Ian Schwartz is a local Brooklyn raised artist that creates abstract cityscapes in a variety of media, based on a practice of wanderlust and object collection. He employs the material properties of street scraps to represent imagined urban spaces such as architecture and transit systems. He received his BFA in Studio Art at Brooklyn College and completed an MFA in Painting at Pratt Institute in 2015.

Maria Tsaguriya employs organic forms and playful imagery in paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Tsaguriya describes her comic style as a tactic that "expresses my ideas in a playful way that pulls in the oblivious viewer, then affects them slowly through their analysis of the way the forms interact."

Anastasia Ugorskaya was born in Moscow, Russia and moved to New York City when she was sixteen. She attended the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York as well as Emily Carr Institute for Art+Media+Design in Vancouver, Canada. Anastasia currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where she primarily draws, paints with watercolor, graphite and color pencil.

Acacia is a mixed media artist who currently works in fashion textile design. She uses her illustration techniques to design and develop motifs that are used in her paintings, prints, and sculptures. Through various collaborative opportunities with artists at Anthropologie, Le Studio Anthost, Factory Fresh, Unicorn Meat, Disorient NYC, and Kostume Kult, her style has evolved allowing her to create a rich and exotic visual scope.

Michel Gignac is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Saskatchewan, Canada. His work often explores the depths of materiality through discarded materials and viewer participation through physical interaction. In 2012, he graduated with Distinction from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Sculpture at the Alberta College of Art & Design. The same year, Gignac had his first solo exhibition entitled Fall For Me, an interactive electronic installation at the Marion Nicoll Gallery.

Jenny X Chan is an Architectural Designer whose work explores the cultural and social themes in architecture pertaining to the language of urbanity and the vernacular. She has participated in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the Transcape exhibition in 2007 as well as summer installation projects for Manhattan’s public spaces in 2013. Chan has worked as a member of Habitat for Humanity and Architecture for Humanity New York.

Nowadays Ana crochets with plastic during subway commutes. She is inspired by nature: caterpillars on lettuce and black butterfly necklaces. She recently created a mushroom patch for Figment 2013, crocheted from carefully curated plastic bags from the trash.

Benjamin Hicock works as a computer programmer and manager for Dabit Industries, a robotics company for which he is a partner. Previously he worked for I Heart Engineering, on STEAM education and motor controlling. Ben is also a guitar player working in free sound, rock and punk. His programming and music work overlap with the art world. In 2014 Ben worked with Dabit Industries to program robotic buckets for the installation “Musings on a Glass Box”, held at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. In 2

Mirabai’s designs are based on a wide variety of cultural influences for a wide variety of end uses including costume, installation, and mass market. Her sculptural and textural aesthetic combine media in unexpected ways. She has contributed to fashion labels sold at retailers from Barney’s to Target, such as VPL and Vena Cava to Labworks and Mossimo. Mirabai worked with Acacia Rodriguez to make her first interactive, textile-centric installation art piece for Figment 2013.