Monthly Featured Artist

At Salt we strive to foster the arts community by building relationships, promoting artists, and encouraging dialog. As part of this effort, we feature an emerging NYC based artist each month.

We hope this both expands your awareness of the creative community in our city, and that their unique work catalyzes good conversation. Each artist is profiled on our website and a limited selection of their work is shown in the space. We hope you take the opportunity to check back every month and learn about our Featured Artists. If you would like to see the work in the space, please contact us to schedule a viewing or simply come to one of our many public events

Salt Space Featured Artists

Monday, March 21, 2011

March-April 2011 | Hannah and Anthony Taddeo

Anthony Taddeo was born and raised in Cleveland OH. He moved to New York City to study Jazz Performance at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Since Anthony has been in NYC he has had the privilege to study and play with many accomplished jazz musicians One of his most recent achievements is playing at the Bern jazz festival in Switzerland in May of 2010 with the Melanie Charles Quartet and the Nitzan Gavrieli Trio.

Hannah is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in Biomedical Illustration and Design. She has had the honor of showing her work at various prestigious institutions including University Hospitals Harrington-McLaughlin Heart & Vascular Institute, the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, the Cleveland Institute of Art, as well as numerous private collections. She blends her passion for design with her foundation in science and technology and continues to explore the possibilities of new media.

This piece was created by Hannah as a visual interpretation of an inprovised jazz piece performed symultaneously by a quartet led by Anthony.

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December 2010, Nadirah Zakariya

Friday, December 03, 2010

Salt is excited to announce our new Monthly Featured Artist series. We believe this will be a great way for you to get to know some up and coming New York City artists who we feel are having a positive impact and are definitely creating some conversation.

I am especially pleased to introduce our first artist, Nadirah Zakariya.

Born in Malaysia, Nadirah spent her childhood in Texas, bravely struggled through adolescence in Kuala Lumpur, found her path in Japan, and realized herself in New York. The body of work presented is inspired by the absence of the concept of home throughout her upbringing to this day. Growing up in various places around the world, the sense of displacement of being neither here nor there was always present. Nadirah finds the concept of liminality compelling, as it means the state between two worlds. She conveys this theme of being in the liminal phase through her photographs by placing the subjects behind a stained glass.

This series can be seen on the artist's website here, as well as a physical installation in the Salt Space during the month of December.

Nadirah Zakariya, Liminars, 5 digital c-prints, 20x30 and 11x14, 2010.