Elyse Derosia

Elyse Derosia is the director of Derosia, a New York art gallery that is focused on a diverse range of socially engaged practices of primarily emerging artists. From 2014–2021 the gallery was called Bodega, which grew out of an artist-run project space of the same name in Philadelphia from 2010–2013. The gallery has maintained a commitment to artistic practices at the ground level, providing the first New York solo exhibitions for many of the artists with whom the gallery works.

Clifford Prince King

Born 1993 in Tucson, Arizona. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

"Clifford Prince King’s photographs are at once intimate, quiet, and charged, reminding me of my favorite elements of Nan Goldin’s work. His images offer a glimpse into private moments of everyday queer Black intimacy where, in King’s words, “communion begins to morph into an offering of memory.”

Artwork Image: Communion, 2019.

Julie Beaufils

Born 1987, lives and works in Paris, France.

"Julie Beaufils’ abstracted landscapes use raw pigments and are inspired by sublime moments that the artist has experienced in nature. The works of course have a certain timelessness and ethereality, but for me it’s important to also remember that they were made amongst the intense socio-political chaos of recent years. They are a call to the spiritual to cope with the all too real."

Artwork Image: Untitled, 2020. Oil on canvas. 50 x 50 x 1 in.

Bat-Ami Rivlin

Lives and works in New York, New York. 2019 MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York. 2016 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York.

"Bat-Ami Rivlin extracts and isolates large-scale discarded objects, disconnecting them from their intended function. Through both poetic and violent interventions, she draws unique attention to these familiar items that once facilitated presence, labor, and control. It’s interesting to me how this removal and failure can so poignantly speak to the larger systems from which these objects once belonged."

Artwork Image: Untitled (metal gate, yellow foam, duct tape), 2019. Found Object Sculpture. 48 x 24 x 10 in.