Quaker Galleries Curated Storefront Second Floor Artists
Essye Klempner
Essye Klempner (b. 1984, Louisville, KY) earned an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2014), and a BFA from School of Visual Arts (2006). Klempner has exhibited her work at RISING URBANISTS Conference at Hunter College, New York, NY (2018); Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, NY (2018); Blackburn 20|20 Gallery, New York, NY (2018); EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), New York, NY (2017); Temporary Agency, New York, NY (2016); Mason Gross at Civic Square, New Brunswick, NJ (2016); Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2016); 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016); TSA, New York, NY (2015); and Blackston Gallery, New York, NY (2015). She is an artist in residence in the ceramic department at Hunter College. She has curated several shows at Underdonk in Brooklyn, and an online exhibition for White Columns called Liberate Soil. She is the program and exhibition manager at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, where she prints for Grassroots Arts Fund, providing local activists printing material. She is also a co-founder of SEMINAR reading group and Ink Cap Press. She lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens.
Vaughn Davis Jr.
VAUGHN DAVIS, JR. lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. Vaughn Davis, Jr. received his BFA with Departmental Honors in Sculpture from Webster University in St. Louis. His work has been exhibited at Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Malin Gallery, New York, NY, The Luminary St. Louis, MO, MO, Gazebo Gallery, Kent, OH; among others. He has had solo exhibitions at Romer Young Gallery San Francisco, CA, Dragon Crab & Turtle St. Louis, MO, Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Jennifer Masley
Jennifer Masley is an artist born and raised in central Texas. She earned her BFA from Texas State University and her MFA with a focus in ceramics in 2021 from Kent State University. Jennifer’s work focuses on ceramics within an interdisciplinary practice of sculpture and installation. Her work has been exhibited at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, the SculptureX Symposium in Toledo, OH, and the NCECA Student Juried Exhibition in 2019 and 2021.
Kylie Ford
Kylie Ford is an artist based in Fairmont, West Virginia. She holds undergraduate degrees in Studio Art with a 3D concentration and Art Education from Fairmont State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Maine College of Art. Ford’s work has been exhibited in venues such as Boston University Art Galleries, Manifest Gallery, Huntington Museum of Art, Marshall University, Blackhills State University, Flatbed Press and Galleries, among others. She has received awards and recognitions from Chautauqua Institution, The Albert K. Murray Fine Art Educational Fund, and has most recently been the recipient of the Real Art Award through Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Ford is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Fairmont State University.
Rachel Yurkovich
Rachel Yurkovich was born in South Carolina, but lived most of her developing years in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Czech Republic.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2014. With an interest in living things and their movement as a medium, her work often ends up as video. Rachel was granted the 2014 First Agnes Gund Traveling Award, which allowed her to travel to Chernobyl, Ukraine for filming in the Spring of 2016. Shortly after returning, Rachel had a solo exhibition on display at the ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Her videos have been exhibited in venues such as The Sculpture Center and SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri. Her work has also been featured in film festivals such as Echofluxx 15, in Prague, Czech Republic and the Davis International Film Festival in San Francisco, California.
Rachel is currently living in Cleveland, Ohio with her chickens, where she works at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Noah Kashiani
Noah Kashiani (b.1992 Cleveland, Ohio) lives in Chicago Illinois after receiving his MFA from Northern Illinois University (2019). Kashiani's work carefully balances harmony and discord. Exploitation of late capitalism is often represented which explores the reality of class disparity, value, and what objects mean to us as humans. Recent exhibitions include Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows Front International Triennial at Curated Storefront (Akron, OH), V Crushable at Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), In wake of Slumber at Pardice Palase (Brooklyn, NY). With upcoming exhibitions at Marfa Open (Marfa, TX) as well as Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL).
Eli Gfell
Eli Gfell is a multi-disciplinary artist, carpenter, and preparator based in Cleveland, Ohio. His work explores distorted and fractured realities through the use of discarded materials collected from the built environment. Gfell was a co-founder and curator of H SPACE, an artist-run exhibition and project space which operated from 2016-2020. He has worked for numerous area institutions as a preparator and exhibit builder, most notably serving as Exhibitions Project Manager at MOCA Cleveland from 2017-2020. Gfell currently operates a small shop specializing in custom finish carpentry and cabinet making.
Peter Christian Johnson
Peter Christian Johnson is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Kent State University after spending 11 years at Eastern Oregon University. He earned his MFA from Penn State University and a BS in Environmental Science at Wheaton College. Peter has been a resident artist and visiting lecturer at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Australian National University, The Archie Bray Foundation, the LH Project, and the Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts.
His work has been exhibited in Canada, Australia, and throughout the United States.
Hieronymus
Hieronymus was established as an online gallery in 2014 to showcase the collection of the Richard and Alita Rogers Family Foundation. The name and aesthetic were inspired by the Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch, whose stirring paintings depict fantastical scenes that instill both delight and terror. Like Bosch's paintings, the collection, encompassing ceramics, paintings, prints, sculpture, and other curiosities, traverses the grotesque and picturesque, the sacred and profane. It is built around an appreciation for experimentation; sensuous, biomorphic forms; refined, carefully wrought materials; a sense of humor and whimsy. While the collection spans both time and geography, contemporary ceramics and twentieth-century design are among its strengths.