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Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated, medium-driven fair, returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 during September 2024’s Armory Art Week with 75 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. The fair’s tenth edition will showcase unique and powerful projects curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, with a focus on can’t-miss performances highlighting the creative potential of paper.

Over the past 17 years, Michele Mariaud has consistently sought to make art buying a smooth, enjoyable and straightforward experience. The Michele Mariaud Gallery provides an art fair type of encounter for clients, who range from budding art enthusiasts to seasoned collectors. The 2000 square foot gallery showcases a large inventory of more than 300 directly accessible artworks, with rotating exhibitions every six weeks. The gallery is set in a Soho loft where a series of salons create a unique ambience. Michele readily shares her passion and expertise. With her relaxed persona, she guides her clients and promotes discussion about the works. She enjoys sharing anecdotes about her artists and their processes. Many of Michele’s artists – both well-known and emerging - are exclusive to her gallery. She proudly notes that her artists are prolific while imbuing all their work with an equal amount of passion, soul, spirit and skill. The gallery exhibits in many international fairs throughout the year, including: Pulse Miami during Art Basel; Art Palm Springs; Scope, Art on Paper and Affordable Art Fair in New York City; Market Art + Design in Bridgehampton; Art Toronto; Fotofever Paris; Art Paris; Art Brussels; Hong Kong Art Fair; and Singapore Art Fair.

Founded by Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly in 2009, The They Co. creative supergroup has organized, curated, facilitated and produced events with the New Museum, Brooklyn College, Art Hamptons, Flux Factory, Collective Show, Nuit Blanche New York, Silvershed, The Metric System, The Underground Library, Gowanus Studio Space, and numerous other community-based arts organizations. In May of 2011 and 2013, the group organized the SCHOOL NITE exhibition event for the New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City, and in September 2011 intercepted the city's San Gennaro Festival with a 90-foot sculptural interpretation of the Roman oculus, created by SOFTlab. Under the gender-melding moniker BOYFRIENDGIRLFRIEND, Gori and Kelly have collaborated on several formal projects, most recently their ongoing SIGHTSEERS photographic series since 2016. In 2017, SPRING/BREAK launched it's biannual IMMERSIVE program, with large-scale sculptural installations at a mall for the BKYLN IMMERSIVE in May 2017, followed by TIMES SQUARE IMMERSIVE, a Times Square Plaza takeover with monumental sculptures created onsite in each public plaza of Times Square in March 2019, and UPSTATE IMMERSIVE in 2021 with ten unique sculptures to create a sculpture garden in Poughkeepsie, NY during Upstate Arts Weekend. And another OLD SCHOOL IMMERSIVE Secret Show during Frieze Week in May. Gori and Kelly have new projects forming in the film and tv landscape and in the published written word in 2024 with collaborations upcoming with The Portland Museum of Art & more.

Fremin Gallery is an art gallery founded in 2007, dedicated to a contemporary program that now represents more than a dozen emerging and mid-career artists. Committed to presenting primarily photographic work, the Gallery also embraces oeuvres from across all media, including painting, sculpture, and installation. Since its inception, the Gallery has launched and fostered the careers of an eclectic group of artists, providing many of them with their first solo exhibitions in New York and, for some, their respective debuts in the United States. The distinctive signs of Fremin Gallery are proposals that invite to think about society and the individual, maintaining a close look at the soulful engagement of each artist’s approach to their medium. There is strong cross-pollination between subjects ranging from identity and spirituality, space, architecture, design, and, last but not least, technology. We believe both form and content are vital factors in successfully aestheticizing the ‘real,’ which makes for the discovery of talented and committed artists. Our space in the heart of New York’s most popular gallery district acts as an unconventional intercultural agent, fully encouraging the realization of the artists’ provocative visions. The works we showcase share a deep commitment to the exploration and revelation of the essential values that underlie contemporary society. Each of them draws from a rich cultural heritage to develop a style and a visual language that is both powerful and universal. It is the Gallery’s vision to sustain the artists’ freedom of expression by exhibiting them in a setting that is fertile for both the artist and the collector alike. The robust nurturing of an active, creative environment in a neighborhood historically known for its artistic engagements solidifies the Gallery’s mission to continue building an identity centered on the idea of an exigent ‘now’, paradoxically freed from a rigid canon of spatial and temporal demands, but always sensitive to an ever-evolving dynamic between art and an increasingly educated and inquisitive public. Since its inception, the Gallery has successfully maintained a rigorous exhibition schedule that features more than eight rotating exhibitions by our artists each year. As each artist continues to refine their voice, the expanding collection of ideas evolves, exponentially multiplying its reach. Alongside its internal programming, the Gallery places great importance on supporting its artists through fostering dialogue and relationships with public institutions, private foundations, museums, and commissioning bodies.

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture. 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!

About Treat Gallery:treat gallery has a proven track record of helping others through contemporary art. We partner with like-minded professionals and businesses with a shared goal of making the contemporary art field more honest and tangible. We participate in major art fairs, provide scholarships, portfolio reviews, and have a couple pop-up exhibitions a year. treat gallery is not a non-profit organization, and we do not accept direct donations, but with every project or pop-up show, we donate 15%-100% of proceeds to a various cause or non-profit.

The founders of Start Shows met at the art drop off for Septemberfest Art exhibition at One Art Space Gallery, in TriBeca NYC in September 2018. Sophocles Plokamakis an NYC artist, published illustrator and author, was curating the show and Thais Coelho Plokamakis was one of the featured Artists, a painter from Brazil. After 5 more shows at One Art Space, Thais and Sophocles formed Start Shows, a company that creates art exhibitions for artists from around the World in NYC Galleries. Since then Thais and Sophocles have helped 400+ artists exhibit and sell their art in New York Galleries and network with collectors, curators, gallerists and fellow artists of many disciplines and backgrounds. Thais and Sophocles are Art teachers having taught artists of all ages how to draw and paint for many years. They are also Art Coaches and can help you become a full time artist and take your art game to the next level.

Meet Samella, a seasoned veteran with over 20 years of experience in the ​hospitality industry, now leading the charge in service and innovation. With a ​proven track record of delivering exceptional results and an unstoppable drive, ​she's reshaping hospitality and affordable tourism through her brainchild, BLCK ​(pronounced 'block').Through innovative technology, Samella is transforming the way people travel, ​connect, and explore the world around us. Her mission? Unlocking a lifestyle of ​'bleisure' for all.But Samella's impact goes beyond entrepreneurship; it's rooted in empowering ​others to integrate technology into their daily lives. Her journey as a tech ​founder showcases her unmatched skills and unwavering commitment to ​uplifting her community.Join her as she spearheads a movement towards a more inclusive, empowered ​tomorrow!

Keilley Banks is an emerging visual artist whose vivid and evocative creations aim to represent the world and people around her. Now based in Brooklyn, her nomadic upbringing ignited a profound fascination with the concept of identity, which she carries through her work.Keilley cultivates a distinctive portrait style characterized by vibrant hues, intricate detailing, and compelling symbolism. Her work is a visual narrative—a canvas where the Black community takes center stage, and the threads of race, class, gender, and sexuality interweave to form a complex tapestry of human experience.

Artist Statement:My photography incorporates a wide range of earthly tones, such as brownish hues that are similar to the color of dirt or soil. It can also allude to natural hues like brown dirt, green leaves, a foggy sky, and a red sun. Consider the following colors: rust, marigold, deep blue, burned sienna brown, terracotta, sage, turmeric, and turmeric. These hues are warm and welcoming, and they frequently contain brownish undertones. Even these vivid hues have a dull tint to them that gives them a pleasant and restful sense. The color palette to the left are the tones used to edit most of my pictures. This palette was named after the striking elements of South Asia.

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Maria Sardi is a mixed media artist who is inspired by vintage magazines, photographs and comics. Through her eclectic style, she creates detailed pieces with bold colors and eye-catching designs that highlights her passion for complexity. She strays away from simplicity because she is not a simple person.

From the artist:“My name’s Kristi Hoag, and I’m an aspiring photographer. I love to take nature and street photography because I believe the city I live in is beautiful in its own way. I love to show the world moments in time I’ve captured that make me feel grateful for where I am today and what I experience. My photography has evolved over time, and I’m grateful for all the opportunities I may receive in the future.”

Fabien Dettori (b. 1971) is a French painter and a photographer who merges the boundary of the two seamlessly. In his artworks, he conveys complex emotions. Being raised by his painter mother and a photographer father, Dettori was naturally drawn to the integration of the two mediums.Dettori started his career as a photojournalist. He then worked in various photography studios, collaborating with esteemed photographers such as Paolo Roversi, Jean Paul Goude, and Dominique Issermann. He explored his possibilities in fashion photography, where he became familiar with capturing figures. With this extraordinary experience, he felt the desire to create more expressive works. He now dedicates his full time to his artistic projects at the boundaries between photography and painting.

Moses Ros is a Dominican-American sculptor, painter, and printmaker who lives and works in the Bronx. Ros has created large-scale public art commissions for the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Bronx Council for the Arts, and New York City Housing Authority, plus stained-glass windows for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Ros has had solo exhibitions at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York, the Paterson Museum in New Jersey, the Bronx Museum, and El Instituto de Cultura y Arte in Santiago, Dominican Republic. ​Artwork by Ros is held in corporate and public collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and El Museo del Barrio. Ros is a member of the artist collectives Dominican York Proyecto Gráfica (DYPG) and ArteLatAm. Ros studied printmaking at Bronx Printmakers and has worked in some major printmaking workshops in New York City such as The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Lower East Side Printshop, and The Manhattan Graphic Center. Ros earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute.

Pedro Felipe Vintimilla is an artist, educator, and cultural advocate whose practice is deeply rooted in art making, art education, and cultural care. Born in Ecuador and based in Queens - NY, his work reflects personal explorations of cultural identity, immigration, gender, and belonging.​Pedro's work has been showcased in several notable exhibitions. In 2021, he was featured at the Queens Museum in "Art As Social Action: 10 Years of Social Practice Queens." In 2022, he participated in a group show at the Museo de Arte de Nogales, Mexico, titled "Ruta de Paso: Transcultural Landscape at the Gates of Mexico," and had a solo exhibition at Casa Del Artista in Cuenca, Ecuador. In 2012, Pedro founded a creative laboratory for adults to experiment with artistic processes. This led to a focus on community-engaged projects with organizations - in South America and the U.S. - developing art and cultural programs. He also served as Head of National Programs for a non-profit organization offering free art classes in libraries across nine cities in the U.S.​Additionally, Pedro has contributed to research and advisory roles. In 2022, he participated as an advisor for “The Art of Engagement,” a research project organized by Middlesex University London and Tate Exchange, aimed at improving the teaching of Social Practice through collaboration between higher education and cultural institutions. He also participated as a faculty fellow at Social Practice CUNY and served on the New York State Council on the Arts - NYSCA - arts education advisory panel for 2022-23 and 2023-24.​Pedro Felipe Vintimilla is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art Education at City College of New York and Queens College – CUNY, and of Studio Art at Connecticut State Community College, Norwalk.

Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While at the Academy, Sanchez was awarded the 2014 New York Academy of Art Post-Graduate Fellowship. He has been selected for artist residencies in China, Dominican Republic, and Venice and has been featured in VOGUE Italia, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Drawing Magazine, and Fine Art Connoisseur. Sanchez has been in solo and group exhibitions in New York, China, and Italy including an exhibition in Venice during the 2015 Venice Biennale. Sanchez currently lives and works in New York City.

Jodey Kerr at Modrn Earth Gallery at Art On Paper Art Fair 2024 NYCThe Modrn Earth Gallery, located in downtown Lake Orion. We set out with one intention: to bring luxury local. Our gallery showcases a unique blend of contemporary art that transitions seamlessly from contemporary to traditional spaces without ever skipping a beat.

Denise Adler sets out to create portraits and dreamscapes that express the mythic and legendary. Representative of the artist’s personal reaction to the world around her, in empathy, apprehension or disbelief. Both personal and archetypical these pieces are memorializing a moment in time. Her most recent solo show “In Quintessence” examined identity and it’s reflection in contemporary culture-the multifaceted connections between the internal; external and virtual, distilled into hybrid creations that illustrate a deeper sense of social reality.Pictor is an affiliate gallery to the innovative virtual platform ArtSpeak Collective, which was created for emerging and established artists in 2020 as a response to the global coronavirus. In a single year, ArtSpeak Collective produced six online events, earned 500 subscribers, logged 1,500 viewers on YouTube, and worked with 55 artists. As physical gallery space reopened in New York City, the move to create Pictor was a natural one. Located in the Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, Manhattan, Pictor sponsors monthly group and solo exhibitions, discussion groups and other programs to foster a more intimate and community-building experience within the New York gallery scene.

Uprise Art is a contemporary art gallery for the next generation of art collectors. Based in New York City, the gallery exhibits works from today’s best emerging artists across a wide range of mediums.

Elizabeth Bergeland (b.1983) grew up in Wyoming and Colorado and earned her BFA in painting alongside Anthropology from the University of Colorado in 2006. Bergeland keeps a studio in Philadelphia, PA.Combining figurative realism with abstracted or imagined elements and spaces, her work talks with the use of symbolism. She has a strong desire to suspend the question- to allow it to sit. To get comfortable with questions not needing to be answered. Bergeland has a strong desire to enlarge the social narrative; specifically surrounding our ideas surrounding the way we think about masculinity and femininity. Bergeland has exhibited nationally and had her first solo exhibition in 2022. Her, work has been featured in Create Magazine, Friend of the Artist, Philadelphia Magazine, 1st Look TV, Artit Magazine, Root Quarterly, The Visionary Projects, Fuerteventura Times, and Design Sponge. She is the illustrator of the children’s books, Being Edie is Hard Today (2019), and The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection (2021), with publisher Little,Brown and Company. The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection received a Kirkus Star review, an NPR review, was listed among “The 10 Best Children’s Books of 2021” by Smithsonian Magazine, and her illustrations were selected by the Society of Illustrators Museum for their annual “Original Art Show”. She lives with her husband and three children.

Sarah Angèle Wilson is a Canadian sculptor and illustrator based in Brooklyn. She combines mass-produced objects with natural forms in an effort to create a comparison of utility and beauty. Her current work is informed by the glossy bright colored plastic of the 90’s. This influence is at odds with the meticulously hand crafted process and finish of her work. Sarah’s work aims to understand and translate nature's forms and compare it with our own.

Christine Romanell’s art practice navigates infinity through intricate, ever-expanding circular patterns. Inspired by the golden ratio and sacred geometry, her work represents the relationship between order and the limitless. She translates digital drawings into sculptures and paintings, using techniques like laser-cutting and 3D printing. Colorful gradients guide viewers through layered forms, alluding to the unseen. Based in New Jersey, Romanell, in addition to her studio work, serves as board president at Manufacturers Village Artists space in East Orange and is the organizer for Garden State Art Weekend. Her work has been featured on the Smithsonian Channel and discussed in Hyperallergic, Juxapoz, MIT Technology Review, White Hot Magazine and Art and Cake. She is a recipient of an NEA grant for her work through Chashama in NYC. Christine Romanell received a 2022 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work in held in the private collection of Pat Bell alongside Tom Nussbaum and Willie Cole and the collection of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Her BFA is from the School of Visual Arts (NYC) and her MFA is from Montclair State University (Montclair NJ.)

Marcus Civin is a founder of New Urban Arts, a nonprofit art center for high school students in Providence, Rhode Island. His writing has appeared in Afterimage, AIGA Eye on Design, Artforum, Art Papers, Aufgabe, Boston Art Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Camera Austria, Clementine, Damn Magazine, Maake Magazine, Memoir Mixtapes, Momus, Nerve Lantern, and Southwest Contemporary. Exhibition and performance venues include St. Charles Projects, School 33 Art Center, Boston Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Station Gallery at University of Southern California, and UMASS University Hall Gallery.

Contrasting the global, pandemic-enforced trend of living life through technology instead in person, Matthew Couper's exploration of what social isolation might look like starts from an island in the middle of the ocean. For the artist, desert islands and desert proper are both metaphors for survival and reflect a bigger picture of what survival means on the scale of the world and humanity as a whole, and how we live (or don’t live) in interdependency with others in a society.‘Couper is an artist with a Kafkaesque view of the world’ - art critic John SeedCouper's art, spurred on by hostile desert dwelling, oscillate between didactic talismans of impending anthropocenic doom to more insular and psychological spaces. Paintings describe desert mesa psycho-scapes and murky sea-surrounded islands, presided over hovering tools of survival and make-shift shelter, all while reveling in aesthetic constructive chaos. This psychological space, both in the artist’s mind and on the painted surface, is the opposite of a specific location. They are an amalgam of places past and present - vistas of a homemade paradise constantly in flux.Much like Couper’s homeland set on the Pacific Ring of Fire, even the islands and headlands are subject to change, distortion and relocation due to continuing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The term ‘desert island’ reconnects his two homes back together in paint.Matthew Couper is an Aotearoa/New Zealand born artists living and working in the USA.

Christina Welzer is a Korean-American interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, where she is currently a member of Flower Shop Collective, a studio and art hub that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Her work addresses the conflict and connection between beauty and rage, and is inspired by the practice of burying loud, ugly emotions beneath a smooth, sleek surface.All projects are centered around a process-oriented, illustrative core that join to create hypnotic, hybrid experiences. Her works have been exhibited at Tunnel Projects for Miami Art Week, Focus Art Fair NYC, and published on Far-Near, Artsy.net, Chinatown Futures Vol. 1,2 and AAP Association Vol. 9. She received her BFA from Cornell University in May of 2019.

Mustafa Mohsin, MFA Class of 2024, draws from his experiences growing up in Lahore, Pakistan though oil paintings that examine identity and culture.

Testudo believes in an art world where everyone has the ability to participate. They created their company to support a healthy ecosystem for studio artists at a critical juncture in their career. Inspired by the passion of our own journey as art collectors, Testudo was created to allow new and experienced collectors to connect with a survey of artists working today. Through extensive content and a digital model that favors transparency and accessibility, they seek to overcome traditional barriers of exclusivity.

Mimi O Chun is an artist whose soft sculptures reveal the ironies and inequities inherent to a late-capitalist economy. She recasts and re-contextualizes iconography borrowed from consumerist culture to create works that vacillate between parody and pastiche. Mimi works primarily in fabric, incorporating finishing techniques such as appliqué and embroidery to render objects in painstaking detail.Mimi earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and her Master of Fine Art from Yale School of Art. Her work has been published by Fast Company, Bon Appétit, White Zinfandel, Gather Journal, Makeshift magazine, and Princeton Architectural Press. Her first solo museum exhibition, Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake, was held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from 2021-2022. Mimi lives and works in New York City.

Anna Krieps at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC Booth 53 (Season 7, Episode 2)

Vincent Arcilesi + India Evans AHA Fine Art Gallery at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC

Yoshie Sakai at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC Booth 72 @yoshie_saki_studio

Sophocles Plokamakis an NYC artist, published illustrator and author, one of the founders of Start Shows Art exhibition at One Art Space Gallery, in TriBeca NYC founded in 2018.After 5 more shows at One Art Space, Thais and Sophocles formed Start Shows, a company that creates art exhibitions for artists from around the World in NYC Galleries.Since then, co-founders Thais Coelho Plokamakis and Sophocles Plokamakis have helped 400+ artists exhibit and sell their art in New York Galleries and network with collectors, curators, gallerists and fellow artists of many disciplines and backgrounds.Thais and Sophocles are Art teachers having taught artists of all ages how to draw and paint for many years. They are also Art Coaches and can help you become a full time artist and take your art game to the next level.

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture.

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture.

Malik Muhammad Tricoche b.(1996) is a Puerto Rican-American artist raised in New York. In 2016 he studied painting and sculpture at the Academia Di Belle Arte in Venice, Italy and in 2018 graduated from the Boston University School of Visual Arts inspiring the very first SVA Character Award representing the values and ideals of the school. In 2019 he founded Guayaba Gallery in Union City, NJ— going on to curate and exhibit shows like “Guayaba01” and “6FT FROM YOU” while working with the Themendous sculpture team on installations for the 2019 MET Gala, NYC fashion week and the Museum of Sex. In 2022 he featured his first solo exhibition with Chashama in Chelsea, New York.

As you may have guessed it, Raissa Mendes is Tarik's sister. Originally from Brazil, she has lived and traveled around the world and today calls Shenzhen, China her home, with her french husband, two cats and a house full of plants. Raissa is a marketing professional, entrepreneur, RTY200 yoga teacher. In this episode, Raissa and Tarik talk about their bond as siblings, upbringings in Brazil, moving to America in the early 2000s, and what it is like to live in China.

Jonathan Levine Projects is committed to new and cutting edge art. Our roots go back to 1995 when LeVine's life-long participation in punk and underground music grew into a curatorial experiment with the visual culture that surrounded him. In 2005, he opened Jonathan LeVine Gallery in the Chelsea district of New York City and had great success nurturing the careers of many celebrated artists.In 2017, the gallery relocated to Jersey City with a newfound focus on community and collaboration. The newly named Jonathan LeVine Projects aims to create engaging programs and interesting partnerships beyond the traditional gallery space. With an eye towards honoring and connecting with the history and context of Post War art, Jonathan LeVine Projects explores the terrain of the high/low and everything in between.

Michael Casalinho, a Jersey City restaurateur, chef and entrepreneur sits down to discuss his passion for food, cooking, travel, his entrepreneurship journey and much more!

Born in Minneapolis, MN, painter Thomas John Carlson holds a BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design and earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art where he also stayed on as a fellow. Living in the NYC area for the last 12 years, he founded the Jersey City Art School in 2009. He shows his works around Jersey City, Eden Rock Gallery in St Barthelemy, and group shows around Manhattan. His work ranges from mid-sized oils that deal with surrealistic subject matters with impressionistic use of color and opacity, and smaller works from his travels. Residencies include travels to St. Barths, Italy, Istanbul as well as sites in the Rocky mountains and Vermont.

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Kyle Hamilton Fine Art was founded in 2016. Catering to wide range of clientele, providing a comprehensive range of services for individual collectors and corporate collections. Offering clients tailored services to maximize personal, cultural, and financial returns.

Heidi Jahr Kirkeby is a Norwegian visual artist. She is educated at Vika School of Art and Nydalen School of Art in Oslo. She mainly works with nature abstractions with acrylics on canvas.Her artistic goal is to create interacting atmospheres by expressing her personal interpretations of nature. She aims to highlight the meditative value of nature in today’s hectic society. In a deeper sense the atmospheres in her paintings can be interpreted as her personal moods.During her artist residency at eskff she will explore the art of Helen Frankenthaler and use the inspiration in her own nature abstractions.

June Sira was educated at the Oslo National Academy Of The Art where she studied painting, printmaking and sculpture from 1985 to1992. She has a Master of Fine Art in painting from Chelsea School Of Art, 1999/2000. After graduation she was selected for the UBS Art Award and received the national winner prize from a jury including Sir Nicholas Serota. Her work has been purchased by museums and institutions and she exhibits regularly. In June Sira's paintings we meet people of ambiguous age in portraits or tableaus that are fabulistic, symbolic or fragments of a story. She paints with tempera or pigments and rabbit skin glue directly on canvas. A classic technique where she expresses a contemporary sensibility.

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Teena Soni is a New Jersey based artist working within the traditional Indian-Miniature painting in a contemporary art setting. Her training belongs to the artistic region of Udaipur, Rajasthan where she apprenticed with both her grandfather, Badri Lal Chitrakar, the renowned Indian-Miniature painter and National Award /Shilp Guru Award recipient, and her father, artist Shri Sharad Soni. The rigorous training infused her natural abilities with the rich ancestral content of traditional artistry. Teena considers the historic art of Pichwai paintings as a base premise for taking heritage forward with added subtle contemporary component. Her mediums include cotton fabric or handmade paper, and prepared hand-made colors from plant extracts with natural stones that are traditional Indian methods. These natural dyes give a vibrancy to the paintings through time and keep them alive for hundreds of years. Soni’s work has been exhibited at Kanoria Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India, Visual Art Center, Summit NJ, Pelham Art center, NY and in New Delhi. Her work has been featured in HYPERALLERGIC, Dainik Bhaskar and Rajasthan Patrika.

Shakirra Torain Is A Creative Director, Producer, & Brand Director, PR Dedicated To Helping Creative Entrepreneurs In The Fashion, Beauty, And Luxury Industry Become Successful In Their Respective Career Field. During High School Shakirra Torain Was Accepted Into A Paid 4 Year Internship As A Graphic Designer & Intern For Marc Ecko Enterprises’ Sweat Equity Enterprises; Founded By Marc Ecko, Damon Bulter & Nell Daniel. At Sweat Equity Enterprises She Worked With Brands Such As Nissan, Timex, Britton Creative, Dr. Miracles, Saks Fifth Ave, Complex Magazine, Ecko Red, New Era, Sketchers, Frog Design, Radio-Shack & More. She Has Been Featured In New York Times, Complex Magazine, Good Morning America, Surface Magazine & CBS News. In College She Began To Work As A Freelance Production Manager & Assistant For Companies Like STYLE Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, Manhattan Productions, Fifth Planet Films, Mythic Bridge, & The Mustache Agency. After Achieving Her Degree In Computer Arts & Media Arts; She Created Her Own Business Named Torain Republic. Torain Republic Is A Creative Management + Production Agency Which Helps Clients And Artists Build Their Brand, Event Or Media Production. Shakirra Torain Has Worked With Celebrity Fashion Designers Such As Marc Bouwer, Adrian Alicea, Reuel Matthews, Henry Picado, Danny Apolonio, Cesar Galindo & Claudinette Jean , Fashion Stylists Such As Latoya Mcleary, Celebrity Fashion Photographer & HMUA Anthony Isambert, Style Fashion Week Beauty Director Edwin Candelaria, Fashion Models Such As Dominique Jackson From Pose On Fox, Mimi Tao From Project Runway, CEO Of Street Fashion Week Naomi Alabi , Actress & Celebrity Media Personality Lulu Lopez & Big Vegg From Roc Runna Press.

ARTIST STATEMENTI am interested in capturing a sense of shifting time and space in my work. I want it to not quite inhabit the known world but be more like a dreaming space where meaningful and whimsical fragments of the day happen to have washed up. In this space, elements melt into one another - feelings into ice-cream, sea markers into volcanoes, London Underground tiles into lochs, colourful plastic wrappers, and road signs into a mill-pond-like sea.I keep returning to waves in my work. Not just sea waves but waves as a metaphor for building tension. I see these building tensions everywhere, in the state of the world, in people around me, in my own head, and in the mundanity of day-to-day life. Thinking about a rising tide in a literal and metaphorical sense. I like to imagine what is going on under the surface of the paintings, in the same way that sometimes the most interesting things in life are what is left unsaid.Most of my practice is painting, as the joy and liquidity of this medium allow me to explore my imagined world whilst creating it. Sometimes, however, a work lands more solidly in my brain that demands to be sculpted or videoed. Like my diverse inspirations, there is no hierarchy of mediums here, but more a utilising of different senses to explore my thought process.

As an African conceptual artist, author and life coach, my artwork focuses on consciousness, spiritual science, human, self and personal development, self-leadership, critical thinking and identity: including other multidisciplinary subjects. My work explores how we humans relate to the world around us, our connection to the universe, and what interventions we can take in our environment in order to live in harmony, within and without. Presenting subjects as variable as the effects of armed conflict, and self-leadership my work renders familiar visual signs, and I use different materials through the media of painting in a stylized form, FOTO collage, sculpting, film and performance. I also use installations that are conceptually built using different materials and forms. As a result, my work which is mainly experiential and research based, new ideas arise, which lead to the next production of art work.

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.