Peter Acheson is an artist living and working in the Hudson Valley of New York. His paintings have been shown at small, independent galleries in New York, Brooklyn, and Hudson, New York, such as LedisFlam Gallery, A Place Apart, Thompson Giroux, and Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects. His work is not commercial or product-oriented but rather an inquiry into the unified field of Mind and Nature; more concerned with the phenomenology of behavior than reductive opinions about painting.
“I am connected to the most wonderful tradition of American art: that of the Ambitious Amateur. Ryder and Blakelock are in this tradition, as are Brakhage, Robert Creeley, Newman, Rothko, and Blink Palermo. The energy of this non-professional position comes from the ability to maintain one’s freedom and create meaning out of the mundane and poetry out of the present." Peter Acheson

Eric Aho is an American painter known for his immersive paintings of the natural world. With color and form that bridges the way we experience nature in totality, Aho’s canvases at every scale, occupy a zone of perception between sober realism and ecstatic abstraction. While Aho works from his own impressions and memories of the landscape, the artist also draws upon major pillars of art history—including De Kooning, Goya, Homer, and Constable—to define his compositions. He’s been called “One of the leading painters of landscape and the environment of his generation.” Aho studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, England, and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. In 1989, he participated in the first exchange of scholars in over thirty years between the U.S. and Cuba. He completed his graduate work at the Lahti Art Institute in Finland, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in 1991-92 and an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant in 1993. His works have been exhibited and collected widely in the United States and abroad and can be found in the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Denver Art Museum, CO; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; and the Oulu Museum of Art, Finland among others. Recent solo exhibitions include: Eric Aho: An Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut (2016); Eric Aho: Ice Cuts at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire (2016); Eric Aho: In the Landscape at the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. (2013); and Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire (2012). Other exhibitions have taken place at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire; Portland Art Museum, Maine; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine; National Academy, New York; and American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Aho’s paintings have been shown internationally in Ireland, South Africa, Cuba, Norway, Finland, and Japan. Eric Aho was elected National Academician of the National Academy Museum in 2009. He lives and works in Saxtons River, Vermont.

Tomer Aluf (born in 1977) obtained an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, a BFA from Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY.
Solo Exhibitions include Round Corners, Tempo Rubato, New York, NY, Hamidrasha Gallery Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv,  Not a Solo Show One Painting, Peter Makebish gallery, NY,  With Josef Strau TURTLES + 8 PAINTINGS + YELLOW BROWN BLUE, Tempo Rubato Gallery Tel-Aviv, Israel, Free Drama, Retrospective Gallery, NY, Thirteen, Kansas Gallery, NY.  Aluf has received numerous awards, such as the Pollock Krasner foundation grant, New York (2017), Dedalus foundation, NY (2013), Artist-in-the-Marketplace AIM Program, Bronx Museum, New York, NY (2010), Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY (2006), American Cultural Foundation, Israel (2006) Noam Shodovski for young Israeli Artists, Israel (2006), American Cultural Foundation, Israel (2006). Tomer Aluf was Co-director of Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

Liz Ainslie is an abstract painter living in Brooklyn, NY. Her abstractions are generated from observations and memories, including 1970s interior decor, the upstate New York landscape, My Little Pony, and ancient Greek wall paintings. Ainslie received an MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2004 and a BFA from Alfred University in 2001. She has had solo exhibitions at Transmitter Gallery and Airplane in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Creon Gallery in Manhattan, and The Cohen Gallery at Alfred University. Her work has been included in shows at Good Naked, Station Independent Projects, SARDINE, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Orgy Park, Ground Floor Gallery, Outlet Fine Art, Centotto, Parallel Art Space, Small Black Door, and A.I.R. Gallery, Vox Populi, BCB Fine Art, and Gallerie Kritiku, Prague, Czech Republic. Her work has been reviewed or featured in Art Maze Mag, Maake Magazine, Giornale Dell' Arte, ArtCal Zine, and The GC Advocate. Interviews with the artist can be found online at Maake Magazine, Pencil in the Studio, and #fffffff Walls. Ainslie is a Co-director of Underdonk gallery in Brooklyn, was a visiting artist at Trestle Projects in 2018, a faculty resident at the School of the Alternative in 2017, a resident artist at Millay Colony for the Arts in 2011, and at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2006.

Lisha Bai makes sculptural likenesses of paintings that are cast from ground feldspar, a mineral that makes up nearly half the earth’s crust. Bai composes the feldspar, which is dyed in an array of colors in gradients that evoke weather patterns and horizons. The fleeting nature of her imagery contrasts with the ancient, fixed materials that she uses. Each piece offers a meditation on time and the pixilated density of contemporary image-making. Lisha Bai lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and has an upcoming show at Deanna Evans Projects. Her work has been exhibited at Halsey McKay Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Fortnight Institute, and the National Academy of Art, among other venues. She holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Yale School of Art.

Natalie Beall: With paper collage and mixed media wall sculpture, Natalie Beall invents new forms containing traces of functionality and fantasy. She earned her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from Columbia University. Beall’s work has been exhibited at Standard Space (Sharon, CT; solo), the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), and Scaramouche Gallery (NYC), among other venues. Residencies include the Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca, NY), the Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), the Cooper Union (NYC), Catwalk Institute (Catskill, NY), and the Lower East Side Printshop (NYC). Beall is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. She lives and works in Salt Point, New York.

Mildred Beltré’s work spans photography, print-making, drawing, text-based formats, and fiber arts. Beltré is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine is an ongoing socially engaged collaborative art project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building through art-making. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Met Museum, Koda Arts Lab, Apex Art, BRIC, Lower East Side Printshop, Vermont Studio Center, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Brooklyn Foundation, and the Rema Hort Foundation, among others.

Timothy Bergstrom received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York. He has had Solo exhibitions nationwide, including at Halsey McKay Gallery, NY, Devening Projects, Chicago and Roberto Paradise, Puerto Rico. Bergstrom has participated in numerous group shows around the United States, The Hole in Manhattan, Green Gallery in Milwaukee, and Double Break in Los Angeles. Bergstrom lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Angela Conant is an artist, curator, and educator in Brooklyn, NY. Her sculptures, paintings, and drawings abstract flesh-like forms and consider the elusiveness of shared perception from within a human body. She takes rubbings of her marble sculptures, using them as matrices to yield bodies work on paper. Her practice encompasses curatorial and artist-run projects. Conant’s work has been exhibited at Electronic Arts Intermix (New York City), EFA Project Space (New York City), Planthouse (New York City), SPRING/BREAK art show (New York City); Glasshouse Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY); the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (Wilmington, DE), Neter (Mexico City, MX), The Sunview Luncheonette (Brooklyn, NY), ICA Baltimore (Baltimore, MD), La Mama Gallery (New York City), SARDINE (Brooklyn, NY), Galerie René Blouin (Montreal, QC), Agency (Brooklyn, NY), Assembly Room (New York City) and Swivel Gallery (Saugerties, NY). She has spoken at Boston University's School of Fine Art and at New York Foundation for the Arts, and was awarded a Critical Writing residency at Recess (New York City) in 2013, an Artist Residency at the Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY) in 2014, and was a 2019 Home School Hudson participant and she was a 2020 Shandaken Paint School Fellow, In 2007, she co-founded The Gowanus Studio Space, an artist-run collaborative in Brooklyn where she served as Artistic Director until 2014. She earned a BFA in Painting from Boston University in 2004 and an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in 2013, and is pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies from Hunter College.

Vince Contarino is a Brooklyn-based artist whose paintings work in an open dialogue of regenerative image-making through the language of abstraction. He received his BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL and has exhibited across the US and Europe. His awards and residencies include The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and a 2012 Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Contarino was featured in “Golden Age: Perspectives on abstract painting today”, published by NUTUREart and his work has been covered in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and SFAQ, among others. He has been a visiting artist at Art Omi, The Wassaic Project, University of South Florida, and was a partner and co-director of Present Company, a Brooklyn-based exhibition and social space.

Jared C. Deery is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Philadelphia in 1980. His practice includes painting, installation, and sculpture. Deery received his BFA with honors in 2001 from Pratt Institute and his MFA at Hunter College in 2009. Deery has exhibited in venues including Boccanera Gallery, Trento; Spazio Morris, Milan; Marselleria, Milan; Underdonk, Brooklyn; Platform Project, Brooklyn, Assembly Room NYC, New York, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, Arts and Leisure Gallery, New York, Eastside International, Los Angeles, 68 Projects Berlin, and has participated in the Salone del Mobile in Italy and the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale in France.
His work is in private collections in the US (New York, Chicago, Denver), Japan, Italy, and Mexico.
Deery lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he is co-founder of Tappeto Volante Projects.

Mary Flinn (b. 1962, Baltimore, MD) is an artist living in Chatham, NY, who works mostly in oil paints and also watercolors and pastels. Mary earned her BFA at the Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA in 1984 and her MFA at Queens College in 1991. She has had 3 solo exhibitions at The Prince Street Gallery in NYC and numerous group shows there and along the east coast. She has been in numerous 2-person shows, including the Joyce Goldstein Gallery with Sara Farrell Okamura and Baltimore City Hall with Josh Dorman, and Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center, with Cathy Shoenberg, curated by Ben Moss. Virtual shows include: “Spring is Like a Perhaps hand,” a 4 personal show with the Jason McCoy Gallery. As well as numerous inclusions in the Jason McCoy drawing challenges. Her paintings have been influenced by the many years she studied Mysore-style painting in India and calligraphy in Japan. Her roots are in painting the landscape.

Marianne Gagnier lives and works in Brooklyn and Copake, New York. She has had one-person exhibitions at Thomas Deans and Company, Maurice Arlos Gallery, and Prince Street Gallery. Selected group exhibitions include Thompson Giroux Gallery, LABspace, Equity Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Anthony Philip Gallery, Life on Mars, Western Carolina University, Haverford College, Ingber Gallery, Cedar Crest College, the New York Studio School, P.S. #1, “The Times Square Show” and “The Dinner Party Project.” Her work is in numerous private and permanent collections of Western Carolina University, Bryn Mawr College, and the Public Securities Association. She received a B.A from Yale College in 1977 and an M.F.A from Parsons School of Design in 1993.

Benjamin Klein was born in Chicago and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. His paintings depict a rich but ambiguous landscape of dreamlike scenery and characters. Hallucinatory colors, strange environments, and unexplained scale shifts inhabit the space as much as do the figures themselves, who interact and confront one another in quietly poetic, charged psychodramas. Dread and longing, fear and ecstasy are present here, but also slapstick and silliness, a species of tragicomic drama in the painting. Klein lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Uwe Henneken is a German painter who lives in Berlin. He is known for his lush, seductive palettes and fairy tale imagery rendered in an almost cartoony (but also sometimes Expressionist) style. The flower-strewn oak forests and mountainous landscapes that serve as his Romantic backdrops veer towards psychedelic fantasy, as the boneless but glowing inhabitants—seemingly released from a child's nursery book—act out haunting narratives set in bygone eras.

Eric Hibit (born Rochester, NY) is a visual artist based in New York City. He attended the Corcoran College of Art + Design (BFA,1998) and Yale University School of Art (MFA, 2003). In New York, he has exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Dinner Gallery, Deanna Evans Projects, My Pet Ram, One River School of Art + Design, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Underdonk Gallery, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Zurcher Studio, C24 Gallery, Anna Kustera Gallery, Max Protetch Gallery, and elsewhere. He has exhibited nationally at Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Adds Donna in Chicago, Curator’s Office in Washington, DC, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Satellite Contemporary in Las Vegas, NV, The University of Vermont, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA and internationally in Sweden, France and Norway. His work has been covered by the Washington Post, The Village Voice, Hyperallergic, Newsweek, New York Times and New York Post. Hibit has taught studio art at Drexel University, The Cooper Union, Suffolk County Community College, 92NY, Tyler School of Art, NYU and Hunter College. Artist residencies include Terra Foundation in Giverny, France (2003), UNILEVER Residency in New York (2015), and Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (2019) and Green Olives Arts in Tetouan, Morocco (2019). Publications include Dear Hollywood Writers, with poet Geoffrey Young (Suzy Solidor Editions, 2017) and Paintings and Fables with Wayne Koestenbaum, a limited edition artist’s book (2017), and Color Theory for Dummies, published by Wiley (2022). He is currently Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery based in Brooklyn, where he has curated exhibitions since 2014.

Volker Hüller (b. 1976 in Forchheim, DE) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US). He studied under the late Norbert Schwontkowski (1949-2013) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (DE), graduating in 2008. Recent exhibitions include Wasteland, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (DE); Birds, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY (US); Bon Voyage, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Paradise Inn, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Tonics, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY (US); Volley, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (DE); L.I.T.S. Homo Naledi, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Volker Hüller, 11R Gallery, New York, NY (US); Volker Hüller, Timothy Taylor, London (UK); Volker Hüller, curated by Anna-Catherina Gebbers, Salon 94, New York, NY (US). Hüller has participated in group exhibitions at the following venues: GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Museum Weserburg für Moderne Kunst, Bremen (DE); Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort (NL); Saatchi Gallery, London (UK); and the Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg (DE). Hüller’s work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (US); Saatchi Gallery, London (UK) and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IL), as well as many private collections.

Alexandra Lakin was born in rural New York State in 1969. She got her BFA from Alfred University NYSCC in 2-D Studies (1991) and also received an MFA from Alfred in Electronic Integrated Arts (2005). She has lived in Brooklyn and Los Angeles as well as Albuquerque, NM, for extended periods and has resided in Pittsburgh, PA, since late 2015. Lakin has exhibited her drawings, paintings, prints, videos, and sculptures at Wilding Cran, ZKM Karlsruhe, Grifter, Soil Gallery, Ditch Projects, Anderson Gallery at Drake University, Florence Lynch Gallery, and many other venues.

Leonora Loeb is a visual artist from NYC. She received her BA in Fine Art from Pitzer College, CA; and received her MFA in NYC from the School of Visual Arts in 2010.  Working primarily with sculpture and video, Leonora has received support from institutions such as Mabou Mines and Chashama. Her work has been shown in Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Momenta Art, Front Room Gallery, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Deanna Evans, and other spaces. Leonora has worked on collaborative multimedia projects for venues such as The Clock Tower Gallery, (LIC, Queens), Northside Town Hall (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), and the Gateway Project, (Newark, NJ). Her work has been shown by curators and artists such as Augusto Arbizo, Dan Cameron, Jessica Cannon, Ruth Maleczech, and Kate Mothes. Leonora is a curatorial member of the artist run gallery, Underdonk in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

JJ Manford (b. 1983, Boston, MA) received a BFA from Cornell University in 2006, a post-Baccalaureate certificate from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2013. Most recently, his work has been featured in solo presentations at Harper’s, Los Angeles, and East Hampton (2022 and 2021); Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2021 and 2019); and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (2016 and 2012). A catalog, Greenport Magic, accompanied an exhibition of the same title at Arts + Leisure Gallery, New York, in 2017. Manford has participated in group exhibitions at The Hole, New York (2022); Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (2022); The Pit, Glendale and Palm Springs, CA (2022 and 2021); Harper’s, Los Angeles (2021); 1969 Gallery, New York (2020); and Alexander Berggruen, New York (2020), among other venues. Reviews of his work have appeared in numerous publications, including New Yorker, Artnet News, and KCRW. She lives and works in Brooklyn, where he is a co-founder of the artist collective Underdonk and Tappeto Volante Projects.

Mónica Palma was born in Mexico City and studied visual art at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz. She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at TSA (NYC), 245 Varet Street (NYC), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Soloway Gallery (NYC), Underdonk Gallery (NYC), and Essex Flowers (NYC). Mónica was the 2022 AIR spring resident at UTK in Tennessee.
With paper collages and mixed media wall sculpture, Natalie Beall invents new forms containing traces of functionality and fantasy. She earned her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from Columbia University. Beall’s work has been exhibited at Standard Space (Sharon, CT; solo), the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), and Scaramouche Gallery (NYC), among other venues. Residencies include the Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca, NY), the Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), the Cooper Union (NYC), Catwalk Institute (Catskill, NY), and the Lower East Side Printshop (NYC). Beall is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. She lives and works in Salt Point, New York.

Jesus Polanco was born Mexico City, Mexico. He graduated from Rocky Mt. College of Art. Denver, Colorado. Jesus Polanco’s drawings portray his connection with life through his relationship with nature. His drawings’ repetitive mark-making is the ritual that keeps him grounded in life during his years of homelessness. Polanco traveled with art supplies and paper from shelter to shelter. Through abstraction, symbols, secret codes, Polanco secures existence in the conventional world. His drawings are currently stored in Austin, Texas, in a facility helping to reintegrate homeless people into society. Awards include New York Foundation for the arts individual artist fellowship, Works on paper. N.Y.F.A. Individual artist fellowship, Printmaking S.I.V.A.M Individual artist fellowship and purchase. Mexico City, NYC. Bronx museum for the arts, Artist in the marketplace. Recent acquisitions: Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, Clinton foundation.
Jesus Polanco currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Padma Rajendran was born in Klang, Malaysia. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. She currently teaches at Vassar College. She has exhibited at the International Print Center, New York, Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), Beers London (UK), Field Projects (New York), September Gallery (Hudson, NY), BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn), Aicon Gallery (NYC), Taymour Grahne Gallery (UK), and most recently at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY). She lives and works in Catskill, NY. Her works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of patterning and storytelling. Her content-rich compositions reference the duality and contradictions of culture and the multi-faceted definitions of universal heritage. She has completed residencies at Ortega y Gasset Projects, the Studios at Mass MoCA, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow, and Lower East Side Printshop. Her work has been featured in Chronogram Magazine, New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, and Maake Magazine.

Aparna Sarkar is a queer, first-generation Indian-American living and working in Brooklyn. Sarkar holds a master’s degree in fine arts in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2021) and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Pomona College (2014). Her work has been exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 1969 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Pace University Gallery, Spring/Break Art Show and the RISD Museum, among others. Her awards include selection for the 2022 Saatchi Art Rising Stars Report, a 2022 residency at the Jentel Foundation, inclusion in the 2019 editorial selection of Art Maze Magazine and the 2018 Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Full Fellowship to attend Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Kim Sloane is a painter living and working in Brooklyn and in the Hudson Valley of New York. He has shown his work at galleries and museums. His work has been included in exhibitions at The National Academy of Design Museum, Peter Freeman Gallery, Underdonk, M55 Gallery, and Maurice Arlos Gallery in New York, as well at the galleries of Dartmouth College, The New York Studio School, and Queens Colleges. He has also shown work at Labspace and Thompson Giroux galleries in the Hudson Valley. Kim Sloane is currently Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he has taught since 1999.

Elisa Soliven is drawn to clay for the immediacy with which it conveys the working process and for how it captures a sense of the talismanic in the ordinary. Her sculptures record her material inquiries and capture her subjects through an archaeological accumulation of modeled layers of clay and embedded ceramic. Working with constructed forms in clay and found materials, she reworks the familiarity of the everyday object of the vessel into idiosyncratic inventions.
She has had exhibitions at Nudashank, Baltimore; Daily Operation at Bull & Ram, New York; Sardine, Brooklyn; Present Company, Brooklyn, among others. Her work has been reviewed by Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, and Hyperallergic. Soliven is co-founder of the Bushwick-based artist collective Underdonk. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA from Hunter College. She lives and works in Brooklyn where he is a co-founder of the artist collective Underdonk and Tappeto Volante Projects.

Jacquelin Shatz’s wall sculptures involve suspended states of being and the permeable nature of time. The images of swimming, floating and "about to" gestures imply anticipation, hesitancy, anxiety or relief from anxiety. She is a sculptor who works in ceramic, paper, bronze and collage materials and is the recipient of a Gottlieb Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Tree of Life Grant and had a residency at the Kohler Arts/Industry Program. She is also an independent curator. Selected exhibits include: The Art Center in St. Petersburg, Hampden Gallery, U. Mass., Freedman Gallery, Albright College, and Henry St. Settlement, Governors Island, and The Green Door Gallery in Brooklyn. She has collaborated on installations at Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J., and Governors Island. Her large-scale outdoor sculpture was installed as part of a curated group exhibit on the traffic islands at Columbus Circle, NYC, and in front of Henry Street Settlement, NYC. Solo shows include Jerry Josefs Gallery, Razor Gallery, Garrison Art Center, and Carter Burden Gallery. Selected group exhibits include a three-person show, Harbinger, at LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, Mass., 11 Women of Spirit at Zurcher Gallery, NYC. Recent and current shows 2022 - 2023: “Flurry and Fire” - Susan Eley Gallery, Orchard St. NYC (2 person show) “Kiln Gods” - Space 776, NYC “Tell Me a Story” - 1GapGallery Brooklyn TVP Projects - Brooklyn 2022 Spring Break, NYC. Todd Kelly, curator (3-person show) “Ladies of the Canyon”, Garageland Gallery, Ridgewood, NY “Somebody, Nobody, Anybody”, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY “Earthen Energies, Ancient Roots”, Susan Eley Gallery, Hudson, NY (2 people show)

Christine Stiver is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In 2022, Stiver started a series of paper mache sculptures that have since been featured in I Like Your Work’s Winter exhibition and catalog, Peer Review’s inaugural publication and an upcoming exhibition at Ante Curatorial (BK, NY). Previous projects include large-scale drawing installations at St Charles Projects (Baltimore, MD), Governors Island Art Fair (NY, NY), The Living Gallery (BK, NY), and ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY). Stiver's early work was in performance with the dance company Effervescent Collective (Baltimore, MD), and in that spirit, she continues to seek out meaningful collaborations with other artists such as Too Damn Sincere, performed with Tracie Jiggetts at various venues in Baltimore, MD; collaborative bread and butter sculptures with Dominic Terlizzi at Good Naked Gallery (BK, NY); and, Deep Six with Book Club Artists Collective at Spring Break Art Show 2020 (NY, NY). Other notable exhibitions include those at Ohio University’s Stiegler Gallery (Athens, OH), Ortega y Gasset Projects Flat File (BK, NY), and a group exhibition of Brooklyn artists at McBride Contemporain in Montreal.

Dominic Terlizzi currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include: Head Fake, Invernadero Gallery, Fresno, CA; and A Spirit Knows A Shadow Shows, Craig Krull Gallery Santa Monica, CA. Select recent group shows include: Weeds in the Woods, Headstone Gallery, Kingston, NY; Brooklyn Bridge, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; If you surrender to the wind, you can ride It, Peripheral Space, Los Angeles, CA; Hang Ten, Good Naked, Rockaway, NY; Such fleas, ere they approach the eye, The Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn NY; Preserving a Find, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, PA; and A Minimal Relief, NEVVEN Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has completed three monumental public sculptures for the city of Baltimore. He received the Maryland Artist Equity Grant, Hoffberger School of Painting Award, Triangle Workshop Fellowship, PNC Transformative Art Project Grant, Belle Foundation Grant, and received two Rema Hort Mann Foundation nominations. In addition to his studio practice, St. Charles was launched and directed as a curatorial platform from 2015 onward. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union NYC in 2003 and an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting in 2008.

Zuriel Waters was born in 1984 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University in 2007. Has shown work in exhibitions throughout New York City at galleries such as Underdonk, Safe Gallery, Regina Rex, CANADA, as well as recent solo exhibitions at My Pet Ram in NYC and Left Field Gallery in Los Osos, CA.