Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

Amanda Jurist is a board-certified Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who specializes in child, adolescent, family and adult psychotherapy. For the past 15 years, she has worked with children and families in a variety of capacities as an educator, advocate and behavioral modification specialist. Amanda has leveraged these experiences and, over the past four years, has further developed and employed her expertise as… Read More

Monks’s paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions including “Intimacy” at the Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany and “Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009” at the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts, New York. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including the Savannah College of Arts, the Somerset Art Association and the… Read More

Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) utilizes a variety of techniques, including oil, acrylic, airbrush, marbling, and the staining of raw canvas, to create figurative paintings that are at once confounding and familiar. Challenging systemic conventions of representations of women in art history, commercial advertising, and pop culture, Williams refers to her female figures as “zombie nudes” – figures that are… Read More

  Eric Fischl (b. 1948, New York City) is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. His paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well… Read More

Melissa Smith is an arts writer based in Brooklyn. She graduated from NYU with a B.A. in Fine Arts before working for nearly a decade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After getting her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia, she launched her writing career, contributing profiles, reviews, and think-pieces on all things art to publications such as the New… Read More

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part… Read More

Image / photo Credit: Sean Donnola   Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels is a Director at the Jack Shainman Gallery where she manages artists within the gallery roster including Hank Willis Thomas, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nina Chanel Abney and Meleko Mokgosi, among others. She is also the founder of We Buy Gold, a roving gallery. She is also on the curatorial team of The… Read More