Through years of exploration, Alexis has developed a keen eye for landscapes, especially trees, and their ability to be translated into various art forms. Alexis uses a wide range of artistic medium not limited to, but including Indian ink, oil paint, and water color. After graduating Radford University with a Masters of Fine Arts in 2009, Alexis has taught art to children and adults alike, opened exhibitions, and is currently the Director of Gallery Flux in Ashland, VA.
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas is a visual artist living and working in Richmond, VA. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she received a BA in liberal arts from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Before moving to Richmond in August of 2013 to teach at VCU, Paloma was a Dean’s Scholar at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI where she earned an MFA in Printmaking. Her work adapts and appropriates the vernacular of the many regions she’s called home and traces the self-conscious search for cultural ro
After 25 years as a graphic designer and illustrator, Dan Michael began painting full-time in 2008. The majority of his work is produced on-site at locations near his home in Hanover County, Virginia. His approach to painting involves hundreds of scumbled strokes and marks of pigment, organized into patterns of shape and value, the result is a representation of reality. These arrangements of pastel marks go beyond a mechanical process, they are orchestrated to try and capture the elusive qualities of light