Artists

Noah Bassman is an artist and urbanist who imagines cities where community and nature shape the way we live. In their paintings, they create dreamlike scenes of natural, beautiful queer love, tender portraits of queer couples and communities rooted in care and connection. Alongside this practice, their public artworks introduce nature-inspired interventions that promote walkability, bikeability, and more sustainable forms of city life. Growing up in Jackson Heights, Queens, a neighborhood alive with diversity, they developed an enduring commitment to place and identity as sources of creative power.

Ronen is a multidisciplinary artist whose politically charged works examine identity, power, and cultural displacement. Through painting, sculpture, and mixed media, he reinterprets historical narratives, using art as a tool for reflection and resistance.

Jessica Dalrymple approaches the natural world around her with deep respect and appreciation. She invests herself in a thoughtful artistic process, in particular by developing intricate techniques that pay homage to nature, to the city in its physicality. Her scrolls inspired by Japanese art are elegant and elaborate, and her mixed media pieces incorporate collage, oil painting, and manipulated photography. This work refers both to century-old representations of nature, when art and science merged to produce beautiful illustrations and to the more exacting representations in modernity. Her paintings have been shown extensively and are part of major collections. Her artistic investment in the environment coincides most aptly with the mission of Gallery Particulier.

Every piece by mixed-media artist Wennie Huang reveals her deep interiority and her exquisite esthetics. She paints delicate watercolors that celebrate the everyday, and draws affecting pastels of landscapes and cityscapes. Her mixed media installations combine paper, wood, print, fabric ,and photography, and explore her identity as a Chinese American. She has had numerous shows, and private and public commissions: some of her work can be seen around the city of New York.

Guadalupe Cariño Rosenburg is not going to let anything, nor anyone put a damper on his creativity. They explode with ideas, media experimentations, and explorations of influences and identity. The result is an exuberant array of work using paint, embroidery, clay, watercolor, and more. In all these disciplines, Guadalupe shows an assured hand in terms of composition, the representation of tridimension, and color study. Guadalupe, who was born in the USA but feels strongly about his Mexican roots, rides proudly both cultures, as well as that of their LGBTQ identity which adds one more note to their rich range of expression. They’re an emerging artist to pay attention to, and have been getting invitations from curators and galleries, showing his work in the US and abroad.

Samara is a Haitian American artist based in Brooklyn. who creates powerful portraits using oil paint, water color, and pen. Her art communicates a deep appreciation for the beauty of humanity. Each work is intense and emotional, reflecting a rich mix of joy, pain, and pride. It is her way of honoring her heritage, and celebrating the gift of life. Through each brush stroke and every swirl of pen, she leaves a mark, a lasting memory of the intensity of the human experience. Drawing on her life and experience, Samara is dedicated to celebrating the importance of embracing identity, and honoring community.

Ali Rose Dachis is both a self taught visual artist and actor. She has spent most of her life in the theatre and has a B.F.A in Acting from The University of Minnesota / Guthrie Actor Training Program, and uses her body to explore the human experience on the stage as well as on paper. Ali has performed around the country, on Broadway, and off-broadway, and her artwork has been shown in spaces in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Minneapolis. Her most recent work was showcased in the “Foot In the Door” exhibit at The Minneapolis Institute of Art. She works mostly in watercolor and ink Her saturated, rhythmic use of color to paint women’s bodies and faces, and exploring femininity by capturing moments of rage, torture, complacency, joy, nostalgia, and desire. She has a leaning toward expressionism, and creates mostly figurative works with some joyful adventures in abstraction.

Gallery Particulier is delighted to introduce emerging artist Lungisa Matubatuba, an Eastern Capean who graduated in Fine Arts from Walter Sisulu University in 2015. Lungisa explores primarily figuration in various media, including oil, watercolor, and collage. A member of the Sotho people, his experience of both the veld and townships is expressed in a poetic, nostalgic even, style, whether he uses a blurred vision or science plate like images. His deep affection for the struggling people of South Africa, and children, in particular, is evident in all his work.

Shawn McKinney is a Bahamian-born visual artist who is primarily self taught. His paintings explore the people of Africa, the Caribbean, and African-Americans from slavery to the present. Thanks to his fertile imagination and artistic talent, he has developed several lines of expression which all exhibit boldness and originality. Some works are invested in the exuberant colors and images of the Caribbean and the African diaspora. Others, inspired by the look of old photographs, explore Black History. A bodybuilding champion, he represents some subjects in the nude, as human beings stripped from clues to identity who face symbolic situations. His Cuban Cigar Ladies series was selected for the “Black Light” exhibition at The Living Gallery in August 2020.

Phelonise Willie was born and raised in Harlem; but soon found herself born and raised all over again in the East Village. And now Phelonise resides in rural Bedford-Stuyvesant with all its birds and trees and feral cats, who keep reminding her of the necessity for change. So although she thinks of herself as a writer who paints, her greatest desire is to morph into a painter who writes (as in writing being pesky obsession but painting some delicious lover?)
She views her canvases full of abstract color and shape as dialogue between emotion and mood. But since Art is language Phelonise hopes they invite the observer to talk back by smearing them over with their own thought and feeling because every piece of art should have two makers – creator and spectator. But when Phelonise paints human beings the only purpose is to undisguise them. She finds naked bodies more trustworthy and thinks maybe what this crazy world needs most is the intimacy of voluntary nakedness.