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Luis Gispert produces evocative photographs, multimedia installations, and sound sculptures that highlight an investigation of "high culture" notions through hip hop references. Gispert is a graduate of Chicago Art Institute in film (1996), and from the Yale School of Art in sculpture (2001). The following year Gispert exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, and in 2003 the artist had a solo exhibition with the Whitney Museum. This was followed by exhibits in Art Pace, San Antonio and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. Gispert is currently represented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami and by Zach Feuer Gallery in NYC. The artist also directed the film "Stereomongrel" with L.A. based filmmaker Jeffrey Reed.

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This April, Peres Projects in L.A. will present Mathew Greene in the artist's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2003. Green creates large drawings and paintings that contain images of pornography, horticulture, horror films, and overall debauchery in an apocalyptic post 9/11 aesthetic. Greene has seen much success recently with a feature in Artforum (January 2004), and in Vitamin D, a new survey of drawing by Phaidon Books. Greene is featured on the artist collective site sevenseven, with artist John Espinosa, and had a recent interview with The Fanzine. Recent international exhibitions include "We Are the Dead," Modern Art Inc., London, UK, and "Translation," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

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Bejing based Yue Minjun is one of the most important artists of the Chinese avant garde. Part of the Chinese avant garde movement, Cynical Realism, Yue Minjun's work is characterized by a signature laughing figure which is actually a portrait of the artist. Upon greater inspection the smiling faces contain fear, animosity, and a sense of discomfort that is a product of facing reality. After working as an electrician Yue Minjun studied painting from Hebei Normal University. In 1999 he was included in the Venice Biennale and in 2000 exhibited with Chinese Contemporary, London. In 2004 the artist was included in both the Gwangju Biennale, Korea, and Shanghai Biennale , China.

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Best known for her ambitious sculptural installations like Kitchen and Backyard, Liz Lou creates work with luminous patterned surfaces that appear to be a type of painting, but are actually full size rooms completely covered in glass beading. Liza Lou's work embraces the American visionary tradition simultaneously operating as conceptual and craft. In 2002 Lou had an exhibition titled Testimony at Deitch Projects, New York, and received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship . That was followed by a solo show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris in 2004, and most recently an exhibition with White Cube in London this past spring. A feature article was written about the exhibition on The Guardian Unlimited.

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Helnwein is a painter and conceptual artist, concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues, and political topics. As a result of this, his work is often considered provocative and controversial. His early work consists mainly of hyper-realistic watercolors, depicting wounded children, as well as performances, often with children, in public spaces. Most of his new work is oil and acrylic on canvas of physically and emotionally wounded children have been seen as metaphors for larger global issues. Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna, and his works are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum, among many others. His work has recently been cited in an article by the SF Chronicle and the NY Arts Magazine for his participation on a show at 21C Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Photorealist painter Damian Loeb just closed an exhibition in his home state of Connecticut at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum this August. Loeb creates manipulated digital collages of contemporary sources and then renders the images in oil on linen. At an early age Loeb moved to NYC with his high school friend artist Moby, and in 1999 he had his first solo exhibition in NYC at White Columns. Soon after he began showing with the Mary Boone Gallery (new exhibition opening Feb.2007), and most recently the artist had a solo exhibition with Jablonka Galerie in Germany .

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Homostatic Feedback or Natural Body Water is the title of a new piece by Tavares Strachan. In this work the artist collected his own urine, which he then transformed into purified drinking water using a fabricated distillation system. The work will be on exhibit this month at Pierogi in Brooklyn along side three other major works. The Ronald Feldman Gallery has also sponsored projects by Strachen including the Artic Ice Project, where the artist actually cut a block of ice from a frozen river in the Artic and shipped it to the Bahamas where it was kept in a massive freezer powered by only solar energy. Strachan graduated this year from Yale School of Art, and while at school Strachan directed the excavation of a 3000 lb. portion, 56" x 56" of Crown Street in New Haven, Connecticut. The work included sidewalk, earth, a parking meter, a street sign and accompanying air. This work was later exhibited at the Luggage Store Galley in San Francisco and was featured in article by Rhizome.

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Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere has been working with wool blankets that cover and protect -- as the material for her sculptures and installations. Recently she has created a series of horses by covering casts of horse bodies with fabrics. Each figure is malformed and fragmentary, often lacking the fundamental elements of a muzzle, ears or hooves. Bruyckere has been featured with Saatchi Gallery, but this month will mark her first solo exhibition in the UK. Hauser & Wirth in London will exhibit new sculptures, and recently Bruyckere exhibited with Pont Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands.

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Sam Durant is an artist interested in weaving together ideas of art history, pop culture, and social protest to build the vocabulary of his art. Recently featured in Vitamin D, a new survey of drawings published by Phaidon Books, Durant quotes Lenny Bruce, saying, "Humor is pain plus time" to describe the fundamentals of his work. Based in L.A., Durant was recently review in Artforum for work that was featured in his L.A. gallery, Blum & Poe.

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Egyptian born artists Ghada Amer creates hand-embroidered painting that use repetitive patterns which contain images of women taken from pornographic references. Amer challenges the male dominated language of Modernism by employing "craft-based" techniques like embroidery over abstract painting, further underscoring this idea by using imagery that attracts the male gaze. Ghada Amer was selected for exhibition in Whitney Biennale 2000, and has had international solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Johannesburg Biennale (1997), and the Kwangju Biennial, South Korea (2000). Most recently Amer exhibited with the Gagosian Gallery in L.A.

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Monica Cook has been creating autobiographic self portraits which investigate memories while simultaneously exploring elements of daily observation. Cook is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design and recently completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She was included in a group exhibition at Stricoff NYC this year, and was featured in the Southern edition of New American Paintings 2005. You can read a recent interview with the artist on NYFA interactive.

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Illustrators and fine artists James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine have created an artist collaboration entitled Polite Winter. Through this project these artists have brought to life a graphic narrative throughout a series of paintings and collages. James Jean has been an illustrator for clients like the NY Times, Fables, ESPN, and Nike, and has created his own online store called Process/Recess. Kenichi Hoshine has shown work with Compound Gallery in Portland and Meathaus online.

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Jackie Nickerson is a photographer who recently spent two in a half years in Southern Africa documenting Zimbabwe farmers and farmland issues. Nickerson has experience as a fashion photographer and her work continues to have a focus on clothing and materials. Each figure seems to be identified more by their fashion than any other element. In 2005 Nickerson had a solo exhibition titled "Farm and Tennessee" in VCUQ Gallery, Doha, Oman. Jack Shainman Gallery presented an exhibition titled "Farm", this exhibition will be followed by a solo show in 2007. You can read a review about the artist at findarticles.com.

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In March of this year Pierogi Leipzig presented the first extensive exhibition of Ward Shelley's Timeline paintings called the Re-materializing Art. These are elaborate works that describe art-historical narratives using illustration, data plotting, and graphical conventions. Each piece references a different figure of recent art history such as Arto Lindsay, and Carolee Schneemann. Other works will address groups and movements such as the Velvet Underground. Shelly is best known for his performance work, and exhibited with Smack Mellon in NYC, and W.A.S.P. at the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. Ward Shelley is a 2005/06 recipient of the Prix de Rome.

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In his first gallery exhibition since 1992, Jonathan Borofsky will present "Human Structures" opening on November 2nd at Deitch Projects in NYC. This exhibition will feature works that the artist has created over the past seven years. The dominant work in the exhibit is a sculpture composed of 366 life sized steel genderless figures all interlocking together to form a modular 44' x 11' x 18' tall freestanding structure. The work is accompanied by an ambient-voice soundtrack, composed and produced by the artist in his music studio. Borofsky has been exhibited extensively during the past twenty years including solo exhibitions in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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Hanneke Beaumont was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1947. Now living and working in Belgium, Beaumont creates life size figurative scuptures that deal with the human psyche with figures and are lying prone, sitting in, or standing up in desolated postures. Beaumont started her artistic studies in 1977 at the Academie de Braine l'Alleud, then at La Cambre & in Anderlecht. Her work is exhibited widely in Europe with Galerie Frans Jacobs, and Galleria Sacchetti, and with the Neuhoff Gallery in NYC.

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California based painter Jeff Soto is having an exhibition next month title "Cold Ice Age" with the Black Market Gallery in Los Angles. Themes present in this new show consist of Soto's staple imagery of robots, toys, monsters and dreamy surrealism, but this exhibition is rooted in new ideas of world war and global energy crisis. Soto has been featured in several art and contemporary culture magazines such as Juxtapoz, Beautiful Decay, and Giant Robot. He also had a solo show earlier this year with the Jack Levine Gallery in NYC.

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Best known for her works involving meticulous cutting and layering of hundreds of pieces of white paper, Noriko Ambe creates sculptural landscapes that evoke a subtle feeling of loss and detachment. Pierogi presented the first New York, one-person exhibition of Ambe's work, mapping the mysterious land between physical and emotional geography. Ambe's second solo exhibition in New York was with the Josee Bienvenu Gallery, named "Flat Globe." Her most recent exhibition was with Forces of Nature, with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC a unique exhibition between seven institutions in North and South Carolina and ten contemporary Japanese artists. Ambe studied in Japan and received her degree from Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

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Josh Keyes is an Oakland based painter drawing attention to the complex interaction and overlay of urban development and the natural environment, exploring the idea of nature as an expendable object. Keyes is a graduate of the Yale School of Art and has been featured in New American Paintings and most recently on San Francisco based FecalFace.com. In 2007 Keyes will have a new solo show with the George Billis Gallery in LA.

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Marc Horowitz is a San Francisco based conceptual artist who works in a variety of mediums from photography to absurd video and performance. Horowitz is the co-creator of Sliv & Dulet Enterprises, a conceptual company staffed with thirty artists posing as business people to developing problems for people's solutions. National Dinner Tour is a recent project that has been featured on dozens of radio stations, newspapers, and national and international television programs because the artist is on tour to simply dine with strangers. Marc Horowitz photography is represented with Yooprojects in San Fran, and on November 20th the artist will hold a lecture at Portland State University.

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Compound is a new installation using a low-tech arrangement of lights, lenses and ordinary objects, by Brooklyn based artist Liza McConnell. The installation is part of a two person exhibition on view this month at SmackMellon in NYC. These sculptures disregard digital technology and new media in favor of principles similar to that of a camera obscura and are projected in real-time via small apertures and simple lenses. Liza McConnell is a graduate of Ohio State in sculpture and has been an artist-in-residence at several organizations including the Drawing Center in NYC, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburg.

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Reentry: New York City is a part of new public art project on view at the new media center Eyebeam in NYC. Artist in Residence Bill Dolson creates synthetic meteor shower studies that merges iconic night cityscapes with HD computer simulations in a series of C-prints for a daring new public art project. Dodson has been working with NASA and others to make this project a reality, and in 2005 formed Heavan and Earth, a nonprofit design to help fund large scale public art projects. You can view a simulation of Reentry here.

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John Espinosa is a Los Angeles based artist who creates taxidermy installations of animals with laser beams emitting from their eyes. Espinosa is a recent graduate in sculpture from Yale School of Art. He is featured on the artist collective site sevenseven, and was also a part of the successful University of Chicago group show All the Pretty Corpses. The artist has recently exhibited with Rare Gallery in NYC, and Locust Projects in Miami.

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Tattfoo Tan is a NYC based art who creates painting, live drawing, and even baked bread sculptures as a way of exploring his roots as a Southeast Asian descendent. Tan, 30, is one of very few Malaysian artists in New York, and as of now the only one with his own public exhibition space, simply called the Tattfoo Temple Gallery located in the artist's spacious live work space in Staten Island. Tan is represented by Peng Gallery in Philadelphia, and Cheryl Mcginnis Gallery in NYC, and was recently featured in an article with the NYTimes.

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Japanese installation artist Miwa Koizumi creates conceptual work ranging from plastic bottles manipulated to resemble sea creatures, to food based art that test the boundaries of your senses. Koizumi studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and at Tama Art University, Tokyo. The artist has also exhibited widely in the US including non-profits like Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston SC, and like Flux Factory in NYC.

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Recent MFA graduate from California College of Art, Weston Teruya creates spatial environments that reference real locations in Los Angeles. Weston is currently featured with an interview on fecalface.com, and will be exhibiting next month in San Francisco with the Patricia Sweet Gallery.

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Andrew Schoultz is a San Francisco based artists who creates large illustrative paintings, drawings, and installations that tell stories about everyday life in America. Schoultz has been influenced by both graffiti, and the effects of global control and capitalism on the world. The artist is part of a large movement especially prevalent in the west coast that is influenced by street art and illustration, and has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine. This month the artist will be having a solo exhibit at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.

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The Red Sea is a new massive painting from artist Barnaby Furnas. Furnas is a graduate of Columbia University, and is currently exhibiting several large paintings at Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC, the largest around 30 ft. in width. These paintings encompass abstraction and representation through images of war, suicide, and destruction. You can read more about his work in a recent article in the New Yorker.

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In his first solo exhibition in the U.S., Chinese painter Chen Wenguang presented four monumental paintings that were created using oxidized mineral pigments along with silver and gold leaf at the Dillon Gallery in NYC. The techniques employed by Chen date back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in China but are reintroduced through contemporary presentation. Chen's work has been featured in several Chinese institutions, including Daiichi Museum, and his recently acclaimed solo exhibition at the Guangdong Museum. Chen completed his Masters and Doctorate of Arts Degrees from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

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Sumakshi Singh is a Chicago based artists who creates small microcosmic activity in the form of synthetic, miniature structures of painted polymer clay. She will often subtly alter the physical space of the gallery by articulating flaws in the construction. Singh attended the Art Institute in Chicago for her MFA, and in 2003 was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. You can read a small review from the artist's first solo exhibition in NYC in the zine ArtLoversNewYork.

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