A former Detroiter, Tristan Eaton is at the forefront of the Vinyl Art Toy industry having designed the popular Kid Robot figures, the most famous of which is the internationally coveted Dunny . Tristan is also an award-winning illustrator and animator whose work has been contracted by Xbox, Nike and Cartoon Network. Eaton’s urban graffiti art  can also be seen with the likes of Dr Revolt, Crash and Futura. He currently is president and Art Director of Thunderdog Studios in New York City.

Nothing about Jerry Vile’s art is subtle. The former publisher of the legendary Orbit Magazine and creator of The Dirty Show, stretches the finest line between good  taste and fine- art , provocation and pretension with childlike imagery that alternately humors and repulses the viewer. Making fun of the “fine artist” and all that it encompasses is Vile’s  artistic raison d'etre.

One of Detroit’s rising Art Stars, Richard’s sculptural fashions and their medium is as creepy as it is sexual . Delicate gowns and lingerie made from sausage casings and resin invoke many polarizing opinions, some of awe and some of repulsion.  Richard has caught the eye of important collectors like Fluxxus scion, Gil Silverman, who have included her installations into their private collections. Richard will  have live models wearing her latest creations at Fringe Festival.

For 20 years as a professional dancer who has worked for all of the Big Apple’s finest dance companies, As he toured hall over the world, Resto would apply parchment to the relief of manhole covers from New York to New Delhi, and offset the raised image to paper. These amazing artistic travelogues in bas-relief, also offer a glimpse into the cultural underbelly of imagery where we least expect it.

Using the “beloved throw aways” as her jumping off point, things that someone valued at one time, but have since been discarded, become a multi-media functional and non functional funhouse

Her expressionist nude figurative work in ink and  liquid comestibles like coffee and wine which give texture to the gentle swaths of color that accentuate the visual disintigration of the female  underscoring the metaphorically dark subtext.

Left of center glass and installation art from a multi-talented artist/musician/performance artist who hasn’t  yet found a medium she couldn’t take on.

Sculpturally macabre monsters from the soft world. Harris captures the essence of great fairy tale imagery-the comfortable creepiness that lures us all into its fantastical realm.

Exquisite bronze sculpture that runs the gamut from retro-classical to post-modern from one work to the other, is the hallmark of the Ann Arbor native.