Narciso Polanco was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic: a complex and cultural city considered to be the second capital of the Dominican Republic. He studied at the Escuela de Artes at UASD in the Dominican Republic from 1985 to 1989 and in 1989, studied metals at Taller de Grabado at GAM and the Art Students League of New York in 1997. He has served as president of Artistas Plasticos Unidos in Santiago, DR and was appointed Speaker of the Alliance of Dominican American Vis

Acclaimed by many art collectors and art critics, Vidho Lorville’s artwork is currently part the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation art collection (New Orleans, Louisiana  - art collection purchased in 2014), the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois - installation commission 2010), and the McKenna Museum of African American Art (New Orleans, Louisiana - art collection purchased in 2002). ​ Vidho Lorville‘s work received artistic rewards and fellowships from

Baseera Khan is a New York based artist. Her visual and written work performs patterns and repetitions of emigration and exile shaped by economic, social, and political changes throughout the world with special interests in decolonization processes. Khan is preparing for her first solo exhibition at Participant Inc., New York City (Spring 2017). She recently exhibited in BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn, NY (2016) at The Weeksville Heritage Center. Her past exhibitions include Subject

Manuel Acevedo's work combines projected image, wall drawing, animation and photography to explore how light and movement shape experience. Through various media, he employs visual language in ways that transform flat, static images into active spaces of experimentation. ​ In the Artist Studios, Acevedo is working on a series titled Alpha-bits, an extension of his Made and Unmade series, which deploys covert/overt military language through encoded forms in hybrid typography e

Yelaine Rodriguez is an Artist, Educator, Curator, and Cultural Organizer. She holds a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons The New School of Design. With The Bronx as her backdrop Rodriguez's combination of costume design and sculptures creates whimsical revealing imagery of the complexities of her experiences as a Dominican American raised in The South Bronx. Through her art Rodriguez’s explores her dreams and realities, blending the lines between fashion and performance arts

Whether photographing people or places, Margaret Moulton looks for moments that go unnoticed, whether they are people’s in-between expressions and gestures, or obscured scenes in the forest undergrowth. In her photographs the wooded tangle screens views into the forest at the same moment that it reveals its most intricate details, as if another reality lurks just beyond what we can see. Margaret Moulton has worked as a fine art and editorial photographer, an educator and an a

Palén Obesa [Paloma Leida Natividad Obergh Santos] is a visual artist who works and lives in the Bronx, NY. She received her BFA in painting and drawing and minor in art history at SUNY Purchase College in 2017. Obesa was originally born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. Through her practice, Obesa has been exploring multiple themes that can be controversial, ominous or too complex to discuss. By doing this, she h

Amatus Jn. Baptiste is a St. Lucian self taught artist. His interest lies in investigating the common threads that link individuals; specifically as it pertains to the essence of individual character and expression. Links made by the use of words, the interpretation of experiences and vibrant color palates serve as a catalyst for the discourse of differences in his work. The media of photography, graphic design, stencils and found objects are used in the development of his pi

Kenny Rivero strives to produce work that provides the viewer with an intimate space in which to reflect on hope, loss and memory. While these ideas and their relationship to one another are familiar to many, Rivero addresses the links between them through coded gestures based in both fiction and actuality. Rivero’s work is driven by the process of inventing narratives in order to justify, come to terms with, or suffer in the denial of personal, collective and historical trau