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Founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the author of 22 poetry collections (print/audio/video), most recently two books written 50 years apart The Unspoken (YBK/Bowery), Life Poem (YBK/Bowery) as well as Bob Holman’s India Journals (Rattapallax), The Cutouts (Matisse) (PeKaBoo Press) and Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press). He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. As the original Slam Master and a director of the Nuyorican Poets Café, creator of the world's first spoken word poetry record label, Mouth Almighty/Mercury, and the Founder and Artistic Director of the Bowery Poetry Club, Holman has played a central role in the spoken word, slam and digital poetry movements of the last several decades. All told, he has performed well over 1,000 times, around the globe, from Madison Square Garden and rock stadiums to church basements and Ethiopian Tej Bets (honey wine bars). Co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance, Holman's study of hip-hop and West African oral traditions led to his current work with endangered languages. He is the producer/director/host of various films, including The United States of Poetry, a PBS series that aired nationally and won the International Public Television Award, directed by Mark Pellington and produced with Joshua Blum, and On the Road with Bob Holman. His film about language loss and revitalization, Language Matters with Bob Holman, winner of the Berkeley Film Festival's Documentary of the Year award, was produced by David Grubin and aired nationally on PBS. Holman traveled for the film and led workshops at language revitalization centers across Alaska and Hawaii, sponsored by the Ford Foundation; in 2022 he was invited by the Basabali Langauge Reclamation Society to screen it in Bali. His short film, produced by Steve Zeitlin of City Lore, Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues, has lines of poetry in 50 languages, and premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. In 2018, Holman was awarded He is also known for his ekphrastic poetry and performances, including Talking Pictures, a film by Kristi Zea of Holman performing his poems with the paintings of his late wife, Elizabeth Murray. At Sundance in 2023, a digital restoration of SLAM, the movie made by Marc Levin and starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn, was screened. The film originated at the Nuyorican Poets Café 25 years earlier when Holman was MC, a role he recreated live at Sundance. Holman’s poetry film, We Are the Dinosaur, directed by Paul Moon, featured at a dozen film festivals, was the basis of Holman’s 2024 tour of Oslo, Vienna, Tbilisi, and Tokyo. In 2025, he was selected by the Venice Biennale to perform his poetry on Venice’s streets, canals and bridges, as well as in theaters.

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented four solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art.

Holly Coulis was born in Toronto, ON and moved to NYC in 1999. She currently lives and works in Athens, GA. Her work is represented by Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles and Klaus von Nichtssagend in NYC, where they are currently hosting her exhibition, "Whereabouts".

Sam Jablon (b. 1986, Binghamton, New York) lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his BA from Naropa University. His work has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Hauser & Wirth, Blum & Poe, Morgan Presents, and the Pit. His work is held in the collections of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ICA Miami, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, BOMB, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Dona Nelson received a BFA from Ohio State University in 1968, attending the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1967 while still an undergraduate. Among other grants, Nelson received an Anonymous was a Woman Grant in 2015, an Artist Legacy Foundation Award in 2013, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. In January/February of this year, they had a solo exhibition at Canada Gallery, in conjunction with Thomas Erben. Nelson’s paintings are included in collections such as the Whitney Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the new Princeton University Art Museum, where their painting, Providence, 2023, is currently installed. In June, Thomas Erben will present Andrew Ross and Dona Nelson in the Premiere Sector of Art Basel, Basel.

Liz Ainslie is an abstract painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her abstractions are generated from observations and memories spanning 1970s interior decor, the Upstate New York landscape, My Little Pony, and ancient Greek wall paintings. You can read about Liz's recent solo exhibition at Deanna Evans Projects on Two Coats of Paint. Liz's work has been featured in shows at White Columns, PLATFORM, Transmitter, Good Naked, Rhett Baruch, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Mepaintsme, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Tappeto Volante.

Henry Gunderson (born 1990, San Francisco, CA) is an American artist based in New York. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Gunderson received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Gunderson has had solo exhibitions at 247365 (New York), Derek Eller (New York), Perrotin (New York and Shanghai), Gern en Regalia (New York), Loyal (Stockholm), Water McBeer (New York), Ever Gold (San Francisco), Carl Kostyal (London), Castiglioni (Milan) and has been included in numerous group exhibitions in the US and abroad. Henry Gunderson is represented exclusively by Water McBeer Gallery.

Kevin Lowenthal (b. 1994, Philadelphia) lives and works in New York, NY. Lowenthal received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work employs the use of techniques from weaving, papermaking, and painting: he laminates the canvas with cotton fibers to build a ground on which to makes the paintings. Stages, curtains, and mannequins are spotlighted in their relationship to an index universal alchemy. Recent solo exhibitions were with Derek Eller, New York, NY; 243 Luz in Margate, UK, as well as at the Material Art Fair in Mexico City. Recent group exhibitions include Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY; and Ruby/Dakota, New York, NY.

Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister. Flitting between mechanical and organic objects, Matthams’ exacting brushwork is the connective thread leading our eye through every sumptuous detail. Matthams graduated with a BFA in Fine Art from New York University in 2004 and an MFA from New York University in 2012. Previous solo and two person exhibitions include Agape in the Spectrum, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2024); Independent New York with Stan VanDerBeek, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2023), Glimpse, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2022); A Hell for Rainbows, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2019, 2013); and Advances, None Miraculous, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2015).

Lucia Love’s visually rich paintings are loaded with references to art history, mythology, politics, and the dynamics of power. By layering these references, contemporary allegories emerge, pushing each piece into the realm of idea painting.  Their idiosyncratic paintings have appeared at Cue Foundation, Giovanni’s Room, Sargent’s Daughters, The Hole, JDJ, and others. Their work has been included in The Bunker Artspace of Beth Rudin DeWoody, and the Xiao Museum collection in Rizhao City China.

Mary Laube's work is fundamentally concerned with the contradictory nature of pictorial space, as it carries the promise of spatial expansion: an implied horizon with the illusion of spatial possibility. Yet, the physical surface of a painting agitates this illusion, as it asserts its truth as a flat surface. Within this plane her work antagonizes our relationship to culture, and the fraught process of defining it. Recent exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), the Knoxville Museum of Art, and Groundfloor Contemporary (Birmingham) among others.

Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, and the spaces where art is made and contemplated. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is the author of the acclaimed books Inside the Painter's Studio and Inside the Artist’s Studio, which share an intimate view inside the studios of today’s leading artists. His work can be found in numerous museums and leading private collections including the Parrish Museum, Norton Museum, New Museum and the Fogg Museum. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Artforum, Art in America, and ArtNews as well as several international magazines. Joe is the Department Chair of both Fine Arts and Visual Studies at Ringling College of Art & Design. He earned his BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is represented by Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York. www.joefig.com

Esteban Cabeza de Baca is a painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between New York and the borderlands of the Southwest United States. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. Cabeza de Baca’s works are in the permanent collections of Harvard University, North Dakota Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Parrish Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Williams College Museum of Art. He is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery and Parker Gallery.

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another.  He maintains a prolific resourceful playfulness in his practice, with an evolving vocabulary of form and color that informs the freshness of his work. Playful and unpretentious, he mines the rawness of his materials, elevating the imperfect with an approach that is physical, elegant and mysterious.

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressures of assimilation. This duality seeded the fragmented forms and layered symbolism that define his art today. His practice continues to carry echoes of Latin American patterns, nature’s geometry, and American architectural influences, all reimagined through abstraction. Umaña’s recent works, “hybrid paintings,” combine glazed ceramics on painted canvas and fuse together conflicting styles—mess and order, biomorphic and geometric, thin and thick, matte and sheen.

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at  Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus (NYC), Thomas Robertello Gallery (IL), Greenfield Community College (MA), and ARTBN (South Korea). Lambert is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She has completed public art projects for the NYC Department of Transportation and collaborated with both elementary schools and college students on public art initiatives in New York and New Hampshire. Previously, she has taught at Parsons School of Design, Yeshiva University and Fordham University. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell (NH), Yaddo (NY), AIR Woodstock/Byrdcliffe (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Dieu Donné (NY), Lower East Side Printshop (NY), VCCA (VA)  and Fountainhead Residency (FL).

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia was a Lighthouse Works Fellow in 2025 and served as an Associate Professor of Photography at Alfred University for nine years.

Mathew Cerletty (b. 1980, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) paints hyperreal depictions of signage, commercial tableaux, and everyday items with a precision that veers into the uncanny. At first glance, his paintings appear seamless, almost digital, but closer inspection reveals traces of the artist's hand that attest to his dedication to traditional craft. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2025); Herald St, London (2024); STANDARD (OSLO) (2023, 2019); Karma, Los Angeles (2022); Karma, New York (2021, 2018); The Power Station, Dallas (2020); Office Baroque, Brussels (2014); and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2013).

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award. His current solo exhibition Drawings is at Picture Theory in New York, NY. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Harper’s (New York, NY), McBride Contemporain (Montreal, Canada), George Benias Gallery (Athens, Greece), and Anton Kern Gallery (New York, NY).

Tony Mascatello is a New York based painter of narrative images who began this process as a performance artist in SOHO long ago. Working on a small scale, he creates intimate spaces that invite the viewer to enter into an imagined experience.