Dima Alekseev explores the cultural layers of the city, where the traces of its inhabitants remain imprinted like generalized portraits on walls. Faces appear in his paintings, not with joy or happiness, but with emotions of patience, contemplation, sadness, and acceptance, conveying the inner world of those who have left their homes to make way for new generations. His work captures the emotional and physical marks of migration, where the scars of the past—tears, loss, and resignation—are layered with the passage of time. Alekseyev’s paintings evoke the feeling of old frescoes on the walls of semi-real houses, revealing stories that transcend the material world and speak to the resilience and fragility of human experience. Dima’s art reflects a profound journey from alienation to acceptance, a process of confronting loss while adapting to new circumstances.

Ariel Czesler’s paintings evoke the essence of Buenos Aires, the city where he grew up—a place both chaotic and organized, full of contradictions. Rather than depicting specific locations, his work captures the palpable human presence through architectural elements and structures that grow organically over time. Vehicles, symbols of urban life, reinforce the sense of movement, transition, and change. In his art, the city comes alive, stretching and evolving as if living, and while no human figures appear, their presence is deeply felt—the city itself becomes a testament to the unseen lives that built and inhabited it. Ariel’s work reflects his own experience of immigration, his art becoming a way of revisiting his roots while exploring the transient nature of human existence within the urban landscape.

​LELA BRUNET (b. 1985) is a visual artist living in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her BA in Art Education from Kennesaw State University in 2014. With her main subject being the female form, Lela explores the contrast created when the grace of the figure and the tension of energetic patterns and colors collide together. Lela’s work explores this visual battlefield of pattern, color, and form. She works in a variety of media including murals, painting, drawing, and design. She has exhibited her work and murals in multiple galleries and events throughout the United States and internationally. Her clients include Adidas, Microsoft, MailChimp, Facebook, Starbucks, Pepsi, NCR Corporation, Orpheus Brewing, Mellow Mushroom, and Soul Cycle.