ARTISTS
Kelly Lewis is an artist who speaks through materials. Her work is not loud—but it resonates.
With a background in design and over a decade as a professional nail artist, Kelly Lewis brings an exacting eye and steady hand to everything she touches. But it’s in the studio, surrounded by paint, thread, and raw surfaces, that her creative instinct truly unfolds.
Her fluid paintings ripple with intuition. Color moves across the canvas like breath—controlled only enough to guide the story. She doesn’t force an outcome. Instead, she invites the medium to reveal itself, allowing chemistry, timing, and texture to shape the final form. These works are emotional landscapes—reflective, moody, sometimes cosmic. They feel like dreams suspended in motion.
Alongside painting, K.A. Lewis explores macramé, where pattern and patience become sculpture. Her textile work balances structure and softness, knot by knot. There’s a quiet strength in it—a return to craft, to rhythm, to ancient memory reimagined through a modern lens.
What binds all her work together is an emotional honesty. She creates not to impress but to express. To process. To connect. Her art carries the weight of things not always spoken aloud—grief, restoration, wonder, and stillness. Whether in rope or paint, her pieces are tactile meditations on the internal landscapes we all carry.
As both a resident artist and co-owner of G16 Studios, K.A. Lewis brings not only her creative voice but her vision for what this space can be. Her presence is felt in both the details and the atmosphere. She is not here to chase trends—she is here to build something real. One piece at a time.
Kelly Lewis
Artist | Fluid Painter | Textile Artisan | Co-Owner of Garage 16 Studios
ZiOnE does not simply paint—he transmits. His canvases speak in frequency.
They are collages of memory, resistance, and revival; signals from the subconscious repurposed as visual form. Rooted in lived experience but unbound by any single genre or geography, ZiOnE’s work is both intensely personal and expansively cosmic.
His art is raw, layered, and often confrontational. Graffiti scars emerge beneath galaxy spirals. Symbols—ancient and invented—flash across his surfaces like coded messages. In one piece, you may find a constellation; in another, a burning blueprint. What ties it all together is energy. ZiOnE paints like a man possessed—not by chaos, but by clarity. By the urgent need to express what conventional language cannot carry.
A philosopher disguised as a painter, ZiOnE often weaves sacred geometry, numerology, and ancestral references into his compositions. His recurring motifs hint at systems of control and liberation, loss and reclamation, fractured identity and full-bodied healing. These are not random strokes. They are statements. Some whispered. Some screamed.
Beyond the canvas, ZiOnE is also a mentor, cultural commentator, and artistic disruptor. At G16 Studios, he brings with him not only his paintings but his presence—a steady force pushing others to go deeper, to risk more, to create work that matters.
He is not here to entertain. He is here to awaken.
ZiOnE’s residency is more than a placement—it’s a ritual. Through his work, we are reminded that the past is not gone, the future is not fixed, and the present is ours to shape.
ZiOnE
Painter | Cultural Provocateur | Interdimensional Storyteller
A.M. Rush is a visual artist whose work lives at the intersection of image, language, and internal architecture.
Trained in the traditions of printmaking but guided by a deeply personal philosophy, her pieces unfold slowly—layer by layer, word by word. They are not declarations. They are contemplations.
Her 2008 series—central to the Territory of Thought exhibition—explores four thematic pillars: SELF, PLACE, POWER, and LAND. But these are not final answers—they are invitations. What began as a request to name a set of untitled prints evolved into a wider exploration of meaning-making itself. Words began to spill outward, cascading onto walls, reaching into the white space. The result is a body of work that breathes beyond the frame. It resists closure. It asks the viewer to step in—not just with the eyes, but with the whole self.
Rush’s visual language is deceptively quiet. Her lines are careful, her textures spare. But within that stillness is a dense field of meaning. Each work is a moment captured at the edge of thought—where memory and sensation collapse into gesture. She is less interested in spectacle than she is in resonance. In art that leaves a trace on the mind, not just the wall.
A.M. Rush works slowly and deliberately. Her practice is rooted in reflection, in listening to the materials, in allowing thoughts to settle into form. There is a meditative discipline in her approach, one that values clarity without simplification. Her prints are portals—into emotion, into landscape, into the shape of belief systems not yet spoken aloud.
As a resident artist at G16 Studios, A.M. Rush brings a grounding presence and a lens through which complexity is honored, not reduced. Her work reminds us that stillness is not silence—and that great depth often arrives with the gentlest touch.
A.M. Rush
Printmaker | Philosopher of Form | Visual Poet
