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Andrea Bonin
Born 1986 in Temple, Texas
Andrea Bonin makes sculptures and assemblage using plaster, wax, clay, and found material. Having grown up in a creative
household (her mother a painter and father a musician), Andrea experienced working on projects and expressing herself
artistically as the norm from an early age. Her work deals with domesticity and nostalgia, and is essentially about finding
reverence in the everyday. Her process is very much about experimentation, gesture and material. Right now she is working
on a series of drawings that mimic patterns found in wrapping paper and newspaper advertisements. She’s interested in
the notion of “holiday” and has a growing collection of ornaments, tinsel and old, faded party favors. Going forward, she’s
interested in bringing some expressive and performative elements into her work relating to her former years as a dancer.
www.andreabonin.com
Sean Paul Gallegos
Born 1976 on Earth, North America
For Sean Paul Gallegos being an artist is not a choice, it just is. “The beauty of being an artist at this point in time is the option
to be interdisciplinary,” says an artist who 10 years ago would get schooled that he needed to focus on one medium. “Sculpture
is what sells and is exciting to create, but Performance is still in my heart.” Sean currently works out of his living room. His bath
tub doubles as a slop sink and his queen size bed makes for a nice cutting table or work bench at times. Currently, he’s working
on “Recovering my roots and having the will to challenge what is damaging in this world.” Ultimately through his work he hopes
to open eyes and hearts. He also plans to have fun working, forget about the market and create more reasons to travel.
www.seanpaulgallegos.com
Rebecca Goyette
Born 1992 in Provincetown, Massachusetts
For a long time Rebecca has been drawing, play acting, reading, and nerding out on all things related to art and sex. Her videos
are a balancing act of multiple elements including sculpture, sound, image and performance. Her work relates to her “desire"
to work with others and…fascination with all things tactile/sensory.” Her current body of work focuses on Lobsta Sex, using
lobster mating rituals (in which female lobsters box down a mate and squirt aphrodisiac drugs out of her forehead) as a point of
departure. Her greatest artistic challenge? The “thin membrane between the fantasy world I construct, inhabit and play in with
others and my everyday life. Drama can erupt. Desire is complex.” Her upcoming work explores asexual love between a Blue
Lobsta burlesque singer and a man who dresses in 1600’s Puritan clothing all the time shot in a seaside town in New England.
www.rebogallery.com
Fred Gutzeit
Born 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio
Fred Gutzeit’s elementary school principal told his mother that Fred should have art lessons. Years later he’s a full-fledged
painter working in acrylic on canvas and watercolor on paper. Incorporating digital prints and photography into his painting is
also part of his practice. Fred’s work is about finding the unexpected. Says the artist of his work, “I’d like to take your eyes for a
joyride.” Since 1970, Fred has worked from his studio on the Bowery and currently his greatest challenge is pulling together the
various ideas comprising the last 50 years worth of his sketchbook. He’s currently working through an idea called “SigNature,”
which involves six large paintings and dozens of small watercolors and acrylic panels. He’s also planning to do an outdoor wall
billboard-installation. After that he’ll continue to sort through old sketchbook ideas and work them out in permanent sculptural form.
www.fredgutzeit.com
Phoenix Lindsey-Hall Born 1982 in Athens, Georgia
Involved from a young age with social justice and humanitarian issues, Phoenix’s work encompasses the “poetry that cannot
be expressed through traditional campaign field-work or fundraising pitches.” Building her projects from research and hard
numbers, her work ultimately makes a departure into “obscurity, expression and emotions.” Having worked with photography
for many years, her current work is more sculptural. Themes Phoenix has engaged in her practice include queer iconography,
hate crimes, war and foreclosures. Her most recent body of work, After Kempf, is an exploration of l.g.b.t hate crimes. Using
mixed media - including ceramic, concrete, and found materials - Phoenix transforms everyday objects that have been used as
weapons in specific hate crime cases. Phoenix is currently Artist-in-Residence at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ.
www.phoenixlindseyhall.com
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