As a research-based, site-specific installation artist, I am interested in how a manufactured or created space can destabilize our customary expectations of and interactions with our environment. My investigations have led me to explore the symbiotic relationship between the human landscape and the natural environment. I am intrigued by the impact of global trade, patterns […]

A commitment to remain human in an increasingly changing and hybridizing world, culture, and home is what helps me negotiate my place interpersonally and relationally to my studio practice and production as an artist.  As innovations alter how we perceive and interact with the world, are we coming closer to or farther from understanding each […]

As an artist I am interested in the idea of self as a body politic, something that society controls or overshadows. In this regard, my drawings address the consequence of a culture divided by the expectations of personal prosperity and the realities of sustainability. My recent work is a series of large scale drawings in […]

Racine Polycarpe (born in Jeremie, Haiti, 1991) was a visiting artist from Haiti. I am an emerging artist from the ghetto of Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  In 2006, I was adopted by my uncle, the well-known artist, Celeur Jean-Herard.  I worked as his apprentice at his school, the Realm of the Arts and Minds. […]

Romel Jean Pierre (born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1993) was a visiting artist from Haiti. I always wanted to be a politician until December, 2009 when I discovered art during the first Ghetto Biennale, which was organized by the artists’ collective of Grand Rue called Atis Rezistans.  I joined the youth arm of Atis-Rezistans, called Timoun […]

Claudel Casseus (born in Port-au-Prince, 1981) was a visiting artist from Haiti. I was raised in the ghetto neighborhood of Grand Rue, where art and creativity is a primary activity.  Thanks to this, from a young age, I was able to cultivate the natural talent with which every human is born: Art.  In 2008, I […]

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Using critical wit and collaborative co-creation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focussed on how photography and image-based […]

The rapid spread of urban life is now visible throughout the planet. In the last century the built environment has grown ever taller and denser and daily life is now physically framed through an architectural lens.  Architectural frames create a layered, multi-faceted vision of the world around us. Edges of buildings, voids, windows, doors, power-lines […]

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School, I moved to San Francisco in 2000.  I received a BFA in advertising from the Academy of Art University and worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners. After leaving advertising, I […]

I derive structure, material, and process for my multi-media work from uncanny visual circumstances in the terrain of our constructed environs.  I am particularly interested in the arbitrary, yet seemingly composed moments that can occur at the fringes of the In-Between.  I find comfort in this incidental formalism that suggests a collective consciousness and elegant […]