Angela Gram is a painter, writer, and educator living and working in New Jersey.  She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.  Angela has been accepted as an artist in residence by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny France and by the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary in NJ.  Her work has been shown at Forbes Gallery, Mark Miller gallery, Sotheby’s, Sloan Fine Art, Art Southhampton, the University of Miami, and other venues throughout the east coast.  Her work exists in many private collections and has recently been published by Rizzoli press in “The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture” a book showcasing figurative art by established and emerging artists.

Uri Dotan, a multimedia artist, received his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York. Uri Dotan explores and works with many different media of art, such as photography, digital prints, paintings, and videos (2D and 3D). 

His solo exhibitions include: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Permanent Video Sculpture Cinematheque Tel-Aviv, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery New York. Group shows: Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, Tel-Aviv,The Museum of The Future. Linz, Austria.

Uri Dotan’s work explores themes such as human identity, public and private spaces, and both natural and Urban landscapes.

Ekaterina has started her art education in a Russian art school in Siberia, and has developed her style at the Art Students League of New York after moving to the US. Mainly a large scale watercolorist, Ekaterina’s main interest is an exploration of the cosmos, it’s influence on human beings and vise versa how human influence on the cosmos around us. She says, “Living on the planet Earth, taking our place on it, being occupied with our daily routine is our destiny as human beings. Each of us is just a little part of the Universe, so versatile and limitless. I would like to understand our place in it, our triviality in the universal and our significance in the planetary scale.”

During the ESKFF studio residency program Ekaterina is working on a set of large paintings that implement interactive electronics. By using various sensors and programming the behavior of an illumination of the artworks, Ekaterina wants to express the idea that everything is in human hands, and we can influence the environment in a better way. By activating the art pieces through your motion or sound while approaching the piece you will in a way influence on the environment created by the artist.

Ekaterina’s future goals include collaborations with scientists, musicians and engineers.

Born in Pasadena, California to Armenian parents of Middle Eastern descent, traditions of craftsmanship were a birthright. My work is created in homage to a maternal legacy as a motherless daughter. My mother, Anahid, and paternal Grandmother Baydzar, and I shared love of craft. A couture dressmaker in Lebanon, Anahid drew designs, and impeccably created patterns and garments, adhering to traditions of couture dressmaking. Baydzar, a widow Aleppo, Syria, with 5 children, supported them with her craft of making extraordinary crocheted lace as a masterful artisan. These women’s’ influence through their love of their respective crafts’ is an eternal source of inspiration. Narrative elements of form and content throughout my artistic oeuvre expose these and other issues of maternity with irony with whimsy, also referencing fashion and surrealism of the mid 20th century.

I received my BFA from California College of the Arts (with high distinction, 1995), and an MFA from Pratt Institute (1998). My work has been exhibited bi-coastally and abroad, and included in private collections. Residency awards include LMCC’s World Views Residency Program (1999/2000) and the Bronx Museum of the Arts Artist in the Marketplace Program (2000). As a recipient for the Artslink grant, I was in a residency in Yerevan, Armenia (2001), and additionally participated in exhibitions there in 2000 and 2002. I received an emergency grant from New York Foundation for the Arts (2012) after Hurricane Sandy floodwater decimated my studio and art in W. Chelsea. Currently, I am participating artist in the Eileen S Kaminsky Foundation in Jersey City through November 24, 2014.

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