Facebook / Meta, 2014-2022
Led Strategy & Operations and curated for Meta/Facebook’s global art program Open Arts for 8 years. Led a team of 50 and engaged 1,000+ global artists to create site-specific art installations, product collaborations and content.
New York City Installations:
Saya Woolfalk
Born in Gifu City, Japan, Saya Woolfalk is a New York-based artist known for her multimedia exploration of hybridity, science, race, and gender. The installation “Sky Room” is intended to create a sense that the lounge is a wondrous location that hovers over the NYC skyline.
Adrian Viajero Roman
Adrian is a multi-media installation artist. He explores issues of race, migration and identity while exploring both personal and historical memories. His work seeks to bring forth collective memories of travel, migration and dislocation; of leaving home and creating home again. Adrian has shown his work at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, and many more.
CONFETTISYSTEM
CONFETTISYSTEM is Nicholas Andersen and Julie Ho, a duo working as artists, stylists, and designers. A friendship born from their shared love of communal celebration and craft-making has brought them together to create a new system.
Kelie Bowman
Kelie is an artist, curator, and co-owner of Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn. Providing a platform for other artists to share their work is a righteous undertaking and rounds out Kelie's own studio art practice. Aside from painting murals, Kelie works in drawing, watercolor, sewing, installation, book-making and curating. Her murals are based loosely around fracturing (or pixelating) seascapes. Taking apart and ordering a timeless motif like the landscape is a way to open the subject matter up to more universal ideas.
Edward Ubiera
Edward Ubiera is a Brooklyn-based artist working in drawing, painting, sculpture, and print-making. His practice focuses on illustration and collage that teeters between the figurative, the literal and the abstract.
Clint Fulkerson
Clint’s work is inspired by network systems and natural formations at microscopic and cosmic scales. His hand-drawn murals are made with paint markers, utilizing a hierarchical, emergent logic of geometric design. Clint’s work has been featured in many galleries across the US, including Schema Projects in Brooklyn and The Portland Museum of Art.
Jennifer Maravillas
This mural is an ongoing growing compilation of memories shared on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Jennifer's work focuses on cartography as a system to map our collective memories and experiences. A digital version of the ever-growing map can be found at manhattanmemoriesmap.com. Jennifer has worked with many clients including Waitrose, Spirituality and Health Magazine, and Nowhere Magazine.
Mara Baldwin
Mara Baldwin creates objects and drawings revolving around the historical spaces, writings, and makings of women. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Triple Base Gallery (SF), the San Francisco Arts Commission, SOMArts (SF), UC Berkeley, and Capricious Space (Brooklyn).
Mike Perry
Mike works with many different mediums including, drawing, painting, installation and animation. He has published five books and collaborated with brands such as Nike, Urban Outfitters and Target. Mike is best known for creating the opening animation and graphics for the television show “Broad City.” Mike has shown his work at the Hammer Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Useless Gallery (Singapore), and Garis & Hahn (NYC). He is represented by The Garden Party.
Robert Otto Epstein
Robert’s paintings and drawings are inspired by his interest in philosophy, architecture, and the history of design. His work ranges from figurative portraits to calculated patterns, Robert’s “8 Bitterized” paintings are based on images he finds on the web. He then uses Photoshop to transform the images into a grid of colors and geometric shapes. Robert has recently shown at The Hole and Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC.
Gabriel Dawe
Gabriel’s installations are mathematical feats that explore the relationship between fashion and architecture, and how they relate to the human need for shelter and connection. Gabriel’s site- specific installations are made up of thousands of different colored threads that create one sculpture. He has shown all over the world including Museum Rijswijk in the Netherlands, Conduit Gallery in Dallas, TX, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and Newark Museum.
Johnny Abrahams
Johnny’s signature moiré paintings are so precisely executed, they appear to be computer generated. But in fact they are made through a simple yet time intensive process of applying thin lines of paint in a repetitive overlapping pattern. He demonstrates the illusory nature of repetition through visual languages generated by pattern and process. Johnny’s work has been shown at Circle Culture Gallery in Berlin, Jack Hanley Gallery and The Hole in New York, Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, and 10 Hanover in London.
Paul Wackers
Paul’s paintings speak to the ideas of connectivity and individuality in that each object is unique but presented with a sense of everything being on an even playing field. Paul has exhibited nationally and internationally at Alice in Brussels, Narwhal Projects in Toronto, Eleanor Harwood in San Francisco and Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York.
Seattle Installations:
Aleph Geddis
Aleph's work lives at the intersection of traditional methods and modernist forms, informed by a lifetime fascination with the foundational structures of our world. Growing up on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest, Aleph spent many hours with his stepfather, a sculptor, carver and builder of wooden boats. Steeped in this rich environment, his early works drew inspiration from the stylized naturalism of Northwest Coast Native carvings, and later, from all he saw on a family trip to Japan.
Claire Cowie
Claire is a multimedia artist, working in drawing, painting, sculpture and collage. Her work captures fleeting moments in a shifting, fractured ecosystem with overall compositions revealing not only the architecture of her surface, but offering a dream-like mindscape which highlights the fragmentation of memory and time. She created this large-scale mural/collage for Facebook Seattle intuitively.
Sasha Barr
Sasha is an artist, illustrator and Grammy-nominated art director working for SubPop Records since 2007. His immersive, hand painted installation titled "Cosmos" is about the connectedness of all things, the universal model of our relationship to the infinite. He sees this artwork as an opportunity to think beyond the every day, past the struggles of the world immediately around, and to the pure wonder of the unknown.
Stacey Rozich
Stacey paints a folkloric narrative that draws inspiration from many cultural references, building scenarios pulled from a realm of familiar fictional archetypes and traditions. Influence is taken from travel, world textiles, childhood memories and the many hours spent watching television. Stacy’s client list includes Refinery 29, Starbucks, Lucky Peach Magazine and more. Her work has been exhibited at the Chicago Urban Arts Society, Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle and Sky High Gallery in Milwaukee.
Marie Watt
Marie’s work draws from history, biography, protofeminism, indigenous principles, and addresses the interaction of the arc of history with the intimacy of memory. Blankets, one of her primary materials, are everyday objects that can carry extraordinary histories of use. In her tribe (Seneca), blankets are given away to honor those who are witness to important life events. Marie has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and received a fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Selected collections include the National Gallery of Canada, The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and Renwick Gallery, The Tacoma Art Museum, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, The Seattle Art Museum, and The United States Library of Congress. She exhibits internationally, and is represented in Portland by PDX Contemporary Art, and in Seattle by Greg Kucera Gallery.
Corey Bullpitt
Corey is a Haida painter, jeweler and wood carver. He paints and carves in his native Haida style to connect with his ancestry and to help preserve their rich heritage. Corey has carved many totem poles, including a 20' yellow cedar pole for Scouts Canada and a 17' story pole for Queen Charlotte Lodge. He has been commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and was a Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient in 2004/05. Corey has created murals all over the US and Canada.
Electric Coffin
Electric Coffin is made up of four individuals with varied artistic backgrounds that collectively make up what they like to call a "super deluxe art machine". With backgrounds in painting and sculpture, fabrication and graphic design, they have worked on commercial projects ranging from full design build to specific installations monuments. A few of their clients include Airbnb, Amazon, The Seattle Seahawks, and REI.
Evan Blackwell
Evan’s art making practice aims to bridge social, ecological, and biological systems with methods of urban planning, mass production, and industrialization. He works with salvaged building materials, disposable products and post-consumer waste. Evan is a professor of Art at Evergreen College in Olympia, WA and is represented by Foster/White Gallery in Seattle.
Kyler Martz
Kyler Martz is a Seattle-based illustrator, muralist, and tattoo artist. Kyler’s work mixes nautical, old-world, and organic themes to create unique icons from our storied past. His illustrations have been commissioned by various clients such as Starbucks, Vans, Hermes, and Sleater-Kinney, and UrbanArtworks in Seattle.
Aaliyah Gupta
Aaliyah’s latest work is about movement, symbiosis and co-existence; the upheavals, natural and political, that impact our day to day existence. Aaliyah has exhibited at The Queens Museum of Art, the Indo American Arts Council in New York, and Core Gallery in Seattle among others.
Austin Installations:
Sophie Roach
Sophie Roach is a self-taught artist and illustrator based in Austin, TX. She discovered her passion for compulsive drawing when she was supposed to be paying attention to lectures at the University of Washington. By using familiar shapes, patterns and her own intuition, Roach has created a unique visual language based on spontaneity and rhythm. Her abstract style is playful yet austere, extremely detailed and often vibrantly colored. Her client list includes, among others, Nike, Converse, Complex, Fiat, IBM, Kit & Ace, Austin City Limits Music Festival, The Grammy Foundation, Uber, MiO.
Adrian Landon Brooks
Adrian works predominantly in the mediums of painting and illustration, using found materials such as wood, metal, and old photographs as his canvas. Adrian states that his intention is to show universal themes of love, loss and redemption - subjects that transcend race or creed; worlds too far away to resemble any one place; and sacred rituals that could be part of any culture. He has exhibited in Houston, Austin, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, and Amsterdam. In addition to his gallery work, Brooks has been included in museum exhibitions at The Contemporary Austin and Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
Josef Kristofoletti
Austin, TX based artist Josef Kristofoletti was born in Nagyvarad, Transylvania. His work is primarily made up of mural paintings that address ideas about nature, technology, space and architecture. He was an artist in residence at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. As a founding member of the artist collective Transitantenna, he traveled throughout North America as part of a mobile living experiment that engaged local communities through public interventions. His work has appeared in several publications including Wired, PBS News Hour, New York Times, The Guardian, Boston Globe, Fast Company, Huffington Post, and Symmetry Magazine.
Los Angeles Installations:
Chris Natrop
Chris works spontaneously and abstractly; he refers to his method as a stream of consciousness drawing technique, making free-form cuts out of paper using a knife. He then strings the pieces together to become a 3-D installation. Chris has shown his work in the Istanbul Biennial, he created a commission for the Los Angeles International Airport, and he is represented by Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco.
Frohawk Two Feathers
Umar Rashid (aka Frohawk Two Feathers) tells stories of mythology and history through re-imagined and re-mixed narratives. His work touches on subjects of race, power, and greed. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT), Hudson River Museum (NY), the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. He has also shown at Taylor deCordoba (LA), Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), and Johannes Vogt Gallery (NYC) among others.
Geoff Gouveia
Geoff uses his online community for inspiration in creating his drawings by crowdsourcing ideas on Instagram and Facebook Live. He is pushing boundaries of the typical artists’ solitary process by connecting with people to share sketches and guide the process. Geoff’s clients have included Los Angeles-based companies such as Facebook, Macbeth Footwear, This Is Ground and Baron Fig.
Hadley Holliday
Hadley’s work is inspired by museums art collections, Indonesian batik fabrics, medieval stained glass windows, and Russian icons. She refers to her large abstract paintings as “mental soothers”. While most of her paintings are created with acrylic paint, she also creates abstractions using a cyanotype method. Hadley’s work has been shown at ACME Gallery (LA), Taylor deCordoba Gallery (LA) and Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina.
Sage Vaughn
