Dewitt Godfrey

DeWitt Godfrey is an artist and educator based in Hamilton, New York, where he is a Professor of Art & Art History at Colgate University. DeWitt is also a former Board President of the College Art Association and is committed to the rethinking of artists' training, support networks, and modes of dissemination. DeWitt maintains an active studio practice and his work has been exhibited through numerous public and private commissions across the United States, and can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Brooklyn Museum. Godfrey is also a Foundwork Advisor.

Brant Ritter

Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

1999 MFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. BA, Architecture, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

"Brant Ritter's constructions and drawings The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good occupy a place where the precisely made parts fail to line up, their meticulous execution belying organizational failure; the work of a novice apprentice who hopes that a dazzling presentation will distract from their imprecision. In the series Slide, what appear to be carefully placed marks are uniformly smeared, glitch aesthetics elevated to controlled process; we recognize a part of a face, fingerprints in an effort to restore a lost order."

Artwork Image: Perfect is the Enemy of the Good, No. 4, hexagon, 2018. Plywood, pegboard, brass ferrules, paint. 54 x 48 x 1/4 in.

Holly Fischer

Born 1976, Missoula, Montana. Lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina.

2004 MFA, University of Texas—Austin; 1999 BA, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Holly Fischer's ceramic works quote the labial, folded geometries of anemones and shellfish but squeezed through a baroque distortion algorithm, their menacing tendrils peeking out between floridly ornamental petals. Like Ken Price's work, the hard glazed surfaces become sensuous, soft and fluid; both imbued with and apart from the natural world."

Artwork Image: Odalisque, 2016. Ceramic. 31 x 20 x 18 in. Coil constructed from white earthenware.

Dameon Lester

Born 1973, Concord, North Carolina. Lives and works in Austin, Texas.

2000 MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 1995 BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

"Dameon Lester abstracts geologic and glacial peculiarities, complex topographies approximated as mesh polysurfaces; reduced, simplified till they resemble the micro-crystals that make up the macro-phenomenon. These shards are further complicated in their material construction, color and texture; dark and light, shiny and matte, paper and plywood, their individual faces failing to join in a complete whole. The works are at once familiar, from their post-minimalist precedents to the consistency of their digital origins, but difficult to read."

Artwork Image: Mass Balance, 2016. Abatron wood epoxy, acrylic paint, Aqua resin, brad nails, fiberglass tape, matte varnish, MDF, primer, plywood, repurposed vintage printing press paper (from the Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX), Talas Jade 403 PVA adhesive. 78 x 43 x 39 in.