Allison Pottasch

Allison Pottasch is an artist who collages, draws, and paints. She studied Advertising at Pratt Institute, but for the most part, she’s self-taught. Originally from Connecticut, she’s lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She create maximalist collages with sourced, drawn, and painted elements. Her process involves cultivating and clipping bits of paper from old magazines and historical mass media. Isolated from their context, the clippings become hieroglyphic characters that she amalgamate into novel narratives. They invite the viewer to reach into their backlog of personal semiotics to expose meaning. 

Many of her pieces are my self-pontifications on abstractions of contemporary “Americana.”  They’re epigrammatic cultural dialectics interlaced with visual double entendres. 

They examine facets of sexuality and gender, religion and mysticism, cultural and personal identity.

Christopher Squier

Christopher Squier is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Through writing, drawing, and installation, he explores optics and the role of light in contemporary visual culture, engaging research and poetics around luminescence, transparency, and invisibility to position vision as a historically-altered and politically-contentious experience. Squier has received artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, La Fragua Artist Residency, and Playa at Summer Lake, among others. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Dain Susman

Dain Susman is a multi-faceted creator in the realms of visual art, photography, and architecture. His work explores how concept-driven processes influence imagery and space, and where the overlap of the two skews our perception. Dain approaches projects systematically, utilizing contextual influences to develop project themes through quantifiable actions (operatives) and unique fabrication techniques. As an artist formerly based in the northwest, he is especially interested in sculpting moments where urban byproducts intersect with nature, and how imagery drives the inclusion of found objects in his work. Dain currently lives in Bed-Stuy with his pet goldfish, Mr. Fish, and is a big fan of solo road trips across barren landscapes.