Nina Olson

"Bits and Pieces"

Artist Bio
New York born collage artist Nina Olson combines photographs, fabric, lace, with found and fabricated materials often hand sewing images described by critic Nancy Princenthal as "poignantly detailed". Her work exposes a private world of remembrances, yearnings, passions and reveries. Educated at SUNY at Purchase, she studied with Abe Ajay and Leonard Stokes. Her work has been shown at the Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, Painted Bride Art Center, and the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria as part of a two year national tour entitled, Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper an exhibition curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the Shirley and Franklin Poul Award for her work in the exhibition, The Power of Paper Celebrating Women artists at the Main Line Art Center curated by Bernice Steinbaum and the Juror's Merit Award for Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Diversion Magazine and Vitoria Magazine.

Clemente Flores

"Doo-Wop Doo-Wop"

Artist Bio
Clemente Flores was born and raised in East Harlem. A self-taught artist, he began to draw and paint in 1985 after his son brought everyone in the family drawing pads except for him. Mr. Flores actively campaigns and encourages members of the Latino Community to engage in art activities. Clemente Flores’ artwork has been exhibited extensively throughout New York C