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SOMETHING WICKED 2026 Virtual Gallery

Fiber sculpture of a human heart that has been stabbed, hanging on a white wall. An embroidered anatomical heart in shades of red sits inside a round embroidery hoop with a blue background, and long strands of red yarn pour down from it like dripping blood, studded with red beads, falling about four feet to pool in a tangled puddle on the wooden floor.

Abbey Goscinski

The Bleeding Heart

$250

Large black-and-white monotype print with a ghostly, smudged texture, scattered with small white circles like bubbles. Pale scratchy handwriting across the dark ink reads "We Have Been Trying To REACH You ABOUT YOUR CAR'S Extended WARRANTY," and a white handprint is pressed into the upper right corner.

Abby Mungai King

The Message

$100

Painting of a man with glasses and tousled dark hair reclining like a classical nude against heavy green drapery. From the waist down he has a grey, scaly fish tail with a spiny fin, and scales spread across his bare chest. A still life of fruit, flowers, a vase and a severed fish head fills the foreground.

Adam “Beatnik” Grewenig

Fishboy

$700

Oil painting of a figure with long, glowing pale-yellow hair, head bowed and one hand pressed over the face, which is sunk in green-black shadow. Golden rays radiate from behind the head like a halo against a black background.

Alisa Duda

Meditation

$300

Small oval relief cast in rough, silvery aluminum, leaning against a white wall. Raised lines on its textured surface form an arched shape with a small figure inside, surrounded by tiny stars and a crescent moon.

Amanda Morgado

Ghost Swing

NFS

Painting with sculptural elements in a red wooden frame. A bright yellow skeleton, shown as a grinning skull and a long spine in profile, faces a pink, three-dimensional human heart sculpted onto the canvas and dripping pink and yellow paint down the frame. A white spine grows up out of the heart like a stem and ends in a real red daisy-like flower. The background is filled with swirling blue, purple and green circles.

Ami Schneider

Grow a Spine

NFS

Painting of three red poppies with tall green stems against a shimmering gold background. The flowers are framed by a pink border decorated with vines, set inside a black, starry night sky with a red full moon at the top. A banner above the poppies reads "to sleep, perchance to dream."

Anne LoCascio

Blood Moon Poppies

$200

Large painting of two people sitting side by side in a diner booth, both with sickly green, zombie-like skin and tired, hollow eyes. The man on the left wears a red and white knit hat and a striped scarf, hands folded near an empty plate. The person on the right wears a red beanie and headphones and holds a drink cup and a phone. A red-and-white checkered wall is behind them.

Ashley Hanna-Quade

Dead Tired

$350

Comic-poster style painting of a massive dark boar with curved tusks and glowing red eyes standing in blood-red water under a stone sewer arch. Behind it is an orange sky over the Union Stockyards gate, and a column of three pig heads on the right decays from bloodied flesh to bare skull. Yellow caption boxes tell the story: "In the early 1900s, the Union Stockyards of Chicago butchered millions of animals a year. One grisly night lightning struck the slaughterhouse. Amid the chaos one massive boar slipped away into the labyrinth of waste. Engorged on the discarded carcasses of its own kind, it survived. And it became..." The title, "The Sewer Swine of the South Branch," appears in large red and yellow letters.

BD Mead

The Sewer Swine of the South Branch

$666

Small dark grey wooden shadow-box cabinet with shelves. The top compartments hold a corked glass vial of dried specimens, a split geode with white crystals, and a small bone. The large lower compartment holds a detailed colored-pencil drawing of an animal jawbone with teeth, tied up with thin red ribbons, alongside a round blue pendant and a small green jeweled charm.

Becca Howe

Bone Cabinet

$275

A real preserved tarantula, legs spread wide, mounted in a black wood shadow box against a white background. A tiny red bow sits on its back, and a strip of white lace runs along the top edge of the box.

Beck Taylor

Cutie Patootie

$105

Floor lamp shaped like a reaper's scythe, photographed at night in a shop window. A tall dark pole rises from a coffin-shaped base and ends in a long curved blade, from which two ornate lanterns hang on chains, glowing blue. Blue light also glows beneath the base.

Bert kelly

Reapers light

$600

Painted foam sculpture, photographed outdoors on grass, of a cartoonish boy with grey hair, a pink face and wide staring eyes, wearing a red shirt and blue jeans. He holds out a large animal skull in one hand, like Hamlet with Yorick's skull, and stands on a mossy, rocky base shaped like a hollow basin with green sprouts.

Bobby Rowland

Thinking Ahead

$667

Loosely painted portrait of a gaunt vampire with pale green-tinged skin, bloodshot bulging eyes, straight brown hair and a mouth full of fangs, tilting his head toward the viewer. He wears a green striped jacket with a spider brooch, and a small brown bat-like creature perches on his shoulder. The background is filled with overlapping pale green cactus pads. Signed "Brian Ingersoll Jr, August 2026."

Brian Ingersoll Jr

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

$400

Round red canvas, photographed on fallen leaves, showing the head of a white lamb with floppy pink-lined ears and black eyes weeping golden tears. The lamb wears a black crown of thorns, and a web of black thorny branches forms a star-like pattern around it over shadowy red leaves.

Brittany Bender

The Gods I Believe In: The Son

$300

Digitally manipulated photograph of a face, smeared and distorted as if melting. Pale, washed-out skin, dark hollow eyes and strands of long blonde hair blur into a hazy cream-colored glow against a black background.

Chris Block

Honestly, I Have Felt Better!

$39.26

Pen-and-ink and colored-pencil drawing of a man in a crosshatched brown suit, white shirt and tie, whose entire head is made of a heap of yellow elbow macaroni, with dark gaps where a face would be. A single noodle is pinned to his lapel. The background is shaded soft red.

Chris Palm

Mr. MacCheese

$150

Two black-and-white faces side by side in a wooden frame. On the left, a large canvas shows a face dissolving into washes of grey and black ink, with dark smudged eyes and a blurred mouth. On the right, a smaller black-framed screenprint shows a starker face built from rough brushy black strokes, with round eyes, a broad nose, thick lips and a round earring.

Dan Meinhart

Shadowings

$670

Dark painting of a witch burning at the stake. A figure with a skull-like face and a dark red dress stands engulfed in orange and yellow flames that rise from the ground. Thick white smoke drifts up toward a pale full moon in a black sky.

EKGS

Persecution of the Witch

$230

Large charcoal drawing in shades of grey. A ring of dark, robed figures holds hands around a bonfire in a clearing between tall pine trees and mountains. The column of smoke rising from the fire twists upward and opens into billowing clouds filled with screaming, ghostly faces.

Eric Shofe

Unbinding

NFS

Wall sculpture of a snake carved from cedar and stained a deep red, with the wood grain showing through. Its long body winds in wavy S-curves from the tapered tail at lower left to the rounded head at upper right, set against a white wall.

Erin McNamara

Sn-Heart

$175

Dark, moody painting in black and blue-grey. A single large feather stands upright in the center, surrounded by loose, swirling pale-blue shapes that suggest roots, branches or twisting figures. The image is enclosed by a painted border in white and grey speckled with black.

Gabe Garcia

Tree of Life

$375

Painting of a grey stream winding into the distance between banks of rust-orange and golden autumn brush. A bare, twisted dark tree leans in from the right, and a deep blue sky with streaks of white cloud fills the top half.

Gabrielle Thompson

Hotel California

$230

Digital collage in deep reds and blacks, framed with a white mat. A pale-faced, hooded figure stands in a red, glowing haze at upper left, overlooking a ruined landscape of debris, splintered wood and barbed wire, where a pale human figure lies sprawled in the wreckage. Scraped, textured streaks of red run through the sky.

Harrison Linden (Diasporium)

You will lose. Again, and Again, and Again.

$125

Copper-toned photographic print of a steep, misty wooded slope. Bright light bursts through the clouds at upper right, and streaks of light cut across from the left. At the bottom, a tangle of bare branches and fallen logs surrounds a small, glowing point of white light.

Heidi Carpenter

Revelation I

$225

Color photograph of a heap of trash on a stained concrete sidewalk: an overstuffed black-green garbage bag, white plastic bags, dried leaves and flattened cardboard, piled against a weathered plywood wall and a green door.

Ivette De Santiago

so trashy

$120

Painting of a young person with shoulder-length dark hair, heavy bangs and dark-circled, blank eyes, sitting in front of an old yellowed desktop computer with a keyboard and mouse. On the screen, over a blue-sky wallpaper, three pop-up windows show disturbing internet images: a grinning dog with human-like teeth, a "LiveLeak" video of bare legs beside a glass jar, and a white-faced masked figure next to a person hunched over a bowl.

Jasper Rizvi

Top 10 Things to Never Look Up

$130

Energetic mixed-media painting in blue, green and orange with scribbled black, pink and blue lines. The words "MONSTER SQUAD" run across the top in bold block letters beside a snarling, fanged monster face. Below, a big-headed alien figure in a ribbed suit stands with arms outstretched, and a row of drawn skulls lines the bottom edge.

Jeremy Kepp

Monster squad

$500

Small painted canvas with a sculpted frame. A pale, hairless figure crouches hunched over, hugging its knees, against a dark background. The frame is a tangle of glossy, worm-like tendrils sculpted from polymer clay in reddish-brown and flesh tones, with one tendril reaching into the painting toward the figure.

Jess Rocha

Death Interrupted

$250

Monochrome grey-brown digital artwork of a monstrous mermaid perched on a rock in churning, splashing sea at night. She has the head of an anglerfish, with jagged teeth and a glowing lure dangling in front of her face, a spiny fin crest and a scaly finned tail. A dark castle stands on a cliff behind her under a full moon, and a shipwreck sits on the rocks at right.

John Bell

Gloomcoast Mermaid

$175

Painting of a group of nude women dancing at night around a long, blazing wall of fire, many with arms raised high. In the foreground, more dancers are silhouetted against the glow, some swirling sheer pale fabric.

John French

Practice

$400

Thickly textured mixed-media piece of a silver skeleton with glowing red eyes, vomiting a long stream of yellow down its chest. It stands within a bright purple and pink halo, surrounded by a border of colorful stained-glass-style shards in blue, green, yellow and red outlined in copper.

Jon Billman

Ralph

$300

Color photograph of a bearded performer in dramatic green-and-black face makeup, sticking out a purple tongue toward the camera. They wear a red military-style cap with large red feathered wings rising from it and a red and green jacket, in front of a stone fireplace strung with glowing lights under pink and purple lighting.

Jovy Skol

The Lady Holiday Special

$400

Wall-mounted sculpture of a plump, oversized bird resembling a shrike, with a grey head, a black mask across its eyes, a hooked grey beak and a textured white chest. Its dark claws grip the rim of the round wooden plaque it is mounted on.

Julia Kemerer

The Collector

$750

Painting of a woman in Day of the Dead Catrina face paint against a bright orange background: a white skull face with closed eyes, gold-leaf eyelids, black lips and a decorative design on her forehead. Her black hair is styled into two large buns, each decorated with a dark red rose, an orange marigold, an orange monarch butterfly and a bony skeleton hand. She wears sparkling red sacred-heart earrings, black-and-white skeleton bones are painted across her neck and shoulders, and small black butterflies flutter beside her.

Karina Chavez

Spooky Catrina

$600

Oil portrait in the style of an 18th-century aristocrat: a man in a curled, powdered white wig and a lace cravat against a dark background. His face is melting away, the flesh dripping down into a dark hollow where his features should be.

Karl Jahnke

Fredrick

$250

Hyper-detailed painting of a cracked, bone-colored human skull lying on dark, crumbly soil. The top of the skull has broken open, and a mass of glossy pink earthworms bulges out where the brain would be, shaped like the folds of a brain. One worm crawls out of an eye socket, and broken skull fragments lie in the dirt.

Ken Simonsen

Unearthed

$1,200

Large clay and plaster wall relief of a woman's face and bust with a third eye in the center of her forehead and a golden sun symbol on her chest. Her wild grey hair spreads outward into twisting roots and long, dark blue tendrils flecked with stars, holding a small ringed planet, a black crow and a tiny sleeping face.

Kim Fuller

The Longest Night's Promise

$900

Tall, narrow painting of a skeleton woman in a flowing blue ball gown with a ruffled collar and a small flowered headpiece. She poses with one bony hand on her hip and the other lifting her skirt, as if about to dance, against a dark background scattered with small blue roses.

Kimberly Stourton (Dream in Color)

Belle of the Midnight Ball

$95

Painting of a frightened blonde woman in a green robe, her mouth open and eyes wide as she looks to the left. Behind her looms a dark figure with a grotesque, lumpy orange face and a clawed hand in a white glove reaching toward her.

Lance DOC Boucher

The Cat and The Canary

$200

Small oil painting of a fluffy, cream-colored creature with huge pointed ears, dark round eyes and a little red scarf, like a stuffed fox kit, sitting calmly in front of a wall of bright orange and red flames. Shown on an easel.

Lilith Myers

Only A Lad

NFS

Photograph bathed in deep red light of a young woman with long dark hair and bangs, gazing calmly at the camera. Long, clawed red hands with pointed nails reach out of the darkness behind her, one resting on top of her head and one curling around her face.

Lily Ostrovsky

salus numero

NFS

Relief print in yellow, red and black of a large, cat-like creature crouching low and looking back over its shoulder with narrowed, slanted eyes and a sly grin. Its entire body, from head to curled tail, is covered in layered yellow leaf- or flame-shaped scales outlined in red and black. Behind it, a row of tall red arched shapes like doorways or tombstones stands against a streaky white and red background.

Macy Zaringlee

Untitled

$150

Tape-art portrait in black, white and tan of Wednesday Addams: a pale girl with heavy bangs and long black braids, a stern unsmiling face, a white collar and a black dress covered in small white flowers, her arms crossed. The figure is built from cut pieces of tape against a white arch shape on a black background.

Mallory Maybe

Wednesday Portrait v1

$290

Poster for a short video. In a dark, shadowy scene, a person with short light hair is partly hidden behind a dark pillar, holding a bouquet of purple flowers, with more purple blossoms scattered on the floor. The title "A Portrait Of My Love, On Her Knees" appears at the top. Below are the names Manon Servage, Charlotte Thirlwall, Thomas England and Philip Daniel, and a quote: "I was raised to believe that disappearance was a kind of punishment. Maybe it is just how the world breathes, inhales love, exhales absence."

Manon Servage

A Portrait of My Love on Her Knees

NFS

Small mixed-media canvas in rich reds and oranges with gold scrollwork in the corners. At its center, a faded, ghostly vintage photograph of two or three figures standing close together in a doorway has been transferred onto the textured surface, tinted deep pink and partly dissolving into the paint.

Maribel Hambric

Strange Reunion

$150

Mixed-media collage with a large pale full moon on the right and grey spiderwebs covering the left, where a black spider hangs and a black crow calls out. Small tarot card images of The Hierophant, Strength and Justice and a goddess figurine are placed around the piece. Word labels in the webs read "pedophiles," "perpetrators," "14 year olds!!!," "sycophants," "hypocrites," "cowards," "abusers," "liars" and "enablers." On the moon, messages read "PROTECT Courageous Victims who open up" and "BLESSINGS to the many Silent Victims," and a banner at the bottom reads "JUSTICE for EPSTEIN VICTIMS!!"

Marilyn Hrymak

Justice for Epstein Victims!!

$300

Small painting on wood of a human skull in three-quarter view with a full set of teeth, lit from the side against a black background. It sits inside an oval gold frame, mounted on a white, decoratively shaped wooden plaque with a gold edge and collaged scraps of old photographs at the top.

Maureen Swiertz

The beautiful end.

$180

Close-up color photograph of dried thistle stems in dark silhouette against a soft, blurred blue sky. A spiky, curling stem covered in long thorns stands sharp in the foreground at right, while a shaggy, spent thistle head blurs into the background at left.

Melissa Routzahn

Thistle

$71

Mixed-media artwork of a giant mushroom-shaped tree house drawn in bold black-and-white swirling lines, with glowing yellow windows scattered across its cap and trunk and a small staircase leading to a door among its twisting roots. A starry purple and blue night sky fills the background, and a flock of white moths flies around it.

Michelle Ecke

Moon Rooted Portals

$300

Highly detailed black-and-white ink drawing of an old witch walking toward the viewer through a dense forest of bare, gnarled trees. She wears a tall, crumpled pointed hat, a long flowing robe and a large pendant, has long stringy hair and a deeply wrinkled, stern face, and grips a twisted wooden staff.

Nicole Marie

The Nocturnal Mother of the Grove, She of the Gnarled Woods

$1,600

Layered mixed-media collage on a golden yellow background. A typed hospital operative report describing the amputation of a necrotic second toe is printed across the middle. Over it, a loose green line drawing shows a dancing jester figure with a red pointed cap and red curled shoes. Faded photographs of bare feet run along the bottom, and laser-cut wooden filigree vines curl across the top right and bottom edge.

Patrick Carroll

Phantom Toe

$265

Round wood panel painted bright red, showing a black crow in profile holding a human eyeball in its beak, with a pink, stringy nerve trailing from it. The crow's feathers are detailed with fine grey highlights. The title is a Spanish proverb meaning "Raise crows and they will peck out your eyes."

Rick Kowal

Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos

$500

Tall, vivid painting in red, orange and purple of a large monkey-like creature in a strange tunnel of glowing curved panels and windows. A tube connects the top of its head to a huge spiral disc above it, and it wears a beaded necklace and a collar with a glowing cube pendant, while gripping a chain with one hand. Smaller copies of the creature crowd the space behind it, and an upside-down face with staring eyes appears in the lower left corner.

Rose One

Mutation

$2,500

Painting of a warrior with the shaggy brown head and curved horns of a bison, wearing gleaming silver plate armor and holding a long sword across his body. He stands before a dark landscape of black and red fields and distant purple mountains under a blood-red sky with a faint red moon.

Ryan Klopfenstein

And the king of Vlalik said "I will crush you into the ground back to the vats of Hell from whence you came."

$200

Oil painting of a glowing, pale human nervous system, shown as a brain and spinal column with fine, branching nerves spreading out like roots, standing alone in a stormy purple sky. Crackling yellow-white lightning bolts fork through the dark clouds around it.

Ryan Schubert

Nakedness

$500

Oil painting on a coffin-shaped wooden panel of a woman resembling horror hostess Elvira: pale skin, a towering black bouffant with long straight bangs, heavy dramatic eye makeup, striking green eyes and bright red lips curved in a slight smile.

SamTheJam

Mistress of Darkness

$250

Wall-mounted sculpture of a two-headed calf, like a hunting trophy, emerging from a dark red framed panel. The two heads share one neck and are covered in shaggy white fur with black patches; one has a pink nose and the other a black nose, and their fuzzy black-and-white ears stick out in all directions.

Shannon Carlson

Two-Headed Calf

$600

Black-and-white photograph of a weathered stone cemetery statue, seen from below. A young woman with wavy hair looks down tenderly at a chubby child who lies across her lap, gently holding the child's foot in her hand. The stone is speckled with dark lichen, and sunlit oak leaves fill the background.

Theo Miller

Guardian and Child

$100

Detailed black-and-white ink drawing of a large fish whose body is made of three overlapping human faces in profile, all looking right, with intricate swirling patterns filling their skin. The faces share a large central eye, and the front face wears round dark glasses and has a beard. The fish's spiky fins and tail are finely crosshatched.

Thomas Dewis

Triptphish

$300

Black-and-white poster for a film, designed to look like a strip of film negative with sprocket holes along the top and bottom edges and the words "FINE GRAIN POSITIVE" and "SAFETY FILM." At its center is a grainy, vintage-looking photograph taken from the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking toward one of its arched stone towers. The text reads "The Protocol Of Peace," "a fine art film" and "Thomas Pickarski."

Thomas Pickarski

Battlements of Refuse

NFS

Realistic charcoal and pastel drawing of a bat hanging upside down from its clawed feet at the top of the page, one large wing stretched wide to show its thin, veined membrane and long finger bones. Its small face, with pointed ears and dark eyes, hangs at the bottom of the body, set against a soft warm beige background.

Tia Aagesen

Matilda

$150

Retro sci-fi painting of a pale woman with a towering blonde beehive hairdo, large dark eyes and a tight red gown covered in white swirls, posed against a wood-grain background. The bright green painted frame around her is decorated with grinning alien skulls, ray guns, a flying saucer and green smoke, with the words "ACK! ACK!" across the top and "ACK! ACK! ACK!" across the bottom.

Trai Orthal (Sweet Strange Heart)

Mars Attacks!

$200

Mixed-media piece on a light blue canvas. At its center, a paperback book cover of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," showing a cloudy sky over a flat field with a line of trees, is mounted on a dark red mat. A short poem titled "Holcomb," printed on translucent vellum, is laid over the cover, along with two thin reddish shapes resembling matchsticks. Dried heads of wheat are attached at each of the four corners.

Tricia Marcella Cimera

HOLCOMB

$25

Stark black-and-white illustration of a skeletal bride standing in a long, bell-shaped gown with puffed sleeves. Long dark hair falls around her skull face, and she wears a tall, spiky crown-like headdress. Bold black shapes and white negative space form her ribs, hands and the folds of her dress.

V. Witch

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride

$150

Hanging installation photographed in a studio. Three black spoked wheels hang from the ceiling at different heights, and hundreds of long strands fall from their rims to the floor: columns of square grey-and-black marbled tiles, strands of red, black and silver beads, and fine silver chains. Small glowing light bulbs hang inside the curtain of strands, along with a few small rectangular metal plates. The ends of the strands coil and pool on the cream floor cloth beneath.

Victoria A. Marchio

What Remains Hidden

NFS

Night landscape painted mostly in black and white. Dark pine trees and snowy mountains rise under a full moon beside a still lake, and a lone weeping willow in deep green stands on the right. In the foreground, a small graveyard with "RIP" headstones and wooden crosses sits along a pale path, and a black, cloaked figure kneels with their back to the viewer.

Virginia Morales

Después del Llanto (After the Weeping)

$150

Symmetrical scratchboard and mixed-media artwork on a black background. A dark bird with fully spread wings, etched in fine white lines, sits at the center above a cluster of pale bird skulls with long beaks pointing outward. Cream and pink paper flowers and scattered petals surround the skulls and wings.

Wendy Flores

Decay

$1,700

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