Previous Artists
Laura Scheringa
Born in Geleen (the Netherlands), in 1986, moved to Amsterdam in 2008, currently living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Looking from space into earth, I capture landscape on paper and canvas and travel across the (digital) world. By zooming out, alienation takes place, which creates the question of what is abstract and figurative, which freedom I can claim when filling the landscape within the given frameworks such as water and land. The makeability (the intervention of man on nature) of the landscape versus the natural landscape and my interpretation of it, is an interesting search, of form and color, material and composition.
The tension between the disappearance of nature and the preservation of the cultural landscape, in which changes take place through interaction of man, degradation and construction, for example urbanization, or the time-consuming meandering of a river or sedimentation of its surroundings, I observe and capture.
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Sanne Bjerg
Sanne Bjerg, Copenhagen, is the published Danish author of 2 novels, 4 theatre plays, 5 librettos for new operas - and a great deal of non-fiction about how new media are challenging our mental welfare. She made her debut as an author with Papaya Passion in 1987. Since then she has worked mainly as a playwright, theatre director and librettist, and visual artist.
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Sophie Naylor
Sophie Naylor was born in 2001 in Sacramento, California. In June 2023, she received her degree in Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara at the College of Creative Studies. Naylor has been included in various exhibitions including Dreamscapes and Mementos in The Glass Box Gallery at UC Santa Barbara and donated work to be auctioned at the Coalition of Homelessness in San Francisco. In 2023, she attended an artist residency in Tarapoto, Peru for the month of July and then L'Appartamento Residency in Naples, Italy in November. Naylor currently lives and works in San Francisco.
Jamaica Fredericks
Jamaica Fredericks is a sound artist, DJ, and programmer who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. From 2013 to 2017, she co-founded and ran Satellite Project Space in Seoul, South Korea, while also teaching media and cultural studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. In 2022, she attended Francisco Lopez’s Creative Aural Wilderness sessions at CAMP, Aulus-le-Bains, France, and since has presented a bi-weekly program on CAMP Radio. She was artist in residence at Jandari Studios and Dobaebacsa Chungseok Super Studio, Seoul, South Korea, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, South Korea, and L'Appartamento, Napoli, Italy. After completing undergraduate studies in physics and visual arts at Eckerd College, Florida, she received her MFA in New Genres at San Francisco Art Institute, and has also completed coursework in electronic music production at Berklee College of Music, Boston.
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Inga Heamägi
Inga Heamägi (1961) graduated with a degree in graphic arts in the Estonian Academy of Arts in Graphics Department in 1988 (MA), worked as an AD in advertising agencies at Laks & Ko and Inorek & Gray, taught graphics and drawing at Estonian Academy of Arts, an artist and designer at the publishing house of the Orthodox Church of Estonia. Designing books and exhibitions. 33 personal exhibitions, over 70 participations in international graphic biennials-triennials; 16 curated exhibitions; designed 24 exhibitions of the Estonian Art Museum; more than 50 group exhibitions. During the last 6 years has participated in juries, expert committees of art competitions, etc. Chairwoman of the Board of Estonian Graphic Artists Association from 2012–2020; President of the International Jury of the 1st international Yerevan graphic art biennial, Armenia; member of the council of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for the Visual and Applied Arts Foundation 2015–2017. Winner of the 2nd Award Wiiralt Prize 2019.
From the autumn of 2018 works as the director of Kohila School of Arts, Tohisoo Manor, Estonia.
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Elena Hart
Elena Denali Hart is a young American painter living and working out of South Carolina. She went to the College of Wooster where she earned a BA in Studio Art, History and Film Studies. She gains inspiration by traveling, literature, music and history. She works in many mediums but her subject always tends to be the same. Capturing people, the annoyingly complex emotions to the simple ticks and hums of their lives. She believes that art exists as a tool for emotional expression, the things you just can’t seem to put into words, as well as a way to capture the marvellous world around us.
Danielle Hogan
Danielle Hogan is an artist, writer, educator and collaborator.
Her art practice is inspired by networks of care among and across undervalued and underrepresented communities. Her non two-dimensional work explores women & gender studies broadly, frequently embracing the relationships between activism and art.
In 2016 Danielle coined the term femaffect, a word to specifically address an affect (feelings that “stick”. Ahmed, S. 2004) that has been feminized in Western cultures, either intentionally or unintentionally, to be understood as negative or ‘less than’.
In 2013 she was named the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) prestigious Dr. William S. Lewis Doctoral Fellowship scholar, her doctoral dissertation Just making it: the stain of femaffect on fiber in art investigates the negative effects of femaffect on textiles in art. Danielle studied at New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Diploma in Creative Graphics, ’95), Emily Carr University in Vancouver (BFA, 2000) and the University of Victoria (MFA, 2003) before earning her PhD (2017) in Interdisciplinary Studies from UNB. She has been selected to participate in several residencies in internationally including at Banff Centre for the Arts, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and JIWAR in Barcelona, Spain. Danielle’s currently the a program consultant the Arts&Culture branch in the Government of New Brunswick and is responsible for the provincial art collection.
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Katja Van Den Eijnden
“I am a (visual) storyteller.”
I am a contemporary art(iv)ist from the south of the Netherlands, making Installations, objects and photos from “found” materials.
In my work as an artist, the experience is important, the poetry of the ordinary.
Looking around, at nature and culture, in every sense, I experience being so touched by life itself.I see so much beauty in nature, in people. Beauty in things people make and at the same time the ugliness and quantity of it.
From everything, that is already existing, I want to create and tell stories…
www.cumalume.nl
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Trystan Williams
Trystan Williams is a London based artist.His practice involves using snippets of conversation, excerpts from threads, isolated sentences and thoughts that people have posted online and laser engraving them onto pieces of found stone or ephemera. The text is generally taken from small online communities where posts either aren't archived or aren't viewable without registering to the site. This means the writing is in theory unsearchable and "lost" to all intents and purposes.
He is interested in the ways in which people communicate online, the freedom from collective judgement that psuedo or full anonymity can provide and how it can allow for a fuller expression of what it is to be a human being at this particular time and in this particular culture. The sorts of things people post online are often things they wouldn't express to their closest friend or therapist. They range from the deeply personal and tragic to hilarious absurdity and everything in-between.
The process of taking these often transitory and ephemeral expressions of human thought and emotion and turning them into relatively permanent physical objects is part of a wider investigation into online discourse that the artist is engaged in. A purposeful contrasting of the fast paced nature of the internet and it's never ending torrent of information with one of our oldest forms of recording, preserving and transmitting our culture and knowledge, the carving of word onto stone. The work is a deliberate creation of contemporary ostraca, or ‘artefacts of the now’.
www.trystanwilliams.com
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Tara Versey
Tara works across painting, printmaking and drawing. Her interest lies in the emotional, felt and physical experience of what it is to be alive. Finding a balance and a rhythm from the parts to form a whole is what leads her enquiry. Construction in a pictorial sense is therefore conceptually interrelated.
Nature, the human form and their relationships within a space are subjects she returns to as they offer the possibility to evoke a complex range of feeling. At times idea of character and performance is something suggested in the work, as the idea of self becomes a multitude of changing personas and moods. Each state offers insights into the fragmentation of our experiences.
Maggie Wen
Maggie Wen graduated from Dickinson College' 20 (Studio Art Major, Minors in East Asian Studies & Art History) and BU Journalism' 23, works mainly with the combination of interview research-based text and photography. The works created by Maggie Wen explore and strive to understand the rules and beliefs that lead and navigate people around the world regardless of their cultural background.
www.maggiexwen.com
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Billie Clarken
Billie Clarken (*1992, Fairfax, Virginia) lives and works in Berlin.
Billie Clarken is a multidisciplinary artist whose work directs referential signs and objects in a satirical performance of the immortal image. Often returning to tropes in television culture, Clarken points out the paradoxes of a projected identity in the search for inauthenticity. Their work captures and appropriates use-objects and borrowed memory in combination with exaggerated forms, to install the evolving narrative of the Western consumer.
She recently exhibited at Grove London, London; Mauve, Vienna; Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck; DOCK20 Kunstraum und Sammlung, Lustenau; FKA6, Berlin; Number 1 Main Road, Berlin; Grove Berlin, Berlin; JVDW, Düsseldorf.
She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Richmond, VA and studied at UdK, Berlin with Prof. Monica Bonvicini.
www.billieclarken.com
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David Torrone
David Torrone (b. 1986, Michigan, United States) is a writer, editor, and exhibition designer based in Berlin. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School and a BS in Brain, Behavioral, and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Michigan. His first novel, The Exiting of Anais, was written during a prior residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, and edited at L'Appartamento Napoli. His current project, Collapse, is a speculative fiction novel. Torrone's story, "The Giant," was a notable entry in the 2019 Disquiet Literary Contest.
Brooke Holiday
Brooke Holiday (b. 1991) is a painter living and working in Melbourne, AU.
Brooke’s practice references themes of memory, human connection and ritual.
The work tells stories of dinners in process, seasonal market hauls, the intimacy of meals shared across the kitchen table.
Each painting serves as a testimony to a moment in time and is a means of capturing memory.
www.brookeholiday.com
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Alan Pocaro
Alan D. Pocaro is an artist, writer, and educator based in Illinois.
Pocaro is currently Associate Professor of Printmaking and Foundations at Eastern Illinois University and formerly adjunct faculty at both the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Miami University. Pocaro is associated with the New Aesthetics movement, an informal group of artists and writers who emphasize the physical and material nature of art.
Pocaro regularly contributes art-criticism to Chicago’s New City magazine, and his writings have been featured in The New Criterion, New American Paintings, articritcal, AbstractCritical and ART PAPERS, as well as CityBeat.
www.alanpocaro.com
Ellinor Euler
Drawing, object + installation
Born in Berlin, Germany, Dipl. Ing. of Architecture
2003 BVBK Brandenburg (Artists Union of Brandenburg), lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany.
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Kristen Mallia
Kristen Mallia is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston, MA. Her work examines ritual, collection, preservation, and performance through multimedia installation, graphic design, and time-based media. Mallia received a BA in Electronic Media from The George Washington University, a BFA in Graphic Design from Corcoran College of Art + Design, and an MFA from Boston University. She has held artist residencies at L’appartamento Napoli in Naples, Italy, ArtsIceland in Isafjörður, Iceland, and Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. Mallia is the recipient of numerous grants through the City of Boston and her work has been exhibited internationally. She self-publishes a quarterly project called Field Notes (Index_23) and maintains an independent studio practice, Mallia Design, providing graphic design and creative direction to a variety of artists, galleries, and small businesses in the Boston area. She is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Suffolk University.
Mandy Buehler
Born in 1992, Mandy Buehler is a Michigan-based designer and artist inspired by outdoor adventure, environmentally-conscious brands, nostalgic color palettes, woodblock prints, and all things vintage and crumbling. Predominantly an illustrator and painter, Buehler draws scapes and snapshots that sing to a location's personality, intensifying its romanticism with stylization, and exaggerated color and light. Despite her career as a Graphic Designer, Buehler still takes the time to thoughtfully show her art in local shows and galleries, hold guild memberships, and attend residencies when the need for inspiration arises. Most recently satisfied in L’Appartamento Napoli, she was given the opportunity to roam the Bay of Naples, photographing and illustrating scenes from Procida to Positano.
Jim Bongartz
Jim has maintained a painting studio for 34 years. Exploring vivid color in repetitional and abstract painting. Jim exhibits in regional galleries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Jim is currently the Director of Education for the AOY Art Center in Yardley, PA, coordinating adult/youth classes and workshops since 2012. He also teaches classes at AOY in painting and abstraction. James served on the AOY Art Center’s Executive Board for three years and was Vice President for two years.
My residency at L'Appartamento Napoli was a fulfilling life event beyond my expectation. This was my first artist residency and I would return in a heartbeat. The duration, 4 weeks, May 2023, brought many exciting day trips locally and beyond pursuing my photography of locale for painting reference. Sharing the apartment with other artists was a bonus. As a social person, I was available to share day trips that enriched our experiences, perspectives, thoughts, and responses. Art history is everywhere so immersions in learning become daily ritual. Taking time out when my body needed rest, I documented my daily experiences on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/jim.bongartz. Documentation of my L'Appartamento Napoli residency in my profile begins May 3rd and continues through the month with 23 posts including some videos. If you want an immersive perspective of how I pursued my residency opportunity, please visit my Facebook page, Jim Bongartz. One cannot say enough about the host, Amelia Bateman. Amelia is a font of information of the Napoli, the Amalfi Coast, and the language. She provides a safe, respectful, and thought-provoking haven, making for a perfect respite when you’ve worn yourself out with travel and taking in the area.
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Josh Hattam
The paintings are a struggle and a delight in interacting with the world and processing it through the automated unconscious in which present feelings merge in colours and shapes. I find it fascinating the imagery we store in our memory and how it translates through the present and how these things occur in real felt moments. There is a balancing act at play, which is guttural and trusting the urges to put that there and hide that thing there. I’m interesting in leaving these traces of conflicting ways of painting where parts are too premeditated, on the other hand they’re ok. Accepting these critical slip ups. Allowing the physicality of mark making take the wings rather than thinking. In a sense it is about avoiding thinking and falling into some kind of trance where time speeds up and slow down. I’m not loyal to the original source because I want to let everything to seep in, including current events. It feels very human. I think thats a humungous part of painting - is not knowing the outcome and if your’e lucky it might tell you something.
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Janet Stafford
I am an artist who lives and works in New York, and I have always worked in series—streams of thoughts and desires common to us all, represented by images. I see the images as signs of the material world, intimations of the nonmaterial.
At first my series were narrative, encompassing quotidian aspects such as romantic love and building construction. And I considered ideas—enlightenment, science, memory. Now I am thinking about nature and our planet.
For a long time, I have been working on the Natural History paintings. It is a slow process. The paintings are all based on photographs of trees that I have taken, photos that I have laid out in a pattern that represents a Fibonacci series of numbers.
In March 2023, I worked outside in Naples, Italy, projecting images of paintings from the Natural History series. Things changed rapidly from projecting onto walls to projecting onto grilles, plants, windows, other architecture. I liked projecting images of paintings of trees onto living trees and plants.
Being in Naples at L’Appartamento was a wonderful experience for me and my work, and I will always cherish that time. The photographs of the projections I did there are exquisite.
Simon Kroug
I graduated from ECAL (HEA in visual arts, Lausanne School of Art and Design) in 2001. I live and work in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Our relationship with the world, and in particular with our natural environment, seems to me to be more fragile than ever. Paradoxically, more and more of us feel a deep desire for a simple and direct reconnection with it. Through my work, I seek to express this desire, the intense emotions that run through me when I physically experience a place or a landscape. Through walking, travelling, bivouacking or simply through contemplation, which is a neglected aspect of our attitude to the world. Through the halftone grid (borrowed from wood engraving), I also express a certain idea of the perception of landscape: sensations are not always immediately felt, the image is transformed according to the point of view, the time of day or the light. I feel the vibrations of the landscapes I pass through/experience, rather like these systems of lines, hollows and fulls. These vibrations are the way I feel my reconnection to Nature.
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Cory Swenson
I received my Associates of Arts degree before continuing my academic pursuits at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Working as a resident assistant and student, I received my BFA in 2015. In addition, I was featured in a group show in Wonderland SF Gallery. In 2016, I started my own private classroom for children in Sacramento. I continued my education and was accepted into the AAU Spring Show. I received my MFA in 2017 and won first place for my art in the AAU Spring show. I have shown at SHOH Gallery in Berkley California as well as a dozen group shows within the Bay Area. I have been accepted into the Crocker Art Museum for continued showing annually. In 2020 I finished a series of one hundred portraits which I self-published as a book. I currently work from my private studio while teaching and painting full-time. Recently I moved abroad to focus on my artistic and professional growth as an artist.
Christy White
Christy was born and raised in Canton, Mississippi. At the age of 9 she began to study law, language and history. After graduating from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, Christy ventured to study law at the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss. There she fought against oppression, suppression and repression of the black female body.
Licensed in Mississippi and Texas, Christy is owner of Meshel Law Group, an immigration defence firm located in Dallas, Texas. She dedicates her career to the defence of human rights. Reaching exhaustion and yearning for a breakthrough, she now channels her energy into a more therapeutic career, art.
Inspired by Angela Davis, Jennifer Crowley, Beah Richards, Alice Coltrane, Francine Shapiro, and many more artists, activists, and psychologists, Christy uses bold colours and recycled materials to create abstract works that represent her ongoing journey with herself. From the courtroom to the canvas, Christy's bold personality and captivating life story are portrayed in vivid color through symbolism.
Since 2020, Christy has used her travels around the world as a classroom to expand her artistic education. Se has completed multiple artist residencies in Naples, Italy and Jaco, Costa Rica, to name a few.
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Anja Frieling
I am a Dutch writer, born in 1970. In 2016, I published a children’s book, sparking a quest to discover what kind of writer I am. In 2016 and 2018, I won the Eindhoven Writing Talent Award with a short story. Both stories were based on true events. The first one took place in a laundromat I frequented, while the second was inspired by a real bank heist in Eindhoven. Two men locked themselves in the bank vault on a Friday afternoon and left with millions on Monday morning. The story follows their weekend in the bank vault. Writing short stories is an art in itself. Every word must matter. How do you create an atmosphere with so few words? And then the setting; stories set in a place are almost like plays. I love finding something grand in the small, making the life of a postage stamp burst with significance. Even the smallest event often carries depth. The story of the bank heist inspired a short arthouse film I made with an enthusiastic group of creative people.
I’ve also written a historical children’s book commissioned by my former workplace, the Van Abbemuseum (a contemporary art museum). Another rewarding assignment was writing about inclusion and diversity for the city of Eindhoven. I crafted five fables, and a visual artist transformed them into a beautiful mural.
In L’appartemento Napoli, I was working on a story based on a true event. Amelia introduced me to diverse Neapolitans, and we had fantastic conversations. I surrendered myself to the city I fell in love with for a week.
I’m currently writing this story, a novella. Additionally, I continue to write other short stories.
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Judith Farr
With a MA Fine Art 2013-2016 and BA Art for the Community with Spanish 1999-2003, London-Born artist Judith resides in Spain and exhibits internationally.
From her blog:
In September I took myself to Naples for a two week residency called l’Appartamento. I shared a beautiful high ceilinged apartment with the host and another artist.
Naples is an intense and magical place. Each day was an adventure with so much to see. It was overwhelming at times but I’m so grateful for this experience and the lovely people I met there.
We ate delicious food, explored the chaotic streets, travelled down the coast and over to the beautiful Island of Ischia. It was as if there were a pulse in the city that never stopped. I felt like I needed to be out and about all the time, even when I was really tired.
The presence of the volcano, Vesuvius added another dimension; a fiery energy that is passionate and unapologetic.
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Laura Kmetz
My current work reflects recent journeys to unfamiliar places, both near and distant. To be lost and vulnerable without language or context invites stillness and keen observation. Encounters with the unknown present new ways of seeing and interpreting the world and my place in it. My strong impulse is to merge with my immediate environment through art.
These explorations become abstractions of both internal and external landscapes. Contours of the written word are altered to convey instincts and ideas as opposed to literal meanings. Attentive to atmospheric shifts, wind patterns and water currents, I am inspired by how something moves and by its potential to transform, regenerate or be acted upon. Through pairing, tracing, overlaying and mirroring images, I reimagine my surroundings. Subtle variations of light, depth and texture inform a visual journal of discoveries.
I create to express my experience of the world as a mysterious, fragile and beautiful place. Art allows access to what is good about life.
www.kmetzartanddesign.com
Ilona Schneider
I started my photography carrier as an apprentice in a traditional studio in Salzburg, focussing on portraiture, press photography, architecture, theatre and concerts, and everything else that Salzburg had to offer to the photographic lens at the time. This was followed by independent work as a commercial photographer for the next 20 years — mostly on analogue film. Later, I also worked in digital photography, but I never gave up analogue photography. I saw the rise of digital as an opportunity for the art of photography, separate from commercial applications and constraints. In 2009, I went to the University of Tasmania and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2013. My main project over the last few years was the intersection of industry, dwelling, and landscape here in Tasmania. From this work resulted a major solo show in 2018 at the Queen Victorian Museum in Launceston, Tasmania.
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Elise Eales
Elise Eales, an artist from Australia grew up surrounded by clay and tactile objects in her fathers pottery studio. Her interest in ceramics and their vast possibilities led to exploration overseas and particularly Italian ceramics and the technique of Majolica.
She currently divides her time between her Northern NSW studio in Australia and working on various projects and collaborations within Europe.
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Michela Grech
Michela (b. 1996) graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts and is currently reading for an MA at the Institute for Education. Her artistic practice primarily focuses on instances related to the everyday: moments typically overseen and taken for granted in her personal life. Relying on introspection and self-awareness, Michela reflects on the development of the self. Consequently, her work revolves around her state of being in relation to surrounding relationships, spaces and objects. Michela’s work attempts to counteract the filtered and blurred reality of her generation’s glorified social media content, Grech focuses on the ordinary, real and messy.
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Thom Van Hoek
Thom van Hoek (Rotterdam °1990) makes sculptures using organic material and photography that are often temporary and context-aware by nature. He graduated in 2017 from the Sandberg Instituut, from the department of Materialisation in Art & Design. His work circles around the ideas of animism, the Symbiocene, climate change and our constant confusion between "artificiality" and nature. He is interested in questioning definitions: when is something liquid or inanimate? When is it temporary? Where are the borders between these categories and when is it too late?
Thea Gregorius
Thea Gregorius's work builds on the paradoxes found in nature. Working instinctually on a micro level the work emerges as methodically ordered mark marking on the macro. he is interested in defining space both within and beyond the two-dimensional plane, applying subtle destruction in the form of pin pricks to the paper. Form is reduced down to the most simplistic unit and then reconstructed through multiplicity, utilizing the grid as a tool to suggest the infinite. The work functions as a meditation on sculpture while maintaining the intimacy and immediacy of drawing.
She has exhibited internationally including a solo exhibition at Larrie in New York, NY. She has been awarded the Manhattan Graphic Center Scholarship and has been an an artist in residence at The League Residency at VYT (Ruth Katzman Scholarship recipient), the Vermont Studio Center (Grant Recipient), PLAYA Fellowship Program, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (Denbo Fellowship), Arts Atrium, the Saltonstall Foundation, Casa Tagumerche, L'appartamento Napoli, Jentel Artist Residency, Masseria Cultura and Nocefresca. In 2024 she will be a resident artist at the Wassaic Project, Viafarini and Labo Bosa. She holds a BFA from New York University and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Charles Sheppa
Charles Sheppa is a design professional with a background in illustration, animation and interactive media. His projects focus on humor and narrative and he currently works as an independent graphic artist.
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Asha Bronicki
Asha Bronicki creates realism portraiture with graphite and charcoal on paper. Originally a portraiture artist by commission, Asha blended her interests of theology studies with several years of portrait commissions, resulting in figures that depicts tales from sacred scriptures.
Asha has won scholarships for her work and has completed residencies in Europe and Africa. As her work continues to grow, she has received honorable mentions from contests such as the Boynes Emerging Artist award and Yicca prize.
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Amanda Joy Calobrisi
Her paintings are experiential, psychological and inhabited by new feminist archetypes. These painted forms reveal themselves through heightened color, loose pattern, and uncouth texture. Organic shapes and tangled marks are executed with a loaded brush. This allows the figures to exist in a field of constant motion despite painting’s persistent stillness. From within these silent cacophonies she wants her viewer to contemplate life, our histories, womanhood, desire, tension, friendship and love.
Amanda received her a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Post-Baccalaureate degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston and a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is currently a lecturer at The School of the Art Institute where she teaches painting and drawing.
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Jessica Snow
Jessica Snow is a multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, drawing, and film. While in Napoli, she and her partner the videographer Paul Morrill worked on the short film ‘More than Once Upon a Time’, in which one scene takes place at L’Apartamento Napoli. The film was 2023 winner of Best Experimental Film in the short film category at the Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid. It takes place in Southern Spain and Campania, looping from the future to the past to the present. The film explores the sacred nature of creativity as well as divination, archeology, the poetics of the natural world, and the fluid nature of time. The artist Kate Temple plays the Sibyl of Cumae, while Jessica travels to the future and back.. eventually they meet in the present.
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Aunis Ahonen
Aunis Ahonen is a Finnish illustrator and graphic designer based in Helsinki, Finland. She has a degree in Master of Arts (Graphic Design) from Aalto University (School of Arts, Design and Architecture).
Aunis’s illustrations consist of imaginative characters, playful shapes and delicious colour compositions. In addition they tell about surprising possibilities of the mind and imagination.
Aunis creates her illustrations for versatile needs. She works with magazines, children’s story books, press products and digital environments. Her design practice includes art direction, visual identities and publication design. She is also experienced in the field of art teaching.
Gwen Florio
Award-winning novelist and journalist Gwen Florio is the author of a dozen novels. As a journalist, she traveled the United States and the world, including to several conflict zones, reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, among others. Her 2018 novel Silent Hearts was based on her experiences in Afghanistan and has been translated into several languages, including Italian (La Moglie dello Straniero). Many of her novels are set in the American West, drawing on her nearly two decades in Montana. She lives in New Jersey with her husband Scott Crichton. Following her time at L’appartamento, during which she completed a novel (The Least Among Us, 2021), she began studying Italian and now speaks at the level of a precocious toddler.
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Christian Gastaldi
Christian Gastaldi is a French self-taught artist, born on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. He makes Art with materials which are not originally meant for that, materials which have a strong human imprint.
He conceives his creations as a painter, even though he hardly uses paint! He conceives his creations as a poet, even though he destructs words, to retain only fragment of letters, desperate attempts to communicate.
His work is related to Art Modeste, Arte Povera with an expressionist dimension. But Gastaldi charts its own course, concentrating on the fundamental of Art: Rhythm and Composition and to the poetic dimension he introduces in his work.
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Fiona Hilton
Fiona Hilton is a Bay Area-based impressionistic landscape and cityscape painter. Originally from Los Angeles, Fiona employs a muted color palette inspired by the desolate scenery of her youth: distant city smog, neighboring deserts, and the vast concrete expanse of city sprawl. Fiona has over 17 years of experience in the arts. In addition to studying painting at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, she has taken several courses and workshops in a variety of artistic disciplines from silkscreening to product design from top art schools such as the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Otis, UCLA, and ArtCenter. Fiona has also utilized her artistic talents in the film and TV industry, where she spent four years in graphic design and prop painting in Hollywood. She currently works as a graphic designer for the nonprofit The Trevor Project creating resonating illustrations as well as aiding in the development of their pivotal research report graphics.