Elliot Avis (B. 1995) is an artist based in Washington D.C. who works in Painting, Sculpture, and Installation. He employs references from video games, cartoons, and mythology to create his zainy and psychically charged works. Born in Philadelphia he went on to attend Denison university where he received his BFA, and most recently at the Cranbrook Academy of art where he received his MFA in Painting. He has exhibited in New York, Boston, Detroit, London, Columbus, and Saint Petersburg Fl where he had a recent solo exhibition with Heiress Gallery.

Avis’s work is also featured in No Afterlife at The Neon Heater Gallery.

Gabriella Carboni is a painter and educator located in Los Angeles, California. Originally from Boston, MA, she received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Skidmore College, and her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gabriella has exhibited her work within the US - in Michigan, California, New York, and Massachusetts - as well as Internationally - in Iceland, Italy, and Scotland. She currently teaches at ArtCenter College of Design and Armory Center for the Arts. Gabriella is also a council member for Visual Arts Scotland. Her work focuses on intimacy, kinship, comfort, touch, and connection. She investigates how we interact with one another, how we support and care for each other, and how we grow apart or grow together over time. The forms she invents through drawing, painting, and sculpture strive to demonstrate human feeling and empathy, while contemplating how to portray tenderness and a seeking of solace. Most recently, Carboni’s work has drawn inspiration from tectonic plates and bodies hugging.

Carboni’s work was featured at SHAG in 2022 in her joint exhibition, If We Get A House, alongside Lauren Anaïs Hussey.

Devon Clapp lives and works in Boston, MA. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute, and has been exhibited widely in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Santa Fe, and Berlin, Germany. The remains of his earliest American relatives are buried an hour and a half north of SHAG in Greensboro, NC.

It was a widely held belief in Puritan New England that the woods were the refuge of the devil. The place of witches sabbaths, society’s outcasts - a fertile cauldron for in which 17th century society’s fears to grow.

Time progressed, and these haunted woods were boxed in, hedged and pushed by unfettered rampant capitalism. Abandoned farmsteads and burial grounds plowed and paved over.

Along canals, highways, behind box stores, the edges of graveyards and industrial buildings - these patches of scrubby overgrown land have become the realm of teenage parties, transient encampments, cruising, deviant behavior - the sorts of things that fill tabloids and the nightly news.

It’s here, in this incubator of modern society’s nightmares, where these paintings exist.

Clapp’s work was featured at SHAG in 2023 in his solo exhibition, resERECTION.

Tyler Davis is an artist who grew up on the east side of Columbus, Ohio between the homes of his mother and grandmother. He utilizes music in his studio practice, playing records to engulf himself in the moods and thought processes of the work. He takes inspiration from albums, songs, and choruses associated with memories of his mother and grandmother singing and dancing around the house. Davis uses sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, zines, and installation to highlight social and racial injustice in his work, while incorporating personal anecdotes of lighthearted reflection. He received his BFA in Fine Art from Columbus College of Art & Design and has been exhibited widely throughout the midwest region.

Originally from Atlanta, Sydney Ewerth received her BFA with a concentration in sculpture and ceramics from Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia and graduated with her MFA from The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. After graduation she remained at The University of Alabama as a Part-Time Instructor until moving to Indiana to start her residency at New Harmony Clay Project. She then spent 3 years teaching and making art at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, IN as the Artist in Residence in Ceramics, Studio Technician, and Visiting Professor. She currently resides in Iowa City, IA, teaching at The University of Iowa as the Iowa Idea Visiting Assistant Professor in Ceramics. Sydney has shown in various exhibitions through the US and internationally, including locations such as Aqua Art Miami during Art Basel and juried exhibitions in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Rachel Ferber is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in Kansas City, MO. Her work explores the sticky sides of power, performance and sustainability through the lens of commodified private space. Ferber holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. In addition to her studio, she runs an experimental natural dye project called The Dye Bath, and is one half of the art and design initiative, NEW NEW NEW — an ongoing project with her partner, Adam Lucas. Ferber has held solo and group exhibitions across the United States. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Kenyon College.

Beverly Fresh is a song & dance man born on a cold winter morning in a small town in the midwest.

Clare Gatto earned a BFA from Ohio State State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. A recipient of the 2020 Red Bull Micro Grant, they have attended artist residencies such as Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Seljavegur residency in Iceland, and Velferden Residency in Norway. Their artist book Good Side is in the Whitney Museum of Art Library Special Collections. Notable group shows include Daily Rush: Season 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Loading at the Mana Contemporary pavilion as part of the Wrong Digital Art Biennial, and The Lucent Image at Eastern Michigan University. Gatto is co-director of BULK SPACE alongside Jova Lynne, Sara Nishikawa, Meg Kelley and Jes Allie. BULK SPACE Artist Residency was a recipient of the Knights Arts Challenge Award in 2019.

Gatto’s work was featured at SHAG in 2021 in their joint exhibition, Spawning Point, alongside Kara Güt. They are also featured in No Afterlife and are a main contributor to the Infinite Life project.

Kara Güt is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is image-based digital media. Her work investigates the new shape of human intimacy formed by internet lifestyle, constructed detachment from reality, and the power dynamics of the virtual. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Solo shows include Presence at IRL Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Crystal Magic Weapon at Open Space, Baltimore, Maryland. Recent group shows include Daily Rush: Season 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and LAN Party at the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. She is represented by Lava Project, and her videos are editioned by Daata Editions. In Spring 2021 she will be in residence at Pioneer Works in NYC. She currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.

Güt’s work was featured at SHAG in 2021 in her joint exhibition, Spawning Point, alongside Clare Gatto. She is also featured in No Afterlife, and is a main contributor to the Infinite Life project.

Cooper Holoweski is an artist working in print, video, and sculpture. His work explores the intersection of spirituality and consumerism through everyday objects and materials. Holoweski has an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and has held residencies at Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile; Gallery Titanik in Turku, Finland; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; the Clocktower Gallery and the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC. His prints have been described as “striking” by Paul Coldwell in Art in Print, and his video work has been praised by Sarah Schmerler of Art in America as “magical” and “infinitely watchable.” Exhibitions include: Nostalgia and Obsolescence, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY (2016), Cannibal Universe, Clocktower Gallery at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2016), Dead Air, Cohen Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (2017), and Basement Cosmos, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI (2017). In Spring of 2017 he was awarded the Prix de Print by Art in Print Magazine. His short film “As Above, So Below” won Best Regional Filmmaker at the 57th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2019. /. Holoweski is currently the Artist-In-Residence and co-Head of the Print Media department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Holoweski’s work is also featured in No Afterlife, hosted by The Neon Heater Gallery.

Kristin Hough is an artist, educator, and curator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA from UC Davis, where she was awarded the Provost and Margrit Mondavi Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, and Hyperallergic. In addition, she’s been an artist-in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and Los Angeles’s ECF Downtown Art Center, and recently released a book with National Monument Press. She co-founded an artist-run project space, Outback Arthouse, and has co-curated exhibitions throughout Los Angeles, as well as at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon. She's currently teaching at UNLV, curating shows in Nevada, painting stills from reality TV and collaborating on a land art project - Pinewood Vortex.

Hough’s work was featured at SHAG in 2021 in her solo exhibition, It’s All Coming Up.

Lauren Anaïs Hussey (b.1990 Jacksonville, FL) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She attended University of North Florida for her BFA in Painting/Drawing/Printmaking and holds an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions including Sunsets (Underdonk, Brooklyn, 2022), FIFTY (Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, 2022), and Garden Party (Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, 2020). Hussey is currently a member of the artist-run space, Underdonk in Brooklyn, NY. Hussey’s work is interested in perception and the psychology of looking. In her work, she often suspends abstracted writing to create interior or mental landscapes that act as gists, clues and illegible- somethings.

Hussey’s work was featured at SHAG in 2022 in her joint exhibition, If We Get A House, alongside Gabriella Carboni.

Kaylie Kaitschuck (b. 1995, Dearborn, MI) received her BFA from The College for Creative Studies in 2018 and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021. With a background in fiber and textile design, Kaitschuck's vivid and imaginative work embraces a tension between highly stylized drawing, "low-brow" aesthetics, and meticulous construction. Kaitschuck’s work has recently been exhibited in solo and two-person exhibitions at Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany; NADA New York (Gaa Gallery); Hiromart Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI. They are a recipient of the Detroit Artist Talent Fund, The Red Bull House of Arts Microgrant, The Robert C. Larson Art, Design, and Architecture Venture Award, and are published in New American Paintings Midwest and MFA Editions. She currently lives and works in Pontiac, Michigan.

Todd Kunkler (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cincinnati, OH. He received a BFA from Ohio University in 2015.

Andie Labgold is a contemporary fine artist who works with print, sculpture, video, and installation to recontextualize logic systems and perception. Her work explores the commonalities between practical jokes, stage props, and conspiracy theories. She earned a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2018 and an MFA in PrintMedia from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2020.

Labgold’s work is also featured in No Afterlife, hosted by The Neon Heater Gallery.

Silas Long is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is in the expanded field of digital media. Through a process of both physical and digital fabrication, they explore the image's ability to simulate materiality. Borrowing from the aesthetics of video games, memes, horror movies, and outsider art, their work investigates the psycho-emotional grip of technofantasy. They are the Co-Curator of Rainbow and received their BFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2017.

Currently serving as Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Ian McCollum enjoys balancing active performing and composing activity in conjunction with high school ensemble education in the greater Charlotte area, as well as active clinician work across the southeast. He has spent the last several years earning a reputation of versatility, sensitivity, and musical conviction in both his performances and compositions.

A largely self-taught composer, he has written for brass, strings and percussion and endeavors to bridge the gap between performer and audience with each composition. As an avid performer, Dr. McCollum’s experience in ensemble settings ranges from orchestral to jazz and swing bands on tuba, euphonium, and trombone. He is also a prize-winning soloist and has enjoyed competing nationally and internationally.

Dr. McCollum holds a Doctorate of Brass Performance from Florida State University, a Masters of Music from Columbus State University, and a Bachelors of Music from the University of North Alabama. His primary teachers include Eddie Elsey, Martin Cochran, Andrew Miller, Paul Ebbers, and Justin Benavidez.

Dr. McCollum composed the original music score for Infinite Life.

Kris McKinney is an emerging artist based out of Detroit MI. Often oscillating between painting, sculpture and collage, their work uses distinct narrative gestures to dictate fictional landscapes and the influence of digital architecture. Through the layered use of reflective materials such as mirrors, metal, and plastics, Kris simultaneously addresses and subverts the reflective gaze- challenging modes of representation within various but especially digital landscapes. At times these landscapes depict biblical scenes, abstracting the spiritual influence of a given narrative through iterations of a body, or the lack thereof.

Harrison Moenich is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Their work fluctuates between the mediums of photography, sculpture, and painting. Illusion, perception, and demystification are primary components in their work.

Clair Morey (b. 1992, Greensboro, North Carolina) received a BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design and is currently an MFA candidate at Miami University.

Morey’s work was featured at SHAG in 2021 in her solo exhibition, Crying on Command.

Danni O’Brien (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from James Madison University in 2014. Her studio practice is rooted in environmentalism, nostalgia, and owned queerness. In the studio, they cycle through continuous acts of deconstruction and reconstruction, and employ assemblage, ceramic handbuilding, paper making, casting, CNC routing, and woodworking, to concoct enigmatic, amalgamated sculptures. O’Brien exhibits these sculptures at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art, Pazo Fine Art, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Arizona, Towson University, Dickinson College, and Wofford College. She has been awarded residencies with PLOP, The Wassaic Project, Proyecto Ace, Art Farm, Baltimore Clayworks, Red Lodge Clay Center, Azule, and the Maple Terrace. They are the recipient of a 2022 Individual Artist Grant from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development. O’Brien received a review of her recent solo exhibition “Cross Sections”, with Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art, in The Washington Post in September, 2022. They are an artist in residence at Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the months of March and April 2023 and have a solo exhibition of new sculptures at Stone House Art Gallery (SHAG) in Charlotte, North Carolina in April 2023. O’Brien is preparing for group exhibitions with The Belger Arts Center in Kansas City, Missouri and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania and will be an artist in residence at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in Granville, New York, and Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock, New York, this summer.

O’Brien’s work was featured at SHAG in 2023 in their solo exhibition, Low Hanging Fruit.

Kelley O’Brien is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in Architecture and Design. Her work negotiates boundaries between industrial and “natural” landscapes, through a feminist perspective, to explore cultural links between gender hierarchy and the domination of the natural world. She has exhibited at the CICA Museum (Korea), National College of Art and Design (Ireland), Stroboskop Art Space (Warsaw) as well as Transformer Station, McDonough Museum of Art and The Everson Museum of Art in the United States. Kelley has been awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Wexford Arts Council, and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Philippines and attended residencies at Green Papaya Art Space in the Philippines, the Irish Museum of Art in Dublin, Laboratory Spokane, Wassaic Project, and the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden. /. Her artistic practice extends into her academic and curatorial research through collaborative projects with Francis Halsall under the title “Mapping Systems.” Collectively they have held workshops, lecture courses, and curated residencies in Ireland, the United States and the Philippines. Through her art and collaborative research practices, O’Brien seeks to highlight precarious and indeterminate environments as a political act to give power to untold histories and providing underrepresented perspectives as alternative ways to critically engage with our ecosystems locally and globally.

O’Brien’s work was featured at SHAG in 2022 in her solo exhibition, The Liberation of Terra Superna.

Lauren Pakradooni lives in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Hampshire College.

Lauren Pakradooni is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, sculpture, and sound. Her work reflects the tension between the natural and built world through glyphs in form, shape, and patterns.

Pakradooni has performed and exhibited work with Peep Space, The Print Center, Planthouse Gallery, Space 1026, Skylab, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Epsilon Spires, Cheymore Gallery, the University of Texas at Austin, and Leisure Gallery. She has been awarded residencies by Women’s Studio Workshop, Wassaic Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Liz Roberts makes artwork that is often collaborative and rooted in moving image and sound. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works many places, most recently in Cincinnati for a large scale video installation and in New Orleans on a nonfiction film.

Marina Shaltout’s work combines video, photography, sculpture and installation to create experiential, narrative-driven environments. Using parody, her work critiques representations of women throughout mythology, popular culture, and cinema. Shaltout received her MFA from the University of Arizona and her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has completed residencies at the Creative Centre in Stodvarfjordur, Iceland and at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally in venues such as Alte Munze in Berlin, the Cinematograph in Innsbruck Austria, the Living National Treasure Museum in Tokyo, the Czong Institute in South Korea, the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, the Red Room in Baltimore, and on a billboard in Hollywood California (as part of the Billboard Creative). Shaltout is a recipient of the Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Award, a Creative Achievement Award, and two Medici Scholar project grants. She currently teaches at Ringling College of Art and Design as a Visiting Professor in Fine Arts and Visual Studies.

Shaltout’s work was featured at SHAG in 2022 in her solo exhibition, Predacious.

Dr. Brandon Sward is an artist, writer, and doctoral recipient of the University of Chicago. He was a quarterfinalist for the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, was shortlisted for Disquiet International’s Literary Prize, and was an honorable mention and finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards. He’s won residencies at Alternative Worksite, Byrdcliffe, the Hambidge Center, the Institute for LGBTQ+ Studies, Main Street Arts, NAVE, SloMoCo, the Sundress Academy, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Wassaic Project, and Western Montana Creative Initiatives. His first solo show, How the West was lost, opens at Stone House Art Gallery in October 2021. Group exhibitions include: The Long Dream (MCA Chicago), a series of small gestures (Smart Museum), With All Our Might (Carr Center Contemporary), Experimental Film and Video (CICA Museum), And That Is Where The Bobcat Is Right Now (Tiger Strikes Asteroid), Angelespuma (NAVE), Seasons Change (Wassaic Project), Utopian Living (Kleinert/James Center), and Two Silences Leaning Together (In/Passing). He’s participated in the film festival Release Me through Single Channel VT and his photographs and prints have appeared in Anima Loci and Under the Bridge, respectively. His words can be read in littledeathlit, Stellium Literary Magazine, querencia, Art Style, Flash Art, BOMB, The Point, Full Bleed, aqnb, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, Chicago Review, Contemporary &, Prospect Art, Newcity, Sixty Inches From Center, The Seen, ASAP/J, Post45, Tesserae, Tripwire, hazel, Power Clash Art, and Flatpack Publications. He’s spoken at the College Art Association, American Sociological Association, Nasher Sculpture Center, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Southeastern College Art Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, Royal Anthropological Institute, Horasis Global Meeting, and Universities of California, Maryland, and Montreal.

Dr. Sward’s work was featured at SHAG in 2022 in his solo exhibition, How the West Was Won.

Venusloc is a self taught interdisciplinary artist, musician, and performer born and raised in Detroit, MI. They are a grant recipient of Detroit Narrative Agency’s Radical Remedies series. “Joy Remembers”, their experimental short film, was included in the Spring 2021 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Their work has been featured in Afropunk, Fourculture N.Y. Magazine, Your Mom’s Berlin, Dublab, Earmilk, and Audiofemme.