Multidisciplinary artist

Moyo Oyelola is a photographer, multimedia artist and activist. He creates intimate, real interactions with his subjects and communities and synthesizes that into deep, universal activations expressed in multimedia, photography, environmental installations and public arts projects. Born in Nigeria, Moyo moved to Austin when he was seven. Having grown up as the “product of two worlds” has shaped his thinking and work, reflecting perspectives of pan-African and modern western worlds. Moyo’s work has been featured in brand films, advertising, editorial, music videos, environmental installations, personal projects, and an evolving number of public arts projects.

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Mixed media

The paintings, drawings, and installations of Manik Raj Nakra take on the possibility of addressing the ancient world as his own. A world of teeming jungles where four headed leopards perch on old world ruins and silver teethed monkeys pray for our salvation. Nakra’s work applies a contemporary lens onto Indian iconography, colonial anachronisms, artifacts from early civilizations, and ceremonial folklore to explore themes such as egoism, lust, and self-sabotage. These themes, handled with wild colors, pattern, and stark compositions, illuminate the historically rooted, but contemporarily relevant narratives on power, beauty, paranoia, devotion, and revelation.

Inspired by the 1922 film, Nosferatu, one series Nakra has been focused on "Vampire Paintings” which recast jungle cats as vampires in a fable of the artist’s own making. Here we find passionate relevance between violence and lust. This series alludes to the overwhelming power of romantic influence and humanity’s fascination with immortality and the fragility of flesh.

His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Texas and San Francisco, a member of the 2019 Crit Group program with The Contemporary in Austin, TX, and a client list that includes Converse, Facebook, The LINE Hotel, Urban Outfitters amongst others.

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Multimedia

Alie Jackson is a multimedia artist born and raised in Austin, TX. She received her BFA from Stephen F. Austin in 2010 for design and photography. Her work examines how the digital landscape is shaping the perception and behavior of ourselves, others, and objects around us through augmented reality, installation, video, animation, and painting. Her most recent work experiments with augmented reality and questions how people interact and interpret work when it's attached to their face or viewed in an uncontrolled environment.

Jackson is also an accomplished Art Director, Animator, and Official Snapchat Lens Creator. She is a Sr. Instructor at the Austin School of Film teaching Intro to Augmented Reality, Video Art and Intro to Design courses.

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Multimedia

Natalia Rocafuerte is a xicanx experimental video artist exploring dreams as narratives of self through installations, films, albums and print. Her current project is creating animations and videos of dreams from Mexican Americans/ Xicanx/ Mexican immigrants. Rocafuerte has exhibited at the 2018 Young Latinx Artists at Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX as well as being featured in Remezcla for "Top 40 Latinx Texas Artists to Know in 2020". Rocafuerte has hosted various workshops for young and older artists through The Contemporary Austin, Ballroom Marfa, and Civic Arts-Austin. Natalia is interested in the phenomenology of dreams, video aesthetics, experimental mediums, rasquachismo and waking life. She grew up on both sides of the Rio Grande Border in Tamaulipas and Texas and became a naturalized USA citizen in 2019.

Current Master of Fine Arts Candidate at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor & Rackham Fellow.

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Mixed media, clay

Brooke Burnside was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. She earned her BA in Film from Vassar College, her MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University and just graduated from the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Texas at Austin. Through drawing and collage, Burnside's work explores geography, position, memory, and the transgressive potential in abstract documentation.

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