JANET KIM is a graphic designer living in New York City. Originally from Philadelphia, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in psychology and communication and also has a graphic design degree from Parsons The New School for Design. Read More

BETH MAYCUMBER is currently working on a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies at Florida State University; she also holds an M.A. in U.S. History from the University of North Florida, and a B.A. Read More

WAYNE ADAMS is a Brooklyn-based artist who received his BFA from Calvin College and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. Adams has exhibited throughout the Midwest, New York and Vienna, Austria. Read More

NILS FOLKE ANDERSON’S work is based on the concept of reciprocal linkage. Borrowed from internet terminology, reciprocal linkage is used to describe how multiple websites are linked to each other. Anderson’s work itself can range from simple to complex, always playing with frame, interconnectedness and form, while every element is weighted the same and has the same relationship to the others. Read More

JOHN JAMES ANDERSON grew up in a test market in Bettendorf, Iowa, where he was subjected to Pepsi Clear, Pizza Hut’s triple-decker, and countless news reports of pig farmers biting the bullet (literally) due to falling hog futures. Read More

LISA A. BANNER is an art historian who teaches at SUNY Purchase, and an independent curator of old master and contemporary art exhibitions, including “The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya,” at The Frick Collection, and recently, “Light Matter” at the Pelham Art Center. Read More

For “Dead in August,” AGNES BARLEY presents a “Wave Collage.” Barley’s “Wave Collages” are a series of works on paper based on the structure of waves. The waves’ imagined architecture evolved from remote forms to swelling structures and finally deconstructed into minimal references. Read More

SANDRA BEASLEY is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Other honors for her work include selection for the 2010 Best American Poetry, the 2010 University of Mississippi Summer Poet in Residence position, a DCCAH Artist Fellowship, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. Read More

LORIEL BELTRAN was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1985. At age fifteen, he moved to Miami where he obtained a BFA from New World School of the Arts in Electronic Intermedia. Read More

BRENT BIRNBAUM was born in Dallas, Texas in the year of the snake. Most people are more surprised that he is not on facebook than learning his cousin invented the Bedazzler. Read More

HUNTER BRAITHWAITE is a freelance writer based in Miami. He has covered the arts in Shanghai, Paris, New York,and Miami for various publications, including Artforum Online, ARTINFO.com, Artslant.com, CNN.com, NY Arts Magazine,Whitehot Magazine, Time Out Shanghai, and City Weekend Shanghai. Read More

Brooklyn-based artist MATTHEW BROWNELL’S current work uses pattern, repetition and difference to combine elements of minimalism, abstraction, Op-art, and psychedelia. The use of non-traditional media allows him to reference the past and at the same time confound notions of it. Read More

DIANA BRUK was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and grew up in New York City. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and received her Masters in Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford. Read More

MR. CASTILLO has unrivaled experience and expertise. He has been practicing fine art for over 50 years, advising some the most noteworthy companies in the Dominican Republic and nearly all the major corporations in Latin America. Read More

JULIE DICKOVER is the director of the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida, where she has organized exhibitions by artists such as Montreal based video artist Julie Lequin and photographer Mark Ruwedel, as well as a collaborative interdisciplinary project and exhibition with Portland, Oregon based artist Harrell Fletcher. Read More

Conceptual negation becomes a tool within the photographic sculptures created by NATHAN DILWORTH. This Brooklyn based artist utilizes this negotiation as definition in much the same way that negative space defines positive space and vice versa. Read More

TYLER EMERSON-DORSCH is a partner at Dorsch Gallery in Miami, FL and a graduate of Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies. Since joining the gallery in 2008, she has brought in several visiting curators to organize shows: Milena Hoegsberg (Sweden), Megha Ralapati (Chicago), Christina Linden (California), Catherine Anne Hollingsworth (Florida), Terri C. Read More

EMILIA GALATIS is interested in arts ability to provoke thought and impact an audience beyond gallery walls. Galatis is passionate about sharing the diversity of contemporary Aboriginal art practice with a wider audience and finding new avenues for remote artists to express themselves. Read More

Sculptor and video artist CHRISTY GAST grew up in rural Ohio and currently lives and works in Miami. For past projects, Gast has tap danced around Lake Okeechobee, performed as a mermaid on trapeze and a cowgirl with an inflatable desert, and written and recorded a cappella folk ballads about women in the military. Read More

MICHELLE GRABNER lives and works in Chicago and Waupaca County, Wisconsin. She is a professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a visiting critic in Painting and Printmaking at Yale. Read More

ARAMIS GUTIERREZ was born in 1975 in Pittsburgh, PA of Venezuelan, Slavic and Scottish decent. He received a BFA in painting from Cooper Union in 1998 and studied an additional 5 years in post-baccalaureate studies. Read More

LAUREN VAN HAAFTEN-SCHICK is a curator, artist and writer from New York. She is currently organizing “Non-Participation,” a collection of letters by cultural producers written to decline their participation in events by organizations and institutions for political and ethical reasons. Read More

LINA HARGRETT is a freelance art writer and consultant. She was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in San José, Costa Rica. From the University of Costa Rica she received a Bachelor degree in Art History and quickly moved to New York. Read More

JOLYNN KRYSTOSEK is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in a variety of materials creating works with an enticing mix of allusions to painting, sculpture, and decorative form. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California and her MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Read More

TYLER LAFRENIERE was born and raised in the town of Camden, Maine. From a young age he expressed his greatest love for sculpture, drawing, art and creating badass design. Since childhood, Lafreniere has continued through on the path to mastery. Read More

ROBERTO CARLOS LANGE is a composer and sound artist born in South Florida currently living in Brooklyn. Lange’s musical pieces and videos are adjusted and aligned with the moment in which they exist; they are constructed through improvised performances and accidental happenings. Read More

FRANCESCO LONGENECKER’S recent drawings inspired by traditional cel animation look at the relationship between architecture and landscape through invented space. Where cel animation uses physical layering to separate the background from subject, he is using the layers to connect the background and subject. Read More

CHRISTIAN MAYCHACK’S current work focuses on the manner in which we have become adept at navigating the continuum between physical space and abstract mental space. Using the language of abstract painting and the modernist grid, the pieces reflect into an illusionistic space without fully relinquishing their sense of physicality. Read More

RUSSELL MAYCUMBER lives and works in St. Augustine, Florida where he completed his BFA in 2006. Maycumber was included in “Everything Must Go” at Casey Kaplan, New York last summer. He has shown extensively in the Jacksonville and St. Read More

CHRISTINA MESITI currently divides her time between her hometown, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. She graduated from Arizona State University with degrees in Painting and art history. Her work explores issues surrounding the human relationship to place and landscape. Read More

SABINE MIRLESSE grew up between Los Angeles, California and New Haven, Connecticut in the United States. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies and English Literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and additionally studied for one year at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Read More

GEAN MORENO is an artist based in Miami. His work has been exhibited at the North Miami MoCA, Kunsthaus Palais Thum and Taxis, Bregenz, Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee, Haifa Museum, Israel, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, and Invisible-Exports, New York. Read More

JESSICA NARESH is co-owner of The Art Registry, an art consulting and events firm in Washington, DC. She received a Bachelors Degree in Art History from Tulane University. Her introduction to the contemporary art world was as an intern at Casey Kaplan, NY. Read More

ERNESTO OROZA lives and works in Aventura. He earned a degree at the Havana Superior Institute of Design. Oroza is author of the book Objets Réinventés. La création populaire à Cuba (Paris, 2002). Read More

MARIO PAIS was born is Brazil where he studied Art & Design by the Universidade Paulista. In 1999, he moved  to the United States and worked for Habatat galleries. In 2012, he moved back to Brazil and assists Studio 0216 as the International Public Relations Director. Read More

ALEXANDRA POSEN’S visual art, which first begun as a fluid continuation of her theatrical work, is now the heart of her practice. She has been influenced by a contemplation of this interplay in other artists, and the allusive possibilities of abstraction to give form to this relation, most notably in FIELDS, an ongoing series of beeswax and mixed media drawings on paper. Read More

CARISSA POTTER is a person who lives in San Francisco, California. She currently is working on her first solo show at Wire and Nail Gallery and in the past she has shown at SomArts, E6 Gallery, 111 Minna and Treehouse Gallery. Read More

LEYDEN RODRIGUEZ-CASANOVA immigrated with his parents to the United States from Cuba in 1980. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design and the New World School of the Arts where he was awarded the Frances Wolfson Endowed Visual Arts Scholarship. Read More

SARA MARIA SALAMONE has always had a keen interest in art. After completeing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Photography from Hampshire College, she became avidly involved in the art scene in the Capital District by joining the Board of Directors for the Upstate Artist Guild and becoming Photo Editor for Upstate Magazine. Read More

ENRIQUE SANTOS lives and works in Mexico City. Santos studied film direction at Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Santos works with photography, video, sculpture and painting whose references go back to the history of cinema, and also thrives on media, advertising, appropriation, collage, found images and the current social situation. Read More

KRIS SCHEIFELE is an artist and writer based in New York. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA and BA from Cornell University. She also attended Skowhegan and was a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant recipient. Read More

CAROLYN SICKLES is the Studio and Gallery Programming Manager at the Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement. Sickles has worked in New York City and South Florida as an artist, curator and art educator, institutions include the New Museum, Teachers College of Columbia, New York University, Norton Museum of Art, and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Read More

JOHN SILVIS is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator who has lived in New York since 1994. He received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and has received numerous grants and awards, including a commission for the Essl Collection in Vienna. Read More

CHRIS SMITH has exhibited at spaces like the Eyebeam Arts and Technology Center, the 3LD Art and Technology Center, the Grace Space, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, The NYC Conflux City Festival, the Pelham Art Center and for The 13th DUMBO Arts Festival. He exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, for the Artist in The Market Place Biennial, and has recently stayed at a residency at the Kala art Institute in Berkeley California. Read More

EMMY THELANDER is a visual artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, and installation. She studied at RISD and Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a BFA in 2010, and is currently receiving an MFA in painting from Yale University. Read More

SAM TRIOLI was born in 1984 in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in New Hampshire.  He is a contemporary artist, curator and musician currently living and working in New York City. Read More

FRANCES TROMBLY was born in Miami, Florida, where she currently lives and works. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include: “Not Paintings,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2011), “Everything and Nothing,” Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia (2011), “Paintings, Girls’ Club,” Ft. Read More

DEBORA WARNER is multi-media artist who has had an international career spanning two decades and several continents exhibiting in venues such as the Swiss Institute in New York and the Frankfurt Kunsthalle Schirn in Germany. Read More

JENNIFER WILLIAMS documents, deconstructs, and recomposes organic and idiosyncratic architectural transformations evident on a macro and micro level, giving form to dissonance within an environment. Her site-specific collages encourage the use of photography not as a tool to stop time, but to control time passing. Read More

BRIAN WONDERGEM is a sculptor and installation artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Wondergem completed his MFA in sculpture at the Yale School of Art. He has shown internationally and in New York including a recent solo exhibition at Kidd Yellin Gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Read More