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Caroline Amond is an emerging visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University in 2019 and a MFA in Art from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2024. Caroline has exhibited in an assortment of exhibitions across New York (Powerhouse Arts, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery) and has received multiple awards (Morris Dorsky and Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship) for her artistic contributions. Her work was featured on Artnet’s “Best Work of 2024: 11 Standouts We Saw Globally.” Amond’s bold paintings challenge conventional beauty standards and provoke viewers to decode the layered symbolism and iconography imbues within each work. She focuses on allegorical themes and prioritizes the female gaze, while also reflecting on the post-internet culture in which she was raised.

Statement

My paintings reimagine the historical tradition of the Venus figure through a contemporary lens. I coin the figures in my work “Oppositional Venuses”, reclaiming agency in a visual lineage where they were often rendered passive and ornamental. My work explores how the female experience is shaped and distorted through post-internet culture. I’m particularly interested in how digital spaces, especially image-based platforms, affect how femininity is constructed, performed, and consumed. Through painting, I examine the tension between hyper-visibility and objectification, self-display and self-possession. Drawing from art history, online aesthetics, and symbolic language, my paintings collapse flattened space with dense visual references, creating a surface that mirrors the saturated, disorienting quality of digital life. These works serve as a site for questioning beauty, power, and agency in an image-obsessed culture.

About Stephanie Norberg

INSTALLATION: I’m interested in creating environments that reference pop-culture, questions the notions of value of worth, talks about the DIY culture many young artists across the nation are embracing, the relevance of wonder and phenomena while we are existing in an ever increasing digitally-driven world, and the general notion of spirituality and self-identification within the framework of a contemporary culture. Within these environments I create fragments of subcultures spanning time from historical to contemporary movements. These subcultures date back to Native Americans; embracing spirituality, mysticism, and transcendentalism to current movements occurring in music culture such as; trance, electronic, and Witch House. These fragments of already existing subcultures work together to talk about the human condition for the need to identify within a group and are also self-reflexive of my own personal narrative and interests.

About LEONARD GABRIEL:

Leonard Gabriel's art is immersed in the essence of human emotion through body language. This exploration has been shaped by his training at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Kolbermoor and his residency at Mana Contemporary in New York City. His figurative approach transcends the merely representative and instead seeks to communicate emotions beyond realistic details. In his exhibitions, from the Paris Art Fair to the galleries of Madrid and San Miguel de Allende, Leonard Gabriel captivates the viewer with works that capture intimate moments.

In his most recent work, a woman immersed in reading becomes the canvas of emotion. Barely tracing the contours of her fingers, he subtly suggests a gesture that reveals more than what is seen, immersing the observer in an inner world where stillness becomes an expression of emotional depth. Leonard Gabriel blurs the boundaries between the tangible and the abstract, inviting the viewer to explore the complexity of the human experience through his brushstrokes full of meaning.

Mimi O Chun is an artist whose soft sculptures reveal the ironies and inequities inherent to a late-capitalist economy. She recasts and re-contextualizes iconography borrowed from consumerist culture to create works that vacillate between parody and pastiche. Mimi works primarily in fabric, incorporating finishing techniques such as appliqué and embroidery to render objects in painstaking detail.

Mimi earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and her Master of Fine Art from Yale School of Art. Her work has been published by Fast Company, Bon Appétit, White Zinfandel, Gather Journal, Makeshift magazine, and Princeton Architectural Press. Her first solo museum exhibition, Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake, was held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from 2021-2022. Mimi lives and works in New York City.

Anna Krieps at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC Booth 53 (Season 7, Episode 2)

Vincent Arcilesi + India Evans AHA Fine Art Gallery at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC

Yoshie Sakai at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC Booth 72 @yoshie_saki_studio

Sophocles Plokamakis an NYC artist, published illustrator and author, one of the founders of Start Shows Art exhibition at One Art Space Gallery, in TriBeca NYC founded in 2018.

After 5 more shows at One Art Space, Thais and Sophocles formed Start Shows, a company that creates art exhibitions for artists from around the World in NYC Galleries.

Since then, co-founders Thais Coelho Plokamakis and Sophocles Plokamakis have helped 400+ artists exhibit and sell their art in New York Galleries and network with collectors, curators, gallerists and fellow artists of many disciplines and backgrounds.

Thais and Sophocles are Art teachers having taught artists of all ages how to draw and paint for many years. They are also Art Coaches and can help you become a full time artist and take your art game to the next level.

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture.

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture.