Isaac & Gabriel Fortoul

www.fortoulpresents.com

Isaac & Gabriel Fortoul are exponents of today's underground art scene, emerging from the streets of urban America. These prolific brothers have collaborated on a wonderful sculpture they will be presenting for the Hudson County Art Slam.

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James Cardona

Christine Goodman

My first childhood memory is of sitting on my father's drafting table,
attempting to scribble on a piece of paper while my dad sketched for
hours on end. When I got older, we would wander around sculpture
gardens with a picnic basket and drawing pads, or set up a still life
scene to paint together in the basement. This was sacred time for me
and ultimately, it was about building a strong artistic bond with my
father. When I consider the work I'm creating now, I see the impact
those years have had. My artwork is always about connection. Whether
exploring my personal connection to the world, or the connections we
make (and fail to make) to one another as human beings, my work
reflects the bonds that bring us together -- and break us apart.

Kristina Scheetz

www.kristinascheetz.com

Kristina Scheetz Rible is a local artist that has never shown her work in a Jersey City gallery. Although she spent most of her adult life moving around Brooklyn escaping the swing of the wrecking ball, she has now settled in Downtown Jersey City for over three years. She has a small studio in her apartment on Wayne Street and is currently working as a full time Art Teacher in a charter school in Westfield, NJ. Kristina has her studio art degree from Hunter College in NYC. She also holds degrees from NYU and most recently earned her masters degree in art education from Kean University in New Jersey. She is a sculptor, a painter, and a photographer. Her favorite medium is ceramics and her work in this area usually focuses on dark subjects, including a creepy puppet that chain smokes, barren trees, a human organ with eyelashes, and sewn together flesh-like clay.

Kosher Howey

Started up again w/ Stickers that said "God says Hi" then to stickers that said "Have Faith" with KH signed under the message. This was all done to motivate people that our lord is with them and to have faith in making dreams and ideas come true. Later 11x17 mini posters of Hulk Hogan and the message "Have Faith, You can do it" were pasted up all around lower Manhattan and caught the eye of many street art photographers.Then history was made when Hebrew was incorperated into "street art" and "Graffiti" for the first time in the United States. No one by HK1 (Kosher Howey Won)has incorperated Hebrew into street art and graffiti. Oh, I went to an expensive private art and design school and was thrown out because I would not follow their directions and went against the grain or art and design.

Bora Chung

The title is "heaven and Hell", size is 6x16 inches.
I don't really have a website but I have a blog that I just update from time to time. http://bunnicharm.blogspot.com/

Cristina Villaflor

grey.fotograff@gmail.com

Cristina Villaflor was born in Cebu City, Philippines and raised in Jersey City, NJ. While she studied fine art photography in NJCU, she was also the photo-editor for an award-winning college newspaper, The Gothic Times, where she won multiple awards in photojournalism. Her works has been featured in several magazines, on non-for profit organization publications and as promotions for music artists. She is currently a freelance photographer and resides in Jersey City with her two dogs.