Location: Kingston NY

Lindsey Wolkowicz (b.1981) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work revolves around the relationship between us and the spaces we occupy. Both the influence of her hometown of Detroit, and her decade in New York City, can be felt through the presence of grand, sometimes dilapidated, architectural lines in her work, as well as her awareness of the body in space. Though drawing is at the center of her practice, Wolkowicz’s work also moves into the realm of photography, video and performance installation through ongoing collaborative projects with her partner Dillon Paul. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She received her BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and her MFA in Painting/ Drawing from Pratt Institute. She works in international admissions. She recently moved from Brooklyn to Kingston, NY where she now works and lives with her partner and their daughter.

www.lindseyawolkowicz.com

Bhalvin Prince was born in Guatemala. When he was 17 he came to the United States with his brother. He was living in Kingston, NY at a shelter for unaccompanied minors until this past November. On the morning of his 18th birthday he was taken by ICE from this home where he lived with his brother and others, and was taken to Orange County Jail in Goshen, NY. Despite no criminal record of any kind, he spent 2 months awaiting a court date of any kind, and a total of 4 months incarcerated. During this time he was able to create the pieces of art in this submission which express his frustration, his difficulties, and his understanding of perspective and patience and appreciation for what one does have. Thanks to community support from friends in the Hudson Valley, he was able to avoid deportation and be freed on bail and spend some time in the New York while awaiting processing of his asylum application. He currently resides with his brother in Nashville, TN.

Annie Poon is a multimedia artist from New Canaan, Connecticut. She is the middle child of a large Mormon family of eleven and has a twin sister. Annie’s biggest artistic influence was her mother Barbara who would take her out of elementary school to explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Annie went on to earn a BFA in drawing and painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has created over 30 short animations in addition to painting, prints, sculpture and music. Poon’s work often addresses her childhood pass times and mental illness- in particular her diagnosis of Schizzoaffective disorder. Annie has a daily practice of illustrating one scripture per day and has created over a thousand illustrations of her favorite scriptures.

anniepoon.com

Community and creativity are very important to me, it is what keeps my heart going. I started “Smell the Damn Roses” to bring art and health together. It is about creative thought for happier people.

www.smellthedamnroses.com

Jessica Gaddis chases after moments when the natural and the synthetic meet. In an increasingly digital age she steadfastly works in physical materials. Weighty, fragile materials such as clay, glass and plaster become sensual fluid forms and are introduced to the withdrawn objects of daily life. She creates opportunity for reclamation.

Her project for O+ Kingston is an extension of her interest in the index. Indexes are typically ephemeral phenomena in the physical world: shadows, smoke, and footprints. The shadows of historical buildings are indexes of Kingston’s foundation as a pivotal part of the history of New York. Outlining shadows in colorful chalk is a playful nod to Kingston’s history while looking toward its ever-expanding support for the arts. Jessica is an artist working and living in Kingston, NY. She holds a BFA and MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz.

www.jessicagaddis.com

Delilah Jones is a mixed media collage artist, photographer and poet from New York. She received her B.F.A in Photography in 2009 from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Selected as an AIR recipient at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijarvi, Finland in 2012, she made use of crowdfunding platforms to support her artistic pursuits. Working with Papercut Press, she published Portals in December 2012, and has been included in various independent bookstores and art fairs. She most recently was selected by Tumblr as their spotlight artist and designer for the 3rd Annual Fashion Honor Award during the 2015 NYFW. Her work has been featured by SFMOMA, Hyperallergic, Beautiful/Decay, Not Paper, Bust Magazine, The Rumpus, Serial Optimist, and has exhibited her work locally and nationally. She has collaborated with numerous artists on a diverse range of projects and continues to connect with her creative community at large. She is currently working feverishly from her bedroom in Brooklyn dreaming all the impossible paper dreams with perpetually sticky fingers and her newly adopted rescue dog Baisley.

http://truthmagic.org

https://vimeo.com/user2429166

http://mymindisanisland.tumblr.com

Andrew H. Shirley finds an obsession in living experimentation through a miscreant lifestyle detached from material pop culture. His multi disciplinary work has appeared in PS 1, MOCA, Museum of Sex, and films have screened at festivals in over 300 cities worldwide. As a social architect, he has curated the underground into public events from institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music to a secret tree house art gallery he built in upstate NY. Though primarily nomadic, he sometimes resides outside of Kingston, NY.

www.wastedland2.com

Will Lytle aka Thorneater Comics is a Catskills born and raised comic artist and illustrator. He’s deeply influenced by the natural environment of the Catskills, and tries to capture the form of magic they inspire. He’s been a muralist for O+ Festival Kingston, had a weekly comic in the Ulster Publishing suite of papers, decorated a window at Colette in Paris, and works as a freelance illustrator in the Mid Hudson Valley.

 

Ocean J. Lofgren is a photographer and video artist living in Rosendale, New York and a life long resident of the Hudson Valley. He is an alumnus of the 2016 O+ Festival. His work has shown nationally and internationally in Queer Prophecies: Future Visions with Coral Short, In New York at Judson Memorial Church, the SOHO 20 Gallery, Manhattan Theater Source, Islip Art Museum, and The Gallery at Hummingbird; and in Dublin, Ireland at the Out House Gallery. His work has also been published in Source Magazine, Ireland’s Photographic Review. Ocean has a BFA from Purchase College (1997) and a Masters Degree in Special Education from Hunter College (2005.) Ocean currently works as a special education teacher and a dyslexia therapist.

Callie Jayne is the Founder & Executive Director of Rise Up Kingston, and Radio Show host at Radio Kingston. Her desire to fight for justice began in 8th Grade protesting against unequitable dress code policies. Callie’s career started off in sales, bouncing from job-to-job, and struggling to meet ends meet. Her life, work and educational experiences led her to discover the institutionalized issues that were preventing her and many others — from all walks of life — from achieving a quality standard of living. Her desire for change comes from the belief that all people deserve a basic standard of living, and if we could all come together and hear many differing perspectives, we can use our struggles to achieve collective greatness.

http://www.oceanjoseph.com

https://radiokingston.org/en/archive/rise-up-radio

I’m a 23 year old multi-media artist with a concentration in multi channel video installations and tiny computing. My work tends to discuss a verity of topics spanning from personal narratives, to abstract kinetic video installation. Nevertheless, I always aim to broaden discussion in hopes to start interesting and or productive conversation.

 

https://vimeo.com/user62495401