wade kramm
howard schwartzberg
susan silas

Wade Kramm's Wall Fragments jolt perception and manipulate space by strategically placing mirror-like portals on the gallery's walls, floors, and corners. These perceived architectural realities made from building materials (such as drywall, molding, floorboards, and doors) expand our perceptual awareness while also making us cognizant of the perceptual process we use when constructing the world by looking at it. Standing in front of each piece, the phenomenological experience fluctuates between simply seeing the materials as materials and a perceptual/physical engagement with the new spaces within the surrounding architecture. Kramm's art explores Minimalism, architecture, and perception to reshape the viewer's engagement with the gallery space.

Howard Schwartzberg’s work explores his evolving language of painting, investigating how canvas and paint interact beyond traditional illusion. Rejecting conventional rectangular formats, he seeks to expand the painting's possibilities by questioning its structure and presentation. His process, influenced by reverse brainstorming and a respect for art history, involves repurposing existing visual languages to uncover new creative directions. Through this approach, he challenges material boundaries, embracing painting as an exploration of space, time, and transformation rather than mere image-making.

After delivering a eulogy for her mother, Susan Silas considered how she would be eulogized and what ideas and entities outlive us. Silas has created work that responds to contemporary concepts of immortality, particularly Whole Brain Emulation, which proposes uploading human consciousness to an inorganic substrate—an idea largely discussed by men and based on the assumption that mind and body can be separated. To explore this, she created an avatar to house her hypothetical brain upload and extended the concept into three sculptures in the form of manipulated busts of her likeness. The works are a long-standing inquiry into embodiment and how technology reshapes our understanding of selfhood. The QR code on the wall work links to a motion capture video titled EULOGY that was inspired from eulogizing her 95 year old mother. 

About the Artists

Wade Kramm is an installation artist based in New York and Pittsburgh. His work has been exhibited at Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Pueblo Garzon, Uruguay), Tapir Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Cue Art Foundation (New York, NY), Odetta Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Space 776 (Brooklyn, NY), Sammer Gallery (New York, NY), Concept Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), Esther M. Klein Art Gallery (Philadelphia, PA); Athens Contemporary Museum of Art (Athens, GA); Expo Chicago (Chicago, IL), and Art Project Fair (Verona, Italy). Kramm received his M.F.A. in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

Howard Schwartzberg was born in 1965 in Coney Island, Brooklyn. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and his Master's in Education from the University of New England, Maine. Schwartzberg began showing work in 1990 at The Drawing Center and Stux Gallery. He has had solo exhibitions at Momenta Art, Silverstein Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, and most recently at the Private Public Gallery in Hudson, NY. After twenty years of focusing on art-making with Education, in 2020, Schwartzberg retired from the NYC Public School System, and In 2016, he began making his paintings again.

Susan Silas has had recent solo exhibitions at The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Koli Art Space in Istanbul, Studio 10 in Bushwick, and CB1 in Los Angeles, as well as group exhibitions, including BIENALSUR 2024, Cuvo 2023 in Spain, CURRENTS 2021 in Santa Fe, and WRO2021 REVERSO in Wroclaw, Poland in 2020, along with shows at Wasserman Projects in Detroit, bitforms gallery in New York, and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken in Germany. She has also participated in recent panels sponsored by Horasis USA, The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, and the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.