(66) Artist Talks

Giving fake Tiffany, bought from the trunk of a Cadillac, to Rachel Cohen for her Bat Mitzvah. Microwaving lavash and string cheese for an after-school snack. Tending to a mustache and beard since 5th grade. Going to the AC Tropicana for weekend “getaways”. Watching Cher in Moonstruck every night before bed. Drinking milk from a martini glass. This is Constantine's DNA. Gabrielle Constantine (1994) was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she received her double BFA in Sculpture and Fibers and Material studies at the Tyler School of Art (2017). She’s currently living and working in Austin, TX and holds an MFA at The University of Texas of Austin (2023) . Growing up in an Armenian Community and the restaurant industry has inexplicably informed her material, linguistic, and performative decisions surrounding her sculptures, installations, and gatherings. Along side her more sculptural practice, Constantine has shared in cooking dinners and hosting gatherings with national and international communities and is consistently and continually innovating ways of gathering community through art and food.

v. nico d’entremont is a transdisciplinary artist, presently existing in a liminal space between Los Angeles, Boston, and rural New Hampshire. Through installation, experimental documentary, ritual/performances, inter-species collaborations and socially-engaged practice, their work examines poetic entanglements across the veil of life and death. Their expanded practice blurs the edges of studio art, academic research, spiritual practice and embodied ways of knowing. By exploring systemic concerns through personal narrative, d’entremont challenges preconceived notions of queerness, disability and various social positions of “otherness,” ultimately aiming toward healing and collective liberation.
Commissions, solo exhibitions and residencies include: Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Commonwealth & Council, MacDowell, Yaddo, BANFF, The Joan Mitchell Center, Art Omi, Lighthouse Works, ACRE, SPACES Cleveland, The Berwick Research Institute and a Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residency. Grants and fellowships received have included a 2012 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2016 Social Practice Art award and 2024 Collective Futures Fund grant.

Lara Mimosa Montes (b. 1987) is a writer, editor, and teaching artist whose practice and experiences span the fields of alternative publishing and experimental writing. She is most recently the author of THRESHOLES (2020). Her writing has appeared in Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, BOMB, Fence, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is a faculty member of the Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. Her next book, The Time of the Novel, is forthcoming from Wendy's Subway. She was born in the Bronx.

Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist and musician. His commitment to collective knowledge production through art practice and performance began as an experimental and self-taught multi-instrumentalist. He continues to perform improvised soundworks and experimental music within group settings. He is a 2024-25 Whitney Independent Study Program Studio Fellow.