Founded and directed by Saul Appelbaum The Pioneers Corporation DBA Vera Maurina Press is an art and media company bridging representation [agency & depiction] and abstraction [trope & visual] in image, music, and text.
Appelbaum holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Chicago. He has worked with Harper’s Bazaar, Serpentine Gallery, ASICS, Marian Goodman Gallery, Elle, Tony Cragg, The Broad Museum, FGP Atelier, Museum of the African Diaspora, Heidi Klum, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, InStyle, Critical Inquiry, the Kunstmuseum Bern, Grazia, Snoop Dogg, Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios, The Jewish Federation, Zión Moreno, Petzel Gallery, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, The Alternative Art School and Dreaming in Public with Nato Thompson, Perry Ellis, The Visionaries Agency, Atlanta Art Fair, Mick Jenkins, TRANSFER Gallery, Ann Hamilton, The Columbus Museum of Art, de Sarthe Gallery, TCAmgmt, Diego Boneta, SCNR with Rocco Castoro, L’Officiel, Hirmer Verlag, Kids of Immigrants, Natalia Reyes, Vogue, The Singapore Art Museum, Numéro, and Pope.L.
