Kathryn Lucia is an artist living and working in the Hudson Valley and the North Shore of Long Island NY. Inspired by the relationship between domestic and natural landscapes, she photographs ambiguous narratives in both settings, attributing motifs of loneliness, tension, bizarreness and wonder. Her artwork results in the intimate search for beauty in the bleakness. Lucia's work has been shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY; The Shirt Factory in Kingston, NY; and she was this year's cover artist for the January issue of Awosting Alchemy.

Julie Pamkowski's work is influenced by the media's power to shape mass consciousness and its ability to alter perception in regards to social, political and personal identity. She uses personal and appropriated material to address the damaging toll this has had on the human psyche, body and soul. Appropriated images are created by photographing YouTube videos with a point and shoot camera. These amateur videos provide her with raw material that documents contemporary American culture. Pamkowski has exhibited at venues such as ZieherSmith in New York City and The Shirt Factory in Kingston, NY; and she is the 2011 recipient of the Luigi and Anita Traverso Photography Scholarship.

Visit our artists' web sites: Kathryn Lucia, Julie Pamkowski.