Greg Mahoney, Outpost director, works in film, photography, sculpture, painting, and various forms of theater.  His pieces reflect the past narratives that resonate from city landscapes.   Ideals, trials of progress, and old visions of utopian futures are built into epic multi-media settings that display physical relics of a buried urban experience.  Greg lives and works in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Heather Adels grew up at the base of a small sort of mountain in Princeton, Massachusetts.  There she battled tree giants and babbling brooks with her four legged sidekicks; Bogi and Ebony.In 1993, pencil in hand, and leaving behind her four leggers, Heather moved off tostudy and make art at Monserrat College of Art where she earned a BFA.After graduating, she took a long walk and a look at everything around her.Beginning again at her parent’s house, she tried many new and interesting things. She took courses in acting and ceramics but wound up in a musical. She tried typing, filleting fish and growing out her body hair. Shedding her stage makeup and leg hair, she decided to return to the home of her school, Beverly, MA.  Here’s was happened there: Some painting in oils; Cat hair; A group show in Hamilton, MA; More oil painting; 1st solo show, Gloucester, MA; Still more oil painting. In 2003 Heather moved to Somerville where she tried more new and interesting things, including successfully making puppets, unsuccessfully trying to direct a puppet show, and feeding nuts to the locals.  In the fall of 2004 Heather returned to painting, only this time in acrylic paint using very tiny brushes she made from old squirrel tails. Since then Heather has shown her work at Mingo Gallery in Beverly, The Zeitgeist in Cambridge, Art Attack in Somerville, Front St Café in Salem and now here at the Outpost in Brockton. Heather is currently reading about and is obsessed with lotus shoes, look for their voice in her work.   

Tonieh Ellis earned his BFA in Film and Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2005.  Tonieh plans to single-handedly take over the American film industry as soon as he moves out of Brockton.

Joel Frenzer has worked as both a professional animator and independent artist.  Through the Olive Jar Animation Studio and The Animation Cowboys, he's been involved with several Cartoon Network projects as animator and voice-actor.  His independent films have been featured in festivals, workshops, and on the web.  He has assisted and taught animation classes at Harvard University, CRCAP, the Cambridgeport School, and WGBH, and is currently teaching full time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.  He is a 2000 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and was raised and nourished in the heartland womb of Omaha, NE

Jesse Honsa is a student of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. A Brockton native, time and transformation are inherent concepts behind his paintings, music, and design. If he ever does anything with his degree in architecture, it will most likely involve the reinhabitation of anachronous landscapes such as Brockton.

Chris Lawson’s motto of, “Don’t Stop Believing!” has served the Outpost Gallery Project with a healthy dose of can-do attitude.  A self-taught chef and Shakespeare expert, Chris dishes out food and metaphor with equal deft.  Originally from New Orleans, Chris received his BA in English from Northeastern University and currently lives in Boston.  In his spare time he woos the ladies with stellar karaoke performances.

Born in Brno, in the former Czechoslovakia in 1981, Tom Liska earned his BFA in painting at the Massachusetts College of Art in 2005. His work strives to synthesize various source materials into one cohesive arena where each component resonates in tune with the others. It is in this space that he explores the dichotomy between the ancient and contemporary worlds, the organic versus the artificial, and the real as opposed to the ethereal. Tom lives and works in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Alaina Mahoney was born in Brockton, Massachusetts next to a one square-mile woods, where she discovered the intricacies of the organic environment.  When she braved the city's landscape, similar forms revealed themselves in the penetrating layers of repainted signs and haphazardly repaired antique stores.  Her works depict figures interacting with spaces, but in the costumes, backgrounds, and compositions of her paintings she harnesses pieces of the overwhelming process that resides in Brockton's unadulterated surfaces.  Alaina Mahoney works and lives in Boston.

Mike Mellor was born and raised in Brockton. Growing up on Green Street he learned, among other things, the difference between salsa, merengue y bachata.  Upon graduating Brockton High, he quickly flunked out of college and spent five years traveling the United States and haunting the stacks of Northeastern University's Snell library.  He currently works at Houghton Library, Harvard University's repository of rare books and manuscripts.  When he's not cleaning up after messy intellectuals, he spends his time being a messy intellectual.

James Amoeba (James Mercer) is an electronic music and noise artist who has been mapping audio journeys since 2002. James Amoeba’s recordings are most often speed oriented meticulously edited digital rivers. Live performances are looser, traveling across gentle descriptive landscapes to harsher onslaughts of blunt syrupy noise. Autumnairship.com

Gabriella Mirollo is a poet and photographer originally from New York City and now living in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in her chapbook "Shadow of a Child" and in numerous journals, as well as being exhibited by the New York Public Library. Her passion for tattoos, long distance train travel and single malt whiskey has compelled her to seek gainful employment in a series of institutions of higher learning, most recently Harvard's Fine Arts Library. She received her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College in 2003 and graduated cum laude from Barnard College a lot longer ago. She hopes one day to raise alpacas in Maine.

Sculptor and filmmaker Gina Napolitan-Witz  was born and raised in Brockton, where  she spent much of her time dumpster diving and exploring the various abandoned spaces in the city. Having worked on a large scale for many years, she now prefers to create small, articulated objects, mainly for the purpose  of filming, and draws on sources such as natural history and alchemical texts for inspiration. After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art in 2003, Gina moved to New Jersey where she currently resides with her husband and bunny. She is not terribly fond of the way parts of the turnpike smell.

Derek Reynolds is a monster, not literally but figuratively.  But actually, he can turn himself—or anybody else—into a literal monster since he graduated from Tom Savini’s School of Make-up Effects in 2004.  His grotesqueries blend very well with the backdrop of his beloved hometown of Brockton as well as his current residence, Los Angeles.

Joshua Robinson was grown in Germany and born in England as Christopher J. Robinson.  As a child he moved with his family to Massachusetts, USA and proceeded to move about the state and through religious experiences.  Following a religious conversion Christopher became known as Yehoshua, or Joshua. Throughout his pupa stage young Joshua confined his work to comic book and fantasy art, while experimenting with body piercing and electrocution. In 1997 Joshua pursued his interest in the relationship between organic and mechanical forms at Mount Wachusett Community College’s fine art program. In 1999 he transferred to MassArt where he made a crude exploration of anger and depression in the realms of paint, film, and sculptural metals. After graduation with a BFA in 2002 Joshua was airshipped to Japan where he learned the special art of Nippon yelldrink.  After being transported back to the United States Joshua started to focus his work as empathetic, unreal portraits.  His work is now a semi-conscious manifestation of wandering and unease.  In 2003 Joshua fell out of a plane and lived. In 2004 Joshua published his comic, Blue Milk which can be currently viewed at Roundonline.com. Joshua Robinson can currently be found in Somerville, MA where he is picking up dead things with sticks and walking drunk on stilts.   

Brockton-raised Amelia Ruvich is currently a living and working artist in the thriving New Bedford, Massachusetts art community.  In her work, she alters and incorporates spaces by rigging textile enclosures that are both nostalgic and insulating.  She has exhibited in many spaces in Providence, New Bedford and the Greater Boston area.  She is a 2003 graduate of Massachusetts College of Art.

Brockton native Daniel Trask is author of the novel, MY DOG THE MEAT EATER (2003, One Tiny Pizza Publishing).   His recent foray into the video realm presents hundreds of images, which in turn complement, complicate, and often contrast the highly visual text of his novel.  The work pits the power of words to fabricate sensory responses against media that stimulate the senses directly—image, voice, plants striving towards the ceiling, electric sunshine, and the sweet smell of cow manure in the morning.

The works of Danielle Van Vooren are grounded in the Stories of Ovid's Metamorphoses.  To what is left out of the text--the few moments of the character enduring the irreparable physical transformation--she attributes a compassionate first-person condition to an unsympathetic third-person account of implausible nature.