View the amazing artwork of the Rogue Artists in this amazing show. The Challenge for inside out had three parameters:
- Parameter 1 – Juxtaposition of Inside/Outside and whatever that means to you. Can be emotional, physical, topographical, etc.
- Parameter 2 – Incorporate a tree that represents one side of this duality. The tree can be as literal or abstract as you like ie: made of mechanical parts, composed of sound, a combination of fantastical elements, etc.
- Parameter 3 – Incorporate a landscape that represents the other side of this duality. The landscape can also be as literal or abstract as you like ie: a completely imaginary landscape, a soundscape, or an interpretation of a landscape memory, etc.
I am excited to share these with you because they really push some boundaries. If you are interested in any of the pieces below that are for sale, please contact the artist. Enjoy this awesome show. You can watch the video below, enter the virtual gallery (on a different site), or scroll down this page.
Esther L Jones
Artist Name:
Esther L Jones
Best Way To Contact Artist:
https://www.estherljones.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$272.00
Name Of Piece:
These Rocks Are Thee
Artist Statement:
This piece exemplifies a poem I’ve loved for years: the title is my favorite line from the poem. The rocks can be seen as a hindrance or as protection. The lack of nutrients and harsh landscape can be perceived as a desert that deprives or a place that forces slow and difficult but very strong growth.
Ellen von Reiser
Artist Name:
Ellen von Reiser
Best Way To Contact Artist:
Commissions@starrynightdiner.com
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
Secret Garden
Artist Statement:
This piece is full of significance for me personally. Every object has a story. The garden is full of things I love or admire. The forest is full of my current life. The piece was drawn in Adobe Fresco with an Apple Pencil.
Angel Coleman
Artist Name:
Angel Coleman
Best Way To Contact Artist:
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
Picnic With Mom But Without Her
Artist Statement:
This was a very emotional piece for me to sculpt. Mom is the center of the family though her illness is larger than life and hangs over the entire family. She is oblivious to her children and husband that play around her. Only the alcohol brings color to her life. Emaciated and haggard, she continues to drink until the poison spills out of her and will eventually spoil the family outing.
Sherry D Beckstead
Artist Name:
Sherry D Beckstead
Best Way To Contact Artist:
FB.com/sherrysoilpaintings.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$1,500.00
Name Of Piece:
Path to Consciousness
Artist Statement:
This piece represents the duality of life. The tree represents humanity standing in the reality of the now. While the landscape represents our ever-searching path for something more that can only be found within us. The higher consciousness of our beingness.
Jeanne GFellers
Artist Name:
Jeanne GFellers
Best Way To Contact Artist:
email
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
Growth Along the Road of Disability
Artist Statement:
5″x7″ This is a very personal collage piece. The desert landscape bears many but certainly not all the negative wordage I’ve heard over the decades as an author, artist, and disabled person. Defying these words is the full-of-life woodland being who is turning it all out and wears positive affirmations. This happy tree person is who I strive to be. Pushing the multi-layered negative BS aside and the resulting growth hasn’t been an easy process, that’s for certain, but it’s been my unique road to take and one I’m still on. You can find my writing and art at https://jeannegfellersauthor.com
Melissa Peacock
Artist Name:
Melissa Peacock
Best Way To Contact Artist:
melissa@yellowmellearts.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$200.00
Name Of Piece:
Be Productive
Artist Statement:
Visiting the peach orchard for the last time, I was shocked to see the trees had hollowed out until there was only bark left. My grandpa filled the trunks with wooden planks and wrapped them with ropes so that the trees could have one last productive year. Despite being half-dead, the orchard was ready with its harvest of peaches as usual. Relatable.
8×10″
Watercolor on paper
http://www.yellowmellearts.com
Debbie Tlach
Artist Name:
Debbie Tlach
Best Way To Contact Artist:
debra_tlach@yahoo.com
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
Feeling Human
Artist Statement:
The will to grow as a feeling human in the face of forces (relentless cogs) that can cause us to retract and shut down (emotionally or otherwise). We can consciously decide our reactions to these forces (hopefully to deeply feel & still flourish). artistgirlsmuse on Instagram
Corey Johnston
Artist Name:
Corey Johnston
Best Way To Contact Artist:
email
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
The Tree of Hopes and Dreams
Artist Statement:
Digital Art, Procreate App, 12.9″ iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
This piece is about stepping out of dark vast empty space, and toward an inner light that is brighter and laden with potential, but scary, too. For me, it is about a state of middle-ness. It is about the transitional state of not knowing whether something is sinister or safe and whether trust can be extended or not. Between being sure and being vulnerable. As Shakespeare said, “To be or not to be.” There is a moment before making the choice, before taking the step, before walking into something unknown from something sure (even if it’s dark and endless). It is about not knowing how to interpret the signs you feel are obviously there. It is about fear of the unknown, even if the known is eternal darkness of endless depth.
I think we learn how to deal with this state in different ways as we grow up. For me, as a young person, this fear was sometimes paralyzing at moments. And I see many young people in my life experiencing the same trepidation of the unknown in their own ways.
http://www.coreyartusimagery.com
Instagram: @coreyartus
Dana Ellis
Artist Name:
Dana Ellis
Best Way To Contact Artist:
https://www.danaellisart.com/
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$220.00
Name Of Piece:
Letting Go
Artist Statement:
She feels trapped by her thoughts, her life, her insecurities, and feeling judged. As she sets the bird free, maybe she will free herself.
18″ x 18″ oil painting on stretched canvas.
Free US shipping
Instagram: dana_ellis_art
Facebook: Dana Ellis Art
Annie Sylling
Artist Name:
Annie Sylling
Best Way To Contact Artist:
annies@anniesylling.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$500.00
Name Of Piece:
Inner Peace
Artist Statement:
I was contemplating this challenge while lying awake one night, happens a lot (the lying awake). This idea popped into my head. Use the challenge to portray keeping inner peace despite the state of the world around us. The painting depicts a girl in meditation surrounded by the chaos of the world. Inside the girl is a peaceful garden with a tree. This is her place of refuge. I believe we can find peace within ourselves while living in a chaotic world. I used a 22″x28″ canvas incorporating collage, acrylics and marker. You can view more of my work here: http://anniesylling.com
Zoe Noble
Artist Name:
Zoe Noble
Best Way To Contact Artist:
angrygirlembroidery@gmail.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$1,000.00
Name Of Piece:
2020
Artist Statement:
I designed this hoop as a reflection of the year. I wanted to show inside as a tranquil, safe space, so I made the scene outside the window barren and fiery in contrast to the thriving plants inside. I added a landscape painting to the wall to represent our memory of the outside compared to the actual scene out the window. Personally, I started missing school and trying to keep up with classwork at home in my teens when I became chronically ill and disabled, so to me this piece is also representative of my own experience with home being a refuge in comparison to the inaccessible outside world, and how that has become a common experience amid the pandemic. I wanted to make a scene that idealizes staying inside instead of portraying the inside as a prison and framing the outside as the place the viewer wants to be, not only because I think it’s important to protect ourselves and our communities in the midst of a pandemic as much as we can, but also because framing social distancing as a cage is, in my opinion, framing the experiences of disabled people like me that have been staying home and asking for digital access to things like work and school for years as a pitiful or miserable existence, and I don’t think that’s true. While it’s absolutely understandable to miss life before the pandemic, I think it’s important to remember that preferring in-person jobs or classes does not make the digital access we have created a bad thing for everyone.
Hand-stitched thread painting. Cotton and rayon thread on cotton fabric framed in a 6-inch bamboo hoop with felt backing. View more photos at http://www.angrygirlart.com/threadpaintings and contact me at angrygirlembroidery@gmail.com to purchase.
JulieAnn (TheRosemaryCat)
Artist Name:
JulieAnn (TheRosemaryCat)
Best Way To Contact Artist:
therosemarycat@gmail.com
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
Theories of Relativity
Artist Statement:
Graphite on 11×14 Bristol Paper
‘Theories of Relativity’ touches on perspective of both space and time.
We often give the concept of time much more power over us than it really has. Time is what we create it to be; it can be either fluid and expansive, or it can be rigid and confining.
Likewise, the way each of us sees the world around us makes space subjective, as in how we may perceive the trees outside the window, or the ‘tree’ in the room.
Our personal freedom depends on our perspective rather than our environment or circumstances.
TheRosemaryCat can be found on Redbubble.
Cruz Kai
Artist Name:
Cruz Kai
Best Way To Contact Artist:
cruzkaihawaii.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$200.00
Name Of Piece:
Interdependent
Artist Statement:
This painting represents climate change -in which animal, plant life and the humans are directly and indirectly affected.
Acrylics on canvas – 16” x 20”
Kelly Sterr
Artist Name:
Kelly Sterr
Best Way To Contact Artist:
Kellysterr@comcast.net
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$480.00
Name Of Piece:
Morning Sunrise
Artist Statement:
16 x20 Acrylic This piece reminded me of the journeys down the shore when I was younger to go fishing early in the morning with the sun rising up above the horizon.
The Clover Artist
Artist Name:
The Clover Artist
Best Way To Contact Artist:
thecloverartist@gmail.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$20.00
Name Of Piece:
Crystal Spire Growth
Artist Statement:
I just got the space in my life to figure myself out. Sometimes left feels like an alien planet i’m trying to travers. Sometimes I feel like a small sapling most thought was dead but just waiting for the right conditions to flourish. So I made this striking piece to symbolize how I feel in the alien landscape we all call life. Some problems seems monumental some seem so vast you’ll never reach the other side but if you just keep going, just keep growing it’ll all work out in the end. I create art to enlighten the soul and transport you to magical places thank you for coming along with me on this journey!
Klee Angelie
Artist Name:
Klee Angelie
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
Two Trees
Artist Statement:
This poem is about a being that is trying to understand itself and its relationship with its world, by observing others around it and questioning which ways of “being” are most valuable and fulfilling. In that way, it’s about making comparisons and never-ending questions that don’t provide any real answers. What is underlying the story, is the idea that the being isn’t looking at “others” at all. What it’s really observing is a partial reflection of itself in one direction (representing the past and memories), and a changing shadow silhouette of itself in another direction (representing future hopes and aspirations). Neither provides a full picture, and neither (past or future) allows the being to live in the present moment while it remains wrapped up in these observations and questions. It understands in a way, that it thrives and feels most whole in the present, just being what it is, but it’s unsure if this is a worthy and meaningful existence. I think deep down, it knows it is.
FULL POEM:
I saw two trees from a distant view,
In a distant light, as I focused sight,
As I pondered old and I pondered new,
As I wondered what’s real, and I wondered what’s life.
One stood by a river, in a valley below,
It’s roots appeared strong, but it seemed to quiver.
As if never too sure what form it would know,
As if never too sure it was there by the river.
But the sun shone upon it,
Just like it did me,
And even though it was faint and hazy,
It felt known, and on it,
Just like upon me,
There did seem a tangible quality.
As I reflected, a question asked,
If I felt uncertain, and what did that mean?
Does a strong foundation one can almost grasp,
Make for a full life, down by the stream?
One stood by a manor, on a hilltop high,
It’s branches immense, almost endless in reach,
But no roots to behold, just aloft like the sky,
As if never knowing the soils deep.
But the sun shone upon it,
Just like it did me,
And even though it was changing and vague,
It sprawled out, and on it,
Just like upon me,
There did seem a dynamic something at play.
As I projected, a question anew,
If I felt ungrounded, and what of it still?
Do dizzying heights one can barely view,
Make for a full life, up on the hill?
My companions would come with the light of each day,
And would go then each night, and would leave me to wonder.
Sometimes I would dream them and such they could stay,
But always would daunt me with theories asunder.
What tree would I be, which tree has the knowing?
If I only could choose to aspire to one…
Which of these two trees truly lives and is growing?
Which of these two trees can feel soil and sun?
As for me, I stand present, between these two.
As for me, I grow steady, both day and night.
From the deepest of depths which embrace my roots,
For impossible stars grace my branches alight.
But is it enough if I’m only this day?
If I only know now, and with simplest mirth,
If I reach ever deeper, but also I stay,
In the moment which, each moment, gives me new birth.
If I reach ever higher, but also I stay,
In the moment which, each moment, renews my worth.
From a singular vantage, endless worlds to unearth.
Marianne Hasseldal
Artist Name:
Marianne Hasseldal
Best Way To Contact Artist:
my instagram: marrys_gallery
Is It For Sale:
No
Name Of Piece:
If I were the last you would choose me
Artist Statement:
A contrast between life and death. Life symbolized by the tear and death symbolized by the barren landscape reflected in the eye. After many weeks of pondering what to paint for the collab challenge, this vision dropped into my mind very suddenly and I loved the disturbing thought of a tree growing and making an eye its home.
This is a digital painting.
You can find my work on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/marrys_gallery/
If you are interested in purchasing my art you can send me a message there.
Christopher Doll
Artist Name:
Christopher Doll
Best Way To Contact Artist:
email, Discord, or JOIN ME ON TWITCH.TV EVERY WEDNESDAY 6PM PST
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$250.00
Name Of Piece:
Pressure Inversion
Artist Statement:
Extreme weather and tornados were frequent dreams, having grown up in Michigan. The skies would turn quickly. It’s a scene I had witnessed several times. The wind picks up, bending the trees. Shredding them. I am outdoors, and there is little time to get underground. Where it’s safe. Often I witness the scene through a door with a window. But it offers no protection. I haven’t yet captured it properly in paint, but I try every few years.
9″ x 12″ Oils on canvas
Contact me via email or through my site at https://www.christopher-doll.com
KYLE M WOOD
Artist Name:
KYLE M WOOD
Best Way To Contact Artist:
http://www.kylewoodcreations.com
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$900.00
Name Of Piece:
Living Within Worlds Divided
Artist Statement:
Seeing the line between realities leads to the door of answers, but the door of answers is out of reach. The same tree is organic in one world and mechanical in the other. They are borrowed from each other’s reality to bring a magical light into life. Mixed media on two-foot by three-foot wood panel at three-quarters inch thick. Prints will be available on my site. A small printable version is free on my treasure section of my site.
Sara Vicky Neville
Artist Name:
Sara Vicky Neville
Best Way To Contact Artist:
Email address. Saraartist1508@yahoocom
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$600.00
Name Of Piece:
Princess of the moon and her pet cow contemplating whether to jump over cause she afraid of heights
Artist Statement:
I love the moon. Period. And all things moon-like
Saraartist1508@yahoo.com
2/8×10’s..1/11×14. Acrylic
Rafi Perez
Artist Name:
Rafi Perez
Best Way To Contact Artist:
https://rafiandklee.com/contact-us/
Is It For Sale:
Yes
Price:
$395.00
Name Of Piece:
Born Out Of The Cold
Artist Statement:
This piece symbolizes growth and rebirth. In 2020, especially in the dark winter days, it was easy to get wrapped up in the darkness of it all. The world felt like a dark place. Turmoil, death, and horror seemed to be the main topic of discussion. The piece is about the realization that even in that darkness, you can bring sunshine, you can bring color, and you can bring joy. No matter the circumstance of the world around you, the world you carry inside of you is impacted by you and only you. So even when inundated, you can be born out of the cold and into the warmth. Klee stated that the piece makes her think of spring being born out of winter, which felt very powerful to me and is in line with my feelings.
18X24 Mixed Medium, plaster face (my face)
Thomas Wofford
Artist Name:
Thomas Wofford
Name Of Piece:
Cerat Mirazur
Artist Statement:
This creation is an interpretation of the collab theme in an extremely abstract vision reflecting on a front view “Cerat” which is outside. The inside vision is a mental picture of “Cerat” and Mirazur which is the vision of blue. The tree representation is slender lines throughout the piece.
Klee Angelie
Artist Rafi Perez