Co-Terminous

Alejandra Abad was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes and abstract shapes. Her style is informed by her studies in Architecture at Florida Atlantic University and in Film, Video, and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her BFA. In 2018 she received a fellowship at CU Boulder, where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices. 

Diane Burko’s practice is at the intersection of Art, Science and the Environment focused on climate change. Born in Brooklyn, Burko graduated Skidmore College with a B.S. in art history and painting. She earned an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Burko was a professor at Community College of Philadelphia until 2000, also teaching at Princeton University, ASU, and PAFA. In 1974, she founded FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts. As a research-based artist, she collaborates with scientists, using their data, visiting their labs and bearing witness. She has investigated the ice fields of Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Alaska as well as Antarctica, Argentina’s Patagonia, and the melting glaciers in New Zealand’s southern alps. Such experiences augment her ongoing study of the natural world that inspire studio production, resulting in over 100 exhibitions throughout the country along with her work collected by such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, Delaware Art Museum, Hood Museum, Michener Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tang Art Museum, and the Zimmerli Museum. She has received 2 NEA Artists grants, 2 PA Council on the Arts Grants, the Lifetime Achievement Award by the WCA/CAA in 2011, an Independence Foundation award in 2013 and the Fleisher Art Memorial Founders award in 2019. 

The work of Tania Candiani, who was born in Mexico City, has developed in various media and practices that maintain an interest in the complex intersection between languages systems -phonic, graphic, linguistic, symbolic and technological. She received Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2018; a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2011; and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in 2013, among others. She represented Mexico, in collaboration with Luis Felipe Ortega, at the 56th Venice Biennale. Among her monographic books are: Possessing Nature. Pavilion of Mexico (2015); and Cromática (upcoming in 2021). 

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM

Amy Felder was raised in South Carolina and is currently based in Fort Collins, CO.  She earned her MA from University of Northern Colorado and her BA from College of Charleston. Spanning a breadth of mediums including paintings, wall hangings, installation work, and embroidery, her work reflects a contemporary experience of nature and struggle to preserve wilderness. Amy has recently shown work in multiple exhibitions including a solo show and was awarded Best in Show in the University of Northern Colorado’s Annual Student Exhibition. 

Camila Friedman-Gerlicz grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and recently moved back this summer. After many years of studying abstract mathematics, she decided to pursue a career as an artist. Since this transition, mathematical concepts and way of thinking has become an integral part of her work. She is currently teaching math and working as an artist in Santa Fe.  

Erika Osborne received her BFA from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals with cultural connections to place and environment, which garnered her a Fullbright fellowship in 2019. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with over ten solo exhibitions and over 80 group exhibitions in recent years. She is currently an Associate Professor at Colorado State University.

Herbert Pföstl was born in Graz, Austria in 1968. Previously a curator and book buyer at the New Museum in New York, Pföstl is the co-author of To Die No More, and author of Light Issued Against Ruin and Schrift-Landschaften. His recent translation, A Shelter for Bells: From the Writings of Hans Jürgen von der Wense, was published by Epidote Press. A painter of plants, animals, and saints, Pföstl’s artworks are held in both public and private collections.