Artist Statement: NO PLACE LIKE HOME by Betty Teng
This collage was made as I was transitioning, from film making to psychoanalysis. It is torn
up road maps of everywhere I have ever lived.
Artist Statement: POLITICAL by Joanna Goodman
“Political” is part of a series of experimental paintings which are mediations on the concepts of transience and impermanence. Specifically, I am interested in the “mono_ no_ aware” state. The bittersweet appreciation of a moment or as some say the ahh-ness of the experience.
Artist Statement: THE SPACE BETWEEN by Francesca Schwartz
THIS BODY OF WORK EMERGES following the death of my mother. Driven to find what is within, as an artist and psychoanalyst, and now as a motherless child, I become aware that the very effort is based on questions without answers. No amount of digging, desire or toil will let me penetrate what is inside (the Unconscious, the Body, Death). I listen as a psychoanalyst, dig and mold and craft as an artist. I am in the presence of what is no longer living, yet that which still seems to be animated, undergoing transformation.
ARTIST STATEMENT: AMERICA’S SOCIAL CONTRACT by Diana Schmertz
Due to the current political and social hostilities that surround us everyday I felt compelled to create a piece that was inclusive and stressed…
ARTIST STATEMENT: THE FUGITIVES ASTRONOMY CLUB by Sarah Valeri
If these little drawings were simpler, if they focused on color or form, they might be more likely to be understood for their essential character. They might inspire something…
JAPAN by Susan Katz
Susan Katz is a photographer, writer, and psychotherapist in private practice in NYC, NY.
ARTIST STATEMENT: THE AMERICAN DREAM by Violette Bule
Currently based in Brooklyn, Violette Bule studied at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Mexico City and holds a Diploma in General Studies from the Centro Nacional de la Fotografía in Caracas. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Tokyo Wonder Site…