Janise Yntema is an American painter working in the ancient wax encaustic technique. Yntema was born in New Jersey and attended Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League of New York. She has had solo exhibitions in New York and throughout the United States as well as London, Amsterdam and Brussels. Her works are in the collections of several museums in Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
cWOW Gallery, also known as City Without Walls Gallery, is a defunct alternative art gallery located in Newark, New Jersey, occupying a building on Halsey Street at Crawford Street in the Lincoln Park/The Coast Cultural District.
Grigory Gurevich is a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, photographer, illustrator, bookmaker, mime and inventor. Originally from Leningrad, Russia, he now resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Nicole Cherubini is an American visual artist and sculptor. She lives and works in New York.
Allan Gorman is a visual art professional born in Brooklyn, New York, best known for his photorealistic paintings of objects within the industrial milieu, spanning from civil engineering structures to sophisticated mechanical devices and vehicles. Gorman's art work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States. He is also a former advertising executive, brand marketing educator, and consultant.
Leo Dee was an American artist and teacher. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he achieved first regional and then national prominence for his "incredibly detailed" and realistic silverpoint drawings which conveyed "the softest and most subtle transitions of tonal values."
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is an American metalsmith, artist, critic, and educator living and working in Stone Ridge, New York. Mimlitsch-Gray's work has been shown nationally at such venues as the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Museum of the City of New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Museum of Arts and Design. Her work has shown internationally at such venues as the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Stadtisches Museum Gottingen, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and is held in public and private collections in the U.S, Europe, and Asia.
Victor Davson is a Guyanese-born artist living and working in West Orange, New Jersey. Davson is a co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art located in Newark, New Jersey. Davson and Carl E. Hazlewood founded Aljira together in 1983 as a non-profit center for contemporary visual art to promote the work of emerging and under-represented artists.
Carl E. Hazlewood is an artist, writer, and curator currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Hazlewood, along with Victor Davson, is a co-founder of Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey. Hazlewood has taught at New Jersey City University and other institutions.
Mary Valverde is a Queens-born Latina artist who lives, works, and teaches in New York. She is a cultural practitioner who is invested in ritual, the quotidian, and syncretic relationships rooted in a basis of research and socially implicit trans-physics. Valverde has served on the Public Design Commission of the City of New York since 2015.
Michael Paul Britto is a New York contemporary artist who explores the consequences of racial inequality through photography, video, collage, sculpture and performance. Britto shines a light on important racial issues using contemporary art. His work has been exhibited predominantly in New York, but also internationally, with exhibitions in Spain, Poland, and England. In 2004, he won the Individual Artist grant from New York State Council of The Arts, and in 2005, he was awarded the Media Arts Fellowship Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Dahlia Elsayed is a New York-based painter, writer, and teaching artist whose work explores the relationships between language and landscape. Her work has won awards and been shown at galleries and art institutions internationally.
Jerry Gant was an American visual artist, poet, performance artist and educator.
Cicely Cottingham is an American artist who lives and works in West Orange, New Jersey. She has received numerous awards for her paintings and works on paper and is represented in several public collections. Cottingham is a cofounder (1991) of Aljira Design, a design studio and revenue stream through 2009 for the nonprofit art center Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ.
Cecile Chong is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose work addresses the process of cultural assimilation and the development of individual identity. For many years she has contributed to New York City public school art programs as a teaching artist.
Jayson Keeling (1966-2022) was an artist who worked in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Keeling's work challenges conventional norms surrounding sex, gender, race, and religion. Keeling often reconfigured popular iconography, to explore notions of masculinity, and cultural ritual.
Priscila De Carvalho is a Brazilian-born American contemporary artist who is known for paintings, sculptures, murals, site-specific art installations, and permanent public art.
M. Asli Dukan is an American independent media producer, filmmaker and visual artist based in Philadelphia working with themes of speculative fiction and Afrofuturism.
Akintola Hanif is an American photographer based in Newark, New Jersey.
Zachary Fabri is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
