SPRING 2020
About the Artist(s)
Anne Humanfeld
These are four Moons from an ongoing series of tondos. This work considers aspects of the spirit and activity of creaturely life.
Anne Humanfeld was born and grew up in New York City and attended Music and Art High School, Sarah Lawrence College and SUNY Empire State College. Her Work has been exhibited in solo shows in the Zabriskie gallery (New York City) Lehigh University (Schlanger) and Haven Gallery (Bronx), as well as numerous Group exhibitions. She is represented in the collection of the First National Bank of Chicago (curated by Katharine Kuh), and a book, “Voices in the First Person” by William Parker, published in 2014. Her studio is in the Bronx.
Jeff Schlanger
Jeff Schlanger, a New York City native, graduate of Music & Art High School and ceramic art student of Maija Grotell at Cranbrook, has created public art projects on three interrelated subjects : Peace, War and Music.
musicWitness® paintings and sculpture have been part of all 22 annual Vision Festivals held each spring in New York City. In 2010-14 projections of performance paintings were integrated with live performances on stage. In 2010, a long scroll of thirty paintings was created live over eight nights of avantjazz concerts while an exhibition of paintings honoring Muhal Richard Abrams, Rashied Ali and Billy Bang was installed just outside the auditorium. musicWitness® was awarded Vision Festival Lifetime Recognition in 2014.
MY COUNTRY SUN
55 x 40” (140 x 100cm) acrylic & ink on Fabriano paper — March 4, 2020.
One potent Spring 2020 initiator was the ARTs for ART ’Sounds of Justice’ concert on March 4th in Town Hall, NYC. The Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshall Allen with vocalist Tara Middleton + William Parker’s Inside Sings of Curtis Mayfield ensemble with lead vocalist Leena Conquest set forth a powerfully combined creative statement of living community in the center of the City.
MY Country SUN, 55 x 40”, was painted live from the front row at this event, just before live music gatherings had to be closed down for an indefinite period.
Nevertheless, living music & art vibrations continue to resonate throughout this sound vision Spring!
Corona SURVIVOR
life-size ceramic stoneware Totem, photograph May 1, 2020.
Holly Wood
Holly Wood attended Pratt Institute for two years, but mainly learned to paint by looking at books, observing her painter husband Jim Wood, going to museums and watching the world in the great school that is New York City. After she moved to Santa Fe in 1969, she was additionally inspired by the light, space, landforms and culture of New Mexico and Old Mexico.
“My subject matter, inspired by daily life, news stories, history, politics and my own vivid dreams, features a mix of humans with other animal characters playing parts of equal importance and often switching roles. I want to put the observer in a place where they are made to consider things that may never have occurred to them.
I work according to an underlying concept of Primal Laughter. For me, consciousness pervades everything, and in the back of my mind I'm always hearing a mighty voice shouting with laughter (or maybe that's just Tinnitus).”
Holly is represented in Santa Fe, NM at Keep Contemporary, in Los Angeles, CA at Cactus Gallery. She has shown at art expos and solo and group shows in NYC and Miami Beach, and has work in private collections throughout the US, Mexico, Japan, and Austria.
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Andrea Arroyo
My work celebrates the resilience of women, while examining gender, race and identity. My series “Flor de Vida” is inspired by female characters from history and mythology, including queens, goddesses, warriors and martyrs.Andrea Arroyo is an award-winning artist working in a range of media including public art, painting, drawing, illustration and site-specific installation.
Her work is exhibited widely and is in private, corporate and public collections around the world. Public art projects include permanent indoor and outdoor artwork for private, institutional and corporate spaces, including the NYC subway.
Honors include New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Global Citizen Award Artist, Clinton Global Initiative, United Nations Ranan Lurie Award, 21 Leader for the 21st Century, Outstanding Woman of New York and multiple grants from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Puffin Foundation, the Harlem Arts Alliance and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Her artwork has been published extensively including in on the cover of The New Yorker and in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and The Nation and has been the subject of over two hundred features in the international media.
Ms. Arroyo is also a curator, a cultural advocate and speaker. For more information please visit
j. maya luz
These objects came from my childhood home; they were the banal objects of my formative memories. I made these pieces out of an impulse to find a container for memories, so as not to lose them. The mandala shape becomes a way to merge form, emotional content and mystical aspiration. The product is a spontaneous amalgam; a reference to ancient geometry; and a purely visual language. What for me are specific objects that have time and place, for the viewer are random artifacts that I hope create a unique set of associations or stories.
j. maya luz is a NYC-based artist, neuromuscular therapist and non-denominational minister. Her work is exhibited and collected in the USA and Mexico. Photographs have been published in print and online at Women's Wear Daily, Time, The Guardian, W, Smith, Heyoka, The Wall, an d her photographs can be seen as artwork for musicians such as Quique Sinesi, Rosalia Mowgli, Dan Zanes, Jason Hwang and Karl Berger, Mulatta Records productions, among others. She is currently the Director of Special Projects, which includes the Grady Alexis Gallery, at El Taller latino Americano.
Her book “Godspace” is available at Blurb. “Rich images illustrate a simple, emotional poem. Readers enter into a sacred world that describes the heights and the depths of our human experience. This is a story of courage, the strength of the heart, and the road one artist took to heal in the face of loss to find transcendence.”
Yunuene
Yunuene ( Mexico City) earned a Graphics Design degree from the Universidad Intercontinental. Her collection of deconstructivist paintings arise from a desire to inspire the viewer to discover the deep meaning of day-to-day objects, to kindle the pursuit of creative ideas, and to celebrate strength in individuality.
Her artistic style encompasses a multitude of personal, aesthetic, and cultural references that reflect the plurality of her personal life and contemporary social issues. She often plays with viewers’ perceptions of the traditional and mundane, using augmented reality to complement her message. Yunuene lives and works in Mexico City.
Yunuene’s contemporary art has been exhibited at emblematic museums including the Museo Soumaya, Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL , Centro Nacional de las Artes , Museo de la Bolsa Mexicana de valores MUBO and Mexico City’s Metro System. She has exhibited internationally in New York City, Austria, Spain, Germany, Israel, Canada and Italy.
Bernardo Palombo
Bernardo Palombo is the Artistic Director, Founder of El Taller Latino Americano musician, songwriter, linguist and artist. Born in Mendoza, Argentina, Palombo achieved his first musical success at the age of 17 when his song "Vendimiador" was recorded by the legendary Argentinean vocal group, Los Trovadores, and became an immediate and long-lasting hit. He moved to New York City in 1969 and continued to write songs that have been recorded by some of the best-known exponents of Latin music in New York and Nueva Canción in South America including Mercedes Sosa, Philip Glass, Conjunto Libre and Lucecita Benitez. Palombo also became a musical consultant and composer for film and television, involving himself in such diverse and innovative projects as the Lucas/Coppola production of Powaqqatsi , the film Americas in Transition and the PBS show Sesame Street, who have featured some of his Spanish language songs.
Bernardo uses art as a way to direct his creativity in physical and aesthetic ways. He is a courageous experimenter, developing novel mediums and using mediums in novel ways, as a practice of discovery. Many of his works are remade objects, from things like discarded paintings and the works of the masters printed in art auction catalogs. Palombo uses the structure of these pieces to create new works that he calls “Encuentros”
Palombo sings his song “Destino cruel” St Peter’s Church 2014
Felipe Galindo “Feggo”
Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo) creates humorous art in a variety of media, including cartoons, illustrations, animations, fine art and public art.
Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico, lives in New York City. BFA in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His humorous drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Manhattan Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Mad, Narrative, International Herald Tribune, NACLA, INXart.com, El Chamuco (Mexico) and numerous European publications.
Galindo has held numerous individual exhibitions in the United States and abroad.
Recent awards include: Honorable Mention, Ciudad de Las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico; Honorable Mention, Porto Cartoon Festival, Portugal; Aydin Dogan Success Award, Istanbul; Zagreb Cartoon; 2ndPrize Tourism Ministry Cartoon Competition, Antalya, Turkey; 2ndPrize, Porto Cartoon Festival, Portugal; The United Nations Ranan Lurie Political Cartoons 2ndPrize; "People's Prize," Knokke-Heist Humorfest, Belgium; Greek Ministry of Culture Honorable Mention; "People's Choice Award," Omiya Festival, Japan. His books are: “Cats Will Be Cats” (Plume/Penguin), Manhatitlan (J. Pinto Books),
“No Man Is a Desert Island” (J. Pinto Books), “George Washington: Back In New York City” (Now What Media).
He created “Magic Realism in Kingsbridge,” a series of 4 permanent public artworks in glass based on Galindo’s humorous designs for the 231stStreet subway station in New York City, commissioned by the MTA-Arts for Transit Program.
Manhatitlan: Mexican and American Cultures Intertwined - a book by Feggo
Atu Ram
Atu Ram's work focuses on the sensory experiences that come out of order and harmony. Drawing from his study of visible form regularities in nature, Atu uses acrilyc and mixed media elements to explore the effects of color patterns, abstract figurations and textural arrangements on the human psyche. Through an organic, self-aware process, Atu seeks to embed each work with his own instantaneous response inspired from the flows of unfolding patterns . This deeply aware take on creating visual forms links Atu's interest in the ability of imagery to transmit energetic states, with the propensity of humans to seek out moments of deep focus and reflection. Atu's affinity for reflective, meditative practices in relation to both the harmonious arrangements of nature and his own artistic explorations has led him to describe his work as "a natural experience in art.”
Atu's current projects delve deeper into the concepts of rhythm and vibration within other perceptual categories. A Harlem native, Atu is interested in the variety of tempos and pulsations present in the Harlem landscape, as well as their comparability to the rhythms of natural ecosystems. The embodiment of these tempos through color and figuration is the inspiration of Atu's current and upcoming works.
Sheila Schwid
Sheila Schwid was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 25, 1932. Her interest in art was developed at the age of thirteen. After graduating from the University of Omaha, where she earned a BA in English Literature, she received a scholarship to study art the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles.
In 1959 Sheila moved to New York City to be with her new husband, Jay Milder, a figurative painter and a part of the “New York School” that included Bob Thompson, Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, Chaim Gross’ daughter. She and Jay took part in Red Grooms’ Happenings at the Delancey Street Museum. Sheila had her first exhibition of sculptures in 1963 at Antioch College.
She taught art in the New York City Public Schools, then worked for Film Planning Associates, doing animation on the Oxberry and then went back to the Public Schools. During this time she made animated films and taught animation at Long Island University in Brooklyn. She retired from teaching in 1995. Since then she has been drawing and painting on a full time basis.
Sheila has had three major shows at Carter Burden Gallery. She has also had several exhibitions at the Westbeth Gallery (as artist and curator) that included generations of artists in all the mediums, dance, writing, theater, film, music in addition to a solo show at El Taller’s Grady Alexis Gallery.
Sheila is represented by the Carter Burden Gallery, New York City, and the AMP Art Market Provincetown.
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Frank Spring
Frank Spring has had a 50-year career as an artist, photographer, designer, film/video artistic director, theatrical producer and financial manager. His film/video work, both broadcast and commercial, has received more that 30 awards; and his photography and painting have been exhibited in both New York and London.
Recently, his work of painting and photography, Seeking, was published, and more of his work can be seen at
Camilla Golden
Camilla Marstrand Golden was born in Denmark. She received her BA in Art & Design from the Design School Kolding, Denmark. Camilla has exhibited in the US and abroad, including shows at The Danish Poster Museum in Aarhus, The Times Square Gallery in New York, Gelato Giusto in New York, and Grady Alexis Gallery in New York. She was a finalist in “To Be Human,” the 2012 Aarhus International Poster Show. She is the recipient of a Special Mention in Graphis Design Annual 2019 and in Graphis Posters 2020. Her work has been published in the literary magazine “Limbo”, and she founded the design & art studio camilart. Camilla lives and works in New York City.