Living in a Wiggly World

Jeffrey Cheung, an influential artist and skateboarder, creates vibrant, expressive figures often intertwined as if in dance. His bold and energetic paintings depict diverse bodies and celebrate the beauty of queer and marginalized communities. Cheung's work serves as a celebration of friendship, love, and shared experiences, emphasizing the importance of building inclusive and supportive networks. Jeffrey Cheung (born 1989 in Castro Valley, CA) lives and works in Oakland, CA. He’s had solo exhibitions at New Image Art (L.A., CA), Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco, CA), BimBam Gallery (Paris, FR) and Pt. 2 (Oakland, CA). He’s been included in group exhibitions including Jeffrey Deitch (L.A., CA) and V1 (Copenhagen, DK). His work and platform Unity that he runs with his partner Gabriel Ramirez have been featured in The New York Times among other publications.

Rainen Knecht's artistic practice revolves around intimate portrayals of familial bonds and interpersonal relationships.The figures in Rainen Knecht’s paintings question the line between alien and real, human and animal, self and other. The artist employs a form of dream logic to examine beauty, humor and horror in works that are simultaneously sexy, angry, ugly and funny. Born in Gig Harbor, WA in 1982 Knecht now lives and works in Portland Oregon. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 where she received the Madjrakoff Painting award as an undergraduate. She received the Hallie Ford Fellowship in 2021. Her work has been included in group exhibitions internationally including Marvin  Gardens , Ridgewood, NY  (2022), Left Field, Los Osos, CA  (2021), The Pit, Los Angeles, CA  (2021), Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA (2020), Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR  (2019), and Stems Gallery, Brussels, BE (2017).

Jiha Moon, a celebrated artist known for her innovative use of clay, explores the interplay between cultural identities and interpersonal connections. Her vibrant and whimsical artworks blend traditional Eastern and Western artistic elements, revealing the hybrid nature of contemporary culture. Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.