Isabella Losskarn is a pastel artist, researcher, and writer whose work uses visual metaphor to assess a variety of contemporary queries on intersections between gender, sexuality, and the human act of living in a marketized atmosphere. Her hyper-realistic pastel artworks of strange, oftentimes absurd, and decidedly incorrect pop-culture product interactions have so far been exhibited in a number of venues across the Southeastern United States, including Goodyear Arts (Charlotte, NC), the Spartanburg Art Museum, the LaGrange Art Museum, and Revolve Gallery in Asheville, NC. Losskarn received her BFA in Drawing from UNC Asheville in 2021, and an MFA at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in May 2026.

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A forgotten bunch of bludgeoned Bananas, a bent-up collection of Safety Pins, Shocking Power outlets, and Peeling-Product Stickers — these useful items are familiar harbingers of daily living under contemporary capitalism. Perhaps you left your Bananas out too long while waiting for the perfect ripeness, or you plugged something in wrong (and that little spark thing happened), or you pricked yourself on a pin while looking for a paperclip, or you just can’t get that little pesky price sticker off no matter how much you gunk your fingernail up trying. Izzy Losskarn makes art about that — that way that capitalism unjustly drives and divides culture along lines of race and gender, that way that capitalism keeps us too busy to eat our bananas before they rot, or wonder about the history which has brought them to us. Losskarn makes big, hyperrealistic pastel drawings which visually phrase questions like these with a subtle and sophisticated cadence; each drawing of hers is a work of color theory and visual metaphor that offers a calculated feminist on the pitfalls of contemporary popular culture.

"Colorful plastic debris, shiny metal scraps, rusty car parts and burnt tree limbs. These objects embody the complicated relationship between humans and nature. This relationship can be sustaining, disdainful, nurturing, exploitive, responsive, meditative and more. My art practice uses found materials to create artwork depicting visual aspects of climate change. Found objects are my palette. Remnants from dumpster dives and beach clean-ups provide fertile ground for artistic inspiration as well as raw materials for making art. Through methods of collecting and cataloguing, I create artworks evoking processes of over-production, mass consumption, waste, and recycling. These compositions express critical narratives that question the sustainability of our globalized society. Both a sculptor and an architect by training, my artworks comment on human transgressions of natural and constructed environments. An environmentally engaged artist, my practice involves attending artist residencies at art farms around the country. I collaborate with conservation groups and community preservationists to create art evoking local sustainability issues. This place-based and research-oriented process explores native ecological narratives in different climatic regions. My multi-disciplinary artworks probe the intersections between sculpture, architecture, installation, and land art to comment on humanity’s intricate relationship with nature."

Jeff Schofield is trained both as a sculptor and an architect. He holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an M Arch from Columbia University in the City of New York. An American citizen, Schofield was raised in Brussels, Belgium, and later worked in Paris and Dubai as a sustainable architect. He settled in Detroit seven years ago to pursue a career as a visual artist focused on environmental themes. Schofield creates large-scale environmental installations, including outdoor public artworks at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, the Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden at Chautauqua Institute in New York, Park Hill Orchard Sculpture Garden in Massachusetts, Prairie Creek Park in Indiana, Kellogg Community College in Michigan, and the Dubai English Speaking College in the United Arab Emirates. Schofield has exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the United States Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Dubai International Art Center. He has participated in group shows in Rome, Brussels, and throughout South America. Schofield was a Featured Artist at the Detroit Artists Market, and has had solo shows at Roy G Biv Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Talking Dolls Gallery in Detroit, Hatch Art Gallery in Hamtramck, KINK Contemporary Gallery in Cleveland, Bread and Circus Gallery in Fort Wayne, and Artlink Gallery also in Fort Wayne. His works have been included in group shows at Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, Muskegon Art Museum in Michigan, The Dow Museum of Science and Art also in Michigan, the Albuquerque Museum, Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio, The Alexandria Museum in Louisiana, The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, and The Torpedo Factory in Virginia. Schofield has attended a number of sponsored artist residencies, both overseas and in the USA. International residencies include The Jam Jar in Dubai, The Art Hub in Abu Dhabi, and Songbird Sanctuary in France. American residencies include Chulitna Lodge in Alaska, Art Farm Nebraska, Yellow Bird Art Farm, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel Arts, Franconia Sculpture Park, Monson Arts, Prairie Ronde, Residency 108, PlySpace, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Edgewood Farm, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and The Spruill Farm Conservation Project.

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