Aline Lotter

My model, Sabrin, is a young immigrant/refugee from Sudan. She escaped her bonds in Sudan, and now struggles to find happiness in this strange new land. She has donned her native dress to please we artists, and make a few bucks. All we can do is show her pain, her strength, and her hope.

Sarah Lubin

This work brings attention to details of life that may not seem realistic, but are still familiar. A mostly ordinary scene is turned into something stranger and more fantastical—in the same way memory can function. The interlocking of figures and narrative in the composition leaves an airlessness to the atmosphere that can give the figures a static, and even suffocated quality at times. The figures are bound both in the narrative and in how they are positioned, but there is nonetheless a latent, albeit restrained, energy.