Mark King

Mark King is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses photography, installation, fashion, and sculpture. His work brings awareness to the interplay between everyday artifacts and the human condition. King’s artwork is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC. In 2019, King was awarded the Yaddo, Elizabeth Ames Residency. Other residencies include Alice Yard in Trinidad & Tobago, Ateliers ‘89 in Aruba, Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium, and Fresh Milk in Barbados.

Brandon Thomas Brown

Brandon Thomas Brown’s work spans photography and printmaking, rooted in an exploration of identity, ancestry, and spiritual connection within the Black experience. His practice centers on cyanotype, often created on fragile materials such as Japanese paper that are torn, washed, and altered over time. Through this process, Brown examines themes of visibility, memory, and transformation, allowing each image to shift, fade, and re-emerge. Guided by a ritualistic approach his work treats creation as a form of communion connecting present-day subjects with ancestral histories. Brown draws influence from his grandfather’s photographic archive, using it as a point of departure to reimagine narratives and bridge generational gaps.

Yoko Izu

Yoko Izu is based in the  Hudson Valley. Born in Woodstock, NY she spent more than two decades living between New York City, Japan, and South Africa before returning to the region in 2021. After a long career as a writer and content strategist, she returned to painting as a way of exploring experiences that resist language, including questions of identity, belonging, memory, and the complexities of living between cultures, languages, and places. Working primarily in abstraction, Yoko creates layered compositions that combine acrylic paint, collage, washi paper and gold elements. Drawing from both her American upbringing and Japanese heritage, her intuitive process of building, obscuring, and revealing embraces the tensions between structure and spontaneity and between certainty and ambiguity.

Simi Stone

Simi Stone (Simantha Mollylou Sernaker)  Born in Woodstock, NY her work spans painting, sculpture, music, and improvisation. Drawing from personal and collective histories, she transforms memory, grief, and resilience into immersive visual narratives where flowers, landscapes, and gestures become portals to the spirit. Rooted in materiality, improvisation, and spirituality, her practice in oil painting explores identity, ancestry, and social consciousness. Simi’s visual work has been exhibited in Boston, New York, and Rome where she was awarded a fellowship for plein air study in 2023. Simi obtained a BA in Studio Art from Bard College in 2024 and has completed her MFA ’26 at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

Jazz Espiritu
Sunday, June 28th, 3-5pm