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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/

The art world’s Queen of Arts, Bernice Steinbaum, is no BS. An incredibly vibrant character, she stands no more than 5 feet 2 inches, is as distinguished as she is colorful, and just as big in presence as she is small in stature. But to know BS, the legendary art collector who has always advocated for women and people of color, is to see that she is showing few signs of slowing down. https://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/

Terence Price II was born in Carol City Florida and is a graduate of Miramar High School. His use of street photography is a form of documentation which seizes on the highs and the lows of family life and the surrounding community. While roaming the streets of Miami he aims to “capture” moments that move him deeply and invites the viewer to share in this experience. http://mxlawkii.com/

“My formal studies began as an undergraduate at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. I received my BA degree from the California College of Art, and my graduate studies were pursued at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. My aim is to paint the light and pieces of color that describes what I see. When I paint I am reacting to the excitement I feel when I see something that registers as beautiful to me. My focus is on the magic!” http://www.moniquelazard.com/

Michael Williams combines contemporary realism with a minimalist sensibility, using an overwhelming sense of light to deconstruct figural landscapes. He develops stark yet delicate depictions of the human figure, leading to the scrutiny of candid and often amusing observations that provide a dialogue on social identity and self-awareness. This obsessive scrutiny, deconstructed throughout his work, is broken by implied lines and ambiguous shapes, which fill the entirety of the implicit space. https://www.michaelwilliamsartist.com/

My imagery is derived from the motion pictures of the 1930s through the 50s. I’m particularly interested in this era of film and how it aligns with the concept of artifice via opulent and escapist themes. The subjects of my paintings are about the fleeting, the missing, and the unattainable, however as paintings they become the very antithesis of the ephemeral. http://www.kristenthiele.com/

The multidisciplinary work of Patricia Schnall Gutierrez (including painting, drawing, sculptural objects, performance, and installation) draws its inspiration from a self-referential account of personal memories, situations, and emotions. Using distinct choices of mediums, household objects and materials, she creates an autobiographical account of the every day, drawing the viewer into an intimate dialogue that often probes questions of gender and sexuality. Through her personal stories, she shares a unique perspective on controversial issues facing contemporary woman and society. https://www.patriciaschnallgutierrez.com/

Sarah Margaret Knox Moody (SMKM) is a Photographer, an Artist, a Curator, a Collaborator and Community Voice based in Erie, Pennsylvania. “I document the world and I document my family. I enjoy images because they are tangible memories, ones that you can hold, the smell and scene comes alive in your hand. I document what pulls me, what grabs my attention.” http://www.sarahmkmoody.com/

“I tell my life story through concrete, color fields and organic abstract forms. They help express my thoughts and beliefs, serving as a narrator for my day to day experiences. Through my current work, I explore social behavior, depression, relationships, aging and prosperity. My personal experience with these topics help fuel my passion to create art that exposes the stable coexistence of different entities.” http://www.troysimmonsstudio.com/news.html

Alexander Zastera produces vibrating planetary portals, swirling masses of denim, dark urban landscapes, and tropical “grotesquery” in response to the dynamic and bizarre environments he calls home. Currently based in Miami, his work has been featured in Deep Space, & Gallery, Locust Projects, the Young Arts Gallery, the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, and Superfine! Art Fair: NYC. https://www.alexzastera.com/

Born in Rio de Janeiro, DeMello developed Art Habit, a social business aimed to help artists find supplemental income in the events industry while working to fortify their artistic practices. Ananda has worked in several art sectors in Miami. From artist run spaces, nonprofit, commercial art fairs, cultural production, as a consultant for artists and galleries, the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and was the gallery director at Spinello Projects and assisted during the production of the first edition of FAIR. Currently she is working with Laura Rathe Fine Art in Houston, TX, she continues to manage Art Habit, and works as an independent curator and consultant for special projects globally. Ananda holds a BA in Public Relations from Florida International University and a MA in Arts Management from St. Thomas University. http://makearthabit.com/media/