LaNia Sproles

LaNia grew up in the segregated city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated with a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She devotes most of her time conducting research on the philosophies of self perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas; while also examining the contemporary works’ of Laylah Ali, Kara Walker and […]

Michele Araujo

I have been painting for more than forty years. My partner is also a painter. I have an adult son. I have a studio in Ridgewood Queens and spend summers working in upstate NY, north of the Catskills. For most of my life I supported myself working part time, first as a waiter and then […]

Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman, a native New Yorker is a new media artist, critic, curator and writer who received her PhD from The School of Creative Media, Hong Kong City University where her PhD thesis on “Noor A Brain Opera” was awarded highest global honors by Leonardo LABS Abstracts. Noor was the world’s first immersive, interactive brainwave […]

Lee Running

Lee Emma Running’s work embraces the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Guided by simple material investigations, her sculptures, installations and drawings are deeply connected to place. Running was awarded the 2017 Iowa Arts Council fellowship. In 2018 she completed a major permanent installation in the Edgar Fine Art Building at Upper Iowa University, […]

Elise Tak

‘At satirizing pop-celebrity culture Ms. Tak is on the mark’. – Grace Glueck, The New York Times Elise Tak is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In her work she uses the imagery of film and popular culture to create a rich fictional and visionary world, while at the same time discussing contemporary, […]

Mohamed Ben Soltane

Mohamed Ben Soltane is a visual artist and Curator exhibiting his work in Tunisia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Algeria, among other countries. He graduated in 2004 from the High Institute of Fine Art of Tunis (I.S.B.A.T). He obtained his PhD in 2015. He worked from 2011 to 2015 as artistic director of one of the leading […]

Ann Messner

Ann Messner is a NY based multi-disciplinary artist. Her work has examined fault lines between the individual and the larger social body as encountered within public realm discourse, investigating the incongruities between notions of private life/space and public/civic engagement and experience. Her 1970’s performative work, interventionist in strategy, took place ‘unofficially’ within the context of […]

Pennie Key

Pennie Key is a London based artist. Her work incorporates visual, performative and autobiographical elements. She is interested in sexuality, relationships, gender issues, power dynamics, and her work expands across a variety of mediums. Currently, her starting point is her various identities (a queer, young woman, a middle class daughter, a Mixed Martial Artist in […]

Rafael Soldi

Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian­-born, Seattle-based artist and curator. He holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American University Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, ClampArt, The Print Center, G. Gibson Gallery, Connersmith, Filter Space, and Burrard Arts Foundation, […]

Vasiliki Antonopoulou

This is the second interview with Vasiliki, the one can be heard by clicking here. Vasiliki Antonopoulou was born in Greece and raised in Saudi Arabia, two locations which re-emerge in her process. Her practice combines text, performance and moving image, to explore notions of displacement and otherness. These manifest in metaphors that create multiple layers […]