MEET WRAP ARTISTS

DEREK GORES

Born 1971, New York. BFA Rhode Island School of Design, 1993

Derek Gores recycles magazines, maps, data and more in his lush portraits on canvas. The balance of detail and playfulness in each piece reveals Gores’ knack for discovery and for building seemingly endless puzzles into his works. Rearranging the scraps, he is able to form a sort of surrealist image, where from afar a nearly photo-realistic image comes into focus. However, as the viewer gets near, the small scraps reveal themselves to be other pictures, song lyrics, charts, patterns and more, and sweep your attention away down a new rabbit hole.

Quinn Alexandria Hunter

Quinn Alexandria Hunter is a sculptor and performance artist who completed her MFA work at Ohio University. She works primarily with hair and the African American female body as material. Quinn is interested in the erasure of history from spaces and how the contemporary uses of space impacts the way we as a culture see the past. Her work negotiates between the self and the world. Hunter’s practice is contending with the false narratives of a romanticized past and interrupting them by laying a truth next to them.

Hyland Mather

Hyland Mather Was Born In 1971 In Corvallis, Oregon. He Grew Up In Alaska. Currently He Splits Studio Time Between Amsterdam In The Netherlands The Silver Coast Of Portugal And Washington State. He Graduated From Colorado State University In 1994 With A Degree In Philosophy And A Focus On Aesthetics. Best Known For Constructivist And Geometric Assemblage Of Found Or As He Says ‘lost Objects’ ,

John Sabraw

Artist John Sabraw was born in Lakenheath, England. An activist and environmentalist, Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice. He collaborates with scientists on many projects, and one of his current collaborations involves creating paint and paintings from iron oxide extracted in the process of remediating polluted streams.

Leo Sewell

Leo Sewell grew up near a dump. He has played with junk now for fifty years and has developed his own assemblage technique. His works are collected by corporations, museums and individuals throughout the world. Leo continues to cull the refuse of Philadelphia out of which he fashions pieces of all sizes, from a lifesize housecat to a 40 foot installation.

Daphne Shaw

Daphne set out to start as a solo artist which eventually turned into an ambitious artsy business with the name of the original blog – Artsy Daphy. She now partners with creatives over multiple fields.

Amy Williams

Amy Williams is a photographer and mixed media artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1977, Williams received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Trained in traditional photographic methods, Williams continues to embrace these techniques despite the digital revolution of the photography world. Her photographs have been featured in the French art magazine Frog, as well as the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. Williams has exhibited extensively at 440 Gallery in Brooklyn and has been included in two group shows at Galerie de Multiples in Paris, France.

Maria Sanchez

Maria Sanchez is a social entrepreneur from a Redwood City barrio in Northern California’s Bay Area, now better known for its gentrified home to high tech and Silicon Valley. After a 25-year career supporting c-suite executives in the Valley as an Executive Admin, she made the move most people only dream about – she started her own coffee shop and art gallery brands, Tertulia Coffee and Sanchez Contemporary. Maria successfully operated the co-located concepts until personal tragedy struck, and she was forced to divest from her business, effectively parting with her life dream. It wouldn’t be long until the global health and economic crisis shifted everything around her once again.

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