John Alleyne

Exhibitions

Group Exhibition, Clear Mirror, 2024

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Born in St. John, Barbados and living and working in New Orleans, LA—John Alleyne is an artist, independent curator, and Assistant Professor of Art at Southern University and A&M College. His practice and curatorial work is rooted in an exploration of freedom and sanctum, connecting his lived experience with an intuitive, experimental process of silkscreen mark-making. These marks reflect the complexities of Black life as they are perfectly imperfect. Through the exploration of Black nostalgic images which already exist in the world, Alleyne reimagines hauntingly new depictions that long for and reflect love, care, and a sanctuary for Black bodies.

He received his MFA from Louisiana State University, with a concentration in painting and drawing. He has been Artist-in-Residence at Ox-Bow, ACRE, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has exhibited work throughout various galleries and museums in the South, including Sulfur Studios in Savannah, GA, The Masur Museum in Monroe, LA, The LSU Museum in Baton Rouge, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. He has also exhibited work in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Ireland, and Barbados. His work is featured in New American Paintings (South Issue), Southern Cultures, The Offing, The Chicago Reader, Shepherd Express, Studio Visit Magazine, 225 Magazine, Savannah Now, and Issue #23 of The Hand Magazine.

Alleyne is an artist member of Baton Rouge Gallery and a member of Antenna Artist Collective in New Orleans. In the summer of 2023 he taught experimental silkscreen techniques at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

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David Onri Anderson

Exhibitions

Group exhibition, The Sink, 2024
Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2022

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David Onri Anderson is a Tennessee-born French-Algerian Jewish artist, musician, and curator. He graduated from Watkins College of Art in Nashville with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Blaa Galleri Copenhagen, DK (upcoming), Harpy Gallery in Rutherford, NJ, David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN, Atlanta Contemporary, amongst others. In 2020 he published a book of drawings with Zürich-based artist book company Nieves. His work has been reviewed, exhibited and collected internationally with works in permanent collections including the Soho House in Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN, The Joseph Hotel, and the Metro Arts Library in Nashville, TN, amongst others. Anderson is founder and curator of an artist-run space called Electric Shed Gallery in Nashville, TN (2018-present). His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artnet, BURNAWAY, DailyLazy and more.
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Reed Anderson

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, Tender Garden, 2024
Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2022


Reed Anderson was born in New York City and has been exhibiting work nationally and internationally for over 25 years. He began school at the Cleveland Institute of Art wherehe studied under Julian Stanczak. After 3 years in Cleveland he transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute where he graduated with a BFA in Printmaking.

He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and later Stanford University—graduating with an MFA in studio art in 2009. His work is in public collections that include MOMA, NYC; Albright-Knox, Buffalo; The West Collection, Philadelphia; The Olbricht collection, Esssen Germany and The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Austria among other private collections.


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Sophia Belkin

Exhibitions

Group Exhibition, Arcade, 2024
Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2023

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Sophia Belkin (b. 1990 Moscow, Russia) currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned her BFA in drawing and printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012. She has participated in residency programs in Vermont, Norway, Russia, and the Narva Art Residency in Estonia. Recent shows include Á Condition at Calaboose in Montreal, Fossil Bloom at The Front in New Orleans, and Svetspalonos, an immersive multimedia exhibition installed in collaboration with Dave Greber and Kanrec Sakul on Juzna Trieda in Kosice, Slovakia.

Sophia Belkin uses dye painting, embroidery, and textile collage to create intricate and dynamic compositions that reference natural processes. She works from a collection of original photographs that are printed on chiffon and attached to dyed backgrounds using a CNC embroidery machine. The appliqué technique references craft and fashion, while the content of the work mimics biological structures and movements. Like membranes within the body, or cell walls of a flower- the forms appear both permeable and rigid. Calibrating between intuitive gestural mark-making and the controlled line of the CNC, the textile paintings create layered, multidimensional environments that imply a constant state of regeneration, expansion and flux.


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Joshua Edward Bennett

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, OAZO, 2022
Group Exhibition, A Fluid & Emphatic Now, 2021

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Joshua Edward Bennett lives in Nashville, TN and works both there and in New Orleans, LA. He is the gallery manager at a commercial art gallery in Nashville, TN called Tinney Contemporary. He received his MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 2019 with a concentration in digital arts. Bennett received his BFA with a concentration in painting and drawing in 2006 at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN.

He has exhibited work in solo exhibitions at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, LA, and has forthcoming solo exhibitions scheduled for this yea at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, LA. His participation in numerous two-person and group exhibitions include Living Easy Where The Sun Doesn't Shine at BS Projects in Houston, TX, Sun Shines at Central Park Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in 2019, RE:TELL at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center during their biennial in 2016 in Atlanta, GA, Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman), a group collaboration with Carlos Rolón at the New Orleans Museum of Art in New Orleans, LA in 2018, Jonald Dudd 2019 for NYC Design Week in New York City, NY in 2019, and Love Triangle at Deep Space Gallery in Jersey City, NJ also in 2019.

Bennett has been a contributing member of the artist-run space named Good Children Gallery since 2015.


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