Celebrating Christ and Serving Brooklyn
“It is finished”
Logan Emser
Acrylic on paper
I am an Ohio native living in Brooklyn, Park Slope with my wife, Nina. I work as a graphic designer at Hyperakt: a social impact design studio. Eating tacos, playing table tennis, and admiring typography area few of my favorite things.
Artist: Christy Hayner
Title: “Torn Christ”
Description: Paper and glue on cardboard
I am originally from northeast Georgia. I studied painting at Asbury College in Wilmore, KY and moved to New York City in 2003, receiving my MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2005. The human figure has always been prominent in my work, and I have long been interested in and inspired by the history of sacred Christian art. I have paintings in many private collections, including HRH Prince of Wales and have exhibited work in group shows during the last 10 years around the U.S. In addition, I paint portraits on commission, dabble in collage, and have the honor of teaching high school art at Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice in downtown Brooklyn. I live and work in Brooklyn.
I use alternative materials and extreme processes to create abstract artworks that explore the delicate balance between life and death related to the body and afterlife. I received my BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School of Design. I am currently an artist in residence with the Chashama Studio Program in Sunset Park. www.mdwart.com
“Christ and the Two Criminals”
Michael Dorr & Evan Schwartz
I have devoted myself these past twelve months to writing only sonnets so when this project began, I sought to represent Christ and the two criminals crucified with Him – not only their views but their very bodies -as sonnets. But one of the condemned speaks a mere nine words, while the other utters forty-two. Christ himself says just thirteen words and only to one of the criminals.