clare hawkinson
ig - @clarehawkinson
“I am a 21 year old interdisciplinary visual artist studying textiles, painting, and literary arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. Within my visual arts practice, I am interested in investigating the unknown memories and histories innate to found materials. Within this investigation I see the potential to visually form inventive narratives that respond faithfully and joyfully to materials. In addition to utilizing unknown found and collected objects, I work with specific collections of materials that have been used and discarded by myself and my family members. I ultimately aim to contextualize and structure these collections by my creative impulses: my fathers painting rags, my mother’s foam mattress, my grandfather’s used sandpaper, remnants from my grandmother’s button collection, the entirety of my own clothing tags. I find within each of these groupings unique potential for storytelling and world building that expand a material beyond its expected life and trajectory. The pieces I create become systems for memory preservation, sites that build inter-material and human-material relationships, and obsessive worlds for me to reside within.”
liam hincker
ig - @liamhincker
“ (On his piece Grand Pedophile) - IV tubes slowly pump urine into three snowballs. The more urine stored in each of the snowballs, the heavier they weigh. This accumulation of weight forces an increasing pressure down on the accompanied net beds, causing them to droop lower and lower until the snowballs are eventually punctured by spikes.”
yifei wu
ig - @y1fei_wu
“Born in Chengdu, China, 2005, Yifei Wu is a multidisciplinary artist. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, attending the University of California, Los Angeles BA Art program, minoring in Digital Humanities. Her works explore multi-media art through the lens of her feminist vision and her identity as a Chinese individual within the global landscape.”
nayeli romero
ig - @nayeliromer0
“Young women bear a unique cross — we live on the line between girlhood and womanhood, between overt sexuality and celibacy, between sobriety and addiction. Sexuality itself is a paradox for women: our bodies, while expected to exist as private, guarded goods, also exist as public currency, exaggerated by the juxtaposition between stigma and desperation among young adults surrounding sex. Ultimately, a young woman’s body is not her own; rather, property – of her parents, her partner, her friends, her religion, her culture. Coming of age, in this regard, means managing the concept of mind and body as separate entities, to metabolize yourself as the owner of your body rather than the occupant, and to ask yourself who is in control. The work itself implores the viewer to answer themselves the question: who owns your body? Who can buy or sell it? Are you in control?”
peter shpelfogel
ig - @petershpelfogel
calvin buddemeyer
ig - @calvin_.budd
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hawke hoegee
email - hawke.hoegee@gmail.com
“I can’t seem to remember the last time I ate a nicely toasted piece of toast, I always seem to forget about it in the toaster.
Who is my art for?
Queers, collectors, messy people, neat people, those with unusual allergies, and those who bite their cuticles. Anyone and everyone. Forget what you know and step back.”
spencer suhar
ig - @spencerbugs36
edmond vasquez
ig - @fuk.twin
“Based in Los Angeles. I’m someone who is playing into the human nature of using what's left over. I focus my work around my environment and strive to tell or show a story. My work shows culture, politics, and life, but my goal is to make work that can be referenced in the future. My practice isn’t focused on one thing; I never stick to just painting or just photography or drawing. I’m an artist. “
gabi benshimon
ig - @gabitha_shimon