My name is Aleksander Kazimierz Betko. I was born in Katowice, Poland in 1976. To say that I was born into a tumultuous environment would be an understatement. Poland was in a state of turmoil; it’s political climate lead to a chain of events that brought my family here. We started over.
I arrived in New York City, lovely JFK, in the beginning of winter 1980 soon to be 1981. We got a Polish Pope who supported Solidarity and now the world was watching. Ronald Reagan was elected, sworn in, shot soon after and I learned English from Sesame Street.
Instagram: @abetko
Website: aleksanderbetko.net
Allison Eden designs stained glass and mirror mosaic artwork for interiors. Allison’s works have been featured in residences and hospitality projects worldwide.
Instagram: @allisonedenstudios
Website: www.allisoneden.com
Born in Australia, Andrew Chan has a B.A. in Architecture and an M.A. from New York University. He now lives in New York since 1999 and has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and a residency at The Lower East Side Print Shop. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and CNN. He has exhibited at the Bronx Museum’s AIM 30 Biennial and at Randall’s Island Sports Center.
Instagram: @andrewchanart
Website: Andrewchanart.com
Angie Brklyn is a visual artist, born & raised in Brooklyn, New York. She has been dabbling in many different art forms from early in life. A complex collage of a person she is grateful for art an outlet for emotion.
Website: angiebrklyn.com
I am a human first I happen to be a painter and japanese born To display life, and to develop a Big heart are the most important techniques and goals for me. I believe that my paintings follow me and grow with me …just because painting is the voice of my soul.
Instagram: @ayanekurai
Website: ayanekurai.com
Caroline Wayne uses meticulous hand-sewn beadwork to illustrate autobiographical stories of trauma, sexuality, intimacy, and growth, in an attempt to communicate through craftsmanship. Detailed beading and cyclical patterning emphasize the consistent labor in the repetitive motion of hand-sewing, that which mirrors the emotional and psychic labor expended in order to manage the suffering a body can accumulate over time. Whether illustrating symbols of childhood abuse, its resultant patterns of thought and behavior, or the process of healing, Wayne’s sculptures translate the life experience of a survivor of complex trauma through the lens of glittering beadwork, rendering a harrowing reality easier to digest.
Instagram: @caroline__wayne
Website: www.carolinewayne.com
Chihiro Ito is a Brooklyn-based painter and media artist from Tokyo.
Instagram: @noworldprojectspace, @chihiro_ito_365
Website: https://www.chihiroito.com
Jane Sangerman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from SUNY Buffalo. She has had one and two person shows in many cities including New York City and Chicago and has exhibited nationally and internationally. In addition to teaching art at Ramapo College, her experience also comprises various visiting artist and guest lecture opportunities including the Parsons School of Design at The American School in Paris, The Glasgow School of Art, The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery and The University of Northern Arizona. Jane received Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. In addition, she has received The Jerome Foundation Fellowship and the Illinois Painters Three Award. Her artwork is part of more than 25 public collections including the New York City Public Library and The Brooklyn Museum.
Instagram: @janesangerman
Website: www.janesangerman.com
Julia Sinelnikova, aka ORACLE666, is a Russian-Israeli sculptor, light artist, and musician focused on immersive installation.
Instagram: @or_acle
Website: www.juliasinelnikova.com, allmylinks.com/oracle666
Katie Schuessler seeks to examine the impact of self-expression on healing from trauma. Her art centers on two paths: her personal journey as she explores intuition and healing through meditation and art-making, and the path of working with others to discover their own inner worlds through the creative process.
Instagram: @innervisionsstudios
Website: https://www.innervisionsstudios.com/
Abstract oil painter inspired by biology, nature and the body.
Instagram: @kierastuart
Website: kierastuart.com
La Femme is an illustrator and street artist from Staten Island NYC. She’s been drawing since she was a child and painting street murals for 4 years. La Femme hopes to put more focus into making music, animations, and experimenting with augmented reality in the coming years. La Femme is an official Arts In Bushwick hub resident.
Instagram: @la_femme_cheri
Lydia McCarthy’s work has been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, NAU Gallery and Galerie Verkligheten in Sweden and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia received a yearlong American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship in 2011. Her book Vision 5: The Vibratory Waves of External Unity was released with Silent Face Projects at the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 in 2017. Lydia is an Associate Professor of Photography in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University.
Instagram: @lydiamccarthy, @essexflowers
Website: https://lydiamccarthy.com/, https://essexflowers.us/NOT-ONE-DAY
Lynnette Therese Sauer is a visual artist and arts administrator who lives in Brooklyn, NY and works in her Ridgewood studio, both located on Lenape land. She received her BFA in painting from the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis, IN. Her paintings and drawings use observation of patterns to consider attention, embodiment, and communion.
Instagram: @lynnettetherese
Website: lynnettetherese.com
Luz Angélica Fernández is a multidisciplinary artist and native New Yorker whose work bridges the intersections between art, design, and technology. As a co-founder of the brand HECHA / 做, Fernández focuses in design and production management, as well as paints the fabric used for the garments. In her personal body of work, Fernández’s paintings draw on the origins of abstract expressionism and the semiotics of the internet age. She incorporates neon-like lighting in some of her pieces, highlighting her contemplative mark-making to reflect the physical residue of the passage of time in a post-industrial city. Through her works Fernández channels memory and emotion by creating metaphor and building textural and sculptural color worlds from her immediate experiences.
Instagram: @pocketlu, @hecha_nyc, @maketechnoblackagain
Website: http://luzangelicafernandez.com/, https://hechanyc.com/, https://www.maketechnoblackagain.com/
My work is about the nature of reality and how it is manifest between abstraction and representation from our consciousness to compose our local and expanded environments, including our relationships to each other as well as those to the reaches of our observable universe.
I currently have a selection from the Mantras on view as well as a variety of paintings, bas-reliefs, and sculptures from the series, “Transfigurations of our Model-dependent Reality.
@markstaffordart
Website: www.MarkStafford.art
Santina Amato is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist who was born in Australia to Italian immigrants. Her work incorporates photography, sculpture, site specific installations, performance and painting using ephemeral domestic materials such as bread dough, fresh fruit and vegetables, and bed sheets to create work that seem familiar yet uncannily dissociated from their original context and use. She is a Graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has held the position of artist in residence at MOCA Tucson in Arizona, MASS MoCA in Massachusetts, Crosstown Arts in Memphis and CharNorth in Pine Plaines, New York. Amato has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally and has been supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Australian Council for the Arts.
Instagram: @santina_amato
Website: santinaamato.com
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Corey Jermaine’s work has focused on documenting the personal style and particular aesthetic of the Bushwick residents whom have transformed the residential neighborhood into a younger, creative community.
Instagram: @corey_jermaine
Website: coreyjermaine.com
Senetchut Men Ab Nehti, best known as Sen Floyd, is a Brooklyn-born director and photographer. Having picked up a camera in his early teen years as a means of creative expression, Senetchut transformed a hobby into a lifelong passion.
Instagram: @sen.floyd
Website: senfloydproductions.com
