Neighborhood: Downtown BrooklynSummary: I'm interested in wearying edges of story telling.
Neighborhood: Bedford-StuyvesantSummary: Jamila is a poet, musician and visual artist with a penchant for all deemed impossible. She lived in Brooklyn from 2008-2011 and her work from that time is included in this collection.
Summary: I started painting after this long period, being in love with Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and of course, Picasso. I love my work, I'm at peace with myself and I always try to express my inner feelings into my paintings.
Neighborhood: Flatbush
Summary: I make paintings, drawings, prints and 3D models that present as totemic figures, maps of unknown places and futuristic structures.
Neighborhood: Bedford-StuyvesantSummary: Poured paint evokes permeable compositions in which I layer internal and external perceptions of location, place and time.
Neighborhood: GowanusSummary: As a photographic artist I use the camera not to faithfully record the subject, but rather to create a distortion, resulting in an image that is as much about feeling as seeing.
Neighborhood: Sunset ParkSummary: magical realism with expressionistic intent
Neighborhood: GowanusSummary: Video, electronic media and performance artist.
Neighborhood: FlatbushSummary: I photograph (in both traditional black-and-white and digital color) domestic vernacular architecture in outer-borough New York City. I teach photography at Brooklyn College, and lived in Marine Park, Brooklyn for many years.
Neighborhood: Red HookSummary: My work is a personal mythical narrative influenced by an arbitrary mix of high and low that frees me to tackle the largest of issues: love, desire, fear of death, and the struggle for power.
Neighborhood: BushwickSummary: The foundation of my work is based on displacement and the obscure means by which we search for the “original place” from whence we came.
Neighborhood: WilliamsburgSummary: My work is poetically and intricately crafted to encourage the viewer to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.
Neighborhood: Bedford-StuyvesantSummary: I work with found items, oils, acrylics and pastels mainly on canvas. Working on several diverse projects concurrently, allows the various forms of Art to cross pollinate and inspire a new piece. Whether it is with my paintbrush or my
Neighborhood: Bedford-StuyvesantSummary: Drawing, painting, and collage inspired by the urban environment, and re-imagined as maps that choreograph architecture.
Summary: Scale landscape dioramas encased in colored vitrines.