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 Todd Hido recently released a new body of work named "Between the Two" with the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco. Hido's photographs range in subject matter but consistently rely on formal elements to create reduced narratives without solution. The images bring beauty and emotion into stark environments by integrating the figure into empty spaces. In 2004, Hido was featured in an article in Seesaw Magazine and, in 1998, received the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. In 2005, Hido had solo shows with the Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles and the Inman Gallery in Houston. Hido received his B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1991 and his M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 1996. Currently, he has work in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the SF MOMA and many others. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Photo, performance and video artist Mary Coble creates work that addresses the social issues associated with gay, lesbian and trans-gendered individuals. The images evoke physical pain that references the emotional strain many ambi-sexual individuals constantly endure. Her 2005 performance with Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C., received strong opinions after the artist endured a 12-hour marathon of inkless tattooing, covering the back side of her entire body with the first names of more than 300 gender-based hate crime victims. Mary Coble graduated in 2004 from George Washington University and since then has had exhibitions and performances with Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, d.u.m.b.o. art center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Artist's Space in New York City through Performa'05. In 2007, Coble is scheduled to have a performance with the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. View video of Mary Coble's inkless tattoo performance "Note to Self" (2005) here. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Sister Gallery in Los Angeles opened a new exhibition this week by New York-based artist Adam Helms. Titled "Rising Down," this exhibition is a continuation of the artist's interest in photojournalism, conflict, political propaganda and extremist ideology. Helms will present two arrangements of hoods rendered in ink on mylar in a grid format, along with two large assemblages of source material that features war-related images. These visuals, though obtained from varying time periods, relate closely to publicized brutality and conflict in modern society. The artist was featured in "Greater New York 2005" at PS1 and was a part of the three-person exhibit "Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian" this past fall with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The artist is an award recipient of The Chinati Foundation, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant Award and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. More can be read about the Helm's work in this month's Artforum (pages 210-211). | ||||||||||||||||||
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Austrian-based artist group Gelitin is comprised of four artists -- Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban. The artists are internationally known for their ambitious and absurd projects and performances. Pictured above is a giant 200-foot long and 20-foot high bunny sculpture, stuffed with hay in the hills of Artesina, Italy. The pink bunny was installed in 2005 and will remain in place, left to decompose until 2025. In 2005, the group exhibited arguably the world's largest urine-based icicle during the Moscow Biennale with a work titled "Zapf de Pipi." Viewers were asked to step into a room built off of a second-story window in the gallery and urinate into a bucket. This would freeze before hitting the ground, eventually forming the world's first museum ice sculpture. In 2006, Gelitin exhibited "Group Therapy" with MUSEION, Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea in Bozen, and "Hugris" with the Kling & Bang Galleri in Reykjavik. To view the video of "Rabbit" the bunny sculpture, including images from Google Earth, click here. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Korean-born, New York-based artist Sook Jin Jo creates large sculptural installations that are simultaneously concerned with the history of sculpture and the concept of meditation. Using elements of balance, color, texture and space, the artist selects and displays found objects that reflect the history of a specific place. The sum of each collected object creates a unified whole, as each one is a pivotal support for the other, literally and metaphorically. The artist was educated in Korea at the Hong-Ik University, College of Fine Art in Seoul (1985), and in New York at the Pratt Institute (1991). Since then, Sook Jin Jo has completed numerous site-specific installations, including "My Brothers Keeper" at Black and White Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. (2006), and "All Things Work Together" at O.K. Harris Gallery in New York City (2004). The artist was also featured in Art in America (2005) and has been on the cover of Sculpture magazine. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Austin-based artist Jonathan Marshall creates large paintings and drawings that rely heavily on wit, working through color and design. These graphic images explore nature and the landscape through illustrative imagery, showing destruction through absurdity and humor. His success began shortly after his graduation from University of Texas at Austin (2003), and, in 2005 alone, Marshall received the best-in-show award for the Texas Biennial and a feature in New American Paintings. In 2006, he showed with Lawndale Art Center in Houston, plus Art Palace and Okay Mountain in Austin. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Later this month, installation artist Paola Cabal will open a new intervention with Western Exhibitions in Chicago. Cabal's work is created on-site, working from elements inherent to the space. She "intervenes" in subtle ways, usually playing with a particular source of light, capturing moments of the constantly changing world. Using materials as diverse as spray paint, powdered ash, thread and tape, she studies and marks the progression of light through a space over time and makes a permanent record of a fleeting moment. Paola Cabal is a recipient of the "Individual Artist Award: Emerging Artist" from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (2006) and a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2003). In the past, she has exhibited with Povlo (2005) and Blue Sky Project (2006), both in Chicago, and the Halsey Institute in Charleston, S.C. (2004). | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Miki Carmi, a recent Columbia University MFA graduate (2005), has received notable attention after selling out of his first solo exhibition at Stux Gallery in New York City last year. Carmi works from old family portraits, producing compelling and innovative large-scale paintings of aged heads that float on a white ground. The paint is applied with heavy strokes, so the physical properties mimic the texture and visceral qualities of aged skin. In late 2006, the artist exhibited in a group exhibition with the Stux Gallery titled "Six Degrees of Separation" alongside Chinese artist Wei Dong. Carmi has been featured in New American Paintings: MFA Annual in 2004; and is a recipient of a Brevoort Eickmeyer Grant. In 2005, the artist's work was noted in an article in Art Review with The New York Times. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Earlier this month, artist Jacob Hashimoto opened an exhibition of new wall-mounted works at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. Hashimoto's works are positioned somewhere between sculpture and painting, each piece being comprised of numerous tiny paper and bamboo elements constructed according to Japanese kite forms. Each individual kite-form is painted and collaged with images, and together they form one unifying composition. This month, Artforum features a review of the artist's work from an exhibition with Studio La Citta in Verona, Italy (2006). Hashimoto is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently lives and works in New York City and Verona, Italy. In 2005, the artist exhibited "Superabundant Atmosphere" with the Rice Gallery in Houston and "Skip Skitter Start Trip Vault Bounce - and other attempts at flight" with Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. Hashimoto's latest exhibition was reviewed in last week's The New York Sun (Jan. 11, 2007). | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Yoshitomo Nara is one of Japan's most well-known artists. His cartoon-like paintings, drawings and sculptures are deceptively simple, depicting children in a variety of activities who wear expressions of contempt. Nara's influences are derived from eastern and western pop culture, and the artist attended the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts in Japan and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in Germany. Now, Nara's imagery and illustrations can be found internationally on a variety of commercial products and in prominent galleries. In 2006, the artist exhibited with Stephen Friedman Gallery in London and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanawawa, Japan. Nara has also exhibited in the U.S. with the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City and Blum and Poe in Los Angeles. In addition, Nara has produced several custom toys and published numerous books, including "Lullaby Supermarket" and "Over the Rainbow", both released in 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 New Media Artist Tivon Rice is currently featured in a group exhibition with Lawrimore Project in Seattle. Lawrimore will exhibit new sculpture and installation by the artist again in March-April of this year, and last year they featured his work in the Aqua Art Miami art fair. An MFA graduate from the University of Washington, Rice creates work that explores how traditional methods of learning are influenced by mass media and digital technology. The artist embraces the potential of digital media as a social vehicle and experiments with both video and sculptural objects to examine visual perception and mass critical analysis. In 2006, the artist received a Trust Fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and exhibited "The History of Television: 1974-2006" with Gallery 4Culture in Seattle. In 2007, Rice will be featured in an exhibition with the Art Institute of Portland in Portland Oregon. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Using the principles of graphic design, painter and silk screen printer Ryan McGinness creates room-filled installations that are dense with iconography, language and product symbolism. Corporate logos, graffiti and elements of art history serve as inspiration for the artist's prints, vinyl decals, wall murals and commercial objects. Currently the artist is featured in a group exhibition titled "The World is Round" at MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and later this year he will exhibit "A Rich Fantasy Life" with Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California. McGinness has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and appeared in the Upper Playground artist interview video "The Run Up." Art in America reviewed the artist in 2005, and Rizzoli Publishing released a Book titled "Installation View" the same year. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Gallery 4culture, part of a public development authority in Seattle, is currently presenting a new exhibition titled "Landing" from University of Washington graduate Eric Eley. The artist has created a series of work that investigates space through the visual language of physics and cartography. The works are produced in the form of resin-coated drawings and linear sculptures, which push the boundaries of perspective, scale and form. In 2006, Eley exhibited "Intricate Matter" with Hedreen Gallery and "Small Expanse" with Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, both in Seattle. The artist completed a Taunt Fellowship and artist residency from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana (2001), and was featured in an article in the Seattle Post in 2006. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has created an ongoing saga told through the perspective of his "Mound" characters. Each work is a part of a large narrative that presents the lives of these creatures from birth to eventual death. The characters are largely an autobiographical representation of Hancock's life and have been in development since the artist was in fourth grade. Hancock uses his own experiences manifested into these alter-egos as a way to investigate larger social and political issues. The often surreal and crude works are created from a multitude of materials, including, paint, trash, leftovers, chewed gum and felt. The artist is a graduate of Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and is perhaps the youngest artist ever included in the Whitney Biennial, where he exhibited at age 26 in 2000. Opening Feb. 10, Hancock will exhibit "The Wayward Thinker," at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, which will then travel to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The artist was featured on Season 2 of the Art: 21 series and this past April was reviewed by The New York Times for an exhibition with the James Cohan Gallery in New York City. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Austrian artist Erwin Wurm currently has an exhibition titled "I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time" at the Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington. The exhibition features work from the '90s to 2006. Wurm's humorous work has a reputation for challenging the traditional notions of sculpture. His works are often exhibited in the form of photographic documentation of temporary sculptures created with the interaction of a participant. The image above is from a series titled "Instructions on How to Be Politically Incorrect," which depict scenarios of personal invasion as individuals search for bombs in humorous and unlikely places. Other works include "One Minute Sculptures" in which viewers follow the artist's instructions by combining their own body with common objects to create temporary sculptures. Wurm has shown internationally with more than eight exhibitions in 2006, including works with MUMOK in Vienna, Austria (on view now) and the CAPC Musee d'art Contemporain in Bordeaux, France. In 2005, the artist was reviewed by both Artforum (January) and Flash Art Magazine (January-Febuary). Wurm continues to live and work in Vienna and New York. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Using everyday utilitarian materials such as Styrofoam cups, hot glue, straws and scotch tape, artist Tara Donovan creates sculptures that suggest molecular forms, clouds or even abstract landscapes. Donovan uses the innate transparent properties found in the materials, coupled with light, to articulate the space and structure of her sculptures. Donovan's work also suggests a dependence on the environment it occupies, which affects qualities such as the scale, mass and overall orientation of each piece. Donovan is a graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University (1991) and has since exhibited in galleries and museums nationwide. Exhibitions include works at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2004). In the same year, the artist exhibited with the UCLA Hammer Museum; view writings on that exhibition here. She also was the 2005 recipient of the Alexander Calder Foundation's first annual Calder Prize and, in 2006, was granted an artist residency with the Atelier Calder in Sache, France. On Jan. 5, the New York Times reviewed the exhibition "Constructed Abstractions," which is on view now at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, featuring Donovan and five other artists. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 South African photographer Pieter Hugo was named the Standard Bank Artist for Visual Art in 2007. Hugo has long challenged the issues that face Africa and other developing nations, photographing the harshness of the land and occupants. The artist confronts his subjects directly, offering a raw sensibility and humanism that forces the viewer to question preconceived notions and prejudices. The Standard Bank exhibition will open in June of this year in Grahamstown, South Africa and will tour throughout the nation. On January 11th the artist opened an exhibition titled "Looking Inside" with the Stephan Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. His work was also included in the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial (2006), and in publications such as Adbusters and Colors Magazine. More can be read about the artist at artsmart.com. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 On Jan. 26, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo will present new work by Adriana Varejao. Much of the Brazilian artist's work investigates the rich and complex history of her country. While living and working in Rio de Janeiro, the artist uses images of tiles, tattoos and porcelain, all imported to Brazil, and additionally references the body and medicine to point to a sense of cultural contamination. Within these works the effects of colonialism on Brazilian culture act as a metaphor for the modern world. Last year, the artist was featured in the exhibition with the ARS 06 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland, and participated in the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art in Liverpool, England. The image above is from an installation at the Cartier Foundation in Paris (2005), and a series of paintings titled "Sauna" was exhibited with the Victoria Miro Gallery in London (2004). In 2002, Takano Editora Grafica released a book titled "Adriana Varejao" that spans the artist's career. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 "Cloudy with a Chance of Apocalypse" is a new exhibition by painter Caleb Weintraub currently on display at Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn. This exhibition is characteristic of Weintraub's hyper-violent apocalyptic scenes where children rise together and take control. In these new works, the children venture into surreal landscapes to seek and kill any remaining adults, while parading around in plastic cartoon character masks. Weintraub's paintings are saturated with information and describe a world where morals have fallen and children act without consequence. This month, the artist exhibited in a group exhibition titled "Contemporary Imaginings" at the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama, closing January 7. Past exhibitions include "...With the Bathwater" at Projects Gallery in Philadelphia (2006) and "Pop goes the Apocalypse" at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, S.C. (2005). Weintraub has participated in several artist residencies including The Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, Mass., and the Santa Fe Art Institute. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Pioneer sound and new media artist Stephan Vitiello creates installations that use the physicality of sound to define a particular space. In 1995 Vitiello was an artist in residence in the World Trade Center, World Views. The artist connected contact microphones to the windows of his 91st story workspace and recorded ambient sounds from wind, traffic, planes and the building itself moving. Vitiello has completed several other artist residencies including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and P.S.1 National/International Studio Program. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University, and just last night the artist performed at Diapason Gallery, NYC's only venue devoted to sound art. Vitiello is a recipient of both a Creative Capital Foundation award and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. On January 31, GAS in NYC will present an exhibition titled [silence] featuring Vitiello. Click HERE to listen to sound works. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Internationally renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley is currently exhibiting his "Critical Mass" installation with the Museo d'Arte Donna Regina in Naples, Italy. In this work, the artist cast more than 60 figures in a variety of poses and then placed the casts in a large group on the gallery floor. Gormley's work investigates the body and makes reference to internal and external space. The artist lives and works in London and is currently represented by White Cube Gallery. Gormley has had countless exhibitions, including work in the Sydney Biennale (2006), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England (2003), and the National History Museum in Beijing, China (2003). Antony Gormley is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has been a Royal Academician since 2003. He also has a full artist book with Phaidon Press. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 The Knitting Machine is just one of artist Dave Cole's large scale projects that consist of ambitiously knitting unconventional materials. In this particular piece Cole uses two excavation tractors equipped with 20' knitting needles to assemble a giant American flag in time for the 4th of July (2005). This work was part of larger exhibition and artist residence held at Mass Moca, North Adams, Mass. Cole describes the work as "combining the feminized domestic American tradition of knitting with the grandiose gesture of construction". Additional works by the artist include the knitting of a 15' teddy bear made of fiberglass, and an evening gown made of shredded dollar bills. In 2007 Cole will exhibit with the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, and with the Museum of Art and Design in NYC. Recent exhibitions include works at the Judi Rotenburg Gallery in Boston and the Woods-Gerry Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, Rhode Island. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 German artists Paule Hammer and Sebastian Gogel have been collaborating on large sculpture and spatial installations since 2005. These artists together form the group Hammer and Gogel and often present work as "Hagel." The artists stand in contrast with most of the other young painters of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Art of which both are graduates (2002). The artists instead depart from painting on a two-dimensional surface for more spatially painted sculptures and installations. The two just closed an exhibition titled "Hagel" in December with Los Angeles gallery Chung King Project. This exhibition continues to reference pop culture, kitsch and horror in seemingly playful and absurd ways. In 2005, the artists exhibited "Gmortox" at Galerie Adler, Frankfurt and "Hyperhyper" at Wohnmaschine Gallery, Berlin. Each artist has exhibited individually with Galerie Post in Leipzig and numerous other group shows worldwide. Both artists continue to live and work in Leipzig, Germany. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Using unwanted garments as an unyielding source of material, the artist duo Guerra de la Paz creates a multitude of sculptures and installations. Guerra de la Paz is the collaborative efforts of Cuban artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. The two artists met in 1996 and have since been creating work that references contemporary culture with the use of found objects. In recent works, Guerra de la Paz has investigated cycles of consumption by reinventing discarded cloths as room-sized landscapes. Alain Guerra attended the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and Nedaldo de la Paz is a graduate of Northern Illinois University. In 2006, the artists exhibited "Oasis" at the Chicago Cultural Center and new works with Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, N.Y. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Ideas of asexual reproduction, sexual identity and youth are pervasive in the digital photographs of artist Margi Geerlinks. Humanity is examined in her work through the themes of birth and time. While all of her images are digitally manipulated, Geerlinks' photos remain mostly unaltered, confronting the viewer with the realistically absurd. The Dutch artist lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is a graduate of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (1997) and attended the Art Academy Constantyn Huygens, Kampen (1995). In recent years, Geerlinks has exhibited with the Stux Gallery in NYC, Aeriplastics Gallery in Brussells and Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester, England. In addition, the artist is represented by TORCH Gallery in Amsterdam, and, in 2001, TORCH Books released "Crafting Humanity," a book featuring the artist's works. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Using an ornamental language, artist Maggie Cardelus strives to engage her viewer in a hospitable world of pleasure, illusion, and distraction. The source of these works are often family snapshots which are transformed into sculptural installations.By using photos the artist underscores time, memory and privacy, while the fragility of the work references the temporal qualities of her subjects. Cardelus is a Spanish-American who graduated from Hunter College in NYC, and currently lives and works in Milan. The artist has exhibited internationally with the Galerie Thaddaues Ropac in Paris, and Galeria Fucares in Almagro, Spain. In 2001 the artist exhibited "Circus" with Deitch Projects for her first NYC solo exhibition. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Artist Darina Karpov will open an exhibition titled "New Work" tonight at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. The drawings exhibited contain elements of both abstraction and figuration as forms take on multiple connotations. The organic compositions are comprised of images from art history and advertising and images archived from the artist's life. These images are combined to create a mini-world of activity. Karpov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and initially studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1991, the artist relocated to the U.S. to study art at the Maryland Institute, College of Art (1999), and later received her MFA from Yale University School of Art (2001). Since her graduation, Karpov has shown widely in group exhibitions in Leipzig, Germany, and New York City, including AG Gallery in Brooklyn (2005). | ||||||||||||||||||
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 The characters found in artist John Casey's drawings are often deformed and humorously dark. Each piece is created with dense line work and minimal color on a white ground and is said to reference a different psychological state experienced by the artist. While these "psychological" self portraits have an apparent dark side, they also embody a sense of fragility and vulnerability. This seems to be a consistent characteristic of the artist's work. Casey is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art (1988). This year, the artist will be exhibiting "Metamorphorsis Chamber" with FPAC Gallery in Boston, Mass., and "New Works" with TAG Art Gallery in Nashville, Tenn. Last year, the artist exhibited with Boontling Gallery and 33 Grand, both in Oakland, California Next month, Casey will be featured in a group exhibition that highlights drawing at OKOK Gallery in Seattle. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Photographer Chris Scarborough creates hyper-real portraits of his family and friends. The artist alters the digital photos, leaving the subject exaggerated and the viewer asking whether the image is even real. Each subject is modeled from the principle of ideal beauty found in Manga and other Japanese animation. Scarborough alters each piece pixel by pixel, fabricating a reality that exists in between fact and fiction. The Nashville-based artist will be exhibiting in 2007 at both Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., and Artspace in Raleigh, N.C. Scarborough graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design (2000) and since has exhibited with Gescheidle in Chicago and Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta. Both Art Papers (2005) and New American Paintings (2004, 2001) have featured the artist. | ||||||||||||||||||
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For their first exhibition in 2008, 2x2 Projects in Amsterdam will present a new video by artist Raymond Taudin Chabot. The videos, like many of the artist's other works, focus on men of power and the projection of stature through visual signs such as facial expressions and gestures. In the exhibited film "That Place," Chabot depicts a man riding around an industrial estate, quietly disconnected from the viewer and his own surroundings, and completely immersed in his own thoughts. The video is staged and scripted by the artist and required a Hollywood-style film production to accomplish. In addition to the video 2x2 will also exhibit the artist's new book "Cast(part4)" which features years worth of collected imagery focusing mainly on photos of men in powerful positions. The book was published by Roma Publications in Amsterdam. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Using the framework of children's drawings, Korean artist Yeondoo Jung has created a series of photos titled "Wonderland." In this series, the artist takes a literal approach in translating information between actual children's drawings and staged photographs. Space and distance are distorted as the artist's photographs offer a mix of reality and fantasy in the interpretation of a child's view of the world. Yeondoo Jung received his BFA from the Fine Arts College at Seoul National University and his MA from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. The artist has exhibited with Tina Kim Fine Art, NYC (2005), and Insa Art Center, Seoul (2004). Jung also participated in the artist residency programs Villa Arson, Nice, France (2004); and Art Omi, NYC (2003). In 2002, the artist received the 2nd Shanghai Biennale Asia-Europe Foundation Cultural Grant. | ||||||||||||||||||
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 The artist duo "Os Gemeos" are identical twin brothers from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Os Gemeos gained international notoriety from their ambitious campaign of visual characters in the city of Sao Paulo. Some of these characters are painted six stories high or more. In 1993, while only 19 years old, Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (Os Gemeos) met with young American graffiti writer Barry McGee. The three artists collaborated on several projects and influenced each other immensely. Os Gemeos is now being featured in art and graffiti magazines worldwide, but the magazine 12oz Profit was the first to expose their work to the United States and abroad. In 2006, the artists exhibited "The fish that ate shooting stars" at Galeria Fortes Vilaca in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The year prior, the Os Gemeos exhibited "Cavaleriro Marginal" with the Deitch Projects in NYC and collaborated with Creative Time to present a mural on Coney Island. | ||||||||||||||||||
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