ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Lilian Kreutzberger (b. 1984, the Netherlands) is a Dutch artist who works on the intersection of painting, photography, sculpture, and digital imaging. As a painter and sculptor, Kreutzberger aims to imagine the potentials and the futilities of utopias, urban space and digital space and materialize it into a visual and physical experience. Her recent projects combine the notion of materiality, surface and representation in an ever advancing connected digital world. Kreutzberger was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, and the Buning Brongers Award for painting. Kreutzberger’s work has been exhibited at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague; the Royal Palace, Amsterdam; The Kitchen, NY; World Expo 2010, Shanghai; 1709 Gallery, Richmond, VA; and Foam Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, among others.

Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. An explorer at heart, her work reveals an interest in currency systems, material language poetics and the production of histories. As an artist, Lemaire works with glass, photography and digital fabrication to create an array of tools, artifacts and objects that consider the role of technology as an accelerant in a multiplicity of narratives that weave together virtual and physical worlds. Lemaire’s work has been included in exhibitions nationally, and is in many private and museum collections. 

David Syre is an American outsider artist based in Bellingham, WA. Syre produces large-scale acrylic paintings, drawings, watercolors, and monumental art installations inspired by the subconscious, nature, and his travels. In recent years, Syre has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe and South America. For his signature style of drawings on black paper Syre uses a form of quick and powerful gestures similar to his acrylic paintings, referencing a recurring set of themes throughout, such as the universe, landscapes and architecture, tribute to the land, and totems. Critic Peter Frank writes, “In Paul Klee’s terms, Syre ‘goes for a walk with a line’ in each drawing,” and continues: “The method and format are constant (...) but the nature of the imagery flips back and forth between the referential, the rhapsodic (taking off from a hinted reference), and the purely fanciful.”

Dov Talpaz is an American–Israeli artist born in Bryan, Texas and based in New York, NY. Talpaz offers a delicate, profound view of his inner world through an artistically diverse range of technique and subject matter. Tackling feelings difficult to define with words, he turns back to views from his past, or engages classical movie characters or biblical stories to process them. Painting, collage, or pastels alike, Talpaz’s art looks deep into motifs engraved in his life and persona. Dov Talpaz has exhibited locally and internationally, and his work is included in many private and public collections worldwide, including the Bank Leumi Collection, Israel, Rema Hort Foundation, New York, the Javor Collection, Vienna,  AU, and the Gary & Tracy Stein Collection, Houston.

Nicolas Touron is an artist and storyteller. As an artist he creates engaging and complex work in both Ceramic and Painting that, through concepts of movement, evolution, characters, and motifs, suggest larger narratives. Departing from traditional approaches, Touron’s stories never have specific beginnings or ending, and in this way become visual embodiments of the living process of storytelling. Touron’s work has been featured prominently in the USA as well as internationally in art galleries, museums and public spaces. His work is in numerous private collections around the world.

Osaretin Ugiagbe, born in Lagos, Nigeria and based in Baltimore, MD and New York, utilizes his art to open up a space for existential interrogation. The “Bounty” series combines the concepts of self, memory, and the artist’s lifelong interest in portrait painting, using interior settings as a backdrop. Imprinted patterns of Bounty paper towels as a reminder of domesticity and the ephemeral. His sculptural works - so different at the first glance - deal with the same subject in a more symbolic, abstract way, as these three-dimensional works surpass any disciplines. Ugiagbe uses the disintegration and layers over layers of paper, found objects, and metal clamps to externalize his relationship with the streets of cities that impacted him. His work is featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and many private collections in the US, Nigeria, and Europe.