Josh Cabrido is a 19 year-old video artist and writer of poetry and short stories. His greatest fear is that the people his poetry and short stories are about will discover his poetry and short stories are about them. One day he hopes to write something that’s totally a made up lie. Until then, he will continue to write only truth. He also creates live visual projections for his friend Erin Rioux’s music.
Marie Catalano recieved her BFA in Studio Art from NYU in May 2010 with concentrations in Sculpture and Photography. She has recently participated in Take Care of Yourself, a BFA thesis exhibition at the Rosenberg Gallery at NYU and helped organize My So-Called Life, an group show in the Commons Gallery at NYU for which she built and installed an above ground pool. She also acted in a BFA thesis film and has participated in various performances including her piece "Sleepover" at NYU Open Studios 2010 where she and her studio mate replicated a bedroom in the studio and watched movies all night. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Alex Casso
Tyler Considine
Violet Dennison was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on March 14, 1989. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Nick Etre
Sarah Faitell came to visual art by way of twigs and horses. She is a maker who tinkers, builds, draws, and sculpts objects. Currently, Faitell is studying and making work in Accra. Faitell will complete a BFA at NYU in 2012.
Alejandro Ghersi
Graham Hamilton
Dan Herschlein graduated with a BFA from NYU in 2010. In his spare time he sits in bookstores because they have the best public bathrooms and also digs clams and sands things for other people. He enjoys analog technology and physical sensations. He wants you to call him. (516) 780-3479. Leave a message and he will get back to you.
Eva Jäger is a German-American artist/designer and devotes her time to the study of form and function. Born in Holland, now New York based, Jäger is inspired by architecture in constant dialogue with the contemporary art world and the sciences. She believes in smart design that changes to incorporate extraordinary technology and diverse perspectives. Jäger’s work fluxes between the languages of fashion, design, and fine art.
Elizabeth Janoff was born and raised in Brooklyn. Janoff explores a variety of artistic mediums including sound, photography, and work on paper. She writes for Interview Magazine in addition to MAKESHIFT COLLECTIVE. She is currently located in Accra.
Alexandra Kleiman is a curator, writer, and art historian. Chicago-born, now NY based, Kleiman is currently working with both Independent Curators International and MAKESHIFT COLLECTIVE. Kleiman' pursues projects that redefine the role of the curator in contemporary society.
Bonnie McLoughlin is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work deals with concepts of life, death and human existence. Her drawings, paintings and installations reference childhood nostalgia and jaded reflections on American life. Bonnie is a founding member of the art collective Fresh Grown Local and will graduate from New York University in May 2011 with a BFA in Studio Art.
Olivia Murphy a NY based artist and writer working on living, reading and art making. Murphy’s work explores the imposed divide and potential for new modes of combination between the worlds of the literary and visual. She is currently receiving her BFA from NYU.
Semantha Norris was born in Los Angeles. She is now attending her final year at NYU where she studies global networks, development, and photography.
Rebecca O'Keefe, 21 years old, lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC. O'Keefe will graduate with a BFA from NYU, class of 2011. She was born in Albany, NY and raised in Delmar, NY and Antigua, Guatemala. O'Keefe explores split sense of self, social anxiety, and conceptualizing heartache and frustration within personal experience in to beauty, wit, and intelligence. She works mostly with the collage form, whether two-dimensional, sculptural, sound, or performance, to challenge the great myth of race and unpack the ever present traces of history in our lives.
Yair Oelbaum is mining new combinations from tired locales, just trying to do things the wrong way. He makes sticky and rigid things, and practically prays to glue. In 1973 a bible made of static followed Oelbaum home from work and stitched itself into his brain--he's been wet ever since. He has also recently developed the ability to make anything bleed. Oelbaum once lived in a hollow bush.
Cary Potter is an artist and writer who lives and works in New York City. She works mainly with drawing and poetry, exploring the concept of an American identity through the lens of history and personal experience. She is currently getting her B.F.A. from NYU.