Westlab’s Gallery project aims to support, promote, and exhibit works by local artists who work primarily on film, and have been historically underrepresented in the arts.
Find some of the artists we are working with below:
Coco Villa
Coco Villa (they/them) leads an interdisciplinary art-research practice investigating relations between body, object, and landscape. Their work spans across disciplines of performance, fashion design, installation, photography, and film. They utilize material and movement languages to tell autobiographical stories, explore human intimacy, and build familial archives through self-portraiture and choreography.
Villa thrives in the ocean, in the woods, in the dance studio, the photo lab, film set, and library, playfully creating by hand.
Gustavo Lopes
Gustavo Lopes is a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
His recent solo exhibition, “Corpos,” features work from marginalized people’s perspectives. From the different layers that involve social life reflecting the interactions/ relationships of the body as a political instrument and what exists externally to it.
Raine Roberts
Raine is a Chicago-born photographer, filmmaker, and sculpture artist. Her work explores the variations in visual rhythms and chaos — seen in architecture, bodies, and the natural environment. She holds obsessive attention to natural occurrences. Natural rituals. Natural happenings. And how they coincide in understanding the human experience of emotional outputs.
She currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Hazey, and her two stunning and supportive roommates, Nathan and Haley.
Nyasia P. R.
Nyasia Pettway Rochelle is a current Photography student at SUNY New Paltz. They specialize in fine art portraiture, as well as self portraiture, and creating images meant to emotionally move the viewer. Their goal is to motivate others to self reflect, and find a piece of themselves in the work that they make. Art is what allows them to make these connections with people, and changes their perspective on the world through a lens.
Kenzie King
A. Grey
A.(Annie) Grey is a nonbinary Queer mixed media artist who plays with writing, sculpture, and visual art and is based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work is an ongoing conversation and sociological exploration of fear and trauma as well as questioning societal norms. They’re interested in creating work that sparks conversations, and inspires individuals to think in unconventional ways. They encourage people to be playful with the pieces they create
