Keepsake

Andrew Alba (b.1986) is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based painter interested in exploring the fragile and tender balance between beauty and suffering. In a world overwhelmed with pain and heartache, Andrew uses thick impasto oil paint to reflect on the pervasive background noise of loss that permeates our daily lives. Often turning to the world of flowers, Andrew considers how petals can hold a fragment of our shared experiences, and how the perception of the landscape around us might shape our reality. Andrew's paintings offer a space for reflection and connection, encouraging us to find peace, beauty, and love even amidst the chaos.

Ben Skinner (b.1977) is a Canadian artist who explores the nature of language through the use of text and materiality. His works often combine mechanical production methods common in sign making with traditional materials and techniques, such as hand-applied gold leaf and silk marbling. The phrases within the works seamlessly weave together humor and pain to explore the incongruities of daily life. He graduated with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in 2000, and with an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003.

Carrie Crawford (b. 1969) is a painter and textile artist working with indigo and other natural dyes. Her organic shapes result from a series of dips into various vats of wild-crafted and handmade dye. Inspired in part by raw landscape and felt experience, her work attempts to link land and body through earthen materials. She resides in Fairfax, CA with her family.

Hayley Sheldon (b. 1984) is a West Palm Beach, Florida-based multidisciplinary sculptor and installation artist. With a focus on tactility and color, Hayley’s shaped screens explore fleeting experiences of the natural world, like the slow growth of plant life and the gentle shift of sunset to dusk. Distilled to discrete shapes and palettes, these individual pieces can be arranged and reconfigured to suit multiple installations and story-telling opportunities.

Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey (b. 1982) is a New York-based visual artist whose work is inspired by sacred geometry and the metaphysical mapping of space and time. Katrine achieves the geometric patterns in her work by burning her paper surface, allowing for chance to influence her ordered forms. Marked with intentionality and meticulous detail, Katrine’s work investigates the correlation between chaos and order, permanence and transience, and the interconnectivity of the universe.

Kayla Plosz Antiel (b. 1987) is a Candian-born artist living and working in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kayla approaches her work as an exploration of color, focusing on subtle shifts within monochromatic, analogous, and complementary schemes. Her extensive visual vocabulary incorporates folk and craft-inspired motifs with organic and geometric forms.

Langdon Graves creates drawings and installations that are steeped in mysticism, domesticity, and a surrealist examination of the intersection of the tangible and the unknown. In the liminal space of her work, Langdon delicately weaves together symbolic details found in belief systems and the systems of the human body. Langdon is a Virginia-born, New York-based artist with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Parsons School of Design, and is an adjunct faculty at Parsons and Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute. Langdon has had solo exhibitions in New York, Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, and Massachusetts and attended the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, the Kunstenaarsinitiatief Residency and Exhibition Program in the Netherlands, the Object Limited residency in Bisbee, Arizona.

Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Liesl Pfeffer (b.1979) is an artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Whether working in photography or textiles, Liesl is interested in the act of dissecting and reconstructing in order to achieve new meaning. In her photographs, Liesl constructs images of the natural and built environment using analog darkroom techniques, still-life photography and collage. Liesl’s textile works are composed of machine pieced and hand-quilted cotton sewn into both large and small tapestries. Inspired by marine signal flags used to communicate at great distances while at sea, Liesl’s textile works are an investigation in language and personal symbology.

Nicole Anastas (b. 1969) is a Los-Angeles based artist. With training in fashion and furniture design, Nicole's multifaceted creative background led her to develop a unique painting process that combines sewing, embroidering, and fraying, amongst other techniques, to create a richly textured surface. Her primarily monochromatic palette highlights each painting's elaborate surface and reinforces its topographic facade.

Cologne, Germany-based Olivia Botha (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, video, printmaking, poetry, and drawing. Her practice explores personal narratives, identity, and the ways in which both physical and imagined environments shape the present. Language, and how it is used and felt, remains a central thread in her work.

Xochi Solis (b. 1981) is an Austin, Texas-based mixed media artist. Her works include collaged paintings that explore color, texture, and shape through paint, collected paper ephemera, hand-dyed and marbled paper, plastics, and found images from books and magazines. Through a practiced process of layering materials, incorporating the visual depth and illusions of photographic surfaces, Xochi reflects on the visual complexities in her environment, both natural and cultural. Her work communicates a nuanced narrative about time, place, and sensation while grappling with how to represent an environment where her heritage, body, and dreams for the future co-exist.