Monday, April 29th, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Participant Biographies

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Jeannine Bardo is the founder and artistic director of Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Center. She is a Brooklyn-born artist, curator, and art educator. Bardo received her BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts, and has completed both a Masters in Art Education and a Masters in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. She is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on humanity’s connections to the natural world. Bardo has over ten years of experience as a curator in both the public and private realms. She collaborated on a DCLA NYC Public Artwork titled Ark for the Arts that focused on climate change and resiliency in the community of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Bardo is a Co-founder of BioBAT Art Space, where she co-curated its inaugural exhibition in January 2019. In the Spring of 2023, she directed the public art exhibition Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, curated by Jennifer McGregor. Stand4 Gallery was a recipient of a 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council, BAF grant for this project. This interactive, public, community art exhibition featured over twenty artists from the New York area and consisted of nature walks, poetry events, artist talks, and community interventions in the gallery and various locations throughout the Bay Ridge community, including a film screening at the local movie theater featuring works by local documentary filmmakers. Bardo is a lifelong resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a believer in community and collaboration. 

Josiah Ellner is a Chicago-based artist who received his Master of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ellner was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but spent his formative years in Xi’an China. Growing up in a city of more than 8 million people with scarce green spaces and little to no wildlife, he has always felt a disconnect from the natural world. Despite these feelings of alienation, he has found himself strangely drawn to nature and a yearning to reconnect with it. From his personal experiences of encountering and engaging with his environment. Ellner weaves together playful narratives that capture these fleeting moments of wonder and intimate connection. Through careful abstraction, he is able to heighten and fully portray the whimsical, awkward and spiritual interactions that he has with the natural world.

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Anne Trauben was born in Brooklyn, NY. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice consists of drawing, collage, sculpture, and installation. Trauben received her BA in Studio Art (Concentration in Ceramics) from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and an MFA in Ceramics from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Trauben lives in the NY Metropolitan Area and maintains a studio in Jersey City, NJ. In 2013, she became one of the founding artists of Drawing Rooms, a nonprofit art gallery and center also located in Jersey City. Trauben has served Drawing Rooms as its Gallery Director and Curator since 2014.

Shihui Zhou is a visual and textile artist, as well as the director and founder of Latitude Gallery. She has extensive professional experience in the arts and fashion industries. Zhou earned her BFA in Fashion Design from Tshingua University in Beijing, and later her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has completed artist residencies at the Textile Arts Center and Chashama, both in NYC. In August of 2023, Zhou was interviewed by Artnet.com about the founding of her gallery and her advice for young artists.

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Jeannine Bardo, On the Properties of Things