ARTIST’S BRIEF BIOS REBECCA ALOISIO has been exploring the medium of collage and paint for the past several years. She employs a variety of technology along with traditional methods, using a mix of scanners, films, presses, screens, printers, and paints. Aloisio received her MFA from Syracuse University and currently teaches in the College of Art and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant and has had solo exhibitions at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo NY, and the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn NY and received the 2019
Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship.
PATTI CAPALDI’S hybrid practice includes print-media, multiples, installation, artists’
books and photo-based imagery. Exhibition venues include the Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Nylon Gallery, London, Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, The University of RI, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, and most recently the Johnson Museum, Cornell University and the Michigan State University Kresge Gallery. Her work is instated in the flat-file viewing program at Pierogi Gallery, NYC and Caroll & Sons Gallery, Boston. Capaldi is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation Award (works on paper/multiples) and a recipient of a Gottlieb Foundation Grant along with artist residency grants from the MacDowell Corporation, the Millay Foundation, the Banff Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, AIR Program, Vienna, Austria, the Jentel Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany. Capaldi received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. She teaches art and design at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. She has an upcoming group show at the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY. JENNIFER PAIGE COHEN lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown in
solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; The Pit, Los Angeles; Salon 94, New York; and White Columns, New York. Group exhibitions include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; Marinaro Gallery, New York; Rachel Uffner, New York; Regina Rex, New York; September Gallery, Hudson, New York; The Elizabeth Foundation, New York and Kate MacGarry, London among others. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe/Walentas Space Program, Civitella Ranieri and was an artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation in 2015. In 2017 she was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and received the 2019 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship. She has an MFA from Yale University and is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. MELINDA LASZCZYNSKI is an interdisciplinary artist working from a painting and collage
background. She received her MFA from the University of Houston. Laszczynski often uses found materials and objects, like lenticular prints, and is partial to the shiny, bright, and absurd. Her studio practice is playful, tactile, and reflective of contemporary experiences. She currently lives and works in Houston, Texas and was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Laszczynski is represented by Galleri Urbane in Dallas. FABIAN MARCACCIO work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can
survive in the digital age.He has used printmaking and transfer techniques to make paintings and became well know in the 1990s for his sculptural manipulations of the two-dimensional surface of canvas. More recently, he has infused his painting process with digital and industrial techniques. The results are environmental works, animations, and “Paintants” that combine digitally manipulated imagery, sculptural forms, and three dimensionally painted surfaces. Fabian Marcaccio was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1963. He lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Major solo exhibitions include “Paintant Stories” Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro (2014), “Some USA Stories” Krefeld Kunstmuseen, Krefeld Germany (2012), “The Structural Canvas Paintants,” Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg Germany (2012) and “From Altered Paintings to Paintants,” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2004). Major group exhibitions include “Summer Projects,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2002), Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002) and the 44th Biennial of Contemporary American painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (1995). Works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, MOMA, Blanton Museum of Art, Miami Museum of Art (MAM), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), among others.
PAUL O’KEEFE born in Dublin, Ireland in 1957, O’Keeffe attended St. Martin’s School
of Art, London and the National College of Art and Design Dublin. He subsequently studied at UCLA through a Fulbright Travel Scholarship, where he received an MFA in 1981. A professor emeritus at Kent State University, O’Keeffe currently lives and works in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. O’Keeffe has had solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Dublin and London, including at White Columns, NY; Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Akron Art Museum, OH, Dorsky Projects, NY; among others. His work is in public and private collections including The Arts Council of Ireland; Bayer USA, Pittsburgh; Progressive Insurance, Cleveland; Kaiser Permanante, Cleveland and the Cleveland Public Library. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including a 2019 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Award, which the Ohio Arts Council has given him on twelve previous occasions. In 2017, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He has also received an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Ford Foundation grant and awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. BRET SHIRLEY is interested in the value of objects as they lie both within and outside of the traditional and often elite environments of art markets and luxury goods. through the creation of facsimiles of objects of value and desire. He hopes to bring in to question the functional use value of luxury goods and associated social statuses. The use of basic industrial minerals to approximate gemstones and rare minerals, high end automotive paints and the traditionally stigmatized gold and silver leaf fill in for the glossy eye catching pieces flooding art markets and design stores alike. Brett lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. SARAH SUTTON is a painter based in the Ithaca area of NY. Her work has been shown
in Europe and across the United States. She attended the Millay Colony artist residency, Sante Fe Art Institute residency funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has an upcoming residency at Yaddo and a solo exhibition at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY.