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A non-profit zine for emerging artists and students exploring ideas of identity through art, graphic design, poetry, photography, and everything in between.

Featuring Artists Patti Robinson, Jamie F Simpson, Nina Fraser, David Rodríguez, Lita Poliakova, Marta de la Parra, Rafaela Micheloni, Lucy Jane Frank Purrington, Claire Martine, Christoph Liepach, Tania Bohuslavska, Nathan Mullis, Ira Iosub, Charis J Carmichael Braun, Olga Lupi, Heidi Wong, Clarice Sena, Rochelle Steffanie Hanson, Vika Pranaitytė, and Pippa Tyler.

The Reformation 2017 Lutheran Art Invitational celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, at the YFAC Gallery at Bethany Lutheran College.

(c) Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato MN

Participating artists: Nathan Beilke, Anna Biedenbender, Jeff Bukowski, William Bukowski, Paul Burmeister, Charis Carmichael Braun, Jesse Cordes, Kristen Gjerdstet, Annette Hartzel, Lance Hartzel, Jason Jaspersen, Chad Lindemann, Karyn Lukasek, Ben Lundsten, Jim Matson, Jonathan Mayer, Don Moldstad, Eric Ouren, Andy Overn, Kurt Shrader, Erik Soule, Joey Steinbach, Paul Trapp, Alicia Ulm, Missy Vandermause, Anne Wendland, Malia Wiley, Denice Woller

Participating writers: Paul Burmeister, Tim Schmeling, Luke Ulrich We revisited with some of our 50 Most Memorable Painters from 2015 to see what they have been up to. From the sampling of the artwork you see here, they are still as memorable as ever. It has been a tough year for many.  As publisher, I thought it best to not bring you another list this year.  Instead let's treasure what we already have and hang on to it for little longer.  I think Ron Francis' painting cumulates how most of us feel about 2016. Please read the statements of each artist's recap of their year and take a look at last year's edition here.

For next year we are going to publish a 100 Great Figurative Artworks anthology. Notice that we are focusing on the amount of artwork and not the number of artists. Steven DaLuz will be selecting the works. Information is coming to us from everywhere and I think it is important to have some sort of anthology to offer our readers, galleries, art enthusiasts and collectors so they may have a starting point and then they may take it further from there.

For me, I already have 2017 firmly planted in our calendar with group shows in New York, Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles with a possible one still in the works in Florida. We are also now publishing heavily on our blog which is feeding information about our community of artists and poets to Apple News. Lorena Kloosterboer one of our staff writers will continue to publish articles about our artist in our blog but more importantly I have given her the position of the head writer.  Take a look at her introduction and blurbs about the art in FORMATION at Bernarducci.Meisel.

I already have my eyes set past 2017 but first let's reflect on the art we created in 2016 and see where where our hard work will take us next.

—  Didi Menendez In early spring of 2016, the loss of my full-time arts-admin work destabilized me. I set myself to see this situation (with the subsequent searching and interviewing for, and finally securing two part-time jobs) as a fertile place to grow my body of work which I intended to bloom into a robust studio practice. But every session in my studio was hard-won as my mental energy was spent sorting out What This Is Now rather than focusing my vision on my work. The work started to bog down as I floundered in the chaos between schedules/projects/responsibilities. I am grateful for the life jacket that was thrown to me in autumn, when I was included in “Point of Origin” at The Lodge Gallery. This show kept me afloat and I’ve since been able to secure lines to other exhibitions. Despite the instability, this year saw my paintings grow more bigger, more gutsy, more tenacious than they have been before. Even when I feel like I’m underwater!

— Charis J. Carmichael Braun

originally published: http://www.poetsandartists.com/magazine/2016/12/27/what-some-of-the-50-memorable-painters-from-2015-painted-in-2016 Point of Origin

10/27/2016 08:04 pm ET

Daniel Maidman
artist and novelist

I recently had an experience with a themed art show that turned out shockingly well. This was “Point of Origin,” curated by Dina Brodsky and Trek Lexington, and exhibited at The Lodge Gallery, on the Lower East Side. I’ve written about all these entities before, except for the mysterious Mr. Lexington. They’re all fixtures of the part of the New York art scene I’m involved in.

For the show, though, I went out and bought a proper wood palette. In fact, it was an unusual enough format for a painting that virtually everybody was going to have to make a new painting for the show - they wouldn’t just happen to have something relevant lying around the studio. I looked at the artist list. It included a good fraction of the most talented and creative representational painters I know. It’s not a huge world. Although many of us haven’t met in person, we all know and admire one another’s work. These two features, that new work would be required, and that the field was full of excellent painters, resulted in the quality of the show. How? I think because we all got really competitive. Not to “win,” but simply to earn our spot amongst such peers. I know I immediately began trying to think of ways to do something better than I’d done before. I suspect others did too, in a virtuous cycle that resulted in the 50+ pieces presented.

Jason Patrick Voegele and Keith Schweitzer, whose project The Lodge Gallery is, hung it beautifully, and if you’re in town, you should go see the show; it’s up until November 13th. I’m proud to be included in it. A selection of pieces is included in the slideshow below. They all look better in person. They look like jewels. Go, go, go. Thank you to Brodsky and Lexington for honoring me with inclusion, to Voegele and Schweitzer for showing the work, and to the other painters for inspiring me to do better. I think this is how it should work.

originally published: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-maidman/point-of-origin_b_12680252.html 


NEW ULM — Christine Carmichael was an interior designer with a zeal for enlivening run-down structures. She served as lead interior designer and project coordinator for The Grand Center for Arts and Culture in New Ulm. Charis Carmichael Braun will unveil her oil portrait of Christine during a reception honoring the late interior designer in the 4 Pillars Gallery, "Christine Carmichael: A Life by Design."


This "console" piano I painted is in honor of my sister, whose work as an interior designer increased people's quality of life through the environments in which they lived.


(I was featured in the bottom photo of the printed issue - click "read more" to see.)


And although the pianos — which are designed by an array of volunteer artists, community members of all ages, and celebrities — are only out in the public for two weeks, the plan is to allow the instruments to continue to have a life influencing others.
 But before the pianos can be publicly unveiled or given away, they must be brought to life through paint. That was the order of the day at 28 Liberty. Although the project is publicly visible for ten days, Sing for Hope and the artists work on the pianos for many weeks before they are displayed. Last month, artists from Canada came arrived to paint their piano, while others (they are recruited from around the world) will finish up their projects in early May.


This year over 400 artists responded to my call for work, making the process of choosing ten paintings especially challenging and exciting. I would like to publicly thank all of the artists who sent work for me to look at: it was humbling to see how much great painting is happening out there.
 Menendez, Didi, and John Seed. "50 Memorable Painters (2015)." GOSS183 Publishing House, Bloomington, Illinois. Spec. issue of PoetsArtists, Vol #70. (2015): pgs. 22-23. Print.

Her painting “Where Do We Go From Here?” is a powerful, disturbing work by one of the few artists  in the show who has focussed on the murder victims.


Originally published: http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.com/CharisJCarmichaelBraunJan18_2015.html Menendez, Didi. "Charis J. Carmichael Braun." Poets and Artists, Issue #57, September 2014: pp. 15-16. Print.

BE INTERESTED. Be passionate. Be curious - absorb more than you think you can. You'll carry it all with you your whole life.


This extraordinary mosaic is a celebration of faith in Christ within the diversity of their community. The process for the creation of the artwork was designed to offer an opportunity for everyone to participate.
 There are two thousand lucky New York City MetroCards upcycled as zoetropes, impressionist cityscapes, shunga-stylized erotica panels and nail-polished pug portraits at the Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again exhibit, and we stopped by the Sloan Fine opening last week to see them.
 Charis Carmichael Braun, another repeat Single Fare rider, gives a glimpse of an amazing project she was involved in with her Church. She also is on a trio of beautiful to include in this year's show, pictured below.


“Study for ‘Creation' is a color study [or a series of images interpreting Christian doctrines as seen through a Lutheran perspective,” says artist Charis Carmichael Braun, the People’s Choice Winner.
