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Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressures of assimilation. This duality seeded the fragmented forms and layered symbolism that define his art today. His practice continues to carry echoes of Latin American patterns, nature’s geometry, and American architectural influences, all reimagined through abstraction. Umaña’s recent works, “hybrid paintings,” combine glazed ceramics on painted canvas and fuse together conflicting styles—mess and order, biomorphic and geometric, thin and thick, matte and sheen.

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at  Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus (NYC), Thomas Robertello Gallery (IL), Greenfield Community College (MA), and ARTBN (South Korea).

Lambert is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She has completed public art projects for the NYC Department of Transportation and collaborated with both elementary schools and college students on public art initiatives in New York and New Hampshire. Previously, she has taught at Parsons School of Design, Yeshiva University and Fordham University. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell (NH), Yaddo (NY), AIR Woodstock/Byrdcliffe (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Dieu Donné (NY), Lower East Side Printshop (NY), VCCA (VA)  and Fountainhead Residency (FL).

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Her

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Tony Mascatello is a New York based painter of narrative images who began this process as a performance artist in SOHO long ago. Working on a small scale, he creates intimate spaces that invite the viewer to enter into an imagined experience.  

Clare Grill (born 1979, lives and works in Queens, NY) received her MFA from

Dylan Vandenhoeck, born in New York City in 1990, is a painter and musician. His meandering and embodied perspective approach to observational painting questions what it means to paint from life today. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2017. His most recent solo shows include “Right Under The Nose” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2024), “Inside Out, Outside In” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2022), “Reality Show” at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021) and “What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes and Nod Yes?” at Jack Barrett, New York (2020). 

Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) is a New York born and based multidisciplinary artist. The artist’s interests span renaissance art, celebrity, psychology, occult practices, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery as well as divinatory visions in a practice motivated by ritualistic impulse and alchemical processes that investigate media’s physical and emotional divide. His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. In his most recent work Dugan has furthered his research of the materiality and techniques of renaissance painting systems in a continued effort to embed and articulate the incurrence of talismanic energy that is formed through ceremonial practice within the space between intention and objectness.

Kai Altair is a musician and guide exploring the meeting place of music, ritual, and consciousness. 

Rooted in animist, earth-based traditions, she creates spaces for remembrance and ecstatic renewal.

Through sound, compassionate support, and lineage holding, her work invites connection to benevolent realms walking in partnership with the deeply human.