Meredith Bakke
Meredith Bakke is a painter who explores violence, power, and the plasticity of the human form through a visual language informed by cartoon logic and animation. Her work isolates forceful and absurd gestures by rendering them in tightly compressed, psychologically charged compositions, creating morally ambiguous scenarios that hover between sincerity and satire. Bakke received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College. Recent exhibitions include Look Both Ways (2025), Flat Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics; Drawings in NY in the 21st Century at Deli Grocery and Unraveling. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Melinda Hackett
Melinda Hackett creates layered oil paintings exploring memory and architectural space. Largely influenced by pattern and combined with a loose examination of the natural world, she creates a visual environment that is both recognizable yet strangely mysterious. Color investigation is used as a vehicle to illustrate the biomorphic forms that populate the picture plane, forms that explore their own societies where they can seen as be stand ins for the human condition. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group shows, including the Southampton Art Center and Guild Hall in East Hampton. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton LI, public collections (including Fidelity in Boston) and many private collections. Hackett teaches watercolor at the Madoo Conservatory in Sagaponack, LI, and holds an MFA from Parson New School. She currently lives and works in New York City and Southampton, NY.
Sophia Kayafas
Sophia Kayafas is a figurative painter, musician, and singer based in Brooklyn, NY. Part of both the Greek Diaspora and queer community, Kayafas creates vibrant spiritual narratives and surrealist landscapes with introspective curiosity. Her work delves into the complexities of her beliefs and contradictions, dreams, and fears, but also transcends the boundaries of her own subjectivity, becoming vessels for universal themes and emotions. Kayafas received her MFA at the New York Academy of Art. Her paintings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York City (New York Academy of Art, High Line Stages, Southampton Arts Center, Pratt University Gallery), and nationally, as well as internationally; her artwork has been featured in The New York Times She is a part of the Chashama Studios Residency Program and an instructor at Pratt University's Foundation Department.
Devaun Longely
Devaun Longley is an illustrator and practicing animator born out of New York City whose creative passions have helped him persevere and grow through times of hardship. His animations on view reflect trauma and how our dreams are a response that can be transformative—dreams where suppressed feelings and memories creep in, forming into instances that bind time and space. For the past three summers, Longely has helped build “Harlem Conditions,” an illustrated website that explores the findings of the New York Department of Record’s “The Report on Conditions in Harlem” from 1936 and demonstrates shocking parallels from then and today to include discrimination in employment, police aggression, and racial segregation. Devaun graduated from Pratt Institute with a degree in Communication Design: Illustration. paragraphs & more.
Tom Prinsell
Tom Prinsell’s paintings explore the intersection of physical and psychological space. Blending traditional techniques and classical art influences with digital aesthetics, his paintings highlight how different environments affect understandings of the self and, conversely, how one’s mental state can shape the experience of their surroundings. Prinsell received his BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His work has been shown in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Austin, and London, including galleries such as The Sotheby’s Art Institute, 550 Gallery, Paradice Palase, MANA Contemporary, UTA Artist Space, Martha’s Contemporary, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Tom has been Artist-in-Residence at Silver Projects, Palazzo Monti, PLOP, Vermont Studio Center, and Trestle Art Space. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Mario Saponaro
Mario Saponaro is a painter who composes allegorical visual narratives modeled after himself and his life experiences. Often depicting figures in fantastical and unfortunate situations, his works grapple with the words and conversations he can’t seem to say out loud. Through iterations of a persona that are multiple but one, Saponaro’s work reminds that we may be able to leave the room but we cannot escape ourselves. After earning a BFA in Studio Art from Stetson University, he relocated to New York to pursue a Master’s Degree in painting at NYU. Saponaro’s work has been exhibited in select exhibitions and institutions, including The Hand Art Center Museum (2019-23); Gillespie Museum (2023); 80 WSE Gallery (2025); The Artist’s Labor: Oscar Bluemner and Mario Saponaro (2023); and 10 Bricks (2025).
Sarah Angèle Wilson
Sarah Angèle Wilson is a Canadian sculptor and illustrator based in Brooklyn. Her work is heavily influenced by the glossy, brightly-colored, mass-produced plastic of the 1990s. Her love for assembly-line Kitsch contrasts the meticulous hand-crafted process and finish of her sculptures. She explores the relationship between nature’s flawless symmetry and human-made industrial objects. Notable exhibitions include Don’t Panic at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Mother Nature’s Bitch at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and Twelve/Twelve at Established Gallery. Sarah’s illustration work has been published in various publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker.