Art

Adel Souto is an artist, writer, and musician, currently living in Brooklyn. He has contributed to numerous magazines, fanzines and websites, while releasing several books; including a “best of”, plus a chapbook on a 30-day vow of silence, and even translating the works of Spanish poets. Both, his art and photography, has shown throughout the U.S., as well as Europe, and South America. His music videos have screened at Anthology Film Archives, and he has lectured at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture. He produces the public access tv show, Brooklyn’s Alright, and is involved with the musical outfit 156.

Ashley Czajkowski is a photography-based artist working in a number of interdisciplinary methods including printmaking, video and installation. Driven by her own experience, she explores the social constructions related to childhood, mythology, and the psychological manifestation of and the human-animal. Czajkowski evokes methods of symbolism and storytelling to explore these themes in her work. Ashley earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in photography in 2009 from Emporia State University in Kansas. Currently residing in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ashley is a Master’s of Fine Art Candidate at Arizona State Universtiy as well as the Assistant Curator of Tilt Gallery.

Dale Williams has exhibited his work in the New York City area for the past 25 years. His last one-person show, “Cage Dies Bird Flies – 81 paintings,” an ongoing collaborative project with writer Ben Miller, was held in March 2015 at Vanderbilt Republic’s Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been published in BOMB, Ecotone, tNY Press, and other journals. Williams attended the Cooper Union, Cal Arts, and Hunter College. He is a 2014 fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughter.

Diane Silver’s work explores fragments of dreams and memory through gestural marks, symbols, and collage elements. She is drawn toward writing for it’s visual beauty and as a means of communication.  Her work has been exhibited by Gebert Contemporary, Art Intersection, Shemer Art Center, Central Gallery, Herberger Theater and Phoenix Airport Museum. Her work has been published in American Art Collector, ARTiculate and Vortex. She has studied art at New York University, Scottsdale Artist’s School, SCC, and Anderson Ranch, as well as receiving a JD degree from Boston College. She is represented by Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ.

I have been collaborating with painter Laura Bell on the “Corpse” series since 2005. I was partly inspired to initiate the series by the collage methods I was using in my poems. I have always been fascinated by collaboration in art forms such as painting and writing, which are usually solo endeavors. The Corpses quickly became a more ambitious project than I had at first imagined.   

Ian Ganassi’s poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including, most recently, New American Writing, Mad Hatter’s Review, and Interim.

Josh Loeser is a Phoenix area native. He graduated from Arizona State with a BFA in photography in 2014, and has exhibited work locally. Deeply interested in portraiture, he photographs people he knows as part of an ongoing conversation between himself and his friends. He looks forward to attending graduate school at some point in the future.  

Kate MacDowell’s hand-built porcelain sculptures respond to environmental threats and their consequences, revealing the rifts and frictions between man and nature. Based out of Portland, Oregon, her work has been shown throughout the US, Japan and Europe and at Scope Miami and New York, ArtAmsterdam, ArtHamptons, Art London, London Art Fair, Showoff Paris, Art Paris, Solo Project Basel, NEXT and Art Chicago fairs. She was recently an artist in residence at the Kohler Arts and Industry Program and recently had work in group exhibits at the JM Kohler Arts Center(Wisconsin), and Museum of Arts and Design (NY).

I met Ian as an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony. Our collaboration, “The Corpses” (from the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse), began with a coffee-stained poem Ian mailed to me; I added something and sent it back. It’s a visceral process: the anti-Photoshop. Called “joyously Fluxus-like” by Robert Shuster in the Village Voice, the series has been evolving for a decade. 

Laura Bell’s paintings and collages have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Berlin, and elsewhere. She lives, paints, and makes Corpses in Long Island City, New York

Rembrandt Quiballo’s work utilizes the moving image to explore mass media and its effects on hegemonic history. He was born in the city of Manila in the Philippines. His family left the country amidst outbreak of revolution and eventually immigrated to the United States. He received a BFA in Painting/Photography and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Arizona. He received his MFA in Photography at Arizona State University and has shown nationally and internationally, most recently at the Cairo Video Festival in Cairo Egypt.

Whether I’m mixing plaster with rope, welding steel or putting the chisel to wood, with every stroke, cut or mark on paper, I am mending my soul and expanding my consciousness. Through my art making I am able to understand myself, and it is through understanding myself that I am able to understand, and communicate with the world around me. Art making is naturally a rebellious act. The life of an artist alone is a powerful force against all that is unnatural and dehumanizing.