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Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, and thespaces where art is made and contemplated. His work has been exhibitednationally and internationally. He is the author of the acclaimed books Inside thePainter's Studio and Inside the Artist’s Studio, which share an intimate viewinside the studios of today’s leading artists. His work can be found in numerousmuseums and leading private collections including the Parrish Museum, NortonMuseum, New Museum and the Fogg Museum. His work has been featured inThe New York Times, Boston Globe, Artforum, Art in America, and ArtNews aswell as several international magazines. Joe is the Department Chair of both FineArts and Visual Studies at Ringling College of Art & Design. He earned his BFA andMFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is represented by CristinTierney Gallery in New York.www.joefig.com

Esteban Cabeza de Baca is a painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between New York and the borderlands of the Southwest United States. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. Cabeza de Baca’s works are in the permanent collections of Harvard University, North Dakota Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Parrish Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Williams College Museum of Art. He is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery and Parker Gallery.

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another.  He maintains a prolific resourceful playfulness in his practice, with an evolving vocabulary of form and color that informs the freshness of his work. Playful and unpretentious, he mines the rawness of his materials, elevating the imperfect with an approach that is physical, elegant and mysterious.

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressures of assimilation. This duality seeded the fragmented forms and layered symbolism that define his art today. His practice continues to carry echoes of Latin American patterns, nature’s geometry, and American architectural influences, all reimagined through abstraction. Umaña’s recent works, “hybrid paintings,” combine glazed ceramics on painted canvas and fuse together conflicting styles—mess and order, biomorphic and geometric, thin and thick, matte and sheen.

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at  Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus (NYC), Thomas Robertello Gallery (IL), Greenfield Community College (MA), and ARTBN (South Korea).
Lambert is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She has completed public art projects for the NYC Department of Transportation and collaborated with both elementary schools and college students on public art initiatives in New York and New Hampshire. Previously, she has taught at Parsons School of Design, Yeshiva University and Fordham University. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell (NH), Yaddo (NY), AIR Woodstock/Byrdcliffe (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Dieu Donné (NY), Lower East Side Printshop (NY), VCCA (VA)  and Fountainhead Residency (FL).

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Herphotographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, EssexFlowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante inSan Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She hasbeen reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker,Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post.Lydia was a Lighthouse Works Fellow in 2025 and served as an AssociateProfessor of Photography at Alfred University for nine years.

Mathew Cerletty (b. 1980, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) paints hyperreal depictions of signage, commercial tableaux, and everyday items with a precision that veers into the uncanny. At first glance, his paintings appear seamless, almost digital, but closer inspection reveals traces of the artist's hand that attest to his dedication to traditional craft. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2025); Herald St, London (2024); STANDARD (OSLO) (2023, 2019); Karma, Los Angeles (2022); Karma, New York (2021, 2018); The Power Station, Dallas (2020); Office Baroque, Brussels (2014); and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2013).  

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award.
His current solo exhibition Drawings is at Picture Theory in New York, NY. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Harper’s (New York, NY), McBride Contemporain (Montreal, Canada), George Benias Gallery (Athens, Greece), and Anton Kern Gallery (New York, NY).
 
 

Tony Mascatello is a New York based painter of narrative images who began this process as a performance artist in SOHO long ago. Working on a small scale, he creates intimate spaces that invite the viewer to enter into an imagined experience.  

Clare Grill (born 1979, lives and works in Queens, NY) received her MFA fromthe Pratt Institute in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting andSculpture in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parlance, Derek Eller Gallery,New York, NY; Cutwork, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; and WichLanguage and Oyster, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Her work hasbeen reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, The NewYork Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe.