Artist Art

“Mary Gordon is a maker from Weinheim, Germany by way of the Midwest of the U.S. In her work, she fuses fragments of prints through collage and mixed media to represent her environment, everyday interactions and overlooked happenings. Mary is currently living in Athens, GA, pursuing her MFA with a concentration in Printmaking & Book Arts at the University of Georgia.”

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“Melanie was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania in 2007 with a degree in Studio Art. While working as a gallery assistant, she decided to try her hand in a different career. She became an RN in 2011 and worked as an ER nurse in Pennsylvania and New York State. As a new stay at home mother, she has rediscovered her daily practice and love of painting while living in Upstate New York.”

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“ Kathy Kissik’s artistic practice is best described as urban constructivism. She creates intricate layered paintings with unusual materials and her own altered photos. A graduate of The Museum School Boston, (5th year Traveling Scholar recipient) Tufts University, and most recently trained at Slade School of Art, London in their summer intensive program. Her credentials include collaborating with CERN’s arts@cms program. She was in residence at The South Florida Arts Center in Miami Beach.”

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“Natalie King is a queer Anishinaabekwe artist, facilitator and member of Timiskaming First Nation. King's practice ranges from drawing, painting, and installation as well as community engagement and activism. Often involving portrayals of femme identities, King’s works are about embracing the ambiguity and multiplicities of identity within the indigenous queer femme experience.”

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“Katherine Mitchell DiRico uses drawing, sculpture, light, and sound elements to create multimedia installations that investigate how we negotiate connectivity and sense perception in today’s networked world.”

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“Kiara "Aris" Florez is an illustrator who works primarily in acrylics and inks to create abstract artworks. Since drawing professionally at 16 years old, her works have always strived to create stories, play with vibrant colors, and develop a unique style. After some years of studying realism, Aris has taken her works into a more semi-abstract design that is often most recognized by wavy lines and wild bold colors. ”

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“Nic Hamilton is a Melbourne-based video artist making images, installations, live visuals, and videos. Nic draws inspiration from the diverse culture and communities of electronic music. He's made work for artists including J Colleran, Bok Bok, and Kelela, SOPHIE, Hudson Mohawke, and Bauuer, Boiler Room, Samsung, Red Bull, Kenzo. Nic's work has been featured in publications including Dazed and Confused, The Fader, Post Matter, The Creators Project, Rhizome, and Channel 4 UK.”

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“Alaric's sculpture and illustration is primarily influenced by world interests, such as; semiotics, fables, architecture, natural phenomena and politics. His illustrative style is inspired from nature and urban environments. In his Detritus series, Alaric manipulates found objects, and sculpts them into readymades with a purpose and function. Initially drawn to something for its original form, he questions the manipulation and history of flotsam with the same principle as 'Grandfather's Axe'.”

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“Carla Fache is a chilean born, Miami-based visual artist who explores through her paintings the frontiers of color, space, balance and matter. Her work unfolds the juncture of different scenarios occurring simultaneously in parallel realities, providing interconnected timelines through her canvas, as portals to new dimensions. ”

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“Isabel Wedekind is an aspiring artist attending OCAD University to pursue her dream of becoming an art therapist. Wedekind’s practise consists of drawings and oil paintings, figurative work mostly, which convey a certain truth that one may find telling or emotional. Wedekind’s work has been featured in local newspapers and has taken part in art festivals such as Hamilton’s annual Supercrawl. After completing her bachelors in Fine Arts Isabel plans find a placement in a correctional facility.”

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