RED Artists

Matt Burkhartt  gallery 

@mattburkhartt, mattburkhartt.com

Matt Burkhartt is a freelance photojournalist and photographer based in Rochester with a background in newspaper work. He has worked at four daily newspapers in New England and the Carolinas and has worked for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, ProPublica and Getty Images. He is also the owner of Little Vows Photography, specializing in small, intimate weddings. 

When not photographing you can find him reading, running and spending time with his partner. 

Belle Chau  gallery 

@ittzch, isabellechauart.github.com

Isabelle “Belle” Chau is a multimedia artist from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. She is based in Rochester, NY as she finishes her BFA in Studio Arts: Sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology. She identifies as a Vietnamese-American exploring identity and personal boundaries through materiality and process. Belle investigates spatial relationships through the ineffable expression of shape and form. She utilizes a myriad of materials including insulation foam, steel, reed, and found objects. She is inspired by the organic shapes of nature recording her thoughts and life. Her work has been featured in At Work at the Yards. Her Capstone show For Bà Bà is currently on view at RIT City Art Space until May 9th.

Jess C. Cohen  gallery   pop-up market

@jessmariephoto

Jess and her brother were adopted from Vietnam and grew up in Connecticut. They were raised by their white family in a predominantly white town. Although her family did their best to expose Jess and her brother to Vietnamese culture, Jess often felt the need to assimilate. It wasn’t until her college years when she realized she wanted to explore her Vietnamese roots more seriously.

Rowan Champaco Larkin  gallery   pop-up market

@robiwanders, robiwanders.carrd.co

Rowan Champaco Larkin, known as robi/wan, is a Filipino Chamorro American multidisciplinary artist whose art is based on their experience as a queer, genderfluid, brown, Asian, mixed-race, neurodivergent person of color. Robi works across mediums of painting, digital art, collage, jewelry, music, fiber arts, and fashion to create a uniquely vibrant world of colorful art. Originally from Maine, Robi is happy to call Rochester home for the past 3 years, and for the foreseeable future. Robi’s diasporic identity as an off-island islander is central to their art in many ways, with all of the nuances, confusion, pain, grief, and joy that comes with growing up missing a homeland you’ve never seen.

@nancygongartist, fb: Gong Glassworks, nancygong.com

Nancy Gong has been creating living, breathing works of art in the contemporary realm of glass for nearly 48 years through her studio Gong Glass Works. Her training with numerous master glass artists had led to commissioned architectural art, public art and independent artworks that are widely recognized worldwide. Nancy is an Honorary Member of AIA NYS and AIA Rochester, also a member of American Glass Guild, Stained Glass Association of America, Glass Art Society, Society of American Mosaic Artists, Arena Art Group and Pittsford Fine Art where she shows her work. Her award winning work has been widely published.

Never satisfied with doing the same thing over and over, she is always open to growing and evolving with her work while being true to her own voice. Nancy’s primary design influences are drawn from her love of nature, animated and abstract art and her cultural background. Her diverse designs are expressed in abstract realism, visual narratives and conceptual art.

Liv Kelly  gallery 

@liv.procraftinates

Liv is a 2nd generation Filipino-American, originally from Richmond, VA, now living in Rochester. She recently began exploring textile and mixed media arts as well as sustainable crafting. 

Joyeeta Mukherjee  gallery 

@triptoalley_art, triptoalley.com

Joyeeta Mukherjee is a contemporary realism painter based in Farmington, New York. She is originally from Kolkata, India. Self-taught, she blends patterns, rich color, and layered texture in acrylics and oils. Her work is inspired by the human form, nature, and folk traditions, often capturing fleeting moments, memories, and inner emotions. Through her art, Joyeeta aims to evoke warmth, nostalgia, and a sense of connection.

Kim Nguyen  gallery 

Kim Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brighton, New York; working across ceramics, stained glass, painting, and other media. At the heart of her practice is a single impulse: to reach for the canvas when a feeling has no words yet. Moving fluidly between materials, Nguyen uses art as a way of exploring emotions she has yet to name, painting not to illustrate what she already understands, but to discover what she feels. Her work is built from layered color, texture, and expressive strokes. The result is work that is at once deeply personal and openly inviting.

Jina Park  gallery 

@madebyjinapark

Jina Park was born in Korea, where she studied art and design. She worked as an editorial designer with magazines. After moving to the United States, she has been making art with fabric and a variety of other materials.

She expresses the inevitable pain and beauty of our collective human existence.

PNG.PIGE0N  pop-up market

@png.pige0n, pngdotpige0n.carrd.co

Thao  gallery   pop-up market

@wayoffthao

Thao grew up in Italy as a child of the Vietnamese diaspora. Their art tells about their place in history and this present moment, as a neighbor and friend in Rochester NY, on Haudenosaunee land. They strive to both live create in ways that connect and tell the truth. 

Locally they made images full of zest for the Eastside Potluck Society and the Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

Zack Vandermeulen  gallery 

@zack.vandermelon

Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Zack Vandermeulen is a writer, poet, creative, and perhaps most importantly a dreamer. He can often be found walking around town talking to himself as he navigates the latest problem his world building has created. When he isn't creating he can be found deep in the pages of whichever book is nearest or supporting his friends and community.

Miggie Wong  Gallery 

@mwhouses

Miggie Wong creates situation-based performative projects. Born in Hong Kong and migrating to the United States at the turn of the millennium, Wong’s offers whimsical experiments that explore and document ideas of cultural mutation, migration journeys, sense of belonging, and acts of sincerity. Wong’s work has been recently exhibited at the Barnsdall Junior Arts Center and the West Hollywood Public Library. Wong current lives and works in Buffalo, NY and Los Angeles, CA.

Curator, Julie Chen

@artist.juliechen, juliechen.net

Julie Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose art examines the remnants of beings and place. She is the child of ethnic Chinese immigrants from Myanmar. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, a BFA in Multimedia and Performing Arts from the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and certification in End-of-Life care (death doula). Through curating this exhibition, she is excited to show Rochester the fascinating and sometimes surprising things that the spectrum of Asian-American artists create. She will be showing a rarely seen piece from the "Linea Opus" body of work.