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HELGE MEYER Thursday, January 24, 2013
Meyer was born in Woltwiesche, Germany in 1969. In 1998 he formed the Performance Art Group System HM2T (with Marco Teubner). Since 2000 Meyer has been associated with Black Market International. He has performed in Europe, Asia, Canada, South America, Australia and the USA. Meyer continues to work in Black Market, System HM2T and as a solo artist.
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JANELLE IGLESIAS Monday, February 4, 2013
Janelle Iglesias was born in New York City in 1980. She received her BA in Cultural Anthropology from Emory University in 2002, an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006, and was a resident of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Iglesias has exhibited nationally and abroad including exhibitions in Spain, France and Australia. Las Hermanas Iglesias, Iglesias's collaboration with her sister Lisa, has been featured on BOMBLOG and their individual work was most recently featured on Art in America's blog. She is the recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture and a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant to research Bowerbirds in Western Papua. She has been an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, Smack Mellon and LMCC's Workspace program. A former Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, Iglesias currently lives and works in Provincetown, MA.
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MARIE LOSIER Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Losier was born in France in 1972, and lives in New York City where she is a filmmaker and curator at the French Institute Alliance Francaise. She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.
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LYNN LU Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Lynn Lu is a visual artist from Singapore. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, completed a Doctoral program at Musashino Art University in Tokyo (ABD) and earned her PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle in Australia. She lives and works in London where she is an Associate Lecturer at Southampton Solent University.
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STEVE DIBENEDETTO Thursday, February 7, 2013
Steve DiBenedetto's furiously-worked, otherworldly paintings broadcast the hallucinogenic, techno-shamanist writings of Terence McKenna and the metaphysical ruminations of Arthur Young, the inventor of the famous Bell helicopter. They have absorbed early Surrealism à la Salavador Dalí and Roberto Matta, with a hint of the decalcomania of Max Ernst, while the dynamic and stark graphite lines of the drawings have an animated control. DiBenedetto has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Rosenthal Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship Award. In 2005 he was included in a noteworthy group show at The Whitney Museum of American Art, entitled "Remote Viewing." His works are included in numerous museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum, and his paintings and drawings have been exhibited in the US and internationally. The artist lives and works in New York City.
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DAVID BROOKS Tuesday, February 12, 2013
David Brooks explores the transformation of natural and urban environments through large-scale sculptures, installations, and material photographs. His work provides illustrations of ongoing ecological catastrophes. Brooks was born in 1975 in Indiana, USA. After studying at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany, he graduated from The Cooper Union in New York with a BFA and continued on to Columbia University, receiving his MFA. Brooks work has been exhibited in several galleries in New York City including the Museum of Modern Art PS1, throughout the USA, and internationally.
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GREG HALPERN Thursday, February 14, 2013
In his new book of photographs, simply titled A, Gregory Halpern leads us on a ramble through the brilliant and ruined streets of the United States Rust Belt. The cast of characters, both human and animal, are portrayed with compassion and respect by this native son of Buffalo (now professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology). The cities he is drawn to—Baltimore, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit—share similar histories with his hometown, and in this post-apocalyptic springtime all forms of life emerge and run riot. On the heels of Halpern's two previous books, Harvard Works Because We Do (a portrait of Harvard University through the eyes of the school's service employees) and Omaha Sketchbook (a lyrical artist's book portrait of the titular city), A continues the photographer's investigations of locations and persons that fly under the radar.
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KEVIN JEROME EVERSON Tuesday, February 19, 2013
With a sense of place and historical research, Kevin Jerome Everson films combine scripted and documentary moments with rich elements of formalism. The subject matter is often gestures or tasks in the lives of working class African Americans. Instead of standard realism he favors a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which real people perform fictional scenarios based on their own lives and historical observations intermesh with contemporary narratives. The films suggest the relentlessness of everyday life—along with its beauty.
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ADINA BAR-ON Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Adina Bar-On`s work holds a discourse about conflicts of identity and conflicting identifications. Bar-On has been an active performer since 1973 when she started as a student at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Over the years she has presented her work in Israel`s major art museums and galleries. Making it her business to emphasize her political and social stands, she has regularly performed at social and political events.
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YOUNG CHUNG Monday, February 25, 2013
Young Chung is an artist, independent curator and exhibition coordinator at Commonwealth & Council, an artist-run space situated in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Commonwealth & Council is an intergenerational community of artists extending their multiple realities through the shared experience of art. Chung received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from University of California, Irvine. Chung has exhibited at DoBaeBacSa, Seoul, Korea; POST, Los Angeles; the Sandra Lee Gallery; San Francisco, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan; A/P/A Gallery, NYU, New York, NY;Three Colts Gallery, London, United Kingdom, Gwangju Biennale, Project 2, Gwangju, Korea; Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; El Segundo Festival de Diversidad Sexual, Mexico City, Mexico; The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, CA; Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; and the upcoming Me Love You Long Time exhibition at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA, 2013
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NAYLAND BLAKE Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Interracial desire, same-sex love, and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Nayland Blake's work. His art takes the form of drawing, sculpture, performance, and video. Blake was born in New York in 1960. He has participated in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and the 1993 Venice Biennale. Additionally, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presented a survey of his performance-based works in 2003. Blake chairs the International Photography Center-Bard MFA program. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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ANDREA GEYER Thursday, February 28, 2013
Andrea Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based works that are temporal translations of specific social and political situations. They address the ongoing re-adjustment of cultural meanings (such as gender and identity) and social memories. Shows include: 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York, RedCat / Los Angeles, Tate Modern / London, documenta12 / Kassel and Galerie Thomas Zander / Cologne.
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JULIA JACQUETTE Thursday, March 7, 2013
Known for virtuoso technique and a fascination with media images, Julia Jacquette makes paintings about wish fulfillment in a consumerist society. Images mined from the internet, TV programs, movies, on the sides of buses, on the walls of subway stations, and magazine ads are distilled into paintings that are seductive yet tinged with a flavor of anxiety in the manufactured envy they evoke. A New York City-based artist, Jacquette's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and The RISD Museum among other institutions. Her work was included PS1's "Greater New York" exhibition, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs. The recipient of a Pollack-Krasner grant, her most recent solo exhibition, "Water, Liquor, Hair," was at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York.
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AMY SADAO Monday, March 11, 2013
Amy Sadao is the Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the former Executive Director of Visual AIDS in New York City, a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to HIV prevention, AIDS awareness, and the support of artists living with AIDS. In addition to serving as Director of Visual AIDS, Sadao has had a highly visible career as a public speaker, moderator, juror, and consultant for a variety of arts organizations. She earned an M.A. in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art.
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LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER Thursday, March 14, 2013
LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA) lives and works in New Brunswick, New Jersey and New York, New York. She is the Associate Curator for the Mason Gross Galleries in the Visual Arts Department for Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She was appointed Critic in Photography at Yale School of Art in 2012.
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PATRICIA HICKSON Monday, March 25, 2013
Patricia Hickson has been the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut since 2009. She oversees the contemporary art collection and acquisitions, organizes special exhibitions and leads the MATRIX program, a series of changing exhibitions of contemporary art. Her MATRIX projects have featured artists Ahmed Alsoudani, Claire Beckett, Shaun Gladwell, Kitty Kraus, Justin Lowe, Rashaad Newsome, Kim Schoenstadt, Deb Sokolow and Jan Tichy. Hickson previously held curatorial positions at the Des Moines Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She has organized major exhibitions with artists Sol LeWitt, Robyn O'Neil, Alec Soth, Michael McMillen, Patricia Piccinini, Enrique Chagoya, Carmen Lomas Garza, and James Welling, among others. She has served on numerous panels and juries, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Creative Capital, and the U.S. General Services Administration's Art in Architecture Program. Hickson earned a BA in art from Bates College and a MA in art history from Williams College.
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LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR + VÉRÉNA PARAVEL Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Lucien Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist and artist who works in film, video and photography. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL). SEL supports innovative and immersive media practices to explore the affective fabric of human and animal existence and the aesthetics and ontology of the natural world. His works includes In and Out of Africa, which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992, Sweetgrass (2009), an unsentimental exploration of sheep-farming in Montana also made with Barbash, and most recently, with Véréna Paravel, Leviathan (2012), an experimental documentary on New Bedford fisherman.
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BILL ARNING Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Bill Arning is the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. After arriving in Texas in 2009, Arning organized solo exhibitions of Marc Swanson, Matthew Day Jackson and the late Stan VanDerBeek. Jackson and VanDerBeek were jointly organized with the MIT List Visual Arts Center where Arning was exhibitions curator from 2000-2009. At MIT he organized shows of AA Bronson, Cerith Wyn Evans and a retrospective of the Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. From 1985 to 1996 Arning was director of White Columns in New York City where he organized groundbreaking first solo shows for many of the best known artists of his generation, including John Currin, Marilyn Minter, Andres Serrano, Richard Phillips, Cady Noland and Jim Hodges, among many others. Arning has written on art for journals such as Artforum, Art in America, and Parkett and multitudes of international museum publications.
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THOMAS EGGERER Thursday, March 28, 2013
The visual experience of Thomas Eggerer's paintings is arresting -- the viewer cannot reconcile the exact location of figure and ground, architecture or brushstroke. All the pentimenti are visible, the construction of the architecture is not detailed; rather the structure of the image exists as a space of possibility. Each painting follows a different approach to color as an organizing principle. Within this world, Eggerer depicts figures in uneasy groups or collectives. Narrative is first suggested, and then interrupted.
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LEAD PENCIL STUDIO Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Lead Pencil Studio is an interdisciplinary studio based in Seattle, who overlaps architecture and site-specific art. Their output is informed by dedication to independent research of structural typologies and the visual arts. Lead Pencil Studio aims to surprise and alter perceptions with the studio work that results from their research. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at places such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, and the American Academy in Rome. Founders Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo will be representing the studio, both of who studied architecture at the University of Oregon.
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ANTONIADIS & STONE Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Antoniadis & Stone are a collaborative team based out of Boston MA. Artists Alexi Antoniadis and Nico Stone formed in 2006 to unify their ideas surrounding a sculptural exploration of institutional architecture. They are interested in exploring the tension between an objective and perceived reality. The environment provides a source of inspiration for the team to work sculpturally while reflecting on the human conditions and the state of contemporary culture. Antoniadis & Stone have recently exhibited at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum as well as Samson Gallery in MA.
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BOULET Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Boulet is a comic book writer who has published over 40 books in France, including the "Raghnarok" series. He began drawing for Tchô ! magazine almost 15 years ago, while he was studying at the Beaux Arts of Strasbourg. In 2004 he began working on Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar's series "Dungeon" for Back in Style, before starting his own webcomic. Available to U.S. audiences in English, the blog receives nearly 8000 unique visitors per day. His French blog receives 50,000 visitors daily and has been the basis for seven books published by Delcourt! Boulet, whose work is largely based on improvisation, also gives performances, talks, exhibitions and much more.
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CATHARINA MANCHANDA Thursday, April 11, 2013
Catharina Manchanda grew up in Germany and moved to the US in 1990 on a graduate scholarship for curatorial studies. Before becoming the Seattle Art Museum's curator of modern and contemporary art in mid-2011, she held posts at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Her past work includes: organizing "Beauty and the Blonde" at the Kemper, assisting the Museum of Modern Art on a Gerhard Richter retrospective and book about his October paintings and curating the 2010 Cyprien Gaillard exhibit at the Wexner Center. Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art, says of Manchanca: "She has the rare mix of qualities required of a curator charged with operating in the new international art scene: intellectual seriousness, aesthetic open-mindedness combined with a discerning critical mind, and singular skill at working with artists."
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FRED TOMASELLI Thursday, April 11, 2013
Fred Tomaselli's complex, mind-bending paintings incorporate a dazzling array of cut-outs from magazines, medical texts and field guides, along with plant leaves, pills, and areas of paint. Encased in high-gloss resin, Tomaselli's work draws from from both popular culture and art history, and from his own interests and fascinations. The profusion of images radiate an intense optical energy, and suggest a new ecstatic reality. Tomaselli has had innumerable solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world, including solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum, the Aspen Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is represented by James Cohan Gallery in NY and White Cube in London. His work has been featured on the international biennial circuit including Site Santa Fe, The Whitney Biennial, and the Liverpool, Berlin, and Lyon Biennials. Born in Santa Monica, CA; he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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KAREN YASINSKY Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Working primarily with animation and drawing, Karen Yasinsky creates work that can be mysterious and elliptical, with sound coming from a place outside the frame. The result is uncanny.
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WALID RAAD Thursday, April 18, 2013
Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA). Raad's works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let's Be Honest, The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.
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STEVEN LAM Monday, April 22, 2013
Steven Lam is a curator, artist, educator and is the Associate Dean at The School of Art at The Cooper Union. He has an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine and has taught performance and sound theory in the Art History and Theory Department at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Lam has developed exhibitions primarily for non-profit institutions and universities, often prioritizing his experience working in such pedagogical programs. His recent curatorial projects have focused on geo-zones outside Euro-America (such as China and Hong Kong) including his involvement with the curatorial team for the Third Guangzhou Triennial. Lam was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program as well as a Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellow at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. Recent curatorial work and collaborations in New York include Tainted Love with critic Virginia Solomon at La MaMa Galleria, NYC; For Reasons of State at the Kitchen, NYC; and Spectral Evidence at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Free as Air and Water, The Crude and the Rare, and Ruptures: Forms of Public Address co-curated with Saskia Bos at The Cooper Union.
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