Lauren Cline is an American figurative painter whose work explores the realm of the home, the bedroom and other domestic spaces. She uses a process-based approach to create her compositions that are derived from Jungian psychoanalysis. Her work can be found in private collections in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Zurich. She lives in Queens, New York with her husband and daughter, where she is currently pursuing an MFA from Hunter College.

Daniela Kostova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, installation, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of geography and cultural representation, the production and crossing of socio-cultural borders, and the uneasy process of translation and communication. Her work is exhibited at venues such as Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Queens Museum of Art (NY), Kunsthalle Wien (Austria), Institute for Contemporary Art (Sofia), Centre d’art Contemporain (Geneva), Antakya Biennale (Turkey), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Torino), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel) and many others.

Katie Heller Saltoun’s work explores a mother’s energy, strength and complex mindset as a reflection of her experiences as a mother of three young children. She works with paper, ink, pen, intaglio, chine collé, collage, and photography. Saltoun is drawn to black and white images “to simplify the complex relationship that a mother has with themselves and their child(ren)”. The gestural, expressive and converging lines used throughout her work represent the connections, disruptions and energy of a caretaker’s cognitive minefield. She intentionally plays with the size of her figures and placement inside domestic scenes to create humor and shed light on the caregivers mental state. “I think art and caretaking has unlimited possibilities for exploration and I aim to honor and create an outlet for all mothers.”

A native of Lisbon, Sara Serpa is a Portuguese singer, composer, improviser, who through her practice and performance, explores the use of the voice as an instrument. Serpa has been working in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music, since moving to New York in 2008. Literature, film, visual arts, nature and history inspire Serpa in the creative process and development of her music. Described by the New York Times as “a singer of silvery poise and cosmopolitan outlook,” and by the JazzTimes magazine as “a master of wordless landscapes,” Serpa started her recording and performing career with jazz luminaries such as Grammy-nominated pianist, Danilo Perez, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow pianist, Ran Blake, and Greg Osby.

Robbin Ami Silverberg’s art practice is divided between artist books and site-specific installations. Her artwork conceptually focuses on interlinearity, mapping, and memory themes, from a feminist perspective. She is the founding director of Dobbin Books, her press of 35 years, and Dobbin Mill, a hand papermaking studio. Silverberg has exhibited extensively in the United States, along with Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Mexico, and around Europe. She is represented by Galerie Druck & Buch in Vienna, Austria and is the emeritus professor for “Art of the Book” at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She most recently curated “Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books”, which is presently at Center for Book Arts Gallery in Chelsea. “The basis for my artwork, whether artist book or installation, reflects on both my material sensibility and the content and issues that comprise its core.”

Dora Tomulic is a Croatian-American visual artist. Her layered and complex visual iconography derives from personal and collective symbolism. Chaos and patterns of motions are fundamental in Tomulic’s work. Disarray and order, randomness and control are the building forces in the compositions. Her abstract patterns and ambiguous figures create a mystical, kaleidoscopic space. Tumultuous worlds formulate a deeper sense of order. She considers chaos to be a prerequisite to harmony rather than its antithesis. Tomulic perpetually scrutinizes her paintings, often re-developing an earlier work or using it as the background of a new painting. “The old is always an essential part of the new.”