| About the Show | Artists | Installation Views |
Nina Ahmadi
Nina Osoria Ahmadi (THEY/THEM) is an Iranian-AfroCuban artist, shapeshifter, student, and educator from Miami, Florida. Nina’s work employs a range of mediums including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, performance, and community building. Ahmadi’s current work uses photography to explore the most inner, undefinable gray areas of identity, referring to cultural and racial identity, matrilineal family lines, gender non-conformity, and other fluid states of being. They aspire to depict the beauty and reality of their experience as a brown queer person and share gratitude especially to the women of color and queer mentors with whom they have communed in life and in their studies. Nina has shown work in Miami, New York City, Washington DC, and Valencia, Spain.
Savannah Faith Jackson
Savannah Faith Jackson is a lens based artists who creates work that explore themes of inferiority, womanhood, and agency. Inspired by artists such as Carrie Mae Weems and Emma Amos, Savannah makes intimate portraits in which her subjects assert themselves in the photograph. She lenses them as they project all of themselves into the surrounding environment. Their beauty, their peace, their frustration. Savannah’s goal with her photography is to honestly capture seemingly fleeting moments and emotions.
Maia Liebeskind
Maia is a video and sculpture artist from new york city. they work primarily with fibers, linoleum printing, and mini dv video – frequently all combined into one creation. in their work maia toys with magnifying mundanity and life’s cyclical never ending rollercoaster. in recent work, maia imagines the inner lives of the objects which surround us. for cash, maia makes clothing and bartends.
Chloe Rees
Chloe Rees is an artist exploring transition and tension. The extremes of loving something too much,or receiving too little in return. Rees’ work is diaristic, figurative and linguistic. It involves something sweet and something harsh to undercut the essentialism of both.
Liev Sibilla
Lev Sibilla (sometimes credited as Liev Sibilla) is a self-taught multi-media artist and professional scavenger, collecting materials in the margins and transmuting them into three-dimensional diary entries, ornaments, and tableaus. Born in Oregon in 1999, his work speaks, in part, on his experience in the new century on the autism spectrum, existing genderless, and as a product of the Jewish diaspora. To date, he has shown work on both coasts of the US, in Canada, and in Japan.
Shori Sims
Shori Sims (they/he/she) was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. Having graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022, Shori expects to receive their Masters of Sculpture in 2024. Shori makes art about beauty, ghosts, and Blackness. They have shown widely both nationally and internationally in London and Toronto.
Lucia Zezza
Lucia Zezza’s practice incorporates elements of Symbolism, American Post-Surrealism, and decorative design. She received her B.A. in Visual Art from UCLA. She grew up in Los Angeles where DIY community and strange choreographies of the wild and the urban formed the way she perceives the world around her. She currently lives and practices in Brooklyn.
