Fresh Water
4' x 5', Instant coffee, acrylic, charcoal, and pen/ink, 2008

Geraldine Liquidano was born in a small town called "Nuevo Progreso," outside Guatemala City, between coffee leaves and the sweetness of oranges she spent her youth days exploring the untamed forests and imaginary landscapes. The vivid colors of the jungle and fresh fruit have stayed with her. She studied in the city and enjoyed the country life in a coffee farm during holidays and weekends, where she was exposed to classical music and learned some aestethics that to her surprise she had found in nature. Her challenge is: how much can she discover through art, how much can she say to you the viewer. This painting is based in a story told by my mother this painting depicts the kind who had 3 daughters, covered them with three vases and a fish.

Scroll
ink on register tape
2.5" x 168"
1999

Gold Circle
ink on paper
4" diameter
2008

Jill McCracken is a 2nd-year Fine Art Photography major at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her main interests lie in conceptual photography. The kinds of photographs that tend to interest her most are surreal, mysterious, or anonymous photos that cause the viewer to wonder. Aside from photography, she is also an avid musician. She sings and plays guitar in a band out of Buffalo called Chronic Laconic with her good friend Mike Heubusch.

Uprising, 2009
acrylic, wood stain, and india ink on canvas

Patrick Willett's process is similar to the photogravure process of fine art photography in digital form.

Kimberly R. Collignon is a Buffalo born Illustrator and Designer with a unique style. She graduated in 2003 from SUNY Buffalo, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Since then, her heart has remained committed to the art scene, between her full-time graphic design job and her newly opened small business, under the alias Ruthie Designs - which features her illustrative artist prints and hand-made pillows. Her art has been featured on design sites such as, Design-Milk, Design for Mankind and this May will be featured in Stitch Magazine. She can be seen around town at various indie art venues, book fairs and the like.

Kim's work is primarily pen and ink illustration, but recently she has started experimenting with watercolors to accompany the illustrations. These illustrations span from intensely detailed to simple minimalism. Nature, human emotion and life experiences inspire her the most. Her drive to create art is fueled by her life-long and whole-hearted devotion to the arts, the loving, supportive people in her life and most importantly-- the joy she sees art bring to peoples lives.

Kim believes NOMAD will be a great addition to Buffalo's community in that it will educate, involve and inspire old and newly emerging artists alike - as well as give the public insight into even the little known corners of Buffalo's own art world.

I am a local poet/musician. My band is called I Was The Scarecrow. Our website is: http://www.myspace.com/iwasthescarecrow

Canadian-born photographer Luke Copping graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003. Now living in the border city of Buffalo, New York, he has since worked as a graphic designer and sign-maker as well, skills that help to further develop his photographic roots. With a constantly evolving body of work and a roster of clients that range from the corporate to the counter-culture, Luke is able to create engaging and resonant images for his audience.

My name is Ailsa Forlenza and I am currently positioned as a senior at Sacred Heart Academy. I could be described as a literature-driven student with a passion for all things poetic and abstract.

#101 acrylic on canvas, 12in x 12in, 2008

My specialties include Native American Literature, and also Contemporary Drama. I have published two books of poems, and places where my poems have appeared include The Hazmat Review and The Carolina Quarterly. My last reading was at Hallwalls in April.

Meltdown
Digital photograph of unique window reflections, as found in downtown Buffalo

David Pierro is a full time graphic designer who spends his free time drawing robots and painting abstract textures. His portfolio and a small store featuring original t-shirt designs can be found on his website:

Angelic Goddess
Oil Painting

Artist Daniel Predmore paints mainly oil and acrylic on canvas. Predmore's style ranges from abstract to photorealism. His collection is based on his travels inside and outside of the United States. He has gained considerable recognition throughout the world from his 20+Years of painting. Some of his many collectors include William Jefferson Clinton, Karpeles Museum, Warner Brothers and the FBI to name a few. Examples of his creative diversity can be seen in his etched glass work and silk screening. He is determined to be one of the great artists of our time. His work is available as limited edition prints, canvas prints & originals.

Dan has become one of our most prolific and focused artists over the past year. Dan’s progress has been rapid and he has been able to create a large quantity of different types of work using a variety of mediums and sources. He has worked on paper and Plexi-glass with Xeroxes, stickers, tape and magic markers. He has created large-scale paintings on canvas using projected images that he chooses and manipulates in his own style and manner. Dan’s work is strongly influenced by late 70’s and early 80’s television shows. He has just completed a series of large-scale works that are based on the characters from the classic TV show Barney Miller. Dan writes cryptic messages around the canvas where he uses character names as pseudonyms for things he has been conditioned not to do over the years, like Hal Linden is going to pull your hair or Jack Soo is going to punch you in the face. Dan also uses these names to express things that he enjoys doing like Abe Vigoda looks in the reflection and Abe Vigoda looks at his CD. Dan enjoys looking at his own reflection and can be seen carrying a compact disc around with him in order to do so.

Untitled
Mixed media

Lisa is a 41 year-old woman who is tireless when it comes to making art. She is a self-motivated individual who works diligently on her drawings, paintings and paper collages. She loves to work with warm and vibrant colors with red being her favorite and most frequently used. Her paintings usually consist of floating child like figures that are surrounded by giant flowers. Occasionally, she will introduce houses with trees, bushes, and smoking chimneys. Recently, Lisa has been concentrating on mixed media paper collages that she creates with tissue paper painted on cardboard boxes, sheets of wood, railroad board, jewelry boxes and a series that she is producing on diamond shaped flag cases. There are no limits to Lisa’s resources. She will experiment with anything she can find in the art room. She has worked with glass tiles, stickers, color samples, paper filters, glitter, pipe cleaners, wooden blocks, Polaroids and Xeroxes. If it sticks with glue, she will use it. Lisa’s work exudes a positive energy and warmness that originates from within her. The process, the motion, the act of making art is what truly makes her happy. She revels in the texture and scent of her creations and finds comfort in the journey of bringing her vision to life.

Freshman at University at Buffalo, studying Chemistry with a general interest in all things arts. Mostly interested in creating art that is distorted, a little dark, but mostly just strange.