Susan Antoinette is a St. Petersburg, Florida–based abstract expressionist painter exploring memory, geography, and human connection through layered color, gestural mark-making, embedded poetry, and deconstructed vintage maps. Having lived across the United States—from Wisconsin to Colorado, California, Virginia, Maryland, and now Florida—Antoinette transforms fragments of place into richly textured emotional landscapes that examine how personal…
HowellMarks brings energy, emotion and creative discovery to PAVA’s Cool Art Show Abstract artist Amy Howell paints intuitively, allowing the piece to transform like an evolving puzzle, inviting viewers to personally connect to her art as if listening to music. Inspired by abstract expressionists such as De Kooning, Rauschenberg, and Pollock, her work embodies a…
Whitney Paige is a figurative oil painter and muralist based in St. Petersburg, Florida. She began her career in Miami as a live art instructor, later moving to Appalachia, where she exhibited her work with a variety of galleries—including a pop-up solo show at The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts. Her work explores the…
In an era dominated by digital images and instant photography, artist Marc Brechwald proves that a simple graphite pencil can still stop viewers in their tracks. At first glance, Brechwald’s work often looks like black-and-white photography. The detail is striking, every wrinkle, reflection, and subtle shadow captured with precision. But lean closer and the truth…
Two major Museum Exhibits After Venus: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg: May 16 – August 30, 2026Forest Bathing: Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art: June 27 – December 6, 2026 Babs Reingold, a St. Petersburg. Fl based contemporary artist whose work bridges ecological awareness, material sensitivity, and conceptual inquiry. Over several decades, she has developed a…
In her St. Petersburg studio, artist Jo-An Thomas approaches the blank surface with quiet resolve. Before her is rice paper — unforgiving, absorbent, final. In her hand, a Chinese brush loaded with ink. There is no sketch beneath, no erasure ahead. Each mark must arrive fully formed. This is the discipline of Chinese brush painting,…
Few contemporary artists navigate the territory between spectacle and substance as deftly as Jason Hackenwerth. Based in Saint Petersburg, Florida, Hackenwerth has built an international reputation for work that is immediately captivating, art that invites delight while confronting impermanence and transformation. Across sculpture, installation, and painting, his work resists easy categorization, instead it unfolds as…
When we first encountered the work of Vanessa Cunto, the immediate reaction was disbelief—was this truly a drawing and not a photograph? Her art blurs reality -vs- art, inviting inspection, and rewarding curiosity with astounding precision. Every element, from the subtlest highlight to the most delicate shift in tone, reflects an almost microscopic attention to…
Full-time Saint Petersburg, Fl artist Erik Hesson has, over many years, developed and refined a personal artistic style he calls “Linear Perspectivism.” His abstract, geometric approach merges shape and color into a cohesive visual balance—an ordered structure. When did you first realize that art was more than a passion—that it was going to be your…
ARTIST – MOM – HAIRDRESSER – MODEL – SURVIVOR – MENTOR – ADVOCATE Jacqueline Yulick (Jackie) doesn’t invite you in; she leaves the door wide open. In her electric, color-drenched paintings, women stare back at you—not as dreamlike muses or passive symbols, but as powerful presences with stories to tell. “My art is the communication…