Lauren Marinaro

Lauren Marinaro is the owner and director of Marinaro in New York. The gallery opened in February, 2017 in a second floor space on the Lower East Side and moved to a three-floor space in Chinatown in September, 2017. Marinaro has put on a diverse exhibition program of emerging and mid-career artists with works across all mediums. The exhibitions have been reviewed in many publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Bianca Severijns

Born 1964 in Ramot HaShavin, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.

"At first glance Severijns' works appear to be intricate ceramics vases, elegant woven tapestries or complex extruded paintings, but the works are actually constructed of paper. The basis of the works is Severijns' examination of the basic needs of displaced people: carpet, blanket and vessels. By creating these objects out of a readily available material—paper—she creates metaphors between the material and the person. Paper is vulnerable and fragile, much as a displaced person may feel, but with certain care and building they both can become strong."

Artwork Image: Scratched | Protective Blanket Series on model, 2018. Hand-torn paper, konjac, acrylic, textile, thread. 72.5 x 59 x 3 in.

Stuart Hawkins

Born 1969 in Norfolk, VA. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

1996 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. 1992 BS, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

"Hawkins' paintings are eery and a bit unsettling. Symbolism abounds from lights at the end of a corridor to forks and knives to birds and frogs and the viewer is left to piece together meaning. The more I looked the more exciting the works felt with layered, hazy surfaces they became a puzzle I wanted to figure out, but would be just as thrilled if I could keep guessing the answer."

Artwork Image: Little Dipper, 2017. Oil on paper. 26 x 24 in.

Alexandra Baumgartner

Born 1973 in Vienna, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

2004 Diploma, University of Applied Arts Vienna.

"Baumgartner uses found photographs and objects to create new images and sculpture. The use of existing images in a new context forces the viewer to confront their own existence, questioning ‘What will my legacy be? How will I be remembered? Did my existence matter?’, as they look at Baumgartner’s anonymous portraits. Baumgartner’s works are elegant in mainly black and white palettes that riff on historical representations of the body and self within a modernist aesthetic."

Artwork Image: The Weight, 2018. Oil on Canvas.