Anthoula Lelekidis is a Greek-American lens-based artist who utilizes photography, printmaking, and mixed media in her practice. Her work navigates themes of personal memory, identity, loss, and migration. With a deep interest in the archive, she alters found family photos to interpret a deeper tie to her heritage and uncover ancestral roots within blank spaces of her recollection. By combining fragments of her own photographs together with found family photographs, reassembling and reworking them, she constructs new images that bridge the gap between time periods and suggest the conflict and consequences involved in relocation.

Jasmine Vollherbst is an artist that mainly works with oil painting and collage, using collage to plan and inspire her paintings. Her work explores the idea of earth and belonging. They are an exercise in finding one’s place in the world, her desire to construct sanctuaries of tranquility, piecing fragments together to create a calm and sacred space.

Jose Huayta is originally from Peru, and has grown around ceramics in the form of cooking or decorating for special events. He never really noticed how much pottery he was surrounded by growing up until now and it has awakened his appetite to create pieces inspired by his culture, fantasy, and nature. He’s new to ceramics and has been hand building for about 7 months, but doing ceramics for about 2 years.

DARKRECONSTRUCTION is an emerging nonbinary queer artist working in acrylic and watercolor paints, creating abstract expressionist paintings, found object art, textile art, and murals. Their work focuses on the contrast between urban life and nature. They are inspired by concrete walls overgrown by ivy and tree branches, train underpasses covered in graffiti and grass, a strong New York summer rainstorm beating against their window, the decaying Red Hook warehouses, tiny alleys, and the way the air smells on the first few days of September. Their work carries an eco-brutalist approach to expressionism, a marriage between organic textures and urban visuals.