Ali Osborn is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work seeks to defamiliarize commonplace things to see them again for the first time. Through drawings, prints, books, and sculptures, he investigates how art can simultaneously flatten out a subject and bring it into sharper focus. Osborn’s artwork is held in the collection at the Contemporary Art Museum at UMASS Amherst and the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University. He is a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University and co-founder of The Press, a printing concern that operates out of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. In DearNobody, a series of paintings of letters and envelopes, New York artist Fern Apfel explores the complexities of our personal and familial relationships, the nature and construction of memories and our sense of place. The paintings challenge us to think about what we keep and what we cast off. The visual as well as psychological friction nudges at the boundaries between language, narrative and abstraction. Apfel is a two-time grant recipient from NY Foundation for the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including The Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon, SUNY Albany Museum, and The Hyde Collection.