by Cate White | Dec 6, 2025
This painting depicts a snapshot of my good friend CJ at her parent’s mini farm in Kansas City Missouri. CJ is trans and her parents are full Trump supporters and they have a great time together, as I witnessed when I accompanied her on a trip home. As I come from redneck roots myself, I was quite comfortable in this setting. She has not been without struggle and while she was playing around by sticking her head through the “stocks” (a chainsaw carved wood sign that reads Betz’s Corner), she read into this painting her own feelings of being trapped in her family. But there is still much love and camaraderie and humor in this family. She even convinced her dad to switch his confederate flag for a betsy ross flag and then I added the rainbow flag in the painting. This family, and the image I constructed, is an example of how political ideologies don’t need to interfere with a good time. And in fact, if people had more opportunities to party together, a lot of political division would fall by the wayside. And it was fun to see her mom’s shocked expression when she walked into the gallery in San Francisco on a visit to CJ and saw this painting hanging on the wall.
by Jean-Benoit Levy | Dec 6, 2025
A glowing heart radiates its peaceful light into surrounding darkness. At the edges, what was once uncolored begins to take on gentle hues, transforming through contact with warmth and openness. The dark borders—straight and confined—symbolize the limits of fear and ignorance. At the center, light expands. It is the universal energy we all hold within us, the quiet pulse of connection and renewal.
This work speaks to The Art of Repair by visualizing the meeting of division and wholeness, showing how tenderness and awareness can illuminate even the most rigid boundaries. It is a meditation on how light—and love—carry us across the divide.
by Tanya Beyer | Nov 21, 2025
As a vision of humanity in North America traveling in and adapting to the hazards and hardships of winter in community with birds and creatures adapted to living in the winter wilds. City and country blended and overlapping, mutually tolerant.
by Anthony Sturmas | Nov 21, 2025
This piece—LA Girl with Graffiti—is personal. It’s a tribute to the city that raised me, the walls I used to tag, and the stories I now paint digitally. She’s not polished. She’s layered, tribal, and full of fight. That’s why this work fits The Art of Repair so deeply: it celebrates what’s been broken, reimagined, and reborn. Her strength isn’t in perfection—it’s in the scars, the color, the attitude. She’s LA grit with digital soul, and every brushstroke is a repair in motion.
by Robyn Mallery | Nov 21, 2025
“What do we even do? Genuinely, what do we do?”
I asked my therapist this question a few days ago. I’m full of anger, anxiety, grief, and utter sadness.
“Will I ever be safe? Will I ever FEEL safe?”
I explained that I am increasingly fearful that I will never know what it’s like to truly feel safe. I’ve rarely felt it in my life and only for brief moments. I want to experience the feeling of safety so bad.
“I journal, I exercise, I eat, I meditate, I connect with nature, I do things I enjoy, I work toward my goals, I show up, I do the work, I pay bills, I handle my emotions, I drink water. I take my meds. I do everything and beyond what I’m supposed to do. I handle it all. What do I even do now?”
There is a point, where no amount of self work and reflection can fix the actual situations in the world that are causing the underlying constant overwhelm and anxiety.
My therapist rubbed the bridge of his nose, because he is also full of anger, anxiety, and grief over the events surrounding our world right now.
“I think the best thing you can do is make art.”
So here I am, making art again. Trying to connect to my self. Trying to connect to the earth. Trying to connect to my community.
Right now, one of the most powerful things we can do is continue to create.
