It Never Entered My Mind

Sydney Acosta  ( 1987, Yanaguana, aka San Antonio, Texas) holds an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from UCLA (2021) and a B.A. from Sacramento State University (2015). Her work has been exhibited at Dreamsong, White Columns, and Michael Benevento (all 2023), CASTLE gallery (2022), Onsen Confidential in Tokyo (2022), Root Division (2021), and Axis gallery (2019).

Avantgardo (1996, Mexico) graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is characterized by combining different cultural devices to work with desire and its manifestations in consumer culture. Avantgardo proposes cheap luxury and pop simulation as concepts to understand the constitutive role of consumption and spectacle in subjectivities.

William Anastasi (1933-2023 )was a contemporary American artist who was considered a pioneer of Conceptual and Minimal Art. As evinced in his series of Subway Drawings along with his many site-specific installations and sound works, Anastasi’s interests lay in meditation and everyday experience rather than creating aesthetically beautiful objects. Like his deceased friend and peer John Cage, Anastasi explored the relationship between the human condition and its recording mechanisms, through the mediums of visual art, sound, and experience.

Juliette Blightman ( 1980, UK) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Central Saint Martins and Byam Shaw School of Art. Working with various media and forms her films, drawings, performances, installations and texts draw an exploration on the ordinariness of everyday life and its ritualised dimensions, the notions of radical subjectivity and the personal and public spheres of life. Her work evokes moments of shared intimacy between friends and reminds the viewer that art and everyday life always happen alongside each other.

Charlotte vander Borght (1988, Brussels) delves into the materiality of industry and architecture, whether through painting or sculpture. Ideology permeates design, manifesting in the furniture that envelops us or the architecture that shelters us. The artist selects themes closely entwined with utopian ideals, such as the marvel of public transportation.

Dove Bradshaw  (1949 , N.Y) , pioneered the use of Indeterminacy in 1969 by enlisting the unpredictable effects of time, weather, erosion, and indoor and outdoor atmospheric conditions on natural, chemical, and manufactured materials. She has created chemical paintings that change with the atmosphere, indoor erosion sculptures of salt and outdoor stone sculptures that weather. She has worked with crystals that receive radio transmissions from local, short wave, and weather stations, along with reception of radio tele-scope signals from Jupiter. In 1975 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant; 1985 the Pollock-Krasner award; 2003 a Furthermore Grant; in 2006 The National Science Foundation for Artists Grant.

Chelsea Culprit (1984 , Paducah, KY) explores the performance of gender in the labor market and the expression of gender in the natural world. The artist reinvents subjects and techniques of historical painting, recoding the latent symbols of patriarchy toward an expanded social imaginary.

Emiliano de Ezkauriatza (2000, Monterrey) reveals an inner world whose fantasies, places and characters are articulated by small-scale work and the presence of a saturation of motifs whose detail suggests a particular relationship between intimacy and delirium.

Marie Hazard (1994, Le Havre) livesand works in Paris. She graduated fromCentral Saint Martins in 2017 in London with a BA in textile design. Her medium of choice is weavingand printing.

Leah Ke Yi Zheng (1988, Wuyishan, China)  , she was apprenticed in traditional Chinese painting techniques from an early age. With a dialectical relationship to tradition, she developed a practice in painting that incorporates ancient Chinese approaches akin to Wang Xizhi’s “spiritual calligraphy” and “picture of the mind” techniques alongside her own formalist response to Western artists including Hilma af Klint, Fra Angelico, and Blinky Palermo. While often in intellectual and aesthetic conversation with these traditions and figures, her works are, for the artist, equally “engaged through their solitude, as we are as individuals.”

Anuar Maauad (1984 Querétaro, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. He destabilizes the hegemonic powers exerted and consolidated in the calcified tradition of monumental public sculpture by foregrounding the technical processes by which these objects are both fabricated and destroyed. Political figures are monumentalized through works of public sculpture that hew to centuries-old aesthetic conventions, with only the (idealized) faces changing over time. In repurposing the literal cast-offs of the still-booming production of these monuments in Mexico, Maauad denies both the leaders who would be memorialized and the viewers who would behold them even that degree of recognition. The hulking, golem-like plaster forms used in the bronze casting process are submitted in place of the heroic figures once hatched from them.

Michael Ross (1954) For the past twenty years Michael has had direct his focus toward small, precise wall mounted sculptures created from scraps, unidentifiable hardware and miscellaneous things. Ross’s earliest small-scale sculpture consisted of a single upright thimble containing the dust from several rooms of his home. Due to their small scale the works highlight the selection of materials and the importance they may convey no matter the scale of the final work.

Loup Sarion (1987,  Toulouse )  lives and works in New York. He studied at the école nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris from 2010 to 2015 and attened the Cooper Union School of Art of new York in 2013. Loup Sarion’s practice lies.

Yves Scherer ( 1987, Switzerland) is a Swiss contemporary artista living and working in New York. He graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2014 with an MA in Sculpture, after

receiving a BA in Sciences of Culture from the University of Lucerne.

Julian Schnabel ( 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is a groundbreaking artist known for his mastery in painting, sculpture, film, architecture, and furniture. While acclaimed as a movie director, his primary focus is on painting. Schnabel's use of unconventional materials and innovative construction methods played a vital role in reinvigorating painting in the late 1970s.