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Welcome to Create! Magazine Issue #27! Enjoy in-depth discussions with Brock DeBoer, Cooper, Keight MacLean, Tania Marmolejo Andersson, and Timothy Gatenby, along with articles focused on the future of the art world and helpful career tips to achieve success. Articles: Grittiness & Gold: Interview with Ceramic Artist Brock DeBoer by Alicia Puig The Electric Buzz of Interior Life: Interview with Cooper by Christina Nafziger Who’s That Lady? Keight MacLean Reimagines the Identities of Forgotten Women Through Contemporary Portraiture by Alicia Puig Mirrored Feelings: Provoking Emotion & Curiosity in Paintings by Tania Marmolejo Andersson by Alicia Puig Blurring the Recognizable: Interview with Tim Gatenby by Alicia Puig Career in Focus: Business of Art Tips Digital Art and Duchamp’s Fountain: How Reflections of Society Spur the Biggest Controversies by Tam Gryn Curated Section, Artists Selected by Guest Curators TAX Collection The TAX Collection was created in 2015 by Max Berman and Tanner Steslow out of a spirit of recognition for emerging artists and a new generation of creatives working across digital and physical mediums. The TAX Collection is a multimodal creative platform aimed at revolutionizing the way popular culture interacts within artist-audience and producer-consumer relationships. Culture stagnates around specific icons and imagery for no apparent reason; it simply just does. The general public has been duped, allowing them selves to be misled into subscribing to industry set standards and trends. trends dominate consumer desire and, in turn, creators and artists are tailored to design what the consumer considers trendy - stifling artistic freedom of expression. Featured Artists: Ali Alamdar Koko Alexander Filipe Assuncao Hamish Bassett Kimberly Blackstock Thomas Cameron Candace Ceslow Jennifer Cronin Yvadney Davis Hannah Duggan J