Lavaughan Jenkins is a painter and sculptor from Pensacola, Florida and currently creates his work in Boston, MA. and Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2005. Since that time, Jenkins has become a recipient of the 2019 James and Audrey Foster Prize awarded annually by the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, 2021 Fine Arts Work Center artist in residence, and the 2022 Addison Gallery of American Art Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Addison Gallery of American Art.
Masha Keryan is a Boston-based artist from Armenia. Keryan’s work is informed by Armenian and American experiences alike, exploring the multitude of human experiences. From collective joy to grief, points of merger to separation, ancient ceremonies to contemporary isolationism, relocation and belonging are some of the subjects addressed in Keryan’s work. Working primarily with oil paint mediums, Keryan occasionally diverges into performance, video, sculpture, murals and documentary. Keryan holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent exhibitions include What Happens After (LabCentral), Above Liquidation (Atamian Hovsepian NYC), Dancing Gems (Copley Society of Art), The Human Condition (SubCentral), Night and Day (Pellas Gallery).