Zo Baker
Zo is an artist, curator, and educator exploring themes of memory, food, and culture through community-centered social practice.
These paintings depict two species of local Rhode Island oysters. They painted these pieces inadvertently while recovering from a laparoscopic endoscopy to treat endometriosis in July 2024. During this time, Zo was thinking about the local landscape and how their body interacts with the landscape through the lens of healing and relationship with the afab body as a non-binary person.
Zo is deeply invested in creating spaces that cultivate excitement for inquiry and a sense of play through making, talking, and always eating.
To see more of Zo's work check out their website at
http://www.zoepeninabaker.net/
Kaz Bradley
This body of work centers on creating mythologies for the trans experience. I was born during the emergence of the Brood X cicadas, and came out 17 years later while the children of those cicadas were screaming in the trees. They are the root of the mythology I am building.
I am fascinated by medieval imagery, especially imagery and mythology that focuses on transformation and transcendence. Medieval art traditions such as iconographic art and gothic architecture sought to transcend the physical materials they were made from and become something holy in and of themselves.
I created these pieces to worship trans joy, to exalt it, and to be as loud and as obnoxious as I want to be. My body is my creation and I love it.
Sara Breslin
Sara Breslin has made a name for herself as a Symbolist Figure Artist with colorful, feminine work informed by the late 19th-century Art Nouveau style and the early 20th-century Surrealism movement. She obtained her BFA in 2014 from the University of Rhode Island, having majored in Fine Arts, and has continued her studio practice in Rhode Island ever since.
Breslin’s watercolor and mixed media paintings meld reality and fantasy to create empowering images of the Divine Feminine. These images employ strong narrative concepts, incorporating elements from nature, ancient symbols, and dynamic colors to breathe life into her mesmerizing figures.
Through her work, Breslin explores the power of womxn and femininity while delving into the complexity of human emotions. Her own experiences deeply inform Breslin’s work, and she uses her paintings to express and affirm her own gender identity and mental health.
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Stephan Brigidi
My photography has always been deliberate, most purposeful, and what I would call orchestrated. I have never been fond of working the streets or blindly probing nature, rather my belief is in creating my own nature as a socially driven image-maker. Occasionally, I have chosen to work with models beginning with some direction, but more importantly I have always been open to the "dialogue" we could create, abandoning the script.
For me, it's like choosing a dancing partner, and then performing together. I welcome the spontaneity of our dance, as we begin with some basic steps, even what I would call missteps, which can be the most interesting occurrence.
I prefer working with film, using the most basic materials allows for the alchemy to occur. The darkened room is the final stage where the image may reveal itself. It may please me, or disappoint, all part of the discovery. This is what drives me.
https://stephanbrigidi.com/
Gaby Cantú
Gaby Cantú is a Mexican-American textile artist based in Providence, RI. Using crochet, embroidery, and other craft techniques, she creates pieces that explore the political landscapes and cultural values in Latina/. She is inspired by oral history, methods of activism/resistance, and folk art. She earned a B.A. from Brown University in Science, Technology, and Society and an M.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in Global Arts and Cultures.
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Liz Cowart
Liz Cowart is a 22-year-old artist and a student at Clark University. She has always loved being creative and learning new crafts. While at school, they have been able to explore different mediums of art while discovering different ways to create meaningful art that addresses the issues that interest (and anger) her most.
With a particular interest in reproductive health, Liz has been able to work with The Womxn Project to learn more about art activism and community action which has led her to curating this show!
Expected to graduate in 2025 with a BA in Studio Art and minors in Women and Gender Studies and Community, Youth, and Education Studies, Liz will go on to get her Masters in Community Development and Planning in 2026.
Lesley Dill
This is a photograph distressed by sanding and wrinkling that I took of my friend Diane Edison. Diane is a wonderful painter and also a professor at UGA Athens in Georgia. We have been friends for thirty years, and she in turn has painted portraits of me. I am honored to be exhibiting this portrait of friendship right now, these days.
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in sculpture, printmaking, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche.
Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke into works of paper, wire, horsehair, foil, bronze and music—works that awaken the viewer to the physical intimacy and power of language itself. Dill’s artworks are in the collections of over fifty museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has had over 100 solo exhibitions.
She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by Nohra Haime Gallery in New York City and Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, LA. Photo courtesy of George Adams Gallery, New York
Crickett Fisher
My mixed media print collages deal with what it means to be an object: the body as thing. While a traditional print is at once reproducible and precious, these objects are singular and messy. Each one is a meditation, at once visceral and totemic. Themes of decay, violence, and sexuality emerge from the combination of materials like staples, shellac, and hair. The image of the body is limited in its ability to illustrate the often-uncomfortable experience of being. The somatic directness of material compensates for where illustration fails. The female body is one of the most prolific art historical subjects: it is a default object onto which “art” is projected. Most nudes are not portraits, but studies in possession and desire. In these self-portraits I ask: who possesses this body? What is it?
Isabella Herrera
« 22/24 » is an exploration of young childhood. Through the tedious task of etching, Isabella connected with long-forgotten memories and explored relationships that were once so simple. Nyala Honda
I have a draw to clay, the dust of the past, a canvas, a beginning. I make things from it that I see in my mind, fractals of the mundane mixed with late night thoughts, apparitions of characters from past lives, secret fears, robots, dancers and things I have read. I look for parallels, mirroring of time, people and sentiment. Clay is the perfect medium for sentimentality, the material of the artifact and intertwined with permanence and fragility in a way that makes me wonder who will find the things I have made years and years after I have forgotten about them.
Jonathan Izzard
Ethereal Leisure is a visual exploration on what it feels like to be in synch, not only physically but with one’s spiritual body. People often talk about how we are two parts: human and being, and this piece was a vessel for me to illustrate that. There’s so much magic to life beyond the mundane, all it takes to see it, is to look for it. We are so much more than what we are taught to believe, we are infinite, transcendental, divine and sacred.
Jonathan Buonaccorsi Izzard of Lunar Queer Art, is a 24 year old visual artist dabbling in a variety of mediums. As it is for so many, creativity is an escape for Jonathan to be able to explore and at times, get lost in their imagination. Our creativity is a powerful connection to our inner child, allow us to express ideas and feelings that words can’t do justice.
Jonathan has been able to continue his pathway down their freelancing career with a few publications and hopes to continue creating work that connects with who his is and what he believes in. To see more of his work, follow @lunar.queer.art on Instagram!
Megan McManus
At a time when the landscape of the female body is a more contested space than ever, I explore the work of being a woman. The balancing act of the work required to be in my body - to be an embodied body. I contemplate the work it takes to take care of this body and the fight that it takes for this body to be treated with dignity. The expense it takes to take care of it. I explore what it takes to be heard, to prove that I am an embodied woman.
Fabiola Peñafiel
In the media, one is a number, and the other is a child.
Depicting a round bud vase with two arm-like coils cradling a "baby" sculpted to the vessel, the dissonance in treatment between one human and another is justified by a difference in a label. Deprived of any defining features other than the word "Illegal" branded on its back, the main body is blank, lacking an identity. Instead, the focus is placed on the bundle to its front, sculpted to resemble a swaddled baby and marked with an "L." It, unlike its holder, will one day have a name; the body that cradles it does not even have the privilege of having a face. With the shape of the bud vase reflecting that of a mother holding her young, this piece invites the viewer to see how the media strips immigrant mothers of their humanity.
The labels help establish a clear contrast between the mother and child, with the mother being reduced to an "Illegal" while the child has the privilege of being marked with a simple "L," signaling their legal status. It is this differing status that makes the child an individual and a human in the eyes of the public, while the mother is simply another body in the immigration crisis. This depiction denies the sacrifice and suffering required of immigrant mothers to leave their lives behind and start anew for a future generation that may never know her as she was before. Yet, these mothers still make the journey, all so their children can be seen and grow up to be someone in a way they cannot.
Ella Rose
Ella Rose is a Rhode Island based mixed media artist. Working in paint, collage, embroidery, and digital mediums, she creates artwork that focuses on fantasy, folklore, and the exploration of womanhood and the feminine. She has had work displayed in galleries in Washington DC and Rhode Island, and she exhibits work at art festivals throughout New England. She can be found online at icecubesanddragonfire.com, or on Instagram @icecubesanddragonfire.
Thomas Terceira
When I was a boy, I created my own superheroes discovered in my comic books and altered these into my own creations. I studied enameling and jewelry as an undergraduate and have spent many years working in the jewelry industry as a craftsman and a designer as well as creating one-of-a-kind works in metal and enamel.
This often involves taking existing parts and shapes and creating something new out of them very similar to the process of collage and has influenced the way I work and the small scale of many of my creations. I have always been a collector of images, illustrations and a creator of images. I enjoy collecting old photos, postcards, comic books, images and illustrations from old and forgotten books and vintage ephemera.
I started making collages with these materials and have found it rewarding and challenging. Collage (traditional and digital) lends itself to improvisation, spontaneity, and the unexpected discovery. I begin with no final product in mind but put something down and respond to the materials, try to find images that resonate with each other. Sometimes this happens quickly but more often it takes a long time before I complete a collage.
I have always been drawn to the surrealistic, the poetic image and the dreamlike with a sense of playfulness showing through occasionally, and I hope these qualities come through in my collages.
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Julia Terra-Salomão
My art is introspection. By creating tangible works, I can express some of my more complicated tendencies: hoarding, overthinking, maximalism, guilt, anger. I can also process them with humor and joy. Life is absurd, so let's get a little whimsical!