2024-2025 in-person Cohort
Fall 2024 | Winter 2025 | Spring 2025
Tuesdays at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea
With Canopy Mentor
Tamara Gonzales
Artist
Based in Brooklyn and Bovina
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024-2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Tamara Gonzales, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Tamara Gonzales' Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Margrit Lewczuk & Bill Jensen
Studio Visit
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Robin Kang
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Kemar Keanu Wynter
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Hannah Root
Guest Gallerist
Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy
Guest Gallerist
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Tamara Gonzales
Tamara Gonzales works with a variety of painted patterned motifs both in figuration and abstraction. Textiles and nature often inspire her works, while others are created through her own generative mark-making on paper or canvas. Gonzales’ global travels and her visionary experiences and friendships with members of several indigenous communities have become a source of both inspiration and collaboration in her work. Working in her studio in Brooklyn and upstate New York, Gonzales develops her own visual language, resulting in a wonderful mixture of exuberant color, energetic line, and archetypal imagery. Tamara Gonzales was born in Madera, California and currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Bovina, New York. Her work has been written about in the New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and ArtNews. Recently her work has been included in exhibitions at Eric Firestone Gallery, Analog Diary, Norte Maar, Anton Kern WINDOW, The Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, The River Arts Collective, Catskill, NY, The Pit in Palm Springs, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Public collections containing her work include the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Bronx Museum of Art, New York; San Antonio Museum of Art; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
swimming in the mirror
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
May 29-31, 2025
Swimming In The Mirror is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Tamara Gonzales, as part of the 2024-2025 Canopy Program.
Over the course of Canopy, the creators of Swimming In the Mirror participated in a vulnerable creative exchange, often involving deeply personal artworks. Meetings that occurred against the backdrop of the multiple, ongoing humanitarian crises devastating communities across the globe became a ritualistic refuge. As these artists drew from biography, history, memory, nature, spirituality and even grotesque suffering, they were creating work that transformed the boundaries of self, body, time and space. Tamara Gonzales’ thoughtful, intuitive, blue-sky approach inspired artists to embrace the emotional risks that yield authentic and unrestrained creativity. To swim in the mirror is to dive into the unknowable depths beyond one’s own reflection, confronting what cannot easily be seen. Some artists channel this experience through geometry, abstraction, and unconventional materials to express the hidden realms of identity and emotion, while others explore the future-past, the divine, the rivers of the self, or languages yet to be discovered. Swimming In the Mirror is a collective acknowledgment of the interconnectedness of all things and a celebration of the transformative power of self-inquiry.
Over the course of Canopy, the creators of Swimming In the Mirror participated in a vulnerable creative exchange, often involving deeply personal artworks. Meetings that occurred against the backdrop of the multiple, ongoing humanitarian crises devastating communities across the globe became a ritualistic refuge. As these artists drew from biography, history, memory, nature, spirituality and even grotesque suffering, they were creating work that transformed the boundaries of self, body, time and space. Tamara Gonzales’ thoughtful, intuitive, blue-sky approach inspired artists to embrace the emotional risks that yield authentic and unrestrained creativity. To swim in the mirror is to dive into the unknowable depths beyond one’s own reflection, confronting what cannot easily be seen. Some artists channel this experience through geometry, abstraction, and unconventional materials to express the hidden realms of identity and emotion, while others explore the future-past, the divine, the rivers of the self, or languages yet to be discovered. Swimming In the Mirror is a collective acknowledgment of the interconnectedness of all things and a celebration of the transformative power of self-inquiry.
