Monica Rezman
May 2023Monica Rezman is a multi-media artist who explores intimacy within abstraction through the use of traditional media and everyday found materials. She studied painting and textile design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While at SAIC, she spent a study-abroad year at the Instituto Allende in Mexico. In 1993, she studied classical drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. In 1999 and 2002 consecutively, Rezman was awarded an Art-in-Residence in Gujurat, India, One of the world’s most revered craft communities in textiles.
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Maria Vez
May 2023Attended Art School at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (2015-2020). She currently lives in Cholula, Puebla, and works between there, CDMX and Culiacán. In 2018 she co-founded and curated along with her long time art partner Frida Cano Romo, Sabrosas Asociadas, an independent Artist-in-Residence program in San Andrés, Cholula.
She’s the self-published author of three poetry booklets and a short story compilation which she activates through public readings at exhibition sites. Most of her work is site-specific.
A feminist artist by chance, she has two main work lines worlds apart that converge on the idea of body image, gender roles, fantasy, and sexuality which she expresses through charcoal on canvas drawings, paintings, short stories or digital collages.
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Mia Vallance
April 2023In a deluge of malvoyant pigments and brushstrokes, Mia Vallances’ abstract paintings manage to give us something to hold on to. Favouring monochromatic washes, her pictures are rich with the pigments she has chosen, subtly shifting from one colour to the next, as our eyes make out the confused and yet uncomplicated arrangements she is describing to us. Her recent work involves painting in thin and watery layers of paint that seep and bleed into the canvas. The paint is guided roughly by Vallance yet is able to travel a little as if having a voice of its own, responding in the conversation between her and us.
-Text written by Esme Blair
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Rose Electra Harris
March 2023Rose Electra Harris is a London-based printmaker and painter. Having completed a degree in printmaking at the University of Brighton in 2015, she now works from her studio in south London.
Rose uses her work to explore interior space, using the obscure and everyday objects to which she’s drawn to create her still lifes. Fascinated by colour, line, shape, texture and pattern, Rose places these objects – some from memory, some imagined, some collected over time – in her roomscapes, playing around with them until she finds the perfect composition, always in search of balance and harmony. Rose reimagines the colourful dialogue that exists between space and furnishings, as interested in the negative space between objects as she is in the objects themselves. She isn’t concerned with portraying objects exactly as they are, but more how they make her feel, making use of a singularly distorted, ever so slightly off-kilter, perspective to do so. To her, a room is an oasis and the things within it are what bring it to life.
©️ Jo-hs, Photo: Storya (Freddie Shelbourne and Lucy Andia)
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Frankie Tobin
March 2023Frankie Tobin is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in Oregon and San Francisco. Currently based in Los Angeles, the subject matter she creates is derived both from findings during her travels, as well as her own experience and exploration within the female collective consciousness. Driven by inherent curiosity and a pursuit to investigate the depths of visual communication–Painting is the medium in which she contemplates her experience. In recent years she’s studied under Mario Oliva in Mexico, and pursued multiple independent studies conducted in Dangriga, Belize; Bali, Indonesia and Melbourne, Australia.
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Therese Regalado
February 2023Therese Regalado calls herself a maker, since an artist, in her opinion, is another level in itself. This despite having a solo exhibit at Silverlens Galleries in 2021, where she explored the possibilities of silk and bamboo, the latter a material she is very fond of because it “feels alive.” “Every time they are bent and they respond—depending on the moisture content of each pole/cut piece—it’s as if I am given permission to shape or if the bend is not possible then their limitations are set,” she explained. “There’s a pulse.”
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Demit Omphroy
October 2021 - December 2021January 2023
Demit studied art at the University of California, Berkeley. After a couple years of professional soccer, he pursued a new career in photography and filmmaking. Painting was always a constant passion across the different stages of his life, changing with him throughout his personal and professional development. His style has been heavily influenced by simplified lines and primary colors. Demit has been fascinated by the concept of eternal youth living inside of everyone. He believes as people get older, it is imperative to maintain and nurture that inner child- free to make mistakes, free to create without bounds. Thematically, all of his pieces focus on channeling that inner child by allowing artistic expression without the boundaries we internalize from our experiences with the world.
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Neil Hamamoto
January 2023Neil Hamamoto (b. 1993) is a conceptual artist making works in sculpture, painting, photography and installation. He is best known for his idiosyncratic sculptures most commonly created from wood, metal and other prefabricated objects. His most recent works and projects recontextualize commercially manufactured objects to invoke the feeling of newness. By reviving the identity of outdated objects, Hamamoto's work offers a glimpse of the future present through a nostalgic lens and questions the worth of innovation.
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Cassandra Mayela
November 2022Cassandra Mayela is a self-taught textile artist working and living in New York since her forced migration from Venezuela in 2014. Her personal experiences as an immigrant and a woman of colour have shaped her curiosity for clothing’s story-telling capacity and how migration affects one’s identity and feelings of belonging. In doing so, her work is largely community-orientated, exploring the idea that fundamental changes in fabric can affect one’s perception of identity, highlighting new avenues of empowerment.
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Anico Mostert
October 2022Anico Mostert is a multi-disciplinary artist and printmaker from Cape Town. She graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2017, where she majored in printmaking. Anico’s work speaks to the quiet moments of the everyday. Her approach to making is versatile, seeing her producing across ceramics, textile design, animation and painting. She allows her practice to be intuitive and exist as a process of learning and discovery, creating the space for vivid colours and coltish figures to find their place in paintings and prints.
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Melissa Ríos
September 2022
Lives and works in San Jose, Costa Rica. Her artistic production focuses primarily on painting and drawing where she explores and contemplates images and space from a feminine, literary, poetic and surrealist perspective, using the limits between figuration and abstraction as a stylistic resource.
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Lives and works in San Jose, Costa Rica. Her artistic production focuses primarily on painting and drawing where she explores and contemplates images and space from a feminine, literary, poetic and surrealist perspective, using the limits between figuration and abstraction as a stylistic resource.
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Jack Mernin
August 2022Jack Mernin is an American artist who divides his time between Manila, Philippines, New York, NY, and Belleville, PA. Mernin received his B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Mernin’s large-scale paintings are designed using an intuitive approach that seeks to translate particular visual encounters.
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Gabriela Maskrey
July 2022Gabriela is an artist and graphic designer born in London and raised in Lima. She studied Architecture at The University of Edinburgh and majored as MA Editorial Design at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering. Gabriela is founder of creative studio Te MATA and is currently living between Costa Rica and Mexico.
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Rose Barberat
July 2022Rose Barberat (born in 1994 in Saint-Claude, France) lives in Paris and works in Clichy at Poush Manifesto. After studying Modern Letters at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, she graduated with a master degree in Creative Writing, later entering the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris. After two years in Tim Eitel’s studio, she joined Nina Childress’s, refining her practice in oil painting and questioning the issues of contemporary representation.
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Antoine Lussier
June 2022Born in Montreal (QC), Antoine Lussier (He/Him) is a visual artist who lives and works in Montreal. His work resists the philosophies and practices of traditional photography while playing with the medium in a self-referential way. Antoine is currently completing his studies at Concordia University. His work has been presented in several group exhibitions in London, New York and Montreal.
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Pearlyn Lii
March 2022Pearlyn Lii is an artist from Hong Kong whose work examines identity narratives and archetypes. Her work weaves lived experience with the surreal, capturing the transient nature of the self through avatar, persona, mythology, and magical realism, confronting female archetypes through physical and sensory experiences. Lii’s cross-disciplinary practice exists across installation, performance, and code-based media.
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Pedro Lavin
March 2022Pedro Lavin is visual artist and filmmaker from Mexico City. His work explores self mythology, ritual and personal pantheons; weaving magical realism and oneiric fantasy with his own lived experience to create story. This aesthetic pursuit is rooted in themes of sex, gender and desire; the metamorphotic power of nature; and the primal link between the sacred and the profane. His multidisciplinary practice unfolds across a variety of artforms including drawing, digital collage, film, concept art, and general adversarial network (GAN) AI art.
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Katarina Janeckova
October - November 2021Janeckova documents her life in various portraits and depictions of figures in peculiar or provocative situations, combining unvarnished reality and psychological fantasy. Her images are dominated by female subjects who occupy female spaces such as kitchens, bedrooms, and balconies; they are nude and pretty, though posed in opposition with power and influence. Bears stand in for men, female body builders squat and flex on flower vases, and attractive women are pleasured by multiple others. Janeckova examines relationships, with herself and perceived partners, while prompting the viewer, through her representations and symbolism, to connect what they see to their own sexuality, identity, and history.
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Rafael Jaén
October - December 2021Rafael René Jaén Brillembourg is a painter who currently works from his studio in México City, México. Growing up in Venezuela with the influence of the South American Color Palette and traveling around the world, he has forged a strong link with Nature. As a result, he embraces Nature as an inspiration and centerpiece of his work and the study of human behavior. Transforming everything that exists within it, he depicts the Nature that surrounds us and the one inside his thoughts, the inner voice. Using powerful and dynamic colors, he has developed a very distinctive style of his own.
"Studying human Nature is a fascinating way of gathering inspiration for my paintings. Observing the interaction between humans and Nature allows me to create a complete visual expression of that feeling. The power of the subject and the vibrancy of the colors transport your mind into places you didn't know existed. For me, Nature has the ability of awakening human intuition and exploring an individual's sensibility by connecting with one's inner energy".
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Adrian Leverkuhn
November - December 2021Adrian Leverkuhn is a multidisciplinary artist working and living in Lisbon and the U.S.. Leverkuhn finds his inspiration in the interplay of history, subjectivity, and what is currently known as complexity science, the collection of theories and conceptual tools used to study dynamic, non-linear systems. While his projects often employ video, sound, and software, painting remains central to his practice, as he considers it “the richest, most well-documented visual record in existence, no matter the hemisphere”. His work has been exhibited continuously since 2005 in North America and Europe.
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Mar García Zafra
December 2021María del Mar García Zafra is a self taught artist currently specializing in fashion design, where she first came in contact with illustration and color theory. She is notorious at experimenting with multiple techniques such as watercolour, oil, indian ink, gesso and fabric. Her work depicts her cosmovision and personal life.
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