The Freelancers Union and Freelancers Hub are proud to as soon as once more current our Freelancers Hub artwork present, this time highlighting work targeted on Cityscapes and Structure.
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Featured Artists
Alex Korolkovas
Bio: Alex Korolkovas was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and considers himself an artist first, photographer second. Shifting to Los Angeles in 1992, he refined his craft on the Artwork Middle Faculty of Design and labored as a grasp printer earlier than dedicating himself to images full-time. His work blends actuality and fantasy, capturing human tales via highly effective expressions and feelings. With a background in each artwork and style, Alex has collaborated with world-class magazines equivalent to Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan, in addition to celebrities and athletes on campaigns throughout the US, Brazilian, and Asian markets.
Artist Assertion: New York Upside Down is my first photographic sequence created in New York, approached with the curiosity of an outsider and the rhythm of my Brazilian roots. Drawn to town’s grafismo, its daring traces, contrasts, and layered geometry. I crafted every picture completely in-camera utilizing double exposures: the primary body as it’s, the second with the digicam turned utterly the other way up. This inversion transforms acquainted streetscapes into summary compositions the place structure collides with itself and reflections merge with shadows.
Robert A. Ripps
Bio: Born and raised in New York Metropolis, Robert A. Ripps private work explores the interplay and intersection of nature and the man-made world, each visually, in addition to technically. He acquired his BFA in images from Rochester Institute of Expertise (RIT), and has studied on the Middle for Inventive Imaging (CCI), and Maine Media Workshops.
Robert has gained quite a few awards, together with being named one of many 200best digital artists (2023) by Lürzer’s Archive, inclusion in American Images 36 and 39 Annual Award books, Honorable Point out within the 2021 IPA Int’l Images Awards, a number of honors from Photograph District Information (PDN), in addition to having his work be part of the Polaroid assortment.
In 2020, he was included within the exhibit #ICPConcerned, a collection of pictures collected from the ICP Involved hashtag on Instagram, and displayed on the Worldwide Middle of Images (ICP) in New York.
Robert’s most up-to-date solo exhibition, Negativityness Abounds, was on the Christine Frechard Gallery in Pittsburgh.
Artist Assertion: This ongoing venture began as a response to the political local weather within the nation the previous a number of years- all the things appears to be about negativity, about division, about what’s reality (and what’s inarguably false, but touted as reality), how the floor of issues could be 180 levels reverse from what’s beneath. It’s about falsehoods and unseen affect. What was acquainted and maybe mundane has now taken on a way of surrealism and unfamiliarity, which leaves us feeling not sure, confused and helpless, powerless to have management in occasions affecting our every day lives.
Viewers are inspired to take pleasure in the fantastic thing about the photographs, whereas additionally acknowledging the incongruity and surrealism that they current, which hopefully encourages them to look deeper into issues they expertise, difficult what’s offered to them, as what’s offered within the media or social media, and now the federal government, is commonly not actuality and infrequently goal.
Cat Willet
Bio: Cat Willett is a Brooklyn-based artist. She has written, illustrated, and printed two full-length books, in addition to two mantra card decks. She is at the moment engaged on her third ebook, Unconditional, a group of comedian interviews with girls in regards to the particular bonds they’ve with animals, popping out in 2026 via Princeton Architectural Press (Chronicle Books). Cat holds her MFA from the Vogue Institute of Expertise in Illustration. She acquired her BFA from the College at Buffalo with a minor in Artwork Historical past and in addition studied on the Scuola Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence, Italy.
Artist Assertion: My ongoing illustrated postcard sequence displays an effort to seize among the appeal and surprise of my house, New York Metropolis. Impressed by classic postcards and a nostalgic love of snail mail, I made these items in hopes of reminding collectors of the colours, creatures, and emotions that solely NYC can supply. I’m additionally the writer and illustrator of three printed books, and I make illustrated comics about parenting, motherhood, gender, and animals, and am a daily contributor to the Washington Submit and Vox.
Linda Byrne
Bio: Linda Byrne, a visible artist, was born and raised in New York Metropolis the place she continues her follow. Her many exhibitions embrace “Present/Undercurrent” at UMass Amherst, “Altered States” at Marymount Hewitt Gallery, and “Brimming On The Edge” produced by The West Harlem Artwork Fund. Linda collaborated with the poet and sound artist, Maggie Dubris, on two installations about our disappearing pure world, with their “Vanishing Oceans Mission” proven within the worldwide touring exhibition “The Common Sea: Pure or Plastic”. Linda has acquired a number of artist residencies, and a Jerome Basis Grant and chashama Grant.
Artist Assertion: The 59th Avenue Bridge is a part of a sequence of bridge work utilizing the wooden panel as a component, with the camouflage shapes of the grain turning into sky or water in opposition to the daring linear high quality of the topic. My work is about place and our connections and the NY bridges have all the time held connection for me. From rising up in Queens with Manhattan roots and Brooklyn family members to residing for years on the Decrease East Facet, they’re nonetheless an ever current a part of my life.
Paul O’Malley
Bio: Paul O’Malley is an award-winning avenue photographer whose photos have appeared in 19 exhibitions over the previous yr, together with 4 solo exhibits in New York Metropolis. His newest sequence, Shizukesa, finds moments of calm and style within the on a regular basis bustle of Japanese life.
Artist Assertion: Paul’s work merges abstraction and documentary, drawing on the encompassing surroundings to create layered compositions that discover a twin seek for belonging and solitude.
Dat Nguyen
Bio: New York-based digital artist specializing in illustration-style artwork based mostly on metropolis life.
Artist Assertion: This piece is predicated on an interpretation of New York Metropolis, however is not a duplicate. I’ve included many landmarks each well-known and never, capturing the power of particular person neighborhoods. As an city planning fanatic, I’ve performed all to verify this generally is a functioning group, from colleges to hospitals to parks to transit and water therapy.
Gaspar Marquez
Bio: Gaspar Marquez was born in Mexico. He is a self taught photographer, however took loads of lessons at prestigious colleges such because the Faculty of The Worldwide Middle of Images and The Faculty of Visible Arts in NY city, to not point out he is received a BA in Enterprise Administration in Mexico. He’s been influenced over time by the nice masters of the medium like Man Ray, Nick Knight and Helmut Newton apart from wonderful painters like Picasso, Jackson Pollock and City Artwork.
He’s working as a Freelance photographer/videographer doing Tremendous Artwork, Portraits, Vogue & Way of life. He loves music, touring, nature, animals, and nice documentaries. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, however would like to retire and dwell in a cool and protected seaside on the Sea of Cortez or in a cool cabin by The Grand Canyon.
Artist Assertion: This can be a graphic interpretation of a meditation of what it’s like to watch/watch silently an city escapade, on this case, occurs to be Occasions Sq. in NY city.
Nicky Conti
Bio: Nicolette (Nicky) Conti is a Maltese-born positive artwork avenue photographer based mostly in New York Metropolis. Since 2018, she has explored the city panorama via a painterly lens, utilizing pure gentle and shadow to remodel fleeting moments into placing visible compositions. A journey fanatic, Nicky challenges herself to seize the essence of the cities she visits via the panorama of their streets. Nicky can also be the idea creator of Embodied Moments NYC – a limited-edition venture that reimagines her avenue images as wearable couture. Her journey alongside this venture could be adopted on Instagram: @embodiedmoments.nyc
Artist Assertion: This {photograph} strips Paris to its essence and rebuilds it with three parts that make it immediately identifiable: the Eiffel Tower, a passerby and a pigeon. Of their alignment, town reveals itself anew; monumental but human, captured in an on a regular basis second of probability.
Eric March
Bio: Eric March is a painter and draftsman whose work explores the formal potentialities of realism with themes of city life, city environments, and narrative-often via dense multi-figural compositions.
Eric earned his BFA at Indiana College and continued his research in New York Metropolis with Andy Reiss and on the Artwork College students League. He has had solo exhibits in New York Metropolis and New Haven, CT. His work are featured in a everlasting exhibitions at Yale New Haven Hospital at 150 Sargent Drive, Cornell Scott Hill Well being Middle and Yale Faculty of Medication in New Haven, CT. You may as well see his public out of doors murals in downtown New Haven on the State Avenue Station and in Temple Plaza.
Honors embrace a the 2025 CT Artist Fellowship, New Haven Arts Council Grant, Queens Council on the Arts Particular person Artist Grant, the Provincetown Dune Shack Residency and the Hudson River Fellowship. Eric served because the Division Head of the Portray and Drawing Division on the Nationwide Academy Faculty in NY in 2014-15. He at the moment teaches on the Artwork College students League (NYC) and Inventive Arts Workshop (New Haven). He lives in New Haven, CT along with his spouse and two boys and has a studio in Erector Sq..
Artist Assertion: My cityscapes of New York, created between 2005 and 2014, had been a manner for me to find and have a good time a metropolis that I had newly moved to in 2001. Portray, primarily plein-air work and drawings performed on the road, was a technique to create a report of a metropolis that was all the time altering. This portray, for instance, was began when the Vinegar Hill energy plant had 4 smoke stacks-and by the top of the portray it had just one.
Christina Pleasure
