Sound and Vision

Dan Lam is a Dallas, Texas based sculptor who received her BFA from the University of North Texas and later completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Arizona State University. She’s had solo and two person exhibits ar Hashimoto Contemporary. Anya Tish, the ICA Boston, The Hole Gallery, Black Book in Denver amongst others. Her work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Beautiful Bizarre, Colossal, Texas Monthly, the Dallas Observer, Booooooom, Hi-Fructose and many more.

Bridget Mullen is a visual artist who grew up in Minnesota. She received her BAE from Drake University and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She has been awarded many residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Fine Arts Work Center, The Jan Van Eyck Academie, The Lighthouse Works, The Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, and MacDowell. Bridget has exhibited in the US and abroad at Shulamit Nazarian, LA; Helena Anrather, NY; Nathalie Karg, NY; Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Anne Barrault, Paris, France; Wild Palms, Düsseldorf, Germany; and Bosse & Baum, London, UK. She is the 2022 recipient of the Chiaro Award from Headlands Center For the Arts and a 2021 recipient of a painting fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Reviews of her work can be found in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, and The Brooklyn Rail. Upcoming projects include a book of her “Birthday Series” paintings, a print project with Avant Arte, and a solo presentation at The Armory Show, NY in the fall of 2023. Bridget lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and is represented by Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles, CA.

Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned an BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Figge Museum Art Museum. He is represented by James Fuentes Gallery in New York and Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. William was an artist-in-residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, a 2018 recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2020 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, a 2021 recipient of a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and a 2023 recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. He has taught at several institutions including Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, UPenn, and SUNY Purchase. He is currently Assistant Professor of Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. GET THE S&V BOOK HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Make-Art-Contemporary-Artists/dp/1733622098

Celeste Rapone received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 where she is an adjunct professor in painting and drawing. Celeste’s work has been exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad at Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Julius Caesar, Chicago; The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Georgia Museum of Art; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Celeste was the 2018 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her upcoming solo exhibition House Sounds opens at Josh Lilley Gallery on March 23rd, 2023, and her work will be included in the Bemis Center’s upcoming exhibition Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence, opening May 20, 2023. She lives and works in Chicago, IL and is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago), Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), and Josh Lilley Gallery (London).

Anna Ortiz is a Mexican-American painter living in Brooklyn NY. She received her BA/BFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She earned an MFA in Painting from The Tyler School of Art.  She recently concluded her solo exhibition Hacia Aztlán at Dinner Gallery in Chelsea. She has also had solo shows at Proto Gomez and Adelphi University. Her work has been included in group shows at Selenas Mountain, My Pet Ram, Front Room Gallery as well as a recent show at RISD's Painting Gallery curated by Angela Dufresne.  She has been an artist in residence at A.I.R. Byrdcliffe, Obras Residency in Portugal and the Netherlands as well as the Vermont Studio Center. While at The Tyler School of Art she was awarded the Future Faculty fellowship. Her work has been featured in I Like Your Work, Maake Magazine, El Diario and Artforum. She will also be included in the forthcoming Art Maze edouble edition.

Born in Manchester, England, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. She has a BFA in Theater from Central St. Martins, London, UK, and an MFA in Painting & Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Solo exhibitions include Shifting Structures: Survey (2019), Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA; Raked (2014), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Floor/Ceiling (2013), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN and Shifting Structures: Stacks (2010), the New York Public Library, NY. Selected group exhibitions include the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NY, SLASH: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), NY; Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions, Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria; The Drawing Center, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. Southʼs work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, NY Arts Magazine, and The New Yorker. She is a contributor to the book “The Artist as Cultural Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” (editor: Sharon Louden). Grants and residencies include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009); Dora Maar House, Menérbes, France (2010); Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008); New York Foundation for the Arts (2007); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002). In 2018 South was elected to the National Academy of Design. Jane South is currently Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.

Nick Sowersby, known professionally as Sunbeam Sound Machine is an Australian multi-instrumentalist musician. Sunbeam Sound Machine first garnered attention with the 2013 EPs One and Sunbeam Sound Machine. In November 2014, the debut studio album Wonderer received widespread acclaim, leading to nationwide touring in Australia, followed by a tour of the US. In February 2019, Sunbeam Sound Machine released "Talking Distance", the lead single from the second studio album. In May 2019, Sunbeam Sound Machine released Goodness Gracious and his most recent full length, ‘Possom.’ was released October of last year. Since debut album Wonderer served to introduce the project back in 2014, Sunbeam Sound Machine has amassed over 35 million Spotify streams.

Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist, currently based in Miami. Her work has been exhibited at PROTO GOMEZ Gallery, New York, New York; Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Penn State University, Pennsylvania; Latino Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; Cuchifritos Gallery/Artist’s Alliance, New York, New York, Soho20 Gallery, New York, New York and PROTO Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey, among others. Treizman has completed artist residencies at Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; NARS Foundation International Artists Residency, Brooklyn, New York; Triangle Workshop, Salem, New York; ACRE Residency, Steuben, Michigan; Ox-Bow Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, among others. 
In 2015, she was a fellow at the Bronx’s Museum Artist in the Marketplace program, culminating with “The Bronx Calling”, a biennial exhibition at the museum. That same year, Treizman was awarded a studio residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City, where she developed her work until 2019.  In 2016, Treizman created an interactive public artwork at Randall’s Island Park in New York, commissioned by the NYC Parks Alliance and the Bronx Museum for the Arts.
Treizman earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is currently a studio resident at Laundromat Art Space in Miami, Florida.  Having lived in many densely populated cities over the years—Santiago, London, San Francisco, New York City, Haifa, and now Miami—her practice has stemmed from and benefited from throwaway culture. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Fulcrum Coffe Roasters and the New York Studio School. The School welcomes artists from around the world to join the 5-Day Virtual Intersession Drawing Marathon entitled “Drawing on Your Past / The Mind’s Eye” with Graham Nickson & Guests, held from Thursday, March 23rd – Monday, March 27th, 2023. Rigorous and immersive, the Studio School’s legendary Marathons present an extensive range of artmaking strategies, comprehensive critiques, and inspirational discussions. Expansive first-hand discoveries in Marathons propel artists to relate to drawing, painting, and sculpture as direct methodologies for understanding their experience in the world; the profound impact of which continues far beyond each Marathon’s conclusion. Visit nyss.org to apply today!

Kevin Umaña was born in 1989 and grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. He received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and lives and works in Kansas City.  Umaña is the co-founder of The Ekru Project, an artist-run Kansas City gallery focused on contemporary, emerging and underrepresented artists. In 2017, he created a permanent installation at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City. He has completed residencies at The Center for Book Arts, New York City (2019); Plop Residency, London, England (2018); and SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (2018). His work was featured in “Pattern Recognition,” curated by Amy Lincoln at Sperone Westwater in 2022. Institutions owning his work include The United Nations Art Collection, Fidelity Mutual Funds Collection, Center for Book Arts Library and The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.

Madeleine Bialke (b. 1991 in New York) received her BFA in Studio Art from the Plattsburgh State University of New York, and earned an MFA in Painting at the Boston University, Massachusetts. Recent solo exhibitions include Death Motel at Newchild Gallery, Antwerp;  Nine Lives at Steve Turner, Los Angeles; Long Summer at Huxley- Parlour, London. She has exhibited in group shows at Max Hetzler, Alexander Berggruen, Berkshire Botanic Gardens, CICA Vancouver, and Dinner Gallery.  Madeleine Bialke was the Artist-in-Residence at North Western Oklahoma State University in 2018 and was awarded the John Walker MFA Painting and Sculpture Award in 2016. Her work has been included in the Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Globe, and New American Paintings. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.