Artist Art

“Kassi Sheppard is a Multidisciplinary Textile Artist and Photographer. Working predominantly with the natural world, Kassi uses materials that include textiles, photography and collage. Much of her recent work has been motivated by a desire to bring out what is beyond the surface, responding to elements living in the natural world and focusing on issues around nature of the body, its flaws, and how socially constructed ideals of beauty imposed on women.”

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“Bernardo Diaz is an artist, educator, and administrator who resides in Austin TX. Diaz received his MFA from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. A first generation Mexican-American, Diaz was born in Rochelle, Illinois and spent his formative years in Eagle Pass, a southwest Texas town on the border with Mexico. Diaz’s work explores notions of identity and currently works around three formal conceptual frameworks: embellishment, omission, and revision. ”

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“Jamie Q is a queer non-binary artist whose work includes fabric design, custom garments, textile art, quilts, paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints zines, and multiples. Their projects work through ideas around arts economies and creative labour, gender and queerness, craft and repurposed materials, and process-based play. Alongside their independent art practice, Jamie also works as a textile artist in costuming for film.”

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“Valeria Maculan was born in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Madrid. She studied painting and sculpture at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School in Buenos Aires. She exhibits individually in Magda Bellotti Gallery and Kir Royal Gallery in Madrid, Jean Brolly Gallery in Paris; Braga Menendez and SlyZmud Gallery in Buenos Aires; also Ecole des Beaux-arts of Besançon, France; Rosario Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) and Cultural Center R. Rojas of Argentina. ”

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“Robyn DuTemple is a Toronto-based artist who grew up in Canada, Turkey, and the Czech Republic. She is known for figurative and natural object drawings that challenge the spaces they're held in. ”

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“Amna Elhassan (b. 1988, Khartoum, Sudan) finds her inspiration in the physical, spiritual and spatial transformative processes experienced by women in her community. Women’s challenges and emancipative struggle are at the core of her work, which crosses several mediums, including printmaking and oil painting. Tackling issues such as the perception of the female body in both the public and private spheres, Elhassan's work adds to the conversation surrounding women's status in today's society. ”

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“It seems like an excursion through art history, sometimes chronological, sometimes suddenly leaping in time. Icons of our unconscious world, that carry Elizabeth Koning's personal picture language. The portraits have been photographed with a great deal of consideration and they are automatically examined with much attention. The persons seem very lifelike because she slightly make use of the sfumato technique amongst other things, but also because they are extremely realistically photographed.”

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“Anique Jordan is a multi-disciplinary artist, award-winning writer, scholar and social-entrepreneur. As an artist, her artwork plays with the aesthetics found in traditional Trinidadian carnival and the theory of hauntology challenging historical narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images. Her art creation processes are guided by the questions: What stories do we tell that go unchallenged? And in how many ways can we know a thing?”

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“Mollie Serena is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City's Lower East Side. Serena works in photography, sculpture, light art, installation and film. ”

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“Aliya Kahsay is a creative artist based in Toronto, Canada. Kahsay showed an early interest and talent in the arts since a child. She credits her time travelling and completing her BFA at Concordia University as her opportunity to come into her own. ”

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