ALEX BATKIN is a licensed Acupuncturist in the state of New York, board-certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Before studying acupuncture, he received a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry, and taught in the English Department at Brooklyn College for 7 years

Alex Batkin

Ashley Teamer (b, 1990, New Orleans, LA) Her collages explore the relationships between the body, nature, space, and time. She uses painting, sculpture, photography, and sound to creatively intervene with indoor and outdoor architecture revealing the malleability of our built environment. Through layering images, Teamer's invented landscapes reveal relationships between divergent moments. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014) and the Joan Mitchell Center (2018). Teamer received a BFA from Boston University in 2013 and an MFA from Yale University in 2022.

Ashley Teamer

Brian oakes is an interdisciplinary sculptor based in New York. His spatial investigations manifest through means of technocraft such as open source agendas, DIY materiality, satellites, nuclear culture, piracy, and global-political transparencies in outer space. Rhode Island School of Design, MFA.

Brian Oakes

jiwoong (b. 1985, Seoul) is a visual artist who works with photographic processes and installation to create sculptural works tied to embodied memory. He is based in New York City. His way of looking is informed by what he learned from failures and being ignored. Studio Art BFA School of Visual Art Photography and Video 2018. Hunter MFA Studio Art 2023.

jiwoong

Kyle Clairmont Jacques (b. 1987, Massachusetts) is a New York based artist and curator. Jacques’ was the co-founder and director of SIGNAL gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2012-2018 and had his first solo show with Helena Anrather in the fall of 2021. He attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY and Eugene Lang The New School For Liberal Arts, New York, NY.

Kyle Clairmont Jacques

Stephen Buscemi (b. 1998, Long Island, New York) studied studio art at Cortland University where he Received his BFA. He moved to New York City after Graduation working simultaneously for galleries, studio artists and handlers in order to reinforce his own practice. Focused on painting, Buscemi works in his studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Stephen Buscemi

Join us for the opening of EPIPHANY, a group exhibition focused on the intuitive experience of realization featuring Alex Batkin, Ashley Teamer, Brian Oakes, Jiwoong, Kyle Clairmont Jacques and Stephen Buscemi at Blade Study on September 6 from 6 – 9PM. 

EPIPHANY Opening