1776: Remixed
1776: REMIXED brings together an international roster of local and global artists, each offering their own bold, irreverent, and unexpected take on a landmark moment in history. From paintings to mixed media, expect the unexpected, while having a ton of fun!
Jon DavenportUK-born and now based on the East Coast of the United States, Jon Davenport creates vibrant mixed-media works that merge collage, painting, and graphic design with a deep affection for Americana. Drawing from midcentury advertising, Hollywood glamour, vintage iconography, and contemporary pop culture, Davenport deconstructs familiar images and rebuilds them into layered, high-impact compositions filled with color, texture, and visual wit. Before becoming a full-time fine artist, Davenport followed an unconventional path that included science, photography, digital art, and running a creative agency in London. That range of experience informs the confident visual language of his work: bold, polished, nostalgic, and distinctly contemporary. In 1776: Remixed, Davenport’s imagery feels perfectly at home—playfully reimagining American symbols through the lens of pop culture, design, and collectible contemporary art. |
Sarah FishbeinSarah Fishbein is a contemporary glass mosaic artist whose work transforms the drama and graphic punch of Pop Art into luminous, hand-cut compositions. Based in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Fishbein spent years in editorial video production before finding her artistic voice in mosaics, where she combines stained glass, glitter glass, metallic glass, mirrored glass, and hand-dyed grout to create works that sparkle with both craftsmanship and attitude. Inspired by 1950s and 1960s romance comics, Fishbein’s work embraces bold color, exaggerated emotion, and the unmistakable visual language of comic-book storytelling. Her mosaics explore nostalgia, feminism, empowerment, sexuality, and modern relationships, often with humor and a fearless sense of presence. In 1776: Remixed, her work brings a sharp, celebratory energy to the exhibition—recasting patriotic imagery through a contemporary feminist pop lens. |
Kym BalthazarKym Balthazar is an abstract artist and educator based in Northeastern Pennsylvania, known for expressive oil and cold wax paintings that build texture, movement, and story through layered surfaces. Her work often incorporates collage, sharp linear marks, and evidence of process, allowing each composition to feel discovered rather than predetermined. The result is atmospheric, tactile, and emotionally charged. Balthazar’s background in illustration remains visible in the structure and rhythm of her paintings, but her current practice is rooted in experimentation—scraping, building, editing, and revealing forms through the push and pull of oil and wax. In 1776: Remixed, her abstract works invite viewers to consider freedom, history, and national identity not as fixed ideas, but as layered, evolving experiences. |
Carlo TrevisanItalian painter and poet Carlo Trevisan creates surreal oil paintings that are clean, minimalist, and immediately engaging. Born in Cesena, Italy, and educated in Sansepolcro and at the University of Pisa, Trevisan paints isolated objects, figures, and symbols against balanced, dreamlike backgrounds. His work is quiet and precise, yet filled with poetic surprise. Trevisan’s paintings often feel like pleasant dreams: familiar enough to enter easily, but strange enough to linger in the imagination. Balloons, clouds, bells, apples, monuments, animals, and figures become part of a personal symbolic language that is warm, whimsical, and gently surreal. In 1776: Remixed, his playful reimagining of American icons brings joy, optimism, and a distinctly European sense of fantasy to the celebration. |
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Jan-Hein ArensDutch artist Jan-Hein Arens is a painter, sculptor, and illustrator whose work centers on universally understood needs, emotions, and human behavior. Working from his home in the Netherlands, Arens draws influence from Pop Art, the COBRA movement, graphic design, illustration, and the spontaneous visual honesty of children’s drawings. His compositions often combine loose black linework, playful text, bold color, and unexpected narrative fragments. Arens has a gift for making images that feel both humorous and deeply human. His figures are simple, open, and disarming, often placed in strange or poetic situations that invite viewers to complete the story for themselves. In 1776: Remixed, his works bring a childlike directness to big ideas—home, freedom, community, kingship, and belonging—offering a refreshingly tender and witty reflection on American identity. |
MooglyMoogly is a French contemporary artist known for textured “humanimal” portraits—animals with strikingly human expressions, attitudes, and personalities. His work blends humor, pop energy, and sculptural surface, often using vivid color, resin-like texture, metallic accents, and expressive forms to create characters that feel animated, charismatic, and instantly collectible. While Moogly’s images are playful, they also carry an emotional and ethical undercurrent. His animals often become stand-ins for human behavior, social dynamics, and contemporary culture, allowing viewers to connect with them through humor, empathy, and recognition. In 1776: Remixed, Moogly’s birds, eagles, and Liberty-inspired figures bring a bright, irreverent sense of celebration to the catalog, transforming patriotic symbols into lively contemporary icons. |
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