Marc Handelman - January 2025

Marc Handelman (he/him) is a visual artist and teacher, based in Brooklyn, New York. Often involving long-term research-oriented projects, Handelman’s work examines the aesthetics of state, colonial and imperial power in the afterlives of Landscape in contemporary life. His practice explores the ways the present is haunted, as through a ventriloquism of these images, tropes, and forms of rhetoric, so ingrained, so naturalized and so seemingly emptied out, that they appear nearly invisible. Through painting, in addition to artists’ books, installation and video, his work resurfaces these afterlives, critically exploring their ideological violence, as it reimagines different way of seeing, feeling, and thinking through Landscape and our entanglements within it. Handelman received his BFA in Painting from RISD and an MFA from Columbia University. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States as well as internationally in such venues as PS1 MoMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Royal Academy of Art in London, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Portland Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rubin Museum, The Matsumoto City Museum of Art, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Handelman is an Associate Professor at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York.

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Marc Handelman, Installation view of Discovery of a Flower, Contours of a Pond, SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2022. Photo by Derek Franklin

Jarid del Deo - January 2025

Jarid del Deo is a painter living and working in Maine. His oil paintings utilize the New England landscape as a tested vehicle for investigating color, shape and composition. Del Deo prefers a long contemplative study of his surroundings, plucking out details that best describe a place. A personal point of view and sense of the mystical are important to him.

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Reuben Telushkin - January 2025

Reuben Telushkin (b. 1988, Holyoke, MA) is based in Detroit, MI. He graduated with a BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College in 2012. He lived in Oakland, CA, exhibiting at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with a grant from Burnt Oranges. He then moved to Detroit in 2015, where he worked at Allied Media Projects. He was a resident at Talking Dolls Studio, where he exhibited a solo exhibition in 2022. From 2017-2021 he was a National Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace, working to end US material support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and building common cause between the American Jewish left and the Black liberation movement in the US. Recently he was a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he earned an MFA in 4D Design in 2024. He has exhibited at Brecht Forum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and he has produced public commissions for Library Street Collective. He was a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ACRE Residency, and is scheduled to attend Surf Point in York, ME and the Interactive Electronic Arts residency at Alfred University. Telushkin’s work synthesizes traditional craft with digital fabrication to problematize binaries of human/machine, ancient/modern, nature/culture, etc. Applying fractal geometric design principles across a diversity of media such as sculpture, sound, writing, and performance, Telushkin takes things apart and puts them back together, in a desire to understand the nature of imperfect systems.

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Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz - February 2025

Photo by Naomieh Jovin

Kaitlin Pomerantz is a visual artist, educator, and arts researcher engaged with ecosystems resiliencies under extractive economies. She is the founder of MATTERS, an arts learning initiative connecting materials, labor and land.

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Untitled (Viriditas), 2024

Mary Henderson - February 2025

Photo by Constance Mensh

Mary Henderson is a visual artist living and working in Philadelphia. She received an AB in fine arts from Amherst College, and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Center for Emerging Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; she has also completed residencies at Pouch Cove, Soaring Gardens, the Jentel Foundation and the Hambidge Center (where she was the Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow). Her work has been shown throughout the United States at venues including SPRING/BREAK Los Angeles, the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Michener Museum, the Woodmere Museum, Marcia Wood Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. Her paintings have been featured in Artmaze, Harper's Magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. Selected collections include the Rockefeller Foundation, the Muskegon Museum of Art and the West Collection. She is the former co-director of the Philadelphia site of the nonprofit network of artist-run spaces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and currently works as a project manager for Mural Arts Philadelphia.

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Elijah Ober - February 2025

Elijah Ober is sculptor and animator born and raised in the north-eastern United States. His work explores our relationships with other species, nature at large, digital and manual fabrication processes, our past, and our future. His 2022 show at the CMCA “CALCIUM/ your future ex-squirrelfriend” explored the membranes of our built environment and the horizon of self-actualization. He was included in the PMA and CMCA Biennials in 2020. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 2015, and has attended residencies at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Monson Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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