Sam Pullin

Sam Pullin is a multimedia artist and Jersey City native. His work centers on the concepts of urban life, social decay, and the position of human beings in the broader universe.

Rodolfo Edwards

Medium: Acrylic on canvas 

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Born in Santiago, Chile

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Currently in New York, New York

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In my works is a sense of non-territoriality that seems to clash with the Maps, places, and patterns.

I wish to combine structures and expressionistic atmospheres. Representations of the organic wild nature and the human structure mind. 

www.rodolfoedwards.com

Carolyn Frazier

Carolyn Frazier, a New Jersey based artist, received her B.A from Rowan University in graphic design and her M.A. in painting from Kean University.  Carolyn has been a licensed art educator for 19 years in the Jersey City Arts H.S. program, a nationally recognized art conservatory program. Carolyn is also co-founder of Sol Studio, a high school pre-college summer art residency program for underserved students. She has received professional recognition for outstanding teaching from the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and from the National Foundation for the Advancements of the Arts. In 2017, Carolyn and her National Art Honor Society students worked, in collaboration with the Books and Beyond USA literacy project, to create and publish a preschool ABC book, Under One Moon, Volume 2, distributed to hundreds of Rwandan school children. Currently, Carolyn is an Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Resident creating a new series of acrylics focused around her struggle with Endometriosis.

In 2006, Carolyn received life saving surgery for Stage 4 Endometriosis, an often misdiagnosed and misunderstood disease that affects 1 in every 10 females yearly in the U.S and nearly 176 million females worldwide.  In her recent series titled “Facing My Life. Period” Carolyn confronts the physical and psychological factors associated with her chronic pain. These abstract acrylics reflect on a myriad of emotions associated with living with Endo - from fear and anger; insecurity and anxiety; and finally, determination and acceptance. Pulling inspiration from personal experiences as well as from those of her Endo sisters and using a build up of textures, colors and lines, Carolyn visually represents the intrusive beautiful roots that endometriosis has permanently left on her body’s landscape.  In this series of work she is on a journey to discover her artistic voice.

“ Providing my students with meaningful experiences helps them see how their efforts and talents can be shared to promote and inspire good in the world. For many of them, life is particularly challenging. Helping them find ways to overcome these challenges pushes them to continuously move forward, to find ways to make life’s lemonade out of life’s lemons. Guiding them in positive directions with positive goals to focus on and strive towards, they are given a means to cope and overcome. It is important to pause, look more closely and carefully at the world and be mindful.”- Carolyn Frazier

Cheryl Gross

Medium; Abstractgraphic-narrativeism, Ballpoint, India ink, water based mixed media on paper

Born in Brooklyn, NY

Currently in Jersey City, NJ

Professor at Pratt Institute, writer, illustrator, painter and motion artist.

http://www.cmgross.com/

Chuck Tisa

Chuck Tisa graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. His awards include, the Philadelphia Mayors Award for Artistic Achievement, the Cresson Traveling Scholarship to Europe, the Alexander Award for Painting, and the Hewlett Packard Prize for Painting. His recent group exhibitions include, “Psychic Dream Girls” at the Spring/Break Art Show in Manhattan NY, “Stone Cold Nasty” at Orgy Park Gallery in Brooklyn NY, “Collect Hudson” at the Dineen Hull Gallery in Jersey City NJ, and “The Philadelphia Story” at the Asheville Museum at Pack Place, Asheville, NC. He is the co-founder of “The Parlour Bushwick” an alternative art space in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY.