A Landscape Made Up

Originally from Italy, Chiara Galimberti is an artist, writer, immigrant, acupuncturist, and solo parent currently residing in Chicago. She earned an MA in Italian Studies from NYU in 2015 and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012, where she was a Soros New American Fellow. Her work tends to be context and place specific rather than self-referential, and can take the form of drawing, installation or collaborative performance. Her clinical focus is on mental health, trauma, CPTSD and queer/trans health. She is committed to making healthcare accessible and in building collaborative healing spaces. Chiara is involved in the Chicago Healing Justice Network, which aims to promote healing justice from an anti-oppression framework. In 2018, she co-organized the Healing Justice Practice Space for the Allied Media Conference in Detroit. She is currently artist in residence with ProjectArt at the Little Village Public Library.

Nikki and Jax, two intrastellar and 7th dimensional vapor-Beings, are focusing their determined efforts of positive vibrations on ranching at the Nikki and Jax Famous Ranch. Through clever deductions, perseverance and dangerous-human laced listening sessions, the two friends (they have been friends for at least 13 billion years now) are attempting to be 3rd/4th dimensional on planet Earth.

Nikki and Jax

is unending ascent

is ex-exhaustive exuberance

is rising tensions

will make u famous, RANCH

perpetual motion fun

always midswing

Joy/Fun is the radical act of creation that moves social justice beyond resistance. Nikki and Jax have downloaded their hyper-fun essences into the physical bodies of Hannah Patterson & Coley Mixan. Patterson & Mixan met in the place (seattle, wa) they told themselves they would meet before they came back to earth for another wiggle around what humans term the "Sun.

Adee Roberson was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1981. Her work weaves sonic and familial archives, with landscape,  technicolor, rhythm, form, and spirit. She has exhibited and performed at numerous venues including, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antenna Gallery, Project Row Houses, Charlie James Gallery, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, MOCA Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario. She is based Los Angeles, California.

Ileana Tejada is a Mexican-American artist born and raised in Southern California. A former NCAA Division II Track and Field athlete, Tejada's work progressively deals with female masculinity and the opposition to "marianismo"-the exaggerated sense of traditional femininity. Tejada received her BFA from California State Polytechnic University- Pomona, as well as a BS (Kinesiology, Pedagogy). In 2015 she graduated with a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute. Tejada is the recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Graduate Fellowship, the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Painting, and SFAI's Amir Esfahani Graduate Studio Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Gallery CB1 in Los Angeles, and published in New American Paintings, No.123, MFA Annual, 2016. She is currently working and living in San Francisco, CA. 

Adia Sykes is a Chicago-based curator, arts administrator, and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a Masters of Arts from the Department of Arts Administration and Policy. She has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2016) with a focus on material culture and museums. Her current research interests include examining the history and potential of curatorial practice as an advocacy tool for racial equity in the arts and racial and gendered identities explored in the visual and performative practices of emerging artists. Her Masters thesis focused on formations of self-organized networks of support that exist to sustain the practices of historically marginalized artist communities and maps this contemporary ecosystem of support. Her curatorial work has been exhibited at The Sullivan Galleries, Woman Made Gallery, the Chicago Mayor’s Office, and ACRE Projects.