Anton Ginsburg
Anton Ginzburg, born in St. Petersburg, is a New York-based artist and educator whose practice combines painting, sculpture, moving image, and architectural collaborations. His work investigates historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation, and modernist form.
Ginzburg received his MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, and PhD from Middlesex University, London. In 2021, he was a research fellow at the Schaufler Lab at the Technical University of Dresden, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Creative Labor. He currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute's graduate program (MFA) and The New School, Parsons (BFA) . His academic engagement includes visiting artist and lecturer positions at prestigious institutions including Columbia University (GSAPP), University of Pennsylvania, School of Visual Arts, Technical University Dresden, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Lethbridge, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Goethe Institute.
His work has achieved significant international recognition, with exhibitions at the 54th and 59th Venice Biennales, the Blaffer Art Museum (University of Houston), Contemporary Calgary (Canada), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns (New York), Lille 3000 (Euralille, France), and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore) among others. Ginzburg's films have been featured at major venues and festivals including the Whitechapel Gallery (London), Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Soluna), Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Dresden Film Festival, and New York Film Festival/Projections.
Naudline Pierre
Naudline Pierre’s paintings draw from fantasy and iconography to conjure alternate worlds. Pierre’s work situates personal mythology and transcendent intimacy alongside canonical narratives of devotion. Her works continue the art-historical tradition of portraying encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly, extending this lineage of image-making by injecting the conventions of her discipline with ephemerality and ambiguity. Referencing the Renaissance format of the altar triptych, for example, or incorporating flattened space and forced perspective, she reconfigures formal systems from the past to generate new possible futures grounded in the here and now.
Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA) received an M.F.A. from New York Academy of Art and a B.F.A. from Andrews University. She has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2023) and the Dallas Museum of Art (2021). Pierre participated in the 2019–2020 Studio Museum’s Artist Residency and, as a culmination of the program, exhibited in a three-person exhibition at MoMA PS1. Pierre has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Prospect.5 New Orleans, LA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Dean Collection, Macedon, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; and the CC Foundation, Shanghai, China. Pierre lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Walter Price
Walter Price's paintings and drawings tread the line between figuration and abstraction, creating interior worlds that hover on the brink of legibility. Born in Macon, Georgia, Price served in the U.S. Navy enroute to art school, where he honed his own idiosyncratic pictorial language. Darby English has remarked on Price’s “penchant for punchy color: weighted with value and density.” As English notes, this color “approaches in sheets or lands with a thud, it bewilders, and it is potent exactly because it talks more to the body and imagination than to the head."
Continuing in the tradition of artists such as Jacob Lawrence and Henry Taylor, Price creates imagery that is figurative and abstract, individual and collective. Racial and ideological binaries are overturned as well, decoupled from their mainstream signifiers; for English, Price moves toward “claiming and combining cultural differences an otherwise inclined artist would forfeit and separate.” Transgressing bounded ideas of representation, Price’s combinatory logic instead challenges the strictures of visual communication and cultural consciousness, the relationship between what we see and what we know. In the end, Price aims for something more visceral: art that, in his words, “feels funky.”
Walter Price lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2025; 2022; 2020); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2024); Camden Art Centre, London (2021); Aspen Art Museum (2019); MoMA PS1, New York (2018); and KoĢlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018). Price was included in MONUMENTS at LA MOCA (2026), and in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. His work is held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate, London; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; and Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, among others.
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Deborah Dancy
Deborah Dancy’s paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously.
Although her art is thoroughly abstract, Dancy’s paintings, drawings, and works in other mediums are intimately bound to the world of concrete objects and the ephemeral perceptions and feelings of everyday life. On her website (deborahdancy.com), she comments on her fascination with “the poetic terrain of the incomplete, the fragment, the ruin and residue of ‘almost was,’ and ‘might become’” that she’s encountered in the zone between abstraction and representation.
Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon Gallery, Denver, and Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, represent her work.
Timo Kuzme
Timo Kuzme is a New York-based artist, writer, and professor whose interdisciplinary practice bridges painting, philosophy, and material experimentation, with a focus on gender, embodiment, and sensation. A faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Parsons/The New School, their research explores visual culture, identity, and affect theory through material and perceptual inquiry. Kuzme’s work has been featured in exhibitions, publications, and academic forums, including the ELIA Biennial in Helsinki, Finland, and the Brooklyn Museum. Their writing, including Jesus is in the Pizza, Just Not How You Saw It: A New Ontological Understanding, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, engages the intersections of art, theory, and embodied experience. With a background in couture and fiber arts, they approach material as a site of affective transformation. Kuzme holds degrees from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA and Pratt Institute.
Antoinette Myers-Perry
Antoinette Myers Perry (aka Dr. T; MFA ‘24) is a bicoastal multimedia, multidisciplinary artist and painter, whose semi-figurative/semi-abstract works explore themes of (re)memory, genealogy, ancestry, and home(coming/going). Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Peale Museum (Baltimore, MD), the 2024 Lagos Biennial (Lagos, Nigeria), the Oregon State Capitol, and Portland City Hall. Solo exhibitions include “sometimes you just have to pick the cotton and smile” at Spare Room Gallery (Baltimore, MD). A former K-12 teacher and higher education administrator, Dr. T holds a BA in Politics & Latin American Studies from Scripps College; an MA in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies from Stanford University; an EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California; and an MFA in Painting from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at (MICA). She is currently a 2024-2025 AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow of Creative and Critical Studies at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA.
Mary Smith
Mary Smith was born in Annapolis, Maryland and currently lives and works in Baltimore. She grew up a child of the Maryland Renaissance Festival, surrounded by artisans, craftsmen, and performers. She has traveled and lived throughout Europe, primarily in France where she received her BFA at Paris College of Art in 2019. She achieved her MFA at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in 2023.
Mary Smith has received the 2023 Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Fellowship, Baltimore, and the 2021 Merit Scholarship Award from the LeRoy E Hoffberger School of Painting.
Her solo shows include GroundWork at Arnold’s Gallery, Baltimore, in 2024; SPACEARRANGE at Gateway Gallery, Baltimore, in 2023; Night Walks at
Pattern Interrupt Gallery, Baltimore in 2020; and Observation 1 at the Bastille Design Center, Paris, France in 2019.
Her work has been included in group shows at Meyers Briggs Gallery, Baltimore; Arnold’s Gallery; Maurice Projects, Baltimore; The Peale Museum, Baltimore, among others.
Artist Statement:
Shapes define our physical world. I am interested in abstract shape experimentation as a way to access deep feeling, memory, and meditation. To create shapes I use natural and local materials including earth, concrete, hand-made pigments, debris, and garbage. The forms of the shapes are created intuitionally, from dreams and memory. The shapes can be viewed as landscapes, figures, and/or objects.
I gather raw materials from the pavements and earth of Baltimore into a repository of pigments, surfaces, and tools to create paintings and drawings inherently attached to the locations they are made. This process includes grinding stones into dust as pigment to build new forms.
The surfaces are worked and reworked to develop stimulating, rough surfaces by rubbing, smearing, smashing, scraping, and then crusting. The color, texture, weight, and pattern is determined by the dirt and time used to generate them.