Floriography Studio NYC is a Brooklyn-based creative studio. We create original, bold artworks inspired by dreams, nature, and changing places. Our mediums include illustration, collage, linocut, painting, literature, and social practice.
Our name comes from the long tradition of flowers as a coded language - floriography. From violets in ancient poetry to Oscar Wilde’s green carnation, and the reclaimed color lavender, flowers have offered a visual way to express what could not always be spoken openly. Art, in all its forms, does the same.
For commission requests, reach us at hello@floriographystudionyc.com.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Julien Thomas (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, writer, and cultural historian whose work explores memory, place, and history. Working across illustration, collage, painting, and photography, they create visual archives to preserve the emotional and cultural significance of places that have disappeared, been transformed, or remain overlooked.
Julien is the founder of Floriography Studio NYC and the 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. Their interdisciplinary practice draws from years of documenting feminist and LGBTQ+ history through research, oral history, and public education. They are the author of Generation Queer (Lee & Low Books, 2025), and their work has been recognized by the Publishing Triangle, the Curve Power List, Queer History Boston, and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.
"For years, I researched and led tours of places significant to feminist and queer history: the earliest abortion clinics, bookstores, community centers, bars, and therapists' offices. Through interviews, friendships, and countless conversations over coffee, I became part of a living archive shaped by the people who entrusted me with their histories.
Since I was a child, I've gravitated toward learning about history and creating intergenerational relationships. Growing up queer in a conservative working-class town shaped my own relationship to place, belonging, and memory. Eventually, I began illustrating and photographing these historic sites. They felt like stubborn, beautiful ghosts to me.
My artwork centers historic sites, changing community spaces, vacant storefronts, and neighborhoods reshaped by gentrification — places where the physical landscape has changed faster than our collective memory. Through illustration, collage, painting, and photography, my work is rooted in the belief that places carry rich emotional and cultural histories that deserve recognition.
My practice is a series of love letters to changing places and the communities that nourish them. I am interested in how art can preserve these stories." - Julien Thomas
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Ke Martins is a Brooklyn-based block print artist working with memory, dreams, identity, and transitional moments.
"I am drawn to liminal spaces: the threshold between childhood and adulthood, body and spirit, past and future, and the shadow self versus the self we are becoming. I have been carving since I was a child, before I understood it as an art form. In December 2025, I began seriously developing block printing as my main practice.
My prints are rooted in emotional symbolism and expressionist mark-making, shaped by folklore, celestial imagery, devotional objects, and the strange familiarity of dreams. I make work about transformation, protection, longing, and the parts of ourselves we learn how to see. I create for people who have lived between identities, homes, bodies, or versions of themselves. People often tell me my prints remind them of a dream, a memory, or a part of themselves. That connection is central to my practice. I want my work to help people feel, communicate, and recognize what is often hard to name." -Ke
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Mallory Gothelf (she/her) is an unabashed mental health and LGBTQIA+ advocate who has spoken and written extensively about the intersection of mental health and queerness for companies and organizations including: This Is My Brave, Aditum Bio, Zencare.co, The Ruderman Foundation, Active Minds, and Minding Your Mind. She has facilitated over 500+ presentations and workshops across the country. Mallory finds joy in storytelling as a means of connection and creating safe community spaces for folks to feel seen and heard.
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Forest Cusolito (20, they/he) is leading the development of Family Values: A Queer Oral History Project. The primary goal is to document the importance of queer chosen family, including aspects such as family lineages, intergenerational connection, and community values. The interviews with community members from around the US will eventually be entered into an archive, developed into a public podcast, and shared through other forms of public art. Forest hopes to encourage more conversation between queer generations and introduce others to the histories and values within the LGBTQ+ community. They can be contacted at aliacusolito@gmail.com with questions, comments, or ideas!