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Jo Fish (b. 1996) is an American artist based in New York City. Her paintings focus on bridging historical inspirations with forthcoming scientific and cultural shifts. Fish pulls a great amount of inspiration from the Renaissance, Expressionists and Pop eras while considering contemporary questions that face painting today: how does the image differ in look and feel than previous movements and what tools should we use ? Her process involves a unique synthesis of traditional painting techniques and contemporary technological tools. By using both image and language softwares the artist creates “ready-made” brushstrokes to incorporate on the canvas; these textures range from code to faux splatters and crosshatches...etc. There is an apparent chronology of thought and passage of time in her work, as sometimes represented by geometric horizontal lines. Fish creates works that reflect on our species, our history and our acceleration, while remaining grounded in the tactile, material tradition of painting, always in dialogue with the rich history that precedes us. Strictly depicting scenes from imagination, she gives a window into how she sees, how she sees people seeing and how she learns from those who saw before her.

Fish is represented by Ketabi Bourdet Gallery (Paris) and HDM Gallery (Beijing). She has shown her work internationally in places such as New York City, France, China, Switzerland, Argentina and Miami to name a few. Art fair participation, both solo presentations and group shows, include Untitled Miami Beach, Art Brussels, Art Genève, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art021 Shanghai, Dangdai Beijing and Art Paris. Fish has had institutional representation at places such as the K11 Art Museum Shanghai. Selected press includes Observer Magazine, Artsy, Harper’s BAZAAR and Du Quotidian de L’art. Fish has been an artist in residence with R.A.R.O. International Artist Residency Program, the New York Arts Practicum Program and the New York Trestle Artist Residency Program.

Rory Brabham (b. 2001) is a Mississippi born and Brooklyn based multimedia installation artist . His sculptural practice utilizes the aesthetic of domestic spaces to explore the nature of belonging and belongings along with the ironies of religious ideology and normative gender ideals that echoed in his upbringing. Rory holds a BFA with a concentration in Sculpture from Mississippi State University. He has exhibited in various institutions nationally- most notably with New York’s Trans Art Fest, at the Mississippi Museum of Art’s 2025 Invitational and through the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance as a winner of the 2024 Diane Komminsk Scholarship Award. 

“Through the de/recontextualization of found objects, personal possessions, and family heirlooms, my work seeks to de/reconstruct the home that normativity fruitlessly offers. In order to deploy a counter-narrative to my religious rural upbringing, I exploit and trans-form the familiarities of heirloom, the absurdities of tradition, and the ubiquity of southern detritus, seeking to interrogate and subvert relationships between gender, labor, and their material subtexts. 

Ultimately, my practice is a grappling with my inheritance - exposing, bastardizing, and refuting the boundaries of what is permissible within hegemonic constructions of family, home, religion, and identity. I perform rites of trans-gression with childhood mementos, heirlooms, and components of the nuclear home by stripping them of their associations, reconfiguring and redeploying them as collections of unsettled, disembodied parts to be suspended and displayed in all their artifice, conjuring an atmosphere both familiar and unnerving. Feedback loops of im/materiality flow within sculpture, painting, performance, and installation, where networks of intra-action between disparate elements produce and reinforce their meaning(s).”