Fall Open Studios 2025

Fall Open Studios
Thursday, November 6th
6-8 PM

20 Jay St, Suite 318
Brooklyn NY 11201

Featuring our Artists-in-Residence:

Kyung Me, S. Proski, Harriina Räinä, Diana Rakhmanova,
and Frank WANG Yefeng

Kyung-Me is an artist based in New York. Her work explores potential architectures of the subconscious and how images, objects, and memory are intertwined to conjure complex and spiritual spaces. Working predominantly in ink, she creates drawings of labyrinthian spaces. In these interior worlds, she explores the seductive and sinister nature of entrapment structures. She is interested in the invisible architecture of entrapment — from societal and familial to psychological and spiritual.

S. Proski is a blind/disabled artist, writer, and educator. Their practice engages with personal experiences of blindness through painting, textiles, sculpture, and text, with the aim of challenging the bias towards vision in art. Their work foregrounds the complexities of blind culture, its relationship to vision and language, and the embedded hierarchical structures that prioritize the ocularcentric. Proski negotiates the state of being blind, situated within the cross-contamination of material, exploring sensorially new modes of perception beyond the visual.

Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, originally from northern Finland, close to the Arctic Circle. Her practice is rooted in ecological thinking and material engagement with land and multispecies life – with a particular focus on human–animal relationships. She explores themes such as material agency, corporeality, and the tension between the natural and the artificial through sculpture, photography, and experimental printmaking. Working with materials such as earth-derived matter and oyster shells, Räinä draws on sustainable processes and cultural memory, reflecting on their historical, geological, and ethical dimensions.

Diana Rakhmanova is an artist, curator, art manager, researcher, and journalist. She is the founder of PF Cultural Center “Kuduk” in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Diana curates educational projects on eco-art, data-art and art management in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. She also creates installations, discussions and cooking-together happenings considering food as an art language of cultural exchange. Most of Diana’s work is autobiographical based on memories, search for herself, internal reflections, and the history of Tajikistan. Her work was exhibited in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and USA and included as part of the DAVRA collective at Documenta fifteen. She participated in art residencies in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia. This residency is supported by CEC ArtsLink.

Frank WANG Yefeng's practice navigates the instability of identity, place, and perception, shaped by experiences of migration and cultural displacement. Born in Shanghai and now based between New York and Shanghai, He works across 3D animation, video installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, and text, constructing speculative worlds that explore the tensions of belonging and estrangement. Using a non-hierarchical approach to creative media, he immerses viewers in imaginations where the boundaries between the human and non-human, virtual and physical, dissolve. His storytelling features whimsical animated characters and uncanny landscapes, and often critically examines fixed identity formations, the genealogies of racialized others, and the alienation of people and objects in dominant cultural and technological narratives. Blending playful aesthetics with conceptual depth, Frank invites viewers into a speculative space where perception is fluid, and new worlds continuously unfold.