Incorporating elements of sculpture, painting, graphic design, and architecture, Leah Guadagnoli’s whimsical, idiosyncratic works defy easy classification. The artist’s work expands on the Pop tradition by making use of readymade imagery and quotidian materials. Often drawing on the aesthetics of her Midwestern upbringing, the artist appropriates designs and patterns from the 80s’ and 90s’ -- often considered kitschy -- presenting them in fresh and dynamic ways.

[text by Danny Brody, courtesy of Hollis Taggart]

Maria Yolanda Liebana is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens NY, and has been a PARADICE PALASE member since 2018.

Her work is fueled by an obsession with celebrity, pop motifs, media in all formats, aesthetics, and excessive consumption, as well as the seductive promises that these symbols offer. Liebana confronts wealth inequality, racial and gender stereotyping, and her own disillusionment with the American dream as a first-generation Latinx artist.

Liebana has been a PARADICE PALASE member since 2018.

Michael Hambouz (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hambouz creates works commingling the familiar and the imagined as observed in his dreams and daydreams, referencing memories growing up as a first-generation Palestinian-American in the rural Midwest and experiences beyond living in New York City. Recent solo/two-person exhibitions include Future Fairs (New York, NY), Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), Chashama (New York, NY), and Kayrock (Brooklyn, NY). Hambouz is an avid supporter of the arts and social justice, contributing work to benefit auctions hosted by Luhring Augustine, Cheim & Read, Bridget Donahue, Honey Ramka, Yossi Milo, and Pioneer Works. His art and curatorial work has been featured in Artnet News, Hyperallergic, Vice, Create! Magazine, and Design Milk.

Hambouz has been a PARADICE PALASE member since 2021.

Leah Dixon (she/her) is an artist and designer, who builds large-scale sculptures and spatial interventions that address spaces where bodies and architecture collide. Dixon received her MFA at The School of Visual Arts, her BFA at The Ohio State University, and attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited often, both nationally and internationally, and was a recent Teaching Fellow at New Mexico State University. Her work has also been reviewed widely - recently in The New York Times, Artsy, and Forbes. Dixon is also the designer and director of BEVERLY'S.