Mark T. Duffy is an artist living in Oakland, Ca. His work expresses an interest in understanding how power structures affect society, and is informed by research in philosophy, post-humanities theory, and critical pedagogy. He uses chance, improvisation, and an unconscious mode of thinking to subvert language and contend with the impossibility of news forms. He has exhibited at SFMOMA Library, 500 Capp Street, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, and Slash, in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. In 2024 he completed a residency at Yaddo in New York. He is currently working on an Art Practice MFA at...
Jewel Hovland is a multidisciplinary artist with focus in ephemeral sculpture, drawing, painting, and assemblage. The visual cortex functions as both a literal and symbolic point of departure for her work, as she aims to reframe scientific concepts in a visual context. Ideas from visual anatomy, applied aesthetics, ecology, and biology inform her approach to image-making. Influenced by the way light and form can become understanding through the interconnected mechanisms of the brain, Hovland utilizes organic materials and synthetic detritus to encapsulate how vision informs...
Jalena Keane-Lee (she/her) is a filmmaker, who was born in Berkeley and lives in Oakland, who explores intergenerational trauma and envisioning radical futures. Her work creates a visual vocabulary for a feminine vision of power. Jalena was named one of DOC NYC’s 2024 40 Under 40 Filmmakers to Watch, a 2023 Adobe x Sundance Woman to Watch, and co-founded Breaktide, an all-women-of-color video production company that uplifts stories by and for the global majority. Jalena’s art practice is guided by a politic that is rooted in the liberation of all people and radical hope that a better...
Jaebin Lee (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist from Seoul, Korea. Her practice emerges from her complex relationship with faith, shaped by a devout Catholic upbringing. Working across installation, video, sculpture, performance, and AI imaging, she reimagines religion’s physical and symbolic structures as dynamic and fluid constructs to explore their layered meanings and other possibilities. By leveraging the evocative power of sacred symbols and narratives, she creates subversive imagery that challenges outdated constructs and proposes multidimensional ways of understanding...
Jooyeon Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with participatory sculpture and material-based installation. Born and raised in Seoul, she developed her artistic practice during five years of living and studying in New York, where she pursued Fine Arts and Creative Coding at Parsons School of Design. Her practice examines negotiation as an ongoing condition of adapting within systems and circumstances beyond individual control. Through situations involving imbalance, hesitation, proximity, and shared responsibility, her work draws attention to the subtle ways people...
Asenath Lizárraga (they/them) is a Peruvian-American visual artist from Washington State. They primarily work in printmaking, oil painting, and ceramics, using symbolism to convey stories exploring cultural connections to nature, mythology, ancestry, and dream spaces. They’re passionate about creating art that captures the beauty of Latin American culture, emphasizing points of cultural unity and collective memory.
Their multidisciplinary art practice and motivation to understand and help preserve the natural world led them to the Evergreen...
Henry Oh is an artist and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Working primarily with ceramics and other mediums, he creates sculptures and installations that encourage physical movement and engagement. His work takes familiar objects and places them slightly out of context, inviting questions about use and display, intimacy and distance, making and meaning. At the center of his practice is an ongoing negotiation with in-betweenness — a pull toward traditional Korean forms and culture despite his distance from them.
He transferred from Los Angeles City College to Otis College of Art and...
Isai Soto is a Chicano artist from Fallbrook, CA. After receiving a BA in Anthropology from Columbia University, he pursued a career in the arts informed by his studies in autoethnography. He conceptualizes imaginations of Mexican fluidity beyond traditional artistic mediums via poster work, textiles, and a drag persona. The influence of DIY drag is increasingly present in his practice as a first-generation American in a nation increasingly hostile to Latin American migrants and queer people alike. He has exhibited at Arte Américas, Manhattan Graphics Center, Brooklyn Public Library...
Bhavani Srinivas engages poetic double meanings and contradictory symbolisms to construct installations that shift between the registers of personal narrative, pop culture, spirituality, and history. Bhavani holds a BA in Art Practice from Princeton University. They are a worker-owner of March April Studio, a community art and writing studio in Los Angeles, and they co-run Corners cutoff, a small press publishing multi-lingual projects. Website: bhavanisrinivas.com
