Bradly Brown received his BFA in Photography from the University of North Texas in 2002. Soon after graduating, Brown relocated to New York, NY, to work as a photographer and designer. In 2011, Brown returned to Texas to receive his MFA in sculpture from Texas Christian University where he co-founded the artist collective HOMECOMING! Committee and began working as art director for Semigloss Magazine. His work has been exhibited at Southeast Museum of Photography, Rice University, the The Dallas Contemporary, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Hiroshima City University and was included in the 2013 Berlin Becher Triennial and the 2014 Dallas Biennial. Brown was a recipient of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program (2015-1016), the Fort Worth Weekly’s Visionary Award (2014), Mercedes Benz Financial Service Scholarship (2013) and the Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, St. Anselm College (2008). He is currently working as Galley Curator, and Professor of Art at San Jacinto College’s South Campus, in Houston, Tx.
Mason Bryant received his MFA in sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2016. Bryant utilizes a variety of media to explore themes of memory as both personal and cultural products. Appropriation and intervention are the beginnings of his process-based practice which initiate labor, absurdity, and failure as a means to re-engage the past and sharpen an awareness of the present.
Kerry Butcher is an artist and educator based in Dallas, Texas. Her work explores decontextualization and controlled representations of private experiences, encounters, and the collective memory of circumstance. She received her BFA in studio art and photography from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2012 and currently manages gallery programs for the Center for Creative Connections at the Dallas Museum of Art. She was also once seasonally employed as a mall Easter Bunny.
At the heart of Heyd Fontenot’s artwork is a protest of dominant cultural perceptions concerning sexual responsiveness and the human machine. He recognizes that mass media exploitations and religious dogmas are designed to manipulate the public by provoking anxiety and encouraging shame. The concerted efforts of both corporations and churches effectively create a false sense of value and morality and Fontenot responds to these damaging effects with humor, empathy and “defiantly gleeful” images. Fontenot is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas and by Inman Gallery in Houston.
Sally Glass is an artist, curator, and publisher based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from University of Texas at Dallas in 2014, and spent two years as an artist-in-residence at CentralTrak. Glass has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Texas, the US, and abroad, at spaces such as Barry Whistler Gallery, Power Station, Dallas Contemporary, Oliver Francis Gallery, Crane Arts in Philadelphia, Orgy Park in Brooklyn, Art Palace and Project Row Houses in Houston, and Uqbar in Berlin. She is currently the founding Editor-in-Chief of contemporary art publication semigloss. Magazine.
Joshua “Lonely” Mcafee is an American painter, photographer, and musician whose work expands from works on paper to furniture and interior design. Constant themes in McAfee’s work include the human experience as seen from the eyes of a black man as well as popular culture references to time and death.
Hector A. Ramirez earned his B.F.A in Sculpture from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2014 and is a current M.F.A. sculpture candidate at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Ramirez appropriates and playfully recontextualizes discarded domestic items and architectural fragments into a type of material poetry that examines the nature of vernacular language.
Fabiola Valenzuela is an Intermedia artist that lives in Grand Prairie, TX. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015. Valenzuela’s work concentrates on identity and memory through the use of painting, installation and sculpture. Her work was included in the 2017 Texas Biennial.
Carol Zou is an artist, writer, educator, and cultural organizer who has worked for over a decade on the relationship between arts, culture, community, and activism. Her work has spanned various collaborative modes with: Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Michelada Think Tank, Trans.lation Vickery Meadow, Asian Arts Initiative, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, Imagining America, American Monument, and currently as the Enterprise Community Partners Rose Fellow with Little Tokyo Service Center. Zou believes that we are most free when we help others get free.