Sto came to Brooklyn via Richmond, VA back in the year 2000 when Williamsburg was a pre-9-11 post-Giuliani not nearly as gentrified place to live cheaply and make art. He lived in his friend's kitchen in a cardboard box for 6 months and then finally got a dingy warehouse of his own. He co-founded the now defunct art collective WAMP, who put on interactive art shows in untraditional venues all over NY. Sto's recent work involves paper mache sculptures that reanimate the mundane objects and situations of our everyday lives with humor, raw textures, assemblage, color, and sometimes light and sound too. Recycling most of his materials and making "something from nothing" are essential to his process and spirit. He also makes paintings and writes a bunch, at times combining the two into a kind of 3 dimensional storytelling. He enjoys riding bikes, vegan potlucks, sewing with dental floss, and wearing costumes. He co-founded Cinders Gallery with Kelie Bowman and that currently keeps him pretty darn busy. See lots of artwork at: www.stoishere.com

Kelie Bowman hails from Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, far away from her beloved beaches and Grouper fish sandwiches. Kelie Bowman's new paintings address the struggle to keep stability in one's life by way of the community. The idea of home is on her mind, as are the fragile moments of our existence. Subtle humor and violence creep into her soft and warm palate, giving a razor sharp edge to the work's gentle nature. Kelie is co-founder of Cinders, enjoys sushi, dance parties, and swimming outside in far away places. She received a BFA at the University of Florida, was a founding member of the Cloud Seeding Circus, and gave Bike Tours in Munich, Germany one summer. See some of her Mural works here

Allyson Mellberg resides in Charlottsville, VA where she makes drawings, paintings, silk screens, and etchings of beautifully deformed and yet playful characters who carry a proud demeanor in their abnormalities. Furry creatures climb on the heads of women and wrap their tails around mustachioed boys. Luckily for the rest of us she shares her work through art shows, zines, prints, and illustration work. Her work is inspired by the daily misuse of chemicals in our society and in keeping with her awarness uses non-toxic and often homemade materials. Elephantitus never looked so huggable.With the combo of her husband, Jeremy Taylor, these 2 are a dynamic artmaking duo that could rival any superhero team around.
allysonandjeremy.blogspot.com

Maya Hayuk is a muralist, painter, photographer, printmaker, curator, player of records, writer, performer, collector, Barnstormer, video maker, documentarian and lover of life who's lives in Brooklyn, New York by way of San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston and Toronto. From her large-scale murals to small works on paper her obsession with symmetry and her collection of images of mandalas, playing cards, hexes, totem poles, Ukrainian Easter eggs, quilts and bandanas play out in works that espouse the traditional as well as the innovative. Embracing both sexuality and spirituality via symbolism evocative of radiantly woven geometries to the beckoning parted orifices of the body, there is something very classic rock, punk folk rainbow peace, freak out about Maya Hayuk that is very hard to put a finger on, but really it's all about love. Her vividly bold geometric works evoke the process towards continuity and wholeness whose forces seem bent on maintaining the triumph of this love over evil. Along with her solo work, Hayuk frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians. She had a solo show with us in February 09
mayahayuk.com

For the past decade, Tod Seelie has been one of our favorite photographers, prolifically documenting his travels as well as the art, music, and DIY counterculture that has swelled up around him in Brooklyn and simultaneously erupted in various places all over the country. It's through this lens that we get to experience Tod's unquenchable wanderlust for adventure that takes him to exciting and sometimes dangerous places deep in the bowels of outsider America. He had a sick solo show with us called Slowdancing to Slayer last summer and was part of our room during the Aqua Art fair 08.
todseelie.com

Brian Chippendale is a silkscreen printmaker, drawer, comic maker, collager, and paper mache people maker who has been calling Providence, RI home for a long time now. Chippendale's eye peeling candy colored cut and paste silk-screened collages feature hypnotic patterned backgrounds that create intergalactic industrialized wastelands for broken down cars, flowerbeds, machine guns, animals, and bobbly-headed dudes to inhabit. Reminiscent of the fun in reassembling G.I. Joe figures to make new ones, the characters often appear clumsy and uncomfortable with mix-matched body parts. When he's not working on these or making/reading comics, he's usually beating on drums really hard and inciting mini-riots in the bands Lightning Bolt and Black Pus. He was in a 3 person show here in Dec 07 with Jungil Hong and Kevin Hooyman and will be doing a solo here in October 09!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chippendale

Julien Langendorff lives and works in Paris, France but aims to move to NYC one day. We met him sevral years ago when he came to the gallery for a Jeff Lewis show and we've stayed in contact ever since. His work combines raw pen and ink drawings with esoteric stream of conscious poetry that is both totally sincere and eerily haunting. Spirits of the dead rise up, furry animals exclaim their discontent with the universe and love is lost in a rainstorm. He has been collaborating on a series of work with artist and musician David Herman Dune, also from France. Together they effortlessly flow between the 2 artists' hands and voices, combining both of their similar styles of text and imagery into a single spirited voice. They had a show of their works here in Feb 08 called Where Is It Slowly Going.
julienlangendorff.com

Kyle Field is a painter, drawer, surfer, and a musician under the name Little Wings. Kyle's ink and watercolor drawings are like ethereal journeys into the secret history of our subconscious, a place where our inner child goes goo goo at life's simple magic. If you take a ride with his work, you will be rewarded with his humorous and often quite poignant musings and autobiographical yearnings. Along the way, you will meet old wise men, gnomes, surfers, animals and other folksy forest peoples frolicking and talking to you all at once. Kyle has been in numerous group shows at Cinders as well as doing a solo show, Good Again, in 2006. He is gearing up for another show with us in Spring/early summer 09!
kyledraws.com
John Orth resides in Gainesville, Florida where he draws, paints, and works on his house. He met George Ferrandi there and became an integral part of the Cloud Seeding Circus. His images depict dreamy ghosts who are both sad and majestic, with lines that recall old printmaking processes and faded treasure maps. Searing beams of light interplay with frozen mountain peaks while soggy lipped characters fly and fade away into the clouds overhead. In between art projects, John plays music in his band Holopaw and is known to customarily show up in NYC unannounced, generating a smiley posse of pals for a delightful picnic or nite of show and tell.

Diane Barcelowsy likes to draw a whole lot. The first time we met her, she came bustling into the gallery with hundreds of amazing drawings falling all over the place out of folders and bags. The stories that came rolling out of her work were of naked hippies making whoopee in the woods and fighting Indians and confederate soldiers, and rollerskating weirdos with beards looking for GOD. Her pictures are violent, scary and tweaked but then at the same time have a warm, nature and animal loving feel. Not to mention, wickedly hilarious at times. Kind of like Diane herself, a lover not a fighter, with a biting sense of humor and a whole lot more going on than you dare to think. Diane pretty much rules and we love her.

	Sto came to Brooklyn via Richmond, VA back in the year 2000 when Williamsburg was a pre-9-11 post-Giuliani not nearly as gentrified place to live cheaply and make art. He lived in his friend's kitchen in a cardboard box for 6 months and then finally got a dingy warehouse of his own. He co-founded the now defunct art collective WAMP, who put on interactive art shows in untraditional venues all over NY. Sto's recent work involves paper mache sculptures that reanimate the mundane objects and situations of our everyday lives with humor, raw textures, assemblage, color, and sometimes light and sound too. Recycling most of his materials and making "something from nothing" are essential to his process and spirit. He also makes paintings and writes a bunch, at times combining the two into a kind of 3 dimensional storytelling. He enjoys riding bikes, vegan potlucks, sewing with dental floss, and wearing costumes. He co-founded Cinders Gallery with Kelie Bowman and that currently keeps him pretty darn busy. See lots of artwork at: www.stoishere.com
	Kelie Bowman hails from Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, far away from her beloved beaches and Grouper fish sandwiches. Kelie Bowman's new paintings address the struggle to keep stability in one's life by way of the community. The idea of home is on her mind, as are the fragile moments of our existence. Subtle humor and violence creep into her soft and warm palate, giving a razor sharp edge to the work's gentle nature. Kelie is co-founder of Cinders, enjoys sushi, dance parties, and swimming outside in far away places. She received a BFA at the University of Florida, was a founding member of the Cloud Seeding Circus, and gave Bike Tours in Munich, Germany one summer. See some of her Mural works here
	Allyson Mellberg resides in Charlottsville, VA where she makes drawings, paintings, silk screens, and etchings of beautifully deformed and yet playful characters who carry a proud demeanor in their abnormalities. Furry creatures climb on the heads of women and wrap their tails around mustachioed boys. Luckily for the rest of us she shares her work through art shows, zines, prints, and illustration work. Her work is inspired by the daily misuse of chemicals in our society and in keeping with her awarness uses non-toxic and often homemade materials. Elephantitus never looked so huggable.With the combo of her husband, Jeremy Taylor, these 2 are a dynamic artmaking duo that could rival any superhero team around. allysonandjeremy.blogspot.com
	Maya Hayuk is a muralist, painter, photographer, printmaker, curator, player of records, writer, performer, collector, Barnstormer, video maker, documentarian and lover of life who's lives in Brooklyn, New York by way of San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston and Toronto. From her large-scale murals to small works on paper her obsession with symmetry and her collection of images of mandalas, playing cards, hexes, totem poles, Ukrainian Easter eggs, quilts and bandanas play out in works that espouse the traditional as well as the innovative. Embracing both sexuality and spirituality via symbolism evocative of radiantly woven geometries to the beckoning parted orifices of the body, there is something very classic rock, punk folk rainbow peace, freak out about Maya Hayuk that is very hard to put a finger on, but really it's all about love. Her vividly bold geometric works evoke the process towards continuity and wholeness whose forces seem bent on maintaining the triumph of this love over evil. Along with her solo work, Hayuk frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians. She had a solo show with us in February 09 mayahayuk.com
	For the past decade, Tod Seelie has been one of our favorite photographers, prolifically documenting his travels as well as the art, music, and DIY counterculture that has swelled up around him in Brooklyn and simultaneously erupted in various places all over the country. It's through this lens that we get to experience Tod's unquenchable wanderlust for adventure that takes him to exciting and sometimes dangerous places deep in the bowels of outsider America. He had a sick solo show with us called Slowdancing to Slayer last summer and was part of our room during the Aqua Art fair 08. todseelie.com
	Brian Chippendale is a silkscreen printmaker, drawer, comic maker, collager, and paper mache people maker who has been calling Providence, RI home for a long time now. Chippendale's eye peeling candy colored cut and paste silk-screened collages feature hypnotic patterned backgrounds that create intergalactic industrialized wastelands for broken down cars, flowerbeds, machine guns, animals, and bobbly-headed dudes to inhabit. Reminiscent of the fun in reassembling G.I. Joe figures to make new ones, the characters often appear clumsy and uncomfortable with mix-matched body parts. When he's not working on these or making/reading comics, he's usually beating on drums really hard and inciting mini-riots in the bands Lightning Bolt and Black Pus. He was in a 3 person show here in Dec 07 with Jungil Hong and Kevin Hooyman and will be doing a solo here in October 09! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chippendale
	Julien Langendorff lives and works in Paris, France but aims to move to NYC one day. We met him sevral years ago when he came to the gallery for a Jeff Lewis show and we've stayed in contact ever since. His work combines raw pen and ink drawings with esoteric stream of conscious poetry that is both totally sincere and eerily haunting. Spirits of the dead rise up, furry animals exclaim their discontent with the universe and love is lost in a rainstorm. He has been collaborating on a series of work with artist and musician David Herman Dune, also from France. Together they effortlessly flow between the 2 artists' hands and voices, combining both of their similar styles of text and imagery into a single spirited voice. They had a show of their works here in Feb 08 called Where Is It Slowly Going. julienlangendorff.com
	Kyle Field is a painter, drawer, surfer, and a musician under the name Little Wings. Kyle's ink and watercolor drawings are like ethereal journeys into the secret history of our subconscious, a place where our inner child goes goo goo at life's simple magic. If you take a ride with his work, you will be rewarded with his humorous and often quite poignant musings and autobiographical yearnings. Along the way, you will meet old wise men, gnomes, surfers, animals and other folksy forest peoples frolicking and talking to you all at once. Kyle has been in numerous group shows at Cinders as well as doing a solo show, Good Again, in 2006. He is gearing up for another show with us in Spring/early summer 09! kyledraws.com
	John Orth resides in Gainesville, Florida where he draws, paints, and works on his house. He met George Ferrandi there and became an integral part of the Cloud Seeding Circus. His images depict dreamy ghosts who are both sad and majestic, with lines that recall old printmaking processes and faded treasure maps. Searing beams of light interplay with frozen mountain peaks while soggy lipped characters fly and fade away into the clouds overhead. In between art projects, John plays music in his band Holopaw and is known to customarily show up in NYC unannounced, generating a smiley posse of pals for a delightful picnic or nite of show and tell.
	Diane Barcelowsy likes to draw a whole lot. The first time we met her, she came bustling into the gallery with hundreds of amazing drawings falling all over the place out of folders and bags. The stories that came rolling out of her work were of naked hippies making whoopee in the woods and fighting Indians and confederate soldiers, and rollerskating weirdos with beards looking for GOD. Her pictures are violent, scary and tweaked but then at the same time have a warm, nature and animal loving feel. Not to mention, wickedly hilarious at times. Kind of like Diane herself, a lover not a fighter, with a biting sense of humor and a whole lot more going on than you dare to think. Diane pretty much rules and we love her.