September -November 2021

Santiago Galeas

Santiago Galeas (1991) was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and currently lives in Queens, New York. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and recently completed his Masters in Fine Arts at New York Academy of Art in 2021. A queer, Latinx son of immigrants, his work highlights a connection between the diversity of genders, sexualities and experiences in his subjects, and the similar complexities one finds in nature. Galeas has collected a number of distinctions including the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, residencies in Mexico, Ecuador, and Philadelphia, and publications in New American Paintings as well as Disrupted Realism by Schiffer Publishing, among others.

February - June 2022

Dante Cannatella

Dante Cannatella (b. 1992) was born in New Orleans, and currently based in Brooklyn, NY, and is a recently graduate of Hunter’s MFA program. Dante’s work is about when the landscape reclaims the city, when the lines between inside and outside are blurred, and how lives play out against the truth of uncertainty and impermanence. His gestural paintings reflect growing up amidst the destruction and rebuilding of New Orleans. Set against a backdrop of acid yellows, muddy pinks and greys Dante evokes an atmosphere of a changing ecology. The figures are caught in the powerful forces of nature, commerce, and mass thought that shape both their inner worlds and outer realities. As in a play, figures and forms weigh against each other, assuming roles such as the self, authority, the conscious witness, the audience, and the Greek chorus.

August 2022 - January 2023

Telvin Wallace

Telvin Wallace (b. 1997) earned a BA from North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC and is a recent MFA graduate of New York Academy of Arts, New York, NY. He was the recipient of the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant in 2020. He has shown his work throughout North Carolina and is currently included in a group exhibition at the Allouche Gallery, New York, NY. His works are in numerous private collections including Beth Rudin De Woody, public collections including the City of Raleigh Municipal Art Collection and include completed commissions for NC Central University. Telvin was recently featured in Cultured Magazine.

February 2023 - July 2023

Amorelle Jacox

Amorelle Jacox (b. 1994 ) completed her MFA from Hunter College in 2022. Jacox’s paintings are born out of a profound sense of cosmic free-fall. Tables and black holes hover in a realm where slippage between figure and object and space probes questions about the limits of body and knowledge. Where metaphor pries open depths of metaphysical inquiry; and amorphous ellipses find their individual natures in relation to each other. That, with a singular brushstroke, the sky’s stomach might fold into a plate, and that plate might slip between the days.

August 2023 - February 2024

July Guzman

Born in 2001 in Guadalajara, Mexico, Guzman is a Mexican-American painter, who recently received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.  

July’s work creates a feeling of familiar space where intuitive landscape and spectacular abstraction intersect to show us something that we may be longing to discover and connect to.  His work combines specific landscapes with cultural symbolic color relationships and deconstructs his sensitivities of home. He listens closely to the complexity and contrast of feeling forbidden and belonging. There is confusion of pushing and pulling of outsider and local, which for him both impedes and strengthens his connection to the natural earth and his own identity. Painting for him is an intimate healing practice that deconstructs the rhythmic function of the land, his grounding cultural intimacies, and his emotional belonging to feeling at home

February 2024 - July 2024 2024

Paula Querido

Paula Querido (b.1992) was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is currently based in New York City. She holds a BA in Studio Arts from Bard College (2014) and an MFA in Painting from the New York Studio School (2023). She has received awards such as the Hohenberg Travel Award, the Gerald L. Lennard Scholarship, and has been a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. She recently had her first solo show with Ronchini Gallery in London, UK. Her paintings show interest in the pictorial narratives of images. These paintings show figures in landscape, drawing from images and tropes from ancient art and history, and from personal everyday encounters and experiences, both lived and dreamed. Her compositions are guided by her musical and pictorial sense of color and harmony to make a unique and coherent language in painting.

August 2024 - January 2025

Mahsa Merci

Mahsa Merci (b. 1990) was born in Tehran, Iran, holds an MFA from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She i is a queer artist whose work spans various media, with a focus on painting and sculpture.

In her work, Mahsa aims to capture the unique queer journeys of individuals, from the moment of self-realization to navigating the myriad challenges of acceptance and self-expression. Central to her exploration is the duality of identity – the interplay between public personas and private struggles, and the conscious and unconscious aspects of being. Currently, she is delving deeper into the complexities of this dual existence, experimenting with highly textured oil paintings on board and incorporating various mediums into her sculptures. Mahsa Merci has exhibited her works in over forty solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, UAE, Belgium, Cyprus, Canada, Hong Kong, and Iran. Mahsa’s works has been published in various well-known magazines globally, and was shortlisted for the 5 Rising painters to discover in 2022 by Artsy