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Women On The Verge: JaneRichlovsky, LauraRoss-Paul and BrookeShaden

Jane Richlovsky paints mythical, mid-century figures on found vintage textiles, merging them into their patterned surroundings in open-ended narratives. Painting on found, patterned textiles that were once themselves components of domestic environments, Jane Richlovsky leaves their paisley and polka-dotted surfaces partially revealed as people's clothing or objects, using illusionistic shadows and reflections to integrate the characters into painted domestic environments. Quintessentially mid-century American characters - jello-mold goddesses, hopelessly square loafered dads - are plucked from vintage advertisements, and squeezed into impossibly configured modernist living rooms and patios. These ghosts of the recent past exude a faint unease as they partially emerge from their idyllic suburban expanses, ruffling the smooth veneer of our collective consumerist nostalgia, and underscoring the tenuousness of the American Dream.

Laura Ross-Paul's figurative paintings are luminescent productions of gestural emotions. Laura Ross-Paul obtains her radiant surfaces through a unique technique of mixing cold wax with resin that she drips onto the wet oil of her paintings. The resulting appearance is that of a soft strength; a juxtaposition hard to achieve. Also found in Laura's work is a connection between humans and nature. "My work focuses on the connection between people and nature. In each painting, the connection with nature becomes as important as the other person in defining who we are. We are as interdependent upon nature as we are with each other."- Laura Ross-Paul.

Brooke Shaden is a fine art photographer living and working in the Los Angeles area. Her passion lies in creating new worlds through photographs. Her vision extends beyond the realm of the camera, creating images that resemble paintings and speak of an era that is not our own. Each image is a story. Brooke has been said to encapsulate a new way of creating imagery for our time and has "...dramatically restated a new photographic feminist agenda for the 21st century." Her use of the square format and heavy texture work to create a painterly aesthetic is redefining the boundaries of photography. With these tools at hand, she creates new worlds through her images. Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible. Brooke's photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive.

These artists will inspire, provoke, engage and mesmerize. With visual perceptions always changing, peek behind the stories told and you're sure to find the right artistic expression!