The Pixel Room

Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and also being of Dominican descent, Emmanuel Hernandez has been exposed to different creative endeavors. He was exposed to music at age 11, listening to Bachata music and learning how to play guitar by ear. Later, he formed an independent record label to help other artists. Along the way, he purchased an…

Julie K. Gray is a Maine-based interdisciplinary artist who primarily works in photography, sculpture and needlepoint. She earned her BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 2005 and has since earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maine College of Art (2012). She has exhibited widely in New England as well as…

Jake Romano has been painting digitally since 2012. He has had no formal training in illustration but in his time spent studying graphic design in community college, he discovered that illustration and design are two sides of the same coin of visual communication. They both use color, shape, composition, and emotion to speak to and…

“Our sense of self, and our understanding of ourselves, has never been more important than in the present day. Not only are we rushing to keep up with a deluge of daily news and events, but with the current pandemic and various states of lockdown spreading throughout the world, our proximity to our “selves” and,…

Joseph Podlesnik is trained mainly in drawing and painting and it is this experience which seems to influence his approach to photography.  For Podlesnik, the camera lens depicts perspective too easily, which is why he captures and makes photographs which often frustrate readable perspectival space. For him, the photographic image is not only a window…