Meagan Burns is an artist, urban sketcher, and founder of Art Leap Adventures, a travel sketch workshop business that offers immersive art experiences in cities such as Mexico City, Oaxaca, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, San Francisco, California and Paris, France. Originally from Chicago, Meagan has made Mexico her home, where she continues to create and teach. Her signature style, continuous line drawing, is at the heart of her work—an intuitive and expressive approach that captures the energy and essence of place.

This series of works, "My Love Letter to Mexico," showcases Meagan's deep connection to the country she now calls home. Almost all of the pieces were created on location in her distinctive continuous line drawing style, embodying the rich culture, architecture, and energy of Mexico. Meagan's art invites viewers to see the world through fluid, dynamic lines, celebrating both the imperfections and beauty of everyday life.

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My materials are paper, glue, string, clay and a few objects such as 2-eyed buttons. Everyone seems to have a different take on my work, so I do not try to define it. Nor do I have an artist statement. I work constantly in order to stay sane in an insane world. If the work amuses all the better, but I do not set out to be funny or whimsical. I've never done anything (that I know of) on a whim.

Ann Chamberlin's paintings are presented in the manner and scale of dollhouses where people are caught, like deer in the headlights, in narratives of havoc, mayhem or myth. The scenes are often set at the edge of something - a jagged seashore, falling into a pond of snakes, or beset by bandits on the roadside. There are marauders on the horizon, obtrusive thought bubbles about handsome sailors, or written pronouncements that say "I have NOTHING to wear" or "go back!" The style is naïve --though never innocent—and values our uncertainties about these most awkward moments of an examined life.

Chamberlin has lived and worked for most of the past 20 years in Mexico, from the coast of Nayarit to San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. She has exhibited continuously in the Los Angeles area since 1989, including solo gallery shows at Jan Baum, Lora Schlesinger , and Craig Krull, and major group shows at the Gallery at REDCAT, the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, and the Laguna Art Museum. Elsewhere, she has had solo exhibitions at Galeria Arte AC, Monterrey, Mexico, Mia Gallery, Seattle, and the Centro Colombo Americano, Medellín Colombia. Awards include MAA/NEA grant in painting, the California Community Foundation/ Getty Trust Fund for the Arts Individual Artist grant, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, artist residency at La Muse, La Bastide Espairbairenque, France and a Fulbright Scholar award to Medellín, Colombia. She has a B.F.A. from the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico and an M.F.A from the University of Texas, Austin. Currently she shows at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica and the the Chapel of Jimmy Ray in La Cieneguita, Mexico.

Blake Lannon, originally from California, spent 18 years in New York City during the period when conceptual art and neo expressionism was at its height.

Her work has been influenced greatly by her passion for beauty, travel and her studies of eastern religions particularly Buddhism. The paintings and assemblages are heavily worked with many layers of paint and mixed mediums. The premise being that all material things have weight and balance. Her thoughts are that to balance our beings and keep centered and peaceful in the midst of difficulties is essential. The paintings themselves are powerful and large but the sense of balance is overwhelmingly apparent. There is a beauty in the bronzes, silvers and black she favors that is formal and elegant.

Upon moving back to California, her work became more concerned than ever with the "Earth as Body". Devastation from mining and deforestation has given a focus to a new series of paintings. Inspired by the beauty that is exposed and views of this from the sky. Her work is now filled with the bright colors of the earth and minerals that are left after destruction.

She has been living for the past few years in Mexico, a place known for its great beauty and vitality. The people, the history and, most challenging, the land has shifted her eye and mind. She has now incorporated her past travels and work into a combination of a deeper understanding and the value of her original idea of the earth as our body. Her paintings again are large and full of power. Now they are filled with a different kind of energy. The energy of color.

Examples of her art are in many prestigious collections throughout the world She also does commissions both here and abroad.

She may be reached by email: blakelannon@gmail.com

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My work is photographically-based mixed media with encaustic, embracing the color and iconography of my adopted home. My pieces come from a place of intuitive painting coupled with historic research. I have a deep attraction to the surreal visual playground that inhabits and in many ways defines, the very soul of this culturally infuential country. Building on a lifetime of exploring various photographic techniques in my personal work and as a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, I took advantage of the "down time" that was the pandemic to embrace the possibilities and creative freedom of mixed media. My pieces incorporate photographic transfers with paint, chalk, pencil and wax. Through an excavation of memories, documents, found and discovered objects, the flotsam and jetsam of popular culture, and nostalgic personal items, I developed a new and evocative way of expressing my vision.

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BIO: Meryl Truett is a curator, gallerist, teacher, consultant, and artist. Meryl has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe. She has been widely published in numerous magazines such as Oxford American, The Vanderbilt Review, and Camera Austria. Her book Thump Queen and other Southern Anomalies is in its second printing. Her work is in the collections of major museums and corporations. She earned an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2003 with additional art training in France. Truett has extensive experience teaching at the college level and conducting photography, mixed media, and book publishing workshops. Artist fellowships include Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Le Moulin á Nef in Auvillar, France, and The Hambidge Center.

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Art begins with an Attraction

An almost obsessive spell
that triggers inspiration
and finally a masterful result

Life itself flows from simple Attraction

Attraction and Art
The fullest expression of
what it means to be alive

Frida in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Luisa Lopez is a recent graduate of the University of Guanajuato in the Visual Arts. Her work incorporates dreamscapes in watercolor and oil. We welcome her to Equinox!

The Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year marks the end of the descent into darkness and the beginning of the return of the light as the days begin to get longer after the solstice. This is also a time of reflection. The cold dark period of the year encourages me to not only spend more time at home, but also to become more reflective about my life – and often about spirituality. The juxtaposition of the celebration of the returning sun and having the time and inclination for reflection during a dark and cold time makes this an interesting time.

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