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Guimi You (artist website)

There’s something very disarming about You’s paintings owing to both her choice of palette (lots of pale hues and soft primary tones) and her subject matter (a mix of activities related to child-rearing and domestic chores). But her work is quietly epic. Her seven and a half-foot-tall painting “Destroyer” (2016), for instance, commanded one entire wall of her studio this weekend, its spatially disorienting drama only gradually resolving into a coherent image — that of a god-like toddler imposing his wrath on a toy train set. Likewise, it takes a moment for the cascading waves of “Drain Drain Drain” (2017) to register as what must be art history’s most epic painting of broccoli washing. —BS

Jeffrey Hutchinson Fay has spent the past year creating oil paintings and woodcuts of small town New England architectural scenes.  

His work includes a large scale woodcut If I Could Talk, printed with Big Ink, and organization that invites artists to collaborate on large scale woodcuts, In Through the Gate, a memory of a house from his childhood in MA, and When One Door Opens a house flattened with a fire engine red paint job.