Join artists Nataliya Hines and William PK Carter as they discuss the ideas, influences, and creative processes behind their concurrent solo exhibitions, Ghost in the Machine and Blessings of Extinction: remembering what came before, and imagining what comes next.

About Nataliya Hines: Nataliya Hines is a Connecticut-based painter, printmaker, and digital artist whose work merges mythology with questions surrounding technology, authorship, and belief. Drawing from art history, folklore, portraiture, and religious iconography, she constructs speculative narratives exploring the emotional and philosophical implications of machine learning. Her paintings position symbolic femininity and nature-based mythologies against an algorithm-driven cultural landscape. Hines studied printmaking and art history at SUNY Purchase and the Institut d’Études Supérieures des Arts, respectively. She has exhibited in New York City, Germany, and the Netherlands. Ghost in the Machine is her sixth solo exhibition. About William PK Carter: William PK Carter is a quilter and puppet artist based in Central Valley, New York. She bridges the puppet and fine-art worlds by fabricating wondrous creatures that exist at the intersection of queerness and blackness. She received her BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 2023 and is the recipient of the Skidmore College President’s Racial Justice Award, the John P. Heins Award: Outstanding Senior Thesis Exhibition, and a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant. She is a current resident artist at LaMama Experimental Theatre Club, where she is developing a long-form puppetry piece entitled Beautiful Without Consequence.