Artists
dubem aniebonam
Dubem is an architectural designer and mixed media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from the Washington, DC metropolitan area, she graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her artwork seeks to explore the intersection of visual arts and built environments while concentrating on geometric forms and the emotions of a space. Her abstract work draws inspiration from constructivism with a heavy focus on cultivating mindfulness.
Ilana harris-babou
Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is interdisciplinary; spanning sculpture and installation, and grounded in video. She speaks the aspirational language of consumer culture and uses humor as a means to digest painful realities. Her work confronts the contradictions of the American Dream: the ever unreliable notion that hard work will lead to upward mobility and economic freedom. She has exhibited throughout the US and Europe.
james bascara
James is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and animated filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in a small town in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University for Biomedical Engineering, and the School of Visual Arts for Illustration. His work explores the idea of artifacts through various mediums, and how they can connect us to unknown histories, mythologies, and memories. He works as a freelance illustrator and teaches illustration and animation at Parsons.
fiona buchanan
Fiona Buchanan was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts and received a BFA in painting from Boston University. She has participated in residencies such as the Yale Norfolk summer school of art in Norfolk, Connecticut, the Wassaic Project Residency Program in Wassaic, New York and the Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming among others. Buchanan has shown at Spring Break Art Show, NYC, PAGE (NYC) in New York, Vacation gallery in New York, Underdonk in Brooklyn as well as Sluice Art Fair in London. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
lisa corinne davis
Lisa Corinne Davis is an abstract painter exploring themes of racial, social and psychological identity. Born in Baltimore, MD, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, including one person shows at June Kelly Gallery (New York), Gerald Peters Gallery (New York), Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), Spanierman Modern (Miami) and The Mayor Gallery (London). Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Davis is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, and three Artist Fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she was inducted as a National Academician at the National Academy Museum & School. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical. Davis has previously taught painting at Yale University and is currently Professor of Art and Head of Painting at Hunter College in New York.
nicki deux
Nicole “Nicki Deux” Blanchard is a 29-year-old muralist and portrait painter from Miami, Florida, with murals in Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, and London. She is also a life-time member of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Nicki got her start painting murals in 2009, leading Girl Scouts and volunteers in a 6 year, 80,000 Sq. ft mural project covering every single interior wall of a children’s hospital in Miami. She is currently a Lead Teaching Artist at ArtWorks, a Greater Cincinnati non-profit that employs artist mentors and local teens to paint murals in the community. This fall, Nicki will begin her Masters Degree at University of the Arts London, in Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures.
courtney garvin
Courtney Garvin is a visual artist born in South Carolina and currently based between New York City and Hawaii. She received her B.S. in Communications and Rhetoric with a minor in Art Photography from Syracuse University and is a Magnum Foundation 2018 Photography & Social Justice Fellow. Her work is centered on Blackness and the ways in which it can be portrayed through various mediums. She also has a deep interest in family histories, memory, storytelling, sexuality, and examining the boundaries between relationships.
joudy
Joudy is a Venezuelan band with over 10 years of trajectory. Last autumn, the founding members, without planning it, ended up in NYC. They began playing music together again. They are all cousins and their names are Diego Ramirez (Guitar and bass), Javier Ramirez (Drums) and Gabriel Gavidia (Bass).
maria liebana
Maria Liebana is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. Her practice involves collects pop-culture images and thrift-store finds to reassemble them with organic and abstract forms. Maria received her BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from Maine College of Art. She is a recipient of 2018 and 2020 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Artist Grant. Her work has been exhibited at Field Projects (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY), ICA (Portland, ME), Paradice Palase (NY) and Local Project Art Space (NY). Liebana’s solo show ¿Tres Marias, Donde Esta Mi Felicidada?, was exhibited at Local Project Art Space in 2018. Her work has been featured in Hole History: The Origins of the American-Style from Little Leg Press, Studio Visit + Interview with Gallery Gurls, Queens Courier and About Themselves. In 2019, she was part of the Every Woman Biennial (New York).
cassandra mayela
Cassandra Mayela is a multi media artist whose work is zoomed into the relationship between femininity and nature. Using textiles and organic material, she focuses on the rippled memory thatʼs reminiscent of her upbringing in Venezuela. Her sculptures exemplify a sewn thread between ancient map making and new waves of empowerment.
felicita felli maynard
Felli works across traditional analog and alternative photography processes to create artwork to further understand their self and ancestors. They focus on retelling stories that challenge misrepresented histories of people from the African Diaspora, the beauty of the Black body and investigating the complex identities that compromise gender and sexuality.
Felicita “Felli” Maynard is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist, student and educator. They received their BFA from Brooklyn College, with a concentration in film photography. As a 1st generation Afrolatinx-American, their work uses photography to investigate and explore identity, gender, history and the black body. They challenge and re-write histories related to the African Diaspora by means of their work. Maynard has shown work at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Westchester Community College, Spectrum Gallery at MCLA college, Brooklyn Photoville and Pen + Brush Gallery in NYC. Felli lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC. Maynard is currently a Queer | Art Mentorship Fellow working with photographer Lola Flash.
lydia mccarthy
Lydia McCarthy’s work has been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, NAU Gallery in Stockholm and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia received a yearlong American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship in 2011. Her book Vision 5: The Vibratory Waves of External Unity was released with Silent Face Projects at the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 in 2017. Lydia is an Associate Professor of Photography in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University.
eunwoo nam
EunWoo Nam is a NY-based artist with a BA in Religion and Studio Art from Hunter College. His interest in cultural and social studies brought him to the U.S. from his home country, South Korea. His artistic practice includes performance, video, photography, painting, music and sound production.
anya opshinsky
Anya rejoices in the world of communal pretend. Sitting around a camp fire, a classroom, or a theater using the ancient art of storytelling to relate and connect. She works in drag, mask, puppetry mime and classical theater to entertain, to escape, to transform space, and to challenge our imaginations.
kelsey renko
Kelsey’s paintings are celebrations of everyday moments and memories. She captures them in thick paint and wobbly lines. Kelsey obsessively layer, cover-up, and scratch away the surface. Her paintings can feel humorous, angry, or sappy and she hopes, relatable.
Kelsey Renko is an artist living and working in Upstate New York. Her studio is located in Troy, NY where she has helped found an artist collective called The Church Troy. Kelsey is the Art Loan Program Coordinator for Roommate: Living with Tang Art, at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, where students can live with artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. Kelsey was an artist in residence at The Vermont Studio Center in February, 2019. Kelsey serves on the Exhibitions Committee at Collar Works, and curated a sensory show called Feel Me in August, 2019. She received her BFA in Painting from The College of Saint Rose in 2015 where she was awarded for excellence in drawing and painting.
etta sandry
Etta Sandry is an artist, educator, and organizer with a making practice that spans fiber, weaving, drawing, sculpture, and sound. She considers the meanings found in material and patterns as literal and metaphorical examples of broader systems that organize the world. Using processes of translation and transformation across media, her work aims to destabilize assumptions about how cloth and other materials are produced and function in order to consider how they can be methods or models for destabilizing and rebuilding broader social and political structures. Etta is currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal where she is pursuing her MFA in the Fibre and Material Practices department at Concordia University.
nikki scioscia
Nikki Scioscia is a Brooklyn-based illustrator, designer, and earth witch. She holds a BA in Studio Art & Communication from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and she is an MFA in Illustration candidate at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Her meditative ink drawings and digital work emanate the wisdom of flora, fungi, and the female form. She is inspired by sisterhood, herbalism, dance, and the cosmos. Her intention is to empower her viewers to access their own magic in connection with the earth.
shristi shrestha
Shristi wasn’t around when her family was rebuilding their old house, the one she grew up in, the one her father still boasts was at least three hundred years old. When he told her about it, she begged him to take pictures of all the spaces, every corner as evidence of all the memories she had of the place called home. He didn’t. So, when Shristi returned to find the new house, she began looking for things that were associated with the old one -dustpans, curtains, bedsheets, boxes. These objects became references to memories, most limited to just a particular touch, a smell of the place that no longer existed. What began as nostalgia became a way to record the things we keep and reflect on why we keep them.
cory emma siegler
Cory Emma Siegler is a visual artist whose practice explores the tactility, functionality, and inherent potential of art objects. Using a variety of media, including patchwork quilting, drawing, bookmaking and printmaking, she creates forms that can be physically activated and engaged with, in an effort to produce a more hands-on and meaningful connection between object and user. Cory's work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, MONO Practice Gallery, 80WSE at NYU Gallery, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, and Printed Matter, Inc., among others and she has been an exhibitor at the NY Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1), the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair (Yale Art Gallery), and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair. Cory received her BFA from Pratt Institute and she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
jessie young
Jessie researches, writes about, curates, makes and teaches traditional textile techniques. Her primary medium is weaving and dyeing. In her most recent body of work, Jessie responds to her time spent in rural landscapes. She spent time living in Ireland, a small village in Iceland and in the Adirondacks. Her time in secluded places left her feeling energized and inspired. After having months to engage in deep thought on her practice and have sincere observance and connection to her surroundings, new series of woven work that reflected her meditative experience emerged.
Jessie is an MA candidate in the History of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a dual degree in Art History and Studio Art in Fiber and Material Studies. After graduating, she has spent the last five years teaching art and working in museums in Ireland, upstate New York, Iceland, and California. She currently works as the Art Program Coordinator in Arts Administration at the Teachers College at Columbia University. Upon completion of her current degree, she hopes to pursue her passion of teaching textiles.
Ziyi wang
Ziyi Wang is interested in the symphony of objects and moving images within the language of trash history. Her work deploys motifs from traditional Chinese architecture, objects of domestic origins, suspended with a congealed canvas and fragmented visuals. Wang utilizes installation based scale as a lens to realize and activate material’s agency, urging participation as an everyday transformation. Ziyi Wang is from Sichuan, China, but is currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She has a wonderful studio plant that has stood the test of water deprivation, time and time again.