Neptune in June

Through drawing methods, Andy Van Dinh creates realms of ambiguous spaces where the self and other, here and there can be consolidated by forming a visual context for his distant desires. Drawing creates the ability to give a tangible presence to invisible, social obstructions that detain him from ‘returning’. The drawings become evidence of his corporeal engagement with place; a sensory documentation of translations/transferences of his becoming/being.
Andy Van Dinh was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He currently works and lives in New York where he obtained his MFA at Hunter College.

May Elian is a Lebanese Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She received a BFA in Painting and Sculpture from SUNY - Purchase College; an M.A. in Journalism from the Lebanese University & the University of Paris II - Assas. In her practice Elian seeks to paint and sculpt emotions of trauma, loss and displacements. Her work emanates from her own personal history being born in war torn Beirut she focuses on dealing with painful subjects such as forced disappearances, and distorting histories hoping to raise awareness about PTSD caused by ongoing wars and muffled feelings. Relying on line, poems and abstraction she sometimes includes figurative elements; mainly using acrylic, inks, oxides, clay, bronze, aluminum and sometimes resin.
Her poems were recently published in “Dusk: Anthology of Contemporary Lebanese Women Poets.” Nov. 2024 and she was the featured artist in “Cybernetics and Human Knowing”, volume 29, 2022.

Pilar Lagos is a Honduran visual artist raised in Honduras and Egypt. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Creative Alliance, School of Visual Arts, Miami International Fine Arts, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition and the Arsenal Gallery. She was a 2023 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Mentee. In 2024, she was an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center and Directangle Press. Lagos co-founded Immaterial Projects, an artist-run collective. Lagos explores estrangement from culture and body, using various printmaking techniques—collagraphs, monotypes, drypoint—to reflect on alienation, chronic illness, and identity. Her work is inspired by medical records and academic research.

Liam Ze’ev O’Connor is an artist and educator based in Oakland, CA. Liam received a BA in Sculpture from Lewis & Clark College and an MFA in Sculpture + Expanded Practice from The Ohio State University. Through drawing and sculptural intervention, Liam's practice explores the intricate tapestry of Jewish identity in America.

Gary Sczerbaniewicz b. Upstate NY, BFA - Sculpture - Alfred University, MFA - Sculpture - University at Buffalo. Sczerbaniewicz is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/ Design. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed artist residencies at Yaddo, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Space, the Sanford Underground Research Facility, and I-Park Foundation. Sczerbaniewicz is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Northern Kentucky University.
His recent work investigates the tenuous co-existence between the rational (post- Enlightenment materialist worldview) and the irrational – and how these antagonistic ontologies often co-mingle to shape our current cultural landscape. A recovering child of Catholicism and the Cold War, his works possess an acute fondness for cultural marginalia: the science-fictional (the post-apocalyptic, the weird, the eerie), anomalous phenomena, the occult, alternative history, and conspiracy theory.

Malda Smadi (b. Damascus, Syria) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Providence, RI. She completed an MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and a BFA in Visual Communication at the American University in Dubai in 2008. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Penland School of Craft (2024), and the recipient of the Salama Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship (2017) and the Sheikha Manal Award for Painting (2016).
In her practice, Smadi explores notions of dislocation—whether geographical, emotional, or spiritual. Within the space of translocation, she works to reconcile her sense of belonging across the places that shape her: the Emirates, Syria, Beirut, and the US. Through this movement, she melds pain with beauty as a form of hope, seeking to transform the pervasive violence that shadows the bodies and histories of people from the Levant.

Jose D. Trejo-Maya is a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands from a time and place that no longer exists. Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, where he spent his childhood in the small rural pueblo of Tarimoró and wherefrom he immigrated in 1988. His inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, James Welch and Juan Rulfo. Published in various journals/sites in the UK, US, Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. Pushcart Prize nominee in 2015; awarded Tercer Premio from El Centro Canario Estudios Caribeños – El Atlántico – en el Certamen Internacional de Poesía “La calle que tú me das” 2016; New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Finalist 2018, 2020 Jack Straw Writers Fellow. Mozaik: Ecosystems X 2022 Future Art Awards Group Exhibition Special Mention. Exhibitions in US, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Australia, Korea, Portugal, Ukraine, Germany. Public art outdoor sculptures in WA, OR & MA. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy…

Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu integrates documentary film, photography, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice. Betty’s films and multimedia work has focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality among other issues. She is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights. Ms. Yu's documentary "Resilience" about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at  film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film Festival. 
Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, NY Historical Society, Museum of the City of NY,  Artists Space/ISP Whitney Museum, The Highline, Tenement Museum,, 2019 BRIC Biennial, Apexart, Pace University Art Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, 601 Artspace, Five Myles, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, Bullet Space, Carriage Trade, Old Stone House and MAXXI in Rome. "The Garment Worker'', an interactive installation, was featured at Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Showcase. Her multimedia installation, "Resistance in Progress”, highlighting housing activism in Flushing was featured at the Queens Museum. Betty had her first solo exhibition, "(Dis)Placed in Sunset Park" at Open Source Gallery. Ms. Yu won the Aronson Social Justice Award for her film "Three Tours" about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq, and their journey to overcome PTSD.  
Her work has received coverage in outlets including New York Times, CNN, HBO VICE News Tonight, i-D Vice Media, Art Forum, ARTNews, Sinovision, Hyperallergic, E-Flux, La Belle Revue Art Journal & Studio International.
She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College/CUNY, and an New Media Narratives certificate from the International Center of Photography. For nearly a decade she has been teaching video, film, new media, social practice, art and activism at universities such as Hunter College. Pratt Institute, John Jay College and The New School. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Production at Marymount Manhattan College. Her forthcoming photography and art college book, Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience will be released in Summer 2025.