Debbie Auer-Breihaupt
Blending humor and charm, this painting turns an ordinary moment into a delightfully playful scene. A cheerful young officer writes a ticket for an otter driver in a classic toy car, bringing a sense of childhood nostalgia and lighthearted storytelling. The exaggerated expressions, bright colors, and unexpected pairing of characters make this piece irresistibly cute. It captures the joy of imagination, perfectly aligning with the ‘SUPER CUTE’ theme by turning everyday life into a whimsical adventure.

Angela Basile
These selected paintings rely on cuteness as a playful veneer—represented by the familiar icons of consumer culture. In contrast, themes of age and vibrancy settle into a softer, more sublime palette of pastels—a visual shift that hints at impermanence and layered time. The interplay between the loud and the quiet, and the synthetic and the sincere, allows for visual pleasure and the weight of meaning to exist in the same space.

Lauren Bergman
In this series of paintings entitled “Girls and Cats in Space” I am exploring a meeting point of cultural memory and current geopolitical fears. I grew up under the shadow of the space race, where air raid drills were part of the school curriculum and rocket ships were ubiquitous icons of both hope for the future and fear of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Our current cultural climate has swung around almost full circle, and here we are sliding closer and closer to global crisis – an environment on the verge of collapse, an economy in which the disparity between rich and poor is ever widening, and the fear created by having a madman as leader.

As an artist I can at least create an alternative reality – one in which it is not billionaires shooting rockets into space for their rich friends to ride on, but one where girls and their cats can venture into space and discover new worlds. How does this fit into the umbrella of Supercute? In my opinion there is nothing more appealing and cute than cats, little girls, and vintage rocketships.

Elaine Chao
Being cute isn’t diminutive. It can be a provocation, a dare, or a bold statement. Sometimes, we ask “Am I cute?,” knowing full well we are. Shed external validation and don the wolfskin, howling a proclamation of cuteness.

Emily Clark
Hana Bo – the questioning face and decorative background describe the experience of a toddler’s first dress up clothes.

Collin Douma
People marvel at animals’ cuteness, sharing viral videos of baby otters cooing over panda cubs and decorating nurseries with cartoonish wildlife. Yet, this affection rarely translates into meaningful action. Deforestation wipes out habitats, pollution poisons ecosystems, and countless species face extinction. The irony is stark: We cherish their charm but neglect their survival, reducing real creatures to mere symbols of innocence rather than beings in urgent need of protection.

Like babies, the innocence we see in animals’ eyes makes them cute. It’s the same innocence we exploit for our own means.

Debra Friedkin
This mixed media sculpture puts a surrealistic, irreverent spin on “cute”: anthropomorphic flowers, aliens and babies.

Angela Gaffney-Smith
These Flower Faces are a whimsical departure from my chosen work in bluestone and watercolor.

They were spontaneously created from a Valentine’s Day bouquet, at the beginning of the Covid shutdown in 2020. I needed a friend, a happy face to distract me, make me feel better. I started drawing with flowers, leaves and stems. One face led to another fashioned from that first bouquet then from flowers and vegetables which grew in my garden here in Saugerties. Face after face appeared. I studied their Latin names, the botanical identities grouping flora with their families and ancestors. Each flower’s folklore and symbolism brought me closer to human connection. There were so many of these new “friends” I decided to make a postcard book entitled Flora Has Feelings which was self-published in 2023.

Maureen Gates
Super Cute is the definition of the face and expression of a beautiful new baby cradled in his father’s hand. The sweetness of a toddler hugging her Teddy bear is an adorable capture. The bright playful eyes of a 3-year-old light up in a moment of laughter. I love that my art comes together with light and shadow to create fine art portraits of new babies and young children. Working with black&white and subdued colors on fine art papers creating art for them.

Calvin Grimm
Pink and yellow are hard to resist, with their fickle and persistent associations. Large strokes are luscious and are appreciated on this intimate scale.

Kathy Halper
My love of animals can lead me to create art that definitely tends toward the cute. But when I create art using my furry friends as inspiration, I am trying to capture more than a likeness. I want to convey the quality of my relationship with them, which can verge on obsessive. And it’s not my fault that they are super cute.

Fiona Jacobson-Yang
Tiny, squishy, plastic, fuzzy, held in my hand. Why did I keep all these old and mostly useless objects? I love to hold onto things: dying battery operated stuffed animals, small heart-shaped charms, crumpled tickets, mini bears in a basket the size of my thumb. My work is influenced by Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic theories about cuteness in her book, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, where she writes about the seductive quality of cute objects, how they can draw one in because of their diminutive qualities that make people want to care for them. With my personal teeny collection, I explore these ideas and tie memories to the objects, hoping to keep them forever.

Chong Kang
The familiar happy forms and bright colors direct us to find joy wherever, whenever and with whomever we can. Joy and fun are needed, and it’s “ Super Cute”.

Moshe Katvan
This charcoal drawing of a female bunny plays on the concept of innocence and charm, embodying the idea of ‘Super Cute’ through its soft, delicate lines and gentle expression. The simplicity and warmth of the piece evoke a sense of affection, inviting viewers to embrace the lighter, more playful side of beauty.

Rivka Katvan
This photograph embodies a sense of “super cute,” kitsch, and whimsical moments.

Jennifer Keltos
Cute is a spell – glossy, inviting, deceptively simple. But under its surface, something hums – uncanny, off-kilter, alive. In my work, sweetness never exists without strangeness. The world of the adorable has its own quiet tension, where nostalgia meets the surreal, and playfulness teeters on the edge of something else.

David Klein
Storytelling is at the heart of what makes us human, and the earliest storytellers were also the first artists, communicating through the ancient cave paintings of Chauvet Cave in southern France and Sulawesi Island in Indonesia, dating back 45,000 years. Much like those early drawings, I tell stories through animal portraits—both real and imagined. These creatures resonate with us because, in them, we often find reflections of ourselves. And we are charmed.

Sophi Kravitz
My work blends a creepy cute aesthetic with a sci-fi narrative, creating worlds where the adorable and the eerie coexist. By merging organic forms with technology, I explore how cuteness can be both inviting and unsettling, playful creatures with a sense of mystery, weird forms hiding hidden forces. This contrast makes my work engaging while hinting at deeper themes of transformation, mythology, and the unseen.

Dakota Lane
I still have one foot inside an elusive childhood, my heart and mind drawn to the dark and the cute, the innocent and the whimsical, old toys and sweet things that bring comfort and a smile.

Anne Leith
I thought it would be SUPER CUTE!!! to make some self portraits based on childhood dolls.

Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy
This series of cotton candy-colored paintings, inspired by depictions of my beloved poodle, Lady, embraces the hyper-saturated hues of rainbows, balloons, and jewel-toned fantasies. Beneath this sweetness, however, is a tension—a response to the surreal nature of a world that often feels so unreal, it threatens to burst.

Meredith Morabito
My sculpture of Carl is what I consider “uncomfortable cute”.

Grey Ivor Morris
My work offers a tiny, idealized universe where the demands of “normal” are not only unnecessary but openly discarded. This is the cosmos where the arbitrary lines between genders, species and even the laws of the physical world are far away. Here we may openly bathe in the pinkish glow of pure love.

Deneane Niebergall
A ceramic bunny face is the epitome of cute…even when it’s a shard. nailed on a piece of salvaged trim. All elements were found scraps….which heightens the sweetness….the wabi sabi, the “clever” version of cute.

Will Nixon
At sixty-eight am I too old to be playing with dolls? Surely. But as they say in Woodstock, “You’re never too old for a happy childhood.”

If you don’t think Pip is SUPER CUTE, wait till he/she finds you after the show. Pip takes no mercy upon those who refuse to smile.

Kaitlyn Niznik
My new series deals with the intersection of transcribed medical family history and family history buried in childhood memories. Using nostalgic patterns and objects from home, I depict intestinal sections with unique tissue stains. My piece, Baby’s First Biopsy, shows bears with balloons (patterns from an old baby blanket), inserted into a Masson’s Trichrome-dyed colon with whimsical colors. Though playful, the piece shows hints of microscopic colitis, an enigmatic condition I was diagnosed with five years ago. Its exact causes still remain a mystery. Traces of digestive problems run through my early memories. By revisiting my past, I hope to uncover more answers about my condition.

Jacqueline Oster
A mouse is cute? Absolutely! Especially when that little furry creature is startled by the sound of a human approaching.

Suzanne Parker
Hope its aawww inspiring.

Tracy Phillips
Dogs are cute. Dogs dressed up in costumes are SUPER CUTE! Emma is a greyhound I befriended one summer on Fire Island. This painting is based on a photo I took of her competing in a costume parade at the Ice Palace benefiting a local animal rescue. Isn’t she adorable!

Betsey Regan
I am primarily a painter, but for some unknown reason, this winter I was drawn to beads. I wanted to use my hands to do something intricate. I felt like a ten-year-old: excitement, freedom, and an artistic release.

These constructions are endearing, but there’s an odd undercurrent of feeling menace or dread. Are these characters friend or foe?

Tad Richards
I’ve always been a storyteller, and my visual art is in some way or another one frame from a story. And some stories are cute, because that’s a legitimate and important facet of the world we live in. Our hearts can be melted in an instant, and that’s a good thing.

Victoria Schuster-Henshaw
My work embodies the essence of “cute” by inviting viewers into a whimsical, miniature world that sparks warmth and nostalgia. The tiny, handcrafted objects handcrafted from upcycled materials evoke a sense of playfulness and tenderness, encouraging a shift from the overwhelming scale of everyday life to the intimate and charming details of small-scale creations. Drawing from childhood memories, like the imagined scene of tiny mice by a fire, my work taps into a universal sense of comfort and innocence that defines what is “cute.” By transforming discarded materials into carefully crafted miniature scenes, I create a space where appreciation for the small and the simple can be rediscovered, offering a gentle, heartwarming escape into a world where the charming and the fantastical blend together.

John Scribner
Drawing on author Milan Kundera’s term for Kitsch, my kittens fit the description. In the foreground, a cubistic mash-up punctuates the cuteness with fragments from human and botanical forms.

The Paint Splatterer
This is BABYPUSS she is super cute and that is that.

This is a baby portrait of something that is considered so innocent and helpless but so beautiful and cute.

This is just not how I see babies and children.

I elevate and see and create children and babies in portraits as I see them as other worldly beyond powerful creature gods of a surreal universe.

Steven Strauss
I find some birds to be quite cute.

Ken Tannenbaum
I noticed these ducklings separately waddle into a bar and naturally, I couldn’t help but to eavesdrop. Their chit-chat was beyond SUPER CUTE!!!

Enne Tesse
I am interested in whimsical cuteness, evoking feelings of recollection and playfulness, through shape, size, and color in the spirit of Amigurumi.

Elisa Tucci
At first glance, this painting embodies SUPER CUTE through the image of a young girl in a delicate pink dress, her curls pinned up just so, exuding an undeniable sweetness. Her small frame and soft presence radiate innocence and charm. However, this cuteness is layered with contrast—the oversized suitcase beside her suggests a journey too big for her, and the endless stretch of concrete adds an unexpected weight to the scene. This interplay between softness and strength, childhood and responsibility, invites viewers to reconsider the depth within cute—how it can hold both joy and an unspoken story of resilience.