FACULTY BIOS DAVID BAKER is a visual artist who specializes in poetic landscape painting, much of it done en plein air. His studio pieces are often reinterpretations of paintings done outdoors. His principal media are watercolor, oil, and charcoal. Over the years, he has mounted more than four dozen solo exhibits. A lifelong artist and teacher, Baker recently retired as Art Professor Emeritus from Southwestern Michigan College; he has taught at Ox-Bow since 2000. He earned his MFA from Indiana State University. He is represented by Aveline Gallery, Benton Harbor, Michigan, and the Rising Phoenix Gallery, Michigan City, Indiana. DEVIN BALARA’s recent work uses steel as a drawing material to depict cartoonish scenes inspired by bad omens, supernatural moments, desert island logic, and the outdoors as both unruly and picturesque. Her work has recently been exhibited at Comfort Station, Chicago; Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey; SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC; and DEMO Project, Springfield, Illinois. In 2014, Balara received the Sculpture magazine Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Monson Arts, Elsewhere museum and artists’ resi-dency, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wassaic Project. Balara spends summers managing the sculpture studio at Ox-Bow. Originally hailing from Tampa, Florida, she holds an MFA in Sculpture from Indiana University Bloomington and a BFA from the University of North Florida. BRITNI BICKNAVER is an artist and educator from Cincinnati. With a background in sculpture and drawing, Bicknaver works primarily in the medium of sound, creating pieces that range from audio tours to pop songs. Her work is fueled by concepts such as history, memory, arcane information, and the revelation of inner worlds. She received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. GABRIEL CHALFIN-PINEY is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer, with a background in
performance and exhibition-making. They are interested in making by way of olfactory, gustatory, and tactile experiments, prompting audience members to participate as co-creators. They hope to be part of building a play forward-abolition centric-family style eating-oral historical-tattooed-meditative-puppetry bound-molded-meditative-ecology. Gabriel holds an MA in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have shown work at the Dorsky Museum, Panoply Lab, High Concept Labs, and Grace Exhibition Space. ERIN CHAPLA currently serves as Ox-Bow’s Head Chef; she’s been spicing your food in the Ox-Bow kitchen for 15 years. Her enduring love of Asian cuisine has been nurtured by extensive travel, as she honed her skills cooking and eating across south & east Asia for several years. She now lives with her family on their 5-acre permaculture homestead in the Allegan woods, where she tends an ambitious garden, an unruly flock of chickens, and two wild little girls. Originally from Queens, New York, and now based in Baltimore, KYRAE DAWAUN was raised by a matriarch in the 1990s. Dawaun today maintains a practice embellishing quotidian cognizance with expressions of regional, cultural imagery through figuration and abstraction. His approach to his working modalities in painting, sculpture, and installation is influenced by his avid studies, speculation, and experience around architecture, hospitality, and the fluid and fickle nature of language. He has shown widely in the Washington metropolitan area and has been invited to work, reside, and exhibit in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Berlin, as well as Italy. He received the Denbo Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic in 2016 and the DCCAH Arts and Humanities Fellowship in 2017. He received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and his BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. E. SAFFRONIA DOWNING works with clay to map material residue across time and place. She forages local materials and creates site-specific installation and
sculpture. Downing is the co-creator of the digital publication Viral Ecologies. Her work was featured in the 2019 autumn session of the Setouchi Triennale, Japan. She has also exhibited nationally at numerous Chicago and Baltimore galleries. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College. For over 35 years, CHRIS FERRIS has worked in restaurants in California, Chicago, and Michigan, in every position from dishwasher to head chef. She has collaborated with Alice Waters, Jeremiah Tower, and Randall Graham. Since 2013, she has owned and operated the Farmhouse Deli in Douglas, Michigan, focusing on healthy, local, made-from-scratch food. BOBBY GONZALES is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, whose work explores the intersection of painting, performance, and photography. His most recent exhibitions and performances include Spontaneous Remarks at the Chicago Artists Coalition and participation in Merce Cunningham’s Field Dances at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; group exhibitions at the Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and the Galleries at Columbia Uni-versity and Zürcher Studio, New York; and solo exhibitions at the Vox Populi, Philadelphia, artist collective, of which he was an artist member from 2012 to 2014. Gonzales is currently the Print and New Media Studio Manager at Ox-Bow. He received his MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
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MEADOW nationally in venues in Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Goodrich is also interested in collaborative prac-tices inspired by music. Currently, he teaches at Marwen, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in both the Printmedia Depart-ment and the Early College Program. He studied painting and sculpture, primarily casting processes, at Skidmore College, and printmaking at SAIC, where he received his MFA. EMORY HALL is an artist working with food at Ox-Bow. Her experience draws from commercial food styling, creating digital content for food brands, and working in Michelin-recognized kitchens in Chicago. Having taken classes through the Dutch Institute of Food and Design, she is currently working with food as a living sculptural medium and constantly seeking to expand the experience of visually and physically consuming food. GURTIE HANSELL, aka Kangmankey, is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and designer of genderqueer streetwear. Their signature style uses a range of self-taught and adapted techniques that anyone can learn and do from home. They subvert the expectation that so-called “gender neutral” clothing is all masculine in some way. Instead, they put all gender expressions front and center for everyone to explore. A self-described Craft Store Goth, Hansell creates “Gender Non-Specific Wearables for Your Gorgeous Spectrumful Ass!!!” They received a BA in Graphic Design from Columbia College Chicago.
MICHAEL GABRIEL CUADRADO GONZALEZ is a visual artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He now lives and works between Chicago and Saugatuck. In 2017, he participated in Ox-Bow’s Fellowship program, and in winter 2020, he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Wassaic Project. He received a BFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute.
BRENT HARRIS is a multimedia sculpture artist who currently heads the Sculpture Department at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Harris has a long history in metals and foundry work. His public work, and the monumental pieces cast over years at his bronze foundry, can be found throughout the United States. He re-ceived his BFA from Western Michigan University.
JASPER GOODRICH is an artist and educator living in Chicago. He explores iteration in image-making in media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. He has exhibited
An interdisciplinary artist based between Saugatuck and Chicago, DOVE DRURY HORNBUCKLE believes the fundamental role of art is to activate profound transformations of self, communities,
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