Explore works by Jing Huang, Tara Thacker, Colin Pezzano, Kelly Dzioba & Sasha Baskin
Gravers Lane Gallery is proud to announce its participation in Artsy’s Foundations Art Fair 2025, a curated digital showcase dedicated to championing emerging artists. Running from July 14 to August 8, 2025, this prestigious event highlights forward-thinking galleries committed to shaping the future of contemporary art.
For this year’s Foundations Fair, Gravers Lane Gallery will present five exceptional artists whose innovative practices embody the gallery’s commitment to material integrity, narrative depth, and cross-disciplinary excellence. The selected artists—Jing Huang, Tara Thacker, Colin Pezzano, Kelly Dzioba, and Sasha Baskin—represent the next wave of Contemporary Craft, exploring timeless techniques alongside unconventional materials to investigate identity, memory, process, and cultural meaning. Explore ceramic landscapes and beaded formalism, each work embodying the power of the handmade in a rapidly changing world.
From ceramic installations that evoke the layered ambiguity of migration (Huang), to hand-built woodwork that visualizes the passage of time and personal history (Pezzano), to beadwork that dazzles with color, camp, and critique (Dzioba), these artists offer a visceral experience of craft reimagined. Baskin’s layered digital works reinterpret reality television as contemporary mythmaking, while Thacker’s feather-inspired ceramics blur boundaries between material, memory, and transformation.
“Each of these artists brings a unique perspective and mastery of material that aligns with our mission to support deeply intentional, process-based practices,” says Chloe Le Pichon, Director of Gravers Lane Gallery. “This presentation at Foundations celebrates the future of craft and the stories we shape through it.”
Meet the Artists
Colin Pezzano (Wood):
Using woodworking to explore memory and ritual, Pezzano’s meditative practice builds sculptural narratives that blur timelines. His work transforms personal history into immersive spatial storytelling, influenced by graphic novels and traditional craft.
Tara Thacker (Fiber / Ceramics):
Thacker’s intricate ceramic constructions channel the repetition of avian forms and the tactile memory of clay. Her feather-inspired works evoke softness and movement while defying expectations of ceramic as rigid or static.
Jing Huang (Ceramics):
Huang explores identity and displacement through layered ceramic landscapes. Her sculptures, suspended and shaped by gravity and firing, reflect the in-between spaces of cultural hybridity and personal transformation.
Kelly Dzioba (Fiber):
With hand-twisted party beads and a minimalist sensibility, Dzioba’s work merges kitsch and conceptualism. Her obsessive process reveals themes of value, labor, and sensory comfort—turning ephemeral materials into shimmering, sculptural forms.
Sasha Baskin (Fiber):
Baskin weaves together screenshots from reality TV and Renaissance paintings, lacing and weaving contemporary goddesses and mythologies out of the mundane. Her work is both a celebration and critique of beauty, performance, and cultural repetition.
About Gravers Lane Gallery
Founded in 2011, Gravers Lane Gallery is a premier destination for Contemporary Craft and Fine Art. Representing both established and emerging artists, the gallery champions works in ceramics, fiber, wood, metal, glass, and painting—bridging tradition and innovation. Based in Philadelphia, GLG is deeply committed to celebrating the handmade, curating exhibitions that foster emotional resonance, aesthetic excellence, and dialogue between function and fine art.
In an increasingly digital world, Gravers Lane Gallery remains a steadfast advocate for slow, skilled, and meaningful creation—believing that Contemporary Craft offers not only cultural preservation, but radical relevance.
About Foundations Art Fair
Foundations is Artsy’s premier online fair spotlighting emerging artists and visionary galleries from around the world. The 2025 edition runs July 14–August 8th 2025 and includes presentations from 70 cutting-edge galleries.
Explore Gravers Lane Gallery’s booth and meet the artists redefining contemporary craft at artsy.net starting July 14.
For press inquiries, images, or interviews, contact:
Chloe Le Pichon
Director, Gravers Lane Gallery
www.graverslanegallery.com
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