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Visual Artists
Arlene Finger
My style is mainly Impressionistic. I have also been influenced by the English Symbolists and the Russian Avant-garde. My color palette varies from light to dark. The two-dimensional works on paper use pastel, pencil, ink and charcoal to depict composition. The composition mainly consists of still life to figurative. At this particular point I have been experimenting with architectural renderings.
Venue: YWCA
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Elke Reva Sudin
I am a visual artist who draws inspiration from urban culture and my Jewish heritage. I founded Jewish Art Now with the aim to redefine 21st century art for the Jewish community, and received critical acclaim for her “Hipsters and Hassids” painting series. The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York has collected her work, and she has exhibited at the Eden Fine Art Gallery, Vivant Art Collection, Greenstein Gallery, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, Le Salon D’Art, and the Madden Museum in Colorado, among others.
Venue: YWCA
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Callie Hirsch
The nature of womanhood is an experience shared collectively throughout the world among all women regardless of our economic status or geographic location. Women experience love, endure the physical manifestation of our bodies as they prepare for childbirth and nurture children. We aspire to beauty and crave affection through the physical, emotional and spiritual. While we may aesthetically look different and take separate actions to fulfill these life experiences; the expression of love, nurturance, passion, and compassion remain constant and shared throughout life’s journey of womanhood.
Venue: YWCA
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Gilbane Peck
Gilbane is an indoor and outdoor installation artist, with a focus in sculpted clay, wood, stone, metal, and integrated found object/ mixed media assemblage. He is also an accomplished musician, and has participated in the BoCoCa Arts Festival as both a visual artist and musician for several seasons. We at BoCoCa are excited to welcome him back once again!
Venue: Cleo's Palace
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Jennifer Pavlick
Untitled I focuses on the concepts of escapism, as well as the human and individual struggle to exist within oneself and within one’s environment. This video utilizes audio footage recorded from the eavesdropping of passing conversations that the artist transcribed, in addition to film footage attempting to gain sight into the windows of strangers’ apartments. In concentrating on the themes of surveillance and the everyday, Untitled I confronts the conflict between desiring privacy, and incidentally allowing so many people to have access to one’s everyday life.
Venue: YWCA
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Leila Byron - un'style'dDESIGNS
I mainly specialize in graphic design, in particular typography and print design. My illustrations are very graphic orientated and, ironically, very raw. I gain a lot of influence from all aspects of art and fashion, as you can see by my subject matter (all models, fashion designers or musicians. I am heavily influenced by photographers such as Diana Arbus, Francesca Woodman and Terry Richardson where they portray their subject matter in a very naive and raw setting.
Venue: YWCA
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Loretta Yong
I have always loved animals and fantasy creatures, and I often wondered what would it be like if they were real. I chose to focus on creatures interacting with the urban environment using only pens and color pencils. I wanted the viewer to feel as if the creatures, whether they be octopi,deer-gazelles, or fish-pigeons, truly existed in the setting in which they are placed. This juxtaposition of a realistic setting and fantasy creatures is meant to jolt the viewer and make them feel as if this is almost a real scene they are witnessing in everyday life.
Venue: YWCA
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Rowan Shalit
Rowan Shalit is a 16-year-old photographer from Brooklyn, New York. She first studied pinhole photography at the Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts. Some of her work included 7 hour-long exposures using a camera made from a cookie tin. Since then, she has become more interested in portraiture using both digital and traditional darkroom techniques. This summer, she plans to extend her photographic exploration during a trip to Rwanda. She is a rising senior at Millennium High School in NYC.
Venue: YWCA
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Lisa DiFilippo
As both a mixed-media artist and arts educator, I strongly believe in community in its many forms. My Readymade Abstractionseries is a body of photographs of everyday objects in various countries around the world from unexpected points of view in an attempt to simultaneously eradicate and emphasize their cultural significance-- a visual metaphor of how different, yet similar, the lives of all people inhabiting planet Earth are.
Venue: YWCA
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Elisa Velazquez
I create soft textile sculptures and mixed media pieces that both honors and subverts traditional woman’s work. The pieces are a reflection on my bi-cultural Latina identity and what that means in today’s society. I explore the universal themes of love, lust, and sexuality. The duality of these themes and their cultural constructs are central to my work. I utilize materials that may be interpreted as toy-like and playful while imbuing a sense of seriousness and drama.
Venue: YWCA
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Aldo Garay
Since the early 1990’s, my work has involved the creation of conceptually-based sociopolitical photo characters. Photography gives me the means, a simpler and faster means, than painting. Photography provokes all of the relevant questions of representation, abstraction, dimension and method, the controversial and the provocative. Through the use of the camera, an artist can encapsulate the aesthetic problems of a century increasingly caught up in the fast-paced world of technology of industrial expansion.
Venue: YWCA
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