Based in Birmingham, AL, Amy Pleasant received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1999).

She has held solo exhibitions at Institute 193, (Lexington, KY), Geary Contemporary, (NYC), Jeff Bailey Gallery, (Hudson/NYC), whitespace gallery (Atlanta, GA), Augusta University (Columbus, GA), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IN), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), Atlanta Contemporary (GA), Auburn University’s School of Liberal Arts (AL), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), Candyland (Stockholm, Sweden), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (AL) among others. Group shows include Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami, FL), Tif Sigfrids (Athens, GA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.), Adams and Ollman (OR), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), Cuevas Tilleard Projects (NYC), The Dodd Galleries (Athens, GA), Zuckerman Museum of Art (GA), Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art (GA), Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), Weatherspoon Museum of Art (NC), Hunter Museum of American Art (TN), Columbus Museum of Art (GA), National Museum of Women in the Arts (D.C.), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), The Mobile Museum of Art (AL), and the U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic.

Her work has been reviewed in publications such as World Sculpture News, Sculpture, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Artforum, Art Papers, Bad at Sports and BURNAWAY. She was recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2018). Other awards include the South Arts Prize for the State of Alabama (2018), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award (2015), Mary Hambidge Distinguished Artist Award (2015), Cultural Alliance of Birmingham Individual Artist Fellowship (2008), and Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (2003).

Based in Los Angeles, California, Christy Matson merges the precision of handweaving with the expressive qualities of painting through a manually operated Jacquard loom. Her work, often referencing landscape, balances structure and fluidity, capturing a sense of place through woven form. Matson’s process begins with oil pastel drawings, watercolors, and other works on paper, which she translates into weave structures using a distinctive digital approach. As the loom follows her instructions, she improvises with the weft (horizontal rows) with ingenuity and nuance, introducing subtle shifts in color, structure and texture. The result challenges conventional notions of both art objects and the act of making itself. Matson received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from California College of the Arts. She has since had solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Cranbrook Art Museum and the Long Beach Art Museum. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Knoxville Museum of Art, The Asheville Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Renwick
Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Cranbrook Art Museum, The Mint Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Renwick Gallery.

Isabella Innis is a contemporary painter born in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a BFA from Westmont College and has trained at The Art Students League of New York. Isabella has an intuitive practice, using lyrical strokes, charcoal markings, and dripping forms to create her abstract compositions. The movement and whimsy in her work reflect her upbringing living in different parts of the world in a family of musicians.

Erika Huddleston lives and works in Dallas, Texas and received a BA in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a contributor to Aether Art Journal and Texas Architect Magazine—writing about the connections of urban design and craftsmanship and public art. She was the Artist-in-Residence with the park non-profit Shoal Creek Conservancy in Austin in 2014, and in 2017, her oil paintings and original maps of Waco Creek were shown at the Mayborn Museum at Baylor University with the Art Center of Waco. She has painted major bodies of work onsite in public parks: along Waco Creek in Waco, Texas, Shoal Creek in Austin, Texas, the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas, the Ramble in Central Park in New York City in 2019; and she was invited to paint and exhibit a series of paintings recording the restored Blackland Prairie behind the Botanical Research Institute of Texas [BRIT] in Ft Worth in Fall 2021. Texas Monthly in Spring 2017 named her as part of their list of the “Top Ten Texas Artists to Collect Now”, and she was selected as a 2015 Hunting Prize finalist. Erika’s oil paintings record at 1:1 scale in “urban wilderness” locations the temporal natural phenomena that are not easily documented with typical landscape data-collection tactics. “I paint to record what cannot be seen on a static map and which is fleeting and hard to document, but which exists.”

Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Hampton Roads, Hampton Boyer layers bright, geometric forms to create his figurative paintings and collages. He juxtaposes inspiration pulled from African folklore and literature with his own experience as a contemporary artist. The flow that he achieves through his artistic practice fills his work with reverberating energy and intimate emotion. He has exhibited in numerous group show and solo exhibitions, including one at Omni Gallery in London (2023). He also had a piece recently acquired by the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA.

Lanecia A. Rouse’s (Houston, TX/Richmond, VA) artistic practice is simultaneously contemplative and improvisational, exploring the communicative possibilities of materials through photography, collage, and abstract painting that point towards alternative ways for viewing and knowing the human experience. Rouse holds a Masters of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School (Durham, NC) and a BA in Sociology from Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC). Her recent solo shows include exhibitions at Forth and Nomad Gallery in Houston, TX (2019); Chapter Gallery in Kansas City, MO (2021); and the Duke University Chapel in Durham, NC (2022).

Katia Santibañez is a multidisciplinary artist engaging with vibrant and complex structures through painting, video, drawing, printmaking and photography. She is inspired by nature and architecture, using her grids to structure the worlds she creates. Her residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, as well as her time spent at the American Academy in Rome have greatly inspired her work. Born in Paris, France, she studied microbiology and biochemistry before attending the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. She currently resides in New York City as well as in the Berkshires town of Otis, Massachusetts, with her husband and fellow artist, James Siena. Her work has been included in collections at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, the International Print Center, the Brooklyn Museum, among many others. She was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2021.