GRAPHITE 14: POCKET

GRAPHITE 14

It is with outstretched, open palms that we bring you Pocket.

The fourteenth issue of GRAPHITE Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts considers everything to be true. In creating a swampy, discursive charm of a thing, we have been gifted with insight into the cracks and crevices of a multitude of people’s mind palaces. We have fused these dredges together to make the biggest keychain, the longest kiss.

We hope that you carry it with you, close to the heart, as you continue to accumulate your phenomenological smattering.

This is an object that you can be fragile or flagrant with, depending on your moment. And so we are dreamily imagining that Pocket will live and grow with you. Becoming fuzzy or shredded or moldy or lighthearted or sticky.

Affectionately, Shari, Sey, and Violet

jenny rask out of hiding 8” x 10” photograph

Waiting to be recognized, a stick that also shoots A rifle born to lesser means A twig unlike the rest You sleeper agent waking to a kid-soldier’s behest But I have never seen you At least, not as a gun I figured you a fragile thing, a weeping willow’s son Your butted end, an open wound A navel wet with sap The markings of a fallen angel, cast off as a scrap I question your stoic detachment Your apparently hawkish fate For there’s something melancholic about where you lay in wait Beneath the site of severing In the shadow of your loss The choices: become weaponized or carpeted in moss I’d rather hold you open-palmed And find with your form A million different symbols that ceaselessly transform

klara vertes

In a bed of pine needles and tangled roots

STICK IN THE SHAPE OF A GUN

You lay on your side, coquettish

le corps contre le ciel

catherine desroches

84” x 48” bronze, reclaimed pine, reclaimed plywood, reclaimed lostwax casting dust, reclaimed foundry kiln ashes, reclaimed foundry graphite, reclaimed graphite powder, charcoal, and conte on reclaimed newsprint

jonathan xue ritual* 24” x 36” oil on canvas

lev sibilla specifically of my hand/untitled 12” / “scale to life” found wood, found plastic, tape, thread, hair, paint, ink, clay, tin foil, fixative

gabby and yongyu take notes — sweet epitaph for 2 6 3/4” x 8 1/2” ink on napkin

emiliana henriquez vestige 30” x 20” oil on linen

ryan lee interlude4 54” x 72” acrylic on canvas

siri kaur untitled 4” x 5” polaroid

siri kaur untitled 4” x 5” polaroid

7” x 11” graphite & colored pencil on paper

cup

jamie steele griffiths

yao mou in defeat to hentai: nekomusume 24” x 36” oil on canvas

bertil chappuis muñoz the peak 20” x 16” oil on canvas

cameron taylor brown reflections/north lake, eastern sierras, CA 34” x 24.5” fiber, weaving, photographic transfer, machine embroidery

nick d’alessandro iRelic02 5.65” x 2.79” x 0.3” concrete, aluminosilicate glass, superglue, textile dye

jenny rask rockbody 10” x 7.5” photograph

untitled

benjamin furtado

100 x 65 cm laser print on varnished paper, tape

talia markowitz heaven knows life lies remote 12” x 72” x 36” sheet, metal bed frame, wax, smoke, ash, broth, milk, gelatin, blood, sweat, and tears

jamie steele griffiths caught moonwatching 18”x14” graphite and colored pencil

klara vertes what to leave for the robots 12” x 36” x 1” found sign, resin, shells, rocks, printed images, etc.

isabella rose wanda mixed media

I wonder the names of the trees That separate me

From who I could be.

I wonder the names of the stones That separates from soil, from loam,

And from debt to The Devil in soulless loans.

barrett shepard DRESDEN SOIL

erika velická unseal the untold dog: concrete, 1x1,3x0,3 m cave: wood, concrete, textile, plaster, 2x5x3,5 m Photo by Šimon Kadlčák Installation view at Zaazrak Dornych, Brno, Czech Republic

nun’s hood redemption

lowe fehn

11”x15” soft pastel on paper

cameron taylor brown reflections/north lake, eastern sierras, CA 9” x 12” oil, gesso and collage on prepared cardboard

katherine hofmann

open face mold, cast glass, oil paint

braided glass

7.5” x 13.25” x 1.75”

ellen siebers sharing fruit iii 12” x 12” oil on shaped birch panel with artists frame

ryan lee fruit-E 54” x 54” acrylic on canvas

kristina knipe soleil with injury mardi gras day 36” x 44” pigment print

mathieu wilson bedside tissue 3” x 3” printmaking

minna bracket dalia’s dogs 6” x 9” colored pencil on paper

oda sofia johansenn compathy 8” x 10” chalk pastel, alcohol marker, ink, gouache, colored pencil

yao mou in a fly’s wisdom 16” x 24” oil on canvas

jake fagundo can’t get a witness 48” x 48” oil and gouache on linen

troy barrett and nikki ochoa

oil on canvas, welded steel, butterflies, electricity, taxis, incense, sunglasses, cellphone, crystal, fake flower, virgin mary, rope

bedside tissue

42” x 31” x 6”

francine banda bow bowl diameter 8” glazed ceramic

robert king 4musiclovers smallest: 2” x 4” x 0.5” medium: 3” x 6” x 0.75” largest (on ear headphones): 3” x 5.5” x 1” hydrocal and powdered drink mix

mariel rolwing montes storm 22” x 30” graphite, airbrush, and plastic gemstones on paper

brown eyes on russell street

hector munoz-guzman

48” x 72” acrylic, spray paint, oil, chalk and pencil on stretched canvas

ellen siebers the light in my eyes (after wyeth) 8.5” x 8.5” oil on shaped birch panel with artists frame

noah schneiderman familiar spectre 14” x 12” oil and wax on canvas naturally dyed with cutch and iron

teng yung han how much you know without telling 5.5” x 8.5” colored pencil on paper

jake fagundo triptych 36” x 72” oil on linen

kristina knipe steph with gold stamped foil 28” x 24” pigment print

daniel zeballos

chair

8” x 11” silverpoint on cotton paper

silver

daniel zeballos

5.5” x 8” silverpoint on cotton paper

arthur wechsler nora portrait 72” x 60” oil on canvas

ruby murnik iphone photos search: food digital collage

big pink room and a cat with human eyes

inda sachi

40” x 52” oil, photo, plant-matter on bedsheet

lowe fehn water watering itself 7.5” x 11” soft pastel on paper

klara vertes amber monolith 4” x 14” x 7” diary key, resin, foam, asphalt filler, etc.

evelyn tan tesseract lover 7” x 9” ink, print, pencil

sofia fani gutman foldable home 144 x 246 x 2 cm plywood, wallboard joint compound, hinges

benjamin furtado untitled 60 x 90 cm laser print on varnished paper, tape

mariel rolwing montes perfect time 11” x 11” graphite and airbrush on paper, tape

ava marzulli boyfriend dimensions vary 16 gauge steel, leather cord worn by artist

francine banda bone candleholder dimensions variable ceramic

map of bees

sinichi araki

oil on canvas

jonah schwimmer

parade place

24” x 18” wax transfer, gel pen transfer, paper on wood panel

frances gaffney weeds in the garden 36” x 48” oil on canvas

india sachi daytime napping 48” x 52” oil and collage on bedsheet

held

madelyn kellum

30” x 44” graphite on paper

laura benson

softly held creatures

6” x 8” x 3” cotton fabric, solar fast, antique bells, red thread

analog captcha #1-4

ruby murnik

3” x 5” each graphite on colored index cards

kainoa gruspe sweeping forward, pockets to keep 150 x 180 cm hi gloss enamel, dust from around the studio one morning, sewn pockets, found objects on canvas

charles hartnell untitled blackboard, chalk, oil, tape

evelyn tan insomnia 9” x 12” colored pencil and marker on paper

robert russell sitzend junger dackel figurine 80” x 70” oil on canvas

20 YEAR OLD MONK

amber xu

The twenty-year-old monk is terrified of spiders and looks better with hair. He exercises the principle of self-compassion when he swats away the webbed habitat of one of the sweet earth’s living creatures. And if the cow’s already dead, what difference does it make if it’s the monk’s tea-stained teeth sinking into that supple flesh or the unenlightened rube’s maw? Cleanliness is next to holiness, but he’ll organize that shit tomorrow, and sometimes it’s just too damn cold up in the mountains to shower every night.

The twenty-year-old monk’s carefully arranged balance shifts as he considers the pleasures of the flesh. He has sworn to chastity but his mind tends to wander, especially after lunch. Sometimes the chimera arrives so vivid and luscious that it gives him a start, and he looks around, wondering if anyone can hear his thoughts. Think-ing. Think-ing. Think-ing. He returns to the breath. It lies in the diaphragm, silent as a secret, hard to the touch and smoothed by years of turning the object around with the steady Ris-ing / Fall-ing . . . Ris-ing / Fall-ing. He smiles to his body. Oh body. Body that is flower, cherrywood, baboon, body that is mountain. Body of light. Thankful there are no mirrors.

Easy body of no mirrors.

He regrets the patience he withheld. He tamps down jealousy in the soft pit of his belly. After dinner his stomach still grumbles. Sometimes he doesn’t wash his hands after he goes but run the faucet in case somebody’s by the door. He walks beyond the monastery grounds more often than not, and his mind sharpens at the sounds of the radios that fade in and out from the open windows of the apartments nearby. It’s his favorite pastime, but he really thinks the guy that sings along to the karaoke on TV ought to can it. He loves Tom Petty—the guy is suave. He misses the languor of sleeping in and watching TV in bed and lusting after women whose skirts sway with their hips and tossing back a drink to fire up the senses on a blustery evening. Sometimes he smokes a cigarette when he waits for the bus on his own. It’s easy to keep secrets when you’re a monk.

Sometimes he wonders if the hunger within him must be wrong. He’s never been able to decipher the Buddha’s teachings on ambition. It’s different here, in the West. His teacher nods solemnly when he speaks of this woe but offers nothing immediately useful—only apothegms as elusive as the darting fish that nibble the dead skin off your toes. After all these hours of sitting, he’s found clarity only in the gentleness of boredom. He would like to be kind, generous, considerate. Oftentimes he simply forgets this vow.

He thinks about what he’d do if he left. All the time, in fact. But he’s never plucked up the courage to address what could be. It’s better this way, he thinks. Easier, painless. He can’t lose. He takes a little more than he can eat from the donation pile on days that desire swells in his chest, unable to be contained. When his soul is revving to jump out of his skin shell. Mostly he wishes he had the courage to fail. To take a ghastly, tumbling fall on the iridescent mantle of his sequentially hermaphroditic oyster and gather his robes to continue on.

Last night my mother said to me, “You cannot be a twenty-year-old monk.”

B.D.E

maggie cnossen

8.5” x 11” watercolor & sharpie

shinichi araki map of bees oil on canvas

snail stretch - shark capsule

tobi

3” x 4” snail shells, wire, clay, oil pastel, paper cutouts

mariel rolwing montes untitled (huayco) 40” x 30” oil on canvas

la homegirl

emiliana henriquez

11” x 14” red conte on paper

catherine desroches untitled (tree) 8.5” x 5” graphite

jisoo you aoi 5” x 7” inkjet on satin paper, metal

jisoo you 110km/h 26” x 28” polystyrene foam, metal, wig, BlackYak jacket, CDG skirt

amber xu

benjamim furtado

Amber Xu is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a major in dance and a minor in art history. Her path meanders wildly.

Benjamim Furtado’s work develops around marks or trails in public space, from graffiti “tags” to fingerprints and footsteps. Furtado questions ideas surrounding privacy, limitations, porosity, and language. The concept of sampling is central to his artistic practice, producing images, sounds, and objects that are continuously reinterpreted.

arthur wechsler Arthur Wechsler is an artist born in Northern California’s Marin County and living in Los Angeles. His work is informed by fossils of memory and the lint that gathers in pockets.

ava marzulli Ava Marzulli is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist studying fine art at the Cooper Union. Ava has an interest in metalworking and performance. Her work explores notions of femininity and the female form through bodily engagement with the objects she makes.

bertil chappuis muñoz I had a dream once that my friend was driving me in a Jeep with no top in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and he drove off the side of the mountain because he didn’t slow down early enough. My body was thrown out of the car, and I hit the ground and felt every bone in my body break, and my vision stopped working, but I didn’t wake up from the dream. I

left my body in the shape of a teardrop that was a translucent bluish white, and I hovered above the cliff and watched reporters, friends, and police look at my broken body on the ground sprawled out next to the car.

cameron taylor-brown Cameron Taylor-Brown’s work is widely exhibited and has been featured in many publications, including American Craft, Fiber Art Now, and Handwoven. She teaches workshops at schools, guilds, museums, and conferences throughout the United States.

catherine desroches Catherine Desroches is a Québécois artist based in Montreal. Their practice stems from the possibilities of a materialism specific to, and dependent on, the experience of the real and/or the virtual to form the paths for a living, poetic exploration of the aesthetics of re-enchantment. Living poetry brings forth coherences of wonder—confirming a certainty of being in the world, of belonging to it, and that this-worldly participation is a remedy. The ideology they wish to support through their work posits spirituality and ecocentrism as fundamental modes of symbolization.

charles hartnell Charles Hartnell is from unceded Snuneymuxw Territory, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada.

daniel zeballos Daniel Zeballos is an artist focused on drawing. He explores mediums such as silverpoint and graphite, defining his voice through a soft and subtle palette.

ellen siebers Ellen Siebers is a painter based in Hudson, New York. Siebers was born and raised in Wisconsin. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

emiliana henriquez Emiliana Henriquez’s hyphenated identity amid the chaos of East Los Angeles has heavily influenced her artistic expressions.

Despite the complexities of growing up in a gang violence–riddled Latin neighborhood and her parents’ efforts to keep her and her brother safe, Henriquez found meaning in the creative arts.

Her works reflect a fascination with the emotional connections that unite people across cultural spectra. Through elements of mythology and unpredictability, Emiliana

creates dreamlike landscapes that invite introspection and self-acceptance. She was recently awarded a grant by the Los Angeles Lakers.

world is a result, an artifact, and points to something that went on somewhere outside space and time. Heaven exists.

Science has proven it.

erika velická

francine banda

Erika Velická (b. 1992) is a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2019) who specializes in classic figural sculpture and is currently enrolled in a postgraduate program at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. Working with robust materials such as concrete, wood, and clay, she captures inner states, conflicts, and observations, with all their subtleties, not only in her individual pieces but also through their interactions, relationships, and environments.

Francine Banda is an interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles. They received a BA in art from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2019.

evelyn tan Evelyn Tan is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada, and Providence, Rhode Island.

She pursues a sense of nostalgia through metaphors, symbolism, and dreams, often working between traditional and digital mediums. While her work is immersed in memory and ornate antiquity, she creates new aesthetics through hybrid mediums, color, and texture.

frances gaffney Everything we experience in the physical

gabby and yongyu Gabby and Yongyu are pen pals and photographers. They met at a home goods store, Pod, and make works about the everyday. They are currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they take German lessons at a café called Swissbäkers and study architecture and film at Harvard University.

héctor muñoz-guzmán Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán (b. 1999) is a Mexican American mixed-media painter and illustrator from South Berkeley, California. His work draws on a wide variety of inspirations, including his dual Mexican and American cultures, familiar street imagery found in his childhood neighborhood, early 2000s cartoons, perceptions of race, and the relationship with Catholicism through the lens of colonization. Héctor produces colorful

scenes filled with animated figures that represent himself and his family in an effort to honor people who would not historically be represented in contemporary arts spaces.

india sachi India Sachi is an artist based in upstate New York, working between the mediums of painting and photography. Questioning notions of camouflage, disappearance, and privacy, Sachi’s compositions largely reference the subject of the female nude in domestic space within the Western canon, finding themselves conjured on the forgotten items of others and referencing internet images left untethered to autonomy.

isabella rose Isabella Rose is an artist currently living in Bellingham, Washington, who focuses on mixed-media sculpture. She works under the name Happy Freak and spends most of her time making art that explores the line between the unsettling and the endearing.

jake fagundo Jake Fagundo (b. 1997, Chicago) makes paintings that are the remnants of a quiet practice. Fagundo finds stillness even in bursts of energetic color fields that

get pared down into open landscapes, figures, and nearly total abstractions.

He is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2021), where he received the Presidential Merit Scholarship. He has exhibited his work in solo shows at Okay Gallery, Chicago (2019); Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, Texas (2021); and most recently Sulk Chicago (2021). Fagundo’s work has also been written up in NewCity Art, Munchies Art Club, Aoyama Design Forum, and Art Verge.

jamie steele griffiths Jamie Steele Griffiths (b. 2000, Burlington, VT) works in painting, drawing, and video art. She is interested in the selfreplicative process that happens not only through birth but throughout life, thinking of contained, living bodies as cycles that break when they are too completely interrupted (like a whirlpool that has its rotation broken by an oar) and drawing to represent cycling bodies. Everything that’s alive is its own pocket, able to be taken from and have things put into it but complete as long as it remains a container, as long as its rotation is unbroken. Griffiths is also a hobbyist nature photographer and loves mushrooms, insects, and birds.

jenny rask Jenny Rask is a Lebanese American multidisciplinary artist originally from Portland, Oregon. She emerged as a self-taught graphic designer after receiving a BA in journalism from the University of Oregon. After winning a design award at twenty-one, she moved to New York and worked for MTV as an accomplished motion graphics designer for many years. New York City life and street fashion informed her daily design work and strengthened her critical eye and perception of color and form. Trash piles on city sidewalks generated a deep fascination with the subtle beauty of found objects and their materiality.

After moving to Los Angeles, where she has raised three kids, the charm of the mundane emerged again in her domestic life. Reexamining how art applies to her current life, she began to photodocument laundry masses and create object arrangements inside and gradually outside her home. She expanded her art practice from soft sculpture to installation work influenced by “low-cost design” in urban and natural landscapes. Her use of photography influences her scavenging process. She frames her discoveries in camera and then uses her images as a bridge to making sculpture. She takes

inventory of accumulations as they relate to the formal qualities of her sculpture.

She compiles images of these discoveries as an attempt to recontextualize the rejected and the disposed. The materials transcend themselves; objects replete with a sense of loathing and obsolescence transform into things of beauty or desire or something in between.

In 2020 Rask received her MFA in sculpture at California State University, Los Angeles.

jisoo you Jisoo You (b. 1999, Seoul) currently lives and works in Chicago. She received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Her work has recently been presented at Ruschwoman, Chicago, and Villa Hamilton, Seoul.

jonah schwimmer Jonah Schwimmer (b. 1998) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated with a BFA in fine arts from Parsons School of Design / The New School in New York in 2022. Working on wood and paper, Schwimmer explores the natural, the communal, and the recreational in search of a life well lived

jonathan xue

klara vertes

Jonathan Xue (b. 2000) is a Philadelphiabased artist who is studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Their work is concerned with investigating interstitial spaces, especially those between time, people, etc.

Klara Vertes is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and researcher. She creates archives, each with a different form, and populates them with a select assortment of ephemera from her collection of found objects, fabricated artifacts, and documents. The forms of these archives range from murder boards to spiderwebs.

kainoa gruspe Kainoa Gruspe is an artist from Honolulu who currently lives in London. He received a BFA from the University of Hawaii and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In his work he is looking for a sense of “real life” and exploring how that has been understood.

katherine hofmann Katherine Hofmann was born in Miami in 2000 and attends the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She will earn her BFA in painting in 2023 and will exhibit her work in the show Go Thither at RISD’s Gelman Student Exhibitions Gallery and in the upcoming thesis show in the spring of 2023 at RISD’s Woods-Gerry Gallery.

Katherine has been working throughout her undergraduate studies at RISD in the sculptural mediums of kiln-cast glass and ceramics and views her sculptural work as an extension of her painting.

kristina knipe

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Kristina Knipe is an artist and educator who makes her home in Brooklyn and New Orleans. Working with photography, video, and installation, Knipe seeks to heighten narratives of loss, healing, and transformation.

laura benson Laura Benson is a mixed-media artist interested in sacredness and ritualistic practices. Laura’s own practice is meant to be an exploration of the creation of a personal mythology that is linked to the undercurrent of subconscious connection to ancient symbology. This entails creating work across a variety of mediums, including clay, collaged images, found objects, metal, fabric, printmaking, and drawing. Her work also reflects a focus on storytelling, folklore, and religious myth.

She finds art making to be a valuable

avenue for uncovering the mystical and mysterious aspects of the natural and supernatural worlds.

lev sibilla Born in Oregon in 1999, Lev Sibilla (sometimes credited as Liev Sibilla) is a self-taught multimedia artist and professional scavenger. He collects materials on the margins and transmutes them into three-dimensional diary entries, ornaments, and tableaux. His work speaks, in part, of his experience in the new century on the autism spectrum, existing genderless and as a product of the Jewish diaspora. To date, he has shown work on both coasts of the US as well as in Japan.

lowe fehn

southwest Florida and her own fantasies, to speak about love given and received.

maggie cnossen The artist Maggie Cnossen displays a playful vulgarity through paintings, sculptures, and other various mediums.

Her style involves an unorthodox approach to using watercolors—gambling with “incorrect” types of paper that allow the colors to bleed through to the opposite side of the work, a process she calls reverse painting. Cnossen is focused on constructing a signature style that blends texts and images, cultivating a balancing act that emits both cleverness and personal mundanity.

mariel rolwing montes

Lowe Fehn (b. 1999) is an interdisciplinary painter from Indianapolis. They received their BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2021.

They are currently based in Richmond, Virginia.

Mariel Rolwing Montes is a painter from Brooklyn. She received her BFA in fine arts from Parsons School of Design / The New School in 2017. She has exhibited her work in New York, Mexico City, and Copenhagen. She is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College, New York.

madelyn kellum

mathieu magloire

Madelyn Kellum’s paintings, drawings, and wearable sculptures layer organic shapes and warm colors to form passageways through her life. Madelyn creates a language, formed from memories of

Mathieu Magloire, a student at the Cooper Union in New York, is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily within the Black queer experience. Their work is concerned with the attainment of being, body, and

understanding the structures at be.

minna brackett Minna Brackett is from Brooklyn and is an undergrad student at St. John’s College in Santa Fe. She studied art at LaGuardia High School in New York and has exhibited at St. John’s Peterson Art Gallery and at SITE Santa Fe as a participant in its SITE Scholar program.

nick d’alessandro Nick D’Alessandro is a Chicago-based artist working in both sculpture and garments whose practice investigates our connection to the earth through the aluminum rectangles in our pockets.

Set to graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023 (BFA), Nick explores themes of technology and waste using print media, sculpture, and garments.

Exploring themes of fetish, fossil, and impurity, Nick engages sustainability conceptually and pragmatically through investigation of electronic waste, anthropogenic predictions, and constant consideration of the lifetimes of material.

Sites such as the landfill, the thrift store, the alley, and the sidewalks become places for collection and transfiguration.

Deconstruction, mending, and tinkering allow Nick to honor the vital materiality

of the objects he uses, which have a life before and after us. His work aims to create an intimate space in our digital future by considering the body as both the producer and the consumer. Working with materials such as concrete, glass, iron, copper, and aluminum, he acknowledges the lifetimes of these materials and how they will outlive him as the maker.

noah schneiderman Noah’s paintings function as mirrors of his inner life and cultivate an understanding of the self and the world. Through this practice Noah seeks to gain and reveal a clarity in his lived experience. Informed by nature, memory, and the mystical, his works seek to brush against that which lies just beneath the surface of everyday life.

oda sofia My name is Oda Sofia, and I am a Brooklyn-based artist. I have been making art for as long as I can remember. My pieces are mixed media, primarily made with watercolor, gouache, chalk pastel, and ink. I juxtapose the disgusting and gross aspects of life with bubbly cartoons that I grew up watching, like those featuring Betty Boop and Popeye.

I often do not know the meaning of my pieces until I am finished. Looking back

at what my brain has decided to create, the themes largely revolve around my experience in the world as a woman. My pieces are cathartic vessels, containing my anger at the patriarchy and love of disturbingly detailed imagery along with kinky power dynamics. With each piece that flows from me, the paradoxical desire to find beauty within the rot of the world is revealed.

robert king Robert King is a multidisciplinary artist focused on product design. Through the fabrication of interactive, emotionally potent objects (often multiples), made through digital and physical processes relating to commercial manufacturing, he questions the industrial design and marketing trends prevalent within his lifetime as well as the cultural identities, lifestyles, and feelings made in their aftermath.

robert russell Robert Russell lives and works in Los Angeles. He completed his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2006 and earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Frequently displaying a subdued color palette, Russell’s representational paintings explore concepts of identity, memory, desire,

authenticity, the history of painting, and the role of photography in image making.

Themes include (among others) art books, portraits of Robert Russell that are not of the artist, pigs, children, and most recently clouds, teacups, and porcelain figurines

ruby saigon Ruby Saigon Murnik (b. 2001, Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist and student currently based in Brooklyn.

Saigon’s work centers on the abstraction of recognizable symbols and materials in the development of their visual lexicon. They are interested in themes of synchronicity, commitment, and love, highlighted by applications of drama and humor.

ryan lee Ryan is an artist who paints with acrylics using an airbrush. In recent work the artist explores urban settings that fade in and out of reality. Within these spaces, Ryan paints ordinary objects that may be overlooked by others, calling attention to the beauty that can be found in the forgotten and the mysterious.

siri kaur Siri Kaur is an artist and photographer who examines identities that occupy dualities, diversity, and contradiction,

with a rigorous eye for the photographic quality of magic. Kaur’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Blythe Projects, Cohen Gallery, and Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; at 99¢ Plus Gallery, Brooklyn; at the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro; and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also participated in numerous group shows. She was a professor of fine arts at Otis College of Art and Design from 2007 to 2018 and is currently a visiting artist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

sofia fani gutman I yearn to broaden my horizons, to explore and contemplate social issues through design. I believe that participating in social and political movements is fundamental to having a positive impact on our world, an imperative factor in determining our future. In view of the social aspects of globalization, architects need to have a political and environmental understanding of the world. I am passionate and motivated about examining architecture and design with a critical eye and enjoy challenging myself to explore more areas of study. I have a zeal for utilizing organic materials with new technologies and traditional vernacular practices.

talia markowitz Talia Markowitz is out of pocket.

teng yung han Teng Yung Han is an artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. She draws and sculpts abstracted characters in a singular language influenced by underground manga, nineties pop culture, and Taoist philosophy to create a poetic sensual world.

tobi Tobi is an internet animal who doesn’t go to this school. It encourages you to dig in the mud and watch old YouTube videos.

troy barrett and nikki ochoa Troy Barrett is a weird loner from the Jersey Shore with green eyes. Nikki Ochoa is a renaissance woman from Marietta, Georgia, with big brown eyes.

Their destinies were fused at WERK, a transgressive artist-run space of the 2010s.

yao mou in Yao Mou In is a Macanese artist who is interested in violence, chaos, humor, and satire. She works predominantly in oil paint, glass, and video.

GRAPHITE CO-HEADS SHARI WEI SEY YANG VIOLET TREADWELL HULL

READERS ANNIE LI

MALAYA CONUI

AUDREY HARRISON

MING CHEN

AVERY COLLINS-BYRD

NAVYA DUGGIRALA

AYUSH VARADHAN

NKOSI NESMITH-NELSON

BRADLEY BELL

QUINN ATCHINSON

DODI SHEPARD

RACHEL LEE

EVAN IBARRA

ROWAN O’BRYAN

HOLLAND FOX

ROXY WILLS

JOHN JACHO

SOFIA SANTOS

JUDE VALLETTE

SONJA COOPER

KARINA REMER

SONNY GAGNIER

LAILA ALDERSON

SOPHIE LATTU

LAURYN VERSOZA

STARKEY FOSSGREEN

LILAH SNIDERMAN

TOBY BRITTON

LIV SANDFORD

TOM CHAI SOSNIK

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