Lecture Date: December 16, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Hayley Barker (b. 1973, Oregon) has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SHRINE, New York, NY; CVG Foundation, Beijing; and BozoMag, Los Angeles, CA. She has participated in group shows at Acquavella, New York, NY; Harper’s, East Hampton, NY; Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and SHRINE, New York, NY among others. Barker has been featured in several publications, including Artforum, Artillery Magazine, ArtNet, BOMB Magazine, Forbes, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, LA Weekly, The New York Times (China), and W Magazine. Her work belongs in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; CVG Foundation, Beijing; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL; New York Public Library Collection, New York; Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; and the Yageo Foundation, Taiwan. Barker lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Lecture Date: November 18, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston, MA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings that embrace unabashed sensuality and pleasure. Faux's compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Faux has held solo exhibitions at Hales New York (2023), M+B, Los Angeles (2021, 2019), Capsule Shanghai, China (2020, 2018) and Stems Gallery, Brussels (2016), among others. She has been included in many group shows, including Sim Smith, London (2023), Lyles & King, New York (2022) and Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2020). Faux has received numerous residencies and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2023), a fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York City (2018-19) and artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2017, 2012). Faux's paintings have been written about in Cultured Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Painters, i-D Vice and Artsy, among others. Faux holds an MFA from Yale University.

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Lecture Date: August 26, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Polina Barskaya (b. 1984) is a Brooklyn-based Ukrainian-born artist who received her BA in Fine Arts from Hunter College in 2007, and an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2010. Barskaya’s confessional portraits have a diaristic quality to them. Barskaya’s paintings hone in on the psychological intensity of their subjects and tell stories about the human condition. Typically depicting herself, her husband or her child within a domestic space, Barskaya employs windows and light to create a sense of disconnect and isolation within her works. She has recently been the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and has exhibited extensively throughout the US.

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Lecture Date: July 22, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Hanneline Røgeberg (b. 1963 Oslo, Norway) is a painter whose work engages material processes to override the representational and knowable. She holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale School of Art. Her work has been featured nationally and internationally at institutions such as Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, Museion Bolzano, Italy, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Spain, the Whitney Museum, the MIT List Center, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aldrich Museum, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati and Vancouver Art Gallery. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, an Anonymous Was A Woman grant, Westaf/NEA grant and grants from OCA and the Norwegian Cultural Council. She is a full professor at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Art, and lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Brooklyn, NY.

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Lecture Date: April 29, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Sharmistha Ray (they/them) is a visual artist, art critic, curator, and educator. Their artistic practice delves into the complex inheritance of multiple cultures through their queer identity and modes of abstraction. Working primarily in painting and drawing, they have also made work in sculpture and installation, curated projects, and written prolifically on art. In addition to their solo work, they co-founded the spiritualist feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost which acts as a collaborative model for research, artistic production, pedagogy, and community. Ray’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions and projects internationally at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Galería RGR, Mexico City; Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens, NY; The Parallax Center, Portland, OR; The Armory Show, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India, among many others. Ray is the recipient of the Montblanc Young Artist Worldwide Patronage Award, TED Fellowship, and Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, and has been an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; and Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY. Reviews of their work have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art India, Take on Art, and TimeOut Mumbai. Ray received a dual degree MFA in Painting and MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute and BA from Williams College.

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Lecture Date: January 29, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Linus Borgo’s (b. 1995; Stamford, CT) work deals with themes of spiritual elevation, identity, and reclamation of the body. Immersive in both scale and content, his paintings oscillate between sublime depictions of the aftermath of trauma and quotidian moments of daily life in the city. Much of Borgo’s work is grounded in a formative experience he encountered at the age of 18. Having just begun his BFA at Rhode Island School of Design, Borgo was in a life-altering accident: after climbing to the top of a building with his friend, he made contact with electrical generator equipment and was shocked with 11,000 volts. Following the accident, he underwent 11 surgeries, including the amputation of his left hand. In the years since he has developed and deployed his painting practice as a means of grappling with the new physical and metaphysical limits of the body he lives in, a journey that echoes his experience as a transgender man.

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Soumya Netrabile (American, born 1966 in Bangalore, India) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Netrabile received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BSEE in engineering from Rutgers University. She has had recent solo exhibitions at The Journal (NYC), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago) and Pt.2 Gallery (Oakland, CA). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Anat Ebgi (LA), LaLoma Projects (LA), Indigo&Madder (London) and Karma (NY). Her work is included in both public and private collections in the US and abroad.

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Hilary Doyle Co-Founded NYC Crit Club in 2017 with the current Director, Catherine Haggarty. Hilary Doyle received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston, MA). Hilary Doyle is currently represented by Taymour Grahne Projects in London and had a solo show at Taymour Grahne in Summer 2022. Recent group shows include: Beach and Contemporary Domesticity at Taymour Grahne in January 2021 and The Symbolists at Hesse Flatow in Chelsea NY in February 2021. Her work includes painting, iphone drawing, monotype, ceramics and sculpture to explore psychology of everyday spaces.

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Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran; Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego ICA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS. He was the founder of internationally recognized arts, design, fashion, and lifestyle publication Beautiful/Decay.

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Hannah Beerman graduated from Bard Studio Arts in 2015 and with an MFA in painting from Hunter College in 2019. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and lives with her puppy Jupiter in the East Village.

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Nikki Maloof (Born in Peoria Illinois 1985) received her BFA in painting from Indiana University in 2008 and her MFA from Yale in 2011. After several years in NYC, she now resides in Western MA. Her paintings explore the domestic world and its role as the setting for the dramas of human existence.

Recent solo and two person exhibitions include “Gutter” at Sorry We’re Closed in Brussels, Belgium (2022); “Nervous Appetite” at Nino Mier in Los Angeles, CA (2020); and “What Did I Know Of Your Days” with Danielle Orchard at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen (2020).

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Judy Glantzman is an artist, living and working in New York City since 1978, and recently moved to Chatham, NY. Since 2004, Judy has been represented by Betty Cunningham Gallery in New York City. During the early and mid 1980s, Judy was a member of New York City’s East Village art scene, and was represented by Civilian Warfare Gallery and the Gracie Mansion Gallery. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.

She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman, a NYFA grant, and a Pollock-Krasner grant. Judy has taught painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, Rhode Island School of Design, Purchase College SUNY, among many other institutions.

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Daisy Parris (b. 1993, Kent, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset, UK. Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.

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Isabella Segalovich (Based in Philadelphia) is an artist and educator who studies the intersections of ornament, art, and politics. Since working with antiracist architecture firm Colloqate Design, her focus has been identifying and combating white supremacy in the realms of art and design. She is a contributing author and TikTok correspondent at Hyperallergic, has appeared on podcasts such as Architecture is Political, and was included in an Architectural Digest article of “where to find the best interior design content on TikTok.”