Brian Schneider is a multi-disciplinary artist from Greenfield, WI. He received his BFA in 2014 from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and currently creates and shows work at Var Gallery and Studios in Milwaukee. He was awarded first place in the Paul Delisle Figure Drawing Competition in 2014. Brian works in drawing, painting, and mixed media sculpture. His most recent series of sculptures use found and made objects to create dioramas of imaginary spaces. The spaces resemble drawings or paintings in the way that they are organized and constructed. The work feels humorous and playful yet, bodily, eerie and jarring.

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Elly Hazard is a painter from Milwaukee, WI. She studied drawing, illustration and painting at MIAD and as a result has a very eclectic art language. After graduating from MIAD in 2014, she has put herself to work in an artist-run event and workspace, MOXY Studios as well as had her art hung in galleries through out Milwaukee. Her work will be published in Studio Visit Magazine this summer. Strongly influenced by traditions of drawing nude models, her work has always been figurative, primarily focusing on the female form. Not only is she addressing historical art concerns on the subject of the female form, but also that of popular culture, advertising, and pornography. Bright colors and quick painting moves give her work an energetic, no-nonsense feel. The heavy subject matter of stereotypes, objectification, and superficiality are presented in aloof, almost satirical ways. Lots of layers and varying painting styles reflect the artist's navigation through contradicting ideas about female roles in society, and what it means for a female form to be present in an image. She hopes her art inspires internal dialogue or discussion of these ideas.