Grey started apprenticing working artists in 1980 at age 10 and they have continued to incorporate painting into as many aspects of their life as possible. Having worked for many years as a muralist, a scenic artist and fine artist, they are currently the head designer for Play Out Apparel in NYC and design all their fabric prints in acrylic and watercolor.

Nocturnal is a Dominican-American mix media surrealist based out of New York. The pseudonym, Nocturnal, came about when they decided to transition their up-late lifestyle into a creative venture. A fusion of realism and psychedelia, Nocturnals’ art captures a kaleidoscope of hip hop, social issues, taboo, and nature on canvas. Like a phoenix from the ashes, each figure and symbol they paint has overcome adversity—much like their own resiliency. Nocturnals’ artwork is dedicated to questioning our own truths and the impacts of human nature.

Hannah Fons is an Iowan by birth, a New Yorker by choice, and a trans person by the grace of god. The primary goal of her work is to explore and visually express the ancient, archetypal currents that influence all humans everywhere through religion, spiritual practice, folklore, and dreams. She aims to draw parallels and reveal intersections between seemingly disparate cultures, honoring the fundamental, psychic trueness of stories and legends discarded as ‘myths’ by Western colonialist influence.

Manar Ramadan Balh is a 22 year old non-binary Egyptian painter originally from Queens, New York and currently living in Brooklyn. Manar attends Pratt Institute, as a painting major entering their sophomore year. Oil painting is their primary medium, and portraits are their chosen speciality. Manar’s work exists as a love letter to their community, and a celebration of Blackness. From the self portrait to portraits of their friends, lovers and family, Manar’s paintings create an intricate web of all the people they hold close to their heart.

Andrea Garcia was born in Venezuela and raised in South Florida. She moved to New York in 2017 to attend Pratt institute and graduated this year with a B.F.A. in painting. Her work generally explores the natural world in surreal settings, unlike subjects interconnecting with one another to create a new reality. She is fascinated by dualities and parallels between opposites. Her most recent body of work reflects on childhood, its enduring effects, and the interlacing of the past and the present.

Palén Obesa [Paloma Leida Natividad Obergh Santos], is a Dominican-born, New York-based visual artist and arts administrator. She received her BFA in painting and drawing at SUNY Purchase College in 2017.

Obesa makes images that derive from daydreams, inner monologues and intrusive thoughts. Her work serves as a vehicle to explore, explain and cope with trauma and its repercussions to the identity, resulting in imagery that can be ominous, crude or blunt. Her website:

Sabrina Ring is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. Their work includes drawings, paintings, jewelry, as well as screen printed embroidered and beaded fashion. Their work celebrates sexual and gender euphoria through queer imagery, hyper-visability, community, and self expression. All using a colorful, sparkly, early 2000s little girls aesthetic, reclaiming and re contextualizing femininity. Boldly representing queer sexuality through drawings is an act of protest against the exclusionary tradition of art history. Check out @dykey_drip on instagram, where they sell aggressively, unapologetically feminine and queer, hand crafted jewelry and screen printed clothes.

Vincent Xiu is a Chinese-American multimedia artist currently based in Brooklyn. In their work, he speaks about racial and gender alienation and displacement, and finding love and acceptance within the chaos of intersection. His recent work uses a blend of textile media and painting to create a range of hanging tapestries, floor installations, and wearable, interactive pieces. Their play with the discomforting internal and external elements of the body speak to autonomy, while the soft structures the pieces are derived from are ready to embrace with comfort. Their website:

Their interdisciplinary artworks takes the shape of urban interventions, performances, photos, sculptures, drawings, happenings, trans-media events and environmental projects. They operate the mutual contamination of divers media that is immersive, collaborative, and participatory in nature and intended to stimulate critical thought (articulating art with anarko-feminist-trans-queer, and anti-colonial set of positions). More about Adrians at their website:

Livia Mourao was born in Brazil, where she graduated with a degree in fine arts from the University of Minas Gerais. She has lived in New York City since 2005, a place that has become her home and inspiration; graffiti and the richness of the environment have played an active role in her work. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Mark Borghi Fine Art and Shoestring Studio and in the television pilots ‘Mating’ for Showtime, ‘Fashion Victim’ for E! and episodes of 'Instinct' for CBS. Livia also worked for Jeff Koons as a painter for 15 years.

During my 50 years of painting, I have used pastel, ink, oil, acrylic, enamel, and both underglaze and on glaze ceramic. I have several hundred happy clients. I personally take pride in the quality of my craftsmanship and believe in building long term relationships with clients, emphasizing quality, honesty, and reliability, as my credos.

Max Wolf utilizes bodies of skewed photography to interrogate the interdependence of self-identity and sociological condition. The ethos is inextricably queer from inception and is sensitively intertwined with personal experience. Wolf has been presented in exhibition in cities spanning four continents as an emerging young voice in contemporary art. Max’s Instagram:

Krzysztof Pastuszka is a visual artist and creative engineer. He focuses on the complexity and tension in transition by giving voice to his experience growing up as a trans kid in the late 90s. He uses mechanisms to create a multitude of parts dependent on one another to concentrate on movement and the interplay between objects to envision the intricacies of change and the necessity of components cooperating to create transformation. Krzysztof received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts; he recently graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from NYC College of Technology and is a patented designer and machinist. Follow on IG: