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Wolfgang Bauer, an Austrian artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, recently sat for an interview with DailyServing. (See his previous DS feature.) Bauer was educated in Austria and in the U.S. at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna and Salzburg and the University of Southern California. This month, Bauer will be exhibiting "Spring Awakenings," a new series of paintings with Found Gallery in Los Angeles.  | |||
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 German artist Kati Heck uses a unique synthesis of photorealism, illustration and painterly expression to create seemingly collaged paintings. Heck's work is often auto-biographical and explores her personal experiences as well as elements of contemporary culture through outside references of pornography, architecture, art history and instruction manuals. The possible narratives in her work are influenced by comics, mystery novels and film and often contain people from the artist's immediate environment, such as family and friends. Heck's paintings appear at first to be collaged, but they are actually meticulously painted to only appear constructed. The paintings offer new meanings from the associated images while hiding the actual methods of their creation. Heck currently lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Last year, she exhibited at W139 in Amsterdam and Marc Selwyn Gallery in Los Angeles. Heck studied at the Akademie voor schone Kunsten in Antwerp and was a guest student at the Akademie der bildenden Kunste in Vienna, Austria, and the Akademie Munster in Germany. Currently, Heck is represented by John Connelly Presents in New York and Gallery Annie Gentils in Antwerp. | |||
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 Photographer and animator Cassandra C. Jones employs great technical precession with works such as her kaleidoscope-patterned collages. The series "Good Cheer" depicts appropriated images of cheerleaders meticulously reconstructed and digitally printed into ornate patterns. The artist has used the imagery to develop complex wallpapers that dissolve into marginally recognizable anthropomorphic forms when the viewer gains distance from the pattern. Previously, Jones created short-looped animations that often consist of more than 1,250 images, collectively portraying simple and personal events along with other sporting activities. "Track and Field" is a series that the artist produced that investigated ideas of the athletic arena while producing stunningly ambiguous images by overlapping multiple photos. Jones attended the California College of Arts in Oakland, Calif., and received her MFA in photography and glass from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn. This year, the artist will exhibit "Rara Avis" at the Queens Annex in San Francisco, and, last year, the artist participated in the Pulse Art Fair in New York with the Nathan Larramendy Gallery. In 2004, Jones received the Vira I. Heinz Endowment Fellowship awarded by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. | |||
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 While employing a vocabulary of graphic art, artist Mathew Brannon's work explores social ideals and personal emotions through reductive images. Brannon uses screen printing as his primary method of creation, offering commentary on mass production while also allowing the work to remain in an original format. The artist challenges modes of semiotics by juxtaposing certain graphic images with potent text to elicit a particular emotive response. The human condition and ideas of disappointment and illusion are investigated through cultural symbols and media-related forms. The design element of Brannon's work illustrates how product packaging and placement has an impact on our feelings of value, sense of self and emotional vulnerability. This year, the artist will present "Try and be grateful" at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. In 2006, Brannon exhibited with the Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, David Kordansky Gallery in Basel, Switzerland, and "HYENA" at Jan Winkelmann Gallery in Berlin. The artist attended the University of California and completed his MFA at Columbia University School of Art in New York. | |||
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 Dieter Appelt is one of Germany's most influential photographers and videographers. Since 1982, the artist has taught photography, film and video at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin. In the late 1970's and 1980's, the artist's work was centered on performance art, and his photography developed out of the documentation of his performance. Often, the performances took place within constructed nature-based sculptures or sets and dealt with issues related to primal endurance and decay. This was in part because of the experience of returning home from World War II to find the decomposing bodies of soldiers in neighboring fields. Drawing an obvious influence from artists such as Joseph Bueys, Appelt regards his works as sculptures of time as he often places himself in endurance-testing positions. Appelt has been exhibiting works since the 1970's and has exhibited extensively in Europe. Major solo museum exhibitions for the artist have occurred at the Guggenheim in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Staatliche Museum in Berlin. The artist is currently represented by Galerie Guy Bartschi is Geneva. | |||
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 Opening this weekend at Zach Feuer Gallery is "Thin Skin II," the first New York-based solo exhibition of artist Daniel Gordon. Using elements of temporary sculpture and collage, the artist is able to construct works from appropriated Internet images and document them in photographic form. The disjointed materials in Gordon's work operate as a commentary on the contemporary image while simultaneously allowing the conceptual nature of the work to remain personal and unadulterated. Gordon's work challenges elements of traditional photography and the notions of beauty as it relates to the medium. The photos remain tightly cropped and are suggestive of acitivity outside the immediate image plane. Gordon currently lives and works in New York City. He is a graduate of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson New York (2003) and completed his MFA at Yale University School of Art (2006). The artist presented "Flying Pictures and Constructions" with Angstrom Gallery in Dallas and GroeflinMaag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland (2004). | |||
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 By synthesizing ideas of modern technology and the experience of life in the information era, the artist Mark Schoening offers a social commentary about the effects of inescapable media. While the paintings are a reflection of our time, they certainly speak of the possibilities and ramifications of future technological growth. Schoening attempts to capture this atmosphere in a fixed image, allowing the viewer the opportunity to step back and contemplate their relationship to the recent influx of technology, advertising and media and how we process this information. Schoening currently lives and works in Boston. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and will exhibit this year with artist Shawn El C. Leonardo at the RHYS Gallery in Boston, Mass. Previous exhibitions include "Balletic Disintegration" with Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass., and "Project 604" at the National Arts Club in New York City. | |||
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 New York-based artist Benjamin Degen creates paintings that simultaneously represent multiple elements such as figures, landscapes, diagrams and still-lives. Drawing inspiration from the flattened aesthetic of Minoan paintings, Greek amphorae, Kama Sutra illustrations and Chinese landscape paintings, Degen is able to alter space to re-contextualize form and, thus, meaning. The artist strips away the specific identities of his subject matter so that the forms read as patterns without defined boundaries, causing the image connotation to become unclear. The New York City-born artist attended the Cooper Union School of Art and Science (1998) and received a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship (1997). Degen has exhibited with Kantor/Feuer Gallery in Los Angeles and with Guil & Greyshkul in New York. The artist was featured in the PS1 MOMA's Greater New York exhibition and is included in the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. | |||
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 Bay Area artist Tauba Auerbach is currently exhibiting new text-based works at the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. Auerbach investigates semantic systems, playfully combining letters to create new meanings, while challenging the limitations of typography and language. Employing elements of hard-edged abstraction, the artist is able to use her experiences as a sign painter to explore the function of lettering and text in society, insightfully inquiring into the meaning of the seemingly random shapes of the alphabet. Auerbach often uses eye charts, binary systems and elementary design to reveal the extensional functions of language. The artist is a graduate of Stanford University in San Francisco (2003) and was featured in her first New York City solo exhibition this past fall at the Deitch Projects. Auerbach, a previous DailyServing feature, also received a review in Artforum for her San Francisco exhibition this month. | |||
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 South African-born artist Robin Rhode works in a variety of media, including performance, photography, sculpture and video that centers on his personal experiences as a young man growing up in Johannesburg suburbs. The artist uses and alters everyday objects that reference South African products or that embodies a personal or social connection to the artist. Rhode is currently exhibiting new work in all three of the Perry Rubenstein Gallery's exhibition spaces. The artist has continued his interest in exploring narratives where he uses only the most basic of materials to complete his ideas. Recently, the artist has expanded to 16mm film and sculpture and has created a collaborative performance in Rheims, France, with professional dancer Jean-Baptiste Andre and violinist and cellist Didier Pertit. Rhode lives and works in Berlin and in September will have his first major museum exhibition in Europe at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Rhode has exhibited internationally, including notable shows with Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. | |||
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 The photographic dreamscapes of artist Gregory Crewdson are magnificently choreographed and quietly disturbing. Crewdson is one of America's most influential photographers who's reached international acclaim for his mysterious and intriguing photos. Crewdson's scenes are hyper-manicured with immaculate detail that demand prolonged engagement from viewers. Often, the work is fraught with tension, anxiety and desire that powerfully reveals qualities inherent to suburban American life. Crewdson has often been referred to as a filmmaker's photographer because of his elaborate sets and self-termed "psychological realism" aesthetic. Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase and received his MFA from Yale University School of Art, where he has been a faculty member since 1993. This year, the artist appeared in an article in TIME and in "Art and Death" in Adbusters. This year, he will be featured in "Drawing on Hopper: Gregory Crewdson/Edward Hopper" at the Williams College Museum of Art. Currently on view is "Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005," at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague. | |||
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 Painter Adam Scott re-contextualizes the Middle American landscape by inserting surreal cartoon characters and distorted perspectives. The artist applies paint pigment in thick coats with vibrant artificial colors, which only further intensifies the imagery. Scott's images are often derived from elements of cinema, old postcards and personal memories and experiences. By appropriating ideas and images from a collective American consciousness, Scott is able to offer a humorous yet unsettling portrayal of contemporary American culture. Scott holds degrees in fine art from California State University at Long Beach and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist is currently represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and has exhibited with Galerie Schuster and Scheuermann in Berlin, Germany. In 2002, Scott completed a 12 x 12 with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. | |||
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 Chinese-artist Shi Xinning creates paintings that reference social realism through iconic figures from history. The artist renders the images as they are found in their original format, in sepia tone or from newspapers in black and white. Shi then alters the paintings by falsely inserting prominent Chinese cultural figures such as Mao Zedong at the table of pivotal Western leaders. This placement allows the artist to investigate the historical dynamics of both the East and the West while underscoring cultural propaganda found in 20th-century Chinese culture. Shi was born in Liaoning Province and graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. The artist has exhibited in several major group exhibitions, including "Chinese Contemporary Painting" at Marella Arte Contemporanea in Bologna, Italy, and "Moyemode Moyemobude" at 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China. In addition, Shi has been featured in "New Art from China" with the Saatchi Gallery in London. | |||
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 Artist Chris Johanson's brightly colored, socially saturated works offer a humorous light to current cultural and societal feelings. With the background of the artist rooted in contemporary culture rather than formal art training, Johanson is able to rely solely on his personal experiences and the collective experience of all Americans to explore absurdity and humor in contemporary life. The artist is a prolific creator and clearly prefers a steady stream of ideas to be completed over tedious long-term works. Johanson is a Bay Area artist who is often included in the "Mission School," a group of suburban-influenced creators, including Barry Mcgee and Margaret Kilgallen. Johanson was launched into art stardom after receiving the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and being included in 2002 Whitney Biennial. The following year, the artist completed an exhibition with the Deitch Projects in New York City titled "Now is Now" and was included in an exhibition at SITE Santa Fe. This year, the artist will exhibit "Apex: Chris Johanson" at the Portland Art Museum, and, in 2008, Johanson will exhibit again with the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco. | |||
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 Austrian-born painter Christoph Schmidberger creates figurative works structured within the realm of realism. The artist uses both imagery and color palate to confront the viewer with beauty and interrupted modesty. These sensual works reference traditional romantic painting, while presenting images of vulnerability, beauty and youth. Schmidberger's color palate is soft, with buttery colors, which further emphasizes the delicacy of the images. Schmidberger's work will be featured in Art Basel in Switzerland in June, Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles and the Kunstverein Freiburg in Germany. The artist has also exhibited in USA today with the Saatchi Gallery, the Royal Academy in London and in Art Forum Berlin. | |||
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 A new multi-media extravaganza exhibition titled "a very anxious feeling" by assume vivid astro focus (avaf) is on view with John Connelly Presents in New York City. The exhibition contains three environments within the gallery and includes 3-D wallpaper, a corridor of music, flashing neon sculptures, video and a room with a series of music-related performances. A featured installation titled "Four-letter words" is comprised of wrapped objects and text-based wallpaper with provocative words such as BUSH, HOMO, PRAY, ANAL and HOPE. The gallery also converted the store-room basement into an extension of the show that features five abstract neon sculptures. In addition, the exhibition contains a re-installed series of work from a previous exhibition titled "absorb viral attack fantasy" with Hiromi Yoshii in Tokyo. assume vivid astro focus is led by artist Eli Sudbrack and is said to contain many members who are all born anytime between the 20th and 21st centuries in various parts of the world. This year, (avaf) will exhibit assume vivid astro focus XVIII with Deitch Projects as a follow up to the widely popular exhibit in 2003. (avaf) will also be featured this year in "Destroy Athens" at Athens Biennial and "Space for The Future" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. | |||
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 Currently on view at Tony Wight/Body Builder & Sportsman in Chicago are new works by New York-based artist Dannielle Tegeder. "The Chicago Index of the Invisible: Incidents and Interconnections" is a project that investigates unexplained disappearances within the greater Chicago area. The artist has constructed a space in the gallery for projections of actual and fictional sites of the disappearances and murders. In addition, the artist has also created a series of poems by reconstructing published texts of the incidents and a series of two-dimensional works that act as diagrams, drawing connections and new relationships between various incidents. Tegeder is a MFA graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and attended the Amsterdam School of Fine Arts in The Netherlands. The artist has received numerous awards and grants, including an Elizabeth Foundation Studio Award (2006), Smack Mellon Residency (2005) and a Lower East Side Print Shop Fellowship Edition Award (2004). The artist is also represented by Priska Juschka Fine Art and has exhibited with Galerie Xippas in Paris (2005). | |||
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 Currently on view at Found Gallery in Los Angeles are a new series of narrative paintings from Austrian-born artist Wolfgang Bauer. Titled "Spring Awakenings," the show features several life-sized oil paintings of androgynous young people who directly confront the viewer with intense and persistent eye contact. The series, which developed from a study of German literature, philosophy and anthropology, investigates the struggles of childhood. Focusing on ideas of sexuality, negativity, gender and family structures within Western society, Bauer strives to illuminate and offer acceptance to adolescents who struggle to adhere to cultural norms. Bauer currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at the Hochschule fuer Musik and Darstellende Kunst in Germany and at the Universitaet fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Austria. In addition, Bauer holds a degree in fine arts, gender studies and German literature from the University of Southern California. "Spring Awakenings" will be on view from May 11 to June 12. | |||
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 Sculptor Brian Griffiths creates small and monumental works that are steeped in myth and legend and act as portals to the past. Constructed primarily of found objects from antique and second-hand stores, Griffiths uses the inherent history of the objects and exploits it to offer an implied history of his own. Ideas of voyage, adventure and exotic lands are all referenced through the structures and materials employed, causing an epic story to set sail, driven by Griffiths' imagination. A graduate of Goldsmiths College in London, the artist has exhibited worldwide with recent shows at the Edward Mitterand Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland (2006), Vilma Gold in London (2005) and in the Groninger Museum in Groninger, The Netherlands (2004). This fall, Griffiths will present "The Furnace," commissioned by A Foundation and exhibited in London. | |||
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 The Seattle-based duo Lead Pencil Studio is comprised of artists Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo. The two artists investigate elements of architecture, often rebuilding the framework of physical structures to reveal a mere trace of the original. Last year, with the help of the Creative Capital Foundation, Han and Mihalyo assembled a full-scale replica of the Maryhill Museum of Art titled "Maryhill Double " that was built completely of scaffolding and located one mile south of the Columbia River Gorge on the border of Oregon and Washington. Currently on view in Seattle's premiere contemporary art space, Lawrimore Project, is Lead Pencil Studio's "Drawing Space," a multi-room installation that extends the gallery's pre-existing architecture while also inventing new structures within the space. The duo is exhibiting in the San Francisco Exploratorium through June and will be presenting new works with the Boise Art Museum in Idaho in 2008. | |||
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 Brooklyn-based artist Shinique Smith recently presented an exhibition titled "Open Strings" with the Skestos Gabriele Gallery in Chicago. The artist produces her works through the collection and accumulation of objects, which are often autobiographical and taken from several decades and generations of use. Smith binds many of these found objects in a ritualistic process that reconnects the meaning and physical qualities of each piece. Through cross-relating her materials, Smith is able to investigate identity and personal history through painting, drawing and sculpture, while formally referencing the energy found in much of abstract expressionism and traditional graffiti. Smith received her BFA and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and attended Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Recent exhibitions include, works with Franklin Artworks in Minneapolis, Minn., and "No Dust No Stain," which was curated by Sara Reisman, and exhibited with Cuchifritos Gallery in New York. In '06-'07, Smith was included in "Altered, Stitched, and Gathered," an exhibition with PS1 in New York City that explored familiar objects and social practices through a variety of artists working with a deliberate methodology. | |||
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 Artist Karl Haendel renders a variety of loosely associated imagery through seductively real drawings. Haendel has become as well known for his method of presenting the work as for his meticulous rendering of such a wide range of images. His unique salon-style presentation allows the associated meanings of the images to be re-contextualized to offer infinite new relationships. Some of the works are stacked against the wall only partly exposed, while others are placed in such proximity that they are touching. Haendel was born in New York and received a degree in art semiotics and art history from Brown University (1998). The artist attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program before receiving his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2003). Currently, Haendel is presenting his third solo exhibition with Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles. | |||
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 Artist, filmmaker, photographer and writer Larry Clark is perhaps best known for his feature-length films graphically depicting subculture youth engaging in the extremities of drugs, sex and violence. His ground-breaking film "Kids," released in 1995, cast several teenage skateboarders that Clark befriended in New York City's Washington Square Park. The controversial film was given a rating of NC-17 and was celebrated at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. "Kids" was followed by three more feature films, one of which was banned from distribution in some areas. In addition to filmmaking, Clark is also an acclaimed photographer in the contemporary arts world, with works in several major museums. In 2006, Clark presented two self-titled exhibitions with Le Case d'Arte in Milan, Italy, and with Spruth Magers Lee in London. In 2005, the artist received the International Photography Lucie Award for Achievement in documentary photography. | |||
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 The sculptures and videos of Los Angeles-based artist D'nell Larson are concerned with the dynamics of love, romantic relationships and longing. Larson often challenges feminine and masculine connotations with her material choices, which include sequins, candy, feathers, fabric and crystals. The artist also furthers this investigation by using iconic love-related imagery, such as arrows, swans and sweetheart candies. Last year, Larson presented a video with Body Builder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago titled "Close Your Eyes and Think of Me," which depicts the artist's parents in their basement rehearsing love songs in a make-shift music studio. Larson received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1996), and she attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1993). Recent solo exhibitions include "Haze," curated by Peter Doroshenko, shown with the Arco Project in Madrid, Spain, and "Straight to You" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. | |||
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 "Zoopsia" is the title of a new series of work commissioned for display at the Getty Museum by acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson. The term "Zoopsia" refers to the visual hallucination of animals that often occur in delirium tremens. Hawkinson, a previous DailyServing feature, has created several new works using common household materials that illustrate imaginative zoological forms. "Octopus," shown above, is a photo-collage constructed out of images of the artist's hands, lips and mouth. In addition, the artist's "Uberorgan" will make its West Coast debut in the Museum Entrance Hall. "Zoopsia" was reviewed in this month's Modern Painters.Hawkinson was recently featured in a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in February 2005 and is currently represented by Ace Gallery in Los Angeles. | |||
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 New paintings by New York artist Jane Fine are currently on view this month with Pierogi in Leipzig, Germany, in her show "Skirmish." Fine has continued an investigation into armed conflict with scenes of tanks, barbed wire and trenches, created from pools of acrylic paint and marker. Each painting exists between figuration and abstraction and embodies an equal obscurity between painting and drawing, in a figure and ground relation. The absurdity found within the painting is an apparent mirroring of the U.S. occupation in Iraq, offering commentary and visual relief from the bombardment of the typical images of war that are received through news stations. Fine is a graduate of Harvard University, and she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Fine is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. The artist has also completed residencies with Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York, and Cite Internationale des Artes in Paris. | |||
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 San Francisco-based artist Val Britton constructs and integrates maps with other referenced imagery such as freeways, billboard scaffolding and road signs. The artist uses this process to navigate her past, charting memories and creating a personal record through symbols and metaphors. The artist's laborious process is created completely by hand, fusing the media of printmaking, collage, painting and drawing and fiber arts within a single composition. Britton is a graduate of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif. This year, Britton exhibited "Time Lines" at Mina Dresden Gallery and "Near and Far" with 301 Bocana Gallery, both in San Francisco. | |||
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 South African artist William Kentridge produces works that exist somewhere between film, drawing and theater and sometimes as a combination of all three. Kentridge's drawings and stop-motion videos often have a subtle but reflectively political undertone, investigating the cultural dualities of South Africa and the artist's birth city of Johannesburg. Using the reductive medium of charcoal with only a small amount of blue or red chalk, Kentridge is effectively able to portray narratives while allowing the drawing process to be revealed by erasing and redrawing the object on the same sheet of paper. Since the late nineties, Kentridge has exhibited with museums worldwide. In 2004, the Metropolitan Museum in New York presented a solo show of the artist's work, which was followed by a premiere of Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) in 2005 at the Theatre de La Monnaie in Brussels, with Kentridge as the director. The artist had perhaps his largest exhibition to date at the Musee d'art Contemporain in Montreal, and he received a project commission from the Deutsche Bank Guggenheim in Berlin the same year. | |||
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 The sculptures and installations of Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens explore light and language through manipulated materials. The artist investigates connections between images and language as he transforms constructed objects into words. The artist projects light onto carefully organized objects to create small phrases within the shadow. Eerdekens uses a variety of materials to achieve this, including artificial trees, plants, piles of clothing and household goods to extend the direct relationship between the object and language. The artist is represented by Tache Levy Gallery in Brussels and Spencer Brownstone in New York. Recently, Eerdekens exhibited with Galerie Grita Insam in Vienna and MuHKA in Antwerp. | |||
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 Japanese artist Mariko Mori creates a variety of sculpture and photographic work that explores ideas and symbols related to the self and the connection with others. The artist's work addresses the issues of Eastern and Western individualism within a unified society and the notion of a collective consciousness. Mori uses images and characters to serve as a model for transcending the boundaries of nation, culture and ethnicity. Collective mentality and the spirituality in mass culture are also of interest to the New York-based artist as depicted in her 1999 installation "Dream Temple" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Mori attended the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum and is a graduate of the Chelsea College of Art in London. Recent exhibitions include "Art Unlimited" at the Fair of Basel in Switzerland and "Wave UFO" at the Venice Biennale. | |||
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 Video, photography and sculptural installations are only a few of the vehicles that carry the ideas of Los Angeles-based artist Skylar Haskard. In a recent exhibition with the Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles, the artist presented Octagonal Erection, a structure that revolves around other works and acts as a set for a multi-channel video. Some elements of the video depict the artist as an astronaut inside the structure who is repairing and building it from the inside as he scans the apparent outward universe. Haskard overloads most of his installations with information, challenging the viewer in their ability to take in all that the work has to offer. The artist's constructed works contain a variety of found and re-contextualized materials, making use of many low-cost and accessible resources. Haskard is an MFA graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing. Haskard also received his BFA from the Glasgow School of Art. This year, the artist will exhibit with Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. | |||
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