URBAN STUDIO EXHIBITORS

Greta Liz Anderson is a surrealist artist. She was born in Paraguay, and now lives in New York. She pursued her passion for art by studying at the BOCES Cultural Arts Center, and at Nassau Community College. She currently is a BFA candidate at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Greta participated in the fabrication and installation of a site specific sculpture at Art Basel, Miami, 2012. In addition, her work has been featured in a number of group exhibitions throughout New York City, including "Artist Wanted takes over Times Square". Currently, she also does live painting at concerts in New York City and at music festivals around the country.

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Katrina Avino-Barracato was born in Russia in 1990. In 1996 she was adopted by an American family and brought to Brooklyn, NY. Katrina’s early love for art prompted her parents to enroll her in private art classes held in a storefront around the corner from her home. Katrina’s passion for fine arts flourished while attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. Katrina’s work has been showcased in the Albany Museum, as well as exhibited at a number of galleries in New York City. She also participated in Art Basel Miami, 2012.

Slavko Djuric was born in Kragujevac, Serbia in 1979. He earned his BFA in Printmaking in 2003, at the University of Pristina, Serbia. He has been living and working in NYC since 2006.

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Son to Photographer Jon Gottshall and art eccentric Cindy Silveira, Eric Gottshall is a multimedia function-based artist based in Brooklyn, NY. With his first exhibition at 17, Eric has shown in a wide array of venues, including The Paper Box in Brooklyn, NY, Torche' Gallery in New Jersey, and Select Art Fair during Art Basel Miami 2012.

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Margaret Koenig currently studies Fine Arts in New York City. She makes work that reflects daily life by incorporating things she observes from each place she goes. Her goal is to translate the world as she percieves it in order to gain a better understanding of it.

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Chadbourne Oliver is an artist and performer residing in Brooklyn. He is heavily influenced by historical writing and fiction, and is a passionate Subliminalist.

"The lowest common denominator... the great leveler of the people, and New Yorkers of all, needless to say it needs no introduction... I was the first to immortalize pizza!"

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Jessica was born in Poway, California. Raised in a trailer park, she lived an unrestrained yet frugal childhood, which lead to an intuitive expression and adaptability of available materials within her work. Her mother began to realize that she had a natural flair and love for art and creativity when Jessica was seven and enrolled her in art classes in an independent artist’s garage. Since then her art education has not ceased aside from a short pause when she moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2006. During which time she played drums for a post-punk band, The Nasties. After three years of settling into her new environment, she decided to revisit her love for visual art and enrolled in a four-year program at The Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Art and Design. Jessica spent her fourth semester studying abroad in Florence, Italy. She graduated from FIT in May 2013 with a BFA in Art History and a minor in Art History. She continues to paint in Brookyn, NY, delving deeper into the theme of identity through portraits of New Yorkers, caught up in the chaos of the city’s fast-paced metropolitan lifestyle.

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Julia Sinelnikova is a multimedia artist, born in Jerusalem, Israel and raised by Russian immigrants in Texas. She had her first solo exhibition in Houston at age 16, and has since exhibited internationally, as well as curated a variety of exhibitions. Her recent exhibitions include Interior/Exterior in June 2013, a solo project at Untitled BCN Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. Sinelnikova also presented site-specific work at Select Art Fair during Miami Art Week (Art Basel) in 2011 and 2012. Her recent curatorial work includes Leveled Land, a Houston x Bushwick project, which was named a top ten curated exhibition of Bushwick Open Studios 2013 by Bushwick Daily. Passionate about bringing communities together around creative events, Sinelnikova has co-organized Bushwick Open Studios for over four years. In 2012 she helped organize GO, the first Brooklyn-wide open studio festival. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

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Joanna is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in her hometown of New York City. Growing up with an artistic mother, Joanna was exposed to some of the most influential artists at a very early age. She began exploring her identity and emotions through her work, which later prompted her to gain a formal education within the field. She is a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology where she earned her BFA in Fine Arts. Artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Mark Rothko have influenced her work, primarily focused on the underlying theme of hidden emotion and spirituality. The result of her work is a cycle of creation and destruction that expresses her intimate thoughts and emotions.

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A.J. Springer was born on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Despite her original training as a traditional draftsmen and painter, her interests have also expanded to various types of printmaking, photography, and sculpture, including wood and metal working. A.j. is continually looking for new mediums and methods with which to experiment. She is currently living and studying in New York City.

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Melissa Starke was raised in Long Branch, NJ. She holds the positions of Department Coordinator for the Fine Arts Department at FIT as well as Project Coordinator for the art collective, Urban Studio. She has an AA in Business Administration and a BFA in Fine Arts. She has exhibited her paintings and sculpture in various New York City venues and has facilitated large scale public art installations for a number of art fairs during Art Basel Miami for the past six consecutive years.

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Eddy Valerio was born in the Dominican Republic, and emigrated to the United States with his mother and father. He was raised on Long Island and currently resides there. He is a full time student at the Fashion Institute of Technology where is in the process of completing his BFA in Fine Arts.

Joel Werring received his BA in Art Practice from the University of California at Berkeley and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. In 2003, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting. He has taught extensively, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Joel's paintings and works on paper have been exhibited in California, Arizona, Connecticut, and New York. He lives and paints in Redding, Connecticut.

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Marcin Wlodarczyk was born in Poland, he came to N.Y.C in 1996 and started exploring his options, finding art as an actual means of survival, evolving within New York City art scene whether on the streets or in the studio.

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