“Fairyland” Mindy Solomon Gallery, 2021

Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. She received her B.F.A. from Florida International University and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, with an Enrichment Fellowship. In 2016-2017 she was a Rittenberg Fellow at Clay Art Center; Port Chester, New York and was awarded the Inaugural Artaxis Fellowship that funded a residency to Watershed in Newcastle, Maine. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum and The Frederik Meijer Gardens.

She has been recognized by NCECA as a 2018 Emerging Artist and was a 2018-19 resident artist at Harvard University where she researched pre-Columbian art and histories. Natalia was recently an artist in residence at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City where she researched the work of historical and influential women ceramicists of color.

Thomas Bils was born in 1993 in Melbourne, Florida. He moved to Miami to study painting at New World School of The Arts, receiving a BFA in 2017. Thomas continues

to live and work in Miami as an artist in residence for Bakehouse Art Complex. Thomas Bill’s paintings are a result of his interests in the epistemology of memory and the ontology of its subjects, using his adolescence in central Florida as the base position of introspection. Working in photoreferential oil painting he accesses the mnemonic properties of the photograph and translates the image as an act of nostalgic contemplation. During the translation process, Thomas assumes the role of an unreliable narrator, embellishing details and events to leave the image with narratorial unease. This falsification accounts for the deteriorating truths of a reconsolidating memory. In depicting his home of Florida he employs nontraditional signifiers with the intention of inciting a sense of belonging and common ground for an initiated audience.

Benjamin Cabral is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago. His work has been shown throughout the United States and was selected for a public sculpture commission by the City of San Diego’s Arts District. A painter by training, Benjamin’s work is largely autobiographical in nature, creating an honest, yet inherently unreliable, portrait of the artist. Benjamin’s recent paintings are entirely encrusted in beads and rhinestones. These paintings are conceived digitally, and the pixels are then transferred to the panel through the meditative application of beads. These works examine the intersections between trauma and nostalgia, joy and sorrow, and the digital and the analog. Benjamin also creates sculptural work, intended to be static performers engaging with the viewer. Benjamin completed his MFA at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and is the winner of the 2019 Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship. Benjamin recently had a solo show with Steve Turner LA, and solo shows at Spring/Break Art Show New York and LA.

JoAnne Carson was born in New York City and currently splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Shoreham, Vermont. She received her MFA

degree from the University of Chicago and attended the University of Illinois for undergraduate school.

Her work can be found in various public collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles.

She has received many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an Award in the Visual Arts, a Purchase Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Louise Bourgeois Residency from Yaddo, and individual artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council.

Genevieve Cohn grew up in rural Vermont and received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University. She has attended residencies at The Fiore Art Center, The Vermont Studio Center, The Ragdale Foundation, AiRGentum and is the winning recipient of the Hopper Prize. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Create! Magazine, Juxtapose, and the Boston Art Review, and she has exhibited work in New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and Seville, Spain. She lives in Boston and is the current Post-Doctoral Mellon Fellow in Painting at Wellesley College. After studies in Canada,

Melanie Daniel completed her BFA and MFA at Bezalel Academy, Israel. Daniel has had numerous exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including solo

exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel, Angelika Knapper Gallery, Stockhom, Kelowna Art Gallery, BC, and Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, among others. Her work is included in collections such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Harvard Business School, and the Brandes Family Art Collection. She has received press in publications such as Maake Magazine, Artnet, Newsweek, Frieze, Haaretz, CBC/Radio Canada, The Huffington Post, Beautiful Decay, and the Artists Magazine. Daniel is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the 2009 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, a Creative Capital Grant, and the NARS Foundation Residency in New York City. She was recently the Padnos Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Grand Valley State University, MI.

Kirsten Deirup (b. 1980, Berkeley, CA) attended The Cooper Union, New York, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at Nichelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Guild and Greyschul, New York, NY; and Rare, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY; Marc Wolf Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; and Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.

Morel Doucet (b. 1990) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and arts educator that hails from Haiti. He employs ceramics, illustrations, and prints to

examine the realities of climate-gentrification, migration, and displacement within the Black diaspora communities. Through a contemporary reconfiguration of the black experience, his work catalogs a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, personal labor, and race.

Doucet has exhibited extensively in prestigious national and international institutions, including the Havana Biennial; the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL; National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, São Tomé et Príncipe, Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami, FL and Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL.

Philip Gerald’s humorous paintings hark back to a time of clip art and Microsoft paint, of crude images beamed around the world via the majesty of dial-up internet. He lives and works in Dublin. He studied Fine Art Sculpture and Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, before dropping out in his third year to develop his skills as a writer. A phlegmatic character, Gerald isn’t too concerned with how his work is received, but rather chooses to focus on enjoying the process.

Valerie Hegarty is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes paintings, sculptures, and installations that explore issues of memory, place, and history. Valerie Hegarty’s

solo exhibitions include Malin Gallery, Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Marlborough Gallery Chelsea; Locust Projects, Miami; Museum 52, London; The MCA in Chicago; and Guild & Greyshkul, NY, among others including a commission for a public sculpture on the High Line, NY and a show of site-specific installations in The Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms. Selected group exhibitions in NY include Artists Space, The Drawing Center, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, Derek Eller, White Columns, and MoMA PS1. Hegarty has been awarded numerous grants through foundations such as the Pollock Krasner Foundaes include LMCC, Marie Walsh Sharpe, PS 122, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Smack Mellon. Hegarty received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from San Francisco’s Academy of Art College, and a BA from Middlebury College, VT. Hegarty was the first Andrew W. Mellon Arts and the Common Good Artistion (2x grantee), The New York Foundation for the Arts (2x grantee), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, and Campari NY. Residence-in-Residence at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey from 2014-2015. Hegarty is represented by Malin Gallery. Valerie Hegarty is also an emerging writer, her short story “Cats vs. Cancer” was published in 2019 in The New England Review and won a PEN Dau 2020 debut short story prize.

Asif Tanvir Hoque (b. 1991) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has appeared in numerous group shows. As a Bangladeshi immigrant, who was raised between Rome and

South Florida, Hoque’s paintings attempt to figuratively and stylistically combine aspects of multicultural identity.

His early work highlights his fascination with classical fine arts, but with the progression of his skill and his self-discovery, Hoque challenges his audience to explore aspects of self that are authentic. Hoque hopes to address the unique experience of living in the “in-between”.

Roxanne Jackson is a ceramic artist and mixed-media sculptor living in Brooklyn, NY. Her macabre works are black-humored investigations of the

links between transformation, myth and pop culture. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Artnet, The Observer, Gothamist, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Cool Hunting, and Ceramics Monthly, among others. She is the recipient of residencies at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Wassaic Project (NY), PLOP (UK), Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts (ME), the Ceramic Center of Berlin (Germany), funded by a Jerome Project Grant, and the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen (China), funded by an NCECA fellowship.

She looks forward to an upcoming residency at Lefebvre & Fils in Versailles, France. Roxanne has exhibited widely, nationally and abroad, with recent exhibitions at DUVE Berlin Gallery, (Berlin), Cob Gallery (London), Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City), Garis and Hahn (LA), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna), Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery (Brussels) and Untitled Art Fair (Miami Beach) with Richard Heller Gallery. She has recently shown her work in New York City at venues including The Hole, Dinner Gallery (formerly known as Victori + Mo), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Onderdonk Gallery, Honey Ramka, Regina Rex, Sardine Gallery, and SPRING/BREAK Art Fair. She currently has worked in the exhibition “Friends and Friends of Friends” at the Schlossmuseum in Linz, Austria, and in “Double Happiness,” a two-person show with Caroline Larsen at The Hole (NYC).

Hein Koh is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual B.A. in Studio Art and Psychology and received her M.F.A. in Painting from Yale University. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum,, Time Out New York, Art F City, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has also received additional press in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, and ArtNews, among other publications. Recent group shows include “11” at Anton Kern Gallery and “Good Pictures” at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, curated by Austin Lee. In 2021, she will be having solo shows at Semiose Gallery in Paris, France, and Allouche Benias Gallery in Athens, Greece.

Born in Cleveland, Craig Kucia’s blue-collar upbringing frames his portrayal of the tragic in the mundane. His lush palette and deceptively naïve imagery evoke the things we aspire to and the ways in which we fail.  Kucia earned his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a postgraduate diploma from the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has exhibited his paintings at galleries including GreeneNaftali, Roberts & Tilton, Blum & Poe, Derek Eller Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, and Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art.  Kucia’s work has been acquired by The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; the Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; and the Mugrabi Family Collection. Craig Kucia lives and works in Los Angeles.

Caroline Larsen (b. 1980 Toronto, Canada) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, her main body of works is focused on paintings, but the sculptural practice of ceramic and beaded objects. Larsen has a BA from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, and a Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts and Art History Education from the University of Auckland and received her MFA with honors at Pratt in 2015. Caroline has been awarded numerous awards from the Ontario Council for the Arts and scholarships from Pratt Institute. Larsen has always maintained a robust studio practice and has exhibited widely, she has had solo exhibitions at Andrew Rafacz in Chicago, Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto, Gordon Galleries in Tel Aviv, Dio Horia in Mykonos, Greece and at The Hole NYC in New York City.

Larsen had three paintings in “The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, a traveling exhibition curated by and beginning at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK, in addition to a solo exhibition at Wave Hill Public Gardens in the Bronx. She has participated in group exhibitions at Guerrero Gallery and Greenpoint Terminal Gallery and has work in the Dean Collection, the Aisthti Foundation, JB Art Collection Miami, TD Canada, the Donovan Collection, Microsoft, and numerous other public collections around the world.

Hannah Lupton Reinhard is from Orange County, CA, and went to a Jewish Day School from elementary to high school. She then went on to UC Berkeley, planning to major in Art History. After a year, she transferred to the Studio Art department and fell in love with painting. She then took a gap year, painting in her parents’ garage and teaching art lessons. In 2017 she transferred to the Rhode Island School of design, majoring in Painting, and graduated in May 2020. She now has a studio practice and works as an artist assistant in Los Angeles.