Colm Dillane
Colm Dillane, born in 1991, is a NYC native and streetwear designer. Dillane is the founder of the clothing line KidSuper and opened up his first boutique in 2012 on 384 Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He has partnered with the underground rap scene in New York City, such as Beast Coast collective to create collections, as well as Converse for a handpainted sneaker. Most recently, his work was seen in
Vogue June 2015.
www.kidsuper.land
theMind (Zarif Wilder)
Wilder was born 1990 in Philadelphia and lives and works in Chicago. Wilder spent years working with a who’s who of Chicago’s finest as part of the production crew ThemPeople. theMIND is among the ‘Alternative R&B’ artists that have been gained attention over the past few years. He is more sonically related to British artists like Sampha, James Blake and Kwabs than his US peers dominating the pop charts. He describes his sound as ‘Rabbit Hole Music’, as something that his listeners can get lost in. "Summer Camp," captures his childhood, and the vivid, fond memories of the innocence from a camp he and his sisters attended one summer in Philadelphia. His music can be found on
SoundCloud.
Vincent Katz
Vincent Katz was born in Manhattan in 1960. Surrounded by poets and painters from an early age, he went on to become a poet, translator, art critic and curator. Author of eight books of poetry, several of which were published in collaboration with artists such as Rudy Burckhardt and Alex Katz. He also has curated exhibitions of the work of Rudy Burckhardt for IVAM in Valencia, Spain and the Grey Art Gallery in New York. He wrote the essay and interview for the first study of Francesco Clemente's portraits and is the editor and one of the authors of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art. Katz’s most recent book of poems,
Swimming Home (Nightboat Books) was published in May 2015.
Sue Kwon
Sue Kwon began her career at the
Village Voice, later shooting primary hip-hop artists for record labels. She has captured iconic moments in music history such as Biggie celebrating the completion of his album a few months before his death, and early portraits of Jay Z and Kanye West in New York. As an established commercial photographer, Kwon travels over the globe shooting campaigns and films. Her book of 20 years of phtography, "Sue Kwon: Street Level New York Photo's 1987-2007," was published by Testify Books in 2009. Her website is
www.suekwon.com.
Peggy Preheim
Peggy Preheim’s body of work includes drawings, photography, and sculpture and explores the personal history of the artist to other narratives relating to nature and the human experience. Born in 1963 in Yankton, South Dakota, Preheim studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design before moving to New York. From 2008 to 2010, Preheim's work was the subject of a traveling museum exhibition "Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; traveling to Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She is represented by
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, and works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Since the start of her career, her work has maintained a feminist lens, focusing on the public sphere and engaging in various social issues. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary, and a retrospective of her work has been shown internationally. Rosler works are currently on view at “Martha Rosler: Below The Surface,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA and “Martha Rosler: If You Lived Here Still” and the project “Housing Is a Human Right,” The New Foundation Seattle, WA, 2016. Rosler's website is
www.martharosler.net.
Sue Webster
With a degree in sculpture and performance art from the San Francisco Art Institute, Sally Webster appeared in the music scene as a founding member of the punk band the Mutants (1977–1986). She made appearances in film and video from the late ’70s and early ’80s, such as in the "Cramps / Mutants, Napa State Hospital" (1978). In 2009, Webster collaborated on a multi-media installation “Light Show” at Pierogi's The Boiler in Williamsburg. Recent exhibitions include “Bad Presidents Make Good Art,” D&F Contemporary. NYC, New York (2015); “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” New Museum NYC, New York (2013); “Dream Out,” Showroom, NYC, New York (2010). Sally Webster's work can be viewed at www.sallywebsterart.com.
