This internationally recognized artist is currently represented in The Netherlands and Philadelphia. Recent projects include Album covers for Blue Note Records and custom artwork for the popular performance artist and singer FKA Twigs. Easton also has a 10 year history of live painting during American and European Jazz festivals! He has recently appeared on Dutch Televison discussing the importance of Jazz and Blues art in African American heritage.
The New York artist EASTON, his work has appeared in JazzTimes, BlueNote Records, The BRAVO Television Network, The National Basketball Association Television commercial, He shows in Paris, New York and The Netherlands. Also currently represented in Philadelphia by the Moody / Jones Art Gallery, represented in The Netherlands by Music Inspired Art Foundation
The Philadelphia Daily News wrote this article about the artist Easton:
IMMIGRANTS’ SON THRIVES AS AN ARTIST. By Anne R. Fabbri/ Philadelphia Daily News 2000
Easton Davy has the four most important ingredients for ‘making it’ as an artistalent, grit, innovation and a loyal patron. Add a heaping dose of a supportive. family and you have the perfect recipe for a wonderful exhibition at Dizyners Gallery, 65 N. 2nd St. There, Davy’s art takes over and the fun is all ours. He was born 37 years ago in the Bronx, to parents from Jamaica, who had dreams of moving to the Amish countryside in Pennsylvania. When Davy was 11, his parents bought a house with 30 acres in Montrose, Pa., packed up the four children and moved. Recreating their memories of Jamaica, they raised chickens, goats and pigs. ‘Most of the people in Montrose had never seen black people before, except in ‘The Jeffersons,” said Davy. ‘Then we moved in, with our New York clothes, bell-bottoms and every thing. It was very difficult for them the towns people, but in the end we became very close. It was great.’
His early life resembles every successful immigrant’s son’s tales: his father working as a welder; his mother a nurse’s aide with dreams of educating four children so they could have secure jobs and hopes for the future. His older brother graduated from business school and became an accountant. Something else was in store for Easton, the youngest.
‘I always knew I was an artist. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I drew pictures of my father running for the bus,’ said Davy. Davy’s career took off with jobs in Berkeley, Calif., and New York City, and time off in between to paint 24 hours a day. Now he works in all media, including silkscreen prints of famous jazz musicians from the past. Davy sells at art fairs, such as the one in Manayunk each spring. There, he met his patron, Adrian J. Moody, a noted Philadelphia attorney who began collecting his work. An art fair in Montclair New Jersey and a follow-up Christmas card to collectors resulted in a call for some drawings for the National Basketball Association’s publicity department. ‘When someone buys your work, they are buying a piece of you. You have to stay in touch,’ Davy said. ‘Every Christmas, I send each patron cards I have made, and I do the same every time I move, which is almost an nually. It always helps.’
Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and currently resides in New York City. Coronado was a resident teaching artist at the Hudson River Museum in New York. Has taught printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art, Georgetown University, and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he earned the Master of Fine Arts. Was a master printer for Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland; the Hand Print Workshop International in Alexandria, Virginia; and the Serie Print Project in Austin, Texas. He has been a visiting artist at Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles,
Coronado’s most recent solo exhibitions include Boundaries, Curated by Margaret Moulton, The Hastings Village Arts Commission Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY. Projects Photo / Prints, Gallery 410 GooDBudY. Washington, D.C, Construcciones – Obstrucciones 2005 – 10 at Casa de Teatro Santo Domingo DR for the PhotoImagen Biennial and at the Center for the Digital Arts, Westchester Community College, New York. Obstrucciones, Gallery 101, Georgetown University, Washington DC, and Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. His group exhibitions include Crossing Boarders at Arts Westchester Gallery, curated by Kathleen Reckling. Superreal at El Museo del Barrio, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado. El Panal/The Hive, Trienal Poli-Grafica de San Juan Puerto Rico; curated by Deborah Cullen, 6th international Printmaking biennial of Douro, Portugal. curated by Nuno Canela and, “Directions: DC Contemporary Latino Art,” Frida Kahlo Gallery, Cultural Institute of Mexico, Washington, DC. curated by Laura Roulet.
Coronado’s work is in many collections including Smithsonian American Art Museum, CUNY Dominican studies Institute, The City College of New York City, El Museo el Barrio, the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Georgetown University, Lauinger Memorial Library of Rare Books and Prints Collection, the Library of Congress, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Art Collection, District of Columbia Government: Arts and Humanities Commission, El Paso Museum of Art and Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas.
Gharan Burton is an academically trained artist who resides in the US most of the year but spends winter months in the Caribbean. Born and raised in Dominica , Gharan attended college in the US where his studies focused mostly on painting and sculpture. He enjoys painting the figure, still lives, landscapes and abstract experimental works. Vibrant colors inspired by his island upbringing, dominate Gharan’s paintings. He also employs various techniques of pigment application and layering in order to create texture in his work.
A true renaissance man at heart, Gharan is also currently a landscaper, in the upstate NY region of Plattsburgh. A strong connection to the land has also inspired Gharan to embark on a cocoa project, to grow cocoa on family land in order to someday start a chocolate business. Gharan’s sculptures range from very small table top pieces and wall hangings to large scale outdoor works. Whether landscaping or planting fields of cocoa in Dominica the artists eye and hand are ever present in Gharan’s work.
Suprina’s finesse with found objects comes from her work as a sculptor and prop maker for clients such as Annie Leibovitz, Apple, Bloomingdales, Fortunoff and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Her artworks deal with the human condition and social issues and incorporate detritus, castings, modeling, and painting. She has created a number of public art projects including the DNA Totem featured in the FLUX Art Fair 2016, now on view at the Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY through spring 2017. Other public art commissions and awards include Figment NYC 2012, ‘Best Portfolio’ by Pro Arts 2013 and 2015 and grants by the Puffin Foundation and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Suprina made a splash in 2013 when thirty-two of her sculptures installed in the Morristown courthouse were deemed dangerous to the public by the County Sheriff, who placed a 24/7 guard on the work and ordered them removed. The experience inspired Suprina to create a series of ‘Dangerous Art’ and another series related to the theme of ‘Injustice in the Justice System’.
Sui Park is a New York based artist and an interior architect born in Seoul, Korea. Her work involves creating 3-dimensional flexible organic forms of a comfortable ambiance that are yet dynamic and possibly mystical or illusionary. She recently had a solo exhibition ‘Playing with Perception’ at the Denise Bibro Fine Gallery in Chelsea, New York in April 2016. She also had a solo exhibition ‘Garden of Humans’ at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY in March 2016. She participated over 50 exhibitions, including a two-person exhibition, Uncommon Landscapes, Art FLUX Harlem, New York, July 2016. Sui Park is also a Bronze Awardee in ‘2013-2014 A’ Design Award’ in Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design Category with her design ‘SuiTable’. Sui Park’s education includes MDes in Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and BFA in Environmental Design at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Sui Park also has MFA and BFA in Fiber Art at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
Shani Peters (b. 1981 Lansing, MI) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City. Her practice encompasses community building, activism histories, the subversion of popular media, and the creation of accessible imaginative experiences. Peters holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.F.A. from the City College of New York. Her exhibitions and presentations in the United States and abroad include the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in South Korea; and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare. Selected residencies include those hosted Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Laundromat Project, and Project Row Houses, as well as a residency in Seoul, South Korea sponsored by apexart. Peters’ work has been featured in the Art Papers magazine and the New York Times. Her work is recognized and supported by several awards and grants from institutions such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Peters is an educator, focusing her teaching at the intersection of art and politics.
Rejin Leys is a mixed media artist and community papermaker based in New York, whose drawings and artist’s books have been exhibited at such venues as Centro Culturel de Espana, Santo Domingo; Kentler International Drawing Space, NY; Queens Museum, NY; and Les Ateliers J.R. Jerome, PaP, Haiti. Her work is in the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Yale University, and Rutgers University Caribbean Studies Department, and she is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Leslie Jiménez is a Dominican multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in NY where she works and lives with her husband, daughter and two blood parrot fish. Ms. Jiménez graduated from the prestigious Altos de Chavón School of Design, in the Dominican Republic. She was awarded a full scholarship and graduated with honors from Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Leslie’s work has been exhibited in galleries in NYC, Washington DC, Barbados, Santo Domingo, SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair NY, and New York Presbyterian – The Allen Hospital. Other venues include PBS, and online magazine Mashable. Jiménez has been invited to talk about her work at El Museo del Barrio, CNN en Español, Rutgers University, City College, Art In FLUX and Parsons The New School.
As an Access Assemblage interdisciplinary visual artist and writer Elan’s works are grounded in family, historical imagery, personal narrative, memory and identity. She is interested in power dynamics that exist in families, how individuals form identity under these influences and how that is interjected into society and popular culture. Elan studied Advertisement, Design and Photography at FIT and graduated from City College of New York City with a BA in Studio Art and Education, 2008. She has instructed young people in the arts for 16 years at the Brooklyn Museum and many upper Manhattan institutions such as Say Yes To Education (affiliated with Columbia’s Teachers College), Harlem School of the Arts, Thurgood Marshall Upper and Lower Academies, Harlem Gems (Harlem Children Zone), No Longer Empty, Cool Culture, Bank Street College, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Historical Society, Center for Arts Education. She is currently an MFA candidate at SVA.
Aya Rodriguez-Izumi is an artist living and working in Harlem whose practice includes sculpture, music, installation and performance. Her work deals with how communication informs enculturation and molds the understanding of the self. She approaches this theme often in a satirical manner and calls on personal experiences of grappling with her own cultural identity. She has spent her life moving back and forth between New York City and her birthplace of Okinawa, Japan. Being half Cuban/Puerto Rican and Okinawan/Japanese, socio-cultural identity has always been a focus of her work and life. Since graduating from Parsons the New School for Design she has been included in various group shows and has shown at such venues as MoCADA, The Knockdown Center, Free Candy and FLUX Art Fair among others. She is currently an MFA candidate at SVA.