Participants
July 2017
JOSHUA SMITH
Joshua Smith has exhibited work at Albert Baronian (Brussels), White Flag Projects (St. Louis), Shanaynay (Paris), and in New York at Shoot The Lobster, SOUTHFIRST, Art Production Fund, Essex Flowers, West Street Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun, and John Connelly Presents. He cofounded the exhibition projects Essex Flowers, Apartment Show, and Commonwealth Contemporary. He is the founder of The Gun Violence Amendment. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, New York Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Interview, and Hyperallergic, among other publications.
January 2017
NATE HEIGES
Nate Heiges has just begun a private exhibition series, Interiors, showcasing the work of a single artist at a time in their own home. He has exhibited at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, the Suburban in Oak Park, IL, the Austin Museum of Art, the Houston Center for Photography, Franklin Streetworks in Stamford, CT, and Nina Johnson Galley in Miami as well as MoMA PS1, Marc Jancou Gallery, Still House Group Gallery, and Underdonk Gallery all in New York. His work is in the collection of the Drawing Center, New York. Mr. Heiges has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the T. A. J. Residency in Bangalore, India and the Shandaken Project. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and was awarded an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2010.
November 2016
SISTER
Sister Gallery consists of partners, Zuriel Waters and Jenny Lee. From 2014 to 2016, the gallery space held bi-monthly exhibitions in a window at 69 Irving Ave, in the heart of Bushwick. Waters and Lee met at Rhode Island School of Design, and moved to New York City in 2010. In addition to curatorial projects, Lee and Waters also write and paint. 
September 2016
ERIC RAMOS GUERRERO
Eric Ramos Guerrero is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. He was born in the Philippines and moved to California where he received a BA from San Diego State University. He then attended The School of The Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in 2006. The following year he moved to New York where Ramos Guerrero completed his MFA from Columbia University in 2009. Ramos Guerrero has shown his work in New York at The Drawing Center, El Museo Del Barrio, White Box, The Ise Cultural Foundation, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, The Knockdown Center and internationally at the Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China, Pongnoi Art Space, Chaing Mai, Thailand, The Centro Cultural De La Raza in Mexico and Chelsea College in London.
June 2016
KAITLIN MCDONOUGH
Kaitlin McDonough paints exuberant abstractions, often incorporating objects and nontraditional supports. She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art and her BFA from Boston University, Summa cum laude. McDonough’s work has been exhibited throughout Italy—in Venice, Rome, Vicenza, Bologna, Verona—and in Boston, New York, and Serbia. She is the recipient of the Temple University Project Completion Grant and has participated in a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. McDonough is currently based in Brooklyn, New York and works as the Program Coordinator of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
May 2016
KERRY DOWNEY and AMY ZION
Kerry Downey is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher whose work explores the political and sensorial ways we come in contact with each other. Downey's videos, prints, and performances reimagine the possibilities and limitations of gender, intimacy, and support in late capitalist America. Downey is a recent recipient of the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant and their work has recently been exhibited at LACE (Los Angeles, CA), The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (Annandale, NY), The Drawing Center (New York, NY), Taylor Macklin (Zurich), and REVERSE (Brooklyn, NY). Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. www.kerrydowney.com
Amy Zion is a writer, curator, and editor. From 2007-15 she was an editor at Fillip, a contemporary art magazine published out of Vancouver, Canada. Recent curatorial projects include Mother Tongue, a solo presentation by Danh Vo for the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and A.U.T.O.E.N.U.C.L.E.A.T.I.O.N., a solo presentation by Rasmus Røhling at Sismografo, an artist-run space in Porto, Portugal. She also provided curatorial assistance on the group exhibition Slip of the Tongue at Punta della dogana, Venice.
April 2016
IOANA MANOLACHE
Ioana Manolache is a painter and video artist investigating the potential of materiality and illusion within a flat plane through an observation of found detritus. Ioana was born and raised in Romania; she completed her BFA at Cooper Union (2011) and MFA at Columbia University (2015). She was a Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant nominee (2011, 2012) and was awarded a residency at the Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside (2014). Ioana’s curatorial projects include Stirring Still (2015) at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University and Walls (2011) at the Cooper Union. Her work was selected as Editor’s Choice in the New American Paintings MFA publication (2015) and was recently included in “Surface Tension” (2015), a group show of notable graduates organized by Saatchi Art. She has also presented her work in New York City at Judith Charles Gallery (2015), the Fisher Landau Center for Art (2015), the Wallach Gallery at Columbia University (2013), the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s “Last Brucennial” (2014) and Milavec Hakimi Gallery (2011) among others. Ioana is a gallery assistant at James Fuentes Gallery and she lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. https://www.ioanam.com/
March 2016
AMY BEECHER
Amy Beecher is an artist living and working in New York and Providence. Her work—painting, sculpture, installation, performance, ephemera and more—has been presented in art centers and galleries nationally, including recent exhibitions and programs at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY; Creative Time, Printed Matter and Bruce High Quality Foundation and Muelensteen Gallery, all in New York, NY; 7 Dunham Place, Garden Party Arts and Primetime, all in Brooklyn, NY; and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and Tiger Strikes Astroid, both in Philadelphia, PA. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Shandaken Project, Shandaken, NY and the Digital Media Center for Art at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Beecher holds a MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University. Beecher is visiting assistant professor of painting in the Art & Art History Department at Providence College.
February 2016
ANDREA ARRUBLA
Andrea Arrubla is a visual artist and poet in Brooklyn, NY. Arrubla is the Student Liaison at BHQFU, New York's freest art school. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at venues such as New York University's Gallatin School; Essex Flowers, New York; and has been featured in print in OSMOS Magazine and The Third Rail.
JANUARY 2016:
BETHANY IDES
Bethany Ides sets precarious parameters wherein roles & resources play actors & places as if everything extends itself uncertainly. In 2014, she founded DOORS UNLIMITED, a roving vessel for investigative operatics that proliferates communitarian-collaborative strategies for provisional-conditional experimenting in/with soap opera, encampment opera, opera-within-opera, telephone drama, dismantlement, dialectics, days & nights & neither, near-death, opera in bed, opera in spite of itself, opera in excess of itself, anti-institutional operatic awareness, protrusions, performance, sticks, schools, stones squares, soggy cereal, long songs, backlog, tending tender tendencies, like water, underwater, fake hair, carpet squares, contact paper, play mats, flooded currency, fluidity, liquid plumber, uncertainty.
Her multi-phasic, month-long opera, Transient’s Theme, premiered at the Knockdown Center in 2014, following a 2-month collective-convective convocation or composition involving 80 participants at a campground in the Catskills. Ides’ performance & installation work has been presented at Mandragoras Art Space (MAAS), Fragmental Museum, St. Marks Poetry Project, St. Francis College, Dixon Place, the Brooklyn Museum, the Gershwin Hotel, other places in other cities, & BOMB Magazine’s Instagram account. Additionally, she co-curates festivals, co-writes articles on sound theory, co-edits fugitive anthologies, harmonizes, & partners in movement with wonderful, really wonderful people for real & wonderful occasions too starry to count out. She is perennial artist-in-residence at the Prattsville Art Center & soon also at SenseLab in Montreal. Ides teaches at Pratt, Bard, SVA, & SUNY-Albany, & is being taught a lot.
NOVEMBER 2015:
JOSHUA SMITH
Joshua Smith has exhibited work at Albert Baronian (Brussels), White Flag Projects (St. Louis), Shanaynay (Paris), and in New York at Shoot The Lobster, SOUTHFIRST, Art Production Fund, Essex Flowers, West Street Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun, and John Connelly Presents. He cofounded the exhibition projects Essex Flowers, Apartment Show, and Commonwealth Contemporary. He is the founder of The Gun Violence Amendment. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, New York Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Interview, and Hyperallergic, among other publications.
FEBRUARY 2015:
MARIA STABIO
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro's Promise Land
Maria Stabio (b. 1985 San Francisco) is a first generation Filipino-American artist. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. For more information, visit mariastabio.com.
JANUARY 2015:
DORI LATMAN
Gerhard Richter's The Daily Practice of Painting
NOVEMBER 2014:
KATIE VIDA
Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters
OCTOBER 2014:
SONYA DERMAN
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer's Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece
