Amanda Sciullo is a painter based out of Boston, MA. Her medium is acrylic paint on unprimed canvas and board, which she deftly uses to create wild and expressive paintings that have a chaotic yet subtly composed sensibility. Each of her paintings have underlying structures and conceptual guidelines only known by Sciullo, opening the work up to wide interpretation and speculations, heightening their intrigue. In The Expression of Abandon and Surrender, Sciullo uses man’s best friend as her main motif in a variety of familiar, expressive and surreal poses.
Joey Parlett draws using ordinary materials, such as gel pens and ink. These materials lend his work a sense of immediacy and preserve his creative process from start to finish, including any experimentation and errors.
His completed works are sprawling battle fields of conflicting information. References to American classics, folklore, online image searches, pop culture and politics sit side by side democratically and all compete for the viewer’s attention.
‘In many ways, this mirrors the experience of American culture,’ remarks Parlett, who is known to counterbalance a heavy social commentary with a lighthearted reference, or a recurring character such as Beardman.
Jackie Mock creates artwork that enhances the ordinary and celebrates the history imbued in found objects. Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Western Kentucky University entitled America Under the Microscope as well as a full room installation at the Wassaic Project’s Return to Rattlesnake Mountain. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in 2010 with a BFA in fine arts.
Aubrey Learner’s intricate watercolor, graphite and ink drawings are metaphors of desire and disgust — the disparate longings for both purity and sexual prowess, and the concurrent disgust with perversion and decay. Juxtaposing contemporary fascinations with sexuality against the various vulgarities associated with reproduction, she explores the imposition of societal mores, the coercive pressures of pornography to make oneself more desirable, and the eventual decay of the body and dissolution of sexual allure. Hoards of insects and animals associated with “the unclean” stand for an infestation of anxiety, as well as a state of impending entropy, as they simultaneously form and unravel the figure.
In Circadian, Learner’s new works develop these concepts with a playful examination of things short lived. From the brief life cycles of butterflies, to the fleeting pleasure of indulging in a piece of candy, Learner’s detailed illustrations suggest a simultaneous humor and melancholy to the old adage, “all good things must come to an end.”
Learner holds a BS in Biology and Fine Art from the University of Akron and an MFA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Ohio and the Bay Area. The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Hugh Hayden’s artwork explores the relations of subcultures to omnipresent natural and social contexts.
The artwork employs methodical processes to conflate histories, materiality and science into new visceral narratives.
The Dallas native received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University in 2007. Upon graduation, Hayden won the prestigious Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Travel Fellowship to study the cultural origins of food-related architecture, art, and design abroad.
Hayden has exhibited both domestically and internationally including commissions from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Alexander Wang, Cabinet Magazine, Lacoste, and VH1+Scope Art Fair.
Hayden has recently participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, Abrons Art Center: AIRSpace Residency, and the Socrates Emerging Artist Fellowship 12.
Jane Hammond is an American artist who has been showing regularly in New York since the late eighties. In the same time period, she has also had solo exhibitions in Stockholm, Paris, Barcelona, Milan and Amsterdam and 19 solo museum exhibitions in the United States; recent venues include Wexner Center for the Arts, Detroit Institute of the Arts, The Achenbach Foundation at the DeYoung Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Her work is held in over fifty museum collections. Ms Hammond’s work has been written about in numerous publications including The New York Times, Aperture, Art in America, ARTnews, Artforum, Modern Painters and BOMB Magazine. She is represented by Galerie Lelong.
Through various media Greenberg explores the layered significance of ritual, ceremony, and performance. He mines his materials for symbolism, like witching for water in the desert, and experiments until a relationship between original concept and medium evolves.
Carson Fox was born in Oxford, Mississippi. Her work is produced from a heritage of American Southern gothic tradition that relies heavily on the imprint that individual experience has on the artist, and centers on the production of sculpture, installation, and printmaking.
Carson Fox received her masters of fine arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, her BFA from University of Pennsylvania, and a four-year studio certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Arts and Design, The Royal Museum of Belgium, the Noyes Museum of Art, the Newark Public Library, the Jersey City Museum, the Morris Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum.
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, O. K. Harris Gallery, New York, the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, the Brunswiker Pavilion Kiel, Kiel, Germany, and the Association Mouvment Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France. In 2009, Fox completed a permanent public art project commissioned by the NYC Metropolitan TransportationAuthority at the Seaford LIRR Station in Seaford, NY. Fox has received grants from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, a Willem Emil Cresson Award, and a New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper. In 2013, Fox received a Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island.
Fox lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Born and raised in Kentucky, Rachel Frank received her BFA from The Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Franklin Furnace Archive, and residencies at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, The Women’s Studio Workshop, Sculpture Space, Yaddo, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Jane Edden is a British artist whose work is a synthesis of science, technology and art. In her 2001 exhibition at England & Co, she exhibited solar-powered insects in cases and glass specimen jars. The insects were not real, but were artificial and unscientific objects. These invented creatures had wings etched in brass using images from leaf skeletons and bodies made of sticks and nuts. They were presented in cases or in scientific-style sealed glass jars with small labels and solar panels. When exposed to light, the insects whirred into life. Another feature of her constructions has been her use of mechanisms which have to be switched on or operated by hand. She said that it is ‘like lifting the lid of a box to reveal an extra dimension, turning the viewer into a participator in the work.’ For the England & Co exhibitions Sartorial (2004) and After a Fashion (2005), Edden made a series of works based around clothing, including intricately fashioned minute garments made from hair, insect wings and feathers encased in clear resin blocks.
Recent work, first seen in her 2006 solo exhibition at England & Co, incorporates sound with photography. Scientific enquiry and observations from nature have combined with technology in Edden’s work ever since she received a BA in Industrial Design in 1988. She has exhibited in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo.