Volume 17
Friend of The Artist aims to create a supportive ecosystem for artists from around the globe, by shining a spotlight on emerging talent, and sharing their work with a wider audience through its volumes juried by art world insiders, published artist interviews, and social media features. Volume 17's jury panel includes a dynamic and international group of artists, collectors, critics, and gallerists.
Price: $50
Release Date: February 3, 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Page count: 216 pages
ISBN: 9798218039448
Artists
Adam Niklewicz, Adina Andrus, Agnieszka Piasecka, Alex Long Yuan, Alice Jennex, Alissa Polan, Amy Laskin, Andrea Mindell Cohen, Angela Witmore, Anja Rausch, Ariel Parrow, Beáta Hechtová, Brian Spolans, Camilla Marinoni, Cat Huss, Clare Parry, Cohen Eliya, David Hanes, David Najib Kasir, Emma Balder, Grace Tobin, Ian Zak, Kat Spears, Kyung Tae Kim, Lamia Veerasamy, Lauren Portada, Maria Vasconcelos, Matthew Conradt, Maya Fuji, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Mia Dudek, Michele Foyer, Mohadese Movahed, Monica Ikegwu, Niccolo Debole, Nick Hobbs, Olivia Baldwin, Parsa Hosseinpour, Robert Minervini, Sam Bulleit, Shabnam Jannesari, Silvia Rosa, Tarik Chebli, Tuan Vu, Xiaoyi Gao, Zeynep Tekiner
Jurors
Pari Ehsan
Pari Ehsan is the Iranian American creator behind Pari Dust, a digital platform for art and fashion. Pari Dust explores new ways to combine the elements of our visual world, offering windows into contemporary art, fashion, and the built environment through a unique lens. In an ever-evolving space, Pari seizes opportunities to engage in conversation with influential minds; and to collaborate with artists, brands, fairs, galleries, museums and retailers who share her vision. The former architect was nominated by The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) for its inaugural Fashion Instagrammer of the Year. Ehsan has worked with MoMA, The New Museum, Tate Modern and brands including Chanel, Cartier, Dior amongst others. Pari embodies the nexus between art and fashion and her stories and fashion shoots offer insight into the most creative and compelling movements in both fields. She celebrates the interactions and influence of art, design, and commerce, and how they merge to define our contemporary moment..
Wright Harvey
Wright Harvey is the founder of Sugarlift, a contemporary art gallery and online platform based in New York. Prior to founding the gallery in 2014, Wright earned his double-major in Economics and Studio Art at the University of Virginia. He then spent his first decade in New York working at J.P. Morgan, developing his love for business and entrepreneurship. Wright started Sugarlift with the mission of helping artists create more sustainable careers by making it easier for people to discover and collect their work.
Kristin Hjellegjerde
Established in 2012, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery has fast gained a reputation for exhibiting a diverse roster of innovative, international artists, both emerging and established, with strong theoretical and aesthetic bases. Since its inception the gallery has embraced a collaborative, multicultural curatorial approach, maintaining a deep devotion to the artists it represents while fostering close relationships with museums and curators worldwide.
Drawing on her own international background, Kristin Hjellegjerde seeks to nurture new talent by offering artists a dynamic, inclusive platform through which they can be introduced to local and global clients. She works closely with other curators and collectors, as well as developers and architects to create unique and exciting exhibition concepts. In 2019, she curated "Kubatana," a museum exhibition focused on African artists at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway. In October 2021, Kristin Hjellegjerde was featured in Monocle Magazine’s Top 25 Global Entrepreneurs of 2021.
Fer Da Silva
Fer Da Silva is a Venezuelan and Portuguese visual artist, who currently resides and creates most of his art pieces in New York City. Fer grew up in a home imbued with the artistic expressions, started by his mother who, as an artist, fed his sensibility for art with her paintings.
Fer Da Silva’s artwork is showcased at a distinguished gallery on the east coast of the United States (New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and Nantucket). He also has a variety of murals in New York City and Miami, which have been reviewed and highlighted by important media such as Forbes, Vogue, Telemundo, Univision, and others. Soon “Corazón de Fer” will be exhibited as the main image of the “Suzhou Center Mall 5th Anniversary Endless Heart” exhibition in Suzhou City, China. At present, Fer Da Silva keeps creating, doing very important exhibitions and taking his art around the world convinced that “Corazón de Fer” is a true way to give love and receive love in return.
Sarp Kerem Yavuz
Sarp Kerem Yavuz is an artists who is the recipient of several international accolades, including the 2022 Moon & Stars Grant, the 2019 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, the 2016 Palm Springs Photo Festival Emerging Photographer award, presented by Leica Camera, the 2013 New Artists Society Award from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the 2013 Leah Freed Memorial Prize from the Oberlin College Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. In 2013, he became the youngest artist to exhibit and be included in the permanent collection of the Istanbul Modern Museum. His artworks are published in Turkey: Istanbul CODEX, and the Boys! book benefitting the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
The works of Sarp Kerem Yavuz reclaim Orientalist imagery and bring the visual legacy of the Middle East into the present. Through photography, light projection, neon sculpture and digital drawing, he creates visually provocative works of art in pursuit of peaceful coexistence. Born in Paris in 1991 and raised in Istanbul, his works explore gender, politics, religion, and violence.