Dawn Grace tattooing at Bella Rose Studio, where she offers all styles for custom tattoos, but also focuses on scar coverups for post-mastectomy, gender confirming top surgery and self-harm scars.

Over the years, she has created a safe space in her studio for all sexual orientations, gender identities, ethnicities, classes and abilities.

Grace working on a peonie tattoo for a client.

Elena Gatti in her home studio in Chicago, IL, USA, where she has created art for musicians like Harry Styles, Laufey, Maggie Rogers and more, as well as experimenting with painting on lamp shades and rice paper.

Gatti working on a piece she plans on showcase at various art exhibitions in 2025.

Gatti with her dog Maverick.

Matt Bodett sharing his inspirations behind his works at his studio at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, IL, USA.

"My work is driven by a desire to reimagine classical paintings and cultural myths through the lens of madness, not as a medical condition, but as a culturally relevant and human experience. So much of our cultural history romanticizes or sanitizes madness, often using it as a means to highlight genius or religious sainthood. Instead, I challenge these narratives, reworking them to include madness as a rich, ordinary part of human life. I want to explore what it means to live in a world that embraces madness as an essential part of identity. "

Bodett also founded Center for Mad Culture, born from his desire to provide others with the insights and support he wishes he had during his own struggles with diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Of which he no longer identifies with, that reshaped his perspective on reality and its function in the mind.

Gabrielle Stone working on a commissioned painting at her studio at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, IL, USA.

Stone's work explores the nature of place using color, form, and materiality to depict environments that are whimsical in their reimagining.

"The concept of ‘place’ is a persistent theme in my work."

Portraits of A Process