hartford Courant — has had an undeniable influence on his search for that truth. Like the stories he used to edit and write, the oil paintings he creates present a narrative that stays true to the subject at hand, as the story and the image become one.

Junyi Liu’s artworks are deeply rooted in her life experience. Her paintings reflect on trauma, mental illness, metaphors, romanticism, and pessimism. Women and food are two recurring subjects of her works, usually appearing together. Her paintings are characterized by rich colors, unusual compositions, and emotionally charged scenes.