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OPENINGS“1). All of the Above – The Big Questions Answered?”

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THIRTY SEVEN

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THECURATORSFOSTERING CONVERSATION THROUGH ART

KEENA GONZALEZwww.keenagonzalez.com

Keena was raised just outside of Los Angeles moved to New York City in

2000 in order to aggressively pursue her work as a photographer. Since

relocating she’s not only had the opportunity to further develop her

commercial portfolio but she’s discovered a way to expand and

transform her personal body of work which has been in the making since

the mid 1990’s.

In 2008 Keena earned her BFA from the School of Visual arts,

graduating with honors from SVA, twice receiving the Special

Photography Award Scholarship. During her tenure at SVA her

photographs were featured in a number of group shows and in 2007 she

worked as a part time assistant in the studio of renowned photographer

Annie Leibovitz.

Recently Keena became involved with the collective known as Openings

where she serves on the governing body of the group. In both 2012 and

2013 she acted as co-curator of two group shows held inside the historic

church of St Paul The Apostle - one of the oldest living churches in

Manhattan.

In addition to curating, and being twice awarded a scholarship to attend

the Lake George artist residency, she has continued to have her

photographs shown in a number of galleries including but not limited to

A.I.R. Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery, Fowler Arts Gallery and Callahan

Center Gallery all of which are located in New York.


THECURATORSFOSTERING CONVERSATION THROUGH ART

MICHAEL BERUBEwww.michaelberube.net

Michael Berube was born in Endicott, New York.

He moved to NYC in 1980 where he still lives

and works. He earned his BFA Summa cum

Laude from Hunter College in 2007 and his

MFA, also from Hunter College, in 2010. During

his time at Hunter College he was the recipient

of many awards including the Graf Grant, the

Tom Woods Award, The Sommerville Art Prize,

and the David and Sadie Klau Fellowship. He

was also the 2010 Hunter College nominee for

the Joan Mitchell Graduate Studies Award. He

has had multiple exhibitions in New York, both

group and solo, including exhibitions with the

artist collective Openings on whose governing

body he serves. He has work in the permanent

collection of the Church of Saint Paul the

Apostle. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant

Professor at Hunter College.


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Eric Dalzenwww.ericdalzen.com

Erik Dalzen (b. 1983) is a Brooklyn based artist.

His work combines absence and presence to

create photographs, sculptures, drawings and

videos concerned with human experience and

the unknown. He received an M.F.A. from

Hunter College and a B.F.A. from Brigham

Young University. Dalzen has recently exhibited

at New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia; hpgrp

gallery, NY; Aviary Gallery, MA; Humble Arts

Foundation, MA; Ugly Art Room, NY. He has

recently published several books Horrible

Bodies (2013), Sixty-Fifth Street and Columbus

Avenue (2011) and One Hundred Lies and One

Truth (2011).


THEARTISTSJanna Dykwww.jannadyk.com

Born in Los Angeles and raised in the

Pacific Northwest, Janna Dyk's present

base in New York has proved fruitful to her

work in interdisciplinary collaboration,

photography, sound, installation, writing,

and drawing. Currently pursuing a Master

in Fine Arts at Hunter College, she is a

graduate of Asbury University, has studied

at the School of Visual Arts in New York

City, and completed an artist residency in

Beijing, China, with Art International

Residency Projects. She is the former

Center Coordinator at the New York Center

for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS), and

was the Collaborative Visual Arts Curator

for the 2012 Chelsea Music Festival, which

included, among other shows, curating

OPEN CAGE: NEW YORK, a 75-person

performance at Eyebeam Center for Art +

Technology, [ON SILENCE], a group

exhibition at NYCAMS, and Silence, an

interdisciplinary collaborative performance

at the Rubin Museum of Art. She has

exhibited her work nationally.


THEARTISTS

Seldon Yuanwww.seldonyuan.com

Seldon Yuan received a BHA at Carnegie

Mellon University and his MFA at Hunter

College. His art has been exhibited

nationally and internationally in various

galleries and venues including the MoMA in

New York, International Center of

Photography, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art,

Arario Gallery, Rare Gallery, La Generale in

Paris, Gallerie 69 in Oslo, Norway, Around

Space in Shanghai, and the Museum of

New Art in Detroit. He has also completed a

commission for Socrates Sculpture Park in

New York City and is currently included in

the Bronx Museum of Art AIM Biennial.


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Samantha Holmeswww.samantha-holmes.com

Samantha Holmes is an artist based in New

York and Ravenna, Italy who focuses on

conceptual and material experimentation in the

medium of mosaic. Her work has been exhibited

internationally, including at the ARTPLAY Design

Center (Moscow), the Moti Hasson Gallery (New

York), and the International Festival of

Contemporary Mosaic (Ravenna). In 2011, she

represented Italy at the European project Les

Langages du Bleu in Paris and was recipient of

the International GAEM Art Prize (Young Artists

and Mosaic) from the Museum of the City of

Ravenna, which holds her work within its

permanent collection. She is the founder of

design mind and editor of SoloMosaico, the

leading international journal on contemporary

mosaic. A graduate of Harvard College (Visual

and Environmental Studies, 2006), she is

presently a Master’s candidate at the

Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna.


THEARTISTSChris Leibwww.chrisleib.com

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area and now

living and working in New York, Chris Leib has

exhibited his artwork across the United States,

in Berlin and across France. Leib’s art has been

positively reviewed in the San Francisco

Examiner, Kunst Magazin (Berlin), Hi-Fructose

Magazine and Huffington Post to name just a

few, and his work has been published in the De

Young Museum’s Members Guide. He holds a

BA from UC Berkeley and has studied art at San

Francisco State University and the Academy of

Art in San Francisco. Leib has twice been an

Artist in Residence at the De Young Museum in

San Francisco and has received competitive

grants from the George Sugarman Foundation

and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He

has had a solo exhibition at SFMoMA, and his

most recent solo exhibition “Becoming

Worthwhile” was exhibited at Cain Schulte

Contemporary Art in Berlin. Leib’s work can be

found in important public and private collections

in the United States and Europe.


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Summer McCorklewww.summermccorkle.com

Summer McCorkle is an artist creating work in

multiple mediums with an emphasis on the still

and moving image. Ms. McCorkle has shown

her work in New York, San Francisco,

Guadalajara, The Berkshire Museum in

Massachusetts and The National Portrait

Gallery in London. In 2013, she received a

Marian Naumburg Fellowship in photography at

the MacDowell Colony. She also participated in

the AIM program in conjunction with the Bronx

Museum and was included in the exhibition

Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial at

Wave Hill. Ms. McCorkle holds a Master in Fine

Arts from Hunter College and a BA in

Photography from San Francisco State

University. She was born and raised in

Wisconsin and currently resides in Brooklyn,

New York.


THEARTISTSEric Jaiju Leewww.ericleeart.com

Eric Jiaju Lee earned his Master of Fine

Arts degree at Hunter College in New York

City where he has been residing for over

the past two decades. Based in Brooklyn,

New York, Lee also works in Beijing, China

where he has established a studio practice

in recent years. Lee exhibits regularly both

locally and abroad, with works belonging to

international private and corporate

collections. The recipient of numerous

awards and honors, Lee is currently an

adjunct professor of fine arts at Hunter

College of the City University of New York,

Art Institute of New York City and at Hudson

County Community College in Jersey City,

New Jersey. Lee is also an independent

curator and guest lecturer at museums and

institutions in the greater New York area.

Best known for his work as an abstract

painter Lee has recently been expanding

into various other media such as figurative

drawings, collage, sculpture, art video and

sound art.


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Ariel Zakarisonwww.arielzakarison.com

Ariel Zakarison was raised on a farm in

Eastern Washington State near the city of

Pullman. She obtained her BA from

Western Washington University in

Bellingham in 2009, with an Interdisciplinary

Concentration from Fairhaven College in

integrated art, printmaking and animation.

She currently attends Hunter College in

Manhattan, New York where she is earning

her MFA in painting, printmaking and works

on paper and where she will be completing

her thesis in December 2013. Miss

Zakarison currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.


THEARTISTSOri Carinowww.armascarino.com

Ori G. Carino was born in a Houston Street loft in

downtown Manhattan, NYC (1982). He was raised within

the Lower East Side art-movement of the 80’s, living in a

functioning gallery on Houston street until he was seven.

When he was five he painted with Keith Herring, which

lead him to start writing Graffiti. At age 13 Carino’s street

art brought him to attend programs at Parson’s and

Cooper Union before being offered a scholarship to

attend the studio program for painting and installation at

the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in

Boston. During this time Carino became a respected

muralist and painted numerous public and private

murals, along with commissioned paintings and

garments. He received the prestigious NYC Studio

program grant award along with two special grants from

the office of the Dean (SMFA). After graduating in 2005

he relocated to New York City from where he currently

works and lives. He has exhibited in group shows in

NYC, Boston, West Palm Beach, Miami, Dallas, San

Francisco, Amsterdam Holland and Paris France. His

work is in private collections in the US, Europe and Asia.

Notably, Carino’s paintings were included in the historic

book, “The King of Dharma,” a first-time publication of an

important set of Tibetan paintings from the 18th century

written by the two best selling authors Geshe Michael

Roach and Christie Mcnally.


THEARTISTSTimothy Collinswww.timothymatthewcollins.blogspot.com

Timothy is interested in collage, the artifact, and its role in

design practice through physical modeling and materiality in

architecture. As an architectural designer and senior model

fabricator at Hillier Architecture (now RMJM), Timothy was

involved in several major local and international projects

including the East River Science Park in New York City and

the Seocho Research and Development Center for LG

Electronics in Seoul, Korea.

Timothy has lectured and been a guest critic at several

universities, including Carnegie Mellon, Hunter College,

Pratt Institute, Stony Brook University, and Parsons School

of Design. He has taught architectural design, freehand

drawing, and visualization at multiple universities as well.

His recent publications include honorable mention in the

Storefront for Art and Architecture "White House Redux"

design competition and "Architect's Draw: Freehand

Fundamentals" by Sue Ferguson Gussow, Princeton

Architectural Press, 2008.

Timothy received an March from the Graduate School of

Architecture in Florence, Italy at Syracuse University’s

Division of International Programs and a BArch from the

Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.

He currently teaches 4th year undergraduate design studios

at the City College of New York and is a practicing artist

whose work has been featured in museum collections as

well as multiple exhibitions both in the United States and

abroad.


THEARTISTSJen Phippenwww.jenphippen.blogspot.com

For the last two years, I have been working with

people at the end of their lives as a hospice

social worker. As I gain greater understanding

of their stories and the similarities therein, I see

a correlation between their histories,

experiences and humanity with my own

humanity and consequently, with my own art

making. Their stories have inspired me to love

and explore and to appreciate life.

I use photography as a means to document the

world around me. I’m not only an artist, but also

a social worker, a keeper of stories, a

documentarian. My photographs call attention

to things that other people overlook, much like

the patients I serve. This exploration helps me

engage more deeply with the space and time

I’m in. These photographs capture the

ephemeral quality of our life and experiences.

My goal is to create images that find beauty in

the forgotten. Through focusing on the details

and beauty of decay can remind us to live in the

here and now.


THEARTISTSJames Vanderbergwww.jamesvanderberg.com

I was born and raised on Long Island, New York, and

my work continues to harken back to the coasts of

this landscape. Although rooted in abstraction and

interactions of color, all my work makes a connection

between the figure and field, landscape and our

place in that space.

I received my MFA from CUNY Hunter College in

2008, creating large-scale abstract works for my

thesis exhibition, for which I earned the Hunter

College Tony Smith Award for exceptional graduate

work. While at Hunter I was also awarded the

Lutz/Riedel Fellowship for exchange travel to L'École

des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. It was here that I

immersed myself in the landscapes of Monet,

Cézanne, and the Impressionists, as well as the

landscape and light of Provence and Brittany.

Currently, an exploration into the structures of

nautical knot systems provides a reference for

drawing and composition in my painting.

For the past five years I have taught studio art and

art history from the university level to local

community workshops. I am an instructor at

Brooklyn Art Space in the Gowanus neighborhood of

Brooklyn, and adjunct instructor at Fordham

University in the Bronx, NY. I live and work in

Brooklyn with my wife and son.


THEARTISTSMiya Andowww.miyaando.com

Miya Ando’s metal canvases and sculpture articulate

themes of contradiction and juxtaposition of ideas.

The foundation of her practice is transformation of

surfaces. Half Japanese & half Russian-American,

Ando is a descendant of Bizen sword makersand

was raised in a Buddhist temple in Japan and in

coastal Northern California. She has continued her

16th generation Japanese sword smithing and

Buddhist lineage by combining metals, reflectivity

and light in her transcendent paintings and sculpture.

In 2011 she completed two memorial sculptures for

the 9/11 in which she utilized 30 foot tall pieces of

steel which had fallen from the World Trade Center

Buildings. Ando’s work is has been exhibited

extensively throughout the world, including a recent

show curated by Guggenheim curator Nat Trotman.

Miya’s public commissions include projects in South

Korea, London, New York and California. Her work

appears in many important public and private

collections and she is the recipient of the Pollock

Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012, the Thanatopolis

Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor

Commission Winner and Puffin Foundation Grant

winner. She received her Bachelor of Science Magna

Cum Laude in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley

and continued her studies at Yale University, in

addition to serving as an apprentice to a master

metal smith in Japan.


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Andrew Berardiwww.andrewberardi.com

My name is Andrew Berardi and I am an

artist and designer. I work out of my

residence in Long Island, but I frequently

visit the city for inspiration. Experimenting

with graffiti as a youth led to my interest in

typography. I always felt that letter forms

have energy incorporated within them,

which has influenced my design work. For

the "1).All of the Above" show I want to

create a conceptual piece that will make an

emotional connection with the viewer. My

ultimate goal as an artist is to spread

positivity, inspire the youth and change the

way people think.


THEARTISTS

Joyce Yamadawww.joyceyamada.com

Originally from the West Coast, my scientist-

physician-artist father imbued me with a love of both

science and nature which remain at the core of my

artistic vision. I attended U.C. Berkeley and the San

Francisco Art Institute. Then by quirks of fate, my

artist’s survival job was in medicine. I am an M.D.,

specialty Diagnostic Radiology. For more than 20

years I worked for one week as an artist followed by

one week as a doctor. During this time I did not

actively exhibit. In 2004 I quit medicine and am now

a full-time artist. In 2006 I moved to Brooklyn and

have since then exhibited in numerous group shows,

including shows in NYC at the NurtureArt Gallery, PS

122 Gallery, the Leroy Neiman Art Center, New

Century Gallery, New World Stages Gallery, St.

Francis College, and Symphony Space, and in New

Jersey at Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University and

the Therese A Maloney Gallery at St. Elizabeth’s

College. I am primarily a painter but also do site

specific installations; for these I have been

collaborating with Joanne Ungar, a collage artist

whose survival skill is in high end video.


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Robert Aitchisonwww.robertaitchison.com

Robert Aitchison’s art is informed by nature;

investigating the structure and dynamics of the

natural world while exploring diverse landscape

themes. In his work he’s attracted to the chaos

and complexity of uncultivated environments.

The construction of his paintings is guided by

various drawings and studies done on-site

outdoors. Sketches created from memory also

play an important role in the evolution of the

works. Through the fusion of these disparate

visual records Aitchison seeks to establish

contemplative scapes that allude to the

experience of being in nature rather than a

depiction of specific locales.

Aitchison was raised in Spring, Texas and

studied painting at the University of Texas at

Austin. His art has been exhibited in the United

States, South America, and Europe and can be

found in various private collections. He

currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY


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Katie Rubrightwww.katierubright.com

Katie Rubright is a native Virginian.

She received a BA in Art History from

James Madison University in 2003,

and a BFA in Combined Media from

Hunter College in 2010. She will

graduate in December 2013 from the

MFA program at Hunter College, and

lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.


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Joey Kilrainwww.kilrain.com

Born and raised in South Philly, Joey Kilrain’s

artistic style evolves as a product of his ongoing

life lessons. His works serve as a means of

personal therapy while telling the viewer his

life's stories.

With no loyalty to any particular discipline of art,

Joey integrates traditional media (acrylic, pen &

ink, papier mâché, metal fabrication) with

mobile & web technologies. Basically, he'll

pursue any medium which will fit the story to be

told.

A graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia,

his works have been exhibited along the east

coast. He's been published in Adobe’s Web

Design Journal, Village Voice, and New York

Magazine.


THEARTISTS

Laura Frantzwww.laurafrantz.com

Laura Frantz lives and works in New York.

Her paintings have recently been exhibited

at Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia), Joshua

Tree Art Gallery (CA), Saffron Artist Space

(Brooklyn), Janet Kurnatowski Gallery

(Brooklyn), and through the Bruce High

Quality Foundation. Laura has also

exhibited her work in Ankara, Turkey, where

she was a Fulbright recipient in 2007-2008.

She received her MFA from Hunter in 2012.


THEARTISTSMark Brennanwww.emilydickersonart.com

Mark Brennan divides his time between

Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and

Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Columbia

University and currently teaches at the RELC

School of Fine Arts & Design in Brooklyn, where

his students have exhibited at the Brooklyn

Museum and the MoCADA Museum. He

alternates between two bodies of work: small

meditative “elegies” of decayed leaves and

twigs, and long landscapes based on the dunes

at Newcomb Hollow, Wellfleet, the site of his

(now abandoned) childhood home, which sits

atop the bluffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

He relinquished an early art career in the

1980s, in which he showed large paintings,

mixed media pieces and installations at various

New York galleries. After a 20-year hiatus, he

resumed exhibiting in 2009 with solo shows in

Chicago and Brooklyn. His work is in private

collections throughout the United States. All

profits derived from the sale of his artwork are

donated to charities dedicated to preserving

and maintaining the natural environment.


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Elisa Solivenwww.soliven.com

Elisa Soliven lives and works in Brooklyn,

NY. She holds an MFA in Painting from

Hunter College and and a B.A. from Bryn

Mawr College. Her work has been reviewed

by Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical,

Hyperallergic, and the Village Voice. In the

past year, her work has been included in

group exhibitions at Nudashank, Baltimore;

Bull & Ram, NYC; Janet Kurnatowski,

Brooklyn; the American Academy of Arts

and Letters, and Grizzly, Grizzly in

Philadelphia, among others. She received

the William L. Metcalf Award from the

American Academy of Arts and Letters in

2012.


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Benjamin Armaswww.armascarino.com

Benjamin Armas was born in Caracas, Venezuela into a

family of noted artists including his father Ricardo Armas

and uncle Enrico Armas. In the spring of 2000 he began

studying architecture while attending the Cooper Union

High School Outreach Program. In 2003, Armas was

awarded the Presidential Merit Scholarship from Pratt

Institute School of Architecture and graduated in 2008.

He has since worked as a designer at Architecture and

Urban Planning firms like WASA/Studio A in NYC and

TDR Urbanistas in Caracas, Venezuela. His first major

private residential project is currently under construction

in upstate NY. Armas has also produced bodies of work

in the fields of sculpture, photography and video.


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Reiner Hansenwww.reinerhansen.com

Born in Odense, Denmark and now living

and working in New York, Reiner Hansen's

work has been exhibited across the US

including at Cain Schulte Gallery in San

Francisco, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art,

internationally at Kunstverin

Buchholz/Nordheide in Germany, and most

recently at Jack Chiles Gallery in New York

City. Hansen is a 2012 recipient of the

Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed

Foundation Grant.


THEARTISTSVisakh Menonwww.visakmnon.com

Visakh was born in India and moved to USA

in 2005. He currently splits his time creating

installations, video art, mixed media

drawings. His current body of work focuses

on the creation of physical manifestations of

digital artifacts and objects of fictionalized

reverence, often born out of fascination for

certain aspects of technology & science.

Visakh has exhibited nationally and

internationally including recent shows at the

DUMBO arts festival, Spattered Columns

(NY), Gallery Aferro (NJ), Rabbit Hole

Gallery (NY), Digital Media City Gallery

(Seoul) and included in the Rhizome Art

Base. He was selected for the Mentoring

Fellowship for Immigrant Artists at New York

Foundation for the Arts in 2010 (NYFA). In

2007 Visakh received an MFA in Graphic

Design from the Maryland Institute College

of Art.


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Patricia Bellucci

Patricia Bellucci is a visual artist who lives and

works in New York City. She studied painting

and sculpture at New York's School of Visual

Arts, where she earned a BFA. Patricia also

holds an MA from Fordham University and a

certificate in film production from New York

University. Patricia‘s work engages layered

compositions which synthesize the disciplines

of painting, collage, and assemblage. She is a

member of "Openings," an artist collective in

New York City, and her work has been

exhibited in New York at the Lower Eastside

Tenement Museum, the Church of St. Paul the

Apostle, Storefront for Art and Architecture and

St. Francis College, among others; most

recently, her work was exhibited in Dublin’s

Smock Alley Theater, the hub venue for the

2013 “10 Days in Dublin” arts festival.


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jdxwww.jdx.me

jdx is a documentary photojournalist

capturing the convergence of art, culture &

architecture in downtown NYC.

jdx's images & commentary have appeared

in The New York Times, East Village Grieve,

Hipstamatic's Adventures In Hipstaland, The

Lo-Down, Bowery Boogie, Neighborhoodr:

East Village & Animal NY.


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Jess Willa Wheatonwww.jesswillawheaton.com

Jess Willa Wheaton was born in

Sebastopol, CA in 1984. She received a

BFA in Painting from the California College

of the Arts in 2010, and is a current MFA

candidate at Hunter College in New York.


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Joachim Marxwww.joachimmarx.com

Born 1960 in Germany, Marx studied painting in

Cologne, Germany and at the New York

Academy of Art, where he received his MFA in

1991. His work was shown in solo shows at the

Consulate General of Germany in New York;

Caesarea Gallery in Boca Raton, FL; La MaMa

La Galleria in New York, Schloß Opherdicke in

Unna, Germany; Museum im Torhaus,

Siegburg, Germany; American Painting Fine

Arts in Washington DC and in NYC;

Figureworks Gallery in Brooklyn and in 2008

had a painting in the Chelsea Art Museum.

In 1995 he was invited to participate in a

competition to design church windows for a

church near Fulda in Germany. His designs

were realized the following year. German public

television featured him in a 30 min

documentary.


THEARTISTSAlan Richardswww.alanrichardsart.com

I was born and raised in New York City. Although not

formally trained in art, I have produced artworks for

many years.

By profession I am an Audiologist and hold a Ph.D. I

have worked in New York City for many years as an

audiologist in private practice and as a Professor of

Audiology at the City University of New York. My

attention has now turned to the artworld.

I have always been interested in art and industrial

design. My earlier works were done in ink and water

colors and are shown on my website. My interest in

computers and industrial design evolved into

photomanipulations from multiple images. Sometimes

people think that these images are simple photographs.

Not so. They consist of multiple images (as many as

20) in which segments of one photo is melded into the

framework of the entire image. The images are often

take on a surrealistic feeling but not all the time. Some

of the images are painted as well. My goal as an artist

is to view the world as others do not see and turn

mundane events into unique images which are often

playful or unusual. Some viewers might agree.


THEARTISTS

Mary DeVincentiswww.marydevincentis.com

Working in ongoing series, developing ideas

over many years, Mary DeVincentis finds

inspiration for her paintings and monotypes

from nature, literature, language, dreams and

Buddhism. Her work has been exhibited at

the International Print Center New York, the

New York Public Library, the Kathryn Markel

Gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, White Columns,

and the Brooklyn Museum and has been

included in group exhibitions in the United

States and Europe. It is represented in

numerous private and corporate collections.

She received her BFA from Maryland Institute

College of Art in Baltimore and a

Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced

Printmaking from St. Martins College of Art in

London, England. She lives and works in

Brooklyn, New York.


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Tim Rusterholzwww.timrusterholz.com

Tim Rusterholz is a sculptor, fabricator, and

competitive distance runner currently living and

working out of Philadelphia, PA. He received his

MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art in

2011, and BFA in Sculpture & Extended Media

from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009.

Tim received a University Fellowship upon entry

into Tyler School of Art and was commissioned

to create a bronze portrait of donor Jack Wolgin,

displayed in front of Temple Galleries. Other

notable accomplishments include commission

work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the

Elizabeth Greenshield’s Fellowship, Best in

Show in VCU’s Annual Juried Competition, and

publication in NCAA Champions Magazine as a

student athlete at VCU. For more information

please visit www.timrusterholz.com.


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Firth MacMillanwww.firthmacmillan.com

Firth MacMillan is a visual artist living and

working in Toronto. Her sculptures and three-

dimensional drawings are meditations on the

edge between image and object,

representation and abstraction, form and

formlessness. She has exhibited at CRG

Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery and Charles

Cowles Gallery in New York and at the Art

Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Gardiner

Museum in Toronto, and San Bao

International in China.


THEARTISTS

Michael TianXiang

I studied for an engineering degree in college

and worked at a private firm for a few years

after graduation in 2008. I decided that I did

not like the 9-to-5 life style, or engineering for

that matter; negotiated with my boss so I can

work part-time at home and started doing art.

I found myself to be intuitive with perceiving

and creating shapes and forms so I started

with sculpture; I have been doing that since

2011.


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Guillermo Lorente www.guillermolorente.com

My name is Guillermo Lorente. I was born

and raised in Cuba.

With a Bachelor Degree in Art, I left Cuba In

1994 to further my art career. I travelled to

Sweden where I established a gallery, partook

in several art exhibitions and taught art. In

2002 I decided to come to New York which

became my geographical place in where I am

creating my new oil painting series “The

Universes Strings and Bless Water”.

Inspired by the Quantum Physics and The

String Theory this Series of paintings are an

intent to find an answer the quintessential

questions as: “why we are here and the

reason”, “what role does the Universe play in

our lives and our existence?”


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Walter O’Neillwww. zhibit.org/walter_oneill.com

Walter O'Neill art practice is concerned with the

transcendent and ecstatic. He creates small

abstract paintings arranged in series to create a

visual dialogue across a defined area. Trained

in traditional fresco painting and art history his

art work echoes the compositional format of

early Renaissance mural painting. His work has

been exhibited in New York, Washington, D.C.

Maine and elsewhere. Walter O'Neill studied at

SVA, Hunter College and Skowhegan. He

managed the fresco program at Skowhegan for

ten years and is currently the director of the

Educational Alliance Art School.


THEARTISTSDenise Gieseke Penizzottowww.denisepenizzottostudioarts.com

Born into a large family of European decent,

Denise began her artistic studies as a child

learning from her Mother, a watercolor artist and

traditional quilter, and her Father a woodworker.

She gravitated toward painting and began

studying the works of the Renaissance Masters.

Her interest in large scale paintings began while

learning the skills of billboard art, scenic and

decorative arts. With these skills Denise began

her travels abroad and through Asia as a

muralist. She began working with Universal

Studios teaching local artists the mural and

decorative arts.

During her time abroad she studied fine arts at

Alnwick University in Northumberland, England.

Upon returning to the United States she studies

at Pratt Institute and at the New York Arts

Student League in NYC.

Denise is a resident of New York City.


THEARTISTSIngrid Roehttp://bit.ly/1b3oBIH

Ingrid Roe was born and grew up in the

East of Germany but considers New York

her home, where she has lived for more

than twenty years. She received her

Masters of Fine Arts from Hunter College,

and is teaching various subjects as an

adjunct in the Film Department at the

School of Visual Arts.

Ingrid works as a freelance photographer of

art for private clients and foundations. This

highly considered and detail-oriented work

has informed her own practice of art

making, often involving an acute sense of

details which might at first only appear in

the viewer’s peripheral vision.

Her last big project was the principal

photography of a book about designer and

artist Leslie Chilton, published by Sun Press

in 2012. Her work is in collections in

Europe, the US, and Asia.

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