Anna Kunz was born in Chicago, Illinois, where she continues to live and work. After receiving her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Kunz went on to complete her MFA at Northwestern University, eventually attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Her works on paper, paintings, installations, and other compositions have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Madrid, and Poland. Kunz's work has also been included in numerous public and private collections.

Kunz is the recipient of multiple awards and accolades, including nominations from 3Arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Emerging Artist award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Artadia Chicago, Rema Hort-Mann Foundation's Individual Artists Grant, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2020. She has been awarded numerous artist residencies, including the Golden Family Foundation Residency, Edward Albee Foundation Residency, the Space Program at Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation, the Roger Brown Artist Residency, and, most recently, the Monira Foundation Residency.

Sabrina Piersol (b. 1995, Greenwich, CT) is an Aspen-based painter exploring the intersection of abstraction and representation. Her work is deeply informed by early 20th-century American painting traditions, as well as the fragmented structure of the Classical Greek poetry of Sappho. Piersol balances abstract forms with explicit references to nature, maintaining accessibility while pushing the boundaries of perception. Her paintings explore themes of desire, temporality, fluidity, and speculative extrapolation. Each piece invites viewers to envision alternate pasts and possible futures, creating spaces for reflection and transformation.

Piersol received her BA from Colorado College and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Select solo exhibitions include Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; Edge Art Space, Turin, IT; and the University of California, San Diego. She has participated in group exhibitions at Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI; Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA; Artemin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; High Bay Gallery, New York, NY; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; 1969 Gallery, Ibiza, Spain; Friend of a Friend, Denver, CO; the University of California, San Diego, CA; and False Cast Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 

József Csató (b. 1980, Hungary) lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his studies at the painting department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2006, under the instruction of Dóra Maurer. A three-time recipient of the Gyula Derkovits Art Scholarship, he is also the winner of the Esterházy Art Award in 2013, a prestigious award for young artists in Hungary. He has held solo exhibitions at Vielmetter, Los Angeles; PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp; Semiose Gallery, Paris; Double Q Gallery Hong Kong; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna and Semiose Gallery, Paris. His works can be found in numerous private and institutional collections, including Ludwig Museum, Hungarian National Bank and Beth Rudin DeWoody.

Jessica Drenk originally from Montana has an MFA in 3D art from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art from Pomona College. Drenks work can be found in private collections throughout the world and galleries across the United States.  Her work is a part of several corporate collections, such as that of Fidelity Investments, Frost Bank corporate office collection, UTSW Clements collections , TCU’s School of Education and The Macallan distillery in Scotland, as well as the Yale University Art Gallery and Huntington Museum of Art.  Drenk has been the recipient of several awards, including International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, and her work has been pictured in Sculpture, Curve and Interior Design magazines, as well as The Workshop Guide to Ceramics. A working artist since 2007, Drenk lives and works near Rochester, NY.

Marlon Wobst (Born 1980 in Wiesbaden) graduated as a painter and master student at Universität der Künste Berlin in 2011 with Professor Robert Lucander. In his body of work, which includes oil paintings, felt tapestries, ceramics, and works on paper; he mainly addresses the human existence. He researches typical everyday moments in life, such as getting dressed, exercising, eating, resting or mating. His large scale paintings, the colorful felt works and rather small, intimate ceramics are all glimpses in his, but also human experiences, rituals and habits. His works are shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions such as Kunstverein Siegen (Siegen), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Kunsthalle Hangelar (Sankt Augustin), Galerie Maria Lund (Paris), Galerie Zeller van Almsick (Vienna), and Galleri Urbane (Dallas). Since 2021, Marlon Wobst has a lectureship for painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Bradley Biancardi (b.1977, Chicago) has exhibited his work at My Pet Ram in New York and Santa Barbara, CA; eyes never sleep, Freight+Volume, Arts+Leisure, Thierry Goldberg, Fresh Window, and BravinLee Programs in NYC; Johalla Projects, Devening Projects+Editions, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; Galleri Urbane in Dallas, and Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, among others. He has participated in artist residencies at Yaddo, DNA in Provincetown, MA, The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Religare Arts Initiative in New Delhi. He has lectured as a Visiting Artist at the College of St. Rose, Yale University, Columbia University, Indiana University, and the University of Chicago among others. His work has been noted in the publications ArtMaze Mag, New American Paintings, Bad At Sports, and Newcity, among others. Biancardi lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Drea Cofield is an artist currently working in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited widely including New York, Dallas, Detroit and Los Angeles with recent solo exhibitions at Galleri Urbane in Dallas, TX and Future Fair in Chelsea, NY. Upcoming shows include Heaven Gallery in Chicago, IL and a two-person show at Kravets Wehby in NYC in September 2024. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, WhiteHot Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Contemporary Painting (World of Art). She is the recipient of a Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and the Yale Gloucester Painting Prize. Residencies include a Yaddo Residency in Saratoga Springs, NY, in 2023. Cofield received her B.A. from DePauw University (Greencastle, IN) in 2008 and her M.F.A from Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT), in 2013.

Stephen D’Onofrio is a contemporary visual artist focused on painting. He received his BFA and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 and 2016, respectively. In 2018, D’Onofrio was a finalist for the prestigious Hopper Prize. He has exhibited extensively in venues across the country, including galleries in Dallas, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. His work can be found in numerous private and public collections including Fidelity Investments, Estée Lauder, and the Clements Collection at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. D’Onofrio has lived and worked in Philadelphia since being awarded an artist residency in the city at Jasper Studios in 2017. His work is represented in the United States by Galleri Urbane, Dallas. 

The artist’s thematic image-making is broadly characterized by an interest in the home decor market, the mass commodification of art, and the generic visual language that accompanies commercial design. His paintings explore the relationship between physical spaces and the objects we fill them with. Often alluding to typical domestic decor and household ornaments, his canvases make these inherently empty objects into simplified symbols and patterns that can then be rearranged and compressed to carry a formal sensibility. The “Produce(d) Paintings” series serves as an historic exemplar of still-life painting that is as old as the medium itself.

Currently, D’Onofrio addresses the idea of painting as ornament, incorporating stock subjects of landscape, still life, and portraiture becoming knickknacks into his lexicon. The painter distills, consolidates, and appropriates the overwhelming amount of generic design aesthetic in the commercial decor market. Rather than fight the inherent kitschiness of this visual language, he embraces the imagery so his canvases can, in turn, become a critique of the subject it represents.

Rachel Hellmann employs rare bioluminescent colors found in the natural world with the exactitude of architectural forms in her sculptures. Paintings on paper directly correlate to the sculptures, stretching Hellmann’s examination of color into the tangible. These studies on paper deceive dimensions in the absence of physical depth. Using poplar wood and MDF, the artist bends individual segments into architectural forms, which she then joins with adhesives. Following her highly intuitive process, Hellmann paints “shapes of color.” Floating with a luminescent halo, the sculptures fold away from the wall. Contrasting hues exhibit subtle illusions of indiscernible depth.

Saskia Fleishman’s current series of paintings offer a metaphysical connection to the world by preserving the spirit of the landscape where she is from and other natural places she has recently spent time in. Fleishman grew up in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay where her father was a landscape architect, her grandmother a landscape photographer, and her grandfather a pioneering wetland scientist. In recent years it has become clear, the tidewater landscape she calls home is slowly disappearing because of the bay's rising sea level eroding the land.

This body of work ties our ephemeral landscapes to Fleishman’s fascination with the spiritual complexities of our existence. The pieces often depict vivid sunsets, full moons, or sunrises; transitory times of day that highlight our fleeting nature, but are ultimately perpetual, and invite meditation. Beaches, wetlands, mountain ranges, high plains, deserts and wooded areas where she has felt the comfort and vast mystery nature holds, are sources for inspiration.

Saskia Fleishman (B. 1995, Baltimore, MD), graduated Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has been an artist in residence at The Jentel Foundation, Tongue River Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, PADA Studios, ChaNorth and Trestle Studios, and a curator in residence at Otis College of Art and Design. Saskia’s work has been exhibited at Red Arrow in Nashville, TN, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, Dinner Gallery in New York, NY, Unit London in the UK, Goucher College in Baltimore, MD, The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA, and Silo 6776 in New Hope, PA, among others. In addition, her work has been featured in Make Magazine, ArtMaze, Root Quarterly, Friend of the Artists, and Galerie Magazine. Fleishman is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Arrange enough edges together, and they’ll form a frame. Arrange enough edges within the space of a frame, and they’ll begin to form a place. The spatial elements of a painting provide the foundation of storytelling. By reducing the subject to space and color, West constrains the architectural space of the painting with planes of color and line work, forming spatial harmonies and poetics. Through color choice, line weight, and shape defining, West’s work references not only the history of painting, but also architectural theory, philosophy, and cinema, by translating their spatial elements of storytelling into painted form.

Heath West’s development of hand-woven acrylic fabrics ties to his architectural roots, as color, form, and composition form the base aspects of both his articucturally inspired works, and landscape abstractions. Essence is at the root of his practice, taking on the mantle of artists like Jozsef Albers, Piet Mondrian, Helen Frankenthaller, and Mark Rothko. Beginning as a way to explore his interest in color and texture together, these works project a primal instinct to build relationships between forms and colors. As a split in his general practice of painting, the physical object becomes a key indicatior of the interconnection; “I think by stretching the fabric over a wooden frame—and by applying a wood frame on the exterior— hanging them on the wall connects these pieces to paintings,” says West.

Heath West (b. 1976, Houston, Texas. Lives and works in Joshua Tree, California) Recent exhibitions include Gallery Chiao (2023, Taipei, Taiwan) and Galleri Urbane (Dallas, 2020). His work has also appeared in group shows with Cohle Gallery (Paris, 2024), 0-0.LA (Los Angeles, 2017), Harper’s Books (East Hampton, 2016), and GIFC/ Velvet Ropes (Copenhagen and NYC, 2018 and 2019). His paintings have been featured in the recent publications of Friend of the Artist (2018), Grapefruit Magazine (2018), and Anxy (2018), along with online articles in Booooooom (2020), It’s Nice That (2019), and A Series of Rooms (2019). West is a recipient of the 2017 grant in painting from The Peter S. Reed Foundation.

Cristina Ayala is a Dallas-based artist and designer. Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, Cristina earned her Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Universidad de Monterrey, with a minor in Fashion Design. After working with several advertising agencies, Cristina co-founded a design studio with her sister in 2010. That same year she moved to Dallas, where she took design classes at The Art Institute of Dallas, and completed a certificate program at SMU. In 2013, Cristina moved to the East Coast with her family. She began learning and practicing textile techniques in NYC then moved back to Dallas in 2015, where she currently lives with her family.

In 2020, Cristina shifted her focus to her art practice and began showing work locally through spaces such as Bath House Cultural Center, South Dallas Cultural Center, and The Other Art Fair. In 2023, she was part of Cohort 4 at The Cedars Union art incubator program, during this time she exhibited at Carillon Gallery, Arts Fort Worth, Artspace III, and SPACE at Adolphus Tower.

Cristina currently works as a Communications Manager at a contemporary art gallery, and is part of the McDermott Fellowship of Junior Associates at the Dallas Museum of Art. She has implemented art activities for families as a guest artist on different events at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Drawing inspiration from her Mexican heritage, Cristina’s work is characterized by a vibrant fusion of traditional techniques and contemporary design. Through the use of natural fibers and intuitive weaving, Cristina creates pieces that evoke a sense of nostalgia and celebrate the rich tapestry of Mexican culture.

Mel Prest is an American abstract artist whose work is focused on color and perceptual visual relationships. Her work has been exhibited internationally including: The Drawing Center, New York; The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Durham; IS Projects, Leiden; Saturation Point, London; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. Prest’s first solo museum show: Mel Prest: The Golden Hour, was held at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon and featured a catalogue essay by John Yau. Prest has been awarded residencies at The MH deYoung Museum; The Ragdale Foundation; The Sam and Adele Golden Artist Foundation; Willapa Bay AIR; The Wassaic Project; and Vermont Studio Center. Her work is held in collections at Apple; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Crocker Museum of Art; Google; Kaiser Permanente; Marin General Hospital; The Mills College Art Museum, The Schneider Museum of Art; among others. She is represented by Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX and K.Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.

Prest received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Mills College in Oakland. Mel is an advisory board member of Root Division, a non-profit arts organization in San Francisco and served as a board member from 2012-2014. Prest served on the advisory board of The Art Monastery Project, Calvi della Umbria and Labro, Italy from 2007-2010 and on the artist advisory board of Trestle Gallery in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York from 2012-2021.

As an independent curator, Prest has organized shows from Amsterdam to Zagreb. She is a founding member of Transmitter, a collaborative curatorial gallery initiative in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Mel Prest lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Through her visual art practice Lori Larusso, explores issues of gender, class, and anthropocentrism through the lens of foldaways and domesticity. She embraces color as a carrier of spatial properties, and image as conduit for complex narratives. Visually rich elaborations of life-affirming subjects serve as purposeful symbols of specific time and place.

Larusso’s current research is steeped in both the tangible (material) and intangible (attitudes, rituals, customs, traditions) aspects of food and animals. This includes investigations of the ways in which social norms governing our judgement of the way our foods are produced or grown, packaged, prepared, named, photographed, presented, posted, shared, consumed, and discarded— are often arbitrary but have consequences in how we see these things as good or bad, delightful or disgusting, clean or dirty or indicative of wealth or poverty.

Lori Larusso is an American visual artist working primarily with themes of domesticity and foodways. Her body of work encompasses paintings and installations that explore issues of class, gender, and anthropocentrism, and how these practices both reflect and shape culture. Larusso’s work is exhibited widely in the US and is included in numerous public and private collections. She has been awarded numerous residency fellowships including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, Art + History Museums Maitland, and MacDowell where she received a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship. She is a recipient of the Kentucky Arts Council’s Al Smith Fellowship, multiple grants from the Great Meadows Foundation and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Larusso is the 2019 Kentucky South Arts Fellow and is the recipient of the 2020 Fischer Prize for Visual Art. Lori Larusso earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). She currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lorena Lohr has has maintained a self-taught photographic and painting practice for more than a decade, the British-Canadian artist has been traveling the American Southwest by bus and train, documenting the fleeting landscapes and the distinct character of the region’s built environment. Lohr’s work takes in a variety of artistic disciplines. As a photographer, she captures everything from motels and bars to parking lots and patches of waste ground, focusing on unexpected and often uncanny aspects of the commonplace and mundane in the places she visits without ironic detachment or comment.

 Solo exhibitions include Desert Nudes, Soho Revue, London, UK (2023); Tonight Lounge, Cog Gallery, London, UK (2019); Ocean Sands, Matches Fashion House, London, UK (2019); Photo London (solo booth), Cob Gallery, London, UK (2018); Lorena Lohr, Claire de Rouen Books, London, UK  (2016) and Ocean Sands, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2015).   Group exhibitions include Horizon Avenue, Photo Saint Germain, Paris, France (2019); A Shade of Pale curated by Carrie Scott, The Store x 180 Strand, London, UK (2018).  Recent publications include Scenic Views Volume III, self published, London, UK (2021); Desert Nudes, self published, London, UK (2020); Tonight Lounge, published by Cob Gallery, London, UK (2019).

Samantha McCurdy is a native of Philadelphia and graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her work has been included in gallery exhibitions in Philadelphia, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York City. Samantha had a solo booth at Spring/Break Art Fair L.A premiering a performance piece, she allows selected by the Standard Hotel Hollywood for a site-specific installa-tion and recently exhibited with Galleri Urbane at the Dallas Art Fair. In addition to her own practice, Samantha also runs an art space and “intellectual pavilion” called That That, which relocated with her move from Dallas to Los Angeles.

Benjamin Terry lives and works in Dallas, TX. He received an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2013. He has exhibited work in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally including Atlanta, Brooklyn, London, Mexico City, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston. Terry was an artist-in- resident at The Maple Terrace in Brooklyn in the spring of 2018 and 100 West Corsicana in 2020. Curatorial work has become an integral part of his practice with exhibitions curated at Kirk Hopper Fine Arts, Circuit12 Contemporary, Galleri Urbane, and Texas Woman’s University. He was featured in volumes 96 and 132 of New American Paintings, and has received both the Clare Hart Degoyler and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough awards from the Dallas Museum of Art. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas Arlington.

I make work about touch and space. I create through a malleable process on raw canvas and paper allowing the forms agency within their creation. My work models my personal and spiritual relationship with nature, simultaneously a refuge and an illusion. After years of slowly building up compositions, using water as a guide, I am experiencing a strong desire to direct the forms. Natural compositions often serve as symbolic representations of human relationships, mirroring our own permeable membranes and close intimacy with our environment and all other bodies in motion. Oftentimes they are meant to quietly imbue a sense of atmosphere.

Makenzie Heinemann is an Arizona-born, Dallas-based visual artist. She completed her MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University and BFA in Painting at Arizona State University. Her work consists of large paintings on raw canvas and smaller works on paper and paper fibers. Recently Heinemann mounted a solo exhibition at Arts Fort Worth. Following her MFA, she participated in the 33oc residency in Toffia, Italy and presented a solo exhibition at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Atlanta. In 2017 she won the Eric Fischl Vanguard Award at Phoenix College. Her painting The High Road was selected by guest curator Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Heinemann currently teaches foundational art courses and maintains a studio practice in Junius Heights.