Sound and Vision

The vibrant style Ali Smith has brought to her writing and photography—featured regularly in The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications internationally—was forged in New York’s underground music scene where she played bass in the seminal punk / blues / avant-garde band, Speedball Baby. After touring worldwide and recording several albums, Ali released two books of photography about women’s lives. The first, Laws of the Bandit Queens, led to a feature on OWN, Oprah Winfrey’s television network. The second, Momma Love: How the Mother Half Lives, won two International Book Awards, was praised by The New York Times, and Gloria Steinem called it “a gift to moms.” Since its release in January, 2024, Ali’s memoir The Ballad of Speedball Baby has garnished much critical acclaim and impassioned reader responses, reached #1 on Amazon, and led (amongst other things) to a BBC Sounds interview. Find out more at AliSmith.com , @mommaloveAli on Instagram and Ali Smith Photo on FB.

Brian Calvin b.1969 Lives and works in Ojai, CA.
Calvin studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at The Art Institute of Chicago. He received the California Arts Council Fellowship and an art residency from Art Production Fund, Giverny, France. Calvin has exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Corvi Mora, London; Cabinet, Milan; Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA; and Gallery Side 2, Tokyo. Among his group exhibitions are at Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among other places. His work is included in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. He has a show up now at Anton Kern Gallery, check it out!

Ojo Ayotunde b. 1995, Lagos, Nigeria 
Lives and works in Lagos Ayotunde graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from Yaba College of Technology in 2018. He worked as a junior art director with Rosabel Advertising for a year and a half after which he decided to focus on his practice as a full-time studio artist. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Fulcrum Coffee and the New York Studio School.

Stuart Snoddy was born inHonduras and lives and works in Indianapolis, IN. He holds an MFA from Northern Illinois University and a BFA from the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Stuart has had shown his work at Massey Klein, Edington Gallery, Future Fair, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Cat Head Press, Farmer Family Gallery at Ohio State, Trestle Gallery and many others. He has received a Harrison Center for the Arts Award, an Atlantic Center Master Artist-In-Residence Award, an Oxbow Fellowship and others. His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Artmaze, New American Paintings, Blissmag and others.

Yuan Fang (b. 1996, Shenzhen, China) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Visual and Critical Studies Program at the School of Visual Arts in 2019 and received Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement and several scholarships. She received her MFA from the same institution in 2022.  Her works have been acquired by museums, institutions, and collections around the world, including ICA Miami, Lafayette Anticipations, The Flag Art Foundation, Long Museum, Pond Society, Green Family Art Foundation, He Art Museum, Asymmetry Art Foundation, Song Art Museum, Green Rapids Art Museum, Mint Museum, Inima de Paula Museum, and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. She is having a solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai as the youngest artist ever who holds a show there until March 24th, and will open her first solo exhibition in the UK at Skarstedt Gallery during London Gallery Weekend this May.

Ryan Steadman was born in 1974 in Greenville, SC, and lives and works in Delhi, NY. He has shown his work at galleries such as Karma in New York, NY; Halsey McKay Gallery in Brooklyn & East Hampton, NY; Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, NY; and others. He earned his BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His current show Real Ones is up at Halsey McKay Gallery in Greenpoint until March 17th.

Alejandro Cardenas is an artist who lives in NY’s Hudson valley, Primarily focusing on Painting, Sculpture, and drawing. He graduated with a BFA in fine art from Cooper Union. He has had solo exhibitions at BFI Miami, James Fuentes Gallery, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Harper’s Books, Stems Gallery and Almine Rech. His current exhibition titled “Porta-Mantis” is on view until March 2nd at Anat Ebgi Gallery’s Fountain Avenue Location

Youngmin Park is a painter from Seoul, currently working and living in New York. Her works explore the unstoppable and competitive struggle within the vertical system through different forms of life. Elements such as power, movement, and consumption are shown through the tense relationships between the figures. Dislocated from their original functions, everyday beings build new meanings in the obscurely flattened world.⁣ ⁣ ⁣Youngmin (b.1997) received her BFA from Korea National University of Arts and is about to receive her MFA at Columbia University.

Barbara Campbell Thomas is a North Carolina based painter who has exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center (NY), the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), the North Carolina Museum of Art, Ortega Y Gasset Projects (NY), Maake Projects (PA), Wavelength Space (TN) and Hidell Brooks Gallery (NC).  Currently, her work is in a two-person exhibition at the Columbus College of Art and Design’s Beeler Gallery, and in March she will have a two-person show at James May Gallery in Milwaukee.   Her work has been written about in Two Coats of Paint, Art Papers, The Coastal Post and BURNAWAY.   Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts.  She is a Professor of Art and the Director of the School of Art at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Ken Nwadiogbu is a Nigerian-born London-based multidisciplinary artist. His undergraduate degree was in civil engineering, after which he received a Masters degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Ken was awarded the prestigious The Future Awards Africa in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian arts community. His works have been shown in the Royal Academy of Art during the Summer Exhibition in London, Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery in London, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, BrickLane Gallery, Volery Gallery in Dubai, The Bishop Museum in Hawaii, ThinkSpace in LA anmongst many more. He has also exhibited at Scope Miami, 1-54 London, Prizm Art Fair, and ART X Lagos. He has collaborated with brands including Netflix, GANT, Macmillan Publishers, and Martell. A core focus for him is to inspire and encourage young creatives. He does this through public speaking and mentorship, as well as through his creative collaborations.