Sound and Vision

Ryan Schneider creates paintings and sculptures from experience and observation, portraying moments of bewilderment, tension, exhilaration, and fatigue as they are encountered in the real world. His latest works of hand-carved wood are dreamy and richly colored, often featuring a spiritually charged, even shamanic quality. Ryan Schneider was born in Indianapolis, IN, USA and holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include”Split Spirits” at Over The Influence, LA, “No Filter Eden” at V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, “Mojave Masks” at The Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon, and “Mojave Pictures” at Taymour Grahne, New York. Recent group exhibitions include “Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros” curated by Eric Fischl at The Hall Art Foundation in Reading, VT, “Rise and Shine” at Over The Influence, Hong Kong, “The Birds”, with V1 Gallery at the CHART art fair, Copenhagen, and “Natural Selection” at The Hole, NYC. After many years in New York City, Schneider now lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA, USA. His work is held in public and private collections worldwide, including the Hall Art Foundation and the Bank of America Collection. He has been reviewed or featured in Juxtapoze, The New Yorker, Art in America, The New York Times, Modern Painters, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtInfo, Artsy, and The Paris Review, among many other publications.

Lily Stockman is a painter based in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California. She graduated from Harvard University, and has apprenticed in Buddhist thangka painting at the Union of Mongolian Artists in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and studied Indian miniature painting in Jaipur, India. Lily received her MFA in studio art from NYU in 2013, where she taught undergraduate painting. Most recently she has exhibited work at Cheim & Read, Gagosian and Charles Moffett in New York, and Gavlak and Regen Projects in Los Angeles, Jessica Silverman in San Francisco. Timothy Taylor in London. Her work has been covered in New York Magazine, Vogue, ArtInfo, Artnet, W Magazine, T Magazine, the LA Times and many more. She has an upcoming solo show in September at Charles Moffett gallery in NYC.

Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist based in London and New York. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University; MA in Art Education from New York University; and MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2018-2019 Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, the Virginia A. Myers Fellowship at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies include MacDowell, Bemis, Yaddo and LMCC Process Space. Smith’s recent exhibitions include her first solo museum exhibit, Monuments to an Effigy at the Queens Museum in NYC; a solo exhibition, In Praise of Shadows at Anna Zorina Gallery in NYC; a site-specific commission for The deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and a site-specific commission for the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. She was also included in a major painting survey exhibition at Mass MoCA entitled The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night. . Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors, manufacturing in Upstate NY, GOLDEN Acrylics, Williamsburg Oils, and most recently, QoR Watercolors. An employee owned company committed to producing the highest quality materials, while maintaining a culture of stewardship and community involvement. For information about Golden Artist Colors, call 1-800-959-6543 or visit www.goldenpaints.com.

Roger White is a painter, writer, and editor based in Vermont. His work is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, Grice Bench in Los Angeles, and LABOR in Mexico City. His paintings have been featured in exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; among many others. He is the co-founder of the contemporary art journal and publishing imprint Paper Monument and is also the author of The Contemporaries, published by Bloomsbury in 2015. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2000. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Adébayo Bolaji is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in London, England. At the centre of his practice is the dialogue of change and the focus of the individual within a connecting society whether that be anthropological, religious, historical or popular culture. The use of mixed media, vigorous and metaphorical language, is a crucial element in his work, helping to narrate a different story within each painting allowing for the viewer to take an active role in the works. Bolaji has exhibited internationally in London and Zurich, with artist residencies in New York and Margate, including an Artist Residency with Yinka Shonibare MBE Guest Projects. In his own words “my work is responsive, meaning I’m concerned with what is happening to me, to us, now. No imposing, but listening. This in turn may speak to the past and spiritually think ahead, but now is what matters”.

Peter Krashes' studio painting over the past decade stands as one complete body of artistic research growing directly out of his other practice as an unpaid community organizer in the Dean Street area of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn. As Peter says, "My work as an activist and my work as an artist extend from the same set of values. All of my works are derived from meetings I attend or events and initiatives I help organize. There is no room in political or governmental processes for many of the activities we involve ourselves in, but perhaps none more so than painting a nuanced image in the studio. As a result, the paintings are the last step in a process I have been engaged with from beginning to end. The imperatives I feel outside the studio are explicit so the outcome in the studio is particular and linked directly to the real world." Linking the practices of painting and of activism points out the problematic of actions that can be consumed, ignored, and considered irrelevant by those in official political power. Their human scale and material presence as paint on canvas positions these paintings outside the processes in which decisions are made instead of seeking recognition in political discourses of power. Taking a different approach to generating cultural power, Krashes has generated this body of paintings through working out questions that arise in his range of collaborative activist practices. For example, frustration with the narrow, sometimes apparently biased focus of the media has led Krashes to make paintings depicting the glare of cameras pointed in elected officials' faces or expansive interiors of government chambers with recurring images of empty microphones. He also paints the flipside of this equation, namely that individual voices speaking collectively can exercise power. Neighbors painting protest signs, children's face painting, Easter egg hunts, seedbombs tossed into empty lots, and block parties claim space—marking the presence of the communities willfully neglected by those in power. Brian spoke to Peter about his practice, his community activism and much more.

Enrico Riley is an artist and the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. He currently lives in Norwich, VT. Enrico received a BA in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College and an MFA in painting from Yale University School of Art. He is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Visual Arts, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize in painting and a Jacobus Family Fellowship through Dartmouth College. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions include: Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA. The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, The Museum for the National Center of Afro-American Arts in Roxbury, MA, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, Italy, Rhode Island School of Design Ehp, Rome, Italy, Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT, SACI School of Art Florence, Italy, Pageant Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York City, The Painting Center in New York City, SACI School of Art Florence, Italy, His work had been reviewed in Art New England, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review and the New York Times.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a degree in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. He is a Media artist who creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks. He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at Biennials in Cuenca, Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne NGV, Moscow, New Orleans, New York ICP, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Wuzhen. Collections holding his work include MoMA and Guggenheim in New York, TATE in London, the 21C Museum in Kanazawa, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, SFMOMA in San Francisco, and many others. He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, "Artist of the year" Rave Award from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, among many other awards. He has lectured at Goldsmiths College, the Bartlett School, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, USC, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell, UPenn, SCAD, Danish Architecture Center, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Yulia Iosilzon is a painter who was born in Moscow and spent her formative years in Tel Aviv and currently lives and works in London. She earned an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London, and a BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art in London. Recent exhibitions include Carvalho Park Gallery in Brooklyn, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds and South London Gallery in London, Wolves by the Road at Assembly House in Leeds, Something Else at Triumph Gallery in  Moscow, The Origin of Who at Kvatdrat 16 Gallery in Copenhagen, and Varieties of Disturbance at Shelf Gallery in London. Written press about her work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Russia, Afterview Art Review, AucArt, a Renli Su collaborative project, and Young Space. She is the recipient of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries Prize and the Audrey Wykeham Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Hix Award. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas and Golden Paints.

Steffani Jemison lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2003). Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kadist, among others. Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2019 as well as in the touring group exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem (2019-2020). Other collaborative and group exhibitions include the Drawing Center (2014), the Brooklyn Museum (2014), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (2011), and many others. She has served as a visiting artist at many institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hampshire College, the Evergreen State College, and Georgia State University. She has taught fine art at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, Wellesley College, Trinity College, Rice University, the Cooper Union, and other institutions, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University New Brunswick.