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Hanarama Company is the brainchild of
Hana Fisher, a NYC based painter and illustrator. Her work is featured in the company's presentation of "The One Night Stand," along with pieces by painter Sarah Schewe and visual artist-photographer - and Cityzen contributor - Shani Frymer.


51 Flavors illustrates the intense emotions swirling in the attention deficient mind of Hana Fisher. Raised by artists in downtown NYC, the scandalous & incredibly LOUD artist stirred up controversy at a young age with her wild paintings and fashion illustrations and crazy lifestyle. After attending LaGuardia High School for fine arts and Fashion Institute of Technology for art, design & fashion styling, she began to pursue her dream of developing her own company - Hanarama - based on her talents an artist, designer and stylist.

Shani Frymer completed her BFA at Benington College. She returned to her hometown, New York City, to pursue her career as an artist and photographer. Internationally traveled, her work has been featured in a number of group exhibitions including showings at the Skinny, a happening curated by Gallery 91, and galleries in Bennington, Vermont.

In addition to her work for Cityzen, she has had national exposure as well in such high profile magazines as Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Post, Television week, and portraits for VH1. Ms. Frymer’s contributions to the one-night festivities are light boxes featuring the eerily beautiful landscapes of Pueblan evenings, a tangible relic of an observant society. 

Ms. Frymer comments on her contribution to "The One Night Stand":
"With the busy lives that ordinary people lead every day, it is difficult especially for New Yorkers, to grab a person’s attention. The result leads to missing the details of their surroundings. The only way people come to notice things is when they are presented to them, and those that are accustomed to certain luxuries necessitate that it all presented on platters of silver, decorated with flowers or constructed within the confines of modern design. But what about color? Shape and dimension? People, especially those of little faith need tangible objects to associate facts with. Those too scientific to believe in ideas requiring faith, will at least accept things they can see, feel and touch."

"These boxes of light do several things: they provide something tangible for skeptics to interact with; glowing with light, color and dreamlike music they perk the interest of those at distances. They are enthralling, of a fantastical nature but are taken from our environments. They accomplish what seems to be the impossible: drawing the trained eye back that which it originally blocked out."



Sarah Schewe earned degrees in Studio Art and Theatre Arts at the University of Arizona. She also attended Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence and continues to take classes through the Art Students League.  Ms. Schewe's artwork has appeared in several Off-Broadway theatre productions, including The Gust by Daniel Henschel, and  most recently in Another 100 People: Young, Talented & Broke!, a charity cabaret and auction sponsored by Frédéric Fekkai Salon & Spa and produced by ViGarrett Productions. Ms. Schewe's contribution to "The One Night Stand," Oral Fixation, is sixteen portraits rendered in oil paint.

Ms. Schewe says:
"Oral Fixation was born out of an addiction to nicotine.  It was born out of an addiction to putting things into one's mouth.  My journey to put down the cigarette and pick up the cucumber has been a long and winding road.  An endeavor fraught with such nastiness, such devastation, that I felt compelled to chronicle my pain with images of friends and family; friends and family who were willing to cram large objects into their pie-holes.  Habits are hard to break and hardly ever broken. But harder still is to put an orange in your lover's mouth, paint their portrait, and refrain from laughing. Large objects in mouth + Friends + Family + Photos + Oil Paint + Canvas + Yarn = Laughter.  Laughter = Good.  It is hard to smoke when laughing."