our salons bring together artists & writers who gather online with fsbb collaborators and audiences to share work, discuss resonances, and workshop ideas for the future.
nocturns
salon curated by rose meriam
for nocturns, artists across disciplines and mediums shared work in response to the play nocturning, pandemic nightmares, & dreams for escape. at a live online salon, a curatorial talk was followed by artist presentations and discussion (video archived here).
the artists of nocturns used new or existing work to respond to one of six lines from nocturning, and the following prompts: Fire, Swamp, Roadtrip, Wet, Disc Horse, Surreal Memes, Dreamer, Portals, Plunk, Arsonist, Mouth noises, Remembering, Circling, Up or Down, UFOs, Jumping into a Goddamn Lake, Being Alone, Sweet, sweet petroleum, Dolls, Late Nite Snack, Square, Cold Comforts, Maps, Press F to lyft, WASD.
nocturns is part of nocturning, a project benefitting the Safe Passage Project. you can read about their work here. all of the artists featured in this project have donated their work and time to support the Safe Passage Project’s work.
“What goes up must go up / and up and up and up and up and up”
Annanya George
Cardboard
Annanya George is an Illusion artist focused on bringing the art of magic into the world of fine art. Having been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, Annanya George finds it difficult to express his emotions through words, so he does it through his art. Find more of his movies and work on Youtube (www.youtube.com/c/annanyageorge) and Instagram (@annanyageorge)
Patty Meriam
Oil paint
Patty is a painter, conservator, and digital artist who addresses socio-political concerns through digital satire, and experiments with the sublime to reflect both the glory of nature and the perils that face us due to climate change. @PlmeriamArt
Michelle Stevens
Graphite on paper
Michelle Stevens graduated with a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2019. Identifying as both an Illustrator and Fine Artist, she has received various awards in the field of illustration as well as from galleries, and often exhibits her work around Massachusetts. She is a regular illustrator for Boston Art Review Magazine, has worked on major projects for Boston Calling Music Festival, and prior to the pandemic was an in-house artist at House of Blues, Boston.
Elizabeth Langley
Oil paint on canvas board
Elizabeth/Lillibet is a UK based artist, working at CAST Studios in Cornwall. Specialising in oil painting, her practice distorts traditional perceptions of childhood. Exploiting instances and objects from her personal history with a dark, often satirical edge; she extinguishes the candle on customarily happy memories.
Eliza Woods
Pen on paper
Eliza Woods (they/she) is an artist, art historian, and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. Their art practice includes tiny collages, drawing, illustration, multi-media installations, and print- and zine-making. You can follow their work on Instagram @eeliza.jpg :-)
Elizabeth Langley
Oil paint on Arches paper
Elizabeth/Lillibet (b.1998) is a UK based artist working at CAST Studios in Cornwall. Specialising in oil painting, her practice distorts traditional perceptions of childhood. Exploiting instances and objects from her personal history with a dark, often satirical edge; she extinguishes the candle on customarily happy memories. www.elizabethsaskialangley.com @elizabethsaskialangley.com
“I wanna bass-boost my ass / And if that's not spiritual enough for you / Then get the fuck out of my garden”
Sarah Niles
Digital vector illustration
As an artist, I love working with digital media and spaces- specifically 2D animation, 3D animation and modeling, and digital illustration. My primary focuses center around self-portrait/portraiture, in general, rotoscope and stop-motion animation, horror, and Chicanx art.
Devon Maloney
NASA/USGS Landsat 8. This is a satellite collection of short wave infrared (2.11-2.29μm) radiation from wildfires on Sept 19, 2020 in Oregon.
Devon Maloney is PhD student working in biogeography and remote sensing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dash Eg
Oil on wood panel + digitally manipulated
Hi, my name is Dash. My hand is currently itchy, I am at a computer in my studio, trying hard to not be annoyingly meta. I’m a big fan of observing my reality, how fragile, flexible or static it may be. Traditional painting and drawing have been a way to anchor myself in times of confusion and drastic change. I am less interested in evolving the craft than I am in using it as a way to stabilize my focus. Currently, existentialism, post-modernity and the anti-aesthetic are my more broader scopes of study and observation, but when concepts become too ethereal, I am able to turn to painting as a means of solidifying what is material; what I can touch. insta: @dashegg
Aaron Drill
"Phoenix Flew Too Close to the Sun,” TV pilot cold open (read here)
Aaron Drill is a writer and performer based in West Orange, NJ and a graduate of Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre & Performance. The dream is to write for and perform on TV. This is the cold open of a completed original pilot. It's the story of a teen whose dream comes true in all the wrong ways. @aarondrill aarondrill.com
“(an abbreviated suite of pleasant memory)”
Sarah Rackliff
music, feeling, nostalgia
spinning webs of melancholia, longing and indifference, the aim of sarah rackliff's work is often to unravel the inner workings of her own mind. find her EP Not Bad Sandy on all streaming platforms. Instagram: @quesrahsrah Spotify
Seppe De Meyere
Oil on canvas
The work of Seppe De Meyere characterizes itself substantially through replication and light. Provoked by atmospheres of unease, eeriness and stasis, his paintings constitute a slow digestion of the human form over time, often placed in ambiguous spaces. Tapping into the feeling of segmented scanners, his work creates a rippling gravitas that generates the perception of a faltering visual echo – his imagery is projected through the lenses of our contemporary vices, initiating a feeling of an uncomfortable familiarity, culminating in a recognizable, yet neoteric reality. Seppe De Meyere is part of the founding core of the 404-collective. They’re currently establishing a vibrant community of artists, with emphasis on artistic transparency. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seppedemeyere/ Website: https://seppedemeyere.com/
Colin Babcock
Music
Colin Babcock is a trombonist from Columbus, Ohio, currently based in New York City. He graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2020, studying Trombone Performance with M. Dee Stewart, Dr. Denson Paul Pollard, and Peter Ellefson. His other teachers are Jessica Sneeringer, Dan Joy, and Michael Sewell. Colin is well versed in all kinds of music, from Renaissance to Classical to Jazz to Pop to Avant-Garde and everything in between. Colin has performed at Indianapolis’s The Vogue Theater, Chicago’s SPACE, Columbus Ohio’s Ohio Theater and Vern Riffe Center, and New York’s Carnegie Hall and Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center, as well as many other NYC venues. He can be heard on Albion West’s album, “Hummingbird”. Colin attended the American Trombone Workshop as a finalist in the division two national solo competition in 2018. He was the Consortium leader for, pArasociaL (O New agE), a piece for trombone and electronics by composer Matt Ridge. Colin Performed at the 2020 Detroit Jazz Festival Collegiate Competition with the Du Vidu Septet, playing Brazilian Jazz. He is refining his craft as a composer himself, releasing “Circle”, an album of original music for trombone and computer sounds. Instagram: @babone64 colinbabcockmusic.com
Elizabeth Langley
Oil paint on canvas board; oil on Arches paper; oil paint on board, tape
Elizabeth/Lillibet (b.1998) is a UK based artist working at CAST Studios in Cornwall. Specialising in oil painting, her practice distorts traditional perceptions of childhood. Exploiting instances and objects from her personal history with a dark, often satirical edge; she extinguishes the candle on customarily happy memories. www.elizabethsaskialangley.com @elizabethsaskialangley.com
Leah Byck
Oil paint on canvas
Have you ever woken up from a dream that felt so real you were crying of terror or you were so happy that it helped you get through your day? This piece takes a closer look at the different emotions dreams can have on your life and how it translates into a persons identity or mental state. Leah’s Instagram: leahbyck4 Website
Sarah Niles
Rotoscope animation
As an artist, I love working with digital media and spaces- specifically 2D animation, 3D animation and modeling, and digital illustration. My primary focuses center around self-portrait/portraiture, in general, rotoscope and stop-motion animation, horror, and Chicanx art. My Instagram is @sarita_7012
“Disappointment is far far too/ Expensive these days”
Ayshia Taskin
Absurd livestream performance arts
[ a y s h ] is an Intermedia and crypto artist who makes performances in the virtual world using either livestream tech, cryptospaces and the Twitterverse. When not hanging out in her toilet filming herself being absurd, she partakes in a ritual called #PerformativeShilling on Twitter. Instagram: @ayshiataskin Twitter: @ayshiataskin @d_centrlaysh
Jared Cobain
Oil on canvas, 120*100cm
IG @jaredcoopercobain, website www.jaredcoopercobain.com, Twitter @JardthePainter. Bio- Painter, Skater, Scientist currently in Leipzig, DE
Vivian Belosky
Video
@viv_belosky
“As i sit here surrounded by / All of my eggs”
Rayden Lawrence
Hygienic Chess is a fully functional chess board hand-carved out of soap. I carved all 32 game pieces and all 64 squares for the board using full bars of soap, using 27 bars of soap in total. I plan to handle the pieces and wash them after the completion of each game of chess, until they have been worn down until you can no longer distinguish a pawn from a bishop.
Rayden Lawrence is an lgbt+, 21 year old emerging artist. Rayden is from Canso, Nova Scotia and he graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts from Memorial University in May 2021. Rayden periodically addresses lgbt+ identity and racism in his work, inspired by challenges he has faced in his interracial same-sex relationship. He enjoys life drawing, illustrating landscapes, and elements from childhood.
Sarah Niles
Digital illustration
As an artist, I love working with digital media and spaces- specifically 2D animation, 3D animation and modeling, and digital illustration. My primary focuses center around self-portrait/portraiture, in general, rotoscope and stop-motion animation, horror, and Chicanx art. My Instagram is @sarita_7012
sketch nights
Lhana Ormenyi
Pen and paper
@outworkshop
Patrick Zimmerman
Pen and paper
Living in Germany, I just scribbled this during your play at 1:30am German time. I think it turned out surprisingly nice :).