MACRO
MACRO, based in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate NY, is a collaborative initiative by curators Camaron Cohen and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano dedicated to transforming public spaces and urban infrastructure through art exhibitions and installations. By claiming and repurposing billboards and other sites into dynamic art spaces, we challenge traditional perceptions and embed art within the urban fabric in a critical yet accessible way. Our mission is to offer viewers an alternative perspective, blending art into everyday landscapes while sparking meaningful conversations about art, society, and the environment.
Route 13 Invitational
May 2025
Leslie Fratkin
Leslie Fratkin is a documentary photographer and storyteller whose work investigates the resilience of the human spirit in the face of social, political, and cultural upheaval. Moving fluidly between documentary photography, installation, and public art, she uses image-making as a tool to engage deeply with global and local communities. Her practice is grounded in the pursuit of truth through empathy, examining how people live, resist, and create under pressure —whether in war zones or on the streets of her New York City neighborhood.
Fratkin’s career spans decades and continents. In the 1990s, she traveled to the former Yugoslavia during the civil war to explore how artists continued their work under siege. This resulted in a book, an international exhibition, and public programming that included a talk with U.S. Secretary of State and architect of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia. Her long-form commitment to storytelling continued during the Covid-19 pandemic, when she launched a two-and-a-half-year street art intervention in Chelsea, NYC, combining photography, posters, and digital media in an evolving dialogue with her community. In 2021, she was commissioned by The New York Foundation for the Arts to transform a block of outdoor dining booths into a large-scale public exhibition.
Fratkin has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and internationally, and her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from institutions including the Soros Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation. Her practice is driven by a commitment to document lived experience with clarity, compassion, and an unflinching dedication to truth.
Route 13 Open Call
October 2024
Wanda-Marie Rana
Wanda-Marie Rana is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, collage, and sculpture, and engaging deeply with themes of home, memory, and identity. Through her lens, she explores the nuanced effects of presence and absence, reflecting on the complexities of belonging in a world marked by transience. Her photography captures intimate moments and memories, offering viewers a portal into her ever-shifting sense of self and community. Wanda-Marie also investigates the cultural attitudes surrounding civil engineering, infrastructure, and the built environment. Her work delves into the intricate relationship between humans and their constructed landscapes, examining how these frameworks and lasting structures shape our experiences and interactions with the world. This project prompts a critical dialogue about the responsibilities we hold towards our environment and the legacies we leave behind.
Born in Hawaii and raised across multiple states, Wanda’s nomadic upbringing informs her artistic practice, prompting her to question the constructs of home, family, and environment. By weaving together personal narratives with broader cultural dialogues, she creates a space for reflection on the intersections of identity, memory, and our collective relationship with the environment around us. She holds an MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University; she has exhibited her work at Random Access Gallery and Light Work’s Hallway Gallery. In addition to her artistic endeavors, she currently serves as an Engineer Trainee at the New York State Department of Transportation.
Route 13 Invitational
September 2024
DeCarlo Logan
DeCarlo Logan creates work which uses an interdisciplinary approach combining and moving between painting, video, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and installation art. He dissects social constructions as a means to engage in a conversation deeply rooted in complex internal and external perceptions of race and ethnicity in America. His work captures moments which would otherwise be overlooked or forgotten; providing a space to discover community through shared experience. He investigates the factors which dominate bodies of color by confronting the established perception of Black and Brown communities; creating a dialog to examine dangerous social customs which perpetuate prejudice.
Logan earned his MFA in Studio Art from Purdue University and a BA from Illinois College. He most recently served as a Windgate Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Purchase College and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Art and Design at Binghamton University.