Andrea Currie 
@deliri_bus
I paint, illustrate, craft, build, bind, and experiment. I sometimes take commissions. I’m a Burlington based artist who has been creating in Vermont since 2004. Proudly being weird at Space Gallery since 2016! 

Francesca Genello
@cesca_creates
Francesca is a self taught silversmith and digital artist based out of Burlington, Vermont. She started her art practice in 2019 and quickly fell in love with silversmithing. Her signature Mountain Earrings were featured in the Vermont Makers Showcase by Common Deer in 2020 which helped launch her business. Her art practice has developed and expanded mediums to include painting, collage, and digital work. Francesca has a special love for botanicals, mountains, and all things morbid. Her art style has grown to highlight the juxtaposition of her interests. Francesca is currently pursuing a career in illustration and expanding custom jewelry offerings in her business, Cesca Creates. She’s been a part of S.P.A.C.E Gallery since September 2020.

Jeff Bruno
@jbruno2000
It’s hard to say exactly how long I’ve had a studio at SPACE, as I began working here before the invention of time. My earliest pieces were cave paintings of my pet wooly mammoth ‘Fluffygrunts,’ scratched into the limestone walls beneath the current soda plant. Paleontologists have found work of mine dated between 60,000 and 100,000 BCE, though many believe I was here long before that. 

Mark Eliot Schwabe
@allpropellersspin
Mark learned metalworking skills by working in his fathers workshop. His father, James Author Schwabe, designed and created precious metal sculptures which were sold to high end stores … his largest volume customer was Cartier, NY. The metalworking skills that Mark learned at his fathers side were extraordinary. Later, after earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Mark went to graduate school at the State University of NY at Albany where he had the good fortune to study with another master, Richard Stankiewicz.  Stankiewicz was part of the famous “New York School”of the 1950’s as  abstract expressionism turned the art world on its head. The education Mark received there was also extraordinary. After working as an independent artist for a while, Mark went back to school, this time earning an MFA in sculpture at the State University of NY and New Paltz. Today, decades later, Mark continues to create and learn. His metalworking studio is in SPACE Gallery.  Early to SPACE, he was the second artist to rent a studio there, and now, 14 years later, he continues to create at SPACE.

Matt Larson
@mattlarson.art
Before I begin work in the studio, I review the basic parameters I have established to inform my process: Set aside preconceived notions. Maintain balance between order and chaos. Let each layer inform the next. Embrace happy accidents. When in doubt, simplify. My hoped-for outcome is art that emulates natural processes, altering and obscuring what came before, leaving glimpses of initial conditions visible through the overlaid patterns and juxtapositions of subsequent events. SPACE Gallery since February 2021

Nikki Laxar
@nikkilaxar
I’m a mother and self taught artist born in Burlington, VT. I primarily work in hand cut collage combining nature with delicate, yet powerful human form. Most of my work evolves from elements of celestial landscapes, hybrid beings and dreamlike surrealism. I made my first collage in the depths of the pandemic lockdown and haven’t stopped since. The act of cutting paper and reassembling imagery is extremely therapeutic to me. I started creating professionally when I moved into my first studio at the Space Gallery in 2012. I came back to my studio and managed the collective in 2020. Through dedication and a strong passion for supporting other artists, I became the new owner of S.P.A.C.E. in August 2023!

Dorsey Hogg
@dorsey_hogg 
I have been a part of the S.P.A.C.E. studio since October of 2022. The inspiration to rent my studio corner was the fact it is in the middle of S.P.A.C.E. and right where people walk into the gallery. After years of working in my kitchen I wanted to be among other artists, have my art seen, and be a part of the community that keeps local art thriving in Burlington. I also needed more space for all my piles of books! I explore book arts and paper sculpture by repurposing books that are destined for the landfill and recycling. I love the challenge of taking a book whose pages haven’t been opened in years (if at all) and creating a new life for it and showing it to the world in a different way. Working with discarded materials has provided me with endless projects while keeping my art footprint very small. The pieces I chose for this show span the 10 years I have been focusing on paper art. My goal is to keep pushing the ways I can build and create new art with old paper, changing the way we see and think about paper.  

Morgan Bailey
@morganbailey.art
Make a mess. Embrace the chaos. Find beauty. Lose what doesn’t serve you. My paintings are all about process. In the beginning, there is only chaos. As I explore the physical properties of materials, the layering of colors, brushwork, and gestural mark-making, I create the structure of the future painting. The framework provided by these interactions, intersections, and details dictates the direction to pursue. I add until I can see which areas have the best conversations and work around these chosen moments. This process of addition and subtraction cycles until the balance is revealed. I enjoy that when the painting is complete, the history of my decision making in response to the chaos that I have myself created is on display. All the wrong turns, mistakes, and whoops-shouldn’t-have-done-that moments are present alongside the successful ones. They have become intertwined as integral parts of the harmonious whole. I have studied textiles, printmaking, silverworking, and glass, and spent 20 years as a costumer and stylist. I have been a studio artist in the SPACE collective since 2020. 

Samantha Martin
@smartinart69
I am an experimental painter from the Bay Area, California. In 2019, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts from Mills College in Oakland, CA. I have been living in Vermont and renting a studio at S.P.A.C.E. for almost 2 years now. The subject and content of my works are constantly changing as I experiment with different styles. As of late, I have been drawn to the abstract realm. I look at painting as a form of speaking a different language–communicating some sort of feeling to the viewer. My paintings like to go their own way, and I follow them. Usually they turn out looking nothing like how I imagined they would. I find this exciting. What will this painting teach me about myself? I have a knack for control, but painting offers me the opportunity to let go of control, finding a deeper sense of self and collective consciousness.

Matt deForest Jenkins
@mdjstudio_
My name is Matt deForest Jenkins, I’ve been a studiomate at S.P.A.C.E gallery (on and off) for a little over one year. My work is born from daily observations blended with dream-like sensations. Themes of nature, humanity, and my own internal dialogues dance around each other in each piece. I like exploring these visuals through drawings, screen printing, and digital color.

Noah O’Leary
@fiberqueer
Noah is a fiber artist living in Burlington, VT. He has a BFA from the Museum School in Boston, MA where he studied stone lithography and animation. He’s been knitting since the age of 10 and recently started rug tufting as a way to make tapestries out of the materials he loves. Through his artwork, Noah aims to continue a long tradition of breaking barriers between the worlds of craft and fine art. His current work draws inspiration from folk art imagery, animal worlds, and the intimacy of our interior lives. Noah has been a studio artist at Space Gallery since January, 2024. 

Greg Rothwell
@thediscussions
Composer / Multi Instrumentalist / Collaborator – lives in an auditory world. The approach he takes to creating music and composition often derives from the world around, whether it be from a distant fleeting frequency or interpreting rhythm from the bustle of life. With these influences in mind, Greg will seek silence and uses the inner ear to create music that arrives from the absence of sound, rising to the surface in his mind. Greg writes for and performs with groups The Discussions and Busy Morning Band.

Melissa DeTroy
@melissadetroy

Thank you for viewing my work. I am a traditional artist at heart that loves to explore many different mediums and styles. I have a deep love for travel, nature, people and all the beauty that surrounds us in this world- it is everywhere you look. This body of work I created soon after my daughter Ava was born in January 2023. Through the roller coaster of being a new Mom, these paintings were born as my expression of the deep transformation that was happening within. I hope you enjoy, and maybe can even relate 🙂 I’ve had the honor to have my little cubby of a studio at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery for almost three years now. It is my sanctuary and place to let the creative spirit flow. It’s not often you get to have a studio with other creatives, which is continuously inspiring.