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I am a multidisciplinary artist. My work varies from painting, drawing, and collage; to photography, video, sound, sculptural objects, and installation. I design and build everything by hand. Running parallel to my studio practice is also a back-end production of projects that seek to create a dialogue, to connect, and to involve the broader community.

http://www.alettesimmonsjimenez.com/

Nathalie Alfonso (b. 1987, Bogota, Colombia) holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Florida International University. Her work investigates the value of manual labor, the degeneration of the body, and notions of impermanence through drawing, installation, and video. Her necessity to merge the practice of cleaning and art making is utilize to observe her constant obsession with cleanliness and this is manifested in the impermanent installations done with the repetitive movements use to apply and remove charcoal in different surfaces: walls, rags, and paper.

http://nathaliealfonso.com/

VOL 49. LAURA MARSH

Laura Marsh is a textile artist with a social practice. She defines installations for viewer participation at institutions. Marsh believes that immersive environments are needed in academic cultures to reflect upon a world that is becoming increasingly moderated by technology and social media competition. She has relocated several times, and her installations reflect the artist’s experience with relocation. Her desire to define spaces that are place makers for others is a direct reaction to gentrification and class issues.

https://www.lauramarsh.net/

My art practice comes into being as a metaphor for deciphering the multivalent relationships of cultures, peoples and histories while using ethnobotany and the performative as aesthetic vehicles for an art that references geology, ethnobotany, archeology, fiction writing with traditional art making.

http://www.art3st.com/

http://onajide.com/

Lissette Schaeffler is a Cuban born photographer whose work deals with the exploration of identity. Whether documenting or digitally manipulating photographs of family, friends, environments or herself, Lissette’s underlying meaning has always remained consistent.

Lissette received her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004. She has exhibited in solo and collective shows nationally and internationally. She is an alumni from ArtCenter/South Florida, where she spent 6 years in their residency program. Lissette lives and works in Miami, Florida

https://lschaeffler.myportfolio.com/

Jean-Paul Mallozzi was born and raised in Queens NYC, and received a scholarship to attend the Rhode Island School Of Design (RISD). He graduated with a BFA in Illustration. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally including Los Angeles, New York, and London.

http://www.jeanpaulmallozzi.com/

Adler Guerrier creates visual dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier improvises between form and function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity, class, and culture. He calls upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal composition to designate to art history an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and juxtaposition in his immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary flaneurie in an impending age of post-demography.

https://www.adlerguerrier.com/

Bianca Pratorius was born in Cologne, Germany in 1969. She started her formal training at the Holzfachschule, Köln and subsequently moved to Miami where she attended International Fine Arts College. She now lives and works in the Miami area.

http://www.biancapratorius.com/

Ingrid Schindall is a passionate and productive printmaker and book artist based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has a methodical yet experimental studio practice. Her prints and artist books have been exhibited internationally and throughout the east coast. She is devoted to her writing practice and has produced several artist books throughout her career.

http://www.ingridschindall.com/

http://www.isprojectsfl.com/

https://www.nocturnal.press/

Michelle Lisa is currently completing a Master of Arts in Museum Studies & Non-Profit Management at Johns Hopkins University. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida International University in Photography & Fiber Based Painting. Her most recent work moves from a previous series of self-portraits, Dancing With Myself, which explored her relationship with herself away from the guidance of her parents, into a new body of work documenting trips and interactions with her parents and family, If Home Was Home.

http://www.michellelisap.com/