05-29-2025
into being: Pride Month Art Exhibition
Copyright AGMA Photography / Mark Gurevich
We are celebrating Pride month with into being, an exhibition in the FXCollaborative Gallery featuring a collection of Trans and Non-Binary artists of all ages. At a time where Trans and Non-Binary communities face increased discrimination, erasure, and legislative attacks, this exhibit stands as a space of visibility, resilience and togetherness.
The exhibition will run from May 30 - June 30, 2025. Viewing by appointment only. Please call 212-627-1700.
Copyright AGMA Photography / Mark Gurevich
Copyright AGMA Photography / Mark Gurevich
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About the Artists
Aimee Maychack (they/them)
Aimee Maychack is a self-taught artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of texture, line, and color through the lens of identity and nature. Rooted in a deep curiosity about the natural world and connection, their practice uses printmaking - particularly linocut - as a medium to engage viewers in layered narratives that question binaries and invite fluid interpretations.
Alexis Dorko (they/them)
Alexis is a non-binary amateur artist who is self-taught in illustration and work in architecture as their profession. They have been exploring themes related to transition / transformation / blossoming and witnessing the beauty of the in-between phases of life. In the future they would like to explore painting and sculpture. Art isn't a choice for them; it's a byproduct of their existence.
Andy Marlowe (they/them)
Andy Marlowe is an artist, writer, and researcher from the Forgotten Coast of Florida. Their work blends text, images, and embroidery to explore their relationship to the past.
Ash Chen (they/them)
Ash Chen is a trans artist and educator born in Texas and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. They are interested in the dialogue between the refined, the unexpected, and things often overlooked or hiding in plain sight. A site of whimsical anthropomorphic forms that echo the body, their work utilizes natural and organic forms, while studying surface texture, to create playful mementos and reflections of a familiar world. Playful unearthing and display of the mundane, Ash has always been interested in observing the intricacies and beauties of domesticity and the natural world and how elements from both spheres contribute to rethinking how we live among the objects we are surrounded by.
Austin Killips (she/her)
Austin Killips is a former professional athlete currently writing static words and making moving images. Some call her "an unsympathetic protagonist" doing things that are "very bad for our country." She is interested in Sisyphean things like communication and fulfillment.
Bliss Bagnato Conlin (she/her)
Bliss is a visual and performance artist based in NYC. With an Ivy League degree in Neuroscience and Behavior, they create interdisciplinary works exploring biological phenomena and the human psyche. Through paintings, drawings, fiber and performance art, Bliss reveals beauty in the wretched and mundane. "Solar Spell" is part of their latest collection of watercolors, LAUNDRY, an intimate ode to surviving 2024.
Byron Gordon Kerekes (she/her)
Byron Kerekes is a 10-year-old artist who's happy doing almost anything as long as she can bring a paper and a pencil. Byron has been passionate about art since she can remember. She attributes this to growing up surrounded artists in her creative community of Ridgewood, Queens. She describes her art journey like a boat. She needed the engine to help her get started; lots of tutorials, online and in-person classes but at some point, she found her style and could cut the motor. She stopped looking for permission and just let her imagination guide her. Art has been a powerful way for her to express herself and the world around her. Her dream is to attend an arts high school and pursue a career in visual arts.
Crater Powers (he/they/it)
Carter "Crater" Powers is a Boston-based interdisciplinary sculptor pursuing their BFA at the School of Museum of Fine Arts. He synthesizes welding, ceramics, fibers, mold-making, digital fabrication, poetry, and other artistic mediums to create multi-dimensional, immersive installations and objects. Its multidisciplinary practice is concerned with exploring the multifaceted nature of queer embodiment and its intersections with mental illness, interpersonal relationships, medical rhetoric, and the body politic.
Elle Gurevich (she/her)
Elle is an accomplished composer, pianist, and performer. Most recently, she won the Grand Prize at the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey and has previously performed solo in Merkin Hall and Weill Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York, including her own works. Elle is a sophomore at the Special Music High School, focusing on piano. She also studies composition with Ira Taxin at the Juilliard Pre-College program and has previously studied with Richard Danielpour and Konstantin Sukhovetski. She has recently completed a musical, Kid of New York, on commission by the New Music Theatre Project.
Emile Althoff (they/them)
Emilie is an illustration student at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) with a burning passion to one day create children's books. They took a large gap year, hesitant in going to an art school, unsure of their worth and value as an artist. Taking those years away, they learned to understand their gender identity and explore not only who they are, but the vast world around them. Many of their works that involve their gender identity relate to fish. In a way, there are a plethora of species of fish that are capable of swapping their own sex. Clownfish, Parrotfish, Gobies, Salmon. They felt like they could relate to these sea dwelling creatures by using their art.
Evie K Horton (she/her)
Through recursive and associative modes of depiction that refuse consolidation into any one genre, style, or category, Evie's work explores the ways in which painting is troubled by language, bothered by naming, haunted by romance, unkempt with anxiety, indebted to embodiment, and rife with contradiction. She is especially interested in working outside of, and in the rift between, the abstraction/representation binary.
Gio Capone (he/they)
Gio is an artist who approaches photography as a relational practice – one that reflects and deepens connections between people, places, and culture. His work centers queer interactions, documenting identity and intimacy in everyday life.
J Cam Ringness (they/them)
Cam is an artist, architect and organizer originally from Cleveland, Ohio, living and working with their dog Goose and partner, Wren in Ridgewood, Queens. They are an activist and work closely with the homeless community. They were a teacher and mentor for previously incarcerated women at the Women's Prison Association. As a painter, they paint large scale, colorful pictures capturing ordinary life, the people they know, meet and love, celebrating everyday spaces, with a focus on the queer & trans community.
Jan Christopherson (he/they)
Jan Christopherson (2004, US) is a traditional artist who resides and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He currently attends The Minneapolis College of Art and Design to pursue a bachelor's degree in illustration with minors in art history and print, paper, and book. Jan's main mediums to work with are acrylic, watercolor, and colored pencil, but he loves to explore other forms. Through Jan's work, he explores themes of gender, sexuality, and human and animal nature, incorporating antique frames to tie along with the bodies of work.
Jealyn (they/he/it)
Jealyn is a trans photographer who uses the camera to tell the vibrant and complex stories of their community. Specializing in distorted portraiture, their work explores themes of isolation and the merging of individuals with their surroundings. Jealyn has always felt compelled to reveal their experiences through and with others. Their work has been featured in galleries across New England and Canada, and has traveled underground within the trans community in NYC and beyond.
Jonathan Perez-Gonzalez (he/him)
Johnny Perez-Gonzalez, aka JPG (he/him) is a transgender queer Latino illustrator and artist based in Philadelphia and New Jersey. JPG explores themes of love, identity, and religion in his work, working primarily in mediums such as acrylic, gouache, and digital artworks. JPG creates his artworks as a means to express himself to the world and hope to connect with viewers who think and view the world as he does.
Juliette (Jules) Lê (ze/hir)
Jules Lê (ze/hir) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY using different medias to explore the many layers of identity that defines hir in relation to the world.
Kai Liguori (he/him)
Kai's work aims to push past the concept of time and perceived space on a larger scale, focusing on specific memories and life experiences that have led to the formation of his identity. As a trans man, his development and growth in terms of understanding himself is a complex and never-ending journey, and he finds that ideas regarding trans existence are often misconstrued in society. For his paintings, he chose to depict this complexity through the usage of collaged images as a reference, implementing transparencies throughout the works to describe his journey of navigating life.
Marcus Ball (he/him)
Marcus Ball is a trans artist based in Ridgewood, Queens. His work functions as mediation of his life and personhood. In recreating phone images on canvas to the most accurate of his abilities, he hopes to find that even in the purely representational, the essence of the self is never lost.
Margo Lavoie (they/them)
Margo is a ten year old kid who lives in the Bronx. One of their pieces was selected for the P.S. Art 2022: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids exhibition at the Met. They revisit different themes and figures in various media, including pencil, ink and marker, paint, and small sculptures. When they're not making art, they're obsessing over pigeons and opossums.
Mica Angelo
Mica Angelo is a 28-year-old trans Filipino-American who is making art again after a "hiatus" of several years.
Mickey G (they/them)
Pearl Shread (he/they/she)
Pearl Shread is a multi-disciplinary sculpture artist based in Massachusetts. Working in textiles, ceramic, wood, and found objects, they take pride in joining the long-dismissed history of craft artisans and utilizing maximalist and kitsch aesthetics. From a present commitment to interrogating and reimagining bio-cultural boundaries, his work envisages future inter-sections of the body and the environment. Thinking through concepts of futurity and identity, she finds potentiality in constant evolution and adaptation. Devoted to tactility, their sculptures are often interactive, enveloping the audience in a confrontation with their own permeability, mutability, and impermanence. Shread's work is fundamentally grounded in a deep love for queer life: human and more-than-human, from the club to the cosmos.
Perry Roe (they/them)
Perry Roe is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work ranges from collage work, clothing design, murals, and acrylic painting. Throughout their various media, they maintain a curious, playful, and nostalgic approach to color and composition. To Perry, their experiences as a queer transmasculine lesbian informs their work's core themes of soft masculinity, vulnerability, and connection. Together, their work explores various forms of romance and intimacy, both of which have the capacity to transform in contexts between friends, community, chosen family, and lovers.
Ro Robertson (they/them)
Ro Robertson is a nonbinary multimedia sculpture artist. They grew up in Lumberton, New Jersey and graduated from Alfred University with honors with a BFA, a minor in Dance, and a minor art history in May of 2023. Since graduating, Ro has focused their efforts on honing their art practice, which is based on their experiences as a queer person; with a special focus in activism and celebration of self-discovery. Often
combining materials and techniques; Ro makes work in ceramic, glass, chainmail, and photography. Their art making journey started by constructing small clay animals for friends' birthday celebrations, in this way their work has had a continued purpose to benefit and bring joy to others in their community.
Sam Goldberg (they/them)
Sam is an artist, fabricator, and community organizer living in Kingston, NY, with their partner and eight-week-old baby, Lily. They create three-dimensional art using salvaged, materials through recursive and associative modes of depiction that refuse consolidation into any one genre, style, or category. Their work explores the ways in which painting is troubled by language, bothered by naming, haunted by romance, unkempt with anxiety, indebted to embodiment, and rife with contradiction. They are especially interested in working outside of, and in the rift between, the abstraction/representation binary. They collaborate closely with peer-artists in the Hudson Valley to design and fabricate public sculptures, including pieces for the 2023 Terrain Biennial in Newburgh, NY, the 2024 Future Sound of Nature Music Festival, and the Kingston Land Trust's Forest Sanctuary.
Shikai Huang (he/him)
Born in China, Shikai is an architectural designer and emerging artist whose practice explores themes of identity, resilience, and visibility. With roots in both architecture and fine arts, he has used creative expression as a way to observe and challenge the structures around them. Identifying as trans, he began creating artwork that directly reflects personal experiences of struggle, growth, and self-discovery. Through installations and mixed-media pieces, they aim to give voice to the realities faced by trans individuals—making space for both visibility and understanding.
Xenorphyous
Xenorphyous is a self-taught artist. His desires are to evolve into his truest higher self, and to create fractures in our collective reality, to push humanity spiritually forward.
The exhibition will run from May 30 - June 30, 2025. Viewing by appointment only. Please call 212-627-1700.
Copyright AGMA Photography / Mark GurevichCopyright AGMA Photography / Mark GurevichCopyright AGMA Photography / Mark GurevichCopyright AGMA Photography / Mark GurevichAbout the Artists
Aimee Maychack (they/them)
Aimee Maychack is a self-taught artist and printmaker whose work explores the intersection of texture, line, and color through the lens of identity and nature. Rooted in a deep curiosity about the natural world and connection, their practice uses printmaking - particularly linocut - as a medium to engage viewers in layered narratives that question binaries and invite fluid interpretations.
Alexis Dorko (they/them)
Alexis is a non-binary amateur artist who is self-taught in illustration and work in architecture as their profession. They have been exploring themes related to transition / transformation / blossoming and witnessing the beauty of the in-between phases of life. In the future they would like to explore painting and sculpture. Art isn't a choice for them; it's a byproduct of their existence.
Andy Marlowe (they/them)
Andy Marlowe is an artist, writer, and researcher from the Forgotten Coast of Florida. Their work blends text, images, and embroidery to explore their relationship to the past.
Ash Chen (they/them)
Ash Chen is a trans artist and educator born in Texas and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. They are interested in the dialogue between the refined, the unexpected, and things often overlooked or hiding in plain sight. A site of whimsical anthropomorphic forms that echo the body, their work utilizes natural and organic forms, while studying surface texture, to create playful mementos and reflections of a familiar world. Playful unearthing and display of the mundane, Ash has always been interested in observing the intricacies and beauties of domesticity and the natural world and how elements from both spheres contribute to rethinking how we live among the objects we are surrounded by.
Austin Killips (she/her)
Austin Killips is a former professional athlete currently writing static words and making moving images. Some call her "an unsympathetic protagonist" doing things that are "very bad for our country." She is interested in Sisyphean things like communication and fulfillment.
Bliss Bagnato Conlin (she/her)
Bliss is a visual and performance artist based in NYC. With an Ivy League degree in Neuroscience and Behavior, they create interdisciplinary works exploring biological phenomena and the human psyche. Through paintings, drawings, fiber and performance art, Bliss reveals beauty in the wretched and mundane. "Solar Spell" is part of their latest collection of watercolors, LAUNDRY, an intimate ode to surviving 2024.
Byron Gordon Kerekes (she/her)
Byron Kerekes is a 10-year-old artist who's happy doing almost anything as long as she can bring a paper and a pencil. Byron has been passionate about art since she can remember. She attributes this to growing up surrounded artists in her creative community of Ridgewood, Queens. She describes her art journey like a boat. She needed the engine to help her get started; lots of tutorials, online and in-person classes but at some point, she found her style and could cut the motor. She stopped looking for permission and just let her imagination guide her. Art has been a powerful way for her to express herself and the world around her. Her dream is to attend an arts high school and pursue a career in visual arts.
Crater Powers (he/they/it)
Carter "Crater" Powers is a Boston-based interdisciplinary sculptor pursuing their BFA at the School of Museum of Fine Arts. He synthesizes welding, ceramics, fibers, mold-making, digital fabrication, poetry, and other artistic mediums to create multi-dimensional, immersive installations and objects. Its multidisciplinary practice is concerned with exploring the multifaceted nature of queer embodiment and its intersections with mental illness, interpersonal relationships, medical rhetoric, and the body politic.
Elle Gurevich (she/her)
Elle is an accomplished composer, pianist, and performer. Most recently, she won the Grand Prize at the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey and has previously performed solo in Merkin Hall and Weill Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York, including her own works. Elle is a sophomore at the Special Music High School, focusing on piano. She also studies composition with Ira Taxin at the Juilliard Pre-College program and has previously studied with Richard Danielpour and Konstantin Sukhovetski. She has recently completed a musical, Kid of New York, on commission by the New Music Theatre Project.
Emile Althoff (they/them)
Emilie is an illustration student at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) with a burning passion to one day create children's books. They took a large gap year, hesitant in going to an art school, unsure of their worth and value as an artist. Taking those years away, they learned to understand their gender identity and explore not only who they are, but the vast world around them. Many of their works that involve their gender identity relate to fish. In a way, there are a plethora of species of fish that are capable of swapping their own sex. Clownfish, Parrotfish, Gobies, Salmon. They felt like they could relate to these sea dwelling creatures by using their art.
Evie K Horton (she/her)
Through recursive and associative modes of depiction that refuse consolidation into any one genre, style, or category, Evie's work explores the ways in which painting is troubled by language, bothered by naming, haunted by romance, unkempt with anxiety, indebted to embodiment, and rife with contradiction. She is especially interested in working outside of, and in the rift between, the abstraction/representation binary.
Gio Capone (he/they)
Gio is an artist who approaches photography as a relational practice – one that reflects and deepens connections between people, places, and culture. His work centers queer interactions, documenting identity and intimacy in everyday life.
J Cam Ringness (they/them)
Cam is an artist, architect and organizer originally from Cleveland, Ohio, living and working with their dog Goose and partner, Wren in Ridgewood, Queens. They are an activist and work closely with the homeless community. They were a teacher and mentor for previously incarcerated women at the Women's Prison Association. As a painter, they paint large scale, colorful pictures capturing ordinary life, the people they know, meet and love, celebrating everyday spaces, with a focus on the queer & trans community.
Jan Christopherson (he/they)
Jan Christopherson (2004, US) is a traditional artist who resides and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He currently attends The Minneapolis College of Art and Design to pursue a bachelor's degree in illustration with minors in art history and print, paper, and book. Jan's main mediums to work with are acrylic, watercolor, and colored pencil, but he loves to explore other forms. Through Jan's work, he explores themes of gender, sexuality, and human and animal nature, incorporating antique frames to tie along with the bodies of work.
Jealyn (they/he/it)
Jealyn is a trans photographer who uses the camera to tell the vibrant and complex stories of their community. Specializing in distorted portraiture, their work explores themes of isolation and the merging of individuals with their surroundings. Jealyn has always felt compelled to reveal their experiences through and with others. Their work has been featured in galleries across New England and Canada, and has traveled underground within the trans community in NYC and beyond.
Jonathan Perez-Gonzalez (he/him)
Johnny Perez-Gonzalez, aka JPG (he/him) is a transgender queer Latino illustrator and artist based in Philadelphia and New Jersey. JPG explores themes of love, identity, and religion in his work, working primarily in mediums such as acrylic, gouache, and digital artworks. JPG creates his artworks as a means to express himself to the world and hope to connect with viewers who think and view the world as he does.
Juliette (Jules) Lê (ze/hir)
Jules Lê (ze/hir) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY using different medias to explore the many layers of identity that defines hir in relation to the world.
Kai Liguori (he/him)
Kai's work aims to push past the concept of time and perceived space on a larger scale, focusing on specific memories and life experiences that have led to the formation of his identity. As a trans man, his development and growth in terms of understanding himself is a complex and never-ending journey, and he finds that ideas regarding trans existence are often misconstrued in society. For his paintings, he chose to depict this complexity through the usage of collaged images as a reference, implementing transparencies throughout the works to describe his journey of navigating life.
Marcus Ball (he/him)
Marcus Ball is a trans artist based in Ridgewood, Queens. His work functions as mediation of his life and personhood. In recreating phone images on canvas to the most accurate of his abilities, he hopes to find that even in the purely representational, the essence of the self is never lost.
Margo Lavoie (they/them)
Margo is a ten year old kid who lives in the Bronx. One of their pieces was selected for the P.S. Art 2022: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids exhibition at the Met. They revisit different themes and figures in various media, including pencil, ink and marker, paint, and small sculptures. When they're not making art, they're obsessing over pigeons and opossums.
Mica Angelo
Mica Angelo is a 28-year-old trans Filipino-American who is making art again after a "hiatus" of several years.
Mickey G (they/them)
Pearl Shread (he/they/she)
Pearl Shread is a multi-disciplinary sculpture artist based in Massachusetts. Working in textiles, ceramic, wood, and found objects, they take pride in joining the long-dismissed history of craft artisans and utilizing maximalist and kitsch aesthetics. From a present commitment to interrogating and reimagining bio-cultural boundaries, his work envisages future inter-sections of the body and the environment. Thinking through concepts of futurity and identity, she finds potentiality in constant evolution and adaptation. Devoted to tactility, their sculptures are often interactive, enveloping the audience in a confrontation with their own permeability, mutability, and impermanence. Shread's work is fundamentally grounded in a deep love for queer life: human and more-than-human, from the club to the cosmos.
Perry Roe (they/them)
Perry Roe is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work ranges from collage work, clothing design, murals, and acrylic painting. Throughout their various media, they maintain a curious, playful, and nostalgic approach to color and composition. To Perry, their experiences as a queer transmasculine lesbian informs their work's core themes of soft masculinity, vulnerability, and connection. Together, their work explores various forms of romance and intimacy, both of which have the capacity to transform in contexts between friends, community, chosen family, and lovers.
Ro Robertson (they/them)
Ro Robertson is a nonbinary multimedia sculpture artist. They grew up in Lumberton, New Jersey and graduated from Alfred University with honors with a BFA, a minor in Dance, and a minor art history in May of 2023. Since graduating, Ro has focused their efforts on honing their art practice, which is based on their experiences as a queer person; with a special focus in activism and celebration of self-discovery. Often
combining materials and techniques; Ro makes work in ceramic, glass, chainmail, and photography. Their art making journey started by constructing small clay animals for friends' birthday celebrations, in this way their work has had a continued purpose to benefit and bring joy to others in their community.
Sam Goldberg (they/them)
Sam is an artist, fabricator, and community organizer living in Kingston, NY, with their partner and eight-week-old baby, Lily. They create three-dimensional art using salvaged, materials through recursive and associative modes of depiction that refuse consolidation into any one genre, style, or category. Their work explores the ways in which painting is troubled by language, bothered by naming, haunted by romance, unkempt with anxiety, indebted to embodiment, and rife with contradiction. They are especially interested in working outside of, and in the rift between, the abstraction/representation binary. They collaborate closely with peer-artists in the Hudson Valley to design and fabricate public sculptures, including pieces for the 2023 Terrain Biennial in Newburgh, NY, the 2024 Future Sound of Nature Music Festival, and the Kingston Land Trust's Forest Sanctuary.
Shikai Huang (he/him)
Born in China, Shikai is an architectural designer and emerging artist whose practice explores themes of identity, resilience, and visibility. With roots in both architecture and fine arts, he has used creative expression as a way to observe and challenge the structures around them. Identifying as trans, he began creating artwork that directly reflects personal experiences of struggle, growth, and self-discovery. Through installations and mixed-media pieces, they aim to give voice to the realities faced by trans individuals—making space for both visibility and understanding.
Xenorphyous
Xenorphyous is a self-taught artist. His desires are to evolve into his truest higher self, and to create fractures in our collective reality, to push humanity spiritually forward.