FOR STARTERS
Monet Alyssa | DJ Carr | Andrea Wenglowskyj
Opening Reception:
Friday, November 14th, 2025, 6-9pm
On View:
November 14th - December 31st, 2025
Gallery Hours:
By appointment, email us at
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Mirabo Press is thrilled to present For Starters, a dynamic group exhibition featuring new print works by Monet Alyssa, DJ Carr, and Andrea Wenglowskyj, the inaugural residents of the Growing the WNY Print Community Program.
Each artist, working in a unique medium, spent a week collaborating with Mirabo to reimagine their practice through print. The resulting works are bold, innovative, and best experienced in person.
Monet, an illustrator by trade, constructs personal and commercial imagery grounded in femininity, nature, and music. During her residency, she expanded her visual vocabulary through printmaking, moving fluidly between analog and digital processes. Her exploration of hand-drawn monotypes, later translated into linoleum block and screenprinted forms, reveals a deepening engagement with tactility and iteration in image-making.
DJ’s practice elevates the seemingly small moments in daily life through street and portrait photography. At Mirabo, he translated his photographs into print, experimenting with screenprinting and acetone transfer techniques. By collaging and reconfiguring his images through CMYK screenprint, DJ also developed a new approach to his portraiture that merges documentary immediacy with formal experimentation.
Andrea, a photo-based artist and commercial/editorial photographer, investigates the slippage between language, memory, and cultural inheritance. Her recent work centers on the Ukrainian dialect Galician as a vessel for lived experience and generational continuity. In the studio, she combined screenprinted photographs and archival materials with monotype processes to produce prints that meditate on the fragility and resilience of language as a form of cultural preservation.
We invite you to join us for an opening reception on Friday, November 14th, 2025 from 6-9pm. The event will be free and open to the public.
This project is supported by The Generator Fund, a grant for artists administered by The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Monet Alyssa:
Monet Alyssa is a freelance illustrator based in Buffalo, New York, whose work is defined by its high-contrast and dreamy aesthetic. A 2019 BFA graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she is known for portraying figures in psychedelic and ethereal spaces, rendered with vivid color and black. Monet applies her unique visual language to various subject matters, with a thematic focus on exploring the human experience. Her subject matter is far-reaching and includes nature, music, and often femininity. Since 2022, she has been represented by the Jacky Winter Agency, and her work has appeared in numerous publications and projects for clients such as Headline Publishing Group, The New Yorker, WIRED, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
DJ Carr:
DJ Carr is a Buffalo, NY resident whose pride in his community is reflected in his photography practice; his images breathe life into the significance of small moments, taking to the streets to highlight the people and places whose stories so often go untold or get lost in the grind of the day-to-day. Over the last 6 years, DJ has exhibited 8 times (2 solo) and has published work with Time Magazine, Bloomberg Business-Week, Hyper Allergic and more.
Andrea Wenglowskyj:
Andrea Wenglowskyj is a photo-based artist and commercial/editorial photographer based in Buffalo, N.Y. Her personal work focuses on how collective memory and community are shaped by war and authoritarianism in relation to her own Ukrainian-American experience. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant in Ukraine, where she traveled the country and explored Ukrainian culture through its contemporary artists and organizations. Her work has been published in the New York Times and NPR, and her photography has been exhibited at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY, Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, Galerie Amu in Prague, The Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, and more.
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