Jonathan Pitts-Wiley • Website • Instagram

A Rhode Island native and 2007 Yale graduate, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley is a portrait photographer whose work seeks to reflect humanity at the intersection of strength and vulnerability. In 2020, he co-founded The Vanta Guild, an RI-based Black photographers collective. In 2021, he collaborated with renowned documentary photographer Mary Beth Meehan to produce Witness, an exhibit on the life and times of his late grandmother, Annye Raye Pitts...

In 2022, one of his works was selected for Providence’s “Who We Are Now” public art banner project and in the fall of 2023, Jonathan’s first solo show, All the Worlds, opened at Providence’s World’s Fair Gallery. In 2024, he was named an Elected Artist Member with visual arts organization Art League RI and in the spring of 2025, he was invited to participate in NetWorks RI’s Growing the NetWorks exhibition at Providence’s WaterFire Arts Center.

“I bear witness to beauty and I try to faithfully preserve and share it. I'm a film-first hybrid photographer who will defer to medium format black and white film at any opportunity. Looking through the ground glass of my Mamiya RB67 for the first time legitimately changed my outlook on photography and sparked an interest that has not wanted. When it comes to printing and framing, I don't claim any manner of expertise; I just want the presentation to be fitting of the subject and am thankful that there are places like IO to provide guidance in that part of the process.”

Lisa Bergeron • Website • Instagram

After an impactful career as a business owner, Lisa Bergeron turned her focus to photography, where she enjoys expressing her creativity from behind the lens. Her work explores the artful interplay of light, color, texture, and perspective transforming everyday moments into creative visual narratives. Her photography is currently on exhibit at Four Corners Gallery in Tiverton, Rhode Island.

“I'm drawn to the creative process of photography—from capturing the shot to experimenting with editing techniques, printing, and framing decisions. I aspire to blur the lines between photography and art, with each step offering an opportunity to create imagery that is visually engaging. I’m inspired by the opportunity to be a creator through the lens—crafting images that reflect both what is seen and what is felt, capturing moments and stories that resonate beyond the frame.

The team at iolabs is a partner throughout the printing process. With access to their full range of premium paper options, I am able to enhance the depth and texture of my prints. Their float frames provide gallery-ready presentation that allows me to uniquely showcase photographs as a work of art.”

Shelley Kirkwood • Website • Instagram

Shelley Lawrence Kirkwood is an artist based in Western Mass. Kirkwood earned her MFA at the University of Arizona. She has been a photo educator and writer for many years and has also worked in the curatorial departments of two major American museums. Kirkwood’s work has centered around themes at the intersection of time, memory, and concepts of home.

Shelley has worked on several projects with iolabs since 2019, including a face-mounted selection of mushroom spore print still life collages. The largest print she produced with us was a five foot, face-mounted image of sea glass that was commissioned by a Los Angeles collector. More recently, she has been developing a floral portrait series that uses both 19th and 21st century practices to create images that recall the Victorian language of florigriaphy while also referencing the tradition of icon painting. That work uses natural pigments in plants to create photographic emulsions.

Transparencies are then exposed in the sun before being scanned and manipulated in the studio. That series, Transmutations, is scheduled to be exhibited at the Springfield Museum of Art in the spring of 2027! You can find examples and buy prints after July 10 at www.shelleykirkwood.com.

Kirkwood is also represented by Cicek Gallery, London.

Rafael Medina • Website • Instagram

Rafael Medina is a Dominican-American photographer from Providence, Rhode Island. He began his journey in 2017 and since has become a prominent figure in the local event and street photography scene. He released his debut photobook titled ‘Dear PVD’ in 2021, a photo zine in 2024 and has been featured in multiple galleries and restaurants across the state. A Providence native, he has a deep passion for his city and hopes to express that Love through his photos.

“I did a project called ‘Lost in Providence’ with The Avenue Concept and Paolino Properties where we displayed black and white images of Providence at 100 Westminster Street in downtown. Having a gallery in the middle of the city with my photos and for them to be so beautifully printed by the iolabs team is still one of the highlights of my journey.

My art consists of photos of everyday life, mainly in the streets of Providence, Rhode Island. I also document events across the city and it’s allowed me to find a much deeper connection within my community.

My inspiration comes from multiple sources starting with photography itself. Experiencing great work from others always motivates me to keep pushing to be a better photographer. Music, films and just experiencing friends and families grow are also some of the most inspiring things that keep me motivated.”

Photographer Rafael Medina uses iolabs to print his work for various commissions including RISCA, the Avenue Concept, and more.

Elizabeth Duffy • Website • Instagram

Elizabeth Duffy is a Providence-based artist. Her recent work centers on the labor of anonymous women makers. Duffy has exhibited her work widely including at the Drawing Center, The RISD Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Aldrich Museum, White Columns, Wave Hill, Overlap Gallery in Newport and DM Contemporary in NYC.

“The transitory and fragile nature of life, its startling pairing of cruelty with beauty— this paradox compels me to express myself visually. I create installations, objects and drawings that are apparently comforting but that on further examination reveal contradiction, bewilderment, outrage and humor. The installations may evoke waiting rooms, furniture showrooms or historic house museums; they are inspired by DIY shows and interior design magazines and are stages for invented controllable worlds. Through this work I respond to and recreate the environments and objects we surround ourselves with in our illusory quest for permanence. I am fascinated by how things are made and how taking them apart reveals hidden worlds and the ingenuity, poetry and striving of the human imagination.

I’ve been fortunate to work with Io labs for the nearly 20 years I’ve lived in Providence! They have printed everything from wallpaper and fabric to signage and photos, and done incredible framing of my work too.”

Marina Bezrukova • Website • Instagram

Marina Bezrukova is a Providence-based photographer whose work explores the quiet beauty of everyday life. She focuses on the relationship between nature and the human-made world, searching for meaning in the mundane and overlooked. Originally from Russia, she moved to the U.S. a few years ago and now balances her photography practice with her role as a program manager at RISD Continuing Education.

“In my photography, I focus on subtle moments, found still lifes, city landscapes, and the tension between the natural and the human-made. I’m inspired by quirky details, shifts in light, imperfections, abstractions, and the feeling that something is slightly out of place. I printed my recent exhibition submission at iolabs on Hahnemühle Rag Satin paper, which beautifully brought out the nuances and textures in my image.”

Susie Dorr & Greg Kniseley • Website

During the past 25 years, Susie Dorr and Greg Kniseley have photographed together. Recently, using photographs printed by iolabs, they have exhibited at RI Center for Photographic Arts, Bristol Art Museum, Edwin Way Teale Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Art in the Atrium First U, and Hotpoint Emporium. As members of the Photographic Society of RI, they’ve won awards in many digital and print competitions.

“Photography is something creative we do together as husband and wife. Photographing slows us down and connects us to the sacred spaces between light and dark and to the beauty and wonder of it all. We often have different perspectives on how to capture the natural beauty before us, but both love the surprise of the changing light. Waiting quietly behind our camera lenses provides opportunities for us to connect with nature – whether it’s focusing on the light of water as it falls over a small dam, capturing the graceful movement of a loon parent with their chicks, or noticing the amazing patterns and textures of wind-sculpted dunes surfaces.”

Mauro De Carvalho • Instagram

Before Mauro de Carvalho came to the United States, he spent part of his childhood on Cape Verde Island. De Carvalho earned his B.F.A. in painting from Rhode Island College. He uses pop culture cartoons as a backdrop to express his idea in his paintings.

“My interest in cartoons, anime, and pop culture has been a significant part of my childhood and has greatly influenced my artwork. The small studies of enamel on scrap paper are experiments featuring the block character I created. My blocky avatar, with its plug-like ‘ears,’ represents the artist's desire to make a toy for entertainment and interaction. Popular and familiar characters from classic cartoons, contemporary animations, and anime are touching, holding, reacting to, and expressing genuine emotions toward a foreign creation placed within their realm.”

Rachel Turner • Website • Instagram

Rachel Turner is a photographer from Providence, Rhode Island, with an education background. Her work aims to capture the beauty of everyday moments through both film and digital photography.

“For me, photography is a way to slow down and connect with my surroundings. Inspired by my hometown of Providence and my travels, I uses my lens to tell stories that evoke a sense of place and emotion. Iolabs recently printed my Pawtucket street scenes for the 17th annual Pawtucket Foundation Show.”

Jack Yuen • Website • Instagram

Jack Yuen is a Martha's Vineyard–born artist currently residing and working in Providence, Rhode Island.

“My art explores themes of identity, memory, and emotional connection through the lens of idealism. I'm inspired by the natural beauty of the New England landscape and its rich biodiversity—local wildlife and seasonal shifts often inform my palette and composition.

My projects with iolabs include limited edition art prints based on a selection of my paintings. For art prints, I’ve been using Epson Hot Press Bright White to capture the saturated colors of acrylics.”

Gianna Catauro • Instagram

Gianna Catauro attended the Pratt Institute for Illustration and focused on children’s books. She has been working as a tattoo artist since 2011. She is inspired by nature, flower, foliage, fauna, birds and insects.

“I am influenced by Japanese watercolor paintings, art nouveau, and ancient Greek pottery. My medium of choice is mostly watercolor, and gauche on cold press watercolor paper. My minimal color palettes are inspired by the colors in nature.

I came up with the recent vessels collection based on my love of vessels. The different shapes, and uses. I love how there’s such a variety of styles based on cultures and areas of the world. Some of them tell a story, some of them purely decorative. Also there’s so many options for flowers or foliage to put in the vessels. The combinations are endless.”

David Witbeck •Website • Instagram

David Witbeck’s work springs from his love of the seacoast and fascination with people make a living from its waters. The images are not descriptive of any particular person or place. They are meant to be generic, symbolic and iconic and are based on years of internalized accumulated experiences and memories of exploring salty shores from both land and water.

“My work is completely invented from memories, experiences and imagination. Rather than faithfully painting how people, places and things look, I paint how they ‘feel’ (at least to me) by playing with shape, color and composition. I feel most successful when people tell me that my work makes them smile.

I work in my Pawtucket studio, drawing with charcoal directly on the canvas, continually erasing and redrawing until the image looks right to me. Sometimes in the course of painting, I’ll correct or redraw part of the image directly into the wet paint with soft charcoal. My palette is fairly limited: an earth red, yellow ochre, a primary yellow, phthalo blue, ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, black and white. I do frequently cheat a little and use some cobalt teal where the sky meets the sea and dioxazine purple just for shading the yellows. Although I enjoy working on paper, the vast majority of my work is oil on canvas.

I sell paper and stretched canvas giclees directly from my website, all of which have been printed by Iolabs. For paper prints I always specify Hahnemuhle German Etching paper. In addition, Iolabs printed a number of large pieces for me that were sold to decorate the Providence Oyster Bar’s East Greenwich location when they opened a few years ago.”

Kirstin Lamb • Website • Instagram

Kirstin Lamb is a painter living in Providence, Rhode Island and working in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Kirstin studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her AB in Visual Art and English from Brown University in 2001. Her work is represented by Gallery NAGA in Boston.

“I make labor intensive paintings of gridded dots. These paintings frequently document fabric, wallpaper and photo-based source material. My most recent body of work has turned to the woods as its lone subject and focus.

I'm currently developing a body of paintings imaging New England woods that I have walked through on foot. The works are made from digital patterns I make from photographs, which I then paint on a wet media acetate. The patterns are derived from the photographs, but also abstract and blur the photograph to a greater or lesser degree, depending upon scale and complexity of the image. I like to consider it a contemporary way of documenting our extraordinary woodland spaces of North America, in the tradition of panoramic and scenic wallpaper.

IO Labs is a wonderful partner in this work, I get all my paintings in this series mounted to beautifully hand made panels in your shop.”

Rebecca Russo • Website • Instagram

Rebecca Russo is an American artist based in NJ, whose bold, fashion-infused illustrations have been featured in Vogue Italia, Architectural Digest, and The Other Art Fair. She has collaborated with designers including luxury designer Olympia Le-Tan, transforming her expressive imagery into handbags. Her spontaneous, layered approach captures the raw energy of pop culture and the figure, blending nostalgia with modern edge. Through her distinctive vision, Rebecca redefines fashion illustration as both art and statement. She likes to title her works “someone you know.”

“Some of my favorite subjects are faces, hands, feet, figures shoes, and recently animals. It amazes me how much I can learn how much I feel I get to know a person - a stranger or animal by just spending time with them. We can learn so much without any words being spoken. Connecting is about seeing; slowly.. without trying to understand it, fix, cover, or make sense. Theres a journey on peoples faces. I find it so interesting the same applies to animals.

My art is about love, and loss its about pain and pride, its about vulnerability- much like my process. It’s about the beauty of all of it including the messy parts much like life itself. I want to put down something honest. Its about balance. You cant have too much of anything, and making that make sense on paper can be a challenge. Sometimes all you need is a touch of blue.

Some projects I have done with iolabs are limited edition posters for a music festival and The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn. This was the first time I was able to see my digital work come to life...

Time has a way of showing itself in various places. I want to put that down forever. Walking. I get a lot of my ideas for paintings being on walks. Playfulness… and anything that feels refreshing and new-- you know it when you see it. It’s instinct.”

Suz Yeremyan • Website • Instagram

Suz Yeremyan (Providence, RI) is a visual artist with a focus in experimental mixed-media abstraction in the form of creating “homages” to natural patterns, textures, and movements.

The practice of concocting and utilizing self made solvents, pigments, and washes is where her pieces begin taking form. “There is a delicate, subtle beauty in the way mud collects around stone, or at the edge of a frozen pond. It feels relatable, intimate, and misunderstood. And with my practice, I explore ways to interpret, represent, and emphasize this.”

With the level of detail and texture present in her pieces, it can be a challenge to transfer these original works - whether it be scanned for digital keeping, or reproduced to a fine art print- without losing definition.

“I decided to bring in three pieces to iolabs earlier this winter, to get professionally scanned and reproduced into fine-art quality prints. Out of the many years of trying so many places, as well as my own hand at it, only to have prints that end up being off - both in color and detail - I was super impressed and excited to see the final prints here. The detail and color tones on the reproductions are spot on, and these prints are as close as they can be to the originals. I appreciate how meticulous iolabs was with these works.”

Sarah Park • Website • Instagram

Sarah Park is a fine art photographer based in Quakertown, CT, who expresses her most recent works through the Japanese art form known as Ikebana, The Way of the Flower.

“Ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging or the way of the flower is a meditative practice honoring Line, Balance, Harmony, Form, Color, Ma, or Pause and Emptiness.

Inviting the viewer to reflect and engage with the arrangement, creating a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, through the joy of flowers. Translating the delicate nature of the images onto a surface that suits the process, iolabs prints all of my imagery on a special Japanese Rice Paper, to which I am grateful for.”

Christine McIntyre-Hannon • Website • Instagram

“After 18 years as a large-scale muralist and installation artist, I needed to change gears. My licensed illustrations for jigsaw puzzles and home decor are created with a finely detailed painting technique that requires skilled high resolution scanning and color correcting that iolabs has consistently provided me. Using my middle and maiden name Joelle McIntyre, I squeeze hundred of tiny elements into my puzzle designs, with many puzzle pieces containing a fully rendered animal or motif. I also enjoy miniature painting, showing and teaching regularly throughout the US as Hannon Miniatures.

“Acrylic gouache is my favorite medium for reproduction work due to its non-reflective finish. Illustrations are painted on Ampersand Gessobord and my miniatures are painted on metal, wood and Strathmore 300lb watercolor paper using acrylics, gouache and oils. My puzzle designs are extremely colorful and bright, requiring a skilled eye to match the original to the scan. Fast turnaround and perfect results every time are very much appreciated by this artist.”

Howard Rotblat-Walker • Website • Instagram

Howard Rotblat-Walker, a native of Chicago, moved to New England in the early 1970s. Prior to relocating he did research for his Ph.D. in Iran and lived and worked in Canada. As a frequent traveler who is drawn to explore and investigate, many of the images Howard has exhibited are from these experiences. Howard is an artist member of the Providence Art Club and of Imago Gallery, and has exhibited widely in the region winning numerous awards.

“I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.” --Man Ray

“My particular artistic interest is creating abstractions, especially with digital composition techniques – including ones visualized in my imagination. The work displayed here are photo-based digital compositions creating geometric, kaleidoscopic patterns with multiple levels of complexity. Most of my exhibited prints are photographic abstractions that span years of looking, and of seeing something different, unique, and visually compelling by using the interplay of forms, patterns, color, and texture. My current focus is making interesting and appealing designs via the transformations of a section of a photo of mine.”

Peggy Matheson • Website

Peggy Matheson is a local Rhode Island artist who paints mostly dog portraits and whimsical pieces using watercolor pencils and acrylics. She has taken art courses throughout her life (after being talked out of majoring in art in college) and her love for animals, throughout, has brought her to this artistic phase. Her aquatic, whimsical paintings and pet portraits can be found locally at art shows, fundraisers, and art fairs; while her online shops include many of her pieces having been uploaded onto ornaments and other items.

“My dog and aquatic paintings are often uploaded onto ornaments or printed onto paper, so I need professional quality scans and expert advice to ensure the best outcome/product. iolabs has proven to be everything I needed for years, as they assisted with paper selection (mostly Hahnemühle German Etching Paper), worked with deadlines, and the quality and professional presentation of their work is superior; I can take something they created and deliver it directly to a client.

What inspires me, is the love people find with my creations - I learn each dog’s personality and the joy owners show when they pick up the painting warms my soul; one husband thanked me profusely, saying, ‘I could have given my wife a diamond bracelet for her birthday and she wouldn’t have loved it as much as the dog painting and ornament!’”

Jenny Brown • Website • Instagram

Jenny Brown is a visual artist based in Providence, RI, whose primary mediums are drawing and collage. With a focus on studying the intersections of time, nature, and nostalgia in her work, she works out of an antique and vintage paper filled studio in Olneyville. She is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at the Dryden Gallery in Providence which opens in March.

“I've been coming to iolabs for over a decade for limited edition prints, scans, & photographs of my work. My practice incorporates the collecting and use of antique paper ephemera alongside a plein air and still life/flower drawing practice. I'm deeply inspired by the thought of the past lives of objects, plants, & flowers, and how they might evolve in future. I also like to challenge myself to find the beauty in the most ordinary and mundane moments of my days, and use that as a starting point for a sketch or collage.

Priscilla Carrion • Website • Instagram

Priscilla Carrion is a multidisciplinary artist from Providence, RI. Currently, she focuses on water-based painting, portraiture, and collage from a home studio. Additionally, she seeks to serve and collaborate with both animals and their human companions.

“I try to create art that avoids burnout, while maintaining a steady flow, and minimizes impacts on our planet's resources. I also acknowledge that my ‘art practice’ goes beyond just creating artwork. It encompasses intergenerational engagement, slow practice, justice work, caring for the environment, ancestor practices, personal well-being, and play.”

Donna St. Amant • Website • Instagram

Donna’s love of capturing images began back in the early ‘80s with black and white film and her own darkroom where she marveled at the development process. She now captures the close up detail and beauty of elements in nature that cross her path on a high-resolution flat bed scanner in a process often called “scanography.” To Donna, this process feels somewhat like organizing a group portrait. She places the individuals near one another in a pleasing and cohesive composition, intertwines outreaching elements to project a feeling of connection, and then captures the moment.

“Now in retirement, I’ve rekindled my love of photography. I capture the close up detail and beauty of flowers, worn beached objects, and elements of nature that cross my path on a flatbed scanner. Once used to digitize my photographic negatives, my high-resolution scanner is now my ‘studio camera’ and the fine detail it captures never ceases to amaze me. Whether a single bloom or a ‘medley’ of treasures, the objects are placed directly on the scanner glass with the cover left open in a dark room. I build depth and layers from foreground to background on the glass surface. Using a preview feature, I can see the image as it will be recorded and rearrange elements until it’s just what I had imagined.

iolabs collaborated with me to determine the best paper choice for my vivid botanical images. Hahnemühle Photo Rag with its felt-like matte surface was selected and I’m so pleased. They have printed up to 24x36 and the results are stunning.”