CURRENT EXHIBITION ARTIST
HIROKO OHNO
Hiroko Ohno makes large-scale paintings that represent anti-gravitational landscapes, creating a sense of disorientation and weightlessness. Her work explores how we are related to space and time. She contemplates the warping of space/time around massive objects, appearing on her canvasses as geometrical schemes. At the same time, these paintings are familiar and delay cognitive recognition. To accomplish this work and convey the power of nature, she travels all of the world and paints on-site in natural wonders and historic ruins from Sahara desert, Machu Picchu and astronomical observatories. She work with Japanese pigments “Iwaenogu” made by crushing natural minerals which encompass Earth’s memory (such as Lapis Lazuli and Azurite) seashells, corals, mica, and animals, natural paper, acrylic, and canvas to achieve complex hues and textures that evoke light traveling from millions of miles away. She layers the black-hole and the galaxy to create another dimension in the painting. She stipple Morse code representations of this pandemic, expressing the positional relationships between Earth and other planets as multiple layers of arcs.
Starting from the question of why the Earth rotates, her works are the path she took to answer that question. She seeks for expression which allows for other experiences, interpretations, symbols, with nature at the forefront, a sympathy to something beyond the mere human in nature. In our contemporary society, in our pursuit of ever more speed and convenience, we tend to forget what is really important. In contrast, Her painting has becomes an act of resistance. Her attempt is not centered around humans but rather around trying to capture everything. Ohno has exhibited on an international scale with solo exhibitions from Sanagi Fine Arts (Tokyo) to Radio House Gallery (NY), and Honma Museum (Japan). Select group exhibitions include NYFA50 Anniversary, CUNY QCC Art Gallery, UBS Art Gallery, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin. She was honored with the Meguro Gajyoen Museum Award and Kawabata Ryushi Award. Ohno is a recipient of LMCC/Creative Capital ASI, VSC Residency Fellowship, and NYFA IAP. She received a MFA and a BFA, from Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
ARTIST FROM EARLIER EXHIBITIONS
VALDIMIR CYBIL CHARLIER
Vladimir Cybil Charlier is a multi-media artist residing in New York. She was born
in Elmhurst, Queens, of Haitian parents and grew up between New York City and
Port-au-Prince, an experience that still continues to inform her work. She earned
a Master’s in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1993 and that same year
attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was an artist in
residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1997.
Cybil has participated at the Biennial del Caribe in the Dominican Republic, the
Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador, the Panama Biennial in 2003 and the 2006 Venice
Biennial. Her work has been included in shows at The Studio Museum in Harlem
and in The Grand Palais in Paris. Recent shows include Relational
Undercurrents at MOLA, Bordering the Imaginary at BRIC House, Caribbean
Crossroad at the Perez Museum in Miami and a solo exhibit at Five Myles Plus
Space.
Cybil lectures regularly and recent talks have included the LASA congress in
Boston, Columbia University, Rutgers University, the CUNY Graduate Center
and the Museo del Barrio.
She currently resides in Harlem.
ISABELLE SCHNEIDER
Isabelle Schneider is a photographic mixed media artist based in Ridgewood, Queens. Her meditative, lens-based mixed media works are a surreal convergence of shadows and light or of reflections, evoking a sense of peace and neighborhood bliss, and often encapsulating a harmony of nature and modernity. She has been a fine art studio assistant to many accomplished artists, as well as a curatorial assistant and an organizer/curator in her own art community of Ridgewood, Queens. Her work has been exhibited by Trestle Gallery, Field Projects, Local Project, Art511 Magazine, as well as included in juried competitions and West Chelsea Highline Open Studios events.
CHRISTINA SUCGANG
was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to Southern California in 1992. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sucgang has exhibited her work at galleries in California, Chicago, Philadelphia, Florida, and New York. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
BRYN MCCONNELL
Bryn McConnell is a painter working in water-based mediums to explore ethereal, literal and personal landscapes. Working at various scales and with spontaneity as her guide, Bryn creates a magical visual vocabulary to express her personal felt experience of the Feminine Divine. Her award-winning work has been exhibited throughout the US and Europe. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts, New York. Born in Washington State, she has spent much of her adult life in New York and Brussels.
SUSAN BEGY
is an interdisciplinary U.S. artist interested in the shared aspects of being human in all realms, i.e. psychological, cultural, biological. She creates graphite drawings of large, twisted forms made up of smaller images—an interplay of the macro and micro. Using similar twisted forms, she makes carved stone sculptures sometimes incorporating other materials such as steel, glass, or found objects. Begy’s work explores power dynamics, polarity, hypocrisy, and productive cooperation. Her sculptures and drawings, simultaneously elegant and uncomfortable, often reflect upon nurturance and conflict. Her collaborative projects playfully reimagine human interactions and institutions.
Begy was a finalist for a 2015 Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields for Econival, a carnivalesque interactive event based on economics. The project was featured in its research and development stage on Creative Capital’s ‘On Our Radar’ in 2016. She created ArtCollision & Repair Shop in which teams of artists transform the unfinished or “stalled” work of other artists. The project debuted at Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe in 2014-14 and was a coalescing force in the Santa Fe art community.
In 2010, Begy earned her MFA in Fine Art from School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her works have been exhibited in contemporary art centers and galleries in the U.S. and Europe. She has co-founded and co-directed artist-run exhibition spaces in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. She currently lives and works in Rochester, NY
NOA CHARUVI
Born in Israel and based in New York City, Noa holds an MFA Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a BFA Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Noa was a recipient of The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for 2018-19. Residency programs she attended include Art Omi International Artists Residency in Ghent, NY, Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, NY, and The Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop in Manhattan. Her work was exhibited internationally, in venues such as The Bronx Museum of The Arts (New York), Haifa Museum of Art, and Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod (Israel). Recent one-person shows featuring Noa’s work took place in H Gallery in Paris and Art100 in New York. Publications include “Landscape Painting Now”, an anthology of contemporary painting published by D.A.P and Thames & Hudson. In late 2019 Noa was a recipient of a travel grant from Asylum Arts and a studio grant from FST Studio Projects Fund.
KAHORI KAMIYA
makes art to heal human trauma and inherent violence. She works across sculpture, collage, painting, video, and performance. All of her works are rooted in her memories, experiences, and suffer. She investigates how her experience connects with broader social issues such as gender roles. She uses symbolic motifs, patterns, and unique materials to explore opposing themes of suffering/healing, beauty/vulnerability, and formation/destruction.
Kamiya was born in Nagoya, Japan and moved to New York, where she received her second MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts. She is a recipient of the Face mask Award from Hudson Valley Contemporary Museum in 2020, the 1st Prize at ANTE Mag, and her work was featured on TV in 2021. Kamiya has been participating in both national as well as international exhibitions including Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, Woodstock Artists Association Museum in NY, Van Der Plas Gallery in NY, Oculus Westfield World Trade Center, Carrie Able Gallery in Brooklyn, I Like Your Work Online Exhibition, DIY Cultures in London, Prospect Gallery in Australia, Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn, the 14th Media Art Biennale Alternative Now in Poland, and Pärnu International Film & Video Festival in Estonia.
JUANITA LANZO
visual artist, educator, and independent curator that works in The Bronx and lives in East Harlem. Her artworks have been included in various group exhibitions that had focused on feminism, gender identity, body politics, African Diaspora & Caribbean identity, racism, immigration and postcolonialism. Juanita Lanzo creates nonobjective settings, where invented hybrid biomorphic shapes trigger subjective multisensorial memories and experiences that are evocative of feelings, human interaction, and life cycles
She has been featured in various group exhibitions at Bronx Art Space, Bullet Space, Chashama, Hell Gate Arts, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Museo de Arte de Caguas, PR, Taller Boricua, The Clemente Soto Velez, Three Rivers Community College Art Gallery, Wallworks, and Yi Gallery. Ms. Lanzo graduated from City College of NY (CUNY) (MFA 2004–Printmaking and Drawing/Painting) and from University of Puerto Rico (BFA 1996–Printmaking and Drawing).
HABBY OSK
born and raised in Akureyri, Iceland, and lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia, including solo exhibitions in the US and Iceland, thereof two museum solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. She holds a MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a BFA in Fine Arts from the AKI ArtEz University of the Arts in The Netherlands. Habby is a four time recipient of the prestigious Artists’ Salaries from the Icelandic Centre of Research. She has participated in several residencies including NARS Foundation and ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. Osk’s work rests upon basic physics – gravity, balance, movement, time and force. These concepts are the concrete medium for her artistic practice which toys with the limits of balance and stability using gravity and force. As a child in Iceland, Osk experienced life in a geographical state of tension and unease as a result of earthquake and volcano activity, avalanches and sporadic weather. The chaos wrought by these conditions would arise suddenly and unexpectedly. Growing up in a space laden with this constant potential for destruction can only but be internalized. This condition is embodied and expressed in Osk’s work in a very tangible way. Through sculpture, photography, and installations, she reveals a tension between movement and stillness by placing objects in seemingly unstable positions, capturing a moment of perpetual precarity. These compositions of fragility emphasize the potential for destruction but within an equally mirrored state of balance and stability. Her work references impermanence and the contingency of an action— probing how far objects can go without tipping over, to capture the moment of stillness before a looming collapse or transformation over time.
BIBI FLORES
is a Mexican-American painter, and multidisciplinary artist working
with abstractions that inhabit, and carry the form of healing and empowerment
energy in a quantum spiritual level. Energy speaks through healing colors, lines,
and shapes, guided by her intuition. Influenced by her metaphysic abstract artist
father who worked in the divine, cosmic. Flores works focus on empowerment,
healing from trauma, and abuse from patriarchy, and oppressive systems,
moving forward allowing the spirit to align towards healing wounds in the states
of the mind, heart, and spirit that exist in a plane of dimensional energy. Bibi Work’s consist in paintings, collages, performative photograph, staged photographs,
experiential sensorial installations, including paint as main medium used within
all other mediums. Started in 1997 in Monterrey Mexico, and moved to New York
in 2005. Holds a MFA in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in 2010. Flores Grants
include New York City Artist CORPS Grant, City Artist West Collection, National Academy Museum. Selected as Latinx artist to participate in El Taller from Creative Capital 2018. Her work has been exhibited in United States, Mexico, and Europe in galleries, and museums like Perry Rubenstein, Air Gallery, X Initiative, Chashama, Rupert Ravens, Museo del Centenario, Centro Cultural Fátima, Museo, Metropolitano de Monterrey, in between others. She has presented interviews, talks, and her healing good energy workshops which connects with her advocacy and focus of her artworks in spaces like The NYC Major’s Office Against Domestic Violence, Hunter College, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, MARCO Museum, and UANL. Mention as a NY Top10 artists by 511Magazine in their September 2017 issue. Bibi is a energy healer with gifts that she born with, as a Certified Reiki Master Practitioner
ANDREA CORONIL
Born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Caracas, Venezuela and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Andrea Coronil is a visual artist whose paintings and mixed media work explore the human figure, categories of personhood, and questions of truth. Her gestural paintings and drawings center both real and imagined female-identifying figures as active agents making their own history. Coronil is a recipient of the City Arts Corps Grant and a selected participant in Creative Capital Latinx Workshops. She has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Venezuela, including the Biennial Arturo Michelena, the Museum Jacobo Borges, and the Museum of Aragua. Her work has been shown in galleries and universities in New York, including a three-site New York group show through the Taiwanese American Arts Council shown at NYFA, in ETAY gallery, and El Taller Latino. She participated in the London-based Spongelheim gallery’s online show Face. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Cultural Center of Carúpano in Venezuela and is featured on the book cover of Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (Duke University Press 2019). Coronil holds a BA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Michigan, an MFA in studio art from The City College of New York CUNY, and an MA in anthropology from The New School. Andrea Coronil is a visual artist whose work explores the human figure, categories of personhood, and questions of truth. She creates gestural paintings and drawings that center both real and imagined female-identifying figures as active agents making their own history. Her visual language echoes comics and pre-colombian symbolism, with boxing gloves that form snakes’ heads that disperse venom, alchemizing inner and outer turmoil into fertile ground for growth. Her ongoing iterative series from 2012 uses the FBI’s surveillance files on her father from the 1970’s. An immigrant with a student visa, her father was categorized as a national threat to security and found himself having to fight undisclosed charges. Due to being deemed such a threat, the surveillance files remain heavily redacted even after being released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOA). Coronil utilizes the negative space left by the redactions as the background for her drawn figures, countering the FBI’s gestural erasures with her own mark-making to reclaim the void into sites of reckoning.
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KATIE CERCONE
*Or Nah* is an artist, scribe, priextexx and spiritual gangsta hailing from the blessed coast. Cercone has performed or shown work in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Momenta Art, C24 Gallery, Changjiang Museum China, Dodge Gallery and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. As co-leader of the radical, queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops, Cercone spearheaded a 400-women strong takeover of the Whitney Museum in 2014 known as “The Clitney Perennial,” and was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice the same year. In 2015 she was a distinguished National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo (JUSFC). Her work has been featured in Dazed, MILK, Interview, Japan Times, Huffington Post, ART 21, Hyperallergic, PAPER, Art Fag City, Washington Post, and Art Net TV among others. Cercone has curated shows for Momenta Art, KARST (UK), Cue Art Foundation, Local Project and NurtureArt. Cercone is adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches GENDER TROUBLE in the Visual & Critical Studies Department. Katie was awarded the Franklin Furnace Award Fund in 2020.
ANA ORBEGOSO
is a New York based Peruvian/American interdisciplinary artist. Through the use of collective memory iconography, she explores aspects of gender and identity in photography, videos, sculpture, wearable art, street projections, workshops and multimedia productions Supporting the great effort that millions of women are making for gender equality, she created the art project Feminist Projections in order to raise awareness, projecting photos of marches and empowerment messages in all kinds of places and women, creating portraits of resilience, textile sculptures, installations, workshops, collaborations and artistic actions. De Orbegoso is a 2008 fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts, has been granted a 2009 NALAC -National Association of Latino Arts & Culture and a 2002 EnFoco New Works Award among others. Her video The Last Inca Princess was awarded Best Experimental Short at the 2015 Big Apple Film Festival and the 2016 California Women’s Film Festival among others. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries across the US, Mexico, Latin America and Europe. Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; National Museum of the Women in D.C.; the Fine Arts Museum of Houston; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru; the Art Museum of San Marcos U., Lima; Lehigh University in Pennsylvania; the MALI Museum of Art of Lima; ICPNA the Peruvian North American Institute of Lima and the Joaquim Paiva Collection at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio among others