Katie Southworth is an internationally collected, full-time, independent, abstract artist, bestselling author, and public speaker. She received Bachelor’s degrees in Studio Art and Psychology from Colby College in 2016, as well as a Masters in Teaching Art from Tufts University in 2018. She began her fine art career in Boston while she taught Visual Art for Boston Public Schools. She began pursuing art full time in 2021. Over 300 of her original works are in private and public collections across 50+ cities around the nation and abroad. Katie’s work has been exhibited at international art fairs including Aqua Art Miami (Art Basel Week), and featured in international, local, and fine art publications including Vogue, Colby Magazine, and Create! Magazine. Katie has delivered Keynote Speeches about her life and work at Gradutation Ceremonies and Mental Health Organization fundraisers, including Wave Strong‘s inaugural event in September 2024. In April 2024 Katie published her first book, Dr. Roy G. Biv; Healing One Colorful Painting at a Time, An Artist’s Journey to Hope and Joy. It is currently available on Amazon in hardcover and paperback.

This intimate collection of Katie’s work celebrates her love language: color. Featuring several pieces from her brand new “Beloved” Series as well as a handful of others from various points in her career, “Love, in Color” showcases her commitment to the power of color over time. Pieces from the “Beloved” celebrate all forms of love, from maternal nurture to romance to platonic intimacy. Tiny illustrations and paired haikus serve as vignettes about either the umbilical bond, budding love, or the connection between kindred spirits. While “Beloved” is specifically inspired by love, Katie has been using vivid color to communicate big emotions throughout her career. Why? Because color is evidence of light, light is energy, energy is a key ingredient in joy, and joy is what makes life worth living. We invite you to bask in the vibrancy to lift your mood, allow the minimalism to calm your energy, and let the writing touch your heart. 

Alena Sokolova- An interdisciplinary artist based in Boston, she is a member and resident of the SoWa Artists Studios community.

 Her practice explores play as a metaphor for digital reality, engaging with themes of identity, mimetic behavior, and visual simulation. Her work reflects a search for inner balance amid media noise and critiques the performative nature of social media.

 Her visual language combines digital aesthetics, archaic symbols, and retrofuturism. She works across painting, drawing, digital art, and infographics.

 Her works are included in private collections in the US, the UK, Russia, and across Europe.

My work merges classical oil painting techniques, such as glazing, with contemporary graphic elements to explore the tension between tradition and modernity. Through detailed studies of flowers and plants — from full bloom to decay — I investigate the themes of transformation, impermanence, and inner balance. I often use gold leaf and other reflective materials to amplify contrast and emotional texture.

At the same time, my practice is rooted in a critique of digital culture. I reflect on how identity, perception, and emotional experience are shaped by hyperreality, simulation, and algorithmic trends. Drawing from post-digital aesthetics, astrology, and symbolic systems, I explore visual strategies that question performative identity and media-saturated environments.

My interdisciplinary approach blends painting, mixed media, and poetic structure. Inspired by theorists like Baudrillard and the ethos of “new sincerity”, I treat art as a form of filtering — a way to navigate informational noise and return to emotional authenticity. In this way, my work invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and reimagine their place in an overstimulated world.