Martha Clippinger (b. 1983, Columbus, Georgia) received her BA from Fordham University and her MFA from Rutgers University. Recent solo exhibitions include SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Alejandra Topete Gallery, Mexico City; Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC; Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens; Institute 193, Lexington, KY.

She has completed numerous mural commissions, most recently two temporary installations at the North Carolina Museum of Art and a permanent ceramic tile mural at The Columbus Museum in Georgia. Her work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, and Architectural Digest.

Clippinger is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a 2018 Arts/Industry at Kohler Co., 2017 Durham Arts Council Grant in Craft, 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, and 2013 Fulbright-Garcia Robles research grant completed in Oaxaca, Mexico.

She has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Her work is in public collections, including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, The Columbus Museum, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Clippinger lives and works in Durham, North Carolina.

Ash Ferlito is an artist whose work is rooted in the observation of the natural world. Direct engagement with moths and birds generates information for a practice that spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, and experimental rewilding gardening. The work aims to inspire wonder and consideration and offers new ways of seeing and gathering. Working in a variety of media the work is guided by tuning into the world around me– images of the sun, cyanotypes generated from mothing events, paintings of moths and birds, and plein air ‘Wildscape’ paintings inspired by the spirit of plants. 

Ash has exhibited her work in the United States and internationally, most recently at North Loop West, Williamstown, MA, The South Utah Art Museum, UT, The Concord Center for Visual Arts, MA, Wells College, NY, and The Barn Project, ME. Highlight residency experiences include The Montello Residency, NV, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME, and The NYC Audubon House at Governors Island, NY. She has several ongoing collaborative projects: MOTH BALL, an annual mothing-art event; The Marshy Garden, a pollinator-supporting garden project at The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY; and the Skowhegan Bird Club, a bird club for artists.

Ferlito has an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, PA, and a BA from Yale University, CT. Ferlito (b. California)  lives and works in Ithaca, NY, and North Bennington, VT.  

Douglas Gimbel is a painter and sculptor. His work teeters on abstraction and representation, in an effort to engage his audience in the work and allow the viewer to create their own narrative. Gimbels mark-making on canvas or wood welcomes his audience to engage with the art object, initiating dialogue. His approach to art making is centered around play and experimentation.

Gimbel maintains various practices including wooden sculpture, painting, drawing, earthworks and music. He has toured nationally as a composer and singer specializing in improvisation. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Gimbel initially eschewed the breathtaking land/ seascapes of his Maine roots, now he embraces the Maine environment using the constant and familiar surroundings as a point of departure.

His work is informed by his live performances with bands such as: HDRnB, the Heavy Metal Horns, Randon Order, and the Sir Douglas Fur Funktette. He founded the Douglas Gimbel Gallery exhibiting contemporary art from 1991 to 2002 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He received numerous private artists residencies; he designs and fulfills large scale commision objectives internationally. He has worked with architects and homeowners to create interior and exterior sculptural elements. Gimbel lives and works in Mid-Coast Maine.

llse Sørensen Murdock paints directly from nature, combining plein air color with found refuse, highlighting the human relationship to the environment. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, NY, and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ. Murdock has been awarded numerous residencies including the The Judy Pfaff Foundation Residency, NY; DNA Provincetown Residency, MA; Skowhegan, ME; Edward F. Albee Foundation; NY, and The Vermont Studio Center, VT. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, including in the state of Maine with Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland, and Perimeter Gallery, Belfast. In 2019 Murdock received the Cultural Award Grant from the American Scandinavian Society, concluding in an exhibition at the Trygve Lie Gallery, NY. She was also included in a survey of painting: Here and Now at the Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, 2020. Her most recent exhibitions consisted of a two-person show at Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, and a solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC. In 2021 she founded Color Group, a women’s study group focusing on the topic of color. Murdock is currently faculty at the New York Studio School, NYC, and cultivates work from her studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Portrait of John Powers- Photo credit at all Times: 2022 Timothy Greenfield- Sanders.

I make work about abstraction; my imagination occupies the broken field of failed utopian promises: pure communication, universality, opticality, immediacy, and neutrality. I build upon endless columns of conceptual dead ends that once seemed so obviously true. The object is to live with this history, to occupy a single “continuous project altered daily”, rather than a series of  starts and finishes.

I play with blocks. About half the work I’ve done over the past quarter century has been temporary installations - stacks of plywood blocks that are knocked down once “complete”. But a great deal of the work has explored ways of making - from low relief paper structures, to wood and foam constructions, to a 50’ tall steel tower. While I enjoy the challenge of fine woodwork, of collage, of exploring materials others discard, of making an S-shaped tower with a crew of welders, I also enjoy the technical transparency of stacking - something everyone can relate to from experience. 

(b. 1969, Buenos Aires) lives and works in New York. In her works, Seeber explores domestic spaces, which she transforms into dynamic abstract paintings. The artist draws inspiration from alternative rock, stage designs, musical performances, urban culture, digital software, textiles, and crafts.

The book Picture This, edited by Hatje Cantz in 2019, offers a comprehensive view of her work. Some of her projects and exhibitions include: Danza Perfumi (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2023); A oJO (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2021); Fuera de serie (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2021); Rather Ripped (Häusler Contemporary Munich, Austria, 2018); Getaways (Häusler Contemporary, Lustenau, Austria, 2018); Ultramar: Fontana, Kuitca, Seeber, Tessi (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2017); Caza (Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2016); Autoamerican (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2015); Cuadro por cuadro (Miau Miau, Buenos Aires, 2014); Yes Yes (Häusler Contemporary, Munich, 2011); Tutti Frutti (Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, 2011); Dialogville (Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2010); and Bienal do Mercosul (Porto Alegre, 2009), among others.

Maria Stabio (b. 1985 San Francisco, CA) is a Filipino-American painter. She works with a lexicon of personal symbols which reference visits to family in the Philippines. Spraying layers of acrylic paint over top of cut freezer paper stencils, flattened leaves/ plants, liquid latex, Q-Tips and fiberglass mesh, these works are created entirely non-digitally and are not screen printed.

She graduated with a BFA in Painting from Boston University (2007) and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2012). She is represented by Kristen Lorello in New York.

Awarded artist residencies include Wassaic Project (NY), ChaNorth (NY), the Hinge Arts Program (MN), The Rensing Center (SC), Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (Doha, Qatar) and Vermont Studio Center (VT). 

In 2023 she developed a former furniture factory in Tamaqua, PA into a five room boutique hotel called Bischoff Inn. One year later, she launched the Micro-Residency at Bischoff Inn, a 1 - 2 week residency program for visual artists, writers and scholars. For more information, visit www.bischoffinn.com/residency.

Kaitlin Zorah McDonough is an artist based in Queens, New York. Her work has been exhibited throughout Italy – in Venice, Rome, Vicenza, Bologna, Verona – and in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Ireland, and Turkey. 

Recent solo shows include Blood-snake Pomegranate at Palazzo Ca Dandolo Parisi (Venice, Italy, 2023) and Dole-chet-zah (Richmond, Virginia, 2019). Selected group and two-person exhibitions feature Land-mark // Comhartha talún at the Ballinglen Gallery (Ballycastle, Ireland, 2025); Eline Sağlık // Health To Your Hands (Büyükada, Turkey, 2022); Unborderings at Centotto (Brooklyn, New York, 2018); Does a Moon Move atOrgy Park (Brooklyn, New York, 2017). Special artist-led workshops include Thought-Form Mapping (Büyükada, Turkey, 2022) and The Poetics of Performatives at 2MF (Brooklyn, New York 2016). 

McDonough received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (Philadelphia, 2014) and her BFA from the College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Summa cum laude (Boston, 2007). Additional studies include Temple Rome (Rome, Italy, 2012-13) and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (Venice, Italy, 2006). McDonough is the recipient of a Hohenberg Travel Award (with travels to Pompeii, Paestum, Naples, 2023), and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, 2011) and Göz Göze II (Büyükada, Turkey 2022).  

She has been a visiting critic at Boston University's College of Fine Arts (Boston, 2023, 2022, 2021), and has presented guest artist lectures at Temple University (Philadelphia, 2022) and the Maine Media + College (Maine, 2021). McDonough lived, worked, and taught in Venice, Italy for Boston University’s Venice Studio Arts Program, in collaboration with the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (Venice, Italy 2007–2012). In 2014, Kaitlin joined the New York Studio School (New York, 2014 - present) where she currently teaches and serves as Dean. 

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