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

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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