Deep Color

Lamar Peterson makes paintings and drawings that prioritize people relaxing and gardening in bucolic outdoor settings. Lamar talks about inheriting his father’s oil painting set, cartoons and coloring books as important early artistic inputs, Mr. T and Black masculinity, gardens as safe and utopic spaces, using a collection of image references and family photos to create the proxy figures in his work, appreciating the humor in everyday moments, the resilience and support within the Minneapolis arts community, watching films while he paints, helping students see the possibilities within art, and engaging with nature as a means of self-care.View Lamar’s work HERE

Tanya Marcuse makes photographs that capture the imperiled natural world—images like craggy trees changing through the seasons, luscious and rotted fruit covered in a winter frost, or an animal spine draped through misty woods. Tanya talks about her artistic trajectory circling back to her childhood, how her photography leans into the realm of painting, foraging through nature for content, Dante’s Inferno as an important conceptual muse, learning through technical failure, curiosity and looking outward, transformation and metamorphosis, showing work and object specificity, looking for euphoria in her practice, and the thrill and risk of being an artist.View Tanya’s work HEREBuy her new book VOL. MCCCXXI ‘Deer’ published by Roman Nvmerals  HEREView the accompanying film ‘Deer’‍ ‍HERE

Madeline Donahue makes illustrative drawings, paintings, ceramics, and editioned prints that often depict the female body through different periods of physical and biological change, like pregnancy and aging alongside scenes of motherhood, and the overlapping dynamics of being a parent, caregiver, and an artist. Madeline talks about formative childhood bike rides, mothers as being invisible to culture, written lists and titles as starting points for her work, drawing with paint, the gifts within a complicated life, making a drawing as similar to writing a joke, Death as a super-hot boyfriend, desire as a concept to play with, and the complexity of living in her own body.View Madeline’s work HEREPlease consider donating to the Fund for NYC Public Schools

Timothy Hull makes drawings and paintings that combine antiquities and artifacts like vases, Greek and Roman figurative sculpture, ancient architecture, and fragments of broken pottery—with contemporary imagery like Swatch watch faces, pop design, and geometric shapes. Tim talks about being kicked out of art classes, being an artist as a holistic outlook, collapsing time as a conceptual device, the balance between form and concept, careerism and artistic authenticity, the exhaustion of adjunct teaching, producing “post-market” exhibitions, co-hosting a new arts-focused podcast called Unstretched with Deep Color alumni Gina Beavers, and relationships, community, and love within life as markers of success.View Tim’s work HERE

Catherine Haggarty is an educator and artist that makes paintings and drawings that often feature wood grains, objects that look like toys or seashells, and mysterious tableaus of folded paper, tiles, and gestural linework. She is the co-founder of the NYC Crit Club and founder of The Canopy Program—both of which are low-cost educational programs that offer community, connection, and critique to working artists. Catherine talks about sharing ideas through her studio practice and teaching, multiple intelligences and her father’s secret drawings, free throw shots and being a celebrated basketball player, drawing as manual thinking, her painting language as mimicking who she is as a person, the liberation of letting go, and a complex life as a lived life.View Catherine’s work HEREApply to The Canopy Program HERE