Original painting. Artist: MacKenna Hanson Medium: Gouache and colored pencil on board Year: 2026 Framing: Framed

Drawn in one sitting with no underdrawing like The Player, Handkerchief is both a visual pun and a profound investigation of how hands portray personality and...

A screenshot of an Instagram conversation with a friend, complaining about a paycheck, rendered in wax pastel. The face is Homelander, from the television series The...

The act of “making” is an answer to many of my problems. The main one being, preparation. I intend to continue to teeter the line of...

The act of “making” is an answer to many of my problems. The main one being, preparation. I intend to continue to teeter the line of...

The act of “making” is an answer to many of my problems. The main one being, preparation. I intend to continue to teeter the line of...

Artist Statement The act of “making” is an answer to many of my problems. The main one being, preparation. I intend to continue to teeter the...

The act of “making” is an answer to many of my problems. The main one being, preparation. Within my current body of work there is a strong...

The upstairs of the artist's childhood home in Wytheville, painted from memory. Part of the body of work that became Bemused, which draws throughout on the...

Felting is violent work. The wool is driven into raw canvas with a barbed needle, thousands of times, until the fibers lock into the weave and...

Mantle Sculpture Mixed media, found materials such as Skulls, Antlers, Wood Mantle Backing, West Virginia License Plate Evidence is a compact but forceful mantle sculpture that...

Mantle Sculpture Mixed media This is a real taxidermic buck, mounted by Powers' brother. Powers told me his brother did a shotty DIY job and gave...

This Still life began when a friend brought over her Teletubby and the two arranged a still life to study. The playful subject transforms a traditional...

Reflects on the people who have passed through and inhabited a particular place. The work considers the traces people leave behind, exploring presence, memory, and the...

Reflects a deeply personal experience of self-discovery in the natural world. Set against the landscape of the Falls of Dismal, the work explores the connection between...

Explores the feeling of being alone in the fog. Through oil on canvas, Lily Formato captures the quiet isolation and uncertainty of moving through a landscape...