Alex Proba’s multidisciplinary practice evokes a reverence for life’s quiet moments. Using her surroundings as the main source of inspiration in her work, she draws from sensory and visual information to intimate the experience of finding beauty and joy in unexpected places. Born in Germany, Proba studied Spatial Design at Akademie Mode & Design Hamburg, Germany, and then Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Keepsake 2024
Alex Proba, Angel Oloshove & moreNew York, NY - Nov 04, 2024 - Dec 20, 2024
This annual exhibition revolves around the theme of keepsakes, of something that carries a memory and is given from one person to another. Artists will respond to the question: What memory, or message from you, does your artwork carry with it?
Artists
- Alex ProbaPortland, ORArtist Page
- Angel OloshoveHouston, TXArtist Page
Angel Oloshove (b. 1981) creates work that often experiments with painterly materiality, using atomized glazes to achieve surprising form and color. Her sculptural ceramics balance the priorities of functional, designed pottery against more transcendental qualities. Angel's works call to mind a range of visual phenomenon such as the prismatic sheen on a gasoline puddle, the incandescence of opals, mirages and rainbows.
- Anna KoeferlNew Orleans, LAArtist Page
With a focus on the intersection of contemporary art and craft, Anna Koeferl reimagines the landscape of South Louisiana through interventions in paint, print, and paper.
- Arlina CaiBrooklyn, NYArtist Page
Arlina Cai's paintings reflect on her spiritual upbringing and the belief that everything we experience is a reflection of ourselves and our connection to others.
- Brittany FernsNewcastle, AustraliaArtist Page
Working with natural ochres and pigments that are native to the Australian earth, Brittany Ferns' paintings are poetic musings on where mythology and personal narrative intersect.
- David RhoadsBrooklyn, NYArtist Page
David Rhoads catalogs observations, snapshots, and memories, into intimate watercolor paintings on repurposed Metropolitan Museum of Art letterhead.
- Evi O.Sydney, AustraliaArtist Page
Evi O. (b. 1986) is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer and self-taught artist based in Sydney, Australia. With a curious eye and mind, Evi is constantly exploring and observing her surroundings. Her art practice is fueled by a genuine drive to examine and express human curiosity which she translates into vivid pictorial abstractions with sentiment and humor. Through her simultaneous practice of art and design, Evi's creative process weaves together an array of experiments in mediums, technology, graphic and spatial design.
- Jackson JoyceBrooklyn, NYArtist Page
Jackson Joyce (b. 1994) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist who seeks to paint a world where things look the way they feel. Pulling inspiration from his life growing up in the south, Jackson’s paintings tell nostalgic and personal stories of past, present and future. Often exaggerating proportions and color to convey off-kilter narratives, Jackson’s paintings occupy an imaginative world all their own.
- J.C. FontaniveCleveland, OHArtist Page
Working across a range of media, J.C. Fontanive is interested in movement, cinema, and mechanics, both literally and metaphorically as an attempt to try to understand the designing force of nature and evolution through time.
- Karina BaniaSan Diego, CAArtist Page
Based between San Diego, California and Baja, Mexico, Karina Bania is a mixed-media painter whose works relate to landscape and geography. Karina’s paintings feature pale hues and layers of subtle texture, often incorporating traditional pigments and dyes in stains and washes. Focusing on harmony between spontaneity and intention, each discrete shape in her paintings provokes a conversation between visible and unseen landscapes.
- Kayla Plosz AntielRaleigh, NCArtist Page
Kayla Plosz Antiel (b. 1987) is a Candian-born artist living and working in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kayla approaches her work as an exploration of color, focusing on subtle shifts within monochromatic, analogous, and complementary schemes. Her extensive visual vocabulary incorporates folk and craft-inspired motifs with organic and geometric forms.
- Mada VicassiauLondon, United KingdomArtist Page
With a focus on material specificity, Mada Vicassiau's paintings are a meditation on color, form, and space.
- Michael MoncibaizEl Paso, TXArtist Page
Michael Moncibaiz (b. 1981) is an El Paso, Texas-based painter. Michael’s work dissects architectural space through jagged planes of color suspended in a state of flux. Harnessing the spontaneity of collage Michael begins his paintings by working out a composition in paper collage. With draftsman-like precision he then translates the collage into paint, capturing the subtle shadows cast between paper creases to create an illusionistic sense of space.
- Paulina HoTaos, NMArtist Page
Paulina Ho (b. 1991) is a Taos, New Mexico-based artist who creates paintings that utilize caricature as a means for introspection. By exaggerating scale and color, Paulina immerses the viewer into her own fantastical world populated by inflated daisies, flattened faces and a typographers’ appreciation for form. At the intersection of comedy and tragedy, Paulina’s work captures a variety of emotions both personal and universal.
- Ruth FreemanBrooklyn, NYArtist Page
Ruth Freeman (b. 1969) is a New York-based painter whose work explores the relationship between chaos and order. Beginning with a detailed digital mockup, Ruth alternates between additive and subtractive layers of paint, mirroring her computer based sketch. Once these initial layers are complete, Ruth allows chance to intervene as she adds impromptu gestural brushwork in reaction and opposition to her previous marks.
- Sarah IngrahamBrooklyn, NYArtist Page
Raised on the coast of Maine, Sarah Ingraham (b. 1994) is a Brooklyn, New York-based painter whose practice spans painting, murals, rug making and wallpaper design. Strongly influenced by her background in art history and reverence for decorative traditions in craft, she looks to ceramics and textiles from all over the world as inspiration in her work, which combines ancient motifs with a fresh palette. Sarah’s paintings draw upon the long lineage of still-life and landscape painting, recasting these genres in a contemporary light to explore themes of overindulgence, pleasure, and vitality.
- Sarah Sullivan SherrodTulsa, OKArtist Page
Using a combination of handwoven textiles and acrylic paint, Sarah’s bold geometric works emphasize the basic yet powerful notion that everything is connected.
- Susan SimoniniTasmania, AustraliaArtist Page
Through a tactile and layered paint surface, Susan Simonini creates abstract compositions that reference the agricultural landscape while questioning themes of place and belonging.
- Tony SjömanNew York, NYArtist Page
Manhattan-based artist Tony Sjöman (b.1975) draws inspiration from his Scandinavian heritage by incorporating complex geometric patterns into his murals, silkscreens, paintings. Tony’s use of clean lines and a muted palette echo the highrise silhouettes of the urban landscape, reflecting and abstracting the world around him. Tony’s murals can be seen adorning a broad array of walls in New York City and worldwide, from restaurants and hotels to private residences and office buildings.
- Una UrsprungAlsace, FranceArtist Page
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Una Ursprung (b.1985) currently lives and works in Alsace, France. Working in a variety of media including painting, photography, and collage, Una is interested in the way materials can disrupt and transform our expectations of images. Modeled through her use of diffuse spray paint over lushly rendered landscapes, Una utilizes this contrast to explore human intervention on nature and the environment.
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