Fanny Allié

Mixed media artist of urban life and the transient

"I am attracted to negative space as it shows the trace or the shadow of the positive but in a more hidden way. It suggests rather than imposes."

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Robin Antar

Stone sculptor of American culture

"When you say that somebody’s an artist, that means they can express pain in their medium and then release it."

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Alva Calymayor

Multimedia artist interested in more than what meets the eye

"I like to explore how things are presented and how people react to things. When creating work, I don’t initially think about how I can get people to like the work. I do it because I need to do it. The second step is then to think about how people would interact with it, and add more layers to it."

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Jill Conner

Art critic, curator, and founder of AS | Artists Studios

"What I find most interesting about underrepresented artists is that they go into their studios regularly and create amazing work that might never be seen. They do this because they feel it is important, which is an incredibly remarkable phenomenon."

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Jim D'Amato

Graphic, Biomorphic, Abstract Painter

"The art community is important, which is why something like Artists Equity is important. It’s a resource and a hub where artists can get together and exchange ideas."

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Sharon Florin

Oil painter of the urban landscape

"The first thing I do when I enter someone’s home is look to see what they have hanging on the walls or what they have scattered about, all their little knickknacks, because that tells a lot about a person. I can’t imagine a life without art."

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Katya Grokhovsky

"Post-Everything" multi-media performance artist”

"I feel comfortable in perpetual migration, from medium to medium, discipline to genre, venue to site, never settling, continuously in motion, forever in search of a metaphorical illusion of home."

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Zac Hacmon

Artist

“Artists carry their biographies with them, and although I’m recognized as an Israeli artist, I’m more interested in creating a hybrid context as a bridge between cultures."

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Meghan Keane

A peripatetic, abstract painter who currently happens to be looking at people

"In my experience, it’s about doing the things you love. And not for the market or for money because that all will follow if you’re doing the thing you love."

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Aaron Krach

Political Conceptual and Public Artist

"I like the term conceptual artist. My work starts with the idea, and the project comes out of it whether it's a book, idea, or party."

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Ariel Mitchell

Painter of human interactions

"If you have a feeling that you need to make something, just really follow that feeling and try not to listen to anybody telling you anything otherwise."

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Karen Moscovitch

A lens-based multi-media artist, scholar, and educator, who explores intimacy, structures of desire and the ways in which the sexual and the spiritual intersect.

"I think people see their own truth reflected in my work. Even if the narrative is different, it gives them permission to think about intimacy in a more open-ended way."

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Alan Neider

Long time painter, drawer, and sculptor with numerous public art commissions

"You hope that someone looks at your work and has a connection to it; wants to stand in front of it for a while, wants to have it, live with it, and be with it."

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Gelah Penn

Artist and Curator

"Because of our virtual world, it’s easy to think you’ve actually seen the work if you’ve looked at images. But there’s no replacement for seeing work in the flesh. "

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Aaron Pierce

Former professional artist turned art lawyer

"The New York we live in can be, sometimes at all costs, financially driven. I find that artists are often instead single-mindedly true to themselves in pursuing a passion and a creative idea."

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Shama Rahman

Marketing Coordinator at the Whitney Museum of Art

"[An artist 'image'] is about how to use what is inherently true to yourself in order to create a 'brand', and not fitting into what is trending or in the news all the time."

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