Artist Spotlight

Kimberly Callas is a new media artist, sculptor, environmental activist and the lead artist of the Social Practice project Discovering the Ecological Self. Callas received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA from Stamps School of Art at the University of Michigan. She is currently the Artist-in-Residence for the Urban Coast Institute and an Associate Professor of Art at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ

A native New Yorker, Bari Fagin has spent a lifetime immersed in the creative arts. Her current body of work reflects a complex technique that involves layering a variety of mediums—including paint, pencil, collage, and multiple image transfers. Since 2022, her work has been featured in exhibitions and numerous juried competitions throughout the greater New York City area, as well as exhibited in private collections coast to coast.

Maurice Lampell followed an unorthodox path in his artistic career. Growing up in Mexico City, Maurice grew up in a bilingual household, attended a bilingual school and generally had a bicultural upbringing, influenced heavily by Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and artists such as Frida Kahlo.

As an abstract photographer, Kent explores the concept of aleatoric or “found” art in an amongst the mundane and detritus in our everyday world that harnesses a unique perspective incorporating elements within and around architectural material and edifices. Kent has been largely influenced by photographers who dabbled in abstracts such as Aaron Siskind, László Moholy-Nagy, and Irving Penn along with the many artists from the Bauhaus and Abstract Expressionist movement.

Cristian Mitrani, an Argentine-Belgian photographer and lawyer, brings over 50 years of expertise in capturing the beauty of cities and their inhabitants. His method utilizes in-camera multiple exposures and zoom techniques, resulting in dynamic and vibrant imagery.

Artist Jacobo Roa establishes euphoric connections between the visual and poetic elements of Mexican art, from pre- Hispanic into the present. The work references the currents in modern art and the surrealistic world of the jungle and the Caribbean Sea in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Grace Ji Yan Tsang is a visual artist and speech-language pathologist based in New York, originally from Hong Kong. Her work reimagines the world in a softer, more colorful way, inviting viewers into immersive spaces that offer both reflection and escape. Blending influences from traditional Chinese ink painting and European Impressionism, Grace explores the tension between power and vulnerability, connection and isolation.