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I Like Your Work Studio Visit Artists are composed of top emerging and mid-career artists who are creating around the world. Our Studio Visit artists are carefully selected based on their outstanding work and dedication to their practice.
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Artist Blake Brasher
Blake Brasher is a visual artist working primarily in mixed media painting. His colorful abstractions explore the tension between perception and structure, reflecting on what it is like to be a thinking being in a world that is at once beautiful and disorienting. Blake grew up in Alaska and has also lived in Turkey, Texas, and Arizona before moving to Massachusetts in 1997. He received his BS in Art and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and his MFA
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Artist Blake Brasher
Blake Brasher is a visual artist working primarily in mixed media painting. His colorful abstractions explore the tension between perception and structure, reflecting on what it is like to be a thinking being in a world that is at once beautiful and disorienting. Blake grew up in Alaska and has also lived in Turkey, Texas, and Arizona before moving to Massachusetts in 1997. He received his BS in Art and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and his MFA
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Artist Fedra Yazdi
Fedra is a contemporary artist best known for her evocation of identity, resilience, and hauntology. With a professional background in Film and Theater, she utilizes a strong foundation in storytelling and visual composition to bridge personal experience with universal themes of longing. A self-taught painter, Fedra has spent over two decades developing a distinct visual language. Her practice evolved from early experiments with abstraction into a search for more authentic ex
Jul 8
Artist Mallie Loring Pratt
Mallie Loring Pratt is a painter based in Essex, Massachusetts. Working from both observation and memory, her work explores the sensory and emotional experiences of place. Her paintings often serve as records of change: in landscape, in perception, in ourselves. Mallie holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009) and an MAT in Art Education from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (2015). Mallie’s background also includes studies in landsca
Jul 1
Artist Devann Donovan
Devann Donovan is an interdisciplinary artist and educator originally from Murrells Inlet, SC. Her practice explores memory, nostalgia, and the malleability of personal history through textiles, painting, sculpture, and expanded media. She investigates how her own kitsch childhood, pop culture, and nostalgic anemoia shape identity and distort personal history. Using labor-intensive processes such as quilting, sewing, painting and assemblage, Donovan transforms fleeting moment
Jun 24
Artist Juliet Martin
Juliet Martin knows anxiety better than anyone. She has a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts. For the past fifteen years she has been a part of the fiber community, her solo shows including Ivy Brown Gallery, New York City; Chashama, New York City; Living Room, St. Peter’s Church, New York City; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Artworks Gallery, Trenton, NJ; and Saori Kaikan Gallery, Osaka, Japan; as well as resi
Jun 10
Artist Phil Irish
Phil Irish, from Elora, Ontario, Canada, makes paintings that are both fierce and beautiful. His practice extends painting into realms of collage, installation, photography and video. His work has been shown at public museums, artist-run-centres, and commercial galleries across Canada. The Kolaj Institute, in New Orleans, featured his architecturally scaled installation “The Green Fuse”. In 2020, he competed in CBC’s Landscape Artist of the Year Canada. His work was featured
Jun 3
Artist Lexa Walsh
Lexa Walsh is an artist, cultural worker and experience maker. With a background in both sculpture and social practice, she makes context specific projects, exhibitions, publications and objects. Walsh’s upbringing as the youngest child of fifteen, in a household of elite athletes and their trophies informs her work. Being the only bench warmer in the bunch led her to not only becoming a tween cheerleader, but also forming an interest in alternative lifestyles, economies and
May 14
Artist Leigh Werrell
Leigh Werrell is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Recently the subjects of her paintings include her experiences as mother to a one-year-old, views of her Mount Airy neighborhood, everyday scenes with her family, and views of and through the windows of her home. She is originally from Durham, NC and came to Philadelphia for an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery, in Philadelphia and has also exhibited at
May 6
Artist Natale Adgnot
Natale Adgnot is a sculptor who combines garments, thermoplastic, and various fibers to create abstract soft sculptures and wall panels. Focusing on the connotations of each material, she layers high- and low-brow elements to tell the cross-class and intercultural story of her life. The daughter of a horse trainer, Adgnot was raised in Texas. She earned a BFA there before immigrating to France in her 20s, eventually becoming a dual American/French citizen. While living in Par
Mar 18
Artist Susan Hensel
Susan Hensel (b. 1950, Ithaca, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural textile work merges digital and manual embroidery techniques with mixed-media practices. Her work investigates the interplay between light and material structure, with a particular focus on the optical properties of triangular embroidery thread. Conceptually, Hensel’s practice engages with the emotional and ecological dimensions of climate change, creating contemplative spaces that invite reflec
Mar 4
Artist Keren Toledano
Keren Toledano is a self-taught painter based in New York City. After years of pursuing creative fiction, writer’s block led her to explore fine art. Her current work explores the liminal space between chaos and order, using a multitude of different marks to create a grammar outside of language. In addition to collaborations with designers, retailers and art publishers, her work has been featured in publications such as Vogue and The New York Times, and at international desig
Feb 19
Artist Dan Hernandez
Dan Hernandez received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000 from Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, MO, and a Masters of Fine Arts in 2002 from American University in Washington, DC. His paintings explore the visual dialog between religion, mythology, and pop culture. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions including shows at Kim Foster Gallery in New York City, Context Art Miami in Miami, FL, Mass Art Art Museum in Boston, MA, Matadero Center for Contemporary Crea
Feb 4
Artist Jule Korneffel
Jule Korneffel (b. Germany) graduated from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2008 as a Meisterschülerin under Tal R. Since 2015, she has been based in New York City, where she received her M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2018. Shortly after, Korneffel gained recognition for her emotionally resonant yet reductive approach to painting. Exhibition highlights include Phase Patterns at ltd los angeles, here comes trouble at Spencer Brownstone Gallery (NYC), Mini Me Mary—in dialogue with M
Jan 14
Artist John Dewey
John Dewey is a painter (b. Denver, Colorado 1987) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. John graduated Art Center College of Design in 2012 with a BFA in Fine Art and continued his studio practice while working in fabrication and education. In 2023 he was accepted as an MFA candidate at Claremont Graduate University and received a degree in 2025. His work focuses on environmental issues that affect the western United States. "I am a narrative landscape painter explorin
Jan 7
Artist Mary Lynn Burke
Mary Lynn Burke (Brzuchanski b. 1974, Detroit, MI) considers the relationship between humans and nature, as it relates to our mutual wellness and resilience. Burke earned a Master of Social Work from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She attended the professional program at the New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts. Burke has participated in exhibitions at Mīharo Gallery, curated by Rosie Cruddas, Gisborne, New Zealand; Portland Art Gallery, cu
Dec 24, 2025
Artist Danielle Mysliwiec
Danielle Mysliwiec holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Hunter College. Mysliwiec has participated in exhibitions at Asya Geisberg Gallery, Good Naked, Brintz+County, Untitled Art Fair, The Peale Museum, McKenzie Fine Art, Transmitter, Mixed Greens, Novella, Vox Populi, Kent State University, and The Center for Craft among other venues. Mysliwiec’s paintings have been featured and reviewed in publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Maake Magazine, New America
Dec 10, 2025
Artist David Rios Ferreira
David Rios Ferreira has exhibited in galleries and museums across the US and internationally. His solo exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery (NY), Wave Hill (Bronx), the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (VT), and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City). In New York, he has held residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and has participated in professional development programs such as the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplac
Nov 19, 2025
Artist Kristy Jane
Kristy Jane (b. 1977, Long Island, NY) creates unapologetically seductive oil paintings and real fake artifacts that ask: What does it mean to leave where we are and still be there? Jane holds a BFA from the University of South Alabama and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. They have been exhibited at the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Maguire and Anne Bryan Galleries, Linus Galleries, Smith Theatre Gallery, Georgine Clark Alabama Artis
Nov 5, 2025
Artist Morgan Kinne
Morgan Kinne (b. 1988) is a sculptor and mixed media artist whose work blends material history with conceptual storytelling. She creates sculptures and installations from salvaged architectural materials, transforming fragments of houses and historic structures into playful, thought-provoking forms that reflect on shelter, memory, and change. Kinne has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent highlights including her 2025 solo exhibition Timber! in Charleston, SC
Oct 22, 2025
Artist Linda C Smith
Linda C. Smith is a visual artist and educator based in New York City. Experimentation with materiality is a large component of Smith’s artistic practice and approach to teaching. Her work as an educator is heavily influenced through her time teaching photography to survivors and former perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where she lived for five years. This experience heavily influenced her work and led her to explore themes of loss and regeneration. Smith’s work ha
Oct 8, 2025
Artist Molly Kaderka
Molly Kaderka is a painter working in the expanded field of painting, which spans the disciplines of printmaking, drawing and painting. Her work is inspired by her deep interest in natural phenomena and in human and earth history. Kaderka holds a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shown nationally, including in solo exhibitions at the Haw Contemporary in Kansas Cit
Sep 24, 2025
Artist Serena Buschi
Serena Buschi is a contemporary fiber artist, educator, and experienced sound and energy practitioner. Her work bridges physical and metaphysical systems, revealing veiled connections and consciousness in a time of fracture. Of Asian Indian and Italian descent, she reclaims fragmented cultural threads through sari silk, layering gestures of mending with acts of disruption. She adapts traditional lacing techniques and Kantha quilting using sari silk, stitching together the com
Sep 10, 2025
Artist Kellie Lehr
Kellie Lehr is a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of painting and sculpture, engaging raw canvas as surface and structure. Balancing traditional and experimental methods, she stretches some works conventionally while allowing others to unfold into layered, folded, and sculptural forms. Her practice is rooted in themes of memory, transformation, and materiality, embracing imperfection as a catalyst for reinvention. Lehr holds an MFA from Lesley University Col
Sep 3, 2025
Artist Loren Eiferman
Loren Eiferman was born in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. After studying in France, she received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Her art work has been exhibited extensively at museums and galleries throughout the New York Tri-State region and is included in many prestigious private and corporate collections both here in the US and globally. In 2014 she received a public works commission from the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority in wh
Aug 27, 2025
Artist Maria Rendón
María Rendón (b. 1965, Mexico City, Mexico) lives and works in Santa Barbara, California. She received her MFA from University of...
Jul 23, 2025
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