In 2015, Rachel Gordon graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Printmaking. Following graduation, where she lived and interned at Oehme Graphics, a fine art printshop in Steamboat Springs, CO where Gordon was a general shop assistant. Upon returning home to New York, Gordon was awarded a scholarship to work at Manhattan Graphics Center.
Read MoreRima Day has studied fashion design in both her home town of Tokyo, Japan and later in New York City. As she was pursuing her career in fashion design, she quickly realized that her joy and passion was to be found in the technical works. She went on to work as a freelance custom dance costumer in New York City and Connecticut.
Read MoreMyung Gyun You is a sculptor and installation artist currently based in a farmhouse in Nebraska and traveling through the US. He earned a BFA from Busan University and an MFA from Tama Art University in Tokyo. Since 2013 he has been living in the US and traveling as a working artist, creating site specific, large scale installations, sculptural works, paintings, and experimental projects. The motivations behind his works are the intersections of humans and nature through the researching about a variety of phenomena in the geological history of earth. Recently, he has been experimenting making new works by using the soils collected from many different states. He has had solo exhibitions in Goyang Art Studio of National Museum and Purdue University and many group exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Weatherspoon Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park, among others.
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Daisy Wiley is a print media artist from Virginia, currently living and working in Ithaca, New York. Wiley graduated with a BFA in Printmaking and a BFA in Graphic Design in 2017 and have been working as a Graphic Designer since the completion of my studies. In 2020, Wiley willl switching gears and starting an MFA program in Print Media at Syracuse University.
In a conceptual sense, her work is concerned with the verging of objects, the seams of actualities-- specifically the interplay between desire and pain, the local and the universal, the conscious and unconscious, text and image, and the human and the digital. Wiley is interested in historical processes and art’s role in them as a visual ideology, in the stories we tell, the myths we build, and the psychological and political processes that drive them. Her pursuits are guided both by personal experience and political belief.
A recent project completed in 2018 focused on microwork and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform (microwork is a form of digital labor, where a freelance worker completes various tasks for a small sum posted by requestors online. The tasks are relatively small, thus the word micro, including jobs like identifying content in photos or answering questions for human subject research. Basically, anything an algorithm can’t do, people fill in the gaps.). Wiley became fascinated with microwork for a few reasons. One, because microwork is entirely indicative of our current historical juncture in capitalism- where labor is continually abstracted, and bureaucracy is decentralized and enacted not by larger entities but by the individual worker. And secondly, because when she was doing my research she realized that she was working on a graphic design microwork platform for a short while (in a period where Wiley was searching for a second job or some extra income). This project thus became a way for Wiley to deal with the frustrations she encountered doing that work and to provide an explanation as to how these platforms came to be. Thirdly, microwork is part of the societal trend that devalues artistic labor (considering that you can now go online and download a logo for a few bucks, or commission a portrait from artists who are continually undercutting one another). This intersection of personal experience, artistic critique, and political relevance is what Wiley always examining in her projects. She uses her work as an opportunity to self-educate, and hopefully, to arouse an alternative, questioning subjectivity in those who engage with her work.
Natalie Birinyi is a Brooklyn based artist. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Hunter College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including in Spain, Austria, Serbia, Argentina, and China. Her work examines the porous boundaries between man, nature, and technology and projects a future in which the divisions erode.
Read MoreRebecca Sutton grew up in Portland, Oregon and relocated to Brooklyn in 2011. She makes large-scale, mostly black and white watercolors depicting women in an environment of their own creation where they are free to act on their animalistic impulses without consequence. Her work incorporates vernacular objects taken out of context in order to highlight their strangeness and their interaction with the corporeal. She has shown at the Governors Island Art Fair, Arc Gallery, with the Beaver Exhibition and has curated at Peninsula Art Space.
Read MoreBorn in West Virginia, Lesley Wamsley (b. 1982) is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings focus on observing subtle relationship within the landscape. She holds a M.F.A. (2012) from the State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY and a B.A. (2004) from Miami University, Oxford, OH. Recent shows include Women’s Work, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Optimism, 20/20 Gallery, New York, NY; and Watch It Burn, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Awarded residencies include The Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY and Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY. Her work is held by The Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Books Collection, New York, NY. She is an adjunct professor of Drawing and Visual Thinking at Fordham University, New York, NY.
Read MoreMaryanne Braine is an artist and photographer from Columbus, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 2014 and her MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design, The New School in New York City in 2018. She resides in Queens, NY.
Read MoreJessica Broad is an artist living and working in Savannah, GA. Her art explores the sculptural and functional potentials of clay, and sometimes other media. She received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1996 and her M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 2003. She has completed residencies at the Vermont Clay Studio and the Baltimore Clayworks where she received the Lormina Salter fellowship. She was honored with the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Visual Arts: Crafts in 2006. She was featured as an emerging artist in the May 2006 issue of Ceramics Monthly, her work has also been published in the Lark Books Image Transfer on Clay (2006), 500 Raku (2011), 500 Prints on Clay (2013), and 500 Figures in Clay (2014). Jessica has been teaching ceramics since 2001, she is currently a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the coordinator of the Savannah Clay Community.
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