Cloe Galasso
Buenos Aires, Argentina | oil painting
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Cloe Galasso was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1995 and raised by a painter, Cloe Galasso generated a great interest in the visual and corporal environment. At the age of 21, she received a MDes at University of Palermo. She complemented her studies in a self-taught way, exploring different disciplines such as ceramics, analog photography, sculpture, and new technologies in art and design, seeking to find her way as a woman in the art world. In 2020, in the context of the pandemic, she explored oil painting, which quickly became her favorite medium. In 2021, she did a series of mentorships in New York City, with artists Maurizio Pellegrin, Kathryn Cameron, Eric Michelson and Taka Maruno. At the end of the same year, she did an artist residency with Eugenio Cuttica at Campo Cuttica, Southampton, NY. Since July 2022, Galasso has participated in seven group shows across Europe and the United States.
Serge Strosberg
Belgian-American | egg tempera
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Serge Strosberg uses portraiture in a satirical way, bringing expressionism and realism together in paintings that are very fresh and pop. Strosberg studied graphic design in Paris at Academie Julian and Morphology at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 2010, Strosberg was an artist in residence in China and received a grant from The Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum to paint a series of Chinese countrymen to be exhibited near Shanghai. He was the recipient of the Jan Cockx Prize given by The Director of Mukha, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp (Belgium), and has exhibited with major realist painters such as Lucian Freud and Philip Pearlstein in group shows at The Felix Nussbaum Museum (Germany), The Musee de Pontoise and solo shows at The French Senate (France), The Jewish Museum of Belgium, The Joodse Historisch Museum (Amsterdam), The Ann Norton Museum, and The Lighthouse Center for the Arts Museum in southern Florida. His work is in 6 museum collections and approximately 130 collections across the globe. He has been commissioned to produce more than 100 portraits.
Gabriela Gil
Tegucigalpa, Honduras | photography, sculpture, and painting
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Gabriela Gil is interested in creating paintings and site-specific installations that spark a connection with the immediate present. Gil strives to do this through the use of organic shapes, rhythm, and vibrant colors which replicate nature, and the Latin American soul. Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Gabriela Gil has moved throughout South and North America her entire life. The constant migration has shaped her multicultural perspective, and nurtured her interest in art as a way to transcribe her personal experience using a unique visual language. Her first creative expressions were in ballet and modern dance at the age of five, and later evolved to other mediums including photography, sculpture, and painting. Her work often references her multidisciplinary experience. Gil has shown her work in San Francisco, CA and New York City. Gabriela Gil currently lives and works in New York City.
Jonas Raider
Rockaway Beach, NY | multi medium, modern abstract expressionism
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A child of the ‘70s, Jonas Benjamin Raider was born and raised in the quaint, but hip, oceanfront town of Rockaway Beach NY. Only a quick drive from the bustling creative vibes of Manhattan, he found early artistic inspiration from both his childhood suburban surroundings and the big city. He was fortunate enough to grow up with multiple influences throughout his youth-as the music, films, fashion and pop icons of the era, directly shaped his artistic ambitions. Further free-thinking direction came from family and friends who had a way with a brush, pencil or yarn and appreciation for those things in life, that looked cool and felt right. Jonas began his serious pursuit of the painted image soon after graduating college, where he continued to progress his style and cultivate his technique. Today, he has evolved into a prolific painter of modern abstract expressionism, which he applies via multiple mediums on wood and canvas. He works in varied scale, with dynamic use of color, texture and flow. The content of his pieces demand interpretation, but emanate from personal emotion and have direct meaning. Over the last decade, the art of JBR has been viewed at private studios in NYC, Washington D.C. and Art Basel in Miami with countless pieces being acquired by those drawn to the aesthetic and powerful allure of his vision.
Ford Crull
New York | oil painting
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Ford Crull is a renowned contemporary artist whose distinctive style merges abstraction and figuration to create captivating visual narratives. Born with an innate passion for art, Crull's journey began in the vibrant city of New York, where he honed his skills at prestigious institutions like the Pratt Institute and the New York Studio School. His artistic expression is characterized by bold, dynamic brushstrokes that convey a sense of energy and movement, and he is known for his masterful command of color, infusing his works with emotive and atmospheric qualities. Drawing inspiration from various sources, including mythology, literature, and personal experiences, Crull's paintings often delve into the realms of human emotion and existential themes. His exploration of the human form and psyche creates a bridge between the internal and external worlds, inviting viewers to contemplate the complexities of the human condition. Through a keen understanding of composition and visual storytelling, Crull's artworks elicit a powerful response, captivating audiences worldwide. Crull's extensive body of work has earned him recognition in the art world, with exhibitions at prestigious galleries and museums across the globe. Critics praise his ability to evoke both introspection and a sense of wonder, as his paintings transcend mere representation to communicate deeper layers of meaning
A G Norton
New Jersey | dynamic storytelling performance
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A G Norton is a New Jersey born artist known for her piece titled "Dad, Playboy & Me ... Not Your Average Slideshow-” a dynamic storytelling experience in which she explores her father’s photographic legacy and their connection to the Playboy Club in the 1970’s. In the midst of the pandemic Norton discovered more than 600 iconic images from the Playboy Club in Vernon, New Jersey taken by her father, Kit Norton. The Playboy Club was a common place for her family to gather as a child and these photos were a sense of nostalgia for the artist and a way of reconnecting to her father who passed when the artist was sixteen. Since discovering her father’s archive of photographs, she has contacted many women who worked at the club to hear their experiences. With the information she has collected and the connections she built through her father’s photographs Norton created a slideshow accompanied by her own storytelling which she performed across Europe and the United States. Each performance will vary slightly, but Norton’s witty yet cathartic way of storytelling is consistent. Her father’s photographs and Norton’s approach to the subject is focused on uplifting the voices of the woman portrayed in his photographs. Norton continues to pursue and grow on this project interviewing woman from the Playboy Club in Vernon and sharing her story in a space where art and healing intertwine.
Dennis Dalelio
Highland Lakes, NJ | painting, photography, and mixed media installations
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Dennis Dalelio is a Northern NJ based visual artist and art educator who creates paintings, photographs, and mixed media installations. He is known for his often large-scale paintings that explore both abstraction and representation alongide of his work as a documentary photographer. Content in his paintings often explores the intersection of ordinary life with the search of the soul for God in all things transcendent. His work has been shown throughout New York and New Jersey and within several private collections around the country. He has been an art educator for over two decades in a NJ public high school and within his personal workshops. He founded the Highland Lakes Artist Group, a collection of creators from Highland Lakes, NJ, who meet monthly to share their latest works. He is also the host and producer of the arts advocacy media collection called "The Stolen Hours Podcast." Dalelio received his MFA from William Paterson University in 2010 and his BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1998. He thrives with his wife, the artist Kristin Dalelio, and their 5 children in Highland Lakes, NJ.
Lesny JN Felix
b.1976: Grand Goave, Haiti | painting, collage, and mixed media
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My name is Lesny and I share the same common Genes and DNA as Matisse. I really believes it. Lesny JN Felix is not the artist he wants you to think he is. The moniker combine formally opposes his straightforward, direct form of painting, which subscribes to a type of narratology and oral storytelling technique. The work evokes grandpa's stories next to the fire - if grandpa was the leader of a coup d'etat. Lesny JN Felix is quintessentially Haitian. He is quintessentially Lower East Side. He has a bold, hybrid style that incorporates his vibrant cultural syncretism. Lesny JN Felix reinvigorates the painted object. Not by becoming overtly sculptural or heavily concerned with plasticity. Rather, the work reconfigures the art object as a conversation with the viewer, a reading experience, and a dialectical Dada disturbance. Paintings directly on unstretched canvas emphasize the painting as scroll - the painting as a narrative device.Lesny JN Felix hints at subversive jokes with a satirical joviality. Lesny JN Felix sees the absurdity in the modern condition, and is pleased to share his vision via multimedia collage. Take for example the joyfully meta, 'Strategist', a title that emphasizes the artist's role as careful planner of viewer reaction. Found rubber chunks, incorporated from a road project, display a witty, 'strategic' awareness of urban surroundings.Lesny JN Felix has strong art historical footing to jump off. Enjoy his use of vibrant, direct from the tube color - it is part of a shared history with Jean Michel Basquiat. But do not ignore his obvious awareness of masters like Jose Manuel Merello, Giorgio de Chirico, and Hieronymus Bosch. Also, admire his supple use of negative space and his anticipation of the subjective 'feel' of interacting with the work - These qualities congregate around Abstract Expressionist action painters like Rothko and de Kooning.Lesny JN Felix defies category. He refuses to accept reductive titles such as painter, muralist, collagist, or performance artist. His life infuses his work and follows inspiration across mediums and genre to wherever it may lead. His is a bold path that requires grace, a sense of history and place, as well as self-awareness and vivacity. Look carefully at the work and you will see these qualities in every square inch.Now, just wonder what this skyrocketing emerging artist is going to do next. And hope he'll invite you to come along for the ride.
Edwin Montalvo
Kinnelon, NJ | painting, drawings, mixed media portraits
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Edwin Montalvo, born in Puerto Rico in 1970, is a distinguished painter known for his unique approach to the process of painting. He pursued his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the University of Massachusetts, graduating in 1993, and continued his education with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Yale University, completing his degree in 1996.
Montalvo's artistic practice centers around the dynamic and exploratory nature of painting. His technique involves applying paint to the canvas and discovering the work's form and meaning through the act of creation. This intuitive process allows Montalvo to engage deeply with his materials, creating pieces that are both spontaneous and thoughtfully composed. His work reflects a profound understanding of color, texture, and form, making him a notable figure in contemporary art.
Alexandra Momin
New York City, NY | painting, film, photography, screen printing
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Alexandra Momin is an artist interested in the encounter between different mediums and the evocative allusions that emerge from their overlap. Fascinated by the meeting of different forms, colors, and textures, she combines various mediums – painting, film, photography, screen printing – to create suggestive images of environments that point to a new reality while alluding to deeper realities in search of resolution. Whether through several or all media layered upon each other, her eye is squarely focused on the emotional power of form and movement - how they represent human complexity, promise, and alienation. She attempts to capture the mystery and magic of the frantic movement that embodies our contemporary lives, while inviting the viewer to reflect on how her textural interplay reveal the intimacy and unruliness of our inner lives.
She uses literal and abstract renderings of her experiences to challenge us to make sense of the world. In search of the deeper realities that animate our subconscious selves, she unsettles our way of seeing and encourages us to look afresh at the surfaces before us. As the New York Times once observed about her photography: She “seems to forsake social experiences altogether in favor of double exposures that illuminate ordinary landscapes with brilliant flashes, epiphanies perhaps.”*
Alexandra Momin was born in Belleville, New Jersey, and completed a degree in Fine Art at New Jersey City University, May 1998. She currently lives and works in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe, notably Then She Did at Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY (2018), As The Eye Is Formed at Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2013); Dividing Light, Measuring Darkness at Curious Matter Gallery, Jersey City, NJ (2011); and Luna Nera/Post Industrial Baroques Live Media Art Exhibition & Concert at Raum 18, Berlin, Germany (2009). In 2018 she had a solo exhibition, Converging Paths, Divergent Destinations at Urban Studio Unbound Gallery, Yonkers, NY. Her work has also appeared in Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro (2016); Streaming Festival, Sixth Edition, The Hague, Netherlands (2011); Rafskinna Magazine, Reyjaavik, Iceland (2009); Mudfish (2000). Since December 2011, she has been the resident photographer for Mobile Mondays at The Bowery Electric. An inveterate music lover, she has toured Europe as opening DJ for MRC Riddims; scored a commercial for MTV2; directed the short film “The Sea Has Fallen” to accompany the band Destructo Swarmbots’ musical score; made music videos for the bands Dälek, The Lost Crusaders, and Ifwhen; created or co-created album art for BKGD Audio, Third Culture Kings, Oddateee, Dälek, and Ifwhen; and created video Installations for the experimental jazz duo, Tarana (2016), New World Stages’ musical performance, “Becoming Relevant” (2012), and various DJ's throughout New York City.
Brian Josselyn
| painting
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Brian Josselyn fine artist, creates sculpted paintings in the style of “luscious realism”.
Artist statement:
I use thick rich paint to translate the beauty, and the exciting magic of a moment into a luscious vision.
I like to convey the fluid turbulence of life with the sculptural beauty of thick paint, using natural colors and shapes to challenge the senses.
The depth of surface temps you to touch with it’s tactile appeal. Dramatic lighting can abstract familiar imagery creating a new provocative view. I try to encapsulate the emotional content of a scene with the physicality beauty of paint.