Andrew Woolbright
Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. The gallery is modeled on the artist-run Tenth-Street galleries of the 1950s and 1960s and also on later galleries like Orchard47 and Group Material. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large and critic at The Brooklyn Rail. Woolbright’s artistic practice drifts between painting, drawing, sculpture, and video to address the ways that desire is formed through feeds and the ironic contexts generated by screens. He has recently shown at Harkawik Gallery in Tribeca and Rachel Uffner Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Na Chainkua Reindorf
Na Chainkua Reindorf (b. 1991, Ghana) is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep interest in world-
building and mythmaking through the art of the masquerade. Upon imagining a fictional female
masquerade society, Reindorf’s art practice is currently focused on creating artworks ranging from
paintings and tapestries to sculptural installations which serve as referential visual lexicon for this
imagined world.
Inspired by personal experiences and exploring West African folklore and religious cosmologies,
Reindorf is interested in masquerading as an intervention through which guises and mutable
personalities can be used to explore deviancy and non-conformity.
Na Chainkua received an MFA from Cornell University and has exhibited internationally in
institutions across Africa, North America and Europe. In 2022, Reindorf was one of three artists
representing Ghana at the Venice Biennale.
Taha Heydari
b. 1986 in Tehran, Iran
Born to a religious family in Tehran, Iran during a time of war and upheaval, Taha Heydari makes paintings that engage with the ways in which ideology manifests in lived experience. A member of the generation that emerged following the 1978 Islamic Revolution, Heydari deploys various modes of mark-making as a way to reveal and deconstruct the binaries which shaped his identity: East and West, body and soul, past and future. Troubling the stability of the systems which produce and uphold these oppositions, his large-scale paintings are composed of a chaotic dance between machine-like grids and bodily gestures. Drawing from Iranian history and modern pop culture, his extensive digital archive serves as a point of departure for Heydari’s imaginative environments in which contradictory forces collide.
After spending the first twenty-eight years of his life in Iran and then moving to the United States, Heydari has closely observed the correlation of everyday mundanities and more palpably oppressive forces in the omnipresence of ideological order on both sides of the globe. As a way to perform a kind of autopsy on his own place within those systems, and on the larger social fabric itself, Heydari engages with the representation of rupture and conflict.
Taha Heydari received a BFA in Painting from the Art University of Tehran in 2010 and a diploma in painting from the School of Visual Arts in Tehran, Iran. He then received an MFA from LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. Heydari has participated in international solo exhibitions at Haines Gallery in San Francisco, CA; Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York, NY; and Ab-Anbar Gallery in Tehran, Iran. Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach. He received his first solo museum show at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His work has also been featured in several group exhibitions including The Armory Show and New York shows at Patrick Parrish Gallery and Kravets Wehby Gallery, and at Ab-Anbar Gallery in London and Lyles & King in NYC,. His work is currently on view in the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art..
Phoebe Helander
Phoebe Helander makes small-scale, closely observed paintings of everyday objects and the people close to her. She is also constantly making drawings and cartoons, including occasional contributions to The New Yorker's Daily Shouts. Helander received a BA from Hampshire college in 2011 and graduated with an MFA from Yale in 2019. She now lives and works in MA and Brooklyn, NY.
Angela Dufresne
Angela Dufresne is a painter and video artist originally from Connecticut, but raised in Olathe, Kansas. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work articulates non-paranoid, porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear, power and possession. Through painting, drawing and performative works, she wields heterotopic narratives that are nonhierarchical, joyous and polymorphous. She has exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, NY; the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME; the RISD Museum in Providence, RI; The National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; The Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York; the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, MO; Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY; The Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH; The Aldridge Museum in Ridgefield, CT; Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, NY; the Rose Museum in Waltham, MA; Mills College in Oakland, CA; and Minneapolis School of Art and Design among others.
Dufresne received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and won a Purchase Award at The National Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011 and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship in 1992. She won residencies at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, the Siena Art Institute and The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City (fall 2018), and she recently had a two-person show with Louis Fratino at Monya Rowe Gallery in NY (summer 2018) and a group show at A.P.T. Gallery in London (summer 2018). She will be included in a traveling exhibition curated by the Avett Brothers and Erik Fischl titled “Piece by Piece” spanning 2019–20. Her work is in the collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.
Lisa Corinne Davis
Lisa Corinne Davis is an abstract painter exploring themes of identity. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, and is in the collections of the National Museum of African American Art & Culture, Washington, DC, The Museum of Modern Art (artists books), the J. Paul Getty Museum, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Davis is the recipient of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, and four Artist Fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts. She is currently represented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery (San Francisco & New York), Miles McEnery (New York), and The Mayor Gallery (London). Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical. Davis is currently Professor of Art at Hunter College in New York.
Onyedika Chuke
Onyedika Chuke is an artist and archivist living and working in New York, analyzing social, cultural and political structures. His practice has been supported by venues such as The Drawing Center, SCAD Museum, The Shed, Sculpture Center and The American Academy in Rome, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC) Art Center on Governors Island, and Pioneer Works.
From January 2018-2019, Chuke served as New York City Public Artist in Residence (P.A.I.R), in the offices of Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and Department of Corrections (DOC) Rikers Island. His ongoing research was covered by various publications including Art Papers and Bomb Magazine.
After running his own art studio for 20 years, Onyedika Chuke founded Storage on the ideals of community, discovery, and connoisseurship. Drawing from his decade of experience at Susan Sheehan Gallery, dealing within the modern and postmodern secondary market, Chuke cultivates a canonical perspective through the gallery's activities.
Chuke is a graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2011).