Sandy Schimmel Gold upcycles unusual resources such restaurant menus, cruise itineraries, and gallery opening cards to create her art and give others' images and words a new life. She questions the ideas of the face and beauty, and uses tesserae or tiles to represent the elements from which people are created.

In his youth, Joshua Stone spent well over a decade painting street graffiti and commissioned murals with other top artists of the genre. In his current body of work, graffiti elements combine with blocks of images stitched together providing complexity of detail and simplicity of composition.