Untitled by Sylvia Fragoso
Glazed ceramics, 2017
11 x 12 x 11"

The ceramics and drawings of Sylvia Fragoso exude a vitality, sincerity and reverence that reflect the deep care that went into their creation, and the many years that the artist has single-mindedly dedicated to her craft. Sylvia started making art in her early twenties after joining NIAD. Over the last thirty years she has produced hundreds of clay sculptures: spiritually-inspired monuments that possess a humble beauty and strange power; mysterious clusters with crucifixes atop them that testify to her devout Catholicism, and crumbling towers, some with spiky projections jutting out from their thickly glazed exteriors.

Life by Sara Malpass
Glazed ceramics, 2017
8 x 4 x .5"

Sara Malpass' works, particularly the daily lists on notebook paper, isolate an exploration of written language in visual art that is uncommon in that of mainstream contemporary artists, but prominent in the works of so-called outsiders. Her reductive, pragmatic language most often culls words from her current reading material or immediate interests, her piles of lists culminating as a living personal archive central to her prolific creative practice.

Untitled (Guitar) by Jonathan Velazquez
Mixed media, 2019
38 x 16 x 12"

Jonathan Velazquez's work - both on paper, canvas and in performance - explores the possibilities of celebrity, with the razor like observations of a chameleon. He creates work focusing and transmuting the obsessive qualities of pop music fandom into art objects and performances. Velasquez crafts his numerous artistic personas from musicians and bands that he connects with on various levels - his slate of performers includes Michael Jackson as well as Espinosa Paz, Los Tigres and Daddy Yankee.

Velasquez's performance work will be included in an upcoming exhibition this June at Richmond Art Center.

(Lamp) by Jeremy Burleson
Rolled paper, glue, paint and marker, 2020
29 x 10 x 11"

With masking tape and paper, Jeremy Burleson has built a flood of highly detailed medical instruments - hyper-realistic and quasi-workable versions of stethoscopes, ventilators and syringes. Burleson also works out his interest in all things medical on paper, often combining figures with rows of bottles, syringes and balloons. It's unclear where his obsession stems from, but it's obvious that his focus on medically related subject matter walks a fine line between fascination and repulsion.