Keepsake

Adam Frezza (b. 1977) and Terri Chiao (b. 1981) are a collaborative artist duo based in Brooklyn, NY. Heavily invested in the spirit of play and experimentation, Adam and Terri create fantastical works of art that incorporate unusual textures and unexpected forms. Humor, color and pattern intersect to immerse the viewer in the artists’ world of wonderment.

Adrian Kay Wong (b. 1991) presents encapsulated moments that display a focused lens on the intimate, familiar, and human connection. Wong explores the interactions between negative space and figure, segmenting his surfaces with shapes that are collectively representational, but independently function as abstract forms. By exacting an extreme flatness that forces ground and figure on more equal planes, Wong also levels the attention between primary subject and contextual elements. The paintings are distinctively personal through the portrayal of narratives that are often sourced from his own adolescence. By investigating these sentimentalities with a deliberate and measured simplicity, Wong attempts to glorify the ordinary and reimagine the everyday. Wong was raised in the east San Francisco Bay area and now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013.

Anastasia Greer (b. 1991) is an artist living and working in Marquette, MI. Anastasia takes a multimedia approach to painting through the incorporation of textiles which she hand prints and stretches. Eliciting a graphic representation of language, Anastasia’s work functions as a humorous and playful set of runes provoking curiosity and wonder.

Bbblob (pronounced blob) is the moniker of Singapore-based artist Jacelyn Zhen (b. 1993). Working across printmaking, painting, and sculpture, her vivid, geometric forms tesselate between each other, reflecting the relationship between ourselves and others. Bbblob’s works explore the rhythmic harmony of color and form and the transient quality of emotions.

Blake Aaseby (b.1991) is an artist living and working out of the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from Azusa Pacific University. Blake’s work is an attempt to understand and explore memory, location, and place through various forms of mapping and layered mark-making.

Bryce Anderson’s practice explores the potential of images, using print, collage and painting to re-situate found material into new constellations. Anderson’s work appropriates images drawn from popular culture and art historical references to explore notions of authorship, chance, reproduction and the still life motif. By using this broad visual language, Anderson aims to push against the traditional divergence between figuration and abstraction, and understand what significance the act of painting still holds within contemporary art.

Chad Kouri (b. 1985) is a Chicago, Illinois-based artist known for his intuitive, vibrant compositions that utilize the holistic properties of color and abstraction. His mixed-race identity is mirrored by his multidisciplinary studio practice, focusing broadly on visual art, music, and design while considering theories based in minimalism, color theory, semiotics, improvisation, and radical joy. Utilizing a wide range of skillsets and strategies, Kouri reminds us to stay curious and make time for play, rest, and introspection, enabling us more bandwidth for mutual aid and collective community care.

Erik Barthels (b. 1980) is a Mandeville, Louisiana-based painter creating colorful abstractions that harness the power of chance to explore color and form. Working primarily in watercolor and thin washes of acrylic, Erik uses a squeegee to spread thin washes of pigment across his paper to create fluid arches of organic pattern. Erik's languid compositions are occasionally obstructed by collage elements that supplant the subtle nuances of paint with hard-edged geometries.

Erin Zhao (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA working in printmaking, painting, and installation. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Erin’s work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Paying particular attention to the interaction of light and form, Erin uses transparency and abstraction to mimic the ethereal and elusive nature of human consciousness.

Jocelyn Tsaih (b. 1992) is a Taiwan-born, Shanghai-raised artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. The focal aspect of her work is an amorphous figure originally created to represent the universal soul. Through her figurative-yet-abstract work, she strives to make sense of the human experience through her own perspective while hoping that others can simultaneously see themselves within it. The reflective nature of her work exists in parallel to her observations of our fundamental need for connection and communication - the back and forth, the give and take.

Based between San Diego, California and Baja, Mexico, Karina Bania is a mixed-media painter whose works relate to landscape and geography. Karina’s paintings feature pale hues and layers of subtle texture, often incorporating traditional pigments and dyes in stains and washes. Focusing on harmony between spontaneity and intention, each discrete shape in her paintings provokes a conversation between visible and unseen landscapes.

Laura Naples (b. 1979) is an artist based in Hudson, Ohio. Laura's work explores the energy of wonder she perceives in the natural world and objects shaped by human hands. A former graphic designer, dancer, and calligraphy artist, Laura senses the subtleties of form, rhythm, and line. She applies diluted acrylic washes to canvas and paper, allowing water to diffuse pigments into gradient textures. Contrasts unfold across stances of surrender and intention as she layers gestural marks; then, accents alignments with linework. Laura cultivates rituals of meditation, movement, and self-inquiry that are fostered, infused, and embodied in her work.

Lourenço Provîdencia portrays his subject's most essential qualities through minimalist paintings that value an economy of line and color.

Senem Oezdogan (b. 1980) is a Brooklyn-based mixed media artist whose works meditate on the visual phenomenon of optical illusions through color and form. Smooth gradients give a sense of volume to the bold shapes depicted in Senem’s work that are subsequently flattened by her illusionistic use of spatial composition. Her color palette is equally beguiling, disrupting foreground and background and constantly forcing the viewer to reorient their sense of perspective.

Tyler Scheidt (b. 1988) is a San Francisco-based painter whose abstract works explore the relationship between objects, space, and the human experience. Tyler’s multilayered paintings evolve organically with dynamic ranges of texture, form, color, and collage. Working intuitively, Tyler’s paintings allude to plant life, horizon lines, and gradient light spectrums suspended within his illusionistic paint surface.