Spring Open Studios 2025

DUMBO SPRING OPEN STUDIOS
SATURDAY, APRIL 26 AND SUNDAY, APRIL 27
1 - 6 PM

20 Jay St, Suite 318
Brooklyn NY 11201

Featuring our new Artists-in-Residence:

Alex Strada, Cindy Cheng I-Hsin, Estelle Maisonett, and Alina Tenser.

In conjunction with Dumbo Open Studios 2025

The weekend of Dumbo Open Studios, 100+ artists across DUMBO will open their studios to the public, including artists in the residency programs of Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, Sharpe-Walentas, BRIClab, and Triangle. Read about Triangle’s current residents below.

Alina Tenser is a Ukrainian born artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Working across sculpture, performance, and video, she makes propositions that elicit physical activation and play. Utilizing industrial and domestic materials and processes she reimagines taken-for-granted social and material relations; mining the entanglements of her experience as an immigrant and parent. Tenser is currently an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.

Estelle Maisonett (b. 1991, Bronx, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans photography, printmaking, sculpture, painting, and video. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Yale University and a BFA from SUNY Purchase College. Central to her practice is the exploration of found objects and materials, which she recontextualizes to examine established notions of identity, history, and memory. Through life-size collages and sculptural installations, Maisonett uses discarded garments and urban detritus to create compositions that reflect on the relationship between personal and collective narratives. Her work engages with themes of cultural fragmentation, and the complex intersection of Nuyorican and Mexican-American identity, examining how materials preserve and alter our understanding of the past and present.

Alex Strada is a multimedia artist and educator based in New York City. Through film/video, installation, sound and orality, performance, and public art, her socially engaged projects explore collectivity, critical legal studies, and political transformation. Transdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of her practice. Since 2022, she has served as the inaugural Public Artist in Residence with the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs, where she is working on a new collaborative public art commission while developing art programming in shelters throughout the city and mutual aid initiatives that serve people experiencing homelessness. She is Civic Engagement Fellow and faculty at the Pratt Institute.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Penang, Malaysia, Cindy Cheng I-Hsin makes text, performances, sculptures, and installations inspired by the concept and technique of printmaking. Her works investigate her shifting surroundings, scrutinising physical and metaphorical print marks of everyday activity. Her practice concerning reflections on identity and cultural imprints pictures an alternative way of understanding humanity in which she sees human-being as print-making. Cheng’s recent works delve into aspects of Eastern traditions, in particular, the concept of ‘shentigan’ and the pictographic written Chinese characters.