Ian Burnley (born 1985, New York) works primarily in video and 16mm film. He is interested in the methods by which art can both inform ideas and question misconceptions. His pieces often combine aspects of drawing, collage, performance and film. He is interested in what we see, how we understand, and the meaning of what we do or do not retain. Ian approaches work in a very interdisciplinary way, incorporating methods and materials from a variety of sources. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science And Art in 2008. *Untitled (After-Image Video #2) *consists of a series of collages made from gouache and cut paper, then recorded as moving images, to produce an animation. Intense color generates “after-images” that conjure up a visceral experience.

I started my company with a heat press machine in my old apartment in the East Village 10 years ago. Since then the business expanded to a 4color 4station printing press in my garage at home in Queens. In January 2011 we aquired Papa B Studios which was a current occupant of studio B-15. Trident Tees and Designs now offers up to six color printing on state of the art equipment. From tee shirts, athletic wear, glass, plastic, wood and more depending on the needs of our customers.

As we continue to grow, passion pride and a caring spirit resonate throughout Trident tees & Designs for the products we produce, but most importantly...For our customers. For the next year we are striving to become an environmentally friendly shop with soy based cleaning and printing products.

I have always been intrigued and influenced by patterns and imagery that emerge through a process of demolition and decay. In turn, my paintings have been informed subconsciously by an industrial vocabulary.

Painting on stretched canvas and grouping paintings together to form singular works enabled me to explore various juxtapositions of form and pattern. Aerial views of city streets, ancient writing and mosaic are a particular interest of mine. In my painting, I hope to excavate the structure of forms, pulling away their many layers to expose their fundamental elements and detritus.

In various works I have grouped paintings adjacent to one another in a mosaic-like motif exemplifying a mode inherent in the ancient traditions of Mediterranean and indigenous design; both are complex and simple and connote and connect the beautiful and the practical. Ancient ruins, decayed frescoes and modern graffiti have all influenced my work.

Jared Friedman is a graphic designer and screen printer who has run Econo Graphics in The Morgan Fine Arts & Film Center for the last several years. He prints everything from t-shirts to posters to fine art, for a wide variety of clients from local small businesses to internationally recognized artists, in addition to his own work.

Graduating from University in 1999 with a degree in Art History, Camilla moved to London for a career in the fashion industry. After working as a fashion publicist for five years, she brought her very first jewelry collection to Portobello Market in London. Her Art History degree imbued her with a great sense of the past, as well as a strong aesthetic to re-work the old in a fresh, modern way. The signature camilla james aesthetic combines industrial and vintage components with softer elements such as silk and crystals, giving camilla james jewelry the unexpected and modern look for which it is now known. Soon after its introduction on the streets of London, the line was picked up in boutiques across the states, the U.K and Asia, and continues to gain a rapidly growing international following today. Camilla James currently sells in Bergdorf Goodman, Henri Bendel and Harvey Nichols.

In my work, lines of action help me generate drawing intuitively as well as through shapes and patterns found in many walks of life and cultures. Whether this process emerges from an obsessive compulsive disorder is a legitimate question. Ultimately, though, my goal is to relax viewers and to provoke in them an almost hypnotic state through the explorations of multiple, interconnected forms.

Fresh. Bold. Engaging. These words often come to mind upon viewing the artwork of Pop Artist Ed Heck. One is immediately disarmed by the naïve charm of these brightly colored works on paper and canvas.

Ed Heck’s enigmatic canvases were first exhibited in New York City in 1999 and were an instant hit. The viewer response was overwhelming. Reactions ranged from surprised appreciation to pure delight.

Ed Heck’s artwork appeals to a varied audience, from fine art newcomers to serious collectors. His eclectic style combines animation like subject matter with an evocative use of color, coupling a wry sense of humor with generous doses of irony. His images lead us into a place uniquely Heck, filled with weird and wonderful characters, odd landscapes and a quirky visual point of view, quite unlike anything else we’ve seen before.

Welcome to the world of Ed Heck!

I’m interested in synthesizing two traditions in art – a perceptual approach to painting and a surrealist relationship to subject matter. I paint directly from life, and am obsessed with getting the color and temperature of a particular time of day and place. That precision in tone “fixes” the image in time and makes one moment a monumental event. Setting up my still lifes is a bit like the automatic writing of the surrealists: disparate objects seem to arrange themselves. Sometimes I’m somewhat in control of the ensuing narratives, but often the original intentions are absorbed in a larger mystery. I want my paintings and drawings to have the vivid reality of an irrational dream.

A graduate of the Yale School of Art, I have exhibited my work throughout the United States, with solo exhibitions in New York City and Houston. Among the grants and awards I’ve received are an Elizabeth Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, scholarships to Yale, the Skowhegan School and the New York Studio School.

Kim Holleman’s art addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about perfect form. She examines how the forms used in the architectural reality of our world connect to our ideas about the natural environment, the sublime and the mundane, and our relationship to conceptual and physical space.

Holleman co-opts found physical forms and changes them physically with new matter, created and found. In blending art, science, eco-engineering and architecture; she seeks to highlight issues and provide solutions, however meaningful, absurd, insightful, practical, or visionary.

Kim’s most notable work, Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park, featured in the METRO, Next American City, The NY Times, Village Voice, L Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail, will be parked out front and open for viewing at The Open Studios, don’t miss it! Kim will also have her vintage Playable Landscapes installation on view inside her studio along with new work created for her upcoming solo show at Work Gallery Opening the weekend of June 3rd, 2011.

Steve Keister is a sculptor and ceramicist. He has exhibited extensively since the 1970’s, including the 1981 Whitney Biennial, and solo exhibitions at the Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, BlumHelman Gallery, New York, and Feature Inc., New York. He has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2000. His work is included in many museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Jesse Langille graduated with a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. His work develops a unique stenciling process that balances both deliberation and chance in the measured application and removal of abstract shapes to explore depth, motion, color, and form in two-dimensional space. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The urban landscapes depicted in my large-scale photographs are partially obstructed by foreground objects such as walls or fences. The barriers act like veils that drape, surround, separate, distort, and conceal in a manner thatboth perplexes and seduces the viewer. The barriers, however, are never completely opaque or impenetrable. We are invited to peek into and look beyond the holes, gaps, tears, and openings in the foreground in order to view fragments of urban landscapes.

Although essentially a self-taught artist, Mr. May holds degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Pennsylvania where he studied painting with George Rickey, and Neil Welliver. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome where he presented a one-man show of paintings and drawings at the completion of his fellowship. In the spring of 2009 he had a solo show at Art 101 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

After playing drums for the punk band “Lunachicks” and touring the world, then working as a model maker for ads like “Absolute Vodka” and the “Dairy Queen Chocolate River”, then making architectural models for Frank Gehry, Ellis Island and the Brooklyn Botanical gardens, McCloskey Carpentry was started around the year 2000. One of the significant early jobs was to make a 24-foot-long bench for the Roebling Tea Room out of a pile of ceiling beams rescued from a dismantled local factory. After sanding through the layers of 100 years of dirt and grime, the colors of the vintage wood came through and the fascination of working with reclaimed wood was born. From there, McCloskey Carpentry started making coffee tables, benches, dining tables, shelving units, both custom and for sale and selling out of a local store called “Golden Calf” at 319 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg Brooklyn. It has since then expanded into making “slab, live edge” furniture and then also selling in Park Slope at “HomeBody Boutique” on Seventh Avenue and in Milford Pennsylvania at “Up River Home”. McCloskey Carpentry has enjoyed working with an eclectic client list from Gwen Stephani to David Johansen and other New Yorkers looking to support craftsmanship with sustainable local materials.

Cheryl Molnar is a collage and multimedia artist based in New York City. Since her childhood in suburban Long Island, she has been attuned to the tension between human progress and nature. Cheryl’s work finds similar development patterns in the mixed-use neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where the artist has lived and worked for the past ten years. During this time, real estate development, along with a fresh wave of gentrification, have significantly altered both the social fabric and the landscape of this formerly working-class enclave.

In 2000, Cheryl received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and in 2005, she received a Masters in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. In the spring, she will be participating in the Smack Mellon artist in residence program. Her work has also been exhibited in galleries across the country including, Carren Golden Fine Art in New York and White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. Her work is included in the Microsoft collection and the Cantor Fitzgerald collection.