Sound and Vision

Dan Lam is a Dallas, Texas based sculptor who received her BFA from the University of North Texas and later completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University. She’s had solo and two person exhibits ar Hashimoto Contemporary. Anya Tish, the ICA Boston, The Hole Gallery, Black Book in Denver amongst others. Her work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Beautiful Bizarre, Colossal, Texas M...

Bridget Mullen is a visual artist who grew up in Minnesota. She received her BAE from Drake University and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She has been awarded many residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Fine Arts Work Center, The Jan Van Eyck Academie, The Lighthouse Works, The Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, and MacDowell. Bridget has exhibited in the US...

Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned an BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Museum, Crystal Bridges Mu...

Celeste Rapone received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 where she is an adjunct professor in painting and drawing. Celeste’s work has been exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad at Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Juli...

Anna Ortiz is a Mexican-American painter living in Brooklyn NY. She received her BA/BFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She earned an MFA in Painting from The Tyler School of Art.  She recently concluded her solo exhibition Hacia Aztlán at Dinner Gallery in Chelsea. She has also had solo shows at Proto Gomez and Adelphi University. Her work has been included...

Born in Manchester, England, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. She has a BFA in Theater from Central St. Martins, London, UK, and an MFA in Painting & Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Solo exhibitions include Shifting Structures: Survey (2019), Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA; Raked (2014), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Floor/Ceiling (2...

Nick Sowersby, known professionally as Sunbeam Sound Machine is an Australian multi-instrumentalist musician. Sunbeam Sound Machine first garnered attention with the 2013 EPs One and Sunbeam Sound Machine. In November 2014, the debut studio album Wonderer received widespread acclaim, leading to nationwide touring in Australia, followed by a tour of the US. In February 2019, Sunbeam Sound Machine r...

Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist, currently based in Miami. Her work has been exhibited at PROTO GOMEZ Gallery, New York, New York; Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Penn State University, Pennsylvania; Latino Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; Cuchifritos Gallery/Artist’s Alliance, New Yo...

Kevin Umaña was born in 1989 and grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. He received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and lives and works in Kansas City.  Umaña is the co-founder of The Ekru Project, an artist-run Kansas City gallery focused on contemporary, emerging and underrepresented artists. In 2017, he created a permanent installation at The United Nations Headquarters in Ne...

Madeleine Bialke (b. 1991 in New York) received her BFA in Studio Art from the Plattsburgh State University of New York, and earned an MFA in Painting at the Boston University, Massachusetts. Recent solo exhibitions include Death Motel at Newchild Gallery, Antwerp;  Nine Lives at Steve Turner, Los Angeles; Long Summer at Huxley- Parlour, London. She has exhibited in group shows at Max Hetzler, Ale...

Sophie Treppendahl is a painter currently based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her BA from College of Charleston in Charleston, SC in 2013. She currently has a solo exhibition at Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles, CA titled "Take Care of Yourself". She has had solo shows at Johannson Projects in Oakland in May 2022, Quirk Gallery in Richmond in November 2020, and Indianapolis Art Cente...

Ludovic Nkoth is a painter based in New York. Born in Cameroon in 1994, he moved with his family to Spartanburg, North Carolina, when he was 13 years old. After completing his undergraduate studies at UNC, he moved to New York to attend Hunter College's MFA program, which he finished in 2021. Last year, Nkoth was awarded a prestigious residency through the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where h...

Philip Akkerman (Vaassen, The Netherlands, 1957) is a painter of self-portraits. He studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague and Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem. In 1981 he began to paint self-portraits. His oeuvre now nears 5,000 self-portraits and is unique in its multiformity. Every self-portrait is unusual and the extraordinary variations appear endless. He lives in The Hague. Philip has...

Suzan Shutan is a CT based Artist, Curator, Educator and recipient of multiple grants including an Artslink grant, Art Matters grant, Berkshire Taconic Foundation grant, two NY Foundation for Contemporary Art grants and three CT Commission Artist Fellowships. She has attended artist residencies at Bemis Foundation NE, Yaddo NY, Proyecto Ace, Argentina. Her work has been featured in 23 solo exhibit...

Some highlights of conversations about music with artists interviewed in 2022. A year end look back at some music talk with Alice Tippet, Jose Lerma, Karen Krifka, Andrew Ross, Delphine Hennelly, Jean Pierre Roy and Evan Mast.

Cynthia Daignault received a BA in Art and Art History from Stanford University. She has presented solo exhibitions and projects at many major museums and galleries, including the New Museum of Contemporary art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and White Columns. Her work is in numero...

Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989 Ft. Myers, FL, US) completed an MFA at Hunter College, New York, NY (US) in 2020. He has had solo exhibitions with Hales Gallery, New York, NY (US) in 2021; Semiose Gallery, Paris (FR) in 2021 and 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US) in 2018. He has been shown in various international group exhibitions and was included in GRIMM’s Equal Affections exhibition in Amsterdam (NL) in...

Kamrooz Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recent exhibitions include: Elusive Ornament at Peter Blum Gallery in New York, Privacy, An Exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago, Un Objet, Un Geste at Galerie Mitterrand in Paris, Lives of Forms: Kamrooz Aram and Iman Issa, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium; The New Arabesque,...

Nick Doyle is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA in sculpture from Hunter College and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Doyle attended the Skowhegan school of painting and sculpture in 2014. From 2014­–2017 Doyle was a resident of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s workspace program. Solo exhibitions include his current exhibition at Perrotin Gallery...

Alvin Armstrong is a painter whose work explores the social and political landscape of Black American culture. His paintings are often filled with real and fictional subjects, culled from archival material, his community and lived experiences. He’s lived in Hawaii, Japan, and California all of which have informed his art practice. Armstrong received an MS in Eastern Medicine and was a licensed acu...

Ali Miller is a New York City-based artist from Long Island, NY, working in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Miller constructs fantastical nonlinear-narratives, addressing themes of expectation, using extreme and surreal scenarios. Miller received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting in 2012 and her BFA from Alfred University in 2008. She has attended...

Keita Morimoto is best known for his cityscapes and portraits painted with theatrical light that is reminiscent of Rembrandt and Edward Hopper. He brings classical techniques into the present and transforms mundane streets into extraordinary worlds. Through his practice, Morimoto questions the structural fragility and moral codes of contemporary life by focusing his attention on everyday subjects...

Vickie Vainionpää was born in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario. She earned her BA from the University of Waterloo in 2015. Starting with a generative computer script and ending as oil on canvas, her work considers the impact of technology on the process of painting. Vickie has had recent solo exhibitions at The Hole NYC and Galleria Nicola Pedana in Italy.  She has won many creative awards such as the Liz...

Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York City working first in book publishing, then as an editor and writer at Forbes Life magazine. An interest in photography books eventually led him to pick up a camera, shooting Garry Winogrand-inspired street...

Amy Pleasant received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1999).

Amy was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2018, the South Arts Prize for the State of Alabama (2018), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award (2015), Mary Hambidge Distinguished Artist Award (2015), Cult...