by Shane Greene
with original art by
Raphael Cornford
Tevin García
Rossana Mercado-Rojas
Raphael (“Raph”) Cornford is originally from Oakland, CA and has an MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University (2016). His work examines the complexity of the process of identification--manifest via an immersion in pulp materials, from comics to science fiction covers and everything in between, that have captivated him since childhood. He strives to re-contextualize or reconfigure our relationship to these subjects, exposing the cyclical cultural biases of contemporary narratives. His work cements the connections between current events and their antecedents through the cartography and careful excavation of appropriated forms and materials. Raph has ample experience in installation, exhibition, bookmaking, curation, and game design. He is a founder of Noise Gallery and has done invited exhibitions at the Grunwald Gallery and I Fell. See his website.
Rossana Mercado-Rojas is an artist and cultural worker of the Spirit. Immigrant single mother of Andean descent, she was born in Peru and currently lives in Stockholm. Her practice explores temporary, movable habitats through sound, murals, video, text, and spoken word—shaped by her experience of migration and grounded in celebration as a form of resistance. She specializes in chollage, multimedia juxtapositions with a refined bad taste (lo chuzco). Recent works include Ritual Domestiko (Museo de Arte de San Marcos - Lima, 2025-2026), Bingham Gemenskapar (Gotlands Konstmuseum, 2024-2025), and La Dekoloniala! podcast (2021). She has co-curated Embodying Chaos: 10 Years of Hysterix (Konsthall C, 2022) and The Archive Made Flesh (Botkyrka Konsthall, 2023), and her writing appears in Mana Magazine, VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, Feministiskt Perspektiv, and Kultwatch. She is also one of the initiators of La Dekoloniala! (Stockholm), and a member of Wiphala collective (Malmö), and the collective Hysterix (Lima). She has a BFA from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, MFA in curating and critical writing from Konstfack College. See her website.
Tevin Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist whose work synthesizes a range of visual languages to explore themes of culture, history, and social critique. By navigating across varying modes of representation, Garcia harnesses their unique expressive capacities to deepen subjectivity and amplify social critique. His compositions operate as hybrid visual texts, where the convergence of painting traditions becomes a means of interrogating complex themes of identity under historical and political frameworks. Through this synthesis, Garcia creates evocative spaces that challenge fixed interpretations and invite sustained critical engagement.
