Eroica Variations

Featured Artists

Armando Nin

Born and raised in New York, Armando Nin is a painter, photographer, and mixed media artist. His photography work captures the gritty extremities of his surroundings in the City starting in the mid 2000s into present day, and he often uses unconventional materials in his paintings and prefabrications.

Ben Ruhe

Ben Ruhe is a visual artist who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. His visual work was sold into private collections, he works on something a bit out of the ordinary. Now Ruhe is fascinated with building a quirky and extensive list of historical music on a radio station website called Magic Transistor with his colleagues. He began this musical endeavor by curating music at galleries, as well as listening to authentic music as he created his own work. He also has a blog in which he curates Google images which have been found by listening to these dazzling inspiring songs. Being underground as he is, Ben Ruhe has little to no information regarding his visual work.

Conrad de Kwiatkowski

Conrad De Kwiatkowski is a Bridgehampton, New York and Jacksonville-based artist. Kwiatkowski is focused on the placebo effect in art. “I create singular orbs that look self-illuminating. I am interested in creating a unified field of singularity to help me remain meditative in my work. Most spiritual teachings highlight the dichotomies of the mind as the primary source of all our problems. Recently I try and communicate directly with my heart as I work. I have started to believe the heart is the most unifying chakra we have, and therefore my work is about listening to it more than my mind. The sculptures are essentially about gratitude for all the blessings in my life."

David Aaron Greenberg

David Aaron Greenberg is an artist who uses multiple modes of expression.His work has been exhibited in various New York City galleries and is in the permanent collection at Stanford University. His critical writing has appeared in Parkett, The Fader, Art in America and Whitehot Magazine. Along with producer David Sisko, he co-founded Disco Pusher, a New York City songwriting and recording duo. Greenberg graduated from Rutgers University, Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in New Jersey and sometimes New York City.

Jerami Dean Goodwin

Jerami Dean Goodwin moved to New York City in 2008. Also known as “STAINO”, his graffiti moniker, Jerami attained global notoriety for his outdoor works, recently painting murals in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Peekskill. Putting Out Fires is a series of paintings representing an exploration of new application processes, such as the use of a fire extinguisher. 

Nick Farhi

Nick Farhi utilizes installation and still life painting to connect people, places, and things. Through research, histories and relationships to one another are addressed and given a meeting place. Desperate, lush, and seismic shapes are made from confabulated memory and happenstance in the artist’s practice, arriving to a number of cross figural dialogues and polemics reflecting current events.

Rawnak Rahman

Her Kantha Collection embodies her personal journey of navigating the delicate balance between upholding and challenging traditional Bangladeshi culture. She aims to disrupt and spark discussions around Bangladeshi traditions.

Rene Saheb

Rene Saheb was born in Tehran, Iran. Her ceramics series “Valley of Knowledge” references fallen birds from a 1000-year old Persian poem, The Conference of the Birds by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. An allegory for the journey to enlightenment, these  birds debate throughout a journey to the mountaintop in search of a mystical being. Along the way, many lose their lives or motivations. These sculptures made from discarded ceramic pieces share the story of the birds that did not or could not complete their search for Self.

Vahakn Arslanian

Born in Antwerp, Belgium and relocated with his family to New York City as an infant, Vahakn Arslanian is fascinated and inspired by roaring jet engine planes, explosives, luminous light bulbs and flickering candlelight. He has been nearly deaf since birth, his only sense of noise is from that which is thundering to the ears, for him, a glimpse at the vibrational frequency of sound. Along with his fascination with planes comes birds, where this biomimetic pair have in common, he mends the two, such as his rough paintings and drawings of plane wings with bird feathers. He takes much of his work and frames them in vintage plane windows, often broken and cracked.