Racine Polycarpe (born in Jeremie, Haiti, 1991) was a visiting artist from Haiti. I am an emerging artist from the ghetto of Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 2006, I was adopted by my uncle, the well-known artist, Celeur Jean-Herard. I worked as his apprentice at his school, the Realm of the Arts and Minds. […]
Romel Jean Pierre (born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1993) was a visiting artist from Haiti. I always wanted to be a politician until December, 2009 when I discovered art during the first Ghetto Biennale, which was organized by the artists’ collective of Grand Rue called Atis Rezistans. I joined the youth arm of Atis-Rezistans, called Timoun […]
Claudel Casseus (born in Port-au-Prince, 1981) was a visiting artist from Haiti. I was raised in the ghetto neighborhood of Grand Rue, where art and creativity is a primary activity. Thanks to this, from a young age, I was able to cultivate the natural talent with which every human is born: Art. In 2008, I […]
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Using critical wit and collaborative co-creation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focussed on how photography and image-based […]
The rapid spread of urban life is now visible throughout the planet. In the last century the built environment has grown ever taller and denser and daily life is now physically framed through an architectural lens. Architectural frames create a layered, multi-faceted vision of the world around us. Edges of buildings, voids, windows, doors, power-lines […]
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School, I moved to San Francisco in 2000. I received a BFA in advertising from the Academy of Art University and worked for top agencies, including Venables Bell & Partners and Goodby Silverstein & Partners. After leaving advertising, I […]
I derive structure, material, and process for my multi-media work from uncanny visual circumstances in the terrain of our constructed environs. I am particularly interested in the arbitrary, yet seemingly composed moments that can occur at the fringes of the In-Between. I find comfort in this incidental formalism that suggests a collective consciousness and elegant […]
My works are influenced by my interest in modern mechanics and devices that we have become so reliant upon since the industrial and technological explosion over the last century, and even more so, the last few decades. These interests are manifested through kinetic sculpture and installations, which evoke a sense of play and humor, whilst […]
I enjoy seeing the naive passion with which we go about our daily endeavors. Everything is ad-hoc, a mash-up of desires, coincidences, and just-in-time decisions. As individuals we putter and stumble, and as a society we inch forward, dragged along by time as much as anything else. This slow movement, this clumsy fabrication, is my […]
Imin Yeh is an interdisciplinary project-based artist, working in sculpture, installation, participatory events, and print. The projects are reactions to the systems surrounding how objects are made and how objects are desired, valued, and consumed. The diversity of her practice is unified by a continual pushing at the boundaries of printmaking; a medium at the […]