Meet the artists.

  The 2022 gener8tor Art Cohort

SPOOKY BOOBS

SPOOKY BOOBS visualizes the trivialization of women’s experiences through installations, performances, printed material and designed objects. Their work examines the power of misogynistic language and critiques the patriarchal systems that perpetuate disrespect toward women.

Israel Campus

Israel Campos is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the rich and diverse tapestry of cultures, lifestyles and narratives found in the “City of Angels” through paintings, prints, photography and artist books. The contradictions woven into the city are explored through the lens of an Angelino who was raised and lives in a neighborhood that is heavily industrial and predominantly working class.

Marlos E’van

Marlos’s Evan’s work is a statement of the harsh, often self-contradictory ideologies on which America is built. By using found materials, obsessive mark making, text and hyperbole, he explores how dystopian landscapes speak to long-standing American social problems.

Kate Klingbeil

Kate Klingbeil’s work explores the intrinsic and evolving relationship between humans and nature by presenting an emotional realm overlapping and mirroring the natural world. Made up of many small parts that form an anthropomorphic ecosystem, the paintings consist of thick acrylic paint, lake rocks, ceramic shards, sticks and sand, and other materials.

Shanna Merola

Shanna Merola is a visual artist, photojournalist and legal worker. Her sculptural photo collages are informed by the stories of environmental justice struggles past and present. Traveling to EPA designated Superfund sites, she has documented the slow violence of deregulation – from her own neighborhood on the Eastside of Detroit to Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens and Love Canal, N.Y.

Moody Zine

Founded and curated by Melissa Mursch- Rodriguez, Moody Zine  is a bi-monthly handmade zine publication made up of artist contributions with an emphasis on queer and BIPOC creatives. Featured artists share not only images of work, but stories, poems, notes on their creative process, QR codes to online content, and whatever else has been on their minds. Off of the page, Moody spotlights its contributors and collaborates with local organizations via pop-up sales, art festivals and curatorial projects. Whether in print or in person, Moody aims to connect creative peers, amplify diverse voices and put money into the pockets of artists.

  The 2021 gener8tor Art Cohort

Phoenix Brown

Phoenix Brown uses painting, printmaking and drawing to highlight dialogues around Black feminism, personal narrative and pop culture. She uses diverse mediums and methods of making to confront western art history’s portrayal of nature, still life, and the Black female body.

Hope Wang

Hope Wang specializes in weaving, screen-printing, painting and photography to create trompe l'oeil documentations of sites of industrial labour, including building facades that have been eroded, redacted or defaced. By focusing on these architectural “scars,” Wang explores how people form complicated relationships with the structures of their daily lives.

LaNia Sproles

LaNia Sproles uses printmaking, drawing and collage to interwork philosophies of self-perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas. Her work focuses on the black femme body as a location of trauma and compromised autonomy, while the figures in her work act as a reclamation of space as a queer Person Of Color.

Jessica Harvey

Jessica Harvey uses photography, video, sound, archival resources and objects constructed from everyday materials to create images and installations that focus on memory and place, with a particular emphasis on the role of women in personal or familial histories. Through humor and tragedy, Harvey creates a new way of re-evaluating life, death and the mythology of our own history.