Meet the Artists: Dots and Loops

Jen Chen-su Huang 黃謙恕 is an artist and writer whose work concerns memory, touch, and materiality. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation and published by Yale University Press. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University and teaches in the textiles department at Parsons School of Design. Huang received her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Rita Maas is a visual artist living and working in the Hudson Valley, NY. She works between photography, drawing, and printmaking to create conceptually driven imagery. Working with predetermined systems, Maas embraces elements of chance and disorder. Across her work, she explores how information is received, filtered, and retained. Reflecting on the complexities of our overwhelming surroundings, she seeks solace through simple methods and gestures that speak to our shared humanity and common experience. Maas is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow and has participated in residencies at ChaNorth in Pine Plains, NY, as well as the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Hollins University both in Virginia. Maas’ work has been widely exhibited including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Katonah Museum of Art, the Kentler Drawing Space, KinoSaito Art Center and The Print Center in Philadelphia PA. Maas’s work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum and Archive 92 among others.  Maas received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design.   

Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York who works between installation, print, and performance, with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. Her work with sound extends from the embodied experience of her own dysfluent speech and draws from the traditions of music notation and visual poetry. She is interested in how sound can create spaces for listening and connection. Wolowiec’s work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts; CCS Bard Hessel Museum and Columbia University, Print Center New York, and Art in General, all in New York. Readings and events have taken place at The Poetry Project and Microscope Gallery in New York, and the Gray Center at the University of Chicago. Wolowiec teaches at Parsons School of Design and directs the publishing platform Gravel Projects.