Evan Lovett

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https://www.elovettart.com/

Evan Lovett is a professional artist with over fifteen years of experience in design, illustration, tattooing and large scale public art. The concentration of Evan's themes are derived from nature and animals. 

Evan started his apprenticeship of tattooing at the young age of 15 and has been professionally tattooing since 2002. He is known for his large scale, fully rendered free hand designs.

Evan studied at the University of The Arts of Philadelphia concentrating in sculpture and illustration. Over the years he combined his love for the two and has built a body of public art in the form of murals that can be seen from coast to coast as well as internationally. What sparked his love for murals and public art was a bit less academic, it came from years of painting graffiti when he was younger. He learned very valuable skills and techniques from graffiti, like how to view a space and quickly develop a dynamic composition while still taking in consideration the environment and surroundings. Now he takes pride using those talents to help enrich communities and their landscapes.

In collaboration with other like-minded artists and community activists, Evan became the Co-Founder and Creative Director of the 501(c)3 non-profit organization V.U.R.T, which stands for Visual Urban Renewal & Transformation. 

You can continue to see Evan's work develop and spread as he continues to travel for conventions, speaking engagements, creating large scale murals and gallery exhibitions.

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Damien Mitchell

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https://www.damienmitchell.com/

“Hailing from Wagga Wagga, Australia, Damien Mitchell started painting on the streets at the age of 15, while also working in a paint shop in his small hometown. After spending nearly a decade painting mainly stencils in Prague, Czech Republic, Damien graduated to large scale murals.

Currently residing in Brooklyn, Damien has painted on five continents, and continues to impress with photo-realistic renderings of the places and people around him. Damien's mastery of portraits made him the ideal artist to capture renowned New York poet Allen Ginsberg. Using excerpts from one of Ginsberg's most famed poems ‘Howl’ as a background, the image of Ginsberg holding an upside-down American flag, signaling a nation in distress, perfectly encapsulates the New York icon in relation to the city's contemporary experiences.” - https://www3.citizenm.com/mosa/the-artists/artists/damien-mitchell



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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Sarah Rutherford

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http://hervoicecarries.com/

Her Voice Carries is an art project led by Sarah C. Rutherford and features the unique stories of five women who are working and living in varying communities in Rochester, New York. Each woman has been photographed, interviewed, drawn and painted. The series of murals are located throughout the five sections of the city of Rochester. The goal was to create a network of murals that weave a collective story laced with individual truths. Further, this series of murals emphasizes the commonalities of our human experience through the leadership of empowered women.

“The seeds of Her Voice Carries are planted here in Rochester, a city that has deeply impacted my growth as a young artist and a young woman. This project is my love letter to Rochester and was born from my individual search for connections and desire to understand our city as a whole. We so easily fall into the same routines and networks. I hope to encourage people to expand their circles, allow them to overlap and listen to the women and their voices around our community.” ~ Sarah C. Rutherford

Rutherford brings to Indiana, PA a portrait of a woman from Rochester, NY, bonding the communities together by allowing them to share in and rejoice in the power of these stories.

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Risa Boogie

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http://www.boogierez.com/

https://www.instagram.com/riiisaboogie/?hl=en

Risa Boogie joins us as an October artist in residence. Boogie is here as an artist with Dripped on the Road, our partner in the downtown mural project.

Meet the illest Dynamic duo!  Risa Boogie, the multi-disciplined powerhouse known as the maker, graphic designer, illustrator, painter, digital artist, woodworker, muralist and street artist - and Rezones the graffiti artist turned graphic designer/photographer/digital artist, and general mind-bender.  

A team that truly lives life to the fullest, and they can’t stop, won’t stop CREATING! Heavily inspired HIP HOP culture and all the incredible people that cross their paths on a daily basis, their studio is a blend of music, photography, illustration, painting, woodworking, graphic design, dance, fashion design, silk screening, and anything else they can get their hands on!  They get down & dirty with the business, and their brains are always brewing with ideas.

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Andrea LaRose

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Drea LaRose is an upstate New York based artist working in photography, sculpture and public work. Her art has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the region, most notably at Ning Gallery in New York, NY, The University Art Museum in Albany, NY, the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, and the Schweinfurth Arts Center in Auburn NY. LaRose was awarded a two month artist residency at Sculpture Space Inc. in Utica, NY where her most recent public work is installed through 2020. She received her MFA from SUNY Albany where she was awarded the Distinguished MFA Thesis Award and the Terri Cosma Boor and Judy Brust Emerging Artist Award. She is currently teaching painting at SUNY New Paltz and working and living in Troy, NY.

Sara Duell

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Sara Duell (born in Stockholm, Sweden 1987) works at the intersection of art and graphic design, with a focus on visual literacy and social justice. Working within a feminist, antiracist framework, Sara uses design to disrupt normative discourses and create transformative, pleasurable spaces. She also writes about the hidden politics of visual language and published writing in Design Observer and the Photobook review.

She has a bachelor degree in communication design from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver, Canada) and lives in New York City. In the last year she co-founded WMN - a zine that showcases work from lesbian artist and poets living in rural areas and cities with a population of 800000 or less. The zine was written up in Autostraddle, “the world’s most popular lesbian website” and the Canadian magazine Broken Pencil. She attended Vermont Studio center in 2018 where she made a series of satirical metal posters that reference a large array of multilayered sources: from heavy metal aesthetics to feminist theory of the body to the work of classicist and poet Anne Carson. Beyong that she designed a photobook that features flying muscle cars (a finalist in the Lucie Photo Book Prize) by photographer Matthew Porter. She also hosted a talk with the Swedish design studio and artist group Bastion Bastion Agency on feminist form at Ten10 Studios in October.

Contact: info@saraduell.com

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Mär Martinez

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Mär Martinez is a nationally-exhibiting interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptural painting. Martinez’s paintings dissect dominance, aggression and power dynamics through the lens of a culturally-enforced binary system. Currently Martinez is pursuing a BFA in Painting and Art History at the University of Central Florida. Select Awards include: FusionFest Best in Show Visual Art Award, Order of Pegasus Nominee, Katherine K. & Jacob Holzer Art Scholarship, Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival Scholarship, Frank Lloyd Wright Scholar Recipient, CINTAS Scholar Award, Pinellas Art Education Association Scholarship, Hubbert and Webb Art Award, and the Miniature Fine Arts Society Award. Select 2019 Exhibitions include: Chasing Shadows, Orlando, 29th Annual All-Florida Juried Arts Show, Stuart, Celebrating Hispanic Artists & Culture Juried Art Show, Kissimmee, Figure It Out, Americus, GA, Winter Garden Arts 6th Annual Top Choice Awards, Winter Garden, Zebra Coalition Orlando United Day Art Exhibition, Orlando, National Endowment for the Arts Station Eleven Art Exhibition, Orlando and Signal Flo, Gainesville.

Mär Martinez can be reached at www.marmartinezart.com or @meatvoid on Instagram.

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Yunkyoung Cho

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YunKyoung Cho was raised in Busan, South Korea. Cho has dedicated her life expressing beauty in the physical form carefully designed with aesthetic, technical, and symbolic aspects. Cho studied her undergraduate degree in Beauty Art practicing body painting, hair sculpting, and aesthetics research and design to explore the art of the human body. Upon graduation, she traveled the world to study different cultures and perceptions of art around the globe. Her talent has been measured and competed in early stage of work by receiving many prizes and awards from various competitions, including 3rd prize in Body Painting at Korean Make-up Competition, Seoul, South Korea (2008); 1st prize in Fashion Tattoo Creative Design at International Beauty Olympic, Changwon, South Korea (2008); 1st prize in Mixed Media at Beauty Art Festival, Busan, South Korea (2008); Vermont Studio Center Fellowship(2020) Major exhibitions of her work which includes Reminiscence at Solo Show, Baltimore, MD (2019); Selected group show hosted by the Embassy of Republic Korea at Korean Culture Center, Washington DC (2020). Cho is currently at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States to pursue her MFA in Rinehart Sculpture Program anticipating graduation in May 2020.

Jill Grimes

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Born in Texas, Jill Grimes received a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting from Boston University. She has exhibited her paintings throughout New England and the US, most recently at the Alpha Gallery in Boston, Holy Family University in Philadelphia, and The Dibden Center for the Arts at Johnson State College in Vermont. Her work has been reviewed by the Boston Globe and Art New England, and has been featured in New American Paintings and 100 Boston Painters. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Catskill Center for Conservation in New York State, and twice at The Vermont Studio Center. She is a 2014 recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Award. Grimes is a Lecturer at Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she has been teaching since 2006. She has also taught painting and drawing abroad in Venice and Umbria, Italy, for Boston University and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. She is represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston.

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Adrian White

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Los Angeles based photographer Adrian White creates portraiture primarily dealing with memory, trauma and history from the perspective of people of the African diaspora.  His goal is to connect with his ancestors by remembering the past, documenting the present and imaging a utopian future.

 White was born and raised in the small tobacco and cotton town of Stantonsburg, NC.  He studied at North Carolina Central University (BA, 2002), Brooks Institute of Photography  (BFA 2014) and Parsons School of Design (MFA in Photography and Related Media 2019).

 “My photographic process places as much an emphasis on preserving memories as it does creating images.  Memories have the power to heal.  We just have to pay attention to what they’re trying to tell us.".

Sarah Ingraham

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Sarah Ingraham grew up in Cumberland, Maine. Ingraham received my BA at the University of Vermont in studio art and art history in 2017. While there, Ingraham attended a semester abroad at Central Saint Martins of the University of Arts London. Since then Ingraham has been living in Brooklyn, first working as a wallpaper designer, now as an artist assistant, while also selling rugs and paintings.

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Sara Minsky

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Sara Minsky is an artist and educator from the Riverdale section of the Bronx. She received her Masters in Art Education from City College and was a 2020 artist in residence with Trestle Art Space and Proyecto 'ace. Minsky has shown work at The Edward Hopper House, Trestle Art Space, and online with I Like Your Work Podcast, and Don't Smile. To see more of her work, you can visit www.saraminsky.com

Ramiro Davaro-Comas

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Ramiro Davaro-Comas is an Argentine/American artist and entrepreneur living and working in Brooklyn New York. He is the creator and director of Dripped on the Road, (a traveling artist residency program based out of an RV) and an artist on the road at times. His dedication for painting, traveling and community work have allowed him to travel through his career and collaborate with other artists, and the combination of all three passions after many years led him to launch this unique program and artistic career.

Davaro-Comas is currently directing the artist residency program, painting murals, working on creative projects for design clients, and showing his work in different gallery exhibitions and public projects. His artwork is heavily influenced by his travels, street life, comic books, South American/European muralism, skateboarding culture and animation. Davaro-Comas works within his own vocabulary of characters, symbols and iconography, creating fantastical worlds in which his characters float and loom about. With a mix of illustration, painting and mural work, Ramiro’s work is bold and expressive, and launches its viewer into colorful mystical world.

Ramiro Davaro-Comas painted a mural in the Hoarce Mann school, a historic neighborhood school. He will be returning to Indiana with Dripped on the Road to create a series of outdoor works that are sustainability created!

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Hannah Harley

Hannah Harley is visual artist whose conceptual work is heavily influenced by societal issues, specifically those surrounding intimacy, the female experience, and contemporary cultural shifts.

Isadora Frost

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Isadora Frost first graduated from PUC Sao Paulo, Brazil, in Performance Art and Dance, in 2009. In 2014, Frost completed a second degree in Fine Arts, with a minor in Photography at The San Francisco Art Institute. She completed her Masters in Photography at Parsons at the New School, NY. In 2013 she was a resident in The Arctic Circle Residency, in 2017 she won a grant to develop her work in Galapagos. Frost has been continually showing her artwork internationally since 2007 in Brazil, San Francisco, New York, New Zealand, Mumbai, Russia and China.

Artist Talk - Feb 16th at 4:00 pm

Open Studios - Feb 19th at 6:00 pm

View more of her work at https://www.isadorafrost.com/

Peng Lyu

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Peng Lyu is an New York based artist from China. She received her bachelor degree in Filmmaking at Xiamen University of Technology in 2017. In 2016, she studied Film Production in Shih Hsin University, Taipei. Currently, she is a recent graduate from Parsons School of Design and received her master degree in Photography. Her work involved mixed media in photography, moving images, live projection and performance. She addresses the poetic experimental practices and the sensational experience of human being. Her interests in subjects range from thinking technology, the divinity of nature, memory and trauma, to trivial matters.

Feb 19th - Open Studios

To see more of Lyu’s work, visit https://www.penglyu.net/

Zeta Gao

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Zeta Gao was born in China and then spent half of her life growing up in the city of London. She then went on to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from Parsons School of Design in 2015.  After graduating, Gao’s work from her Senior Thesis show was solely chosen to be debuted at the Max Mara store in Soho, New York City from September to November of 2015. For the following two years, Gao studied filmmaking and then decided to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts degree in photography at her alma mater in 2017. During her graduate study, Gao was featured in the Pingyao International Photography Festival where she received the Young Photographer Award for her outstanding work. She is currently based in New York City working primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and Virtual Reality.

Drawing from her background in filmmaking, Zeta Gao directs her work towards familial relationships, childhood trauma, a friend’s death, and past life regression. She creates an archetypical experience of traumatizing narratives based on her hypnosis. Gao approaches her work through a lens of Eastern and Western art, as well as spiritual traditions such as reincarnation as described by Zen Buddhism and Christian mysticism.

Her most recent work HOUSED, a VR installation exhibited at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Gao puts her vision of past life regression seen under hypnosis into the world of Virtual Reality by painting with 3-D brushes. She creates an immersive experience and also stirs a feeling that is qualitatively new. She connects strongly with the idea of escaping completely into another dimension, and wants viewers to be able to find their own way to that surreal vision of self-discovery, to have their own aesthetic, artistic, and conceptual revelation.

Open Studios - Feb 19, 2020

View work here -

Natalia Almonte

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Natalia Almonte (b.1988) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Almonte an MA from Christie’s Education, New York, for Art History and the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary Art (2013), a Post-Baccalaureate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011), and a BA from Boston College for Studio Art and Italian (2010). While at Christie’s she received the Alumni Association Award for Contemporary Art Connoisseurship. Her solo and collaborative work has been shown at galleries in Puerto Rico such as Área: Lugar de Proyectos (2017), La Casa Ashford (2016) and Flight Cult (2015), and the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery in New York (2018). Almonte co-founded Stripes Studio and Gallery in Tannersville, New York (2012-15). She was acknowledged for the aiding in the publishing of the monograph written by Elizabeth Frank, Karen Gunderson: The Dark World of Light (Abbeville Press, 2016).

Natalia Almonte practices tradition and awareness of history as a method for protesting the current status of Puerto Rico as a politically unrecognized country. Almonte coined the term “melancolonia” to define colonialism as a state of being, manifesting on the body, psyche and land. Almonte makes site specific installations composed of video, sound, light, text, found objects, sculptures, and works on paper. By reconfiguring archival material, contemporary culture, and science, she emphasizes that despite being more than a century since the island became a US colony, it continues to encounter neglect.

Exhibition - February 7th, 2020

You can see more of her work here - http://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/2019mfathesis/natalia-almonte/

Matthew Brennan

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Matthew Brennan is based out of New York City and his current studio is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was trained at Pratt Institute and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors. Since 2005, his drawings, paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in shows throughout the Northeast. Brennan’s artistic practice is rooted in drawing and he has been an active member of the figure drawing community within NYC. Aside from personal art projects, his work has been printed as illustrations for the New York Times and he has completed many prop and puppet fabrication jobs for clients including The Jim Henson Company, Puppet Heap and The New York City Opera. These build based jobs help him think dimensionally and this greatly adds to the way he composes and constructs within a drawing. Brennan had his first solo show in April of 2018 where he showcased four years of drawings based on the inspiration of fish translated to human movement. Currently, his new body of work includes bodies engaged in transmutation and alternate possibilities of motion.

Exhibition - February 7th, 2020

Jaquelyn Mendez

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Jaquelyn Mendez is an artist based in New Jersey.  She received a MFA in 2019 from the SUNY University at Albany and a BFA from the College of Saint Rose (2014). She works primarily in painting; work that focuses largely on the formal aspects of 2D media in relation to contemporary spaces and design.

Artist Talk - February 15th 

Solo Exhibition - February 22nd

You can find more of her work at https://jaquelynmendez.wixsite.com/artwork/about

Zeshan Ahmed

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Zeshan Ahmed is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in old Delhi, India. Imbibing in the great bodies of philosophical and mystical thought that have shaped human consciousness. His practice dwells in abstraction while using photography, not just as a tool but subject matter. He is the recipient of Provost scholarship for his MFA in photography and Related media at Parsons School of Design, The New School.

Email : zeshan796@gmail.com

Find more of his work here - www.zeshan-ahmed.com