Dell Marie Hamilton - January 2024

Dell Marie Hamilton. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Artist, writer and curator, Dell Marie Hamilton has performed extensively throughout the Boston and New England area including at the MFA/Boston, the Clark Art Institute, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In 2019, she was a participating artist in the Havana Biennial and is a recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize. Her expansive practice encompasses performance, painting, drawing, installation, video, sculpture, and photography. Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Art in America and NKA: Contemporary Journal of African Art as well as on the cover of Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and the Philosophy of Religion, an anthology published by Duke University Press in 2021. Dell is also the acting director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

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Emulsions in Departure #13 by Dell Marie Hamilton.

Tanja Hollander - January 2024

Tanja Hollander. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Tanja Hollander is an artist who works with photography, video, social media and data to understand cultural and visual relationships. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1972 and received a B.A. in photography, film, and feminist studies from Hampshire College in 1994. Her last body of work, Are you really my friend? debuted in its entirety as an exhibition, short documentary and book for a year at MASS MoCA in 2017. Sections were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Portland Museum of Art (Maine), Virei Viral (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and the Carl-Schurz-Haus (Freiberg, Germany). Receiving international media attention for the project, Hollander was invited to give a TEDxDirigo talk in 2012 and has lectured extensively at The Women’s Leadership Conference (Las Vegas), Demanio Marittimo.Km-278 (Marzocca, Italy), the University of Maryland, Clemson University, SXSW, and Facebook headquarters. In her spare time she is a reproductive justice advocate. She lives and works in Auburn, Maine.

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Dorian Sylvian - January 2024

Dorian Sylvain at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Dorian Sylvain is a painter whose color and texture explore ornamentation, pattern and design as identifiers of cultural and historical foundations. She is a studio painter and muralist, as well as an art educator, curator, and community planner. Much of her public work addresses issues of beautification, inspired by color palettes and patterns found throughout the African diaspora. Core to her practice is nurturing the next generation of “Cultural Keepers” to elevate neighborhood aesthetics and foster shared understanding.

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JOJO ABOT - November 2023

JOJO ABOT in the Pool Room. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

JOJO ABOT is an interdisciplinary healer exploring evolving themes of spirituality, identity and community through music, film, fine art, fashion, photography and various other expressions. Committed to a philosophy of "Message Over Medium", the artist aims to provoke larger conversations and actions towards collective elevation, healing and harmony. An Ewe woman born in Ghana and currently based in LA, JOJO ABOT offers intimate invitations into the practice of true freedom, love and re-membering through sacred ceremonies of togetherness, reflection and transformation engaging the self as the starting point to unity, universal connection and ascension. Serving as a bridge between the physically and metaphysically, her offerings invite us into a spiritual dance that allows for a coming together of ancestry, traditions and global cultures.

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Cecile Chong - November 2023

Cecile Chong at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners was installed in the five boroughs of NYC (2017-2022). Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Selenas Mountain, Smack Mellon, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Kenise Barnes, BRIC, FiveMyles, and Emerson Gallery Berlin. Fellowships and residencies include Dieu Donné Workspace, NYSCA, LMCC Creative Engagement, The Hispanic Society, Urban Field Station, Block Gallery Bronx Museum, BRIC Media Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant and the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo, Museum of Chinese in America, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Citibank Art Advisory, and private collections internationally. She received an MFA from Parsons, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.

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Athena LaTocha - November 2023

Athena LaTocha at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Athena LaTocha (b. Anchorage, Alaska) is an artist whose massive works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds, in the wake of Earthworks artists from the 1960s and 1970s. The artist incorporates materials such as ink, lead, earth and wood, while looking at correlations between mark-marking and displacement of materials made by industrial equipment and natural events. Her works are informed by her upbringing in the wilderness of Alaska. LaTocha’s process is about being immersed in these environments, while responding to the storied and, at times, traumatic histories that are rooted in place.

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Micaela Martegani - November 2023

Micaela Martegani in the Sunrise Studio. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

As More Art’s founder, Executive Director, and Chief Curator, Micaela Martegani has deep experience working with both emerging and established artists at every stage of conceptualizing and producing new public art works. Martegani established More Art in 2004, and has developed over 50 projects since the organization’s inception. For over 25 years, she has worked in the field of Modern and Contemporary Art as an Art Historian, Independent Curator, Art Advisor, and Teacher.

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Meg Alexander - October 2023

Meg Alexander at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Meg Alexander is a visual artist whose work is based in drawing. Alexander creates images and objects that are inspired by natural forms and systems. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Meg exhibits regularly in Boston and New England, and her work is included in many private and corporate collections throughout the world. She lives and works in Concord, Massachusetts, and is represented by the Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston.

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Ryan Cardoso - October 2023

Ryan Cardoso in the Pool Room. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Ryan Cardoso is a visual artist exploring portraiture through photography and filmmaking and its importance in archiving the elegance, domesticity, and relationships of black life.

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Stina Puotinen - October 2023

Stina Puotinen in the Sunrise Studio. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Stina Puotinen is an artist, educator and occasional curator from New York City. Earning her BFA at Vassar College in Studio Art and Art History, she has taught at major arts institutions including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum for adults and children of all abilities. She lived in Manchester, UK while earning an MFA in Collaborative Practice from Manchester School of Art 2015 - 2017; her work has been featured most recently at Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Material Art Fair (CDMX), Vane Gallery (UK), and Beverly’s (NYC) as well as in Apogee Journal.

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Audrey Stone - October 2023

Audrey Stone in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Audrey Stone is an abstract painter whose work is informed by light and color. She received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Pratt Institute, both in painting. She also studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was selected for the Artist in The Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Stone recently became a member of the artist-run American Abstract Artists organization. Her work has been exhibited across the United States, as well as in Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, England, France and Japan. She has shown in exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum, the Arkansas Art Center, The Columbus Museum, the Flinn Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, the Kentler International Drawing Space, McKenzie Fine Art, Morgan Lehman Gallery, ODETTA Gallery and Winston Wachter Seattle. Her work is in the collections of the Amateras Foundation, Charles Schwab Print Program, Cleveland Clinic, Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, and New York Presbyterian Hospital amongst others. Stone’s work is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City and Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT. Audrey was born and raised in New York City and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Audrey Stone, No, Know, No, 2023, acrylic on 4 canvases 30x20 each, 60x40

cameron clayborn - September 2023

cameron clayborn at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

cameron clayborn (b. 1992, Pine Bluff, Arkansas) lives and works in New Haven, CT. clayborn’s practice pulls from personal history and lived experience, creating multivalent works that are tender and intimate, abject and erotic.  

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roompiercer (with a mended form) #2, 2023
Bronze
4.5 x 2.75 x 4.5 inches

Denae Howard (#Artschoolscammer) - September 2023

Denae Howard. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Denae Howard (#Artschoolscammer) is a Brooklyn-based Conceptual artist, visionary, educator, curator and advisor.
Her/Their work promotes principles of sustainability and cultural equity by creating solutions. Foraging tools to navigate social, economic and environmental injustices - while problem solving with collaboration and play.
Her/Their works focus on imagining and illustrating the limitless opportunities of joyous existence for black and indigenous people. Highlighting imagery of anarchy, trickster-isms, taboo, confusion and ambiguity.
Her/ Their development is principal-ed in the transition of cultural institutions and museums as spaces run and maintained by Artists, Farmers, Griots, Healers and Revolutionaries to establish a narrative that uplifts and protects truth sharerer-s of our culture. By affirming community efforts, she anticipates to walk the path of trailblazers and stewards of the arts not as a collected silent voice.

https://www.dayonesart.com/
https://www.artschoolscammer.com/

Veronica Perez - September 2023

Veronica Perez in the Pool Room. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Veronica Perez is an artist who works alongside the community to speak about erasure, identity, and interdependency.

As a visual artist that is also a social and cultural worker, Perez uses these frames of reference to situate their work deep within intimate stories and experiences – and share them with a wider audience through sculpture and story.

In 2020, they were awarded the Ellis-Beaureguard Visual Arts Fellowship. In 2021 they were the inaugural fellow at the David C. Driskell Black Seed Studio. And In 2022, they were a fellow at the Lunder Institute at Colby College. Perez also subsequently had their first solo exhibition titled voices whispering at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

They are currently the Artists in Residence at the University of Southern Maine, teaching and working with students and the community in Southern Maine. Perez works as the Administrative Assistant at Indigo Arts Alliance, a Black-led arts and residency organization in Portland, Maine. They are also a co-organizer in Tender Table, an organization focused on uplifting the Black and Brown community in Maine through storytelling and food. Presently, Perez lives with her child and partner in Westbrook, Maine

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Elana Adler - August 2023

Elana Adler in the Pool Room. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Elana Adler is a multidisciplinary artist. She uses the grid as a tactical mapping system, and a geometric configuration inherited from the past. It is a constant variable that is continually translated and transformed. Utilizing the grid as an accessible visual language, Adler makes work inspired by complex systems and structures of power while challenging expectation through material potential. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Adler received a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and a MFA in Fibers & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. She currently lives and works in Portland, ME.

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Giggle by Elana Adler

Abdu Ali - August 2023

Abdu (Mongo) Ali is a Baltimore-based musician, writer, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and performance. Ali has performed their energetic and visceral shows at MoMa PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and The Kennedy Center. They have held residencies at Red Bull Music and Pioneer Works and in 2022 were a visiting artist at the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. Ali was also a recipient of the 2018 Ruby Artist Grant and 2023 USA Fellow. Ali received their BA in English from The University of Baltimore and will be a Literary Arts MFA Candidate at Brown University this Fall.

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Misoo Bang - August 2023

Misoo Bang in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Misoo was born in the Bronx in 1980, but moved back to her parent’s homeland of South Korea when she was a one-year old. 17 years later, she returned to the US with ambitions to use painting as her mode of emotional communication and story-telling. Her recent work, The Giant Asian Girls, is the manifestation of Asian woman living in the western world who has hurt inside after seeing images of the dehumanizing, fetishized version of themselves, or felt oppressed by the stereotypes of cultural passivity. The Giant Asian Girls literally grew out of the intersectionality of racism and sexism that Asian women experience living in America. Misoo has exhibited in a number of galleries and museums across America and around the world. Misoo was selected as one of the Emerging Artist of New England in 2019 and Vermont Artist to Watch in 2020.

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Misoo Bang, Haebaragi-Natanya, Korean Paint, Sumi Ink and Acrylic Paint on Panel, 2022, 45 diameter

Christopher K. Ho - August 2023

Christopher K. Ho in the Sunrise Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Christopher K. Ho is a speculative artist based in Hong Kong and New York. His practice encompasses making, organizing, writing, and teaching. He is known for materially exquisite objects that draw from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in an unevenly decolonized world.

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Charles Goolsby - July 2023

Charles Goolsby in the Split Studio at SPF. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Charles W. Goolsby, professor of art at Emory & Henry College, has been a practicing professional painter and printmaker for more than forty years. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University and M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University. Goolsby's work has been featured in more than 45 solo exhibitions throughout the southeastern United States at various college, university, fine arts center, museum and commercial galleries. Blue Spiral I Gallery, in Asheville, North Carolina represents him. His work has received awards in numerous regional and national juried exhibitions throughout the United States. His work is included in a number of public and corporate collections throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Goolsby’s honors include fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. He was selected as a resident associate artist by the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida where he worked with internationally acclaimed artist Donald Sultan. In 2012 he was selected as a Fellow at VCCA-France at Le Moulin à Nef, a studio center in the Gascon village of Auvillar. In 2019 Goolsby completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris and returned to the Vermont Studio Center with a full fellowship. In 2021, two of Goolsby’s paintings were selected for Creative Quarterly: The Journal for Art and Design. In August of 2010, three of Goolsby's oil paintings were included in the highly selective journal, New American Paintings. One of Goolsby's paintings was featured in Oxford American Magazine's Fall 2005 issue on Southern Art and Architecture. His art appeared on the April 1989 cover of School Arts Magazine. In 2015 the Arts Alliance of the Mountain Empire awarded Goolsby an Arts Achievement Award for his significant contribution as a studio artist and teacher to the region of Southwest Virginia.

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Maria Hupfield - July 2023

Maria Hupfield in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.

Transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield crosses boundaries at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. Her work positions art objects as active belongings where sculptures become performers in a form of object choreography between artist, audience, and art gallery. Engaged in an ongoing series of relations with community, places, ideas, and materials her influences include: Robert Morris, Simone Forti, Lydia Clark, Yoku Ono, James Luna, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Belmore, and Rebecca Horn. An Urban off-reservation member of the Anishinaabek People belonging to Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario, Canada, Hupfield is deeply invested in embodied practice, Native Feminisms, and ethical collaborative process. She is currently the inaugural ArtworxTO Legacy Artist in Residence (AiR) Program with the City of Toronto, and a Mellon Distinguished Fellow, Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University (2022).This past summer she won the coveted Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Award and began her term as a nominated Lucas Artist Residence Fellow at the Montalvo Art Center in California. In 2018 she was awarded the outstanding achievement by a Canadian mid-career artist by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her art has been exhibited at the New York Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the New York Museum of Art and Design, BRIC House Gallery, the Bronx Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Site Santa Fe, The Heard Museum, and in Canada at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de L’UQAM, and the NOMAM in Zurich.

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Maria Hupfield