Sathya Balakumar (b.1979), was born in Queens, New York. A microcosm of the world, Sathya was influenced by the fusion of cultures, customs, and languages from her earliest moments. A graduate of Boston University, Sathya started her career in Communications working for ABC Networks and later for American Express. Years later, with a wealth of [...]
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Bina Altera was born 1972 in Jersey City, NJ where she had an endless supply of vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles and a view of Manhattan from her rooftop. She graduated from the Art Institute of Boston with a concentration in illustration. After graduation she began working as a commercial artist for clients such as [...]
Rachel Barrett (b. 1981, Cambridge, MA) is a visual storyteller. She uses the medium of photography to explore and collect the world around her, fulfilling her desires to memorialize pieces from the present and preserve the past. Her personal work is deeply rooted in nostalgia and memory with a primary interest in social and cultural [...]
Vanessa Belli was born and raised on the Central Coast of California. She earned a Bachelors degree in Art and Design at San Jose State University and then a Master of Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture’s, international program in Vico Morcote, Switzerland. After working on small scale design-build projects, furniture and metalwork [...]
Each thing in my paintings was put there deliberately, knowing that nothing real can ever be perfectly replicated, only interpreted. Paintings are constructed gradually through memory, aftermath, judgement, and analysis of dozens of references. Environment and expression are removed. Images are stripped down into re-organized reality, where what remains are the un-idealized and the subconscious. [...]
Malcolm Brown was born in Farmington, CT in 1979. He attended Cornell University where he earned a B.S and M.S. in Design and Environmental Analysis and a minor in City and Regional Planning. He pursued a career in strategic design and research consulting. In this position, he observed and analyzed how people live, work and [...]
When I was growing up in Korea, I always noticed a family portrait adorned by an antique frame, placed at the center with care, where it can be shown with dignity. Those tarnished and yellowing photographs would reveal the amily’s past, leading in the present and even the future. This image became imbedded in my [...]
Julia Cocuzza was born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania. After earning her B.F.A. from Syracuse University’s College of Visual & Performing Arts in 2003, she moved to New York City and soon after to Brooklyn, where she currently works and resides. In 2008, she received an honorarium from Alvernia University and was granted a month-long [...]
