Summer Open Studios 2025

Triangle is excited to announce Summer Open Studios

Summer Open Studios
Thursday, August 7th
6-8 PM

20 Jay St, Suite 318
Brooklyn NY 11201

Featuring our Artists-in-Residence:

Xayvier Haughton, Ryan Kuo, Sallamari Rantala, and Elise Rasmussen

If you have any questions please contact mail@triangleartsnyc.org.

Xayvier Haughton is interested in African spirituality and aesthetic developments during and after the Middle Passage. By enlisting classical painting techniques, Haughton creates icon imagery combined with Voodoo and Obeah-inspired votives and objects. Haughton then uses symbols to create architectural forms, such as altars and shelves consisting of amalgamations of tones and textures, as a response to the nuances of Afro-Caribbean spiritual and socio-political spaces.

Ryan Kuo is an artist and writer in New York City. He makes diagrammatic and conceptual systems that are process-based and often invoke a person or people arguing. This is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument. His works have taken form as recursive scripts and circular narratives, self-playing game environments, desktop interfaces, business dashboards, technical documentation, slideshow animations, and experimental publications. Although these are often aided or informed by digital processes, Ryan is not a programmer.

Sallamari Rantala is a Finnish artist based in Lithuania. Her practice explores the connections between landscape, memories, and histories, which layer through nonlinear narratives, transformation, and contradiction. Her work combines drawing and forming of materials, often resulting in relief-like outcomes, blurring the boundaries between surface and depth. Rantala situates herself within the tension between extractivist impulses and material sensitivity, using this friction as a lens to reflect her multilocal identity and positionality in place, time, and layered histories. Rantala’s residency occurs in partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Elise Rasmussen is a research-based artist whose work manifests through the mediums of photography and film. She is interested in re-visiting historical narratives, juxtaposing these with contemporary issues related to power structures, climate change, and technological "progress." Born in Edmonton, Canada (Treaty Six, Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Elise currently resides in Los Angeles, California (Tovaangar, the traditional lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva Peoples).