Articles + Interviews

Kat Ryals is a Brooklyn-based mixed media artist. Her work explores the dichotomies between natural and artificial, trash and treasure, sacred and profane, luxury and kitsch. Through sculpture, lens-based work, textile art, and site-specific installations, she emulates material culture and organic artifacts.

Lydia Makin holds a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art and an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art. She has received numerous accolades, including the Painters Stainers’ Company Scholarship, The Richard Ford Award, and the UCL East Provost Art Prize.

Multidisciplinary artist and director Duo Lin speaks to FOA on her formation as an artist and her most recent exhibition at Galerie Hoang Beli in Paris entitled, MARE

Callum Eaton (b. 1997, Bath, UK) lives and works in London, and was a Past Resident at the Mack Art Foundation

Daria Dmytrenko (b. 1993, Ukraine) speaks to FOA about and methodology behind her work which is currently on view at PM/AM Gallery in London through August 30th. Alongside her paintings, the exhibition features new sculptural figures which complement her work.

Marin’s studio practice is grounded in an exploration of materiality and identity. She interrogates the meaning of motherhood, bodily autonomy, domesticity, and femininity through complex multimedia artworks, printmaking, figurative drawing, and painting resulting in a distinctive visual language.

Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. (b. 1980, New York, New York; lives and works in the Bronx, New York. MFA Hunter College 2021, New York; MFA Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing 2008; BA Williams College 2003.) was born in an Afro-Caribbean family in New York and studied in New England before moving to China in his twenties, Payano has always had to navigate between and among several languages and cultures

MAESTRO is a hyper realistic, black-and-white artist based in Santa Barbara, California. His first solo exhibition, “LOADING” opened at the HOMME Gallery in Washington D.C. on April 3rd, 2025.

NISKY is a multidisciplinary artist who fuses painting, music, literature, and cinematic influences into a cohesive creative vision

Mark Frygell’s works depart from the history of painting, sub-cultural images and cartoons. He repeatedly manipulates and reworks gestures, references and materials, inspired by different methodologies of painting. His interest lies in concepts such as caricature, the grotesque and the comic.

Bhimanshu Pandel is a visual artist and researcher based in Rajasthan, India, whose practice explores ecological and cultural elements in the desert landscapes of the region.

Drawing from cinema and popular iconography, Pogossova creates imagined objects and spaces that exist in the space between reality and fiction. Her work explores how cultural references can authorize belief trigger interpretations, and habituated ways of seeing.

California-based Randy Jayne Rosenberg addresses timely content-driven themes in both her art practice and her curatorial work. As a curator, she has produced collections and numerous exhibitions for The World Bank; the United Nations; the Dalai Lama Foundation and the nonprofit, Art Works for Change.

Born in Costa Rica and based in Mexico City, Melissa Ríos works primarily in painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation.

Not all flowers smell sweet, and CJ Hendry’s flowers appeal to a different sense. Lovely to look at and soft to the touch, Hendry’s Flower Market features plush and brightly colored flowers made entirely of fabric.

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is an artist, educator and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, sustainability and intergenerational dialogue.