chant cooperative is:

laura beacom, kat cafaro, andrew cline, dani/elle cunningham, nick gutierrez, allison risinger, stuart sachs, alyssa williams

chant cooperative’s mission is to replace artworld gatekeeping with accessibility, inclusivity, and mutual development. founded by two femme artists, we believe in collaboration over competition and offer services to members including participation in community events and exhibitions focused on critical, global topics, marketing/PR support, and connections to various regional opportunities.

Artwork List

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Dani/elle Cunningham

Third Door of Inception

Expandable foam, subversion, clay, chaos, lithium, portal-based communication, sweat from the summer of 2019

2025

$333.33

This autobiographical work examines obsession through the lens of mental illness as an interdimensional conduit. Anchored by the recurring presence of the number three, the sculpture reflects the idea that the mind can open gateways to realities beyond ordinary perception. This repetition underscores the work’s central tension—what feels grounding and orderly can just as easily become destructive and confining in its inescapability. The work also serves as a record of the artist’s shifting states of awareness: moments of piercing clarity followed by depths of dulled sensation, each shaped by changes in brain chemistry. Blending glamour with unease, the artist transforms a stigmatized condition into a site for storytelling where chaos and order, anxiety and dysfunction, light and darkness not only intersect but coexist. She simultaneously invites viewers to question reality and who defines it, exposing the porous boundaries between dualities and revealing the mind’s capacity to both reshape reality and dissolve its rules, if only momentarily.

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Stuart Sachs

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Nick Gutierrez 
Remember? I, II, III

Paper collage

2025

NFS

Three collages centered around the theme of memory and remembering. / Memory is fleeting, it's also very personal. Only you are in charge of your own memories. What do you do when you can't remember them? What do you do when someone challenges them? What do you do when only you can validate them because only you were there? / They are compressions of time, told only from your perspective. Sometimes you can choose what you want to remember, sometimes you can't. Sometimes you choose how you remember, other times your environment chooses for you. / I don't remember a lot of my life. I also remember a lot of things I don't want to. I spend a lot of time wondering if the way that I remember those times are true or as objective as they can be. After all, they felt real, surely they were? I remember a lot of things and they make me laugh, until someone tells me they're not funny. I didn't deserve the life I was living. I wonder if I deserve the one I have now. / I now spend a lot of time trying to not doubt all that around me. Memories, feelings, wants, and needs. I am in charge of my own validation. I am in charge of my own happiness. What others say does not matter if I cannot believe their words to be true. That's all I have to remember, now.

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Alyssa Williams

M P D G

Fiber, beads, poem, embroidery on canvas

2025

$250

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Laura Beacom

Inside/Outside

Collage and acrylic paint

2025

$350.00

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Allison Nicolosi-Risinger

Reckless

Acrylic on canvas

2025

$250

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Kat Cafaro

Heat, Horn, and Hand

Linocut Prints

2025

Price varies-print available 

Rooted in the ancient Italian tradition of protection against malocchio—the evil eye—this work explores the enduring human need to guard the self from unseen forces. The cornicello, its shape echoing the horn of an animal, embodies strength, vitality, and resistance. The mano cornuto, a simple yet powerful hand gesture extending the index and pinky fingers, mirrors this symbol of defense—an instinctive, almost sacred motion passed quietly through generations. 

The chili pepper, vibrant and curved like the Italian horn, becomes a modern echo of the same belief: that color, form, and ritual can repel misfortune. Through these symbols, protection becomes an act of art—an offering of intention. 

This piece is less about superstition and more about the universal language of care: how we adorn, gesture, and believe to keep the darkness at bay.

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Andrew Cline

Flirting with Darkness

Pal Tiya, metal, wood, glass, wax, offerings

2025

Contact Artist for price - aclinephotography@gmail.com

 We have all at one point or another flirted with darkness, haven’t we? A call, a desire, a fascination with something dangerous… something different… something beyond the known. In our minds we picture what it is, how it would be. Yet, how would we know the outcome of that call? To bring forth that darkness into the world, what would become?

In Flirting with Darkness, I imagined times in my life, overwhelmed with pain, sorrow, abandon, even boredom where I tempted ideas of the darkness. What would arise, I wondered? I felt a power in this infatuation at times, but caution always rang. What if it were real? What if it were to come? What would it do? What would become?

Flirting with Darkness is one manifestation of this dark becoming. Sprawling forth an arm of monster proportion, a light beckon of the fingers as it pours forth from a mirror. A manifestation of lies we take for truth every day, for what does this backwards image of ourselves conceal in a mirror? This representation comes to fruition after being called, bringing what is yet to be known.  Imagination is a powerful thing. In some, imagination is reality, and to others, reality is all in our imagination.

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A warning to those that flirt with this darkness of the unknown. Not all darkness comes from bogeyman stories, tales of old or urban legends. Some come from flirting with power in the wrong people’s hands, looking away when those close are in need or allowing ourselves to take more of others than we should. Flirting in the darkness of humanity for revenge, anger and spite will destroy all it touches. Take heed and care for what reality is for welcoming darkness in this world will, even with a little flirt can, bring hither a power to our cruel intentions yet stray to unleash untold havoc.

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