Shanequa Benitez- Power: the Fight for More

My art is my heart, my pain, my love, my fears, my doubts, my beliefs, my traumas, and my purpose! My creative process stems from my emotions, current events; things I’ve witnessed and things I’ve experienced. “Never Conform” is a way of life for me and I include it in my work often.Working on art …

Kate Fauvell - Unlock Your Soul

Lance Johnson - Invisible Man II

Lance Johnson- Peace and Love

Natsuki Takauji- Petaled

My work is deeply influenced by the aspects that originated from my personal experiences in a religiously confused and sexually oppressed environment in Tokyo, Japan, where I was born and raised. For me, art is to liberate from condition and suppression to reveal something that won't be expressed o…

Al Johnson - Ghost Dancing

Kate Fauvell - Women are New York's Strongest

As a native New Yorker, I’m accustomed to change. Over the course of my lifetime, its residents have transformed the city more times than I can count. That experience informs my art. I believe all things change and make art that alludes to this process. People and systems inspire me. I constantly t…

Adrian Hashimi - Four Views of Manhattan Bridge

New York City itself is the symbol of resiliency. The people, the skyscrapers, the neighborhoods have gone through uncountable challenges and it is still vibrant and proud. Nothing epitomized this more than the great Manhattan bridge. Spanning solid, the stoic blue colossus that connects Lower Manh…

Miguel de la Cruz - Emotions

Showing people how with patience, we were at home all the time that was necessary to keep away from Covid 19 and being close to win this pandemic. And getting close to normal. Also to let people know that all that time at home, me I was taking the time to study and thinking about how with art I cou…

Yen Ha - We Float, We Fly

The shape of my memory seems to transmute so fluidly over the course of time that I can never be sure whether what I remember is objective truth or subjective longing. Rooted in small scale gestures, aggregated over weeks into expansive drawings, my work begins rooted in the reality of places I’ve …