Weird Nature

Roxanne Jackson

Gracelee Lawrence

Heidi Norton

Brent Owens

Roxanne Jackson is a ceramic artist and mixed-media sculptor living in Brooklyn, NY. Her macabre works are black-humored investigations of the links between transformation, myth and pop-culture. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Gothamist and Ceramics Monthly, among others. She is the recipient of residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Wassaic Project (NY), Plop (UK), the Ceramic Center of Berlin (Germany), funded by a Jerome Project Grant, and the Pottery Workshop in Jindezhen (China), funded by an NCECA fellowship. Jackson has exhibited widely, nationally and abroad, with recent exhibitions at The Hole (NY), Duve Berlin Gallery, (Berlin), Cob Gallery (London), Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City), Garis and Hahn (LA), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna), Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery (Brussels), and Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Regina Rex, and Spring/Break Art Fair (New York), and Untitled Art Fair (Miami Beach), with Richard Heller Gallery.

Gracelee Lawrence’s work deals with relationships between food, the body, and technology. She has been fortunate to attend twenty residency programs in the US and abroad and opened her first solo show in New York at Thierry Goldberg in May 2019. In 2017 she returned from 15 months as a Visiting Artist in the Multidisciplinary Department of Art at Chiang Mai University and assistant to artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook on a Luce Scholars Fellowship. She is a member of the collective Material Girls, a 2019 Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park, a 2016-17 Luce Scholars Fellow, a recipient of the 2015 UMLAUF Prize, 2013 Eyes Got It Prize, and the 2011-12 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant. She is an enthusiastic dancer, a lifelong horsewoman, and an aspiring indoor gardener.

Heidi Norton (American, born 1977, lives NYC) is an artist and writer whose 1970’s upbringing as a child of New Age homesteaders in West Virginia resulted in a strong connection to the land, plant life and nature. She received her BFA from University of Maryland, Baltimore and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Elmhurst Art Museum, Monique Meloche Gallery Chicago, among others. Select group exhibitions include Regina Rex NY, Depaul Art Museum, Pablo de Lillo Estudio Oviedo, Spain, Eastern Michigan University, Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, the Knitting Factory, Chicago Cultural Center, Ohio State University, Gallery 400 University of Illinois Chicago, La Box Gallery National School of Art France. Her writings and work are included in Art21, Bomb Magazine, Journal for Artistic Research, Grafts by Michael Marder, and the newly released, Why Look at Plants ed. by Giovanni Aloi. Her work was recently reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail and she discusses her practice in Conversations, Maake Mag Issue 10. Norton is an adjunct professor at FIT and International Center of Photography.

Brent Owens (b. 1980, in Spartanburg, South Carolina) received a BFA with an emphasis in Sculpture from Winthrop University, South Carolina, in 2003. He currently lives and works in New York City. In his formative years in Western North and South Carolina, Appalachian folk-craft, a Southern Baptist upbringing, and Southern Gothic Literature all imparted indelible influences on Owens’ work and life. His work, primarily sculptural and largely based in woodworking, fuses two disparate strains of Americana - workmanship and a thirst for novelty - in a particular strand of pop production that borders on the surreal. His work has been described by Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic as "Appalachian Moderne," and by James Kalm of the Brooklyn Rail as "Backroads Conceptualism" and "Redneck Dada." Owens’ longstanding involvement in the Bushwick, Brooklyn arts community has included three solo exhibitions at English Kills Art Gallery. He has also shown extensively in group exhibitions throughout New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Venice, Italy.