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 Brooklyn-based painter Jay Davis is currently exhibiting a new series of paintings with the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif. Davis creates large acrylic paintings on vinyl that distort reality and space by flattening images and overlaying the painting with geometric patterns. Each painting is meticulously rendered with layers of mysterious symbols and forms, some of which are more ambiguous than others. Davis was born in Charleston, S.C., and attended the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, and the New York Studio Program (AICAD) in New York City. Davis has exhibited with the Mary Boone Gallery (2003, 2005) and with the Stux Gallery in New York City (2001, 2002). The artist has also been featured in such group exhibitions as Prague Biennale: "Peripheries Become the Center" in Prague, Czech Republic (2003), and "Terra Non Firma" at the Howard House Gallery in Seattle. | |||
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 Matthew Ronay's sculptures are based on the possibility or implausibility of future revolution in America. Focusing on scenarios of American homogenization and the manipulation of genetic science to create an ideal population, Ronay allows each piece to investigate what new value would arise from such a fundamental social shift. These narrative metaphors are intended to act as a visual puzzle and are often quite indiscernible as a result. The artist was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and is an MFA graduate from the Yale University School of Art. Last year, Ronay exhibited "Oh My God What Are We Gonna Do" with Vacio 9 in Madrid, Spain, and "Going Down, Down, Down" at Parasol Unit in London. The artist is currently represented with the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City and has been involved in several notable group exhibitions, including "Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York" at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City and "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium" at the Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway. | |||
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 New York-based artist Chris Gentile creates sculptures for the sole purpose of photographing them. The artist exhibits each work as a large photographic C-print, thus distancing the actual object from the viewer. His images promote a conceptual space relation and deception of reality through the ambiguity of form. The artist constructs the objects specifically for the photograph, creating a co-dependency between object and image. Chris Gentile is a MFA graduate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and received his undergraduate degree from Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. The artist has recently exhibited "Penchant to Drift" at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco (2006) and "Thinking About Not Thinking" with the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York (2005). In 2000, Gentile received a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Art. | |||
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 Chinese artist Shen Shaomin creates new hybrid creatures by reconfiguring and combining the bones of several different animals. Using real bone, the artist is able to produce natural history museum-quality exhibitions that are as interesting scientifically as they are artistically. Each piece represents fables, folklore and mythology, while simultaneously referencing contemporary issues of genetic modification and hyper experimentation in science. His creatures in death reveal ideas and possibilities for the future. Shaomin was born in Heilongjiang Province, China and currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia, and Beijing, China. Recent exhibitions include "Scary Monsters" at the Osage Contemporary Art Space in Hong Kong, China (2006), and "The Organisms of Factory" at the Urs Meile Gallery in Luzern, Switzerland (2005). Last year, the artist was included in the Liverpool Biennial and in two separate exhibitions at the Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou, China. | |||
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 Opening this month at DreamBagsJaguarShoes (MySpace) in London is an exhibition by the influential Bristol-based artist Mudwig Dans. Dans has developed a reputation as an innovative yet elusive underground artist. Infusing an aesthetic rooted in 20th-century propaganda posters, illustrations and animation, Dans daringly juxtaposes found photographic imagery with experimental computer-based alterations. The subversive images contained in the work reference forms often found in Disney and Dr. Suess animations. The hybrid forms adorn media, ranging from computer animations and billboard subversions to canvases and wall paintings. The artist has previously exhibited "Talking Walls" at Bristol's Arnolfini and has been included in the group show "Hollywood Remix" at the Wooster Collective Arts Space in New York City. Additional images of Dan's work can be found on kuidoosh.com. | |||
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 Iranian artist Shirin Neshat addresses the role of women in Islamic society through compelling photo and video work. Her early work consisted of photos of veil-covered women in extremely compromised or uncomfortable positions with writing across their hands or faces. Her more recent work deals primarily with the transition between art and cinema, allowing for a narrative to create particular characters. By basing her video on the novel "Women without Men" by Shahrnush Parsipur, the videos allow the narrative to portray themes of refuge and identity. Her new work in the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York was widely acclaimed with a review in Art in America and a photo essay with Time Magazine. In 2006 alone, Neshat showed with the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam and the Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam. Neshat was recently featured with the Venice Beinnale in 1999 and the Whitney Biennial of 2000. | |||
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 In a recent exhibition with the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, artist Ulrike Palmbach created a series of materially rich and ambiguous sculptures that employ a sense of dark humor and illusion. The artist often renders common objects by hand in materials such as felt, muslin, wood and stains. At a distance, each piece is seemingly normal, but, upon further inspection, one can see that each exhibited item is an imitation in material and thus function. Palmbach is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, and she attended Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin and the Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart. Last year, the artist has exhibited "Reconsidered Materials or Although Suitcases May Seem As Though They're Made of Stone, They Seldom Are" at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. | |||
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 The late Ian Hamilton Finlay is a modernist artist whose work is fundamentally carried through poetry. This month on the one-year anniversary of the artist's death Victoria Miro Gallery in London will present "The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich," which will be the largest exhibition of the artist's neon works to date. For the length of Finlay's career, almost 40 years, he created work rooted in philosophical text, literature and historical content. While based in text, the materials of Finlay's work included stone and wood carvings, silk-screen prints, landscape design and neon lights. Among the artist's many achievements are the Turner Prize, presented by the Tate in London (1985), and awards from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (2002) and the Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland (2003). Finlay also held honorary doctorates from Aberdeen University (1987), Heriot-Watt University (1993) and the University of Glasgow (2001). | |||
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 The oil paintings of Chinese artist Guo Wei serve as a quiet meditation on the minor details of life. The paintings often portray the artist's daughter and friends and are rendered in a limited or even monochromatic palette, which aids in the placid imagery of his subjects. The imagery is also manipulated and distorted in unpredictable ways that further increases the physiological implications found in the paintings. Wei is a graduate of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and he is known internationally for being a leading member in the Sichuan School in Chengdu, China. The artist is represented by Goedhuis Contemporary in New York and has exhibited with the Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. Wei often exhibits work with his brother Guo Jin; both artists were featured in an article in Art in America in June 2003. | |||
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 With an interest in the human relationship to water, photographer Kerry Skarbakka stages a variety of water-related scenes, including floods and droughts. Skarbakka describes human interaction with water through extreme situations that underscore the substance's fundamental importance and power. These photos mimic actual documentation, though they are all fully constructed and staged in areas such as swamps, sewers, bathrooms and oceans. The artist received his MFA from Columbia College in Chicago and a degree in studio arts from the University of Washington School of Art. Skarbakka has completed artist residencies with The Contemporary Museum in Hawaii and the Light Work Artist in Residence Program in Syracuse, New York, and, in 2005, he received an award from the Creative Capital Foundation. This year, the artist will exhibit "Fluid" at Gallery 51 in Antwerp, Belgium; the same series of photos was exhibited with the Lawrimore Project in Seattle in 2006. | |||
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 Swiss artist Christoph Buchel creates complex hyper-real environments that often demand a physical commitment from the viewer. Buchel's 2005 installation "Hole" exhibited at the Kunsthalle Basel forced viewers through several small rooms, narrow passageways and disturbing images of a suicide on tape. Each room is found in elaborate detail as if the viewer stumbled onto a forgotten place. Buchel also creates conceptual works that have political undertones and are rooted in social and legal interest. Buchel, along with artist Gianni Motti, attempted to lease the site of Guantanamo Bay from the Cuban government, and in a separate piece offered an entire exhibition budget to any visitor who could find the hidden check in the gallery space. The artist studied at Cooper Union School of Art in New York (1990) and at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (1992-97). In 2001, Buchel was awarded a scholarship at PS1 New York, and, in 2005, he exhibited in the Venice Biennale. Last week, Buchel closed an exhibition titled "Simply Botiful" at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in London, and, this year, he will exhibit with Palais de Tokio in Paris and with MASS MoCA in Massachusetts. View video of Buchel's exhibition "Hole" at the Kunsthalle Basel here. | |||
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 Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-born artist who was trained as an anthropologist and a sculptor. She has risen to much critical acclaim with her figurative collages that challenge culture and gender. The artist uses fragments of images taken from magazines to illustrate and comment on the roles of women, cultural identity, African politics and international fashion. Mutu's figures are simultaneously attractive and repulsive and attempt to seduce the viewer with surreal and sexual associations. Mutu received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Cooper Union in New York. She has also attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales. Mutu has been featured in countless exhibitions, including a solo show this year in Beijing titled "interrupted" with the PKM Gallery. Other recent exhibitions include "Still Points of the Turning World" with Site Santa Fe and "An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems" with Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York. The artist has participated and received awards with Art Pace Residency in San Antonio and the Studio Museum Artist in Residence in Harlem. | |||
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 Matthew Ritchie is an artist with an interest in the totality of our universe. Information, the structures of knowledge and belief and the human ability to comprehend the world around us are a perpetual theme in Ritchie's paintings, sculptures, animations, Web sites, drawings and installations. The artist creates these elaborate worlds by scanning drawings into a computer to manipulate, fragment and reform different elements before projecting and redrawing the image onto a final surface. Ritchie has also created expansive Web sites such as "The Hard Way," where users are prompted to answer a series of questions that lead into a variety of directions, each revealing unique fragments of information. Ritchie is a graduate of Camberwell School of Art in London and lives in New York. The artist has exhibited worldwide, including recent shows with Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City, The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and Atle Gerhardsen in Berlin, Germany. Ritchie was featured on the PBS artist interview series Art:21 and was reviewed this year in Art in America. | |||
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 Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson experiments with visual arts, theater and music to create live performances. Kjartansson's work often references modes of aggression, masculinity and dominance. In 2003, the artist recreated a scene from a period of Danish colonization in Iceland where a Danish merchant is shown beating a native Icelandic peasant. The image above depicts a knight that is exposed representing sexual power and playing a piano that emits sounds of groaning women. Kjartansson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland (1976), and attended the Icelandic Academy of the Arts painting department (2001) and the Royal Academy in Stockholm, Sweden (2000). Kjartansson exhibited "Colonialization" with the Galleri Kling & Bang and is currently exhibiting "Samviskubit/ Guilt Trip" at Galleri i8 in Reykjavik, Iceland. | |||
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 Los Angeles-based artist Tomory Dodge creates paintings that contain formal abstraction and representation within the same ground of the work. Dodge renders landscape environments that are fragmented and intentionally distilled. Often the disarray in his work is a reference to disaster and chaos as a potential force for transcendence. Dodge is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and Rhode Island School of Design. This year, Dodge exhibited new abstract paintings with ACME in Los Angeles. The artist exhibited at the Knoxville Museum of Art and the CRG Gallery in New York last year and was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant in 2004. | |||
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 The paintings of artist Frank Egloff are created from appropriated imagery found in film and vintage photos. The works are often reconfigured through cutting, copying and projecting source images onto a canvas. The objectivity of the photograph is called into question with this image manipulation. The process of reconfiguration allows the artist to exploit the source material and re-contextualize the image to unveil new formal and conceptual concerns. This Saturday, March 17, Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston will present "Rethought," new works by Egloff. The artist has exhibited several times with Brent Sikkema in New York City and with the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass. Egloff received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in 2002 and 2006. | |||
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 In a piece titled "Art & Life (In My Part of the World)," Nedko Solakov created a piece in a vacant and dilapidated apartment to illustrate a narrative about the distraught life of a piece of art. She, the work of art, felt neglected in this house and thus moved itself into the most well-lit room and on top of several tables. The entire apartment contains text that lets the viewer in on contextual clues that inform of past events. Solakov was born in Bulgaria in 1957 and studied at Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. While able to take on multiple media, the artist's work is always centered on a conceptual humor and often stems directly from text. In 2005, Solakov participated in a group show titled "OK:Okay" at the Grey Art Gallery, where the artist used works of de Kooning and Warhol from the Gallery's collection to create the fictitious hut of an African native who collects Western art. Solakov has received funding from numerous foundations, including the International Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), KulturKontakt and the Philip Morris Foundation. Last year, he exhibited with Galerie Arndt & Partner in Berlin and the Museum of Contemporary Art / MNAC in Bucharest. | |||
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 The videos and photographs of Chinese artist Yang Fudong reflect the human condition in a state of existential uncertainty. The individuals represented in the works are young and disillusioned and seem to struggle with political, social and moral values, while coping with China's growth as an economic state. Fudong also references specific film genres as the characters attempt to carry out a narrative through multiple perspectives and experiences. Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing, China, and studied painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. This year, the artist will exhibit "No Snow in the Broken Bridge" with Shanghart Gallery in Shanghai, opening March 24, and will be featured in the 52nd Annual Venice Biennale. Fudong has exhibited with countless international galleries and museums, such as the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, Ireland (2004), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2005) and Parasol Unit in London (2006). View video from one of Fudong's installations. | |||
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 The sculptures and installations of Jon Pylypchuk are constructed with a variety of craft-based materials such as scrap fabric, felt, glue, glitter and fur. The characters that inhabit Pylypchuk's installations reference the dark side of social psychology as each character interacts without consequence or emotion. In the scene above, the rodent-like creatures spread across the gallery floor in their last moments before they die of poisoning. The artist renders these scenes to convey a pathetic sense of inadequacy and demise. Jon Pylypchuk completed his graduate studies with UCLA (2001) and his undergraduate degree with the University of Manitoba in Canada (1997). This year, the artist will exhibit with Sies & Hoeke in Duesseldorf, Germany. Last year, Pylypchuk exhibited with Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and "you are all too close to dropping off now" with the Alison Jacques Gallery in London. The artist was featured in The New York Times (2003) and in an article with Art in America (2005), both for exhibition with the Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York City. | |||
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 Composer Michael J. Schumacher creates electronic sound installations that use multiple speakers to emit sound frequencies. The artist composes for computer-manipulated sound structures and live improvised music. These works are often exhibited in empty galleries or will take place as a live performance. Schumacher was born in Washington, D.C., and studied music at Indiana University and the Juilliard School of Music. The artist has worked with countless composers and musicians and has exhibited with The Kitchen, the Queens Museum and PS1 in New York. He frequently performs at the Diapason Gallery, New York's only sound art venue. In a recent performance with Diapason, the artist presented "Room Piece" as a multi-channel sound installation that continuously shifts the sounds in the room using the listener as the main axis point. | |||
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 The paintings of New York-based Christopher Wool are often reductive by nature and contain a minimal color palette. Wool is best known for his stenciled paintings with large black lettering on a white ground with text that has been drawn from a variety of pop culture sources, including hip-hop lyrics and movie lines. The artist also employs a multitude of painterly techniques in numerous other works using materials such as spraypaint, hand paint and silk-screening. These works make reference to graffiti and further the use of text as the primary structure in the work. Later this year, Christopher Wool will exhibit with Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and in a group exhibition titled "For the People of Paris" at Sutton Lane in Paris. Last year, Wool exhibited with the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and had a solo exhibition with the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, which traveled to Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg. | |||
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 Artist Drew Daly activates and draws attention to common domestic objects by meticulously altering the item's surface quality and form. Daly is interested in fragmenting the familiar ready-made object to stimulate memory, recognition and consideration of the mundane. The artist also uses trace materials from the altered ready-made objects, collecting and reconstructing the residue of erosion, and tracing an object's relation to the space around it. These trace materials act as a means of documenting the object in different states. Daly received his M.F.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle (2004) and completed his undergraduate art degree from Alfred University in New York. Since his graduation, Daly has had solo exhibitions with the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle and the Texas State University in San Macros, Texas. In 2001, Daly was a resident artist with the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, and has been featured in an article in the Seattle weekly The Stranger. | |||
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 New York-based Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer creates a variety of manipulated photos that are produced by drawing directly onto a photograph with photo retouching inks. Bremer uses personal photos of friends and family and employs a dense application of pointillism across the surface of the photo to create surreal scenes with reduced information. These images suggest dreams or memories and the associations of personal relationships. Last year, the artist exhibited "The Past in the Present," curated by Frank van der Stok, at the Fotomuseum Rotterdam and at Roebling Hall in Chelsea, New York. Bremer received a scholarship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and has been a recipient of the Basisbeurs S.F.B.K in Amsterdam three times. Bremer has also had solo exhibitions with the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo and Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin. | |||
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 Icelandic artist Katrin Sigurdardottir's work creates imaginary spaces within another space. Sigurdardottir deals with scale to create a relationship between the work and the viewer. She uses architectural structures to bring together nature and design, allowing the viewer to participate with the work. Her most recent exhibition, open now with P.S.1 in New York, depicts an artificial landscape where the viewer must climb a ladder to view the created space. Currently, Sigurdardottir is seen as one of the most influential artists of Iceland. She received her MFA from Rutgers University and since has shown with Art Basel in Miami, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain de Bourgogne in France and Galleri i8 in Iceland. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for the Arts. | |||
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 The sculptures of Korean artist Michael Joo focus on the process of energy transfer between visible organisms and invisible calories and energy sources. Also of interest to the artist is how the body expends calories as it copes with the mental strain of dealing with social and historical identity. Joo created an installation of modeled cast resin dogs titled "Separation Anxiety" that depict the animal during that particular emotional state. These works seem to make reference to artist Joseph Beuys, as when he lived alongside a live coyote in a gallery in his "I Like America and America Likes Me" installation in New York City. Joo is a graduate of Washington University and received an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art. In 2001, he represented Korea at the Venice Biennale, and, last year, the artist was featured in the Gwangju Biennale in Seoul, Korea. Joo has exhibited with organizations such as the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and the Palm Beach Institute of the Contemporary Art (PBICA), which is discussed in an article on absolutearts.com. Michael Joo also appeared in a review in Art in America and a review in Artforum for his 2004 exhibition at the MIT List Visual Art Center. | |||
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 British artist Ian Dawson produces large-scale sculptures out of a variety of materials. The artist has used colorful industrial plastic containers that are modeled into exotic forms through heat manipulation in several new works. Through this process, the object is stripped of its original use and begins to exist in a position between painting and sculpture. Other projects include large sheets of screen-printed paper that have been crumpled and seemingly tossed randomly into a corner. Each piece underlines the notion of dematerialization and seems to refer to the disposability and waste of Western societies. The objects also possess a life-like quality, often becoming animated and with an apparent potential for movement. Dawson attended the Royal College of Art and the Winchester School of Art in England. The artist recently exhibited with Galerie Xippas in Paris and Hales Gallery in London. U.S. exhibitions include "Tilt Trucks and Free Fliers" at the James Cohan Gallery in New York and a self-titled show with Grand Arts in Kansas. Dawson is a recipient of the Margaret Hall-Silva Award and will be exhibiting in "Cold Climate" March 9 at the Living Art Museum in Reyljavik, Iceland. | |||
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 Demetrius Oliver uses his body to explore social issues of race, history and culture. Large digital c-prints depict a variety of simple, yet compelling, images of the artist interacting with loaded objects and materials such as coal and white cream. The artist also draws pictures on his own body, such as railroad tracks across his hands and small ships on his finger nails, as well as creates significant works in sculpture and performance. Oliver confronts issues that deal with the history of African-Americans by directly using these images as metaphors for problems that seem to remain to some degree unsolved. The artist is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Master of Fine Arts Program (2004) and since has exhibited works with the Inman Gallery in Houston. He is currently exhibiting in Pulse New York and has had museum exhibitions with the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina (2006), and the Contemporary Art Musuem of Houston. Oliver has participated with Project Row Houses in Houston and is a Core Fellow with the Glassell School of Art. | |||
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 Doris Salcedo creates sculptures and installations that re-contextualize everyday domestic items as she alters their physical properties. Often rooted in historical events, Salcedo's works ambitiously alter the existing space, transforming the mundane into the magnificent. The artist is a member of a new generation of young South American artists who are gaining international recognition while remaining in their home countries. Salcedo was born in Bogota, Colombia, and is a graduate of Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the New York University. The artist received a Guggenheim Foundation Grant in 1995 and has exhibited widely in venues such as White Cube in London, L.A. Louver Gallery in Los Angeles and Le Creux de L' Enfer in Thiers, France. Salcedo is featured in the eighth Istanbul Biennial(2003) and Sao Paolo Biennial (1998). | |||
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 In a recent exhibition at The Moore Space in Miami, artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla created a room-sized architectural sculpture titled "Clamor." The large, white structure is ambiguously designed and references chamber, bunker or space-cave architecture. During a performance in the gallery, a group of musicians played various elements of war songs from multiple geographic locations and historical periods simultaneously out of the structure. The artist duo has been working together since 1995, producing a variety of works in sculpture, performance, architecture and social and public relations. Allora is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003), and she attended the Whitney Independent Study Program (1999). Calzadilla attended Bard College for his MFA (2001) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1998). Last year, the artists exhibited with S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, Belgium, and Land Mark, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. Allora and Calzadilla received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Penny McCall Foundation. | |||
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 Artist Nari Ward creates large sculptural installations that are composed of found object materials that celebrate a variety of concepts such as site histories, community stories and temporary architecture. For the Whitney Biennial in 2006, the artist created "Glory," a large tanning bed made from oil barrels that are designed to imprint the American flag onto the skin. Other works include a large wall stacked with more than 300 television sets that the artist presented for the "Saint Peter's Odyssey Salon" at the Deitch Projects in New York (2004); this exhibition was also reviewed by Art in America. Nari Ward is a graduate of Brooklyn College (1992) and Hunter College in New York (1991) and has received awards from the Penny McCall Foundation and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Last year, Ward exhibited in the Taipei Biennial and with Spazio Oberdan in Milano. | |||
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