Damon Zucconi (1985, Bethpage, NY) works with custom scripts to create works that are typically accessible online.
His most recent researches focuses on language learning methods and those faculties that are lost during the process.

“I look at the picture. I read the text and realize its relation to the images under the words: they are spatially arranged in a pattern described by the language. I continue to read, and my attention oscillates between these two modes of seeing: reading and looking to verify; apprehend. The images are oblique — slightly wrong in one way or another — though it is hard to describe why. The text runs from top to bottom, left to right, but the contents it concerns are inside-out, from the center to the edges. As I move along the text, I’m also moving outward. The configuration described and depicted is not strictly logical, and though a composite in one’s mind forms, it never resolves into something complete and coherent.”

Sophy Naess (b.1983, Chicago, Illinois) lives and works in New York.

Naess is trained as an oil painter and maintains an active multidisciplinary practice that includes weaving, writing, and various print based projects. Observational painting is a constant in her work, and in recent years she has produced expressive wall sized tapestries at the same time as creating thematic albums of smaller paintings on canvas.
Naess’s painterly weavings draw on a variety of techniques and defy the dichotomy between figuration and abstraction. She paints onto unwoven warp threads before weaving them into cloth, embedding painting into the weave and collapsing the distinction between support and surface. Her painted images are submitted to the tension the loom exerts on each thread, creating the appearance of a blur, stretch or rupture as the painting is transposed through the digital patterning of the loom’s binary system.
An interest in the deconstruction of this system initiated an ongoing series of prints made from barely woven thread compositions. Printmaking is used as a capture mode, bringing forth image from an entangled fiber matrix that appears as a drawing when inked and pressurized.