Summer Flower

Julie Scheyer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates the invisible systems that shape our lives—biological, technological, and psychological.

With a background in chemical engineering, she sculpts in epoxy resin using advanced techniques rarely possible without laboratory training.

Later at Intel Corporation, she observed how security systems and corporate infrastructure shape behavior. She was awarded a U.S. patent during her tenure.

These institutions planted the foundation for her artistic practice. The constant surveillance of always being watched, now everywhere in our daily lives, is a concern when we consider who is watching whom.

Now based in Maui and Hood River, she is also a competitive wing surfer, completing open-ocean crossings between Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Oahu. Even on the sea—under satellites and drones—she finds rare solace in the absence of human eyes.

Upcoming exhibition: Answer As Question, Columbia City Gallery’s 17th Annual Juried Exhibition—curated in partnership with the Seattle Art Museum. Recent exhibitions include: Best of the Gorge 2025 (Columbia Center for the Arts), Boundless Green – 2025 (Exhibizone), Boundless Blues & Out Where-2025 (Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art), Eye on All-2025 (Gallerium), Flowing Flower-2025 (Las Lagunas Art Gallery)

This series is about the feeling of being alive under full sun. Saturated. Seen. Seduced by color. And maybe—just maybe—falling in love with the way color and light touch everything.

Made with layered epoxy resin, pigments, and metallic powders. These resin sculptures pulse with summer’s intensity—heat, color, and Love!

Summer Flower Autumn Leaves

Jason Shih was born in 1972 in Lukang Town, Taiwan, which is renowned for its traditional crafts. He relocated to Taipei City during his school years and attended art classes at Minzu Elementary School, Minglun Junior High School, and Zhongzheng High School. In 1991, Jason enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of the National Taipei University of the Arts, studying sculpture under Professor Lee Kuang-yu and graduating in 1996. Following his military service, he pursued further education at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, USA, studying metal sculpture under Leonard A. Urso at the School for American Crafts, where he earned his MFA degree in 2001. Subsequently, he served as an assistant to renowned New York metal sculptor Albert Paley, gaining valuable experience in metal crafts and large-scale public art.

Returning to Taiwan in 2002, Jason embarked on a prolific career in public art. Over the next two decades, he completed over 80 large-scale public art projects in Taiwan. His international engagements included residencies at the Wangsan Kaitian Festival in South Korea (2003), JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design in Adelaide, Australia (2004), and as the inaugural artist-in-residence at the New Taipei City Gold Museum (2008).

Alongside his creative endeavors, Jason pursued advanced studies in art theory, earning his Ph.D. from the China Academy of Art in 2015 and an MBA from National Taiwan Normal University in 2022. With a diverse cultural background spanning Taiwan, the United States, and mainland China, and extensive professional training in fine arts, crafts, public art, and management, Jason decided in 2022 to refocus on his sculpture creations. He currently resides in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, continuing to explore the diverse realms of sculpture and public art.

Sculpture is to interpret the beauty of light and shadow, rhythm, and volume through the visual techniques of color, shape, and texture. The qualities that the creators of sculpture pursue to touch people’s hearts are actually as abstract as temperature and smell, but rich in profound penetrating power. This aura that directly points to people’s hearts and the aesthetic sense that makes people enter the drama in resonance may also be like nostalgia, embodied in the nostalgia of seeing things and thinking about them, and the timid expectation of being close to the hometown.

Sea breeze, mountain mist, morning sun, sunset, in addition to shape and color, there is also the memory of temperature. Cooking smoke, hot soup, wooden tables, pottery cups, and the echo of the smell are the gradual tone of nostalgia. In people’s daily aesthetic experience, the memory of temperature and smell accompanied by touch often becomes a kind of fuse to revisit the journey of old dreams. The work involved in sculpture creation is to “condense” and record all kinds of beautiful presence in this beautiful time and space in an appropriate way and with true emotions.

As a professional sculptor, Jason likes to experience the taste of life with perceptual observation in the subtle moments, and also likes the ever-changing situation of game shapes in the poetic imaginary space. For Jason, art creation is to share various moods and stories in daily life.

Summer Flowerautumn Leaves

Jason Shih was born in 1972 in Taiwan. In 1991, he began to specialize in metal sculpture when he was a sophomore in the Fine Arts Dept of Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2001, he graduated from the School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, and majored in Metal Sculpture. And then, he served as the metal sculptor Albert Paley’s assistant, involved in crafts and public art work practices. Furthermore, he earned his Ph.D. in Art from the China Academy of Art, China (2015). Now, he lives in Taiwan and consistently engages in both areas of sculpture and public art.

Jason Shih’s artistic vision is shaped by a diverse array of influences, from contemporary dance to avant-garde fashion. He cites German choreographer Pina Bausch and British designer Alexander McQueen as significant inspirations. Bausch’s explorations of time and space resonate with Shih’s interest in sculpture’s capacity to embody kinetic energy and spatial imagination. McQueen’s innovative approach to contemporary imagery and themes provides Shih with a broad canvas for creative expression.

Shih’s work is also influenced by the aesthetic principles of Futurism and Constructivism, movements that emphasize dynamic energy and continuous motion. These influences are evident in his pursuit of capturing the beauty of movement and the elegant restraint of natural forces. Shih’s sculptures often depict moments of defying gravity, capturing the fleeting beauty of motion in a static form.

Sculpture is to interpret the beauty of light and shadow, rhythm, and volume through the visual techniques of color, shape, and texture. The qualities that the creators of sculpture pursue to touch people’s hearts are actually as abstract as temperature and smell, but rich in profound, penetrating power. This aura that directly points to people’s hearts and the aesthetic sense that makes people enter the drama in resonance may also be like nostalgia, embodied in the nostalgia of seeing things and thinking about them, and the timid expectation of being close to the hometown.

Sea breezes, mountain mist, morning sun, sunset, and, in addition to shape and color, there is also the memory of temperature. Cooking smoke, hot soup, wooden tables, pottery cups, and the echo of the smell are the gradual tone of nostalgia. In people’s daily aesthetic experience, the memory of temperature and smell accompanied by touch often becomes a kind of fuse to revisit the journey of old dreams. The work involved in sculpture creation is to “condense” and record all kinds of beautiful presence in this beautiful time and space in an appropriate way and with true emotions.

Summer Frolic Copa To Carib

Karen Safer is a photographic artist, documentarian, published writer, and poet with a musical bent. As a fifth-generation native Angelino, she was given a camera and crayons at 3 and exposed to dominant California motifs: light, palm trees, the ocean, music, and vernacular architecture that helped define and influence her left-handed aesthetic. She was influenced by her dad (educator and calligrapher) who developed black & white photos in their back washroom/turned darkroom and by her mother’s thirst for knowledge and travel.

She was fortunate to begin a life of travel as a pre-teen which shaped her love of the exotic paired with an eye for the formal, accidental, and unusual while subliminally seeking the “beautiful” that jiggles the lens/frame of her eye. From the onset, she documented her surroundings and family and friends’ events. During COVID she was photographed from her balcony and was dubbed the “Monet of Playa del Rey.”

She has been in over 10 solo shows and 200+ juried and group exhibitions in London, Rome, Glasgow, Zurich, Budapest, Barcelona, Athens, Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, Belgium, Hawaii, Canada, and from California to New York and from Minnesota to Santa Fe, to Florida, winning 150+ Talent, Merit, Honorable Mention and Special Recognition Awards. She has traveled and photographed in over 230 countries (and territories). She is a member of many art organizations.

Initially, she began painting and printmaking alongside art and architectural history before wholly embracing photography with influences from Mesopotamia to Vermeer/Matisse and Atget to Cindy Sherman. She is a self-described “romantic soul” with intellectual cravings.

She received a bachelor’s and master’s degree with honors in art from UCLA and CSULB. Her career includes work in design and architecture firms and principal of ArtFocus International.

A photographer has the whole world – big or small – to capture. kjs

I got a camera and some crayons as a kid,
journeyed along a path in life – far from what I’d expected,
moved from youth to middle age,
did some work, had some fun, got high, got low,
and just continue doing it – never tiring of the next visual surprise.
-Life is still a mystery, after all.

Summer Fun

Pechez was born in San Diego, but raised in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Idaho. They awarded her an art scholarship to BSU where she discovered oil paint. One of her oil paintings, Buffalo Bull Bison, is on permanent display at the Three Island State Park Interpretive Center in Idaho. She moved to Southern California, where her art has been published in the Inland Empire Magazine, Arts of Poetry Magazine, and several other Arts Publications. She has had the honor of placing first at the Ontario Museum of History &Art with her piece Tatianna and her Chicks. Her Artwork has been on display at the SASSE Museum in Pomona, Ca. and the Chaffey Museum in Ontario, CA.

They displayed three of her wildlife pieces in the Palm Springs International Exhibition, Into the Wild. during covid she entered California Art League juried exhibition Sublime, placing with her art piece Rodeo Clown. This year her art piece The Spa was juried in Ontario Invitational and Chaffey Museum has offered a Solo exhibition in December. Pechez has started a YouTube channel showing how to paint a few animals using a fan brush. You can find her channel at Art By Pechez.

Hello, my name is Pechez. I always find it hard to write an Artist Statement, but here goes.

I have, as long as I remember, always drawn. As a child, I drew on everything, including the walls, to my parent’s dismay. The first award I remember receiving as a child was an art fair when I entered a few eggs my mother had blown out for me that I drew a picture on.

As a teen, I had great encouragement from wonderful art teachers and eventually, I received a scholarship for Art.

As an artist, I don’t believe I fall into any preset category. I enjoy a range from landscapes to wildlife to a little crazy. Working in oils I enjoy their blending qualities, but Acrylics offer their own qualities, or both on the same artwork. I once had a professor tell me not to present anything that was not my best work. Ironically, things I was going to throw out have sold.

An event I will always remember, I had painted a horse, not supper realistic, and was going to throw it out, I took a photo of it first then painted over it, I used that photo to make a card to sell at this event. A Lady saw the card and wanted the original. I painted a new one for her.

Summer Fun

Debbie began her career in preparation for a safari to Africa. She wanted to be able to bring back visual memories for her family and friends. She enrolled in classes and experimented with different aspects of photography until she found her forte which is land and seascape photography. She has been published several times both in magazines such as Black & White Magazine, a novel by Ray Heid Man Behind the Duster, newspaper publications in Naples, Florida, and awards both online and at brick-and-mortar galleries. Her collections are on exhibit both in private homes and galleries.

I think of my camera as a tool for seeing the extraordinary in everyday things and evoking nature’s inner essence. It has taught me to make the most of each moment and to experience the world with a sense of honor and patience. Often, this happens before dawn, here where I live in South Florida, and Western North Carolina. When I venture out in the early morning, it is not unusual for me to see an alligator’s eyes twinkling in the darkness or encounter a snake slithering across my pathway. I can hear the frogs croaking, the dragonflies skimming across the lake, and the birds waking one another with their tentative chirps. This is the chorus that prepares me for the moment the light announces the sun’s arrival. Once I study the movement of light and shadow, I look for symbols in nearby objects. To me, the gift of an artist’s life is the mission to live in search of that fundamental essence present in even the most familiar places.

Summer Ice Cream

A proud Virginia native, Carolyn graduated from college in South Carolina. After a year of teaching, she then chose the Maritimes of Canada for her next adventure.

As a graphite artist living on Prince Edward Island, color was not important or necessary to Carolyn’s work. While visiting Charleston, pulsating with every tone imaginable, Carolyn realized she knew very little about color. Making the city her new home, she decided to continue her career by learning to colorize her work. Virginia Fouche Bolton, a well-known watercolorist whose paintings sparkled, offered lessons.

After only one class with her new mentor, Carolyn realized that only with transparent watercolor could these jewels of color be created. A devoted painter of and advocate for transparent watercolor for many years, Carolyn has enjoyed acclaim both nationally and internationally. Her many awards have gained her signature status in prestigious national societies of the United States, the National Watercolor Society (NWS), and Watercolor USA Honor Society (WHS), and the International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA). She is an Artist of Excellence for the state’s society, South Carolina Watermedia (SCWS), having served on the board for 12 years and as its president in 2011 and 2017. Her work is in private collections and museums across the country.

Carolyn is married to a Charleston native, who, she says, has plow (pronounced pluff) mud and rice running in his veins. Her three daughters all decided to explore college in the north and are now striving to return to their beloved city. Each one is a creative, talented person, though not yet a painter.

The colors created by transparent watercolor are like faceted jewels in sunlight. This medium allows a layering of tones like veils, one over the other. Without disturbing each color underneath. The effect creates memorable, haunting depth and atmosphere. I began painting in watercolor as a means to quickly learn about color.

My intention, as a graphite artist, was to move on to oil once I understood tones and value. I have never left this beautiful, unforgiving medium. It challenges me every single day.

Summer Joy

I was born on a houseboat in Utrecht in the Netherlands where I lived until my family moved to the area of Munich, Germany when I was seven. There I went to school and later attended the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich where I received my BA in art education. I married and moved first to Maryland, then to Oregon, where we lived for eighteen years. I taught art classes at the Maude Kerns Center, and later at Lane Community College as adjunct faculty. When the marriage was over, I decided to move to New Mexico to go back to school. At the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque I first received my Masters of Fine Arts, then my Masters in Art History. The dual degree allowed me to teach art and art history at Doane University in Crete, Nebraska, as an Assistant Professor. However, in 2018 I took early retirement to move back to New Mexico where I settled in Lama and since then spent my time being a full-time artist. I am currently represented by two galleries in Taos, the Magpie Gallery, and the Wilder-Nightingale Gallery, as well as the Artisans on Main Gallery in La Veta in Colorado.

I am working on a novel technique, a hybrid of drawing and painting on wooden cradled boards. An under-painting of acrylic Payne’s Gray and Burnt Sienna paint creates a vibrant, rather dark ground on which to start drawing with acrylic inks. I work mostly with a metal nib and a small round brush. My colors change with the seasons; the topics often do, too, but some of them are political or personal.

Working with a pen and nib is slow work, but living the slow life is my mantra. It makes for a very meditative work approach. I am able to put in all the tiny things I observe on my daily walks, the patterns of weeds, the patterns of gravel, and the ever-changing cloud shapes above me. My dog Ellie is usually represented, sometimes our four cats, the casita where Julie lives, and the cabin up the hill. Sometimes I put in one figure, sometimes thirty. The figures are always in action, just like in the genre paintings of the 17th-century Dutch painters: Daily life with lots of details including a “moralizing” note. Although not religious, mine pertains to nature, the real hero, the entity with the most power, daily stronger due to climate change.

Homesteading puts me in close touch with the soil, cultivated, and wild foods. Working with nature, instead of against it, was implemented long before the idea of permaculture was hatched. Acequias, ponds, orchards, and gardens, all of it can be found here, built according to Native American and Hispanic precepts. These facets are actually connecting me with my childhood of spending summers in the hinterland of Austria. The same precepts, the same values of taking care of the soil, animals, and human needs. It’s old, it’s new, and it’s against consumer culture and the environment.

Summer Lake

I was born and raised in NYC, but mostly in the Bronx. I attended CCNY, where I graduated with a BS in Mathematics and an MA in Mathematics Education. I taught high school mathematics in the Bronx. I have always been interested in the arts and started writing poems and playing guitar at age 19. I studied poetry under Professor Robert O’Clair. I studied guitar at The Guitar Workshop. I studied painting and drawing at SUNY Purchase. I have had paintings in 8 live group shows at Jones Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, paintings at 4 live group shows in Arbor Gallery, Carmel, NY, paintings and photos in 6 live group shows at Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac, NY. and 1 painting in a live group show at the Mahopac Public Library. Also, I have exhibited in many online shows. I have exhibited at HMVCGalleryNewYork virtually since its inception for over 2 years. A wonderful state-of-the-art gallery with outstanding artists! My poems have been published.in magazines, books, and at HVMOCA. I performed some of my poems in April 2024 at HVMOCA with numerous other artists at Writing The Walls 2024 and have performed a poem in WTW 2025; I participated in 3 shows each time. I self-published a children’s book, ”Mr. Fine Goes to the Eye Doctor”. My principal artistic interest has been abstract painting and drawing for the last 12 years, but I have written many poems as well. I live in Putnam County, NY.

My work in fine arts has principally been in 2 classes of abstract paintings: oils and water-based paints. However, I have completed numerous works in drawing. I focus on color, texture, methodology of delivery, and composition. In composition, I am interested in positive space and negative space as well. I believe the painting/drawing is a manifestation of my emotional state of both conscious and unconscious feelings.