Informed by Kabbalistic thought and her family’s unique trajectory, Olive Diamond presents a new series of paintings and slabs that explore the human condition and turbulent imagined histories of displacement, often from a childlike perspective. Diamond models the characters in her paintings from children’s books produced during World War II in the 1930s and 1940s. ____ Having grown up surrounded by nature in Colorado, Carino’s move to the Inland Empire, with its mountains, deserts, and valleys, felt like a homecoming. In American history, the idea of the frontier and westward expansion was equated with new beginnings. Carino challenges this idea, believing that there are no empty landscapes or fresh starts - only a reimagining of what our new personal frontiers look like. In Frontiers and Boundaries, Carino masterfully re- integrates queer bodies into the natural world, ultimately countering conservative ideology that deems queerness as unnatural. For queer individuals, their place in nature can feel vulnerable and precarious. Through his oil and acrylic on linen paintings, Carino aims to reclaim that space.