ELEANNA - Key Persons
Alicia Smith (She/her) (b. 1990, Waukegan, IL) is a Xicana artist and activist. She received her BFA in Fine arts with an emphasis in Contemporary Sculpture and Printmaking from the University of Oklahoma and her MFA at the School of Visual Arts. Her work is currently on view at Museo Cabanas, Guadalahara, Mexico and Accola Griefen, NYC. Smith has shown at Pulse, Miami, FL and at Untitled, San Francisco. She currently resides in Oklahoma City, Okalahoma. www.aliciasmith.work | @aliciasmithart
Ben Pederson (born 1979, Grand Rapids, MI) is a Brooklyn-based artist. He shows his work locally and nationally. Pederson is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2018); a Yaddo Fellow, Saratoga Springs, NY (2015); the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in Skowhegan ME (2013); and the Materials For The Arts Residency in Queens, NY (2013). He received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2007) and a B.A. in Studio Art from Aquinas College (2003).
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- Iranian - American Artist
Danielle Firoozi is an Iranian-American artist based in Mexico City, working in sculpture and performance. Her practice is an exploration of the intersection between drag and sculpture, using materials such as cast resin, concrete, metal, and wigs to capture the explosive energy of objects and create tension through compression of motion into form.
Danielle invents her own language by adopting a narrative that transforms familiar objects into something entirely new. For instance, she might use a granite slab as a diving board, repurpose a ladder as a throne, or turn a cast resin vase into a hat. To reinforce this translation, Danielle often places these objects in unexpected contexts, forcing viewers to question their assumptions and experience a sense of surprise. With each new work, she asks herself: are we having fun yet?
Danielle holds a BFA in Sculpture with honors from New York University. Recent exhibitions include: Casa Lu, Studio Croma, Sound+, Avant.Dev and Salon Acme.
Jim Osman was born in New York City. He received his BA & MFA from Queens College (CUNY) in Flushing, NY where he studied with Tom Doyle, Mary Miss and Lawrence Fane. He has had solo exhibitions at Lesley Heller Workspace, Long Island University's Kumbal Gallery and Dartmouth College. His work has been included in group shows at the Brooklyn Museum, Transmitter Gallery and University of Texas at San Antonio. Osman's public sculptures have been shown at PULSE Miami, FL; Art Hamptons, NY; Sculpture Mile in Madison, CT. He received a NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture in 2017. Mr.Osman teaches courses in three-dimensional design, sculpture and public art classes at Parsons School of Design. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Lauren Adams, Mike Ambron, Eleanna Anagnos, Hayley Anderson, Liz Atz, Emily Auchincloss, Damon Arhos, Lisha Bai, Jen Bandini, Michael Beggs, Michael Berryhill, Joshua Bienko, Rick Briggs, Clare Britt, Aimee Burg, Rachel Byrd, Lauren Cardenas, Kari Cholnoky, Rupa Chordia, Jennifer Coates, Sam Cockrell, Andy Cross, Rachel Debuque, Mark Dixon, Mark Joshua Epstein, Ash Ferlito, Heather Garland, Ashley Garrett, Kati Gegenheimer, Rubens Ghenov, Rachael Gorchov, Alyssa Gorelick, Alina Gregorian, Catherine Haggarty, Clay Hapaz, Emily Hass, EJ Hauser, Karen Heagle, Craig Hein, Jay Henderson, Eric Hibit, Fritz Horstman, Carrie Hott, Jackie Hoving, Will Hutnick, Akira Ikezoe, Liz Insogna, Sam Jablon, Emily Janowick, Layet Johnson, JULIACKS, Irena Jurek, Elsie Kagan, Lucy Kim, Hein Koh, Suzy Kopf, Dani Leventhal, Aubrey Levinthal, Katherine Mann, Rachel Mason, Patrick McElnea, Leeza Meksin, Larissa Mellor, Susan Metrican, Jeffry Mitchell, Ian Murphy, Mike Olin, Sheryl Oppenheim, Norm Paris, Liesl Pfeffer, Justin Plakas, Nikola Pottinger, Vivian Qin, Julie Ribeiro, Scott Robinson, George Rush, Netta Sadovsky, Naomi Safron Hon, Jen Shepard, Polly Shindler, Winnie Sidharta, Paul Simmons, Jered Sprecher, Michael Stickrod, Claire Stigliani, Amy Stober, Julie Torres, Hooper Turner, Denise Treizman, Zahar Vaks, Nichole Van Beek, Lee Vanderpool, Nick Van Zanten, Michael Veliquette, Andy Weber, Jenna Weiss, Lauren Whearty, Daniel Wilson, Sheilah Wilson, Kelly Worman, Karla Wozniak, Geo Wyeth, Sun You, Alex Zandi, Almond Zigmund, Kaini Zhou, and more!
Mónica Palma was born and raised in Mexico City, she studied visual art at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz. In 2008 she received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been living and working in Brook- lyn since 2008. Her work has been shown at TSA (NYC), 245 Varet Street (NYC), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Soloway Gallery (NYC), Underdonk Gallery (NYC) and Essex Flowers (NYC).
Padma Rajendran was born in Klang, Malaysia. She received her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 2007 and received her MFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. She currently lives and works in New York, NY. She has exhibited at the International Print Center New York, Kleinert James Center for the Arts (Woodstock, NY), the Strohl Art Center (Chautauqua, NY), the Warwick Museum of Art (Warwick, RI), and recently at Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA).
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- Co - Curated by the Co - Directors at Ortega Y Gasset Projects
This exhibition represents over twenty years of paintings by New York based artist, Rick Briggs. (I) Pine is an invitation into the ambiguities and slippages of abstraction and a survey of the hardest thing about painting… the first 20 or so years. Briggs' work explores the physicality of paint through gesture and layering with the use of house-painting materials such as rags, paint sticks, and rollers.
Rick Briggs received a BFA from Tyler School of Art and a MFA from SUNY Purchase. He was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2012) and The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2011). He has exhibited at Valentine Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Yale University School of Art, Islip Art Museum, and Brooklyn Museum of Art.