B.A., California State University, Stanislaus -- Studio Art
Having been stripped of bodily/cognitive/emotional autonomy by
illnesses which interrupted his undergraduate studies,
Phillip Byrne utilizes the act of making as an opportunity to
play the role of ontological surgeon – placing his own
metaphysical body on the dissection table and exploring its
interior contents.
B.F.A., Universidad de Chile, Santiago -- Painting
Sofía del Pedregal was born in 1989 in Concepción, Chile. She is
an artist formerly based in Santiago, Chile. In 2013, she
obtained her BFA Visual Arts degree at Universidad de Chile.
Since 2010 she has participated in national and international
group exhibitions and has made three solo shows in Santiago,
Chile.
M.A., Maharishi University -- Studio ArtB.A., Maharishi University -- Art and Self DevelopmentB.A., University of California, Davis -- Women and Gender Studies
Morgan Flores is a Mexican-Japanese-European-American visual
artist from California, exploring themes related to
decolonization, the everyday, detribalized Indigenous identity,
and present-day relationships to land and the environment.
B.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Stout/Menomonie -- Studio Art (Ceramics)
Emily Gordon received her BFA in Studio Art Ceramics from
the University of Wisconsin-Stout in December of 2019. Her work
functions in a place of in-betweenness by weaving together
influences of painting, ceramics and performance art.
B.A., Sonoma State University -- Studio Art (Painting Emphasis)
Melanie Hernandez is a Los Angeles born artist who attended
Sonoma State University as a Studio Art major with an emphasis in
painting, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2018.
Kelley O’Leary is an interdisciplinary artist moving between
image-making, sculpture and social practice. Compelled by the
ways our digital landscapes have become part of our ecology, she
investigates how our future relationship to the natural world
will be shaped by these forces and vice versa.
B.A., University of California, Berkeley --Art Practice
Born in 1995 in Tehran, Iran, Helia Pouyanfar immigrated to
California in 2014 and received her B.A. in studio art from the
University of California, Berkeley in 2019, specializing in
contemporary sculpture and installation art. She is currently
residing in Northern California as a first-year MFA candidate and
graduate researcher at the University of California, Davis. About
her work, in her own words:
Whitney Vangrin is an artist formerly based in Brooklyn, New
York, but originally from Northern California, who
works across mediums with an emphasis in performance and
video.
