Artist Bios and Links from our Winter Showcase:
Ray Atlas
Statement and Bio
Artist Statement
This series, titled “We dream of a world not threatened by destruction,” is informed by ancestral notions of faith and diaspora passed down by my grandfather, a survivor of Nazi occupation and imprisonment at Auschwitz, as well as my own experiences as an American Jew reckoning with notions of place and statehood. For my entire life, Judaism has been about the wisdom of the past, about refusing to let history repeat itself. Since October 2023, I have been faced with the echoes of descriptions heard in my grandfather’s voice, in the name of protecting my family. I fear that I am watching a great part of my people use my faith to justify doing unto others what has been done to us.
Through my work, I strive to carry out what I perceive to be a moral, religious, hereditary obligation to those who have not yet been liberated as one of a people who have been taught to recognize and counter oppression, while questioning narratives of Israeli Zionism as intrinsic to Jewish values. We as Jews know injustice. We know oppression, and we are obliged to counter it.
All proceeds from the series go to those they depict, or to a family facing similar circumstances if the original reference is uncontactable. In the latter case, I use Operation Olive Branch, a grassroots humanitarian organization that keeps a spreadsheet constantly updated with links to support families seeking aid, in order to locate beneficiaries.
Bio
I am a New-York based, born, and raised freelance artist currently studying at Barnard College of Columbia University. Themes of migration, diaspora, and identity have been present in the questions I have asked since I was old enough to understand my heritage. I have worked in humanitarian portraiture for mutual aid since 2020, and since April 2024 I have been developing a series of oil paintings depicting displaced children in the West Bank. It is my conviction that through their work, artists access uniquely significant potential for social change, and I hope to affect such change myself.
Links
@RAYS_PAINTS– rayatlas.com – Proceeds will go to Abed Zagout, the photojournalist who captured the portrait’s inspiration, who has escaped with his family to Egypt and is attempting to rebuild their lives: https://gofund.me/abfdfb32
Henry Bohan
Statement and Bio
Artist Statement
Images are more important to Henry Bohan than objects. Images are more important in general.
Bio
Henry Bohan is an artist and writer from Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Providence, Rhode Island and then came back. Bohan’s practice is largely relegated to abstract poems and grids. The most important things to him are images and grids.
Noah Boulton
Statement and Bio
Artist Statement
My work emerges from the tension between creation and erasure. Growing up amidst the vibrant, ephemeral world of New York street art, I became fascinated with how marks are layered, defaced, or overwritten—a process that echoes the cycles of renewal and decay found in both human and natural systems. This dynamic informs my practice, where painting becomes a space for open-ended inquiry rather than resolution.
I am less concerned with producing beautiful images than with exploring the act of marking itself. Each gesture is a question, an acceptance of uncertainty, and an opportunity to move forward without definitive answers. My compositions evolve through an embrace of imperfection and an openness to transformation, reflecting a desire to hold space for what is unresolved. Through my work, I seek to create moments of reflection that honor the transient and unrepeatable nature of the creative process.
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Born and raised in New York, Noah Boulton is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice reflects an ongoing exploration of time, gesture, and the philosophy of impermanence. With a background in philosophy, modern art theory, and illustration, Noah draws inspiration from the cyclical nature of creation and destruction, influenced by the fleeting presence of street art and graffiti in urban landscapes. Their work often bridges abstraction and figuration, informed by a deep interest in the interplay between materiality and metaphysical questioning. Recent endeavors include left-handed drawings and watercolors prompted by a physical recovery period, as well as a return to studying human figures and the masters of classical art.
Jane Burton
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Artist Statement
Jane Burton’s “Magic Eye” is comprised of images from magazines, a tai chi textbook, various art books, and the magic eye book for which it was named. The work contrasts the abstract and non subjective magic eye images with those of editorial shoots, political magazines, playboys, pictograms, and other resources gathered by Jane Burton. Burton’s collaging practice centers around finding images and arrangements that connect with her more so than organization around a central theme —this particular piece has no explicit themes, and is open to viewer interpretation. The most important part of the collage process for Burton is the collection and organization of materials — finding images from across different forms of media and seeing how they interact and clash.
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Jane Burton is a Rhode Island native and New York based artist who largely works in collage and fiber arts. This is her first show.
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Mateo Chamorro
Eoin Dennis
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Artist Statement
Eoin is a New York based artist oscillating between Rochester and the Hudson Valley. Stimulated by magical realism, American folk art, and contemporary wizardry, he imbues a sense of animism in his work and crafts them as talismans and spells. Drawing inspiration from the organic aesthetics of upstate New York, Eoin summons a correlation between the human spirit and the natural world.
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Born 1999, Eoin is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on drawing and painting. With a BFA degree in just that, Eoin has currently been using his talents and connections to work more behind the scenes. In his final year at school, Eoin organized monthly exhibition/ social nights out of his apartment in New Paltz NY which featured local/ student artists around the Hudson Valley as well as performance artist and bands. In May, he worked with a New Paltz non-profit, Unison Arts, and curated a pop – up show on queer vulnerability and community. Currently he is the Artist in Residence manager for the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York.
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Manuel Hernandez
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Artist Statement
In his artistic practice, Hernandez creates rough surfaces attached to walls which are subsequently painted using a dry brush method, creating an impression reminiscent of old murals. Populated by images where present life blends and bleeds into the historical and mythological, this methodology acts both as a tribute to the Mexican Muralist movement and to the ancient fresco murals of Teotihuacan. By adopting this method of work, Hernandez’s large-scale paintings integrate the past with contemporary attitudes and ways of life, creating an opportunity to reevaluate historical narratives
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Manuel Hernandez is a Mexico City born painter based out of New York City. He received a BFA from Indiana University Southeast in 2021. In 2023, Manuel graduated with his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, and teaches art classes at Gantry View School in Long Island City, Queens. Manuel’s work has been featured in collections such as the Gochman Family Collection, Speed Art Museum and 21C Museum. In 2023, he received the Gucci America scholarship as well as the Gamblin Award. Manuel has exhibited his work around the world, including a recent solo show with Denmark’s Gallery Poulsen, as well as a solo Exhibition in Philadelphia through Frieda for Generations. His works are inspired by family stories, historical research, and his travels spent exploring the art and ruins of his ancestors.
Hannah Knowles
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Artist Statement
Knowles explores a kind of existential rumination through imagery. She is dedicated to using figurative representation as a means of communicating morbid and tender emotive realities integral to the human experience.
Currently she is developing a body of work concerned with the virtually and physically transfused condition of the digital age. She understands the internet as the greatest instrument of mass surveillance in history, while contending the fruits and pleasures that come along with it. She grapples with the ubiquitous presence of this information network in every vector of human life. Her work integrates imagery informed by ongoing research, and explores how technology augments the terms and conditions of being, on an individual and global scale. Simultaneously, she faithfully maintains a drawing practice to maintain her humanity.
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Hanna Knowles (b. 2003, Chicago) is a Providence-based artist, currently studying Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and focusing on Computation, Technology, and Culture.
Macey Keung
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Artist Statement
Antifragile Zine’s Issue Four, titled “ANACHRONISM,” is a 130-page print publication featuring contributions from over 80 Gen Z artists worldwide. The content delves into themes pertinent to Generation Z, such as social media, escapism, nihilism, and mass consumption. “ANACHRONISM” explores Gen Z’s nostalgic fascination with the past as a response to modern challenges like mass consumption, political polarization, and societal pressures. It serves as a collective diary, reflecting the generation’s identity, nonconformity, and yearning for meaningful connection amongst the digital chaos.
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Antifragile Zine is an media platform, artist collective, and independent magazine created by and for youth artists. We exist online, in-print, and in-person, but above all — we are a COMMUNITY. We provide the opportunity for marginalized youth artists, especially those who have felt unseen in mainstream media, highlighting those who identify as queer, women and non-binary BIPOC, a safe space to connect, grow, and develop their creative aspirations.
Ojeda Olavarría
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Michael Raymond
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Artist Statement
Through the plundering of the conceptual tropes of post-modern painting and the use of demotic imagery, I explore the limits and possibilities of abstraction. From cheap markers to oil paint, my use of disparate mediums creates an inherent visual discord. The unresolved contradictions and juxtapositions of my paintings reveal themselves matter-of-factly, elevating the value of material and intention equally to that of the image in itself. I avoid steely indifference and nihilism by finding edge in the playful and self-evidently joyous act of mark-making; the tactility of creating images.
Aline Sol
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Artist Statement
Aline has always enjoyed holding the camera low to the ground and seeing the ways the camera can distort perspective. To distort in photography means to mess with the truth, to take a mirror to what is real and change what is seen by movement of the position around it. Aline chases spontaneous moments of stillness in urban life where a single shadow creates an angle that captures the complexity of light hitting the earth. She aims capture abstract shapes created by shadow and light. Her photos, often void of people or a direct subject, aim to focus the viewers eye on whats overlooked, making them the subject of the work. Her favorite subject is the invisible wall that is created between two opposites in calm moments.
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Aline has been drawing to combat boredom and explore her imagination from a young age. With a passion for homes and buildings, she learned ways to use perspective to create convincing 3D structures on a 2D plane. She is inspired by oddities and real-life weirdness. A large part of her portfolio includes paintings of rooms, as she loves to explore how environments create stories. After moving to New York to study media, culture, and communications, she found herself drawn to capturing her observations in photos. Taking photos on whatever device she has on hand. She aims to show that iphone or samsung photos can be a starting point for distortion or messing with the truth. In spring of 2024 she came across a $12 35mm point and shoot in Brussels and has been taking photos as she wanders the streets with it since.
Suki Watashi
Statement and Bio
Artist Statement
Hello, I’m Suki Watashi. As a painter, I weave together vibrant colors, textures, and emotions to create mixed media pieces that explore the intersections of identity, spirituality, and social justice.
Inspired by the expressive brushstrokes of fauvism, my work often bursts with bold, unapologetic hues. But beneath the surface, I’m probing deeper questions about gentrification, cultural heritage, and the human experience.
Through my art, I aim to spark conversations, not conclusions. I believe that creativity can be a powerful catalyst for empathy, understanding, and collective growth.
I’m grateful to have shared my work with communities through exhibitions at the Soundview Economic Hub and AVA Gallery in Manhattan, NY. Join me on this journey as I continue to explore, express, and connect through art.
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Suki Watashi is a visionary mixed-media artist known for vibrant, thought-provoking works that intersect spirituality, identity, and social commentary. Through a dynamic fusion of acrylic on canvas, cyanotype, and mixed media, Watashi’s art embodies the expressive intensity of Fauvism, while tackling pressing issues like gentrification and cultural displacement.
Based in New York City, Watashi has garnered attention for their immersive installations and showcases. Notable exhibitions include their debut installation at the Soundview Economic Hub and a recent showcase at the esteemed AVA Gallery in Manhattan. Through their art, Watashi invites viewers to contemplate the intricate relationships between self, community, and the urban landscape.
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