Trevor Pallisco is a Canadian mixed media artist whose subject matter focuses on landscapes and abstract mark making in the forms of drawing, painting, and sculpture. He incorporates metal, wood, rust, and car parts into his artworks to create organic three dimensional forms.

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Linda D. Berkley is an artist and arts educator based in the Pacific Northwest working in drawing, painting, and mixed media since 1986. Linda studied fine art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received her MFA at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has artwork in public and private collections, exhibits regionally, nationally, and online at lindaberkley.com.

Linda D. Berkley has retired as the art department chair and a tenured studio art faculty at Everett Community College, WA (2005–2023) and Portland Community College for over 10 years prior. She continues to teach art workshops periodically that celebrate the passions and skills of creativity.

I remain profoundly moved by my experiences in Iceland as a NES Artist-in-Residence in 2015 and at present. My exposure to the striking scale and scope of the Icelandic landscape and experience of its influence on Icelandic culture and its artistic perspectives has become an underlying thread in my artwork. I found the welcoming community and dynamic exchange between the artists-in-residence supportive and expansive to my studio practice.

During my residency, I anticipated contrasting the intimacy and vastness of this land at an experiential level through my art work. I began with intensive drawing and watercolor studies inspired by nature, following my observations as they translate into visual pattern, symbol, and expression—becoming a correspondence between my inner and outer world.

My recent focus on rōzome (ろう染め) and katazome (型染め)—Japanese resist dye and pigment painting—celebrates the complexity of color and form of the sea and the landscape. My awareness of scale has manifested into local house “portraits” on driftwood.

I find my intentions echo those of 10 years ago. I hope to blend the presence of observation with my artistic response to the specific sense of place I find in Iceland and within the Skagaströnd community.

Emma Geiger is a multidisciplinary artist from the U.S working with filmmaking, writing, music, and textiles as documentary forms. Her current work explores her ancestral connection to Iceland through 16mm film, field recordings, and digital video. Since completing an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Art in 2022, she has released two albums of music and videos, and practices and teaches workshops in natural dyeing.

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Andrea Mancuso arrived in Iceland from Saudi Arabia where she had been living and teaching, and brought a curiosity about the landscape as a built environment. She was recently awarded The Kingdom Photography Award for her photographs of Saudi Arabia. Andrea works as virocode, a collaboration between herself, Claudia D’Aura and Peter D’Auria that explores the balance between the inorganic and the organic through an art-making practice that seeks to capture and reveal blossoming inorganic life. virocode has long been concerned with investigating symbiotic relationships between the organic and inorganic—in a non-judgmental manner and with an open question about our collective relationship to the Anthropocene. By virtue of the wide lens through which virocode approaches the world, alterations within the current epoch are just that, and our intense relationship with the non-biological has only just begun.

In a sense, it is only right when things go wrong—-therefore, virocode.

virocode has been exhibiting work in photography, video, installation and the digital arts throughout the United States and in Europe including: The Museum of Modern Art and Paul Robeson Gallery in the New York City metropolitan region; Artist Television Access, Artspace, Southern Exposure Gallery, and the Emanuel Walter and Etholl McBean Galleries in San Francisco; The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, Diverseworks Art Space in Houston, Texas, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, in Tucson, Arizona, Impakt Festival in The Netherlands, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruck, Germany and at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, CEPA gallery, Squeaky Wheel and Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York. virocode began working together at the State University of New York at Buffalo, studying with Marion Faller, Paul Sharits and Tony Conrad. Andrea Mancuso received her PhD in Visual Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her MFA in Performance/New Genre from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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