An accomplished figurative painter, Marshall Jones was the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2008.  He was also awarded the Phylis Mason Grant and The Jean Gates Grant.  As a scholarship member of the Salmagundi Club, he has been twice awarded the Richard Pionk award at the annual members show.  In 2010 he was awarded the Fanatasy Fountain Fund Travel Scholarship which enabled him to study at the Paris American Academy.  

Marshall Jones work has shown extensively in New York including The (UN)Fair 2013 and 2014, Mark Miller Gallery, Denise Bibro Gallery, Objects and Images and the Salmagundi Club.  

Marshall Jones has taught figure drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York, the Salmagundi Club, and Studio 371 in Jersey City.  He works and teaches out of his studio in Hell's Kitchen

It is through experiential investigation that one moves toward understanding . With this in mind , we continually seek out intimate corners of spaces that may initially appear foreign . By isolating the various fragments found in foreign spaces through 5 different mediums such as : painting , photographs , writing , sound , & found-objects , we arrive at a collective + linear story .

The work is interactive , sight-specific , & multi-media based . Our intention is that visitors arrive closer to an understanding of both the common & universal interconnectivity that hovers inside fragile moments of everyday things or behind cultural façades .

During the residency with ESKFF at Mana Contemporary , Projet VALISE , by GABRIELLE MEYEROWITZ (NYC) & KATHRIN HANGA (VIE) , will turn gathered-material from the Atlantic Coast of France ( c.2O13 ) into book-form .

Ekaterina Abramova is an artist, specializing in painting and graphic arts in mixed as well as traditional techniques using oil, acrylic, markers, etc.

Although being a multifaceted artist, her style could be described as going in two major directions: the 21st century Post-Expressionism, and Spiritual Ornamental paintings drawn on symbolic folk art of various peoples, most notably on Russian and Indian mythology. Born in 1979 in Moscow, she graduated from an art school with honors and continued her studies at the Vasnetsov College of Fine Arts, Moscow. In 2007 she received her MFA from the I.E. Repin State Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia. Her numerous awards include Gold Medal “250th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts,” Gold Medal “National Endowment for the Arts” of the International Charity Fund “Philanthropists of the Century”, citation from the Russian Academy of Fine Arts for the participation in the exhibition dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the Academy, the Peacekeeper Fund Medal, among others. She was nominated for the State Presidential Scholarship in the Arts. She is a member of the Union of Russian Artists, Art Fund International, Creative Union of Professional Artists, Art Indulge Foundation.

In 2014, she was awarded an International Artist Residency in Hyderabad, India, organized by the State Fine Art Gallery and Kalanirvana Foundation, to represent Russia among 20 other artists from all over the world; as well as similar artist residency in Goa Chitra Museum, Goa, India.

And in 2015, she has been awarded a 3-month International Artist Residency, curated by Eileen Kaminsky Foundation at Mana Contemporary Art Complex in Jersey City, NJ, during which she will make 10 paintings of her new series Placenta starting September 2016.

Among her most recent exhibitions are: Art Cocktail Exhibition at D.E.V.E. Gallery, Bruges, Belgium, 2013; Exhibition Artistry at Artery Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2014; Exhibition ArtExpo New York, New York City, USA, 2014; Exhibition On The Right Way, Central Artist’s House, Moscow, 2014; Woman’s Academy, Moscow, 2014; Exhibition Art Through Light II at the State Gallery of Fine Art, Hyderabad, India, September 2014; Exhibition Innovation of Color, Westside Park Art Gallery, New York City, USA, October 2014; Exhibition Golden Age, Russian Cultural Centre, Berlin, Germany, November 2014; Art India Festival, Mumbai, India, November 2014; Kolkata Art Biennale, Kolkata, India, April 2015; Exhibition ArtExpo New York, New York City, USA, April 2015; Exhibition “Expressions” at Gateway Arts Center, New York City, USA, May 2015; Exhibition “Take Your Breath Away” at the Victoria Space, Art Factory, Paterson , NJ, USA, June 2015.

She has had numerous personal exhibitions of her art all over Europe, India, China, and USA.

Her works are in private collections in UK, France, Germany, Russia, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, China, India, and USA.

She lives in USA (New York), India (Goa), and Russia (Moscow).

Constanza Giuliani (1984) Born in Mendoza, Argentina. Studied Art at the National University of Cuyo, annual scholarship recipient for The Artists Program in DiTella University Buenos Aires 2012. Her work has been shown in Argentina, Chile, Perú and Spain. As a gallerist s​he founded and directed her own art gallery in Argentina, “Costado Galería.” The gallery became an important node in Mendoza, a platform for many invited artists to show, teach, and offer workshops. It was awarded in 2009 as best young gallery by the prestigious art fair ArteBa and the Government of Mendoza declared it of cultural interest.

“With an interest in gesture, attitude and action, I draw and paint people in order to understand myself and my desires. Exploring t​he relatio​nship between representational and figurative drawing, my work pushes formal aspects of painting. The loose materiality of spray paint, airbrush, and charcoal lend themselves to describing the human body: flesh and mind. Intelligence, communication, morality, and behavior are all important thematically. Conceptually the work conveys a fluidity between control and lack thereof, both in the execution of the idea, and the idea itself. With this in mind ​I sometimes discover myself flirting organically with abstraction.”

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Alessandro Brighetti was born in 1978 in Bologna, in a family entirely composed by doctors, from whom he absorbed the scientific research attitude. After different and coloured experiences, in 2008 he applied the Academy of fine art in Bologna, painting section. The scientific cultural imprinting recriminates its space in the artist’s work: from the first series of paintings representing histological sections to the second series, in which the election medium is the x-rays, to the third, kinetic sculptures based on the interaction of magnetic fields and a liquid capable to react them, to the latest, in which kinetic sculpture is brought to self-sufficiency, Brighetti’s ouvre orbits the sinergy of Art and Science, research and its formalization.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lives and works in Malaga, Spain.

He is a fifth-generation and internationally recognized artist, exhibited in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Elmhurst/Chicago, Miami, London, Berlin, Milan, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Zurich, Amsterdam and Stockholm (to name a few cities).

 “Evocative artist Johan Wahlstrom aims to encourage the celebration of daily life and incite happiness through the acceptance of reality. His emotionally charged neoexpressionist paintings are a contemporary hybrid of Jean DuBuffet’s chaotic geometric canvases and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s subversively scrawled social critiques. Wahlstrom works in series that function as pointed signifiers to his artistic intention. His work aims to elucidate the uncontrollable nature of reality in an effort to embrace the small sufferings that signify life. Wahlstrom’s work continues to gain attention fuelled by his overwhelming desire to connect with humanity in the hopes of provoking conversation. Pushing his abilities to the limit, Wahlstrom transcribes visual stories to enact societal change by illustrating the erratic and confusing nature of human existence.”

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Stephanie Pflaum was born in Vienna, Austria. She currently lives in Vienna and Lower Austria

In 1998, she went tot he University of Applied Art, Vienna where she studied art history and philosophy

Previous exhibitions include places from; Vienna, Austria; Salzburg, Austria; Berlin, Germany; Kassel, Germany; New York, Usa; Houston, Texas, Usa; and New Delhi, India.

Awards given to Stephanie include; Female Artist Award, Frauenkunstpreis 2003, The Ministry of Education; Science and Culture, Parliament, Vienna, Austria; and the Recognition award  2015 of  the Government of the Land of Lower Austria