Welcome to SYNC GALLERY

Monica Hokeilen (pronounced HOE-ki’len) grew up in an artistic family in the rural midwest and has been creating all her life. While following a science path for college and career that led her to many fascinating experiences, including working at Kennedy Space Center on the Space Shuttle Program, two masters degrees (Space Systems, Planetary Science), and a PhD (Planetary Geophysics), she has returned to art at every opportunity.

She is mostly self-taught as an artist, and has enjoyed studying with other artists when the opportunity arises. As an adult, her family moved often, providing a variety of experiences and environments that are often reflected in the subject matter of her art. She is now settled in Aurora, Colorado with her family where she paints in a variety of subjects that reflects who she is and the path she has walked in life.

Through her oil on canvas paintings of wildlife, Monica seeks to reflect a broader scope of life on Earth beyond the well-worn paths of our daily routines that keep us focused on our small part of this planet. She often paints over previous paintings and sketches, allowing parts of the underlying scenes to show through, like creating windows into the past. “Our stories are always changing, building, overlapping” says Monica. “Our paths all lead us to this moment where we stand on the precipice between what was and what will be.” While she notes that the choices we make have global and multi-generational impacts, she feels that makes them both a weight and an opportunity. Monica’s art is a reminder that the beauty and hope in this world outweighs the despair and hate, and we should be optimistic as we look beyond the horizon of today.

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Barry Schroeder finds art inside of every snapshot in time. He takes pictures of architecture, light patterns and unique forms he finds in nature and in our concrete world. Barry likes to use various applications to manipulate colors, shapes, depths of field, and textures, until he feels it is creating its own life within the movement.

He says "I am inspired by the different and unique color palettes that walk in and out of our lives. I am constantly looking for different angles and backgrounds that I can isolate, shape, and transform into an original, colorful work of art. This is where I find my deepest inspiration.

My artwork represents a different world or place in time that is a visual firework of color and emotion. My goals are to provide people with something unique and full of depth and color. Something that often reminds them of a vision, but never quite placing a finger on what it is they are taking in.

My ultimate goal in creating is to make people pause and think about what they may or may not see inside of my creations.

Art surrounds us always. It just takes a moment in time to focus, find it, and recreate it."

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Monica Hokeilen - Here Again  36x48 oil on canvas

Barry Schroeder - Einstein's Eye