Soft Power Studios is home to a growing constellation of artists, thinkers, and makers who center softness, curiosity, and community in their practice.
Studio Artists
The People Who Shape Soft Power Studios
Current Studio Artists
Getsay
They/ Them
is a queer, non-binary conceptual artist working across performance, sculpture, and installation. Their work explores the liminal space between perception and reality through a relational and textual lens, using personal experience as a point of entry. By translating embodied knowledge into accessible forms, Getsay creates work grounded in feeling and care that engages diverse cultural and social contexts.
Katie Kearns
They/ Them
Gunnhildur Walsh Hauksdóttir
She/Her
is a queer multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, ceramics, and installation. Their work explores the relationship between self and space by reimagining domestic objects as intimate expressions of human experience, using surreal elements to reflect the inherent queerness of everyday life.
Lena Baranova
She/Her
is a visual artist working with mixed techniques. Drawing from avant-garde, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism, her work uses bright color and fluid texture to explore hidden aspects of the subconscious. Her work constructs layered, symbolic spaces where figures and objects operate as carriers of thought, memory, and subconscious experience.
Sam Castille
He/ It
is a multidisciplinary artist working across writing, painting, digital art, and lino-printing. His work spans a wide range of subject matter, with a particular fondness for rendering the macabre through a cute yet unsettling sensibility. Alongside his artistic practice, he specializes in permanent hair-removal planning and treatment for FLINTA* individuals.
Michael Großstück
He/ Him
is a visual artist working primarily with collage. His practice unfolds through layered imagery, tracing the shifting terrain of emotion, memory, and desire. Each work forms a subtle space where personal instinct meets shared feeling, inviting viewers into their own fragmented inner landscapes.
Giulio Secondo
He/ Him
a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, and symbolic practice. His work draws from poetry, mythology, and intuitive systems like tarot to explore the intersections of emotion, narrative, and spirit, often invoking dream-like imagery that bridges inner worlds with shared mythologies. By weaving literary sensibility with visual form, Secondo creates work that resonates with both personal introspection and collective imagination.
Araceli
She/Her
A multidisciplinary designer working across fashion, digital culture, and identity construction. Her practice explores garments as sites of narrative, self-representation, and transformation—bridging physical and virtual worlds through cyber aesthetics, Gen-Z visual language, and evolving forms of selfhood. By approaching design as both material practice and cultural expression, Araceli creates work where body, image, and technology converge.
Maike Bruells
She/ Her
is a queer visual artist working with abstract, experimental mixed-media painting. Her practice is guided by intuition, color, and texture. Rather than beginning with a fixed concept, Maike allows each work to unfold through material exploration — following her love of layered surfaces, diverse textures, and the emotional language of color. Her paintings carry a sense of openness and play. Within these abstract compositions, subtle traces of sapphic symbolism sometimes appear, quietly becoming part of the work’s emotional and visual world.
Gunnhildur Walsh Hauksdóttir is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, installation, and performance.In her practice, drawing becomes more than image — a space between form, sound, event, and collective action. She transforms visual material into musical scores for choirs and instruments, moving drawing beyond the page into live, performative space.Through site-specific outreach and workshops, participants learn to read visual scores and activate them through voice, movement, and composition. Her work turns visual language into something shared, where image is not only seen, but performed, interpreted, and transformed.
