Rene Grgic Dakovic is an artist who is from Osijek Croatia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and in 2021 became the recipient of a full scholarship for his MFA at the New York Academy of Art. Dakovic utilizes mostly oil on canvas or panel, drawing inspiration from various artists such as Titian and Tarkovski. His work demonstrates a realistic visual approach in figurative painting. With most of his motivation coming spontaneously, Dakovic experiences painting as a form of meditation, acting both spiritually and intellectually. Tradition plays an important role in his work, not limited to the form or content of the piece. Often referencing elements specific to his surroundings of Eastern Croatia, Dakovic challenges the viewer to form a deeper connection with time and all of its complexities.

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Frank Olt is an artist and professor at Long Island University whose studio practice focuses on ceramics and painting. He is a former artist-in-residence at MoMA P.S.1., has exhibited and has investors nationally and internationally, and his commissions include the all ceramic art at the 23rd and Ely subway station through the NYC Arts for Transit program and Bellevue Hospital. His work was exhibited recently in a solo show in the Contemporary Gallery at Nassau County Museum of Art. Olt’s abstract work forms a unique hybrid of ceramics and painting in the New York school tradition. His signature style, a combination of ceramic media and glazing components with mixed media, brings together small not-quite symmetrical abstract pieces that sometimes recalls the color field artists, though often suggesting landscape. Although he is a practitioner of more traditional ceramic techniques, much of Olt’s work fuses painted canvas and ceramics.

Kyung Tae Kim is an artist who was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. Working primarily with painting and installation, he received his BFA in Painting at Kookmin University, Seoul, and graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York. In 2019, Kim received the Young Artist Award from “The Korean Artists” Group Exhibition, awarded by the Mayor of Jersey City. Kim has been included in multiple group exhibitions, as well as four solo exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, and Korea. 

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Hannah Hirsch is an artist who grew up in central and coastal Maine and is influenced by the natural forms of her environment, as well as the early 90’s comic strip cartoons that filled her childhood. Drawing upon these graphic references and natural shapes, she produces bold, colorful work with strong lines and a powerful sense of character. Hirsch’s creative process is influenced by her lifelong journey with obsessive compulsive disorder, and how that has distorted her relationship with her own feelings and memories. Her process starts with painting on wood, after painting she painstakingly cuts out each shape with a coping saw entirely by hand. Hirsch’s paintings exist outside the confines of straight edges, and invite the viewer to share space with bright figures that evoke memory, personality, and movement.  

Jeff Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist that is currently focusing on abstract ceramic sculpture. He has been working in Ceramics for the past 10 years mainly utilizing hand building and the wheel to create his current sculptural work. He received his BFA in Studio Art from LIU Post in 2019 receiving the Rose Krebs Ceramic Excellence award. Jeff's background is predominantly in all aspects of the ceramic medium, but has continued to work with others mediums to keep his creative head on a swivel. His current work is reflective of brutalist architecture and the human body. Creating off pure curiosity with interoception and the subconscious ego.

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Saehyun Paik is an artist who was born in South Korea and is currently based in New York. Since Paik was young she has been interested in color, composition, Mise-en-scene, design, and uncommon beauty. During her teenage years, she grew up in a competitive atmosphere with inherently talented colleagues and developed her technical skills. At a young age, she worked towards her goal of becoming an artist by freelancing as an illustrator and designer at magazines. After graduating high school, Paik worked as a concept designer in the commercial game industry. During her time in the commercial world, she developed her passion for fine arts. Paik attended SADI(Samsung Art and Design Institute) and is currently an artist in residence at Chashama, as well as working with SPACE776 Gallery.