Cornelia Thomsen was born 1970 in Rudolstadt, Thuringia in former East Germany. She attended the 4-year apprenticeship at the Meissen Porcelain Company. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 Thomsen earned her BA and MFA at the University of Art and Design in […]
Riim Saïd is an artist working across the bounds of medium and geography. Having grown up in Houston, Texas, she would begin seeking out new creative contexts—a tendency that remains central to her practice. As habitual stranger, new dimensionalities of memory, experience, and perception would increasingly open up within her artistic work. In 2011, guided by a real-life auger in rural Morocco amid regional revolutionary fervor, she bathed her artist-hands
Bryan Colley is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice is rooted in a lifelong passion for making. While his formal education led him to the study of law, he maintained a rigorous parallel focus on the visual arts, beginning with painting classes during his university years. Over the ensuing decades, Colley has developed a prolific and diverse body of work that consists of ink drawings and paintings that go back and forth between abstraction and figuration.
Kate Shepherd is an artist based in New York whose practice spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation. Trained in both classical and contemporary painting as well as architecture, she creates subtle yet exacting meditations on space. Her recent larger-scale projects include four major wall paintings, one of which is permanently installed at Rice University in Houston. She has delivered artist talks at both the Menil Collection and the Modern Art Museum
Gerardo Rosales (USA, born Venezuela) is a Houston-based artist whose work explores identity, memory, and social justice through richly patterned
Arko Datto transitioned from mathematical physics to contemporary art, blending analytical rigor with a deeply human perspective. His work explores forced migration, techno-fascism, digital surveillance, and disappearing landscapes, weaving interconnected narratives about the existential pressures of our time. Through long-term projects, he builds immersive, layered worlds, pushing the boundaries of still and moving images. Datto’s practice spans photography, film, video, and
Allyson Glenn is a visual artist based in Saskatoon, Canada working in painting, drawing, photo-collage, and animation. She is fascinated by the relationship between the fictional worlds that we create and the real ones we inhabit. This interest has found its clearest expression in her explorations of mythology and architecture. Much of her practice is an extended consideration of the influence of stories, in particular,
Hilda Palafox is a visual artist whose work explores and questions the human figure through painting, sculpture, and textiles. Her
Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a second generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn
