Casey Baden was born and raised in Houston, TX and is currently based in Los Angeles. She completed her BFA at New York University, 2014, and her MFA at California Institute of the Arts, 2020. Baden is a multidisciplinary artist working with textiles, natural dye, painting, weaving, and installation. She has been awarded residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, The Reef, AZ West, Textile Art Center NY, PADA Studios, and The Plum Lime Residency NY. She has exhibited works in the US and Europe, with exhibitions in LA including La Loma Projects, The MAK Center, The Santa Monica Art Museum, The Palos Verdes Art Center, Quarters Gallery, Spring Break, and The Palm Court Arts Complex

Monica Loya is a Mexican visual artist, with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Chihuahua (2014). Her work includes editorial illustration, painting and mural. She currently lives and works in Mexico City. Mónica Loya syncretizes melancholy and everyday life with a perception of nebulous reality, characteristic of our time, where mass media, pink and blue colors and delicate strokes reflect some of the fragility of the present, by altering the patterns of our sensibility with less conventional figures and contours.

Mariana Paniagua Cortés (CDMX, 1994) explores the landscape as a multiplicity of forces, as well as the different configurations they acquire as they cross the body situated within the world; at the same time she investigates the figuration that emerges from the processes in painting: an accumulation of layers of time and materialities that are sedimented until they condense into an object. Her work is based on rehearsing and, above all, on wandering in the pictorial process.
She has a degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM, where she is currently studying for a masters degree.
The artist has presented solo shows such as Every spore like a fall (NSFW, 2024), Yo pasé entre los dos colmillos (ISLERA, 2023), Como renuncia a ser flor lo que es hierba (Nixxxon, 2022), Una estrella es siempre una suerte de ruina (Interior 2.1, 2021), among others.

The picture plain is where you play the dance of subject and object . The will is the subject or painter making the mark, to the contemplative objective where you receive the impression you have left on a surface in front of you. This is an idea of Neitzsche’s. He also states that understanding kills action so I was interested in digging and carving quite intuitively into the paint to find the compositions automatically rather than with a pre-planned image. The figures then evolve into defined and familiar forms like finding a recognisable face or shape in a cloud. The observed drawings of people around me become the cast members within the intuitive ecosystem I have carved out in the paint.

With this approach and philosophy in mind, I was considering the intimacy of Carravaggio’s foreground figures. I am interested in how Lisa Brice creates planes of depth, like dioramas and how light hits the bodies within those scenes. I was influenced by Luis Barragán's architecture and colours, while being so close to his houses in Mexico City. All of these influences are particularly concerned with light and intimacy which is a big focus for me in my work.

Kitty Rice (b.1991, UK) is a British painter currently working in south London. Having recently completed the post-graduate programm at the royal drawing school, her work explores themes of feminine strength as seen through a child’s eyes whilst considering the power of eradication and editing of an emotional history. Her work are made in watercolour and gouache washes considering the nature of filmic pixels whilst moving between two languages of memory, both blurry and hyper-real.