Kelly Berg & Caroline Larsen, have both developed mixed media relief-paintings that occupy the territory between painting and sculpture. Using unconventional materials and processes their work depicts both natural phenomena and magical surfaces.

Kelly Berg's layered and sculptural works explore painting as a medium in unexpected ways, by creating chaotic abstract and textural reliefs that often frame or morph into mysterious cataclysmic scenes and geological landscapes.

Berg remarked, "I saw the formations of volcanic rock left from the lava flows, and was captivated by the sharp sculptural forms and how they seemed to represent the power of nature frozen in time. I wanted to make paintings that are strong and solid like rock, yet that expressed a sense of gesture and movement: something both fleeting and eternal at the same time, which is what I saw in the volcano." Berg is aware of the implicit contradictions in her endeavor but nonetheless strives to make paintings that describe the uncanny beauty of these dangerous and unpredictable natural forces.

Caroline Larsen's paintings are explicitly tactile, weaving colors together into extruded surfaces thickly modeled, and sculpted with paint. Her process-oriented paintings weave threads of paint creating a sort of plastic embroidery or thickly woven textile.

Influenced by the pseudo-psychedelic works of artists such as Peter Saul and Erik Parker, Larsen organizes the imagery in her paintings in such a way that allows the viewer to oscillate between moments of vivid form and abstraction depending on their distance from the surface. Her paintings referencing ornamental decoration, Landscape and still life, bear resemblance to densely woven textiles, are a product of a unique painterly process.