Marc Handelman - January-February 2025

Marc Handelman (he/him) is a visual artist and teacher, based in Brooklyn, New York. Often involving long-term research-oriented projects, Handelman’s work examines the aesthetics of state, colonial and imperial power in the afterlives of Landscape in contemporary life. His practice explores the ways the present is haunted, as through a ventriloquism of these images, tropes, and forms of rhetoric, so ingrained, so naturalized and so seemingly emptied out, that they appear nearly invisible. Through painting, in addition to artists’ books, installation and video, his work resurfaces these afterlives, critically exploring their ideological violence, as it reimagines different way of seeing, feeling, and thinking through Landscape and our entanglements within it. Handelman received his BFA in Painting from RISD and an MFA from Columbia University. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States as well as internationally in such venues as PS1 MoMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Royal Academy of Art in London, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Portland Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rubin Museum, The Matsumoto City Museum of Art, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Handelman is an Associate Professor at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York.

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Marc Handelman, Installation view of Discovery of a Flower, Contours of a Pond, SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2022. Photo by Derek Franklin

Jarid del Deo - January-February 2025

Jarid del Deo is a painter living and working in Maine. His oil paintings utilize the New England landscape as a tested vehicle for investigating color, shape and composition. Del Deo prefers a long contemplative study of his surroundings, plucking out details that best describe a place. A personal point of view and sense of the mystical are important to him.

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Reuben Telushkin - January-February 2025

Reuben Telushkin (b. 1988, Holyoke, MA) is based in Detroit, MI. He graduated with a BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College in 2012. He lived in Oakland, CA, exhibiting at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with a grant from Burnt Oranges. He then moved to Detroit in 2015, where he worked at Allied Media Projects. He was a resident at Talking Dolls Studio, where he exhibited a solo exhibition in 2022. From 2017-2021 he was a National Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace, working to end US material support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and building common cause between the American Jewish left and the Black liberation movement in the US. Recently he was a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he earned an MFA in 4D Design in 2024. He has exhibited at Brecht Forum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and he has produced public commissions for Library Street Collective. He was a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ACRE Residency, and is scheduled to attend Surf Point in York, ME and the Interactive Electronic Arts residency at Alfred University. Telushkin’s work synthesizes traditional craft with digital fabrication to problematize binaries of human/machine, ancient/modern, nature/culture, etc. Applying fractal geometric design principles across a diversity of media such as sculpture, sound, writing, and performance, Telushkin takes things apart and puts them back together, in a desire to understand the nature of imperfect systems.

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Kearra Amaya Gopee - November 2024

Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) (b. 1994, Miami, FL) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist and facilitator from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing, and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. Their work has been exhibited at venues such as documenta15, The Kitchen, BAM, and at film festivals internationally. Previously, they have been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Leslie Lohman Museum, Queer|Art, the Global Fund for Women. From 2023-2024, they were an Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 2024, they will be in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program as well as Headlands Center for the Arts. They have participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Red Bull Arts Detroit and NLS Kingston in Jamaica, among others. They have guest lectured at Emory University, Rutgers University, and the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. They hold an MFA from UCLA with a concentration in Interdisciplinary Studio and a BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University.

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Gina Siepel - November 2024

Gina Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker, based in Greenfield MA . Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally, including the Museum for Art in Wood, the Colby Museum, the DeCordova Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and Amherst College. Gina has been a fellow or artist-in-residence at Skowhegan, Hewnoaks, the Winterthur Museum, the Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, and Mildred’s Lane. She was a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft, and has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, and the Northampton Arts Council. Gina holds a BFA from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase and an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and has taught at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Gina is currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence at Smith College.

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