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Ajay Kurian employs a fluid, multimedia vocabulary, which aims to articulate the social and environmental conditions that govern our desires, fears, and contradictions. His interests include, literature, science fiction, anime, and new materials. 

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Ajay Kurian

Pooneh Maghazehe makes objects, prints, photos and sometimes performs. Using materials often for their symbolic qualities, Maghazehe’s approach to form maps the entanglements of encryption and erasure. The starting point for her recent works involve casting parts of a single mold and dry point printmaking - both mediums steeped in ideas about an origin story, its replicas, and the question of permanence. The Diet Coke logo, supermarket coupons, silhouettes of a seagull, and supersized doodles all permeate her work but never converge into full resolution

Similar to the processes of printmaking and casting, the images toy with the question of temporality and embodiment. The resulting works expose an intuitive material record keeping that mutually empowers an original and the pulpy residues of its manipulation.

Maryland institute college of art (MICA), (Baltimore)

 in conjunction with Bodega (Philadelphia, 2012)

 (with Nick Paparone) at Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, 2013)

 at Brennan & Griffin Gallery (New York, 2019)

 at Torrence Shipman Gallery (Brooklyn, 2013)

Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989

 at ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, 2011)

 Beijing 798 Biennial at BTAP Gallery (Beijing, 2009)

Gateway II at Newark Penn Station (Newark, 2013)

 at DePaul University Museum (Chicago, 2009)

She has been featured in The New York Times, Flaunt Magazine, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Art Map Magazine and Contemporary Practices.

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Pooneh Maghazehe

Erin Jane Nelson’s art practice is grounded in photography sourced from her personal archive of found and original images. She often works serially, with each project delving into new conceptual frameworks as far ranging as regional histories of the Southern barrier islands, formative personal relationships, spirituality as a process of mourning and healing, and science fiction narratives. Raised in the U.S. South and based in Atlanta, Nelson travels throughout the region to photograph her surroundings and lived experiences. She intuitively merges these images onto unexpected support structures—including silk, hand-crafted quilts, panels, and ceramic inspired by vernacular craft objects and the history of collage—their multiple references engaging the nuanced anxiety, conflict, and humor of the present moment and immediate future.

 at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta, 2021)

at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, 2019)

Winterfest: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts

at Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2018)

 at La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain (Noisy-le-Sec, 2019)

Photography Today: Public Private Relations

 at Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, 2018)

Fries Museum (Leeuwarden)Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta)

Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)

She has been featured in The New York Times, Frieze, Forbes Magazine, Hyperallergic and Cultured Magazine, among others.

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Erin Jane Nelson

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