Helen Toomer

Helen Toomer is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of STONELEAF RETREAT, a residency and creative space focused on supporting womxn and families. Helen is also the founder of Upstate Art Weekend in New York which she launched in 2020. Previously, Helen was Executive Director of Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) and Director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair and Collective Design Fair. Before that she used to run a gallery on New York's lower east side, toomer labzda, whose program focused on emerging artists.

Lilian Kreutzberger

Born 1984, Middelburg, Netherlands. Lives and works between Brooklyn, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2013 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. 2007 BFA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, Netherlands.

"The materiality of Lilian's work intrigues me. I like the way she disrupts the notions of recognizable surfaces, such as marble, with digital interventions and creates new forms and objects that I'd love to see in person."

Artwork Image: n.t., 2018. Digital photo of marble transferred onto plaster, wooden frame. 24 x 28 in.

Katya Grokhovsky

Born 1977, Odessa, Ukraine. Lives and works in New York, New York.

2011 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 2007 BFA, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.

"I really like the look of Katya's performances, sculptures, and installations and am interested to learn further about how she uses her body through these mediums to explore notions of labor, gender, and the displacement of self."

Artwork Image: Utopia 16000, 2015. Found objects, acrylic, plaster, chair, thread, banners, performance.

Leah Dyjak

Born 1981, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Lives and works in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

2015 MFA, University of Texas, Austin. BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts.

"I'm intrigued by Leah's photographs and the way she presents water deconstructing the urban landscape and structures we normally take for granted. It reminds me that we are at the mercy of nature."

Artwork Image: Basalt, 2017. Photography. 40 x 50 in.