Mission

14x48 repurposes vacant billboards as public art space in order to create more opportunities in public art for emerging artists, to challenge emerging artists to engage more with public art, and to enliven the vibrancy of our urban environment.

​14X48 is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts service organization. The organization was formerly known as Artists for Public Service Announcements.

 

Artists

Kei Ito is a US based photographer and installation artist who graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art (’16) with an MFA in Photography, following his BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology (‘14). Kei’s work addresses issues of generational connection and deep loss as he explores the materiality of photography as a medium. His recent work deals with the tragedy and legacy passed on from his grandfather who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, yet died from cancer, and the threat of nuclear disaster which is still present today. His photo based installation take the audience on a journey of grief, remembrance, and hope. Through his ritualistic image-making, the audience may see how his family history grapples with the legacy of nuclear weapons and power. Thus, his art serves as an intermediary between the heritage of Kei’s grandfather and today’s nuclear climate as a memento. Kei’s artistic vision has been recognized by various awards and institutions such as the Manifest One Award(OH), the Rubys Artist Project Grant(MD), the Snider Prize(IL), and Awards for Innovations in Imaging(LA). His works are in the permanent collections of institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and Norton Museum of Art in Florida. His most recent large scale installation project, Afterimage Requiem, has been reviewed and covered by major media outlets such as the Washington Post Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, and BBC World News.

Liz Faust is an independent curator who graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art (’17) with an MFA in Curatorial Practice, following her BFA from Juniata College. Liz Faust’s main focus of curation is social-political art that has a meaningful impact on the community. An example of this can be seen in Faust's most recent project, the Gun Show, a traveling exhibition with Baltimore based public artist, David Hess. Currently, Faust teaches at Curatorial Studies at MICA.

Peter Hoffmeister is an artist, living and working in New York City, who engages contemporary socio-political issues through research-based projects and site- specific interventions. He received his BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007 and his MFA from Hunter College in 2017. His work has been shown in a diverse array of venues, including a historical house museum, an elevator, and a church.

Conor Doherty is a Photographer, Creative Director and Multi-media artist living in Brooklyn. His work has been displayed in galleries and Museums in New York and Boston including the Boston Public Library and the Griffin Museum of Photography. The influence of Conor’s degree in Philosophy and his commercial work as a landscape and fashion photographer are evident in his work. He is honored to be one of the artists selected for 14x48.

Bang Luu is a Boston based artist who seeks to link technology with various traditional mediums, tackling internal thoughts in response to the uncontrollable impact of the external world. Her work creates a transient artificial space that one can escape into, thereby breaking away from the normative world. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the College of the Holy Cross, MA, in Studio Arts, with a minor in Art History. Luu has exhibited her work at galleries and institutions throughout the northeast and nationally including Widener Gallery, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. She was also commission to showcase for the Boston Conventional & Exhibition Center for their 3,000 square feet digital display. 

John Edmonds (b. 1989) is a photographer and writer who lives and works between New Haven, CT and New York, NY. He received his MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art and his BFA in Photography at the Corcoran School of Arts + Design. He has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, Maine and FABRICA in Treviso, Italy. His work is in both private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, FOAM Museum Amsterdam Library and the George Eastman House, and has been shown both nationally and internationally.

Rachel Stern (b. 1989, New York City) is a photographer whose work challenges conventions of beauty and promotes escapist, constructivist fantasy. She received her BFA in Photography and the History of Art and Visual Culture in 2011 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Stern has exhibited works at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Invisible­-Exports, Pioneer Works, Northern­Southern, and Humble Arts Foundation’s 31 Women in Photography at Hasted Kraeutler. Her work has been featured in BOMB, MATTE, Blink, Still, Vice, and Art F City.

Rico Washington Fordham University alum and Washington, D.C. area native Rico Washington has utilized his diverse writing talents for various platforms. As a journalist who has interviewed celebrities such as Chris Rock, Erykah Badu, and Vin Diesel, his work has appeared in outlets such as Wax Poetics, Okayplayer, and Ebony.com. He has composed album liner note essays for CD reissues in the UK by legendary soul music icons and has also written bios for major label recording artists, Grammy winning songwriters, and Olympic gold medalists. His collaborative art projects with photographer Shino Yanagawa, We The People: The Citizens of NYCHA in Pictures + Words and Finding Dante, have been featured in media outlets such as NPR, Metro NY, and the New York Daily News. He has served as a staff writer for XLR8R Magazine, is a teaching artist with Arts Connection, and is a current Columbia University fellow.​

Elizabeth Hamby works between the studio, the classroom, and the city. Using drawing, installation, and participatory workshops, she explores the dynamics of place and the rhythms of everyday experience. Since 2010, she has worked with students, printmakers, and the New York City Housing Authority on a project called Alphabet City. This project considers the shapes of building footprints as a code that reveals the common language of the city’s past and present. This work has been exhibited at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education in the Bronx, and led to a workshop and mural with the New York City Housing Authority. She is also a member of Meta Local Collaborative, a Bronx-based collective. Meta Local develops site-specific, participatory works that refer to the complexity of our community in the South Bronx. Elizabeth Hamby hold degrees from Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design (2006), and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Shino Yanagawa Hosei University alum and Tokyo native Shino Yanagawa has been avidly pursuing her passion for photography for over a decade. Her photos have appeared in publications such as GQ-Japan, Harper's Bazaar-Japan, Nylon-Japan, and Japanese newspapers Nikkei and Sankei. In 2000, her two-month sojourn to Nepal culminated in the solo photography exhibition The Wind In Nepal in her native Japan. She has photographed celebrities and living legends such as Beyoncé, Ramsey Lewis, Q-Tip, and Roy Ayers. Her 2009 photo shoot with seminal Hip-Hop figure Large Professor resulted in a limited edition t-shirt produced by Japanese clothing company Funny. Her ongoing collaborative relationship with journalist Rico Washington has resulted in the art projects We The People: The Citizens of NYCHA in Pictures + Words and Finding Dante. The collaborations have exhibited throughout New York City and internationally. ​

Julia Weist is a New York based artist whose new media and sculptural work explores cultural informatics and collection theory as well as the emotional, cognitive, and manifest aspects of data modeling and presentation. Weist holds degrees in Fine Art from The Cooper Union and Library & Information Science from Pratt Institute. Her work has recently been exhibited at Witte de With (Rotterdam), Pioneer Works (New York), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York); and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp.

Margeaux Walter is a photographer and multimedia artist living in Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and an MFA from Hunter College. Her photographs, videos and installations tend to reflect on contemporary culture, communication, technology and commerce. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions around the country including Winston Wachter Fine Art, Pentimenti Gallery, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Tacoma Art Museum and Griffin Photography Museum.

Desiree Leary is a New York based artist who uses photography and found objects to explore the threshold between two- and three- dimensional worlds. She received a BFA from Alfred University, a Masters Library and Information Science from Rutgers University, and is currently in the Studio Art MFA program at Hunter College. Her work has recently been shown at SARDINE (Brooklyn) and TEMP (NY).

Santiago Mostyn (b. 1981, San Francisco) is an artist and photographer who makes prints, videos, and installations based on personal interactions with subcultural communities throughout the world. Mostyn is a graduate of Yale University and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, studied at Staedelschule with Willem de Rooij, and has exhibited internationally at venues including Mass MoCA, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Art Basel Miami Beach and the Hasselblad Foundation.

Kenneth Millington is a painter living in Brooklyn. He holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Kenneth has pursued painting projects abroad in Europe and South America. His painting practice includes large-scale watercolors as well as exterior mural projects around the country. Themes in his artwork derive from an interest in history, science, and landscape. Kenneth teaches Foundation Drawing and Time at Parsons, The New School in New York City.

Taber Calderon Taber lives and works in New york City as an art director and graphic designer. His graphics are a direct call to action against social injustice and have been part of many international graphic design and poster exhibitions.

Henk van Assen is principal at HvADesign, a multi-disciplinary design studio in New York City. He is also a Senior Critic at Yale University School of Art. Honored to be the second artist to participate with 14X48 he now is proud to play an advisory roll in the further development of this excellent public art platform.

 

Team

Acknowledgements

We're thankful for support of all kinds from the following organizations.