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David Onri Anderson: The work I am currently making is in between a performance of negotiating a symbiotic relationship with inert material and creating a or assisting with hidden or mysterious qualities that could exude with the combination of specific artist material and general waste, refuse, and low-brow subject matter. Each work usually functions as a painting, while occupying an individual space as an object, and altogether they form stanzas that direct the line of sight through a rhythm...

Ariel Lavery graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007) and received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (2013). She is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Watkins College of Art, Design, and Film. She has exhibited extensively nationally and has curated and juried exhibitions in Main, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. She is part of COOP, a Nashville based artist collective devoted to curating in artists to the Nashville scene. She is...

Cloud compositions deal with the idea of conflict and turbulence, both domestic and abroad.  These clouds also double as nebulas, contracting and expanding energy around the idea of conflict. These works deal with notions of political strife coexisting with environmental concerns, and create compositions of smaller troubled environments coexisting in larger yet equally troubled ones.  There are fragmented figurative elements existing in and outside of these clouds, as well as tools, weapons, and vices.  These fragments serve...

Alex Lockwood makes abstract sculpture from colorful material, often repurposed or recycled. He builds with one primary component which is repeated many times to create patterns and structures. His material is often recognizable (bottle caps, shotgun shells, bread tabs and lottery tickets) though not always immediately. A familiar object seen in unfamiliar numbers can be alien at first glance, and Lockwood finds power and beauty in presenting commonplace material on an uncommon scale. Alex Lockwood is a self-taught artist from...

Rubens Ghenov was born in São Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to the US in 1989. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2010. Ghenov has shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery (NY), Geoffrey Young Gallery (MA), TSA Brooklyn (NYC), Woodmere Art Museum (PA), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA). In 2013, he co-curated with Dona Nelson the 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum. Ghenov has been featured i...