FALL 2023

Maxim Timofeev - Born in the USSR in 1988, half Russian, and half Ukrainian blood coursing through my veins. My childhood was spent in Ukraine, my education pursued in Russia, and now I am resident of the UAE. I graduated from art school but distanced myself from creativity for many years. When doctors presented me with an irreversible diagnosis, I reassessed my life. While traveling in India, I reconnected with art and

discovered the genre of street photography, which embodied my newfound perspective of a world where something is always happening. This experience led to my return to art and became a natural outcome of my transformations. I identify as “they.”

My work is characterized by an abundance of layers, hidden messages, and surreal scenes, reflecting not only my inner world but also that which is channeled through me from higher realms. By shifting the focus of attention, my creations provoke a shift in a person’s assemblage point, transcending binary systems, much like what once happened to me. A new perspective on the internal transforms the manifestations of the external, finding forgotten doors to one’s true self and leading to the question: who am I?

https://timofeev.gallery/

***archives.networks***
archives.networks is an ongoing series studying archival practices, digital and manual documentation, networks and neural networks, how information is shared and stored, and how archiving and documenting shows relationships, the passage of time, and the repetition of history.

Nico luna paz -

Nico luna paz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work often manifests in the intersections between social practice art, traditional craft, and climate activism. As a theater-maker, they often collaborate on pieces that go beyond fine arts; they enjoy using interactive mediums in addition to experiential crafts to transform environmental experiences into queer-informed works. They are a member of the collective The Revolution School, which received a Creative Capital grant for their project “My Little BEI: Robot Animal Familiars”. They are a member of IATSE Local 764, and also often work with the Sunrise Movement. nico also runs the social justice fundraising arts collective Power Not Panic, since 2018.

https://www.nikkilunapaz.com/

Fans Going, 2023, Various Scans from The New York Public Library, Electric Fan
2ftx 4.5ft

Talia Rudofsky - In my work, I explore the awkwardness of being a British American Jew. This split narrative has created the potential to critique both cultures, and offers a perspective rooted in discrepancies suggested by peers and acquaintances. By employing an element of satire, I analyze tropes of British and American culture that are second nature to me, and further question these traditions and cliches. My practice falls under a multidisciplinary approach, whereby I translate these investigations of colloquial normality into tangible works to critique and isolate these different archetypes. My work engages with iconic imagery associated with England, including references to football, politics, monarchy, and my personal interaction with certain traditional objects and pop culture. As a photographer, sculptor, filmmaker and DJ, I attempt to investigate ways of expressing a singular concept through all mediums. It has to be holistic. My influences is multi faceted, in the way that music plays a large part of my work. In my own practice I have always stood to subvert the current state of the art world through the deinstitutionalization of the way we consume it, as well as who consumes it. This is to do with the way that I question traditional material techniques as well as traditional heritage. The saturation of imagery is what fuels my practice. The mass distribution of stock imagery results in the differentiation of identical posters or photographs. It is this combination of different contexts, sun exposure, and socio economic environment, that alters these normally indistinguishable images meaning. Just like the pictures generation, it is to understand how a photograph retains an entirely different meaning based on the environment that houses it.

https://talia.xhbtr.com/

***Elastic Journey's, Acrylic on car door***

Zane Winn -

My name is Zane Winn Guivetchi I’m an emerging artist from Sacramento California. I’m 25 years old. My paintings are a direct link to my heart, body, and soul. My work celebrates and pays homage to the late great Jean-Michel Basquiat with my contemporary, and primitive style, I intertwine both of our heart, an minds as one to create something recognizable and refreshing. I work primarily with Acrylic paint, charcoal pencil, oil pastel, and markers to create a beautiful amalgamation of colors and textures.

SUMMER 2023

Ellie (Ellen) Liu - I work with textiles to create soft sculptures and quilts. The art I make includes appropriations of “Asian” imagery to tell the story of my identity as a female Taiwanese American who never truly feels at home. I utilize familiar East Asian visual themes such as repeating geometric patterns, the color red, and Chinese characters. My work often attempts to replicate objects from my childhood as artifacts that have lasted longer than my memory has. I am drawn to textiles as a medium that is typically associated with feelings of comfort and warmth, and as an art form seems tangible yet modest and relatable. Stereotyped as a feminine craft, and traditionally made by women, I find value in elevating textiles to fine art as I am interested in the contrast between female labor and the type of art that is recognized in galleries. For me, the need for representation of not only female artists but also Asian artists drives and inspires my work, while simultaneously boxes me in and I explore this dynamic whenever I create a work of art. Although textiles require a lot of time and patience, my work often results in imperfections and unpredictable outcomes such as unfinished threads and irregular shapes. I treasure the flaws and the evidence of a piece made by human hands, and this is reflected in the soft sculptures I make. Because of the sentimental yet laborious nature of fiber, textiles are a natural way for me to deal with themes such as childhood, belonging, and memory.

*I wrote to you in the riptide, 2023,* glass glitter and acrylic paint on mounted giclee, 20x16”

Laura Cleary Williams - Williams’s abstract spaces are an ode to an imperfect language. Through motion, she makes marks that translate thought - subconscious – a viscerally understood language. Williams works from her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2009 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Next, Williams received a full scholarship to complete her Master's in Printmaking in 2012 at SCAD-Atlanta. Williams worked at SCAD‘s Southeastern Center for Printmaking. There, she worked on an ambitious print collection with Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond. Initially working as an assistant printer, Williams was indispensable to the project and was promoted to the assistant project manager. On the heels of this project, Williams founded, managed, and co-owned Straw Hat Press, which specialized in fine art publishing and contract printing. As Straw Hat flourished, Williams realized that despite her success in printmaking, she would always be devoted to her love of drawing. Subsequently, she left Atlanta and returned to her hometown to pursue her career as a gallery artist, where she is still drawing.

“My drawings are composed of transparent layers which reflect the passage of time and the degradation of memory. Each piece traces the boundaries of my imagination. Patterned with gestural lines inspired by the abstract expressionists, each layer is a collection of choices that together are alive. My work breathes like a cobweb in the wind - faint, delicate, and ephemeral. Throughout my life, I have floundered with language. Art provided me with a visual vocabulary in which I no longer felt restricted. Drawing unbound my voice. With each line and every stroke, I document my existence. Layers of graphite are the scars left behind as I strive to express what language denied me. Each sketch is a stolen moment of peace and beauty amid the never-ending battle between my dreams and desires, my regrets and pain. My work is a love letter to the girl I was and to everyone who yearns to express what cannot be said with words. Each piece is an imperfect sonnet to the power of imagination and joy of expression.”

https://www.lauracleary.com/

*Taschlic #1,* 2002, oil on canvas, 36x36”

Meir Goukhman - Meir Goukhman was born in Moscow, Russia in 1963. He majored in Fine Arts at the Moscow Fine Arts College and upon graduation taught painting in art school while his works were featured in many regional and national exhibitions. When Meir Goukhman left the former Soviet Union for the United States in December 1991, he had to leave his expansive works behind. Since then, he has been faced with the challenging task of recreating his artistic world on new soil.

Meir Goukhman works with a broad range of media to evoke the warmth of the long-ago shtetl in his unique Russian futurism style. Inspired both by the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Hassidic mysticism, Goukhman’s vast body of work is oft-compared to that of the famous modernist Chagall. Goukhman’s art reflects the music and movement found in the everyday, as his evocative brushstrokes reveal the melody of nuances inherent in traditional Jewish life.

https://www.meirgoukhman.com/

*Free Expression #4*, 2023, oil on canvas, 65x80”

MoeX - I grew up in a religious muslim family that did not accept that I am gay and atheist. That's why complete freedom of expression is at the core of my art. I paint, dance, and combine the two to create abstract paintings using my body as the brush. Just like the invention of photography, the emergence of AI requires us to find new ways to express what it's like to be human in this unique moment in history. My process starts with freestyle dancing on top of the canvas. I mix the colors that match how I feel internally, and use my feet and hands as my primary brushes. Nietzsche said: "a man must still have chaos within himself to give birth to a dancing star". My art reminds the viewer of how chaotic and unique the human condition is and will always be.

http://www.moexart.com

SPRING 2023

Sid Chou

Ching-Hsi(Sid) Chou / karaneko - Sid Chou is a multidisciplinary designer toy artist whose work spans across various mediums and techniques. With a focus on playful themes that balance between cuteness and darkness. Sid's creations evoke a sense of childlike wonder and bring joy to audiences of all ages. Through his work, Sid hopes to spark imagination and inspire creativity in others. His artistic process involves a combination of digital and traditional techniques, resulting in unique and one-of-a-kind pieces that blur the lines between art and toy. Sid's designs are not just meant to be displayed, but also to be played with and interacted with, encouraging a hands-on approach to art appreciation. He believes that art should be accessible to everyone and strives to bring a touch of magic to the everyday through his creations.

@karaneko_art

Cat - Resin toy, 2023

Jose Miguel Diaz Fernandez

Jose Miguel Diaz Fernandez - Due to online delivery, the contemporary city has articulated a quasi-totalitarian distributive production dynamic, whose waste element is cardboard, an infinitely reusable material! Resources are limited, but production cannot stop in the capitalist corpus; like Human Centipede, the city must re-digest its waste to prolong indeterminable its unsustainability. Capitalism forces compulsive production and exuberance, but it also requires processes of anti-production to regulate supply. The destruction of overproduction is needed, but it is also essential to disconnect a certain number of subjects from the productive processes; money, in the form of buying power, is a way to restrain productive energy. The cruelest symbolic castration: to subsume the creative impulse! Our artistic action must exercise resistance to the dynamics of consumption imposed by capitalist logic. Pepenar and recycling before exuberance! The selection of wasted materials is a statement and a creative act, creating new dynamics in the social body, which would not be generated if the materials were bought online or in a physical store. In this sense, our artistic action uncouples itself from specific capitalist operations to produce its own connections on the surface of social bodies. Wandering the city in search of materials is our revolutionary act against capitalism.

https://www.taulab.info/comics

Outer Party members, 2023

reused cardboard,

28x26x55 cm

Marissa Goldstein

Marissa Goldstein - Queens based visual and experiential artist, Marissa Goldstein, has spent the past decade thinking about the intersection of memory, nature, and sculptural design in an attempt to better connect with the world around her. She began her artistic journey as a young girl in her grandfather's woodworking space and branched out to ceramics and eventually utilized found/discarded items in her art. Her installations are meant to urge the participant to be part of the disruption and dismantling of her art.

Red Earth Mars

Tar, Red Pigment, 40x60 Wood Plank

Samantha Jensen

Samantha Jensen - a Brooklyn based artist, working predominantly in film photography and collage. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a minor in Studio Art from NYU, where she began her photographic and darkroom practice. Since then, she’s been working at community darkrooms throughout Brooklyn. She has been a part of group exhibitions at Atlantic Gallery, the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Greenpoint Gallery, the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Kay Daughterty Gallery, and the Bedminster Center for Contemporary Art, and received the 2022 New Futures Artist Award at the Other Art Fair Brooklyn.

Her process is an exploration of the limits of portrait photography, from where normally fixed identities may be problematized and examined in new ways. By photographing multiple angles and expressions of an individual, capturing a gesture, developing the prints, and cutting and collaging the different elements together, she aims to push the boundaries of what it means to represent someone truthfully. These collaged portraits are not an attempt at representing the subject in their entirety. Rather, they embody some of the many possible ways the subject may be presented, frustrating our intuitions of the portrait as a singular, definitive representation of the subject. In her photographic practice in general, she tends to shy away from the “perfect” photograph, and seeks out ways to add more visual chaos to the image. Through multiple exposures, collage components, and darkroom imperfections, she plays with questions of how reality, memory, and truth play a role in photographic representation.

https://www.samanthakjensen.com/

gelatin silver print collage, 20x35, 2023

Seung-Jun Lee

Seung-Jun Lee - Seung-Jun Lee Jun’s artistic practice contains social and cultural themes relating to his critical perspective on the contemporary world, influenced by his experiences migrating back and forth from Korea and America. Jun’s work focuses mainly on ceramics and large scale drawings idealizing internal intuition and the labor put into the analogue making process. With his main focus being drawings made from graphite, his images portray the raw expression in intertwining both nature and media culture. Jun has recently exhibited his first solo show in Seoul (Euljiro), Korea, and is currently situated in Baltimore, Maryland (Planning to move to NYC by May-June).

His next upcoming solo show, "Cyber Strays" will be in May 2023 with Creative Alliance, Amalie Rothschild Gallery, MD. Alas, the seed is me. I am currently seated uncomfortably between the intersection of two worlds : reality and cyberspace. I have always been seeking what is natural to me, but have difficulties adapting to the rapidness of media culture and when reality creeps up from behind. My work is a series of metamorphic life forms containing feelings of conflict and confusion in-between both worlds, trying to find adequate balance. The seeds of these forms are descendants from lands where naturalness lacks, doesn’t have a clear place to inhabit, a refugee constantly moving from one place to another, trying to ‘fit in’-“the intersection of the two spheres”. The gravity and tempo of the two worlds are different, creating insecure climates for the seeds to grow, eventually becoming a stray form which has no clear objective/route in evolving. I use the intimacy of drawing as a process, and graphite as a mediator to layer personal ideas and experiences on top of one another repetitively, connecting and creating shapes that relate to that of the both spheres.

http://seung-jun.com/

Table manners are hard, 2022

colored pencil and graphite on paper.

6.5x5ft

FALL 2022

A.E. THOMPSON

A.E. THOMPSON — From her grandfather’s tall tales to the classical literature from different cultures and times, storytelling has been a passion of A.E. Thompson from her youth. Her love of listening to life stories and great appetite for reading has led to the growth of colorful and ever-expanding imagination. This has shaped the foundation and expression of her art. Her work mainly focuses on the portrait with the addition of headwear that she creates.

A.E. Thompson was born in West Lafayette, Indiana in 1985. Thompson received her Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art, studying classical painting. She has shown her work in New York City, NY, and other locations around the U.S and has received awards at various shows and at the Salmagundi Club including the Kennelly Family Scholarship award. She also helped curate the show “Ivory Alive” with Six Summit Gallery, in which her work was also showcased. Thompson currently resides and works in New York City.

www.aethompson.com / @alycianyc

Scores of Melancholia, 2020

Oil on Linen, 42x22"

DANNY STARR

DANNY STARR is a self-taught artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He first discovered his love for painting while gaining his graphic design degree from Fort Lewis College. Since then, he has studied in courses including the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy and more recently with the Uncool artists program. He utilizes his knowledge in these various forms of art to create unique and inspiring pieces across all mediums. In 2015, he designed the campaign poster for I-301 to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in Denver. He shows works and paints murals across the country and was a finalist at the 2019 ARC Salon.

While a figure painter, his drive as an artist has always been aimed internally, exploring ideas on the nature of reality, human condition, life and death, and self-care. The subjects in his work are emerged in a surreal dreamscape created out of the relationships between his varying techniques.

www.dannystarrart.com / @dstarrart

i, 2022

Oil on Canvas 36x60”

ERIC BOHRER

ERIC BOHRER works within a newer-objectivity, a contrived and self-aware critical philosophy that is drawn to the labor, time, and material necessary for the performance of the specific cultural ritual of producing art. He seeks to observe process as its own image and subject. From his observations he adds to an ever-growing library of exaggerated figures and abstract forms through a variety of visual techniques, including stone carving, metalworking, and silk screen printing to name just a few. Each form is a direct product of its respective making process, through which he is able to connect himself and the viewer within a moment in and out of time. Bohrer graduated in 2017 with a BA of Art History from Reed College, and earned an MFA of Studio Art at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022. He currently lives and works as a fabricator in Brooklyn, New York.

www.ericb.online / @ericb.online

Effort Object, 2022

Concrete, Marble, Steel, Cloth Fabric, Found Material, 58x20x25"

INDIGO CHILD

INDIGO CHILD — I am an abstract visual artist. I originally studied Fashion Design at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA and the Fashion Institute of Technology, in NYC. However, in 2020, during the pandemic, I slowly drifted into drawing, painting and mixed media and became immersed in creating sculpture. In the last 3 years, I have made over 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures and video art. I have transitioned my studio in Gowanus Brooklyn (NYC), into a fully immersive multimedia exhibit space, using my work to fill each wall, ceiling and floor with my art. The space is entitled Indigo World. Indigo World has been open for public view since May, 2022.

In addition, my work has been featured in the Inaugural Group Exhibition at Soft Times Gallery in San Francisco this past April, 2022. I was also a featured artist in their first Quarterly Publication. This past spring I was the artist-in residence at Better Arts in Redwood, NY (Upstate). This residency culminated in a show of my work which included the debut of my prop money canvas paintings. Also, this past spring I participated in Curators of Culture’s Art Fashion Runway Show in Manhattan. This show featured multiple designers, and included many of my pieces of fashion art. This summer, I have my “pill purse” piece at the Art Apple NYC gallery in Brooklyn, NYC. I look forward to my second year participating in the Gowanus Brooklyn Open Studio Tour this coming Fall, 2022.

www.indigochildart.com / @ourindigochild

Bloody bouquet, 2021

Glue, plastic, wire, colored ink, 25x15x20"

JENNY JIYOUNG HAN

JENNY JIYOUNG HAN used to take an enormous interest in talking about abstract emotions, turning them into creative works of art concerning a humanitarian perspective. She wondered how people create the world within their original functionings in social organizations or domains were her ultimate question.

Extending the purview of creativity beyond nature and culture to include the processes and shaping the material universe allows us to envision the creative mentality itself for a generative multiplicity. Developing a unique Identity as originality is a challenge, and not many would have come a whole circle to say the above. But, she has been building throughout her experience and level of investment in time and travel. She hopes to share the beautiful path of life story with some understanding people who can embrace creative goals and norms that enhance their enjoyment of life. She believes there is always a strong possibility of getting recognized with a chain of successful life stories within understanding better the humanistic side of values.

www.jenny-jiyoung-han.format.com / @jennyjiyounghan

Life Expansion, 2021

Digital Painting, 15.5x15.5”

RYAN ZOGHEB

RYAN ZOGHEB was born and raised in New York, his work has been featured in three gallery exhibitions, and he recently graduated from NYU in May of 2022 earning his bachelor’s of fine arts. His paintings primarily focus on symbols of beauty as a means to either dispel beauty standards or bring viewers, and himself, into an eerie space of self-reflection. While creating his artworks he attempts to reach an absolute perfection when replicating either the image in front of him, or the experience with the subject of the painting. When finding that perfection cannot be reached, Ryan refutes the image and embraces the unconscious of the painting process allowing his works to enter deeper states of abstraction.

www.ryanzogheb.com / @ryanzogheb

Disconnection, 2020

Acrylic on newsprint mounted on cardboard, 30x36"

SOPHIE STECK

SOPHIE STECK is a Brooklyn-based, multidisciplinary artist. She is drawn to textural materials which she uses to play with form and create spaces that are interwoven with narrative through symbols and motifs that recur in her personal visual language.

@sophiestexk

The Front Seat, 2019

Ink, collage, paint marker on paper, 18x24"

YANQING PEI

YANQING PEI works with the idea that everything exists as one simultaneously while being connected to something else independently in her paintings. Her practice is an exploration of the intimate symbiotic relationship between human beings and their surroundings with the focus on nature, as well as imaginations of poetic spaces derived from narrative contexts composed of Chinese ideographic characters. Pei graduated with her BFA and MFA in Chinese Painting in 2014 and 2017, from China Academy of Art, and her MFA in Painting and Drawing in 2021, from Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Dunkirk and New York. She is currently working and living in New York.

www.yanqingpei.com / @theepenpen

Mood Board #1, 2021

Oil on canvas, 26 x 64”

ZELLA VANIÉ

ZELLA VANIÉ (b.1988) is a multidisciplinary artist who splits their time between Brooklyn and Côte d’Ivoire. While they’ve been exploring their imagination and inner-verse since childhood, Vanié’s art practice flourished in recent years after a series of events that spurred upheaval in their spiritual, emotional, and existential states. Image making became their way to map provocations of meaning and liberation in their life.

From large-scale pop art figurative portraiture to narrative-driven “images of protest,” Vanié visualizes concepts that bridge the core parts of their diasporic identity, a Black queer veteran who grew up in the Midwest, to the stories and experiences of communities in Bedstuy and Côte d’Ivoire, their late father’s home country.

In their first year of showing work, Vanié has shown with a global network of art fairs, contemporary art galleries New York and in New Jersey, and in various activations in New York City.

Vanié earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts; and has taught design courses at New York University and California College of the Arts.

www.zellavanie.com / @zella.vanie

A Queer Ass Black Ass Picnic, 2020

Acrylic, oil, aerosol, 70x70”

SUMMER 2022

Abbey Gilbert

Abbey Gilbert is a New York City based artist working with photography, printmaking and poetry. She recently received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts. The focal point of Gilbert’s work is her exploration of lesbian sexual chemistry and the ambiguous space between comfort and eroticism. In June, she curated her first group show, that she also exhibited in, at HERE Arts Center. Gilbert has also recently exhibited in the Untitled: Art Miami Beach Fair and online exhibitions with SVA BFA Photography and Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery.

www.abbeygilbert.com

Alex Yu

Alex Yu, Visual Artist graduated in 2019 with a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington Seattle. AAS degree at Seattle Central College in Apparel Design and Development with emphasis on Technical Design and Manufacturing. Artworks include the following formats: Installation, Illustration, Digital, Photography, Cyanotype, Screen-printing, Monotype, Natural Dyeing, Weaving, Felting, Sewing, Knitting, and Wire Sculpture.

My interests lie heavily in art that implements concepts of design. I’m more interested in why decisions in art and culture are made, rather than just what they are. Some favorite artists include: James Jean, Pina Bausch, and Andrzej Zulawski. The German expressionist and European New Wave movements are especially influential to my works as well.

www.awhitefountain.com

Wanting and Waiting, 2022

Digital

Anna Romanofsky

Anna Romanofsky — My maternal lineage, my unborn children and I, in a facetious manner, may have been suitable for fables starring egregious and brooding protagonists.

Hysteria in mythical context is often communicated via the damned and beguiling, which are emblematic of collective social anxieties surrounding “female” somatic function. Anna investigates how tropes of hysteria and themes of gestation manifest in eastern European folklore and contemporary body horror, while often inserting herself into these narrative compounds.

www.annaromanofsky.format.com

Chloe Colvard

Chloe Colvard is a multidisciplinary digital artist and writer living in Brooklyn. All of her work undertakes difficult topics, such as familial abuse, misogyny, mental health, and chronic illness. She is intrigued by the connection between physical illness and mental health. Many of her artworks include written and repurposed text, audio, and childhood mementos. Chloe hopes to bring awareness to the power of language and speaking out, even if told not to. By initiating dialogue on her experiences, Chloe's art creates space for things she previously felt unable to speak about as a child and into her early adulthood.

www.chloecolvard.com

Family Values, 2022

digitalized/handwritten elements over photograph

David Kim

David Kim is a fine artist & designer based in New York City.

Born in South Korea, moved to Canada at a young age to study abroad and later moved to New York City in 2014. His recent work topics are related to BDSM / sex. He was raised in a religious family, grow up in a conservative country and went to Christian school for his whole life before college. After coming to America, he was shocked by the culture when it came to the topic of BDSM / sex. He focuses on creating adult toys that does not give the viewers the thought of sex at first but just cute items that could also be displayed without looking sexual.

www.davidjkim.com

Taboo Table, 2021

Laser Cut wood / 3D Print / Steel Pipe

Heather Abshire

Heather Abshire is a mixed media artist, born and raised in New York. She graduated in 2014, from Marywood University with a BFA and a minor in painting and art history. After studying in London and Rome, Heather began her independent art career back in New York. Since 2015, she has exhibited and is in private collections across the US. Heather most recently was an exhibiting artist at Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn. From 2017-2019 she co-curated a corporate art collection for a digital marketing company. Member of Long Island City Artists and The Painting Center.

www.heatherabshireart.com

Julianna McCarthy

Julianna McCarthy is a multidisciplinary artist with a penchant for the strange and surreal. In 2015 she began publicly sharing the mixed media collages she had been creating since childhood, using the alias Surreal Deep Cuts. Her collages explore the intersection of madness, queerness, and otherness through a surreal lens, with a particular focus on the bestial aspects of human nature. Before landing in New York, Julianna was based in Newfoundland and Toronto, where she also worked as an actor, singer, and writer.

IG: surrealdeepcuts

Cornucorpsia, 2022

Analog collage and mixed media

Liza Clement

Liza Clement lives and works between Nashville, TN , Allison Park, PA and Lake Tahoe, California. She graduated with her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2020 and graduated from the University of Dayton in 2017 where she studied Fine Art and Biology. She currently teaches printmaking and painting at multiple universities and advises art students. Her passion for environmentalism and love of nature continually inform her artistic practice, which is an amalgamation of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and bio-art.

www.lizaclement.com

FALL 2021

Carla Aponte

Carla Aponte is an extremely visual artist, that uses the professional name "Carlushi" to sign her work. She is a native of Caguas, Puerto Rico. She currently resides in New York. She is a born artist and proficient in all mediums but prefers oils and acrylics. She excels in abstract and surrealistic designs that are wild with emotion and feeling that inspire her vivid use of color. Carlushi paintings are easily identifiable

www.carlushiart.com

Dynamic Vibration

Donna R. Charging

Donna R. Charging is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara). Her mother is Eastern Shoshone. Donna has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and attended the Rhode Island School of Design and Drake University.

Donna grew up on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

www.donnacharging.com

“I remember”, 2021

Collage, graphite on Rives BFK, 9" x 11"

Ilsy Jeon

Ilsy Jeon is a multidisciplinary artist born and based in New York. She studied drawing and painting at Pratt Institute for two years and received her B.F.A Hons in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art. Her works focus on shedding light on pertinent issues that are often veiled with insidious deceptions. By uncovering these illusions, her pieces confront fallacies that evoke critical contemplations.

www.ilsy.cargo.site

contemplations [with a drink] / 2020

acrylic, graphite, ink and UV ink on canvas / engraved wooden frame with acrylic and gold finish / torch light and serving tray, 36 x 28 cm each

India English

India English is a painter and designer based in NYC.

Her work is focused on exploring the middle ground between good and evil within the human experience. She seeks to better understand this grey area by provoking her audience through imagery that addresses fear, violence, and sexuality, in a violent and alluring way.

Growing up in Colorado she was always intrigued by Western landscapes and Americana themes. Her curiosity led her to develop an interest in nostalgia and eeriness within magic surrealism to compose dreamlike compositions. After graduating from Pratt Institute in 2019 she discovered other areas of interest, like film. She fantasized about horror, the male gaze, and the idea of choreographed violence. Her paintings often reference these themes found in film while highlighting female personas within cinema. Much of her work is inspired by her own fear and trauma, with a heavy emphasis on the female experience.

English's work seeks to expose uncomfortable and unspoken parts of being a human - as nightmarish as they may be. By doing so she insists the viewer see the piece as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual pieces. She attempts to exhibit the beauty in the duality, however it may present itself.

www.indiaenglish.squarespace.com

Nicole Dubowski

Nicole Dubowski is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist, engineer, and entrepreneur, based in New York. Her art primarily focuses on figurative subject matters and spans both realism, surrealism, and abstract styles utilizing various mediums including oil, watercolor, charcoal, ink and mixed media. She is particularly interested in exploring points of intersection, the role of art in catharsis and the study of empathy and the arts.

Nicole has exhibited fine art in NYC and worked on award-winning engineering design projects both regionally and globally with a primary focus on delivering sustainable outcomes in the built environment. Nicole obtained a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering with a mechanical concentration from The Pennsylvania State University, a Masters Certificate in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and a Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Investing and Development from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

www.nicoledubowski.com

Rituals

Oil on Canvas Board, 16x20”

LATE SUMMER 2021

Asia Vo

Asia Vo (b. Boston, MA) is a video, performance, and sound artist based in New York.

Her work addresses experiences that shift perception, useful fictions, the magical moments of life alongside the inconveniences, the feeling of flying, the power of ants, the process of storytelling, and bioluminescence. Asia glows, like those creatures in the deep sea, not only to navigate her way to a greater understanding of the world but so new ideas and truths can be attracted to her.

www.vobow.com

CHIAROSCURO, 2021

Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin

Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin, a Haitian American artist, infused her life with meaning with each hardship she had to face. Her first-hand tangencies with abuse, teenage pregnancy, family mental illness, and immigration served to shape her into a complex, multifaceted person whose art evokes the depths of the human experience.

Ingrid’s work is born at the juncture of her interests in African spirituality, female empowerment, social justice, and mental health. Born in New York and raised in Florida, Ingrid has delved into a vast array of behind-the-scenes investigations of what it means to be a black American, a woman, and a scholar in different social circles across the country. Ingrid has long been drawn to what lies behind appearances – and her portraiture work unveils details of her life-long findings in tiny glimmers of hope.

A versed artist, she began exploring drawing and graffiti art from a young age, acquiring diverse skills with time.

Today, her works harmoniously combine a mastery in acrylic and oil painting – and are heavily influenced by her love of graffiti art, drawing, and film photography. Her current explorations reunite her studies in design and illustration with focused portraiture work on Black culture.

www.yuzly.com

Blue or Red

Oil on Canvas , 30x40”

Megan Mosholder

Megan Mosholder is an artist who creates artwork in the real-world setting of the social-political landscape through site-responsive, sculptural installations. With the creation of larger than life, tensile artworks often enhanced by light, Megan emphasizes obscured elements within recognizable spaces and correlates the symbolic with lived experience. She has received a MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BFA painting from the Ohio State University. She is also a Satellite Collective Fellow and has received numerous awards from institutions such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Paul J. Smith Award of Excellence from Fiber Art Now and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Her diverse exhibition history includes an installation in Sydney, Australia (2017), a body of site-specific work that speaks of the lasting impression a fully immersive, multi-sensory artwork can leave on a viewer.

Megan is also a burn survivor. In 2018, Megan was involved in a catastrophic car accident that burned over 60 percent of her body. Two and a half years later, Megan is still not fully recovered. Regardless of her injuries, she continues to maintain both her installation and teaching schedule. Megan currently resides in Atlanta, GA where she is a Professor at Kennesaw State University.

www.meganmosholder.com

Trail By Fire, 2019

Wood, charred wood, ash, eyelets, and hand-painted string illuminated with black light, 96” x 108” x 108”

Namrata Dhore

Namrata Dhore is a designer and researcher based in NYC. She enjoys socially responsible architectural and curatorial projects. She is also working on launching Project Archive, a research collective she founded in Fall 2019. The collective presented their work at the 2021 ACSA conference. Furthermore, understanding how artists and designers position their post-colonial practice has always intrigued her. As a result, she worked on organizing a series of three discussions with creatives at RISD & Brown University. This inquiry later lead her to co-curate a show at the RISD Museum titled {re}position.

Upon discoveries made in her thesis at RISD Architecture, she realized the best way to challenge hegemonic architectural representation is through inventive and artistic practices. Ever since she is committed to an investigation of using miniature paintings as a means to represent social and cultural contexts that black and white hegemonic drawings historically have erased.

www.npdhore.com

Sunny Han

Sunny Han (b.1999) is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily paints surrealism. She/they deconstructs and processes their perception through spiritual practices and transcripts it into a various art form. They explore different forms of communication and mediums unbound to existing practices and paradigms to figure out a more effective conveyance of their intentions. She is currently finishing her BFA in Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.

www.sunnyhan731.com

Thomas Beyer

Thomas Beyer is a multidisciplinary visual artist focusing on painting, photography, and collage. He views photography as a medium to express what’s in the real world, while painting is the medium to touch the intangible.

Beyer takes a bit of a scientific approach to work, having experimented with all types of materials to create my images having worked with apparel, leather goods, scale models, cardboard, and glass. Beyer’s work explores the duality in terms of one's identity and the finite time one has to shape their reality. He draws inspiration from the places he has lived, his roots, ancient civilizations, music, film, literature, street art, and fashion.

www.tjxbart.com

SUMMER 2021

Amy Wolf

Amy Wolf is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She finds endless inspiration from the spontaneous and heartfelt creations of young people, including her own. She uses kids drawings, paintings, and doodles to create collage paintings on wood, with acrylic paint and sometimes coated with a wax epoxy. Her work is often three-dimensional, with the works changing with shifted perspectives.

www.amyleahwolf.com

Hot Rod Limousine, 2020

Collage and Acrylic with Wax Epoxy Coating, 12 x 12 x 5/8”

Anna Pederson

Anna Pederson is a Queens-based artist whose practice is often informed by found objects and imagery. Pederson alters the status of found subjects through various techniques of ornamentation and reconfiguration, a process which she equates to the way in which words can be recast in jokes and poems.

Pederson grew up in Minnesota and received a BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018 before relocating to New York.

www.anna-pederson.net

40 Dominoes, 2021

Paper, Polyester Resin, 11 x 16”

Chasity Colón

Chasity Colón is a Nuyorican visual artist born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City. She creates realistic paintings and drawings exploring how personal items are able to capture the essence of an individual and evoke vivid memories. They can represent “pieces” of a person’s overall life, containing stories that are linked to their identity, personal history, and deeply emotional experiences. Her work features some of her belongings as symbolic fragments of her personality, personal timeline, and navigation through life while dealing with mental illness. Acting as tangible connections to the past, a mental timeline is created providing a reminder of what she’s done in her life, where and who she’s been, and how far she’s come while enduring hardship. Chasity graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Illustration and continues to take courses with The Art Students League of New York to perfect her craft.

www.chasitycart.com

Solitary Colors, 2019

Acrylic on Canvas, 18 x 24”

Hyemi Kim

Hyemi Kim is a multi-media artist based in New York and Seoul. She received her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and got her first MFA and BFA in Painting from Sungshin University in Seoul, South Korea. Her video works were shown at Time Square, from the ZAZ corner and several group shows in NYC. She participated in the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and 2016 ASYAF(Asian Student & Young Artist Art Fair).

Hyemi Kim does numerous video and photo collages in recent years, representing her scattered memories and experiences in contemporary life. Across Painting to video installation, she describes living in different spaces and also violence around the world. With collaged images and videos, she turned the collective energies into a humorous and dreamy way.

www.haemikim.com

CITY COLLAGE 4

1 Channel 4K Video, 3:30 minutes

Jack Florczyk

Jack Florczyk, known professionally as Jack Flo, is an American contemporary fine artist born in Teaneck, New Jersey. Working with acrylic paint, spray paint, oil sticks, and mixed media Jack Flo’s work is described as figurative expressionism. Jack Flo is heavily influenced by the Impressionism movement, the 1970s and 80s street-art culture, sports, and hip-hop.

Jack Flo began the summer of 2018 with the opening of his first solo show ‘A Solo Exhibition by Jack Florczyk’ in East Harlem, New York.

Through the use of varying styles and mediums, Jack uses the figure as a means of expression. Depicting athletes and musicians that have inspired him, Jack uses his unique approach to perspective as a way to unpack the many complexities that exist within a single moment.

www.jackfloart.com

Someone With a Richard Mille, 2021

Acrylic on Paper, 18 x 24″

Lisa Candela

Lisa Candela is an emerging artist who currently lives and works in New York City. Lisa's primary focus is expressive paintings of the human figure in nature. Her subject matter recalls images from her subconscious memory often of women and their interaction with their surroundings.

www.lisacandela.org

Untitled

Oil on Canvas, 36 x 48”

Veronica Wolfgang

Veronica Wolfgang is an artist currently exploring the relationship between natural textures and primordial memory. Working from a background in philosophy, much of her work draws upon questions and conflicts of the self. Unusual mediums found objects, and traditional sculpture combine to form reliquaries of experience. Wolfgang is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, and has shown work in the US and abroad.

www.veronicawolfgang.com

ENTROPY B1, 2019-2020

Expired Polaroid Frame, Injected with Paints, Enamels, and Solvents

FALL 2020

Yi Hsuan Lai

Yi Hsuan Lai is a visual artist from Taiwan currently working in New York. She often creates sculptures to use as photographic subjects and places them in both constructed and domestic spaces to create surreal still life and self-portraiture photography. She views photography as the pictorial representation of one’s mental states. Her work presents the complexity of psychological experiences for fluid self-identity and Otherness.

Sia Serafina

Sia Serafina is a New York-based mixed media artist. She uses visual art, and more specifically charcoal collage, to explore femininity, destruction, solitude, and the rebuild after trauma. Through her work, she illuminates both the abstractions and the realities of existing as an empowered womon both inside and outside of her work in the erotic labor industry.

Thomas Hecht Ribas

Thomas Hecht Ribas is a Brazilian American sculptor. His work considers the human body through the eyes of the objects that we interact with. The artist’s process is one of critical thinking; allowing projects to develop through constructed methodologies. A structured approach establishes the framework for highlighting the addition of pseudo ‘janky’ subjective qualities.

Khalif Tahir Thompson

Khalif Tahir Thompson, based in New York, has been making powerful work in his chosen styles of portraiture and figuration. His artistic practice includes painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and paper-making. Thompson received his BFA from Purchase College and has since completed residencies at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and Trestle Art Space. Thompson is now exclusively represented by Black Art In America LLC.

Benjamin Staker

Benjamin Staker is a New York based artist and Writer. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised in Seattle, Washington where he attended the University of Washington, receiving a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and Art History in 2014. Benjamin Staker has worked and lived as a model in Los Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo, before moving to New York to begin his art practice.

Theo Trotter

Theo Trotter creates work that investigates the trans body as a palimpsest, through the marks of transformation and trauma that manifest on it. He approaches this work through mixed media and papermaking. His images walk the thin line between beautiful and disgusting. This dichotomy between beauty and disgust, or attraction and repulsion, represents both injury and healing. He graduated from Bard College in 2019, and has shown work in New York and elsewhere in the United States.

Chun-Chieh Chang

Chun-Chieh Chang is an artist who was diagnosed with hearing impairment at an early age and from Taiwan, His work is influenced by Minimalism, especially the ideas which defines Minimalism as “to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features, or concepts.”

Joe Baker

Joe Baker, a Filipino-American, explores narratives through the blood of technology.
With the feelings of a musician and the movements of a dancer, he reverse engineers hardware to discover new life. This experimentation further defines his identity while fostering unique situations for individuals. He invites his audience to be at the forefront of the process. It is their emotional connection that drives his performances.