Monday December 4th, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Artemis and Art | 2022-Present | 72 x 72” |Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
damali abrams, the Glitter Priestess is a New York City- based artist. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from New York University. abrams is a member of SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance). She is a recipient of the Women's Studio Workshop Right Now! Production Grant and the Queens Council on the Arts New Works Grant. abrams has been a fellow at Culture Push, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, A.I.R. Gallery, and apexart in Seoul, South Korea. abrams has also been an Artist-in-Residence at RU (Residency Unlimited), Fresh Milk in Barbados, Groundation Grenada, The Center for Book Arts, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), and LMCC on Governors Island. She was a Creative-In-Residence at Brooklyn Public Library. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and on the blogs of art21, Fresh Milk, and Groundation Grenada. abrams's writing has been published by Harlequin Creature and Women's Studio Workshop.
Katerina Lanfranco is an NYC-based artist and professor. Lanfranco teaches studio art at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Parsons, The New School. Lanfranco earned her BA in Art and in Visual Theory and Museum Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and her MFA in Studio Art in Painting from Hunter College, CUNY. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Kupferstichkabinett Museum of Prints and Drawings in Berlin, and the Corning Museum of Glass.Lanfranco is currently serving on the Services to Artist Committee for the College Art Association She is the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Japan-US Creative Exchange Fellowship Artist-in-Residence Award; DNA Artist Residency; Openings’ Lake George Residency, etc. Her work has been represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery since 2006. Lanfranco’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.
Hiba Schahbaz was born in Karachi, Pakistan and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Schahbaz trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts, Lahore and received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her recent exhibitions include include In New York Thinking of You at FLAG Art Foundation (2023), Love Songs at Almine Rech Paris (2023), Fire Figure Fantasy at ICA Miami (2022), Wonder Women at Jeffrey Deitch (2022), Nova at Half Gallery LA (2022), In My Heart, a public art commission for Rockefeller Centre with Art Production Fund (2021). She has been written about in Whitewall, Artforum, NY Mag, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Coveteur, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Art Critical amongst other publications. Schahbaz has been an artist resident at The Tang Museum. Mass MocA, StoneLeaf Retreat, The Wassaic Project, the Vermont Studio Center, to name a few. She currently serves as a board member for Art Production Fund.