Category Archives: Artists

Beatriz Guzman Velasquez

beatriz guzman velasquez

Beatriz Guzman Velasquez was born in the Mexican border town of Reynosa and raised at the Texas/U.S. Southwest-Mexico border in-between countries, cultures, economies and languages. As a transient body, she developed an understanding of her visual world and its potential to imagine possible alternative realities. She assembles poetic sculptures to speak on boundaries within a […]

Meghan Griffith (MAD)

Meghan Griffith

Meghan Griffith is a Chicago painter and street artist. We’ve chosen her work, Redemption, a photographic documentation of her performance art for our May 2018 exhibition, CounterCulture: Hidden Stories of Chicago Past and Present. Meghan’s work is powerful as the result of this performance landed her in some troubles with the law. As a result of her […]

Brooke Garbie

Garbie Flower and Bath Set

Brooke is a photographer fascinated by the female form. Bath sets and Flower Girl is an original photography sequence that to expresses calmness, femininity, and relaxation of the mind and body while also expressing sexual empowerment and body positivity. Hit Girl (work featured above), portrays a perfectly manicured young woman with a Glock 42 in a bubble […]

Anthony Folks

Anthony Folks

Anthony’s work stems from anthropological / ethnographical investigations using material culture objects and methodologies. His most recent series, “Evidence of Her Past” series utilizes litter, specifically hair extensions, as a contemporary artifact which is meant to suggest objects perceived as insignificant to be future representations of culture and is featured in our May 2018 exhibition, CounterCulture: […]