Sound and Vision

Shawn Kuruneru (b. 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) centralizes drawing in his practice. Exploring both the graphic and conceptual potentials of the medium, Shawn’s works engage with Western geometric abstraction, Eastern landscape painting, and the artist’s own interest in comic books. In referencing these genres, he is interested in the narrative potentials of the mark based on context. Shawn’s self published graphic novels are BURN MAN and Fool’s Wish.

Shawn received his BFA from Concordia University, Montreal. His national and international exhibitions include: Cooper Cole, Toronto (2020); KOKI ARTS, Tokyo (2019); Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva (2017); Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (2017); Skarstedt Gallery, New York (2016); Brand New Gallery, Milan (2015); Martos Gallery, New York (2014); and Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014).

Richard Colman paints vivid, hard-edged figurative canvases that combine biomorphic shapes with graphic geometries. These pieces oscillate between abstract compositions and recognizable domestic scenes. They often embrace sexual imagery and themes of life, death, human interaction and isolation.  Women, animals, floating heads, and overlapping bodies are common motifs. 

He vacillates freely between figuration and abstraction, at times focusing on pattern while other times on figure and narrative.  Also producing sculpture and installation works, Colman incorporates a variety of media, including paper, wood, porcelain, plaster, glue, nails, and tape—typically using vibrant colors. 

Colman’s installations have taken the form of elaborate, psychedelic floor designs and theatrical stages constructed within the gallery.  Colman has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Berlin, Mexico City, London, and Paris. He currently lives and works in San Francisco and on a farm converted to a studio in rural Connecticut.

Alvin Ong is a graduate of the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK (2016) and the Royal College of Art, London, UK (2018). His paintings playfully combine diverse visual vocabularies alongside his own lived experience of hybridity and distance across a variety of spaces, physical and virtual. His works are collected by ILHAM Gallery, Ingram Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum (Print Collection), and X Museum. He lives and works in Singapore and London.

Leah Guadagnoli lives and works in Hillsdale, NY. She received her BFA in Painting and Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MFA in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Recent solo exhibitions include Hollis Taggart (New  York, NY), Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, NY), Victori + Mo (Brooklyn, NY), Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis, MN), and 247365 (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Cooke Latham Gallery (London, England), Hesse Flatow (New York, NY), Allouche Benias Gallery (Athens, Greece), Hollis Taggart Contemporary (New York, NY), Freight and Volume (New York, NY), Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco, CA), Ortega y Gasset (Brooklyn, NY), and White Columns (New York, NY). She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), the Macedonia Institute (Chatham, NY), Wassaic (Wassaic, NY) and the Tilleard Projects Artist Residency (Lamu, Kenya). In 2017 she was awarded the Lighthouse Works Fellowship and in 2016 she received a full fellowship to attend Vermont Studio Center. She currently teaches Painting and Drawing at the University at Albany and has a two-person exhibition on view at One River School with Zuriel Waters in Woodbury, NY.

Alannah Farrell (b.1988, Kingston, NY) is a queer transmasculine painter who lives and works in the East Village, New York, NY. They grew up in a rural hamlet in upstate NY, raised by two outside-the-system creative parents. They began undergraduate studies at The Cooper Union, New York, NY, receiving their BFA in 2011. Their work was previously exhibited at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo), The Painting Center, New York, NY (solo); Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; Harper’s, East Hampton, NY, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA. They have a forthcoming solo exhibition at Harper’s new location in Chelsea at 512 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, 2022. They are represented by Harper’s Gallery, New York, and Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles.

Their work centers around a humanistic celebration of the individuals in their community, a predominantly queer creative community in NYC, by exposing the personal struggles, uncertainties, intimate moments, and triumphs they face.

Emma Webster is an artist who received her BA in Art Practice at Stanford University in 2011 and an MFA in Painting at Yale University in 2018. The British-American artist has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, Vermont Studio Center, and Ox-Bow. Emma received Yale's award to attend the Dumfries Royal Drawing School in Scotland and the Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting. Recent exhibitions include: Alexander Berggruen, New York; Carl Kostyál, London; Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles; Museum of Art & History, Lancaster; and Spinnerei (Pilotenkueche), Leipzig, Germany. She has been featured in publications including: The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Artforum International, New American Painting, and Artsy. Her recent book Lonescape: Green, Painting, and Mourning Reality is available now through Alexander Berggruen's website.

Rachelle Bussières (Quebec City, Canada) received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Addressing the impact of light on our psyche, environment and social structure, Rachelle Bussières’ work is at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Some recent group shows include the World Trade Center (NYC), Rubber Factory (NYC), Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), Soil Gallery (Seattle, WA), the General French Consulate (San Francisco, CA), the Wing (San Francisco, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (Brooklyn, NY). She was an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, Banff Center, Sim, Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is present in various public, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Four Seasons Hotel, SFMOMA Library and Archives, Facebook (commission mural) in Sunnyvale, Instagram Inc. in San Francisco and Penumbra Foundation in New York City.

Ani Bharadwaj (better known as weird inside) is a musician and animator born in 1998 in New York and has spent most of his life in Bridgewater, New Jersey. he grew up singing south indian classical (carnatic) music and discovered electronic music at the age of 12, and started trying to make his own at the age of 15. other than music, he also creates in many other forms of media, including animation, digital art, and film/video. he attended the california institute of the arts (calarts) in experimental animation for two semesters, before leaving to pursue a career in music and freelance media. His music has acieved tens of millions of plays on spotify and much more on other platfoems as well.

Matt Kleberg (b.1985, Kingsville TX based in San Antonio, TX) received his BA from the University of Virginia in 2008 and his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015. He is represented by Pazda Butler Gallery, Barry Whistler Gallery, and Sorry We’re Closed. Recent exhibitions include Good Naked Gallery (NY); Johansson Projects (CA); Barry Whistler Gallery (TX); Pazda Butler Gallery (TX); Albada Jelgersma Gallery (Amsterdam), and Sorry We’re Closed (Brussels). His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Painting is Dead, Artsy, Vice, Maake Magazine, ArtDaily, New American Paintings, Blouin Artinfo, ArtMaze Magazine, Artillery Magazine, and Hyperallergic. His work is included in public and private collections, including the Williams College Museum of Art, the University of California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Old Jail Art Center, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the National Gallery of Art. Kleberg lives and works in San Antonio, TX.