Meet the founders:
Devra Freelander (b. 1990 New Jersey–d. 2019 Brooklyn, NY)
Devra Freelander made sculptures and videos that explore climate change and geology from an ecofeminist and millennial lens. MFA Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (2016); BA Cum Laude Studio Art from Oberlin College (2012) Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant (2018), The Arctic Circle Residency (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2017), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency (2016-2017), ASMBLY Session #1 (2017), St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2016), Fjuk Arts Centre (2015); Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Virginia Commonwealth University + Summer Studio Program (2013)
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Hilliary Gabryel (b. 1991 Lynchburg, VA, based in Queens, NY )
Gabryel approaches the transcendence of social class through tropes of aspirational luxury and the embellishment of found objects. BFA Magna Cum Laude from Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking Major and Dance Minor (2013), Post Baccalaureate Certificate Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2013); Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2017), ASMBLY Session #1 (2017), Wassaic Artist Residency (2017)
ig: @hilliarygabryel
Rachael Starbuck (b. 1988 Miami, FL, based in Pittsburgh, PA)
In her practice Starbuck navigates how a body moves through space— negotiating touch, desire, intimacy and communication across distance. She makes fluid feeling objects that are sensitive to their environment. MFA Sculpture + Extended Media from University of Texas at Austin (2017); BFA with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture + Extended Media, Art History Minor with honors (2011) Lecturer, Dept. of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin (2017-2021), Vermont Studio Center (2015); Wassaic Project Artist Residency (2014); ACRE Projects Residency (2013)
ig: @starbuckra
Cameron Cameron (b. 1991 Texas, based in Los Angeles, CA)
Cameron uses delicate interventions to interrogate how one's relationship to bugs, nature, and place corresponds within the quotidian our day-to-day. MFA from University of California Los Angeles (2018); BFA Studio Art from University of Texas at Austin (2014); American Austria Foundation Seebacher Prize (2018); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017); Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015)
ig: @winter_shorts
Claire Lachow (b. 1989 Queens, NY, based in Brooklyn, NY)
Claire Lachow maps connections between language, bodies, and ideologies, exploring how the resulting constellation is objectified and intensified in technology. BA Studio Art Cum Laude from Oberlin College, Art History minor with honors (2011); SACI College of Art & Design (2009). Red Bull Arts Detroit Residency & Fellowship (2019); Welcome to my Homepage Residency (2019); Visual Philosophies (2014). Recipient of a FST StudioProjects Grant (2021). Contributing writer to Jewish Currents (2019). Managing Editor & Contributing Writer to Foundations Magazine (2016)
ig: @clayore
Gracelee Lawrence (b. 1989 Sanford, NC, based in Climax, NY)
Lawrence’s work deals with relationships between food, the body, and technology; exploring the ways in which bodies are both gendered and metaphorically fragmented in terms of capitalist-driven material desires, physical sustenance, and the digital spaces we inhabit. MFA Sculpture + Extended Media from University of Texas at Austin (2016); Post Baccalaureate Certificate from Virginia Commonwealth University (2012); BFA with honors Sculpture from Guilford College (2011). Currently an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany. Vermont Studio Center (2018); Wassaic Artist Residency (2018); Bunker Projects Residency (2017); Visiting Artist in Residence at Chiang Mai University, Thailand (2016-17), Luce Scholars Fellowship (2016-17).
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