Artist Information
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is a street artist that utilizes collage style art and textual layering. He is well known for creating Obama's CHANGE campaign, and for his Andre the Giant OBEY work.
Yeye Weller
German duo street artists that are known for their multi-story art murals. They also create limited edition series centered around a specific theme. The theme that is currently on show contains a cocktail and party vibe.
Ravi Zupa
Ravi Zupa makes art that is done in a modernized folk style and often incorporates typography within his work.
Brendan Moyles Dorney
Brendan Moyles Dorney is a designer, artist, and screen printing wizard. Coming from an immigrant family and as a native New Yorker, Brendan grew up with a strong work ethic and more than a little hustle in his bones. From a young age, he always had endless curiosity and a strong desire to work with his hands. As a kid, he felt confined by school and couldn’t help but draw on the walls. This need to express his creativity led him to pursue fine arts at F.I.T. Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, exploring traditional mediums such as painting and drawing.
After college, Brendan found his way into antiques restoration as a woodworker, taking on high end projects for museums, auction houses, and private collectors. While his journey took him in a roundabout way, owning a design and screen printing studio allows Brendan’s traditional background to inform his work, while expressing his creativity in a new, innovative way. When he’s not busy in the studio, you can find Brendan riding his Triumph Bonneville, playing and recording music to relax, or dive bombing the mountains of Colorado on his snowboard.
Antonio Reonegro
Extremely accomplished in his style, Antonio Reonegro has over 30 years of creating iconic works of art. He is a talented artist who is passionate about painting, photography, drawing and all facets of graphic design. His talents have been showcased since 1991 and continue to the present day. While all were important in his career, most notable was Grateful Dead: creating over 170 Backstage Passes and numerous t-shirt designs, posters and album cover art.
Currently represented by Autumn Elise Gallery.
Arna Miller
Arna Miller started her career later than most would. After loosing her job at an architecture firm in 2008 she decided that she didn’t want to go back. She’d always fantasized about being a creator and working for herself so when the time came she signed herself up for several classes like screen printing and figure drawing. Miller finds inspiration in book illustrations, vintage packaging and early-20th century illustrations. She draws in pencil and uses visual references from books and the internet with her aim to creative narrative illustrations that depict magical moments.
Emily Cate Sabree
Emily Cate Sabree is an oil painter interested in how disposable items and leisure activities are integral to contemporary American consumer culture. Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, Sabree lives and works in Manhattan. Emily is a resident artist member of the Salmagundi Club and a member of the Art Students League of New York where she studied portraiture and figure painting with Sharon Sprung. A former art educator, Emily has degrees in Museum Studies and curriculum and instruction. Her work is featured in private collections across the United States.
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Kate Mancini
A local artist born and raised in New Jersey with a love for the states beach town lifestyle and ocean. Deeply influenced from her parents who are both artists, Mancini describes her world as evoking a feeling of happiness and tranquility thought out the use of color, layers and composition. “I see myself as a kind of historian of sorts, reaching back into the past to pull these iconic relics into the present day, adding a fresh modern spin to an iconic sea captain that gives you both feelings of connection to the past and playful openness to an ever changing future”.
Katlin Spain
Born in Leavenworth, Katlin Spain received a B.F.A. from The Kansas City Art Institute with a degree in Painting. In her studio practice, Spain works to deconstruct scenes, shapes & objects by changing their colors & textures. She’ll often work with imagery from her island surroundings, piecing shapes & patterns together to create new landscapes, patterns & environments. Spain is the Co-Founder of Island Contemporary in Key West a studio & gallery space where she spends her days expanding her body of work while also aiming to represent local artists that introduce a fresh wave of contemporary work to the island.
Lo Mantak
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In a true Jersey native style, Mantak has spent her summers at the Jersey shore since childhood and its most definitely shown in her pieces which includes seascapes, florals and figurative acrylic paintings which are inspired by the beauty of the shore area. “Being blessed with the ability to paint is an incredible gift I don’t take for granted. I’m always honored when someone chooses one of my pieces to display in their home. My wish is that my work reflects and expresses my unique style”.
Marissa Confair
Marissa Confair has two things she loves the most, old school hip-hop and fashion. With a keen eye for detail, she makes sure that each piece is unique and her strong passion for creativity and craftsmanship shows. Confair is no stranger with working for the top of the top, she’s made pieces for celebrities like Snoop Dog, 50 cent and collaborations for the WNBA.
Michele Matamoros
Michele Matamoros keeps it short, if you ask about who she is, she’ll answer with she’s a maker, an artist, a mom, women, a student, an innovator, a mover, a shaker, a hard worker, someones who trying to inspire and studying to be better at all those things. With 26 years in the fashion industry she learned how to make nothing into something incredible. “Life is too short to just do one thing. Customize your life to fit you. Be happy. You are important.”
Michele Kishita
Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses landscape as her primary subject. Her paintings are strongly influenced by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Kishita’s paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections, including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog, and the Studio Break and Thyme in the Studio podcasts, as well as in several literary journals. She has participated in artist residencies in New Mexico, Russia, and Iceland and exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts and is represented by James Oliver Gallery, Carrie Coleman Fine Art, Troxel Art Projects, and affiliated with Susanna Gold, and Crossing Art.
Nick Veasey
Nick Veasey is a British photographer who works with images created with X-ray imaging. Heavily dedicated to his craft, Veasey creates his visually stunning pieces by working with radiographic imaging equipment which is all contained in a bespoke concrete chamber. His works are a fusion between science and art, which transcends the classification as photographs, having gravitas to motive science institutions, museums and art galleries to acquire his work. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has recently added his work to the British National collection of Photography and several museums have staged full retrospective shows.
Shannon Gilson
Shannon Gilson is a free spirited coastal artist whose paintings of Beachy Summer Girls and vibrant florals are sure to fill you with happiness and nostalgia. From a young age, Shannon has had a passion for painting and considers herself lucky to be able to pursue it as a career. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, she has continued to experiment with various techniques and mediums in her work. Shannon draws inspiration from her travels and the beautiful turquoise water of the Florida Keys. She also finds inspiration in the colorful peonies and wildflowers that bloom in her own garden. Through her use of energetic strokes and vivid colors, Shannon hopes to evoke fond memories and joyful emotions in those who view her art.Currently splitting her time between the Florida Keys and Grantham, a charming town nestled among the lakes and mountains of northern New Hampshire, Shannon stays busy with her family, including her husband, young daughter, step-son, and four loving pups. Her passion for painting and creating remains a constant in her life, and she continues to create beautiful pieces that inspire and uplift those around her. Shannon’s artwork has gained recognition in prestigious publications such as Vanity Fair and House and Garden Magazine. Her Artwork is available for purchase in various galleries along the East Coast as well as on her personal website.
Robert C. Jackson
Robert C. Jackson began his career as an Electrical Engineer with Motorola for 5 years before deciding on a full-time career as a contemporary still life artist. Robert's artwork can now be found exhibiting in galleries and museums coast to coast. Collectors include Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Evansville Museum of Art, History, and Sciences, South Dakota Art Museum, New Britain Museum of American Arts, The Mattatuck Museum, Seven Bridges Foundation, as well as individuals and corporations worldwide. Robert was also the author of the 2014 publication “Behind the Easel,” which explores the unique voices of 20 contemporary representational painters.
Queen Andrea
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Andrea von Bujdoss is a NYC-based fine artist, muralist, graffiti artist, muralist, graffiti, typographer and graphic designer. Being a die-hard native New Yorker, Andrea is deeply inspired by the urban landscape from an early age. The excitement, color, diversity and crazy energy of its life is where Andrea finds her creative inspiration. Her artistic style is influenced by an endless appreciation of typography, as well as themes of urban life, hip hop lyrics, the advertising age, pop culture, geometry, symbolism, sign painter lettering and super bright color palettes.She has been featured in major art shows, solo shows, magazines, books, fashion lines, brand collaborations and has curated and exhibited in numerous art shows around the world.
Dan Ekdahl
Gyotaku, which translates to fish impression, is an ancient Japanese art form of inking caught fish to settle bets between Samurai fishermen, to prove the size of their catch. That is what Dan Ekdahl uses to create his incredibly detailed pieces of fine art. Ranging from squid to white marlin, no fish in the sea is safe from Ekdahl's passion for art.
