Francisco Josue Alvarado Araujo is an artist living in Fort Worth, Texas. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2020 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas in 2015. Invested in the collaborative act, he has been involved in multiple DIY group exhibitions and projects with the intention of expanding the notion of the exhibition space. In 2019 he collaborated with artist Chris Wicker in Mov.’t, an open-call video exhibition that took place on the back of a dumpster container to bring together different artists across institutions in a mini video festival. His work pivots on found objects and materials configured in precarious composite forms and installations, where touch and balance are used to highlight contingencies hidden in plain sight. These explorations and expressions stem from the first-generation experience, directed as both anxious and delicate temporary gestures that mirror internal preoccupations with stability, movement, language, and entropy.
Maria Barrientos is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She received her BFA from Texas Christian University in New Media in 2019 and will be attending SUNY at Buffalo for her MFA. She uses video, animation, photography, 3D modeling, and 3D printing to explore themes of time and space, where the viewer experiences a dreamscape or liminal space. Duality and ephemera are themes used to question reality in the in-between spaces of nostalgia that the works create. Barrientos has recently exhibited a stop motion animation featuring drawn illustrations at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, TX.
Marwa Benhalim is a Libyan/Egyptian artist, currently living and working in Cairo, Egypt. She received her MFA from Southern Methodist University, TX. Her interdisciplinary visual art practice tackles power systems, their structural manifestations, and language through spatial and material culture. By utilizing text, drawing, sculpture, food, sound, and video she reveals questions how these power relationships proliferated and established tools in shaping, directing, and dominating social and political thought and action. Benhalim has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Egypt, and abroad; USA, UAE, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, and Spain.
Andrew approaches painting as a multi-faceted contemporary medium, where materials - always common and accessible in other facets outside of art - are used in an indivisible relationship with the subject matter. Each of his consecutive bodies of work are conceived as specific projects, with their own distinctive logic about context, gesture, and matter. Ranging from the observation of the apparent inconsequential moments of quotidian life, to an exploration of untrained aesthetics, from an almost archival look at urban and digital imagery, to the perception of the body moving through space and the imprint of nature on it.
Andrew has exhibited in 26 countries, including solo and group shows in Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Lisbon, Vienna, and widely in Mexico.
Andrew is currently focused on taking care of his baby daughter and rebuilding an old stone house in the countryside. His work has been reviewed in publications such as Parnass, Proceso, Reforma, Economista, Terremoto, Flash Art, Artspace, OFLUXO, Tzvetnik, Art Viewer, AQNB, Aujourd’Hui, Vice, I-D, and Huffington Post, among others.
Andrew co-directs Spirit Vessel, a newborn vehicle for contemporary art in Espinavessa, Spain, which is sponsored in part by the Leader fund in Girona.
“Dear Katie - It has been ages since I have last been in your company; I have since receded to the woods to forage for rings and coins. In my absence, however, I happened upon an unusual creature. I trust that you can take good care of him.”
Jeimie Jones is an illustrator focused on ink and digital pieces, occasionally working with oil and gouache, based in Arlington, Texas. They work as a freelancer and on commissions while they attend UT Arlington in their senior year for their BA in Drawing.
Jessi is a native Texan born in 1998 in the DFW Metroplex. She is of African, Indigenous, and European descent and is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Jessi has been drawn to all forms of art and self-expression since she was a child. She took up band, choir, and theatre in grade school - as well as practiced dance and performed poetry while she studied in college. She attended the University of Texas at Arlington, having earned a Bachelor's in Fine Art with a concentration in photography in 2019. She now has an inter-media based practice with a focus on performance art. Jessi is currently employed at the Dallas Museum of Art as a Center for Creative Connections Educator and Community Programs Artist Teacher’s Assistant.
May Makki is a curator and researcher interested in collaborative practices. She co-founded RISO BAR, a publishing initiative and cooperative space that facilitates experimentation using risograph technology. Most recently, she has been editing and printing Survival School, a series of pamphlets compiling knowledge from individuals in Dallas with the goal of self-sufficiency and self-education.
Daniel Ray Martinez is a multidisciplinary artist whose practices engage with the formal language of sculpture, photography, video/cinema, performance, and drawing. Through these mediums, Martinez considers the images, surfaces, and the space of representation in multi-layered works that address the complexities of bodily experience. His interest in phenomenology, or the study of “lived experienced,” has led him to probe how this has been shifted by the digital age.
Brandon Thompson is a fine artist living and working in Dallas, TX. He earned his Bachelor of Art in Graphic Design from the University of Texas in Arlington. Thompson’s work showcases his experiences growing up in the suburb of Cedar Hill from a nonautobiographical point. He creates cartoonish narratives based on nostalgia, fashion, and culture, with some emphasis on internal struggles and social issues. Thompson primarily uses paint and sculptural mediums.
K. Yoland is a transdisciplinary artist examining the nature of identity, power and borders in our society. Incorporating video, text, installation, photography and live performance, the body or its impact is ever-present. Working both site-specific and in gallery spaces, Yoland's previous projects have involved a wide range of participants across Europe and the United States. This has included filming a barber and soldier outside in the desert, choreographing dancers in a video installation in Copenhagen, directing Olympic fencers on scaffolding in London, making dream interviews with people on the streets of Harlem and taking employment in 21 different 'day-jobs' in Paris.