Openings Fall Exhibition 2013 Artists

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

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THIRTY SEVEN
ARTISTS

THECURATORS
FOSTERING CONVERSATION THROUGH ART
KEENA GONZALEZ
www.keenagonzalez.com
Keena was raised just outside of Los Angeles moved to New York City in
2000 in order to aggressively pursue her work as a photographer. Since
relocating she’s not only had the opportunity to further develop her
commercial portfolio but she’s discovered a way to expand and
transform her personal body of work which has been in the making since
the mid 1990’s.
In 2008 Keena earned her BFA from the School of Visual arts,
graduating with honors from SVA, twice receiving the Special
Photography Award Scholarship. During her tenure at SVA her
photographs were featured in a number of group shows and in 2007 she
worked as a part time assistant in the studio of renowned photographer
Annie Leibovitz.
Recently Keena became involved with the collective known as Openings
where she serves on the governing body of the group. In both 2012 and
2013 she acted as co-curator of two group shows held inside the historic
church of St Paul The Apostle - one of the oldest living churches in
Manhattan.
In addition to curating, and being twice awarded a scholarship to attend
the Lake George artist residency, she has continued to have her
photographs shown in a number of galleries including but not limited to
A.I.R. Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery, Fowler Arts Gallery and Callahan
Center Gallery all of which are located in New York.

THECURATORS
FOSTERING CONVERSATION THROUGH ART
MICHAEL BERUBE
www.michaelberube.net
Michael Berube was born in Endicott, New York.
He moved to NYC in 1980 where he still lives
and works. He earned his BFA Summa cum
Laude from Hunter College in 2007 and his
MFA, also from Hunter College, in 2010. During
his time at Hunter College he was the recipient
of many awards including the Graf Grant, the
Tom Woods Award, The Sommerville Art Prize,
and the David and Sadie Klau Fellowship. He
was also the 2010 Hunter College nominee for
the Joan Mitchell Graduate Studies Award. He
has had multiple exhibitions in New York, both
group and solo, including exhibitions with the
artist collective Openings on whose governing
body he serves. He has work in the permanent
collection of the Church of Saint Paul the
Apostle. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant
Professor at Hunter College.

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Eric Dalzen
www.ericdalzen.com
Erik Dalzen (b. 1983) is a Brooklyn based artist.
His work combines absence and presence to
create photographs, sculptures, drawings and
videos concerned with human experience and
the unknown. He received an M.F.A. from
Hunter College and a B.F.A. from Brigham
Young University. Dalzen has recently exhibited
at New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia; hpgrp
gallery, NY; Aviary Gallery, MA; Humble Arts
Foundation, MA; Ugly Art Room, NY. He has
recently published several books Horrible
Bodies (2013), Sixty-Fifth Street and Columbus
Avenue (2011) and One Hundred Lies and One
Truth (2011).

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Janna Dyk
www.jannadyk.com
Born in Los Angeles and raised in the
Pacific Northwest, Janna Dyk's present
base in New York has proved fruitful to her
work in interdisciplinary collaboration,
photography, sound, installation, writing,
and drawing. Currently pursuing a Master
in Fine Arts at Hunter College, she is a
graduate of Asbury University, has studied
at the School of Visual Arts in New York
City, and completed an artist residency in
Beijing, China, with Art International
Residency Projects. She is the former
Center Coordinator at the New York Center
for Art & Media Studies (NYCAMS), and
was the Collaborative Visual Arts Curator
for the 2012 Chelsea Music Festival, which
included, among other shows, curating
OPEN CAGE: NEW YORK, a 75-person
performance at Eyebeam Center for Art +
Technology, [ON SILENCE], a group
exhibition at NYCAMS, and Silence, an
interdisciplinary collaborative performance
at the Rubin Museum of Art. She has
exhibited her work nationally.

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Seldon Yuan
www.seldonyuan.com
Seldon Yuan received a BHA at Carnegie
Mellon University and his MFA at Hunter
College. His art has been exhibited
nationally and internationally in various
galleries and venues including the MoMA in
New York, International Center of
Photography, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art,
Arario Gallery, Rare Gallery, La Generale in
Paris, Gallerie 69 in Oslo, Norway, Around
Space in Shanghai, and the Museum of
New Art in Detroit. He has also completed a
commission for Socrates Sculpture Park in
New York City and is currently included in
the Bronx Museum of Art AIM Biennial.

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Samantha Holmes
www.samantha-holmes.com
Samantha Holmes is an artist based in New
York and Ravenna, Italy who focuses on
conceptual and material experimentation in the
medium of mosaic. Her work has been exhibited
internationally, including at the ARTPLAY Design
Center (Moscow), the Moti Hasson Gallery (New
York), and the International Festival of
Contemporary Mosaic (Ravenna). In 2011, she
represented Italy at the European project Les
Langages du Bleu in Paris and was recipient of
the International GAEM Art Prize (Young Artists
and Mosaic) from the Museum of the City of
Ravenna, which holds her work within its
permanent collection. She is the founder of
design mind and editor of SoloMosaico, the
leading international journal on contemporary
mosaic. A graduate of Harvard College (Visual
and Environmental Studies, 2006), she is
presently a Master’s candidate at the
Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna.

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Chris Leib
www.chrisleib.com
Born in the San Francisco Bay Area and now
living and working in New York, Chris Leib has
exhibited his artwork across the United States,
in Berlin and across France. Leib’s art has been
positively reviewed in the San Francisco
Examiner, Kunst Magazin (Berlin), Hi-Fructose
Magazine and Huffington Post to name just a
few, and his work has been published in the De
Young Museum’s Members Guide. He holds a
BA from UC Berkeley and has studied art at San
Francisco State University and the Academy of
Art in San Francisco. Leib has twice been an
Artist in Residence at the De Young Museum in
San Francisco and has received competitive
grants from the George Sugarman Foundation
and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He
has had a solo exhibition at SFMoMA, and his
most recent solo exhibition “Becoming
Worthwhile” was exhibited at Cain Schulte
Contemporary Art in Berlin. Leib’s work can be
found in important public and private collections
in the United States and Europe.

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Summer McCorkle
www.summermccorkle.com
Summer McCorkle is an artist creating work in
multiple mediums with an emphasis on the still
and moving image. Ms. McCorkle has shown
her work in New York, San Francisco,
Guadalajara, The Berkshire Museum in
Massachusetts and The National Portrait
Gallery in London. In 2013, she received a
Marian Naumburg Fellowship in photography at
the MacDowell Colony. She also participated in
the AIM program in conjunction with the Bronx
Museum and was included in the exhibition
Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial at
Wave Hill. Ms. McCorkle holds a Master in Fine
Arts from Hunter College and a BA in
Photography from San Francisco State
University. She was born and raised in
Wisconsin and currently resides in Brooklyn,
New York.

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Eric Jaiju Lee
www.ericleeart.com
Eric Jiaju Lee earned his Master of Fine
Arts degree at Hunter College in New York
City where he has been residing for over
the past two decades. Based in Brooklyn,
New York, Lee also works in Beijing, China
where he has established a studio practice
in recent years. Lee exhibits regularly both
locally and abroad, with works belonging to
international private and corporate
collections. The recipient of numerous
awards and honors, Lee is currently an
adjunct professor of fine arts at Hunter
College of the City University of New York,
Art Institute of New York City and at Hudson
County Community College in Jersey City,
New Jersey. Lee is also an independent
curator and guest lecturer at museums and
institutions in the greater New York area.
Best known for his work as an abstract
painter Lee has recently been expanding
into various other media such as figurative
drawings, collage, sculpture, art video and
sound art.

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Ariel Zakarison
www.arielzakarison.com
Ariel Zakarison was raised on a farm in
Eastern Washington State near the city of
Pullman. She obtained her BA from
Western Washington University in
Bellingham in 2009, with an Interdisciplinary
Concentration from Fairhaven College in
integrated art, printmaking and animation.
She currently attends Hunter College in
Manhattan, New York where she is earning
her MFA in painting, printmaking and works
on paper and where she will be completing
her thesis in December 2013. Miss
Zakarison currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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Ori Carino
www.armascarino.com
Ori G. Carino was born in a Houston Street loft in
downtown Manhattan, NYC (1982). He was raised within
the Lower East Side art-movement of the 80’s, living in a
functioning gallery on Houston street until he was seven.
When he was five he painted with Keith Herring, which
lead him to start writing Graffiti. At age 13 Carino’s street
art brought him to attend programs at Parson’s and
Cooper Union before being offered a scholarship to
attend the studio program for painting and installation at
the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in
Boston. During this time Carino became a respected
muralist and painted numerous public and private
murals, along with commissioned paintings and
garments. He received the prestigious NYC Studio
program grant award along with two special grants from
the office of the Dean (SMFA). After graduating in 2005
he relocated to New York City from where he currently
works and lives. He has exhibited in group shows in
NYC, Boston, West Palm Beach, Miami, Dallas, San
Francisco, Amsterdam Holland and Paris France. His
work is in private collections in the US, Europe and Asia.
Notably, Carino’s paintings were included in the historic
book, “The King of Dharma,” a first-time publication of an
important set of Tibetan paintings from the 18th century
written by the two best selling authors Geshe Michael
Roach and Christie Mcnally.

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Timothy Collins
www.timothymatthewcollins.blogspot.com
Timothy is interested in collage, the artifact, and its role in
design practice through physical modeling and materiality in
architecture. As an architectural designer and senior model
fabricator at Hillier Architecture (now RMJM), Timothy was
involved in several major local and international projects
including the East River Science Park in New York City and
the Seocho Research and Development Center for LG
Electronics in Seoul, Korea.
Timothy has lectured and been a guest critic at several
universities, including Carnegie Mellon, Hunter College,
Pratt Institute, Stony Brook University, and Parsons School
of Design. He has taught architectural design, freehand
drawing, and visualization at multiple universities as well.
His recent publications include honorable mention in the
Storefront for Art and Architecture "White House Redux"
design competition and "Architect's Draw: Freehand
Fundamentals" by Sue Ferguson Gussow, Princeton
Architectural Press, 2008.
Timothy received an March from the Graduate School of
Architecture in Florence, Italy at Syracuse University’s
Division of International Programs and a BArch from the
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.
He currently teaches 4th year undergraduate design studios
at the City College of New York and is a practicing artist
whose work has been featured in museum collections as
well as multiple exhibitions both in the United States and
abroad.

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Jen Phippen
www.jenphippen.blogspot.com
For the last two years, I have been working with
people at the end of their lives as a hospice
social worker. As I gain greater understanding
of their stories and the similarities therein, I see
a correlation between their histories,
experiences and humanity with my own
humanity and consequently, with my own art
making. Their stories have inspired me to love
and explore and to appreciate life.
I use photography as a means to document the
world around me. I’m not only an artist, but also
a social worker, a keeper of stories, a
documentarian. My photographs call attention
to things that other people overlook, much like
the patients I serve. This exploration helps me
engage more deeply with the space and time
I’m in. These photographs capture the
ephemeral quality of our life and experiences.
My goal is to create images that find beauty in
the forgotten. Through focusing on the details
and beauty of decay can remind us to live in the
here and now.

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James Vanderberg
www.jamesvanderberg.com
I was born and raised on Long Island, New York, and
my work continues to harken back to the coasts of
this landscape. Although rooted in abstraction and
interactions of color, all my work makes a connection
between the figure and field, landscape and our
place in that space.
I received my MFA from CUNY Hunter College in
2008, creating large-scale abstract works for my
thesis exhibition, for which I earned the Hunter
College Tony Smith Award for exceptional graduate
work. While at Hunter I was also awarded the
Lutz/Riedel Fellowship for exchange travel to L'École
des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. It was here that I
immersed myself in the landscapes of Monet,
Cézanne, and the Impressionists, as well as the
landscape and light of Provence and Brittany.
Currently, an exploration into the structures of
nautical knot systems provides a reference for
drawing and composition in my painting.
For the past five years I have taught studio art and
art history from the university level to local
community workshops. I am an instructor at
Brooklyn Art Space in the Gowanus neighborhood of
Brooklyn, and adjunct instructor at Fordham
University in the Bronx, NY. I live and work in
Brooklyn with my wife and son.

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Miya Ando
www.miyaando.com
Miya Ando’s metal canvases and sculpture articulate
themes of contradiction and juxtaposition of ideas.
The foundation of her practice is transformation of
surfaces. Half Japanese & half Russian-American,
Ando is a descendant of Bizen sword makersand
was raised in a Buddhist temple in Japan and in
coastal Northern California. She has continued her
16th generation Japanese sword smithing and
Buddhist lineage by combining metals, reflectivity
and light in her transcendent paintings and sculpture.
In 2011 she completed two memorial sculptures for
the 9/11 in which she utilized 30 foot tall pieces of
steel which had fallen from the World Trade Center
Buildings. Ando’s work is has been exhibited
extensively throughout the world, including a recent
show curated by Guggenheim curator Nat Trotman.
Miya’s public commissions include projects in South
Korea, London, New York and California. Her work
appears in many important public and private
collections and she is the recipient of the Pollock
Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012, the Thanatopolis
Special Artist Award and Public Outdoor
Commission Winner and Puffin Foundation Grant
winner. She received her Bachelor of Science Magna
Cum Laude in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley
and continued her studies at Yale University, in
addition to serving as an apprentice to a master
metal smith in Japan.

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Andrew Berardi
www.andrewberardi.com
My name is Andrew Berardi and I am an
artist and designer. I work out of my
residence in Long Island, but I frequently
visit the city for inspiration. Experimenting
with graffiti as a youth led to my interest in
typography. I always felt that letter forms
have energy incorporated within them,
which has influenced my design work. For
the "1).All of the Above" show I want to
create a conceptual piece that will make an
emotional connection with the viewer. My
ultimate goal as an artist is to spread
positivity, inspire the youth and change the
way people think.

THEARTISTS
Joyce Yamada
www.joyceyamada.com
Originally from the West Coast, my scientist-
physician-artist father imbued me with a love of both
science and nature which remain at the core of my
artistic vision. I attended U.C. Berkeley and the San
Francisco Art Institute. Then by quirks of fate, my
artist’s survival job was in medicine. I am an M.D.,
specialty Diagnostic Radiology. For more than 20
years I worked for one week as an artist followed by
one week as a doctor. During this time I did not
actively exhibit. In 2004 I quit medicine and am now
a full-time artist. In 2006 I moved to Brooklyn and
have since then exhibited in numerous group shows,
including shows in NYC at the NurtureArt Gallery, PS
122 Gallery, the Leroy Neiman Art Center, New
Century Gallery, New World Stages Gallery, St.
Francis College, and Symphony Space, and in New
Jersey at Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University and
the Therese A Maloney Gallery at St. Elizabeth’s
College. I am primarily a painter but also do site
specific installations; for these I have been
collaborating with Joanne Ungar, a collage artist
whose survival skill is in high end video.

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Robert Aitchison
www.robertaitchison.com
Robert Aitchison’s art is informed by nature;
investigating the structure and dynamics of the
natural world while exploring diverse landscape
themes. In his work he’s attracted to the chaos
and complexity of uncultivated environments.
The construction of his paintings is guided by
various drawings and studies done on-site
outdoors. Sketches created from memory also
play an important role in the evolution of the
works. Through the fusion of these disparate
visual records Aitchison seeks to establish
contemplative scapes that allude to the
experience of being in nature rather than a
depiction of specific locales.
Aitchison was raised in Spring, Texas and
studied painting at the University of Texas at
Austin. His art has been exhibited in the United
States, South America, and Europe and can be
found in various private collections. He
currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

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Katie Rubright
www.katierubright.com
Katie Rubright is a native Virginian.
She received a BA in Art History from
James Madison University in 2003,
and a BFA in Combined Media from
Hunter College in 2010. She will
graduate in December 2013 from the
MFA program at Hunter College, and
lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

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Joey Kilrain
www.kilrain.com
Born and raised in South Philly, Joey Kilrain’s
artistic style evolves as a product of his ongoing
life lessons. His works serve as a means of
personal therapy while telling the viewer his
life's stories.
With no loyalty to any particular discipline of art,
Joey integrates traditional media (acrylic, pen &
ink, papier mâché, metal fabrication) with
mobile & web technologies. Basically, he'll
pursue any medium which will fit the story to be
told.
A graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia,
his works have been exhibited along the east
coast. He's been published in Adobe’s Web
Design Journal, Village Voice, and New York
Magazine.

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Laura Frantz
www.laurafrantz.com
Laura Frantz lives and works in New York.
Her paintings have recently been exhibited
at Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia), Joshua
Tree Art Gallery (CA), Saffron Artist Space
(Brooklyn), Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
(Brooklyn), and through the Bruce High
Quality Foundation. Laura has also
exhibited her work in Ankara, Turkey, where
she was a Fulbright recipient in 2007-2008.
She received her MFA from Hunter in 2012.

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Mark Brennan
www.emilydickersonart.com
Mark Brennan divides his time between
Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and
Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Columbia
University and currently teaches at the RELC
School of Fine Arts & Design in Brooklyn, where
his students have exhibited at the Brooklyn
Museum and the MoCADA Museum. He
alternates between two bodies of work: small
meditative “elegies” of decayed leaves and
twigs, and long landscapes based on the dunes
at Newcomb Hollow, Wellfleet, the site of his
(now abandoned) childhood home, which sits
atop the bluffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
He relinquished an early art career in the
1980s, in which he showed large paintings,
mixed media pieces and installations at various
New York galleries. After a 20-year hiatus, he
resumed exhibiting in 2009 with solo shows in
Chicago and Brooklyn. His work is in private
collections throughout the United States. All
profits derived from the sale of his artwork are
donated to charities dedicated to preserving
and maintaining the natural environment.

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Elisa Soliven
www.soliven.com
Elisa Soliven lives and works in Brooklyn,
NY. She holds an MFA in Painting from
Hunter College and and a B.A. from Bryn
Mawr College. Her work has been reviewed
by Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical,
Hyperallergic, and the Village Voice. In the
past year, her work has been included in
group exhibitions at Nudashank, Baltimore;
Bull & Ram, NYC; Janet Kurnatowski,
Brooklyn; the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, and Grizzly, Grizzly in
Philadelphia, among others. She received
the William L. Metcalf Award from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters in
2012.

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Benjamin Armas
www.armascarino.com
Benjamin Armas was born in Caracas, Venezuela into a
family of noted artists including his father Ricardo Armas
and uncle Enrico Armas. In the spring of 2000 he began
studying architecture while attending the Cooper Union
High School Outreach Program. In 2003, Armas was
awarded the Presidential Merit Scholarship from Pratt
Institute School of Architecture and graduated in 2008.
He has since worked as a designer at Architecture and
Urban Planning firms like WASA/Studio A in NYC and
TDR Urbanistas in Caracas, Venezuela. His first major
private residential project is currently under construction
in upstate NY. Armas has also produced bodies of work
in the fields of sculpture, photography and video.

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Reiner Hansen
www.reinerhansen.com
Born in Odense, Denmark and now living
and working in New York, Reiner Hansen's
work has been exhibited across the US
including at Cain Schulte Gallery in San
Francisco, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art,
internationally at Kunstverin
Buchholz/Nordheide in Germany, and most
recently at Jack Chiles Gallery in New York
City. Hansen is a 2012 recipient of the
Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed
Foundation Grant.

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Visakh Menon
www.visakmnon.com
Visakh was born in India and moved to USA
in 2005. He currently splits his time creating
installations, video art, mixed media
drawings. His current body of work focuses
on the creation of physical manifestations of
digital artifacts and objects of fictionalized
reverence, often born out of fascination for
certain aspects of technology & science.
Visakh has exhibited nationally and
internationally including recent shows at the
DUMBO arts festival, Spattered Columns
(NY), Gallery Aferro (NJ), Rabbit Hole
Gallery (NY), Digital Media City Gallery
(Seoul) and included in the Rhizome Art
Base. He was selected for the Mentoring
Fellowship for Immigrant Artists at New York
Foundation for the Arts in 2010 (NYFA). In
2007 Visakh received an MFA in Graphic
Design from the Maryland Institute College
of Art.

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Patricia Bellucci
Patricia Bellucci is a visual artist who lives and
works in New York City. She studied painting
and sculpture at New York's School of Visual
Arts, where she earned a BFA. Patricia also
holds an MA from Fordham University and a
certificate in film production from New York
University. Patricia‘s work engages layered
compositions which synthesize the disciplines
of painting, collage, and assemblage. She is a
member of "Openings," an artist collective in
New York City, and her work has been
exhibited in New York at the Lower Eastside
Tenement Museum, the Church of St. Paul the
Apostle, Storefront for Art and Architecture and
St. Francis College, among others; most
recently, her work was exhibited in Dublin’s
Smock Alley Theater, the hub venue for the
2013 “10 Days in Dublin” arts festival.

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jdx
www.jdx.me
jdx is a documentary photojournalist
capturing the convergence of art, culture &
architecture in downtown NYC.
jdx's images & commentary have appeared
in The New York Times, East Village Grieve,
Hipstamatic's Adventures In Hipstaland, The
Lo-Down, Bowery Boogie, Neighborhoodr:
East Village & Animal NY.

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Jess Willa Wheaton
www.jesswillawheaton.com
Jess Willa Wheaton was born in
Sebastopol, CA in 1984. She received a
BFA in Painting from the California College
of the Arts in 2010, and is a current MFA
candidate at Hunter College in New York.

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Joachim Marx
www.joachimmarx.com
Born 1960 in Germany, Marx studied painting in
Cologne, Germany and at the New York
Academy of Art, where he received his MFA in
1991. His work was shown in solo shows at the
Consulate General of Germany in New York;
Caesarea Gallery in Boca Raton, FL; La MaMa
La Galleria in New York, Schloß Opherdicke in
Unna, Germany; Museum im Torhaus,
Siegburg, Germany; American Painting Fine
Arts in Washington DC and in NYC;
Figureworks Gallery in Brooklyn and in 2008
had a painting in the Chelsea Art Museum.
In 1995 he was invited to participate in a
competition to design church windows for a
church near Fulda in Germany. His designs
were realized the following year. German public
television featured him in a 30 min
documentary.

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Alan Richards
www.alanrichardsart.com
I was born and raised in New York City. Although not
formally trained in art, I have produced artworks for
many years.
By profession I am an Audiologist and hold a Ph.D. I
have worked in New York City for many years as an
audiologist in private practice and as a Professor of
Audiology at the City University of New York. My
attention has now turned to the artworld.
I have always been interested in art and industrial
design. My earlier works were done in ink and water
colors and are shown on my website. My interest in
computers and industrial design evolved into
photomanipulations from multiple images. Sometimes
people think that these images are simple photographs.
Not so. They consist of multiple images (as many as
20) in which segments of one photo is melded into the
framework of the entire image. The images are often
take on a surrealistic feeling but not all the time. Some
of the images are painted as well. My goal as an artist
is to view the world as others do not see and turn
mundane events into unique images which are often
playful or unusual. Some viewers might agree.

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Mary DeVincentis
www.marydevincentis.com
Working in ongoing series, developing ideas
over many years, Mary DeVincentis finds
inspiration for her paintings and monotypes
from nature, literature, language, dreams and
Buddhism. Her work has been exhibited at
the International Print Center New York, the
New York Public Library, the Kathryn Markel
Gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, White Columns,
and the Brooklyn Museum and has been
included in group exhibitions in the United
States and Europe. It is represented in
numerous private and corporate collections.
She received her BFA from Maryland Institute
College of Art in Baltimore and a
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced
Printmaking from St. Martins College of Art in
London, England. She lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York.

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Tim Rusterholz
www.timrusterholz.com
Tim Rusterholz is a sculptor, fabricator, and
competitive distance runner currently living and
working out of Philadelphia, PA. He received his
MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art in
2011, and BFA in Sculpture & Extended Media
from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009.
Tim received a University Fellowship upon entry
into Tyler School of Art and was commissioned
to create a bronze portrait of donor Jack Wolgin,
displayed in front of Temple Galleries. Other
notable accomplishments include commission
work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the
Elizabeth Greenshield’s Fellowship, Best in
Show in VCU’s Annual Juried Competition, and
publication in NCAA Champions Magazine as a
student athlete at VCU. For more information
please visit www.timrusterholz.com.

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Firth MacMillan
www.firthmacmillan.com
Firth MacMillan is a visual artist living and
working in Toronto. Her sculptures and three-
dimensional drawings are meditations on the
edge between image and object,
representation and abstraction, form and
formlessness. She has exhibited at CRG
Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery and Charles
Cowles Gallery in New York and at the Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Gardiner
Museum in Toronto, and San Bao
International in China.

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Michael TianXiang
I studied for an engineering degree in college
and worked at a private firm for a few years
after graduation in 2008. I decided that I did
not like the 9-to-5 life style, or engineering for
that matter; negotiated with my boss so I can
work part-time at home and started doing art.
I found myself to be intuitive with perceiving
and creating shapes and forms so I started
with sculpture; I have been doing that since
2011.

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Guillermo Lorente
www.guillermolorente.com
My name is Guillermo Lorente. I was born
and raised in Cuba.
With a Bachelor Degree in Art, I left Cuba In
1994 to further my art career. I travelled to
Sweden where I established a gallery, partook
in several art exhibitions and taught art. In
2002 I decided to come to New York which
became my geographical place in where I am
creating my new oil painting series “The
Universes Strings and Bless Water”.
Inspired by the Quantum Physics and The
String Theory this Series of paintings are an
intent to find an answer the quintessential
questions as: “why we are here and the
reason”, “what role does the Universe play in
our lives and our existence?”

THEARTISTS
Walter O’Neill
www. zhibit.org/walter_oneill.com
Walter O'Neill art practice is concerned with the
transcendent and ecstatic. He creates small
abstract paintings arranged in series to create a
visual dialogue across a defined area. Trained
in traditional fresco painting and art history his
art work echoes the compositional format of
early Renaissance mural painting. His work has
been exhibited in New York, Washington, D.C.
Maine and elsewhere. Walter O'Neill studied at
SVA, Hunter College and Skowhegan. He
managed the fresco program at Skowhegan for
ten years and is currently the director of the
Educational Alliance Art School.

THEARTISTS
Denise Gieseke Penizzotto
www.denisepenizzottostudioarts.com
Born into a large family of European decent,
Denise began her artistic studies as a child
learning from her Mother, a watercolor artist and
traditional quilter, and her Father a woodworker.
She gravitated toward painting and began
studying the works of the Renaissance Masters.
Her interest in large scale paintings began while
learning the skills of billboard art, scenic and
decorative arts. With these skills Denise began
her travels abroad and through Asia as a
muralist. She began working with Universal
Studios teaching local artists the mural and
decorative arts.
During her time abroad she studied fine arts at
Alnwick University in Northumberland, England.
Upon returning to the United States she studies
at Pratt Institute and at the New York Arts
Student League in NYC.
Denise is a resident of New York City.

THEARTISTS
Ingrid Roe
http://bit.ly/1b3oBIH
Ingrid Roe was born and grew up in the
East of Germany but considers New York
her home, where she has lived for more
than twenty years. She received her
Masters of Fine Arts from Hunter College,
and is teaching various subjects as an
adjunct in the Film Department at the
School of Visual Arts.
Ingrid works as a freelance photographer of
art for private clients and foundations. This
highly considered and detail-oriented work
has informed her own practice of art
making, often involving an acute sense of
details which might at first only appear in
the viewer’s peripheral vision.
Her last big project was the principal
photography of a book about designer and
artist Leslie Chilton, published by Sun Press
in 2012. Her work is in collections in
Europe, the US, and Asia.

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