FOLDS
Curated by Laura Larson and Suzanne Silver
Project: ARTspace
September 25-November 13, 2024

Artist bios

Erica Baum

Erica Baum lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Off The Hook, Klemm's Gallery, Berlin (2024); Off the Cuff, Bureau, New York (2024); and the bite in the ribbon, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris (2022).

Sophia Chai

Sophia Chai was born in Busan, South Korea and is presently based in Rochester, MN. She received her BA in chemistry from the University of Chicago and earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chai is a recipient of a 2024 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists.

Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey works across genres of photography, film/video and writing. She is the author of Index Cards, and editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Her 2022 film, Horse Opera, premiered at MoMA, New York, and went on to show at international festivals, notably the TIFF and the Berlinale. 

Amber Elison

Amber Elison works across disciplines to examine the felt experience of presence and absence, the said and unsaid, the legible and illegible. She collaborates with dance and sound artists to create immersive installations and performances that draw connections between personal narratives, social histories, and ancestral folklore.

Christine Heindl

Christine Heindl is a painter who also engages in writing and sewing, among other things. She lives and works in Queens, NY.

Sara Hess

Sara Hess is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Athens, GA. She received an MFA from The Ohio State University and a BFA from the University of Georgia. Through her work and relationship to images, materials, and people, she endeavors to listen deeply.

Christine Hume

Christine Hume is a writer of nonfiction and poetry with a strong interest in the intersections between gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and feminist art. 

Rhea Karam

Rhea Karam’s work focuses on deconstructing the urban landscape with an emphasis on public walls and the role they play in our daily lives. The enriching dialogue created around and upon walls allow her to explore various themes such as history, displacement, identity, communication, architecture and the environment. Although mainly photographic, her practice also includes painting, printmaking, public street installations and a particular appreciation for creating unique, limited edition artist books.

Justine Kurland

Justine Kurland uses photography and collage to dispel masculinist myths and create safe space for women. Casper’s Birth, 2023 (Kurland’s first foray into painting) questions the notion of origin stories. 

Dionne Lee

Dionne Lee works in photography, collage, and video to explore power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. Lee’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Princeton University Art Museum, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, CA, Aperture Foundation, New York, International Center of Photography, New York, and Light Work, New York. Recent exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

Laura Lisbon

Laura Lisbon works in Columbus, OH. Engaged in rethinking the limits of painting in

relation to perceptual, environmental, and social conditions, she makes paintings as well as constructions that she terms “set-ups.” Her recent essay on the painter Martin Barré, “Before, Since, Still Martin Barré” (2020) is published in Transatlantique.

Mary Lum

Mary Lum is a visual artist who lives and works in North Adams, MA. 

Aspen Mays

Aspen Mays is the Chair of Photography at the California College of the Arts. Mays was a Fulbright Scholar in Chile where she spent time with astrophysicists using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky, an experience that has made a lasting impact on her work.

Klea McKenna

Klea McKenna is a visual artist who also makes films and writes. She is currently a Guggenheim Fellow in photography. Her work has been shown and published internationally. Her photograms are held in several public collections, including SFMOMA, LACMA, Getty Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the US Embassy collection, The Mead Museum of Art and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Klea is represented by EUQINOM Gallery in San Francisco. In addition to her own art practice, she was co-founder and photographer at IN THE MAKE, an online arts journal that published studio visits and interviews with over 120 West Coast artists from 2011 to 2015. She is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison and the late psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna. Klea lives in San Francisco with her partner and their young children. Her first monograph, Witness Mark, was published by Saint Lucy books in 2023.

Christian Patterson

Christian Patterson’s multidisciplinary, research-based, visually layered work deals with themes of memory, place and time. Photographs are the heart of his work, which includes drawings, painting, readymade objects, video, and sound. He's the author Redheaded Peckerwood and the forthcoming Gong Co., a Guggenheim Fellow, and resides in New York City.

Camille Paulhan

Camille Paulhan is an art historian, art critic and teacher. Author of a PhD in art history on the perishable in the art of the 1960s-1970s, she is a member of AICA France and teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. 

Jenny Perlin

Jenny Perlin is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York and Oslo, Norway.

She is director of The Hoosac Institute, a platform for interdisciplinary artistic practice.

Dani & Sheilah ReStack

Dani and Sheilah ReStacks live in Columbus, Ohio with their two daughters. Their work follows their curiosity of the domestic as a place of unruly possibility – a portal for emotional logic, fragmentation and new narratives that allows the quotidian to inform the imaginary.

Julia Schwartz

Julia Schwartz is an artist whose work includes painting and object-making using repurposed personal objects as well as everyday domestic materials. She lives and works in Northern California. She has exhibited regularly, including BODY HIGH at LABspace in Hudson, NY and most recently a solo show at Et al. in San Francisco, CA.


Lizzie Scott

Lizzie Scott has been working at the intersection of textiles, painting, and sculpture for over 20 years. She has exhibited work throughout the US and in Europe.

Lydia Smith

Lydia Smith is an interdisciplinary artist based in Columbus, OH, whose practice focuses on collections and archives as phenomenological sites for understanding remnants of the past and their links to death, time, and place.

Christopher Stackhouse

Christopher D. Stackhouse is author of a volume of poems Plural (Counterpath Press),

and co-author of image/text collaboration Seismosis (1913 press), featuring his drawings with text by writer John Keene. His poetry and essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in many periodicals and journals. Recent credits include The Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses edited by Jordana Moore Saggese (University of California Press); and The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture edited by Yevgeniy Fiks (Ugly Duckling Presse/D.A.P.) With an exhibition history that includes photography, painting, installation, event-making, and alternative curatorial models, Stackhouse has taught and lectured at various colleges, universities and cultural institutions.

Luke Stettner

Luke Stettner lives in the folds.

Jo-ey Tang

Jo-ey Tang is an artist, writer, and curator who experiments with the formats of versions, repetitions, and iterations as an ongoing engagement with time and its potential.

Catherine Taylor

Catherine Taylor is the author of Image Text Music, a collection of essays on visual culture; You, Me, and the Violence; and Apart, a mixed-genre memoir and political history, and Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives, winner of the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. She is a founding editor of Essay Press and of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Taylor received her Ph.D. from Duke and is founding co-director of the Image Text M.F.A. at Cornell and of the ITI Press.

Carmen Winant

Carmen Winant is an artist, writer, and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at Ohio State University.

Vanessa Woods

Vanessa Woods is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist working in photography, 16mm film, collage, and sculpture. Her work uses a range of visual strategies and a hybrid approach to image-making to explore discourse around identity, motherhood, and gender in contemporary art. She has exhibited work throughout the US and Europe and lives in Pacifica, CA with artist Josh Smith and their three children.