A labor bot from a long gone factory with long gone brothers.

Labor Bot

Colorful surreal cartoon style character face.

Healer-15

A digital painting of a woman propped against the car seat of a convertible, aiming her phone to take a selfie.

Auto Selfie

An illustration of a fox singing at a nightclub, surrounded by other listening animals.

One Lone Howl

MIXED EMOTIONS 

Seated Artist

A digital, wordless comic of a figure shedding their skin and joining hands with other figures in their muscular anatomical  states.

Meat and Cheese

Nine squares, each representing a landscape somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle, and then back again.  Each captures elements of sky, mountains and colors, capturing the weather and the time of day as well as the unique landscape of the moment.

Roadtrip

two hands, one holds a dark rough uncut diamond, the other nine variously colored gem stones.  

diamonds

A sharp silhouette of a man's head engulfed in circles of varying colors, sizes, and interpretations.

acri circulos

Winged angel represents Love, holding on the women which is friendship. LOVE RULES!

Love and Friendship

A moogle from the video game series "Final Fantasy" lounges in front of a bookshelf, reading a book.

Do you like to read, kupo?

Purple feet and legs in green-blue water with the orange sun shining in

Feet in the Lake

Forest Spirit

A woodcut portrait of a male figure at rest. His head takes up most of the frame, his brows are furrowed. 

Untitled (Reclining Man)

Brightly colored bomb with patterns that elude to destruction and our failed healthcare system. 

Crisis Market (Series)

a small, mixed, brown, chinese girl with pigtails taking a joyous bite out of a bright orange persimmon from a tree in her grandmother’s backyard. the girl is wearing black overalls and a turquoise turtle neck sweater. the background is hot pink and goldenrod yellow. 

persimmon joy

Overlapping layers of vibrant green, yellow and fluorescent pink inks combine to render a nude male figure slumbering in an expressive bed of flowers.

Valentine

A stylized painting of a long-haired tabby cat sitting regally with green, yellow, and orange monstera leaves in the background.

Appa and the Monstera

A robot with a top hat sitting on a rock. Black and gold.

Lonely Robot

An impressionistic hand-pressed monotype print in black & white of a couple coming together at the end of the day to share an intimate dance in their kitchen.

Coming Home

Monochromatic white, black and gray digital illustration of a black cat on stone railing of castle in the the light of a midnight full moon. 

She Rules Her Kingdom by the Light of the Moon

A set of stripes warp in the middle to reveal a black cat hiding underneath.

Op Art Cat

A woodblock print of silhouetted trees against a blue and white winter landscape.

First Snow

Square black ink intaglio monoprint with vertical and horizontal strokes.

Match

Six feminine figures that have width like giant cookie cutters, running in a circle.  With a black background, their bright turquoise outline shimmers against blues and grays, striping as a blur giving them motion and dimension.

WOMANDALA

A black and white linocut print of a simplified house with deer legs, appearing to swiftly move to the right and trailing smoke.  The print is in a black wooden frame.

On to the Next Thing

This image is the artist’s grandmother’s handmade button showing sequins on the front and hand stitching on the back of a felt base. All the elements and the background are black. It is one of dozens of objects archived by the artist.

Anna's handmade sequin button, front, back

Two sheet ghosts sit on a bench in the middle of trees with orange and red leaves. A path leads away from them into the trees as one ghost points towards it. A single street light shines on them.

Not Alone

Jane Fonda's face/head with vivid green eyes and bright yellow hair, floating in a bubble that's floating in a bright green space.

Green-Eyed Bubble Girl

A drypoint print of a nude person standing in front of a mirror, holding a cellphone. The figure is sharp and angular, wearing an expression of detachment. To the right of the figure is the word "he". The ink is dark blue on creme colored paper.

Labor Bot, 2018

John Bartell