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Drea Cofield is a painter based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at Kravets Wehby Gallery (NYC), Galleri Urbane (Dallas), and Soho Revue (London). Her work has been featured in publications such as CULTURED, The Wall Street Journal, Office, Dazed, and Whitehot Magazine. She is a recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and has participated in residencies including Yaddo (NY) and La Napoule Art Foundation (France), as well as just receiving a Lab of Experimental Art Residency Prize at CAN Art Fair in Spain. Cofield earned her BA from DePauw University and her MFA from the Yale School of Art.

Building upon a conceptual foundation in photography, Milan’s practice encompasses drawing, collage, and painting to explore ideas of the body, beauty, and the unconscious. The composite, fragmented figures in his work inhabit ambiguous landscapes of painted abstraction, navigating themselves through recontextualized historical and contemporary environments. Through them, the body—the physical, the psychological, and the photographic body—is understood as a multi-faceted, intersecting site of gender, race, sexuality, and history. 
Wardell Milan received his BFA from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001) and his MFA from Yale University (2004), both in Photography. Notable solo exhibitions of his work include Wardell Milan: Recent Work at the Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College (2022-23), and America. God Bless You If It’s Good To You, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2021).

Ashlie Atkinson is an Arkansas-born actress now living in Brooklyn, NY, who has amassed a pile of over 100 credits in film and television since her debut in 2004. Notable roles include a virulent klan wife in Spike Lee's Blackkklansman, the psychopathic taxidermist Janice on Mr. Robot, and the ever-capable dispatcher Ruby in The Lost Bus (starring Matthew McConaughey) on Apple TV. Ashlie currently portrays 1880s party girl Mamie Fish on HBO's hit show The Gilded Age, and unlicensed nurse and facilities manager Miss Dot on the NBC comedy Stumble, currently available on Peacock. Ashlie is also a writer and producer, most recently of the documentary Hank's Saloon.@Ashlie_atkinson on IG

Leon Chase is a self-taught filmmaker, musician, visual artist, occasional writer, and full-time curious person. For nearly a decade, he has dedicated himself to capturing—and celebrating—the "vanishing weirdos" of New York City. 

Founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the author of 22 poetry collections (print/audio/video), most recently two books written 50 years apart The Unspoken (YBK/Bowery), Life Poem (YBK/Bowery) as well as Bob Holman’s India Journals (Rattapallax), The Cutouts (Matisse) (PeKaBoo Press) and Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press). He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. As the original Slam Master and a director of the Nuyorican Poets Café, creator of the world's first spoken word poetry record label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury, and the Founder and Artistic Director of the Bowery Poetry Club, Holman has played a central role in the spoken word, slam and digital poetry movements of the last several decades. All told, he has performed well over 1,000 times, around the globe, from Madison Square Garden and rock stadiums to church basements and Ethiopian Tej Bets (honey wine bars). Co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance, Holman's study of hip-hop and West African oral traditions led to his current work with endangered languages. He is the producer/director/host of various films, including The United States of Poetry, a PBS series that aired nationally and won the International Public Television Award, directed by Mark Pellington and produced with Joshua Blum, and On the Road with Bob Holman. His film about language loss and revitalization, Language Matters with Bob Holman, winner of the Berkeley Film Festival's Documentary of the Year award, was produced by David Grubin and aired nationally on PBS. Holman traveled for the film and led workshops at language revitalization centers across Alaska and Hawaii, sponsored by the Ford Foundation; in 2022 he was invited by the Basabali Langauge Reclamation Society to screen it in Bali. His short film, produced by Steve Zeitlin of City Lore, Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues, has lines of poetry in 50 languages, and premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. In 2018, Holman was awarded He is also known for his ekphrastic poetry and performances, including Talking Pictures, a film by Kristi Zea of Holman performing his poems with the paintings of his late wife, Elizabeth Murray. At Sundance in 2023, a digital restoration of SLAM, the movie made by Marc Levin and starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn, was screened. The film originated at the Nuyorican Poets Café 25 years earlier when Holman was MC, a role he recreated live at Sundance. Holman’s poetry film, We Are the Dinosaur, directed by Paul Moon, featured at a dozen film festivals, was the basis of Holman’s 2024 tour of Oslo, Vienna, Tbilisi, and Tokyo. In 2025, he was selected by the Venice Biennale to perform his poetry on Venice’s streets, canals and bridges, as well as in theaters.

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented four solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art.

Holly Coulis was born in Toronto, ON and moved to NYC in 1999. She currently lives and works in Athens, GA. Her work is represented by Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles and Klaus von Nichtssagend in NYC, where they are currently hosting her exhibition, "Whereabouts".

Sam Jablon (b. 1986, Binghamton, New York) lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his BA from Naropa University. His work has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Hauser & Wirth, Blum & Poe, Morgan Presents, and the Pit. His work is held in the collections of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ICA Miami, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, BOMB, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Dona Nelson received a BFA from Ohio State University in 1968, attending the WhitneyIndependent Study Program in 1967 while still an undergraduate. Among other grants, Nelsonreceived an Anonymous was a Woman Grant in 2015, an Artist Legacy Foundation Award in2013, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in1994. In January/February of this year, they had a solo exhibition at Canada Gallery, inconjunction with Thomas Erben. Nelson’s paintings are included in collections such as theWhitney Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, theCarnegie Museum of Art and the new Princeton University Art Museum, where their painting,Providence, 2023, is currently installed. In June, Thomas Erben will present Andrew Ross andDona Nelson in the Premiere Sector of Art Basel, Basel.

Liz Ainslie is an abstract painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her abstractions are generated from observations and memories spanning 1970s interior decor, the Upstate New York landscape, My Little Pony, and ancient Greek wall paintings. You can read about Liz's recent solo exhibition at Deanna Evans Projects on Two Coats of Paint. Liz's work has been featured in shows at White Columns, PLATFORM, Transmitter, Good Naked, Rhett Baruch, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Mepaintsme, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Tappeto Volante.