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30 days. 4 cities. One European art journey.I’m taking #TarikTalk on the road across Europe, moving through museums, galleries, and cultural spaces that shape how we see art today.From iconic institutions to contemporary voices, this series is about slowing down, looking closer, and experiencing art in the cities that live and breathe it.#Amsterdam #Berlin #Brussels #London Four cities, countless stories, and a month dedicated entirely to art, culture, and creative conversation.Follow along as I share moments from each stop, inside the exhibitions, behind the scenes, and through the lens of the podcast. This is 30 Days · 4 Cities · European Art Tour 🇪🇺🖼️ 🇳🇱🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇬🇧@nationalportraitgallery @britishmuseum @thenationalgallery @tate @rijksmuseum @vangoghmuseum @galeriemaxhetzler @hamburger_bahnhof @koeniggalerie @staatlichemuseenzuberlin @gropiusbau @pacegallery @amsterdam.explores @visitnetherlands @berlin.explore @germany.explores @belgium @brussels.travel @visitengland @visitlondon

30 days. 4 cities. One European art journey.I’m taking #TarikTalk on the road across Europe, moving through museums, galleries, and cultural spaces that shape how we see art today.From iconic institutions to contemporary voices, this series is about slowing down, looking closer, and experiencing art in the cities that live and breathe it.#Amsterdam #Berlin #Brussels #London Four cities, countless stories, and a month dedicated entirely to art, culture, and creative conversation.Follow along as I share moments from each stop, inside the exhibitions, behind the scenes, and through the lens of the podcast. This is 30 Days · 4 Cities · European Art Tour 🇪🇺🖼️ 🇳🇱🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇬🇧@nationalportraitgallery @britishmuseum @thenationalgallery @tate @rijksmuseum @vangoghmuseum @galeriemaxhetzler @hamburger_bahnhof @koeniggalerie @staatlichemuseenzuberlin @gropiusbau @pacegallery @amsterdam.explores @visitnetherlands @berlin.explore @germany.explores @belgium @brussels.travel @visitengland @visitlondon

Niko Abramidis &NE (*1987 in Europe, lives and works in Munich and Berlin, DE) opens up a diverse spectrum dealing with economic structures and visions of the future. Within his drawings, paintings, sculptures and room installations, Niko Abramidis &NE develops parallel universes in which he creates fictitious corporate identities and appropriates forms of expression from financial economics. This also includes the play with words through signs, symbols and ciphers, via which he transfers his artistic ideas of myth and literary fiction. The artist develops a semiotics of archaic symbols paired with sketchy drawings, which he puts together using the latest technologies. Niko Abramidis &NE studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Julian Rosefeldt and Markus Oehlen and at the Berlin University of the Arts with Byung-Chul Han. He is co-founder of the art space easy!upstream, which he artistically directed from 2015-2018. He most recently had a solo presentation at the Kunstverein Salzburg in 2023. In 2018, he was awarded the prize ars viva for visual arts, which is awarded annually by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. This was followed by group exhibitions in 2019 at the Kunstmuseum Bern and at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf. He also received an artist-in-residency grant on Fogo Island, Canada.

Tiantian Lou (b. 1995) shapes her artistic practice around a continuous curiosity for spatial conditions tangent to architecture. Drawing from her expertise in textile and printmaking, Tiantian utilizes a diverse range of artistic mediums, experimenting with them in her inquiries. She holds an M. Arch from Princeton University and a B.Arch and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Tiantian currently lives and works in New York.

Dan Oliver is a Chicago-based artist, born in the American Midwest. His interests in philosophy, history and music influence his studio practice. His 2021 solo exhibition, “Afire,” at the Evanston Art Center, opened on the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, kicking off his most recent body of work, concerned with endings, beginnings, and transformation. His imagery has attracted an international audience, with recent exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hong Kong, Paris, Madrid and Tokyo.

This episode is all about the work behind the walls.I interviewed Bailey Coleman, Gallery Director of 5-50 Gallery NYC, on her path into the art world, the realities of directing a gallery, and what it means to create space for artists in today’s landscape.A real conversation about passion, responsibility, and entrepreneurship in art.

Saatchi Art – The Other Art Fair – Anika Igniozzi, (Season 30, Episode 6) Tarik Talk Podcast

Part 1 & Part 2 – Deonté Griffin-Quick, (Season 30, Episode 5) Tarik Talk Podcast

Saatchi Art – The Other Art Fair – Diane Portwood, (Season 30, Episode 4) Tarik Talk Podcast

Adrien Lucca Art Tour Part 1 & Part 2, (Season 30, Episode 3) Tarik Talk Podcast

Supermrin Art Tour (Season 30, Episode 2) Tarik Talk Podcast

Sunset Park Open Studios Brooklyn NYC – Noah Xifr, (Season 30, Episode 1) Tarik Talk Podcast

Lmno Gallery – Artist Adrien Lucca (Season 29, Episode 6) Tarik Talk Podcast

Saatchi Art – The Other Art Fair – Zeljka Paic, (Season 29, Episode 5) Tarik Talk Podcast

Brooklyn Terminal Art Studio Tour – Artist – Noah Xifr, (Season 29, Episode 4) Tarik Talk Podcast

Sunset Park Open Studios Brooklyn Nyc – Caroline Almond, (Season 29, Episode 3) Tarik Talk Podcast

Silver Art Projects Artist Wtc – Jaiquan Fayson, (Season 29, Episode 2) Tarik Talk Podcast

Sunset Park Open Studios Brooklyn NYC – Stephanie Norberg, (Season 29, Episode 1) Tarik Talk Podcast

Le Botanique Brussels Belgium – Adrien Lucca Installation Process (Season 28, Episode 6)

Art For Justice Fund – Artist Jaiquan Fayson, (Season 28, Episode 5) Tarik Talk Podcast

Saatchi Art – The Other Art Fair – Lauren Carmela Designs, (Season 28, Episode 4) Tarik Talk Podcast

Brooklyn Terminal Art Studio Tour – Artist – Caroline Almond, (Season 28, Episode 3) Tarik Talk Podcast

Silverstein Properties – Artist Supermrin – Silver Art Projects, (Season 28, Episode 2) Tarik Talk

Brooklyn Terminal Art Studio Tour – Stephanie Norberg, (Season 28, Episode 1)

Executive Director JCAC – Deonté Griffin-Quick, (Season 27, Episode 6)

n this episode, I’m sitting down with multidisciplinary artist @adrienlucca inside his studio in Brussels. Adrien’s work lives at the intersection of color, perception, architecture, and light, exploring how we experience space, materials, and the unseen forces around us.We talk about his creative process, his relationship with color as both a physical and emotional experience, and how science, research, and intuition all play a role in shaping his practice. Being surrounded by his work while having this conversation made the experience even more immersive and inspiring.A thoughtful and visually driven conversation with an artist who constantly challenges how we see and feel the world around us.

Saatchi Art – The Other Art Fair – Yin Ming (Season 27, Episode 4) Tarik Talk Podcast

Open House New York – Noah Xifr, (Season 27, Episode 3)

Jaiquan Fayson Art Studio Tour – Part 1 Part 2 Part 3, (Season 27, Episode 2)

Open House New York – Stephanie Norberg (Season 27, Episode 1)

Mana Art Studio Tour – Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 (Season 26, Episode 6) Tarik Talk Podcast

Open House New York – Caroline Almond (Season 26, Episode 5)

Supermrin is a sculptor and installation artist whose work merges foraged trees with a self-developed grass-based bioplastic to explore the capitalist and colonial systems embedded in landscapes, particularly the global lawn. Her ongoing project, FIELD, intertwines biophilosophy, decolonial theory, and material science, and was featured in Towards Another Architecture: New Visions for the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2024). She has exhibited internationally across venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Untitled Art Fair Miami, and the Italian Virtual Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Supermrin has received major grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Franklin Furnace Fund, NYFA, and the Ohio Arts Council. She currently serves as Area Head of Interdisciplinary Practice at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Art, is an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects in the World Trade Center, and a research fellow at Genspace in Brooklyn.All episodes are now available to watch on YouTube & Instagram, and to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major streaming platforms.

In this episode of Tarik Talk, Tarik speaks with Belgian artist Adrien Lucca, born in Paris and now living and working in Brussels, in his Brussels studio about a practice that sits at the intersection of art, science, light, and color. Adrien explores how non-human beings, particularly the elephant hawk moth, perceive the world, using LEDs, pigments, and coding to translate invisible color spectra into immersive visual experiences for human viewers. He shares his journey from studying art and music to creating large-scale public installations, including a pivotal breakthrough project in 2015 that helped define the direction of his work. The conversation also looks ahead to his upcoming long-term installation at Botanique Brussels, where the building’s lobby will be transformed through programmable, color-shifting light. At the core of Adrien’s practice is a critique of human-centered vision and a deeper reflection on how artificial light impacts insects, plants, and entire ecosystems. Through his work, he invites us to consider the worlds that exist beyond human perception and how art can make the invisible visible.

In this episode of Tarik Talk, Tarik speaks with Belgian artist Adrien Lucca, born in Paris and now living and working in Brussels, in his Brussels studio about a practice that sits at the intersection of art, science, light, and color. Adrien explores how non-human beings, particularly the elephant hawk moth, perceive the world, using LEDs, pigments, and coding to translate invisible color spectra into immersive visual experiences for human viewers. He shares his journey from studying art and music to creating large-scale public installations, including a pivotal breakthrough project in 2015 that helped define the direction of his work. The conversation also looks ahead to his upcoming long-term installation at Botanique Brussels, where the building’s lobby will be transformed through programmable, color-shifting light. At the core of Adrien’s practice is a critique of human-centered vision and a deeper reflection on how artificial light impacts insects, plants, and entire ecosystems. Through his work, he invites us to consider the worlds that exist beyond human perception and how art can make the invisible visible.

In this episode of Tarik Talk, Tarik speaks with Belgian artist Adrien Lucca, born in Paris and now living and working in Brussels, in his Brussels studio about a practice that sits at the intersection of art, science, light, and color. Adrien explores how non-human beings, particularly the elephant hawk moth, perceive the world, using LEDs, pigments, and coding to translate invisible color spectra into immersive visual experiences for human viewers. He shares his journey from studying art and music to creating large-scale public installations, including a pivotal breakthrough project in 2015 that helped define the direction of his work. The conversation also looks ahead to his upcoming long-term installation at Botanique Brussels, where the building’s lobby will be transformed through programmable, color-shifting light. At the core of Adrien’s practice is a critique of human-centered vision and a deeper reflection on how artificial light impacts insects, plants, and entire ecosystems. Through his work, he invites us to consider the worlds that exist beyond human perception and how art can make the invisible visible.

Deonté Griffin-Quick embodies the powerful intersection of faith, arts, and cultural leadership that defines DGQ Culture. As an actor, revivalist, and nationally recognized arts administrator, he brings a unique vision for how faith-rooted strategy can transform communities and organizations. Through DGQ Culture, Deonté unites his calling and artistic expertise to help faith-rooted creatives and organizations maximize their cultural impact and fulfill their divine purpose. His spiritual journey started early—delivering his first sermon at 12 entitled "G.O.D: God Opens Doors" (Revelation 3:8). This prophetic message foreshadowed his future work bridging spiritual wisdom with cultural innovation. Deonté accepted his call to ministry in 2017 and became a licensed minister. He currently serves at Destiny Living Ministries where he continues to develop his approach to faith-based community engagement and artistic transformation. In the arts and cultural sector, Deonté has established himself as a changemaker at both regional and national levels. As Managing Director of External Affairs at Artist Communities Alliance, he helped shape support systems for creative communities globally. Previously, as Director of Programs and Services at New Jersey Theatre Alliance, he built lasting partnerships, led statewide initiatives, and cultivated 42 professional theatre companies. His commitment to creating pathways for underrepresented voices led him to develop the New Jersey Arts and Culture Administrators of Color Network in 2019. This pioneering initiative demonstrates his ability to identify systemic gaps and create structures that empower others—a cornerstone of DGQ Culture's approach. His achievements have been recognized with the inaugural Individual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award from the Union County Urban League of Young Professionals. Deonté holds a BA in Theatre with a Communications minor from Kean University and a Master's in Arts Administration from Drexel University.

Noah Xifr aka Bird has painted empowering art all his life. "I explore concepts like achieving psychological wellbeing, strength, love, community building, and striving for environmental justice."Born in Madrid, Spain and growing up in the Bronx, NY, this 3rd generation artist started drawing as a child inspired by the city, birds he raised, surreal painters, science fiction, graffiti and comic books. In 5th grade he won a NY Transit Museum poster design contest and went on to earn a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from the Cooper Union School of Art, with a major in Painting and Printmaking. His creative journey has brought him to found the Symbolic Realism arts movement, a home for contemporary surreal conceptual artists.

Caroline Amond is an emerging visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University in 2019 and a MFA in Art from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2024. Caroline has exhibited in an assortment of exhibitions across New York (Powerhouse Arts, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery) and has received multiple awards (Morris Dorsky and Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship) for her artistic contributions. Her work was featured on Artnet’s “Best Work of 2024: 11 Standouts We Saw Globally.” Amond’s bold paintings challenge conventional beauty standards and provoke viewers to decode the layered symbolism and iconography imbues within each work. She focuses on allegorical themes and prioritizes the female gaze, while also reflecting on the post-internet culture in which she was raised.

About Stephanie Norberg INSTALLATION: I’m interested in creating environments that reference pop-culture, questions the notions of value of worth, talks about the DIY culture many young artists across the nation are embracing, the relevance of wonder and phenomena while we are existing in an ever increasing digitally-driven world, and the general notion of spirituality and self-identification within the framework of a contemporary culture. Within these environments I create fragments of subcultures spanning time from historical to contemporary movements. These subcultures date back to Native Americans; embracing spirituality, mysticism, and transcendentalism to current movements occurring in music culture such as; trance, electronic, and Witch House. These fragments of already existing subcultures work together to talk about the human condition for the need to identify within a group and are also self-reflexive of my own personal narrative and interests.

Kat Ryals (b. 1988 in Jonesboro, AR) is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and photographer. Ryals received a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA & Adv. Certificate in Museum Education from Brooklyn College. She has shown her work nationally, including in a solo booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in 2020 and 2022, a collaborative two person show at Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2023, a two person show at Ortega Y Gasset Projects in 2022, and in recent group exhibitions with ChaShaMa, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, and The Wassaic Project. Ryals has also completed several artist residencies, including the Wassaic Project (2017, 2019, 2022), ChaNorth (2019), the Peter Bullough Foundation (2021), and a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (2018). Ryals will also be an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan in 2024. She is also the Co-founder of the online arts platform, PARADICE PALASE, based out of Brooklyn and was recently the Curator of Art for famed nightlife and culture venues House of X at PUBLIC and House of Yes. Ryals' practice is often influenced by her upbringing in Arkansas and the Acadiana region of Louisiana, where her days were spent rummaging through thrift and junk stores, daydreaming in ornate Catholic churches, and roaming unspoiled forests and swamps. Artist StatementRyals’ artist practice examines the internalized power objects and design hold over us, and how mythmaking, ornamentation, and special effects can serve as tools for manipulation. Utilizing the dichotomies of natural/artificial, trash/treasure, sacred/profane, and luxury/kitsch within her work, she emulates material culture artifacts to investigate how value is manufactured. By creating mixed media sculptures, lens-based work, wearable art, and site-specific or immersive installations, she seeks to understand how the cultural currencies of authenticity, taste, and illusion are used to generate an economy of perceived value and hierarchy within our world. Her recent work has been specifically concerned with the relationship between waste and desire. Employing speculative fiction to create specimens and artifacts, she turns our attention to the unbridled mass production and consumption that has led to a culture of casual anthropogenic waste accumulation.

About Jaiquan Fayson: Born, raised, and based in Brooklyn, NY, Jaiquan Fayson is a visual artist whose oil paintings and sketch portraits attempt to establish an empathetic connection to people in his environment. While incarcerated and in solitary confinement as a young adult, Jaiquan used his ability to draw as a means ofself-directed therapy and a tool for introspection. Seeking to break his cycle of recidivism, Jaiquan earned the Silas H Rhodes Scholarship for Artistic and Academic achievement before completing his BFA (2015) in Illustration at The School of Visual Arts. In 2020 Jaiquan participated in HBO’s O.G, an art show commemorating their revolutionary prison film. He was featured in Drawing Freedom, a short documentary released in 2021 about art as a means of therapy, produced by Motto Pictures for the Healthy US Collaborative. Additionally, in 2021 he wasfeatured as a subject in a chapter of Craig Taylor’s book, New Yorkers A City and Its People in Our time, winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. With a desire to be a conducive member of society and hoping to inspire the next generation of artists, Jaiquan is currently employed as a part-timeart educator in the NYC Public School system. In 2023 he completed his MAT at the School of Visual Arts. He also received the Art 4 Justice grant, and he is a 2023 Right of Return Fellow. Jaiquan continues to explore art as a means of learning, expression, and communication. https://www.jaiquanfayson.com

About Tanya Weddemire Gallery: The Tanya Weddemire Gallery is a Brooklyn-based art gallery that thrives from being a vital source and representation of the arts. It's a premier art destination dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging established artists. Its mission is to deepen the value and importance of art by enriching each person's perspective on life explorations through exhibits. The gallery applies thoughtful and intentional curation while integrating cultural and historical connections to all their shows that can include, but are not limited to, paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography, fashion, and furniture. https://tanyaweddemiregallery.org

About Atim Annette Oton: The Creative Side is an innovative art consultancy, and creative design business enterprise founded by Atim Annette Oton, a curator, designer, and enterpreneur, who lives in Jersey City, after moving from Brooklyn, and works in the New York City area. Leadership: Curator, Designer, Editor and Entrepreneur Atim Annette Oton is a Nigerian-born, American and British educated designer. She is the founder of The Creative Side, an innovative business, as well as the director and cuarator at Calabar Gallery since 2016 and was the co-owner of Calabar Imports, a 20 year old Brooklyn retail business. She was the African Art Curator for AMREF Health Africa ARTBALL, Curator and producer for 54 Artists for 54 African Journeys, Curator and producer of Destination Bed Stuy, Organizer of Bed Stuy Arts Stroll and Harlem Arts Stroll, Curator for Mind-Builders Creative Art Center and was the project outreach curator for Bronx:Africa exhibition at the Bronx Council on the Arts. She co-founded of Black Design News Network and was a Huffington Post Black Voices Blogger who created the series, The Pulse of Africa where she wrote about Global Africans working in Africa and across the Diaspora and has an inside view on Africa’s progress, issues on arts and culture, technology and opportunities. She spent her formative years in Calabar, Nigeria and studied architecture at the City College of New York and did graduate studies at the Architectural Association Graduate School in London, England. In New York, she worked in architecture and by 2000, was part of the design team that won the African Burial Ground Interpretive Center. She worked as an executive producer on the Underground Railroad Experience, a cultural education website on the Underground Railroad and won an Independent Grant from the NYSCA for her work, the Black Hair Salon. A founder of Blacklines Magazine, a quarterly magazine featuring black designers, she served as its executive vice president before joining Parsons School of Design as the Associate Chair of Product Design for 6 years. In 2006 she launched Calabar Magazine as a brand extension of her store Calabar Imports in Brooklyn. After creating Calabar Imports in 2004, she has expanded the store to 3 store neighborhood locations in Brooklyn (Crown Heights, Bed Stuy and Harlem). As founder of the Creative Side, she selects projects that are about art, community and artists.

Born, raised, and based in Brooklyn, NY, Jaiquan Fayson is a visual artist whose oil paintings and sketch portraits attempt to establish an empathetic connection to people in his environment. While incarcerated and in solitary confinement as a young adult, Jaiquan used his ability to draw as a means ofself-directed therapy and a tool for introspection. Seeking to break his cycle of recidivism, Jaiquan earned the Silas H Rhodes Scholarship for Artistic and Academic achievement before completing his BFA (2015) in Illustration at The School of Visual Arts. In 2020 Jaiquan participated in HBO’s O.G, an art show commemorating their revolutionary prison film. He was featured in Drawing Freedom, a short documentary released in 2021 about art as a means of therapy, produced by Motto Pictures for the Healthy US Collaborative. Additionally, in 2021 he wasfeatured as a subject in a chapter of Craig Taylor’s book, New Yorkers A City and Its People in Our time, winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. With a desire to be a conducive member of society and hoping to inspire the next generation of artists, Jaiquan is currently employed as a part-timeart educator in the NYC Public School system. In 2023 he completed his MAT at the School of Visual Arts. He also received the Art 4 Justice grant, and he is a 2023 Right of Return Fellow. Jaiquan continues to explore art as a means of learning, expression, and communication. https://www.jaiquanfayson.com

Born, raised, and based in Brooklyn, NY, Jaiquan Fayson is a visual artist whose oil paintings and sketch portraits attempt to establish an empathetic connection to people in his environment. While incarcerated and in solitary confinement as a young adult, Jaiquan used his ability to draw as a means ofself-directed therapy and a tool for introspection. Seeking to break his cycle of recidivism, Jaiquan earned the Silas H Rhodes Scholarship for Artistic and Academic achievement before completing his BFA (2015) in Illustration at The School of Visual Arts. In 2020 Jaiquan participated in HBO’s O.G, an art show commemorating their revolutionary prison film. He was featured in Drawing Freedom, a short documentary released in 2021 about art as a means of therapy, produced by Motto Pictures for the Healthy US Collaborative. Additionally, in 2021 he wasfeatured as a subject in a chapter of Craig Taylor’s book, New Yorkers A City and Its People in Our time, winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. With a desire to be a conducive member of society and hoping to inspire the next generation of artists, Jaiquan is currently employed as a part-timeart educator in the NYC Public School system. In 2023 he completed his MAT at the School of Visual Arts. He also received the Art 4 Justice grant, and he is a 2023 Right of Return Fellow. Jaiquan continues to explore art as a means of learning, expression, and communication. https://www.jaiquanfayson.com

Kat Ryals (b. 1988 in Jonesboro, AR) is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and photographer. Ryals received a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA & Adv. Certificate in Museum Education from Brooklyn College. She has shown her work nationally, including in a solo booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in 2020 and 2022, a collaborative two person show at Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2023, a two person show at Ortega Y Gasset Projects in 2022, and in recent group exhibitions with ChaShaMa, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, and The Wassaic Project. Ryals has also completed several artist residencies, including the Wassaic Project (2017, 2019, 2022), ChaNorth (2019), the Peter Bullough Foundation (2021), and a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (2018). Ryals will also be an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan in 2024. She is also the Co-founder of the online arts platform, PARADICE PALASE, based out of Brooklyn and was recently the Curator of Art for famed nightlife and culture venues House of X at PUBLIC and House of Yes. Ryals' practice is often influenced by her upbringing in Arkansas and the Acadiana region of Louisiana, where her days were spent rummaging through thrift and junk stores, daydreaming in ornate Catholic churches, and roaming unspoiled forests and swamps. Artist StatementRyals’ artist practice examines the internalized power objects and design hold over us, and how mythmaking, ornamentation, and special effects can serve as tools for manipulation. Utilizing the dichotomies of natural/artificial, trash/treasure, sacred/profane, and luxury/kitsch within her work, she emulates material culture artifacts to investigate how value is manufactured. By creating mixed media sculptures, lens-based work, wearable art, and site-specific or immersive installations, she seeks to understand how the cultural currencies of authenticity, taste, and illusion are used to generate an economy of perceived value and hierarchy within our world. Her recent work has been specifically concerned with the relationship between waste and desire. Employing speculative fiction to create specimens and artifacts, she turns our attention to the unbridled mass production and consumption that has led to a culture of casual anthropogenic waste accumulation. ________ Brazilian artist, Tarik Mendes hosts Tarik Talk, a podcast committed to the art world. Listen in to unique interviews with talented guests artists, dealers, curators and more. At times with other talented guests from the music, acting, journalism industries. Find out the magic of art and its way of connecting us all! Check out @tariktalk for images of the guests and their works from each episode. Also follow @tarikmendes for his latest adventures! @tariktalk @tarikmendes Podcast available on all streaming platforms! Download today! @tariktalk @tarikmendes

Caroline Amond is an emerging visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University in 2019 and a MFA in Art from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2024. Caroline has exhibited in an assortment of exhibitions across New York (Powerhouse Arts, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery) and has received multiple awards (Morris Dorsky and Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship) for her artistic contributions. Her work was featured on Artnet’s “Best Work of 2024: 11 Standouts We Saw Globally.” Amond’s bold paintings challenge conventional beauty standards and provoke viewers to decode the layered symbolism and iconography imbues within each work. She focuses on allegorical themes and prioritizes the female gaze, while also reflecting on the post-internet culture in which she was raised.StatementMy paintings reimagine the historical tradition of the Venus figure through a contemporary lens. I coin the figures in my work “Oppositional Venuses”, reclaiming agency in a visual lineage where they were often rendered passive and ornamental. My work explores how the female experience is shaped and distorted through post-internet culture. I’m particularly interested in how digital spaces, especially image-based platforms, affect how femininity is constructed, performed, and consumed. Through painting, I examine the tension between hyper-visibility and objectification, self-display and self-possession. Drawing from art history, online aesthetics, and symbolic language, my paintings collapse flattened space with dense visual references, creating a surface that mirrors the saturated, disorienting quality of digital life. These works serve as a site for questioning beauty, power, and agency in an image-obsessed culture.

About Stephanie Norberg INSTALLATION: I’m interested in creating environments that reference pop-culture, questions the notions of value of worth, talks about the DIY culture many young artists across the nation are embracing, the relevance of wonder and phenomena while we are existing in an ever increasing digitally-driven world, and the general notion of spirituality and self-identification within the framework of a contemporary culture. Within these environments I create fragments of subcultures spanning time from historical to contemporary movements. These subcultures date back to Native Americans; embracing spirituality, mysticism, and transcendentalism to current movements occurring in music culture such as; trance, electronic, and Witch House. These fragments of already existing subcultures work together to talk about the human condition for the need to identify within a group and are also self-reflexive of my own personal narrative and interests.

Spring Break Art Show NYC Bianca J Abdi-Boragi, Laurie Berg, Christl Stringer & Adam Hersko-RonatasSPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused, atypical, and historic New York City and Los Angeles exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week New York and Frieze Week LA. The 14th Edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York City and 6th Edition of SPRING/BREAK LA will both premiere in 2025.