Members List
All members names are listed alphabetically. To learn more about each member click on their name below. Please scroll down.
Bami Adedoyin, Brooklyn, NY
Mohd Fuad Arif, Malaysia
Megan Bisbee, Alfred, NY
Missy Carr, Washington, DC
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Lara Davis, Providence, RI
Cindy DeFelice, Brockport, NY
Ghen Dennis, Buffalo, NY
Leigh Ann Francis, New Brunswick, NJ
Chifumi Fujisawa, Mosumoto, Japan
Amy Goldberg, Rochester, NY
Bethany Goldpaugh Brown, Kingston, NY
Virva Hepolampi, Helsinki, Finland
James Holland, Southbury, CT and Rochester, NY
Kelly Jacobson, Kansas City, MO
Akil Kirlew, Brooklyn, NY
Caroline Koebel, Buffalo, NY
Jennifer Little, Rochester, NY
Edna Madera, Rochester, NY
Darin Martin, Oakland, CA
Tammy McGovern, Buffalo, NY
Colleen Vera Melisz, Buffalo/Rochester, NY
Toni Mosley, Auckland, New Zealand
Tomoya Murazumi, Kanazawa City, Japan
Akane Nakamori, Kanazawa City, Japan
Stephanie Nolasco, New York, NY
Natasha Pachano, Costa Rica
Warren Peace, Jersey City, NJ
Anjanel Dawn Pinet, Rochester, NY
Mima Simic, Croatia
Joan E. Stoltman, Buffalo, NY
Diane Teramana, Kingston, NY
Angela Tessier Kanazawa City, Japan
Andy Tetzlaff, Kanazawa City, Japan
Matthew Underwood, Boston, MA
Adam Weekley, Buffalo, NY
wolfgrrrl sometimes billijo, Rochester, NY
Walter Wright, Lowell, MA
Ami Yamasaki, Kanazawa City, Japan
Ojima Yukari, Kanazawa City, Japan
Karen Y. Zhang, Beijing, China |
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Deborah Jack
Multi-Media Artist
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These images are part of a large project entitled Brown Skin Girl. They are digital prints captured from video. These stills can be seen with and separate from the accompanying video. |
me/self Me/self is a play on the vernacular speech of the island of St. Martin and other islands within the Caribbean. It describes a certain kind of ownership of one’s being and actions. Of being unapologetic in taking up space and daring anyone to move you. Even though these images are subtle, their quietness pays homage to the silent resistance of women whose blood flows in my veins. They have created an outer circle of protection and an inner-space for nurturing the emergence of me/self. It is not a selfish space but a collective of me that becomes we. These self-portraits are a part of a coming of age. A coming to terms with my body and relating to its frailty and its strength. Allowing the viewer to see exactly what I want them to see. To define me for me and then to share what is discovered.
| Having spent her formative years growing up on the island of St. Martin, she considers herself a Caribbean artist. Not only in terms of geography but in terms of cultural/ spiritual location. Her current work deals with identity, trans-cultural existence and the effects of colonialism. Her focus is on constructing a history based on ancestral memory, in opposition to the hierarchical construction of Western dominated history. |
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Deborah uses a variety of media, such as video, painting and sound art/ poetry. In 1995 she represented the Netherlands Antilles at CARIFESTA VI in Trinidad & Tobago in the area of Visual Arts and Drama. In 2000 she represented St. Martin at CARIFESTA VII in the area of Literary Arts where she was one of the featured readers. In 1997 Deborah together with several cultural activists created AXUM Art Café. This venue became the nurturing ground and gathering place for the islands avant-garde musicians, poet, singers, dancers, visual artists and intellectuals. "The Rainy Season" is Deborah’s first published volume of poems. Her work has been published in the journals, "The Caribbean Writer" and "Calabash" and various Caribbean regional newspapers. She was a fellow at the Caribbean Writers Institute at the University of Miami, a recipient of a grant from the Prince Bernard Fund and OKSNA (Social Cultural Organization of the Netherlands Antilles) as well as a invited author at the Miami Book-fair International Deborah Jack completed her MFA at SUNY Buffalo, where she received several grants and fellowships, including the SUNY College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship and was a fellow of the 2002 International Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar. In 2003 she will present papers in England on the art of the Dutch Caribbean Diaspora and will perform a reading at the Studio Museum of Harlem. Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group shows in St. Martin, Tallahassee, Ukraine, Trinidad & Tobago, Germany, Finland, Buffalo and Rochester & Cuba.
2003- Artist in Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse NY
SOLO exh 2004- t/here, CEPA Passageway Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York untitled, CEPA Market Street, Buffalo, New York 2003- Imagined Spaces, Nannette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery, Philipsburg, St. Martin 2002- the blowing season, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, New York 2000- a/salt, a/salted, a/salting, Nannette Bearden Gallery, Philipsburg, St. Martin 1996- Innocence, Mosera Fine Arts Gallery, Philipsburg, St. Martin
GROUP shows 2004- The Melting: An Evolution of American Culture, Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, Fredonia, NY 2003- _Loading_, 1st International Exposition of Electronic Art, Morelia, Mexico t/here, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, Il Evolutionary Girls Club- Traveling exhibition: Mostumoto, Japan; Zagreb, Croatia; Budapest, Hungary V Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana Cuba, Jurors: Abel Casaus, Eduardo Molto, Jose Gomez, Fresquet, Lesbia Vent Dumois & Yoel Almaguer gender & generations, Philipsburg St. Maarten, Curators: Marianne de Tolentino, Vice-President of the International Art Critics Association
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