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Rebekah Kim is the founder and director of Picture Theory, a contemporary art gallery in New York focused on artists engaging with materiality, technology, and evolving cultural narratives. Since founding the gallery in 2023, she has built a program that bridges emerging voices with historic practices, emphasizing both critical discourse and market development. Picture Theory is establishing a distinct voice that balances curatorial vision with the realities of building a sustainable gallery model.

Drea Cofield is a painter based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at Kravets Wehby Gallery (NYC), Galleri Urbane (Dallas), and Soho Revue (London). Her work has been featured in publications such as CULTURED, The Wall Street Journal, Office, Dazed, and Whitehot Magazine. She is a recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and has participated in residencies including Yaddo (NY) and La Napoule Art Foundation (France), as well as just receiving a Lab of Experimental Art Residency Prize at CAN Art Fair in Spain. Cofield earned her BA from DePauw University and her MFA from the Yale School of Art.

Building upon a conceptual foundation in photography, Milan’s practice encompasses drawing, collage, and painting to explore ideas of the body, beauty, and the unconscious. The composite, fragmented figures in his work inhabit ambiguous landscapes of painted abstraction, navigating themselves through recontextualized historical and contemporary environments. Through them, the body—the physical, the psychological, and the photographic body—is understood as a multi-faceted, intersecting site of gender, race, sexuality, and history.  Wardell Milan received his BFA from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001) and his MFA from Yale University (2004), both in Photography. Notable solo exhibitions of his work include Wardell Milan: Recent Work at the Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College (2022-23), and America. God Bless You If It’s Good To You, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2021).

Ashlie Atkinson is an Arkansas-born actress now living in Brooklyn, NY, who has amassed a pile of over 100 credits in film and television since her debut in 2004. Notable roles include a virulent klan wife in Spike Lee's Blackkklansman, the psychopathic taxidermist Janice on Mr. Robot, and the ever-capable dispatcher Ruby in The Lost Bus (starring Matthew McConaughey) on Apple TV. Ashlie currently portrays 1880s party girl Mamie Fish on HBO's hit show The Gilded Age, and unlicensed nurse and facilities manager Miss Dot on the NBC comedy Stumble, currently available on Peacock. Ashlie is also a writer and producer, most recently of the documentary Hank's Saloon. @Ashlie_atkinson on IG

Leon Chase is a self-taught filmmaker, musician, visual artist, occasional writer, and full-time curious person. For nearly a decade, he has dedicated himself to capturing—and celebrating—the "vanishing weirdos" of New York City. 

Founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the author of 22 poetry collections (print/audio/video), most recently two books written 50 years apart The Unspoken (YBK/Bowery), Life Poem (YBK/Bowery) as well as Bob Holman’s India Journals (Rattapallax), The Cutouts (Matisse) (PeKaBoo Press) and Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press). He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. As the original Slam Master and a director of the Nuyorican Poets Café, creator of the world's first spoken word poetry record label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury, and the Founder and Artistic Director of the Bowery Poetry Club, Holman has played a central role in the spoken word, slam and digital poetry movements of the last several decades. All told, he has performed well over 1,000 times, around the globe, from Madison Square Garden and rock stadiums to church basements and Ethiopian Tej Bets (honey wine bars). Co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance, Holman's study of hip-hop and West African oral traditions led to his current work with endangered languages. He is the producer/director/host of various films, including The United States of Poetry, a PBS series that aired nationally and won the International Public Television Award, directed by Mark Pellington and produced with Joshua Blum, and On the Road with Bob Holman. His film about language loss and revitalization, Language Matters with Bob Holman, winner of the Berkeley Film Festival's Documentary of the Year award, was produced by David Grubin and aired nationally on PBS. Holman traveled for the film and led workshops at language revitalization centers across Alaska and Hawaii, sponsored by the Ford Foundation; in 2022 he was invited by the Basabali Langauge Reclamation Society to screen it in Bali. His short film, produced by Steve Zeitlin of City Lore, Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues, has lines of poetry in 50 languages, and premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. In 2018, Holman was awarded He is also known for his ekphrastic poetry and performances, including Talking Pictures, a film by Kristi Zea of Holman performing his poems with the paintings of his late wife, Elizabeth Murray. At Sundance in 2023, a digital restoration of SLAM, the movie made by Marc Levin and starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn, was screened. The film originated at the Nuyorican Poets Café 25 years earlier when Holman was MC, a role he recreated live at Sundance. Holman’s poetry film, We Are the Dinosaur, directed by Paul Moon, featured at a dozen film festivals, was the basis of Holman’s 2024 tour of Oslo, Vienna, Tbilisi, and Tokyo. In 2025, he was selected by the Venice Biennale to perform his poetry on Venice’s streets, canals and bridges, as well as in theaters.

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented four solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art.

Holly Coulis was born in Toronto, ON and moved to NYC in 1999. She currently lives and works in Athens, GA. Her work is represented by Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles and Klaus von Nichtssagend in NYC, where they are currently hosting her exhibition, "Whereabouts".

Sam Jablon (b. 1986, Binghamton, New York) lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his BA from Naropa University. His work has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Hauser & Wirth, Blum & Poe, Morgan Presents, and the Pit. His work is held in the collections of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ICA Miami, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, BOMB, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Dona Nelson received a BFA from Ohio State University in 1968, attending the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1967 while still an undergraduate. Among other grants, Nelson received an Anonymous was a Woman Grant in 2015, an Artist Legacy Foundation Award in 2013, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. In January/February of this year, they had a solo exhibition at Canada Gallery, in conjunction with Thomas Erben. Nelson’s paintings are included in collections such as the Whitney Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the new Princeton University Art Museum, where their painting, Providence, 2023, is currently installed. In June, Thomas Erben will present Andrew Ross and Dona Nelson in the Premiere Sector of Art Basel, Basel.

Liz Ainslie is an abstract painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her abstractions are generated from observations and memories spanning 1970s interior decor, the Upstate New York landscape, My Little Pony, and ancient Greek wall paintings. You can read about Liz's recent solo exhibition at Deanna Evans Projects on Two Coats of Paint. Liz's work has been featured in shows at White Columns, PLATFORM, Transmitter, Good Naked, Rhett Baruch, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Mepaintsme, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Tappeto Volante.

Henry Gunderson (born 1990, San Francisco, CA) is an American artist based in New York. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Gunderson received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Gunderson has had solo exhibitions at 247365 (New York), Derek Eller (New York), Perrotin (New York and Shanghai), Gern en Regalia (New York), Loyal (Stockholm), Water McBeer (New York), Ever Gold (San Francisco), Carl Kostyal (London), Castiglioni (Milan) and has been included in numerous group exhibitions in the US and abroad. Henry Gunderson is represented exclusively by Water McBeer Gallery.

Kevin Lowenthal (b. 1994, Philadelphia) lives and works in New York, NY. Lowenthal received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work employs the use of techniques from weaving, papermaking, and painting: he laminates the canvas with cotton fibers to build a ground on which to makes the paintings. Stages, curtains, and mannequins are spotlighted in their relationship to an index universal alchemy. Recent solo exhibitions were with Derek Eller, New York, NY; 243 Luz in Margate, UK, as well as at the Material Art Fair in Mexico City. Recent group exhibitions include Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY; and Ruby/Dakota, New York, NY.

Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister. Flitting between mechanical and organic objects, Matthams’ exacting brushwork is the connective thread leading our eye through every sumptuous detail. Matthams graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from New York University in 2004 and an MFA from New York University in 2012. Previous solo and two person exhibitions include Agape in the Spectrum, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2024); Independent New York with Stan VanDerBeek, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2023), Glimpse, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2022); A Hell for Rainbows, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2019, 2013); and Advances, None Miraculous, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2015).

Lucia Love’s visually rich paintings are loaded with references to art history, mythology, politics, and the dynamics of power. By layering these references, contemporary allegories emerge, pushing each piece into the realm of idea painting.  Their idiosyncratic paintings have appeared at Cue Foundation, Giovanni’s Room, Sargent’s Daughters, The Hole, JDJ, and others. Their work has been included in The Bunker Artspace of Beth Rudin DeWoody, and the Xiao Museum collection in Rizhao City China.

Mary Laube's work is fundamentally concerned with the contradictory nature of pictorial space, as it carries the promise of spatial expansion: an implied horizon with the illusion of spatial possibility. Yet, the physical surface of a painting agitates this illusion, as it asserts its truth as a flat surface. Within this plane her work antagonizes our relationship to culture, and the fraught process of defining it. Recent exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), the Knoxville Museum of Art, and Groundfloor Contemporary (Birmingham) among others.

Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, and the spaces where art is made and contemplated. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is the author of the acclaimed books Inside the Painter's Studio and Inside the Artist’s Studio, which share an intimate view inside the studios of today’s leading artists. His work can be found in numerous museums and leading private collections including the Parrish Museum, Norton Museum, New Museum and the Fogg Museum. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Artforum, Art in America, and ArtNews as well as several international magazines. Joe is the Department Chair of both Fine Arts and Visual Studies at Ringling College of Art & Design. He earned his BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is represented by Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York. www.joefig.com

Esteban Cabeza de Baca is a painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between New York and the borderlands of the Southwest United States. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. Cabeza de Baca’s works are in the permanent collections of Harvard University, North Dakota Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Parrish Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Williams College Museum of Art. He is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery and Parker Gallery.

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another.  He maintains a prolific resourceful playfulness in his practice, with an evolving vocabulary of form and color that informs the freshness of his work. Playful and unpretentious, he mines the rawness of his materials, elevating the imperfect with an approach that is physical, elegant and mysterious.

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressures of assimilation. This duality seeded the fragmented forms and layered symbolism that define his art today. His practice continues to carry echoes of Latin American patterns, nature’s geometry, and American architectural influences, all reimagined through abstraction. Umaña’s recent works, “hybrid paintings,” combine glazed ceramics on painted canvas and fuse together conflicting styles—mess and order, biomorphic and geometric, thin and thick, matte and sheen.

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at  Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus (NYC), Thomas Robertello Gallery (IL), Greenfield Community College (MA), and ARTBN (South Korea). Lambert is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She has completed public art projects for the NYC Department of Transportation and collaborated with both elementary schools and college students on public art initiatives in New York and New Hampshire. Previously, she has taught at Parsons School of Design, Yeshiva University and Fordham University. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell (NH), Yaddo (NY), AIR Woodstock/Byrdcliffe (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Dieu Donné (NY), Lower East Side Printshop (NY), VCCA (VA)  and Fountainhead Residency (FL).

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia was a Lighthouse Works Fellow in 2025 and served as an Associate Professor of Photography at Alfred University for nine years.

Mathew Cerletty (b. 1980, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) paints hyperreal depictions of signage, commercial tableaux, and everyday items with a precision that veers into the uncanny. At first glance, his paintings appear seamless, almost digital, but closer inspection reveals traces of the artist's hand that attest to his dedication to traditional craft. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2025); Herald St, London (2024); STANDARD (OSLO) (2023, 2019); Karma, Los Angeles (2022); Karma, New York (2021, 2018); The Power Station, Dallas (2020); Office Baroque, Brussels (2014); and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2013).  

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award. His current solo exhibition Drawings is at Picture Theory in New York, NY. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Harper’s (New York, NY), McBride Contemporain (Montreal, Canada), George Benias Gallery (Athens, Greece), and Anton Kern Gallery (New York, NY).    

Tony Mascatello is a New York based painter of narrative images who began this process as a performance artist in SOHO long ago. Working on a small scale, he creates intimate spaces that invite the viewer to enter into an imagined experience.  

Clare Grill (born 1979, lives and works in Queens, NY) received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parlance, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Cutwork, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; and Wich Language and Oyster, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe.

Dylan Vandenhoeck, born in New York City in 1990, is a painter and musician. His meandering and embodied perspective approach to observational painting questions what it means to paint from life today. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2017. His most recent solo shows include “Right Under The Nose” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2024), “Inside Out, Outside In” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2022), “Reality Show” at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021) and “What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes and Nod Yes?” at Jack Barrett, New York (2020). 

Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) is a New York born and based multidisciplinary artist. The artist’s interests span renaissance art, celebrity, psychology, occult practices, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery as well as divinatory visions in a practice motivated by ritualistic impulse and alchemical processes that investigate media’s physical and emotional divide. His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. In his most recent work Dugan has furthered his research of the materiality and techniques of renaissance painting systems in a continued effort to embed and articulate the incurrence of talismanic energy that is formed through ceremonial practice within the space between intention and objectness.

Kai Altair is a musician and guide exploring the meeting place of music, ritual, and consciousness.  Rooted in animist, earth-based traditions, she creates spaces for remembrance and ecstatic renewal. Through sound, compassionate support, and lineage holding, her work invites connection to benevolent realms walking in partnership with the deeply human.  

Lauren Clay is a visual artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design, and MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is best known for her wall-based relief sculptures and elaborate wallpaper installations. She currently lives and works in New York city. 

Julie Curtiss was born in 1982 in Paris, France and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris and graduated in 2006 with a BA and MFA. Recent solo exhibitions include Gagosian Gallery Paris (2025), White Cube HongKong (2023) White Cube Mason’s Yard, London (2021); Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2019); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2018); and 106 Green, Brooklyn, New York (2017). Group exhibitions include Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); Biennale des Arts de Nice (2022); The Shed, New York (2021); La Patinoire Royale – Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels (2020); Deitch Gallery, New York (2020); Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York (2019); Perrotin, Seoul (2019); Clearing, New York (2019); White Cube Bermondsey, London (2017).

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. His multimedia artworks merge photography, painting, and sculpture in low-relief wall works that read like urban archaeology—fragments of city life preserved and reimagined. Ethan has exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York, Higher Pictures, New York; New York; Marianne Boesky, New York, Lyles & King, New York; The Suburban, Chicago; Galerie Pact, Paris; Super Dakota, Brussels; Stems, Brussels; The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; and Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.  

Zuriel Waters was born in 1984 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 with a fellowship from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University in 2007. Has shown work in group exhibitions throughout New York City at galleries such as Underdonk, CANADA, Tappeto Volante, Deanna Evans and others and has recently had solo shows at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts and My Pet Ram in New York City.

Richard Tinkler was born in Westminster MD in 1975 and went to college at the University of North Texas and graduate school at Hunter College. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and shows at 56 Henry in NYC.  

Brigitte Mulholland opened her eponymous gallery in Paris in April 2024. She was previously a Senior Director at Anton Kern in New York, as well as an independent curator of numerous shows.   

Robert Feintuch (b. 1953, Jersey City) lives and works in New York City. Since 1983 his paintings and drawings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally at galleries and museums including Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, CRG Gallery, New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery New York, Moskowitz/Bayse, Los Angeles, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Studio La Citta, Verona, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, C’a Pesaro Galleria Internationale d’arte Moderna, Venice, Serralves Museum, Porto, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, The Rupertinum, Salzburg, The Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Museum für moderne zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, The Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, and in the Venice Biennale. Feintuch has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Leube Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

Ben Pederson was raised by a poet and a sculptor who taught him to value intuition and curiosity above all else. He makes sculptures and paintings that are born from dreams, books, and all of the people he has ever known and loved. Most summer evenings Ben can be found drinking a beer on his rooftop garden that he tends with his studio mate and great friend Dan. His Gods are Art, Love, and Hacky Sack . 

Born in Coshocton, Ohio 1976, Clinton King holds a BFA in painting from Columbus College of Art and Design and an MFA in sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. King’s artistic approach is defined by his emphasis on the material and sensory qualities of painting and his minimalist approach, which often creates elaborate maximalist effects. King’s recent solo exhibitions include Participation Mystique, STEMS (Brussels, 2025); Mythmatics, MAKI Gallery (Tokyo, 2023); LIVING ENDS, Carl Kostyál (London, 2022); and FREE RADICAL, Allouche Benias Gallery (Athens, 2021). He is also a frequent participant in group exhibitions worldwide, primarily in the US.

Texas-born artist Robin Kang creates woven artworks that merge ancestral textile traditions, shamanic healing, and digital innovation.  Using a digitally operated Jacquard loom, she creates textiles that blend botanical motifs with circuit-like patterns, exploring the dualities of past and future, nature and technology, and mysticism and computation.  A 2017 NYFA Fellow, Kang has exhibited internationally at venues including the Queens Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, with features in The New York Times, ArtNews, and Hyperallergic. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught fiber arts and digital weaving at RISD, Parsons, and Tyler School of Art.  

Jonathan Herrera Soto (b. 1994) holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellowship, and the Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School. Herrera Soto is a printmaker, whose practice explores the relationship between the printing matrix (the surface used to create the print) and the substrate (the material that receives the print). He is interested in how this interaction can serve as a metaphor for translation and mistranslation, specifically highlighting distortions that occur in the process of understanding one another in the world. 

Katya Varlamova is a clinical herbalist with a private practice in New York City, Hudson Valley and online. She is also founder of the organic herbal wellness line Warmicita Herbals. Katya teaches herbal workshops to private and corporate clients, as well as hosts plant walks, women's circles, and plant medicine retreats in the Amazon and the Peruvian Andes.

Trampas Thompson is a Hollywood Stuntman and Stunt Coordinator with over 150 credits in film an television, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Birdman, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. In 2014, he encountered Ayahuasca for the first time, and, after working with the plant medicine for some years, moved to Peru full time in 2020. He now lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, with his dog Blueberry.  

Born in Missoula, MT in 1976, Amanda Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Brooklyn, producing over 25+ large-scale fabric installations all around the world. Amplifying multiple voices (over 6000+), she collaborates with local community groups and sources her textiles from local donations. Exhibitions include: Triennale Brugge, Belgium; Project 1: ArtPrize; SPRING/BREAK Art Fair; White Columns; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. Currently she has a large-scale textile installation at the Buffalo Art Museum AKG and is a member of their Public Art Initiative. Press: New York Times to Fiber Art Magazine and founder of art podcast www.badatsports.com 

Roxanne Jackson was born in California’s East Bay and currently lives in New York. Press for her work includes the New York Times, the New Yorker, the LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Sculpture Magazine, Forbes, Metal Magazine, Cool Hunting and Ceramics Monthly, among others. Selected museum exhibitions include the Schloss Museum, Linz, Austria; the Arter Museum, Istanbul, TRKY; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA; the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, DE; and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY. Selected NYC exhibitions include Anton Kern Gallery, The Armory Show with Night Gallery, The Hole, R & Company, Underdonk, Sardine, Elijah Wheat Showroom and other exhibitions include Sargeant’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA; David Lewis Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; Louise Alexander Gallery, Sardinia, ITLY; Duve Berlin Gallery, Berlin, DE; Public Gallery and Cob Gallery, London, UK; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; and Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MX.  

Reuben Paterson (b. 1973, Auckland, New Zealand: Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Scottish). Paterson uses the transformative properties of light to reach beyond appearances and pry open the complex histories and tensions that sit just beneath the surface of all things. His art is made in celebration of exchange and encounter, hybridity and fluidity, spirituality and sexuality, and is especially attuned to the dynamics of queer identity and whakapapa (genealogy)-based modes of cultural knowledge.

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented three solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art.

Alex Yudzon is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance. His debut monograph, A Room for the Night (Radius Books, 2023), explores American hotel culture through thirty-four site-specific installations made across the United States. Yudzon’s work has been exhibited at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, the China International Photography Biennial, Arles Photo Festival, and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. He is a 2019 NYFA Fellow and was a resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Former monk (bhikkhu) Santi trained in the Thai forest tradition, a meditation-centered branch of Theravada Buddhism. He disrobed after eight years, and now teaches and writes on Buddhist, post-Buddhist, and other spiritual and practice-related themes. His website is findingsanti.org.  

Wells Chandler is a space alien born on Planet Birthday. Drawing from folk art, 1970s craft feminism and countercultural thinkers, he weaves esoteric art history into the canonical. His vibrant, devotional work explores non-dual representations of queer identity, community and belonging. Chandler is also an amateur scholar of comparative religion. Beyond the studio, his practice extends to writing, curating and mentorship.

Fr. Peter Funk, O.S.B., is the prior of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, a contemplative Benedictine monastery in the archdiocese of Chicago.  Before entering monastic life in 1997, he was a choral conductor at St. Thomas the Apostle parish and the University of Chicago.  His exposure to great Renaissance composers such as Palestrina and Victoria was catalytic in his desire to enter religious life as well as his interest in the power of Catholic culture to evangelize.  Having studied theology at St. John's School of Theology in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he majored in Scripture, he was ordained to the priesthood in May 2004.