2012-13 Small Works Show: Michelle Segre and Steve DiBenedetto
Michelle Segre is a sculptor who has exhibited her work widely since the mid-1990's. She has had solo shows at the Derek Eller Gallery in New York, the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles, Murray Guy Gallery, NY, and the Susan Inglett Gallery in NY. She has participated in group shows at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in NY, the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT, the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, amongst others. Segre has taught at both New York University and the Cooper Union School of Art. She currently teaches at Laguardia Community College, CUNY. In June 2013 Segre will be having her first mid-career survey at the University Art Museum in SUNY Albany. She is represented by the Derek Eller Gallery in New York, where she lives.

Steve DiBenedetto is a painter who lives in New York and has been showing his work in the United States and Europe since the mid-1980's. Past solo shows have included the David Nolan Gallery in NY, the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles, Baumgartner Gallery in NY, Rolf Ricke Gallery in Koln, Tony Shafrazi Gallery in NY, the University Art Museum in SUNY Albany, and the Consortium in Dijon, France. A selection of group shows includes the Whitney Museum in NY, the P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art in NY, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France, the Magasin-Centre National d'art Contemporaine in Grenoble, France, Nolan Judin Gallery in Berlin, the University of Richmond Museum in Virginia, and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, NY. DiBenedetto has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the Cooper Union School of Art. He is represented by the David Nolan Gallery in New York.

2012 From Mice to Monsters: Illustrations for Children: Buket Erdogan
Buket Erdogan has illustrated children's books for Orchard Books, Simon and Schuster and Harper Collins.  Three of Buket's "Mouse's First" series were New York Times Best sellers.  

In addition to her book illustration, Buket worked as an artist for several children's fashion companies, including the Children's Apparel Network where her characters and prints were produced for private collections and sold in major retail outlets including K-mart, Kids-R-Us; and for private labels, such as Disney, Sesame Street and Barbie.  She also designed for the Children's Apparel Network's own label, Nanette, which sells at Macy's.

Buket, which means "bouquet" in Turkish, was born in Istanbul.  After graduating from Marmara University of Fine Arts, where she studied traditional art and textile, she moved to New York.  Inspired by the bold and expressive art of children, as well as traditional hand craft, Buket opened her own company, Honeybee and Me, as a national wholesale source for children's handmade clothing, importing hand knit coats, sweaters and accessories from small workshops in Turkey.  She opened a retail shop in Park Slope in 2006 and has since added local designers' collections for moms and kids.

Buket received a masters at F.I.T. in 2010 with the goal of teaching illustration at the college level. She currently continues to paint her vibrant canvases, conducts workshops for middle schools and lives happily in Brooklyn with her most inspiring artist, her daughter Yagmur and their cat Mango.

2011-12 Small Work Show: Sara P. Mintz
Sara P. Mintz is an Associate Director at Cynthia-ReevesContemporary Fine Art Gallery in New York. In her role at Cynthia-Reeves Ms. Mintz facilitates exhibition programming, collection management, artist representation and estate management. Most recently, she worked with the gallery's innovative off site projects presenting Torn Steel: Sculpture by Jonathan Prince at the 590 Madison Ave Building's Sculpture Garden, and in the Marketplace: Paintings and Works on Paper by William Segal, at the 8th Floor. Mintz has written for Saint Gaudens National Historic Site Museum.

2011 Text: Susan Fleminger
The juror for Text is Susan Fleminger. Ms. Fleminger is an artist, art educator and curator. As the Deputy Director for Visual Arts and Arts-in-Education at the Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement, she organized numerous group and solo exhibitions including traveling shows of the work of Vincent Smith and Joseph Delaney, the In-Sites Series through which Lower East Side artists designed community improvements, and the Exchanges series where artists selected others who influenced or interested them. Ms. Fleminger was the guest curator of Rare Editions: The Book as Art at Lehman College Gallery/CCNY in 2009 which presented interpretations of unique artists books and limited editions by contemporary artists. She has been part of artists selection panels for the MTA/Art for Transit, % For Art/ NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the artists workspace programs of Dieu Donne, the American Indian Museum and Henry Street. Ms. Fleminger is the curator of Dialogues in the Visual Arts, a yearly conversation series concerned with artist's work, ideas and concerns at Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Her collages and artists books have been on view recently at Figureworks Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, St. Joseph's College, the Parrish Museum, the Cummings Foundation, and The Painting Center.

2011 4 on the Verge: Dan Weiner
Daniel Weiner, the curator for "4 on the Verge", is the Associate Director of Contemporary Art at James Graham Gallery, in New York City, and has co-curated exhibitions with artist Joe Fyfe (Color Climax, 2008) and writer/art critic and painter John Zinsser (Blue, 2009) and has made art for more than 20 years.

2010-11 Small Work Show: Russell Calabrese and Julie Bills
Russell Calabrese is the Founder and co-Director of Editions Fawbush. Calabrese has published editions with artists such as Kiki Smith, Karen Davie, Christian Marclay, Sol Lewitt and Jack Pierson. Editions Fawbush projects have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, and others.

Julie Bills, of Pomona College, writes critically about contemporary art. Ms. Bills serves as the Secretary on the Board of Directors of Friends of E.1027, a non-profit devoted to the restoration of Eileen Gray's villa in Southern France. She is curating a group exhibition at Gering & López next summer with Al Moran of OHWOW, Miami.

2010 Amoeba to Zebra: Ylva Rouse
Ylva Rouse is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs for U.S. Biennial, Inc., the producer of Prospect New Orleans, the largest international Arts Biennial in the U.S., founded by Dan Cameron in 2007. She has collaborated previously with Dan Cameron, such as for the El Jardin Salvaje (The Savage Garden) at the Caixa Foundation and Cocido y Crudo (The Cooked and the Raw) for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. As Exhibitions Curator at the Reina Sofia Museum, she organized touring retrospectives of work by Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, Agnes Martin, and Joan Miró, and presented work by Jeff Wall, Pepe Espaliú and Robert Gober among many others. As Director of the Javier López Gallery, she worked with artists John M. Armleder, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, Matthew McCaslin and Tatsuo Miyajima.

2009-2010 Small Work Show: Charles Long
Charles Long, internationally exhibited artist with work included in the Whitney Biennial, New York's Museum of Modern Art, MCA Chicago, Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City, Mori Art Museum Tokyo, the Hirshorn in Washington and more. Long is represented in New York by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Grants, two Pollock-Krasner Grants and a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant. Long has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Art and Design and Otis College of Art and Design and Harvard University.

2009 Brooklyn: Florence Neal
Florence Neal moved to New York City in 1977. She was one of the early community of D.U.M.B.O. artists before moving to Red Hook in 1987. She participated in a number of artist-initiated exhibitions in the 70’s and 80’s, and in 1981 was invited to present her work in a two-person show at White Columns. Neal's work has been exhibited widely including: Erie Art Museum Art Works Gallery, Erie, PA; National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI; 55 Mercer Street Gallery, NY; Hermit Symposium, Plasy, Czech Republic; L5 Kunstinitiatief, Roermond, The Netherlands, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL; and Hanalei Gallery, Hawaii. Her prints and Artists Books are in a number of public collections including The Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Public Library, Hofstra Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Library, Department of Prints. Public art commissions include: "Dance of Life" at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and "…a different forest" commissioned by Art Omaha for Omaha Public Library is an image/text collaboration with writer Wendy Walker. "Screen Memories" was an installation in Brooklyn Public Library combining prints with text from Ms. Walker's book "Blue Fire". Neal created an Artist Book with a series of leaf print collages to accompany the poetry of Moroccan poet, Tabal as translated by Ms. Walker. Neal's print series "Cycles" was featured in New York / Paris show entitled "Dialogue", organized by Maddy Rosenberg. She is a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship winner and has been awarded residency opportunities including Fundación Valparaíso, Women’s Studio Workshop, The Banff Centre, Hambidge Center for the Arts, and others. In 1985 she founded Everglade Press, an artist’s press, in her waterfront studio. She helped initiate the exhibitions program at Brooklyn Public Library as Exhibitions Coordinator in 2002 to 2004. Since 1992, Neal has been the director of the non-profit gallery she co-founded in 1990, the Kentler International Drawing Space, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

2008-2009 Small Work Show: Davis Humphrey
David Humphrey, a well known and respected New York artist and curator, represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York City.

2007 Small Work Show: Matthew McCaslin

2006 Small Work Show: Liz Koch