Phones and tablets deliver the power of a “palette in every pocket” and have accelerated the rise of the emerging artist with accessible and affordable equipment, apps and platforms.

STCEA celebrates this creative revolution with smARTwork featuring works made exclusively on smart devices by nine artist from the U.S. and Canada. After you check out these amazing works, please take a moment and vote for your favorite for the People’s Choice Award. You’ll find the voting form at the end of the exhibit.

Lovely madonna like figure levitating over the sea with the image of COVID in the foreground

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Madonna of the Sea

Adam Strange

Aldous Huxley, the British writer, once wrote, “There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

Adam Strange creates his digital photomontages in that space between the known and unknown. The space is made of the thin unreliability of memory and shards of lived experience, which are reconstructed into stark forms and landscapes, resulting in nuanced, disturbing and sensual images. The pieces are journeys from the purely aesthetic to a sacramental vision. There is a discordant beatific vision in the absence of colour, which engenders a lack of visual and emotional information. The removal of this content from the picture requires the viewer to confront a stark reality immediately. Light and shade, and blackness become the primary language for interpreting the image.

These are montages of realism. By turns, demanding, fearful, and disorienting. They are fit representations of the times we live in.

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Woman stands firm under the weight of impending doom as a large cliff face is suspended over her body.

Second Place - The Weight, Adam Strange

 
 
A surreal black and white sci fi scene with a giant cliff face rising above a sea of tiny people.

Endeavor, Adam Strange

Highly stylized anime mermaid figure in beautiful flowing crimson dress

First Place - Voiceless, Megan Livingston