Artist Bios: Fall 2010
Fatimah Asghar is an amateur photographer, spoken word poet, painter, actress, and writer currently living in Providence, RI, where she goes to school. Majoring in Africana studies and International Relations, she is currently working on a project studying artistic expression in conflict regions and identity formation. She is drawn to vibrant colors and contrast in photography, and the intersection of beauty and obscurity—both in writing and through photography.
Paul Flinders was born in Logan, Utah, in 1983. He's been drawing and painting since he could grip a pencil. He was raised in Spring City, Utah, and relocated to Northeastern Kansas in 1996 after the excommunication of his family from the Mormon Church. He earned his BFA at the University of Kansas in 2008. Paul currently lives and works wherever he wants.
Ross Hickerson is a photographer and poet from Omaha, Nebraska. His poetry has appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, Paddlefish Review, and one time, he printed out one of his photos and hot-glued it to the cover of the The New Yorker. A fan of Moriyama-inspired street photography and elegant poems, you can often find him sticking cheap cameras in random people's faces and then placating them with cheap books of poetry. Ross can walk on water, chew nails, and pee thumbtacks, but he always forgets your birthday until the last minute.
Beth Massura is a graphic designer by trade, as well as an amateur photographer and writer. Her two rescued Bengal cats frequently serve as (somewhat unwilling) subjects of her pictures. Beth has a BA/BS from Purdue University and a MAM from Columbia College. She resides in Chicago, IL.
Syreeta McFadden is a writer and photographer from the Dairy State whose motto is ‘forward.’ She is an editor at Union Station Magazine, an online literary journal. She is currently writing a book of undetermined size and scope. She lives, reads, shoots, and writes in Brooklyn, NY.
Kasia Ozga is a sculptor and installation artist based between Chicago, IL and Paris, France. Her work explores how our attitudes and behaviors toward the natural environment impact the human body. She holds an M.F.A. from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, an M.A. from Paris 8, and a B.F.A. from the SMFA, Boston. She is a former Kosciuszko Foundation Graduate Fellowship recipient, Harriet Hale Woolley Grant recipient from the Fondation des Etats-Unis, and Polish Ministry of Culture grantee. Ozga’s work has been exhibited in over 10 different countries. www.kasiaozga.com
June Vesvarut was born in Los Angeles, California. A visual artist and illustrator, she is currently working and living in Vancouver, Canada. Her recent series of work is investigations into subcultures she has been involved with in her travels along the west coast and throughout Europe. Drawing a lot of inspirations from the riot grrrl movement, underground music, graffiti, and other forms of street art aesthetics, her drawing bridges the unfamiliar and unorthodox communities with the everyday contemporary world.
Question Everything? If people had taglines, that probably would be Antoine Williams’. He’s always been that observant person to ask “why” or better yet “why not.” Even as a kid back in the small rural town of Red Springs, NC, where he was born in 1980, Antoine used his creativity to feed his hunger for the unknown. This inquisitive nature followed through art school at UNC Charlotte. Here, Antoine began to notice social differences and injustices whether they be racial, cultural, or economical. Influenced by artists such as Diego Rivera, Banksy, Barkley Hendricks, Shepard Fairey, and Emory Douglas, Antoine began to comment on issues that concerned yet interested him. Antoine’s work is a fusion of street art, hip hop culture, and propaganda art that comments on social/political issues as they relate to everyday people. “I feel that art should be for everyone, not just the elite.”
In 2005 Antoine co-founded the art collective God City, whose mission is to educate, entertain, and assist the people through artistic expression.
Antoine currently has work in The Mint Museum of Art permanent collection and in the homes of various collectors while continuing to exhibit work and while pushing his artistic abilities and message. www.rawgoods.org
Paul Flinders was born in Logan, Utah, in 1983. He's been drawing and painting since he could grip a pencil. He was raised in Spring City, Utah, and relocated to Northeastern Kansas in 1996 after the excommunication of his family from the Mormon Church. He earned his BFA at the University of Kansas in 2008. Paul currently lives and works wherever he wants.
Ross Hickerson is a photographer and poet from Omaha, Nebraska. His poetry has appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, Paddlefish Review, and one time, he printed out one of his photos and hot-glued it to the cover of the The New Yorker. A fan of Moriyama-inspired street photography and elegant poems, you can often find him sticking cheap cameras in random people's faces and then placating them with cheap books of poetry. Ross can walk on water, chew nails, and pee thumbtacks, but he always forgets your birthday until the last minute.
Beth Massura is a graphic designer by trade, as well as an amateur photographer and writer. Her two rescued Bengal cats frequently serve as (somewhat unwilling) subjects of her pictures. Beth has a BA/BS from Purdue University and a MAM from Columbia College. She resides in Chicago, IL.
Syreeta McFadden is a writer and photographer from the Dairy State whose motto is ‘forward.’ She is an editor at Union Station Magazine, an online literary journal. She is currently writing a book of undetermined size and scope. She lives, reads, shoots, and writes in Brooklyn, NY.
Kasia Ozga is a sculptor and installation artist based between Chicago, IL and Paris, France. Her work explores how our attitudes and behaviors toward the natural environment impact the human body. She holds an M.F.A. from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, an M.A. from Paris 8, and a B.F.A. from the SMFA, Boston. She is a former Kosciuszko Foundation Graduate Fellowship recipient, Harriet Hale Woolley Grant recipient from the Fondation des Etats-Unis, and Polish Ministry of Culture grantee. Ozga’s work has been exhibited in over 10 different countries. www.kasiaozga.com
June Vesvarut was born in Los Angeles, California. A visual artist and illustrator, she is currently working and living in Vancouver, Canada. Her recent series of work is investigations into subcultures she has been involved with in her travels along the west coast and throughout Europe. Drawing a lot of inspirations from the riot grrrl movement, underground music, graffiti, and other forms of street art aesthetics, her drawing bridges the unfamiliar and unorthodox communities with the everyday contemporary world.
Question Everything? If people had taglines, that probably would be Antoine Williams’. He’s always been that observant person to ask “why” or better yet “why not.” Even as a kid back in the small rural town of Red Springs, NC, where he was born in 1980, Antoine used his creativity to feed his hunger for the unknown. This inquisitive nature followed through art school at UNC Charlotte. Here, Antoine began to notice social differences and injustices whether they be racial, cultural, or economical. Influenced by artists such as Diego Rivera, Banksy, Barkley Hendricks, Shepard Fairey, and Emory Douglas, Antoine began to comment on issues that concerned yet interested him. Antoine’s work is a fusion of street art, hip hop culture, and propaganda art that comments on social/political issues as they relate to everyday people. “I feel that art should be for everyone, not just the elite.”
In 2005 Antoine co-founded the art collective God City, whose mission is to educate, entertain, and assist the people through artistic expression.
Antoine currently has work in The Mint Museum of Art permanent collection and in the homes of various collectors while continuing to exhibit work and while pushing his artistic abilities and message. www.rawgoods.org