 Opening tonight at James Cohan Gallery in New York City will be a collection of works by Japanese artist Tabaimo. The new work comes after her successful commission for the 2007 Venice Biennale, and continues the use of everyday Japanese imagery mixed with darker views of sex and violence. The main work at James Cohan is titled public conVENience, a five-channel video with floor to ceiling images. The artist, barely into her thirties, has now exhibited in over 15 countries and has been included in the Yokohama Triennale, the Sao Paolo Biennale and the Biennale of Sydney, Australia. Upcoming exhibitions include Japan's Yokohama Museum in 2009 and Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, in 2010. | |||
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 New York-based artist Adam Shecter is currently exhibiting new works in a show titled "Fables," with David Castillo Gallery in Miami. The artist's work is founded on misinterpretations of his visual and musical experiences and is manifested in both two dimensional and time-based media. Shecter creates work based on his misinterpretations of movies, shows, posters, television, pop songs, and other related media. What results as his work is an attempted resolution of these mis-readings. The formal qualities of the artist's work, which are often animated or digitally produced, seem to reference pop culture, Disney, cartoons, and cinema. The artist received a B.A. in Film Studies from McGill University in Montreal, and in 2006, Shecter completed the Skowhegan Residency Program in Maine. That same year Printed Matter Inc. in NYC, a source for artist publications, produced his book "Like Ghosts." | |||
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 The Moti Hasson Gallery in New York City is currently presenting "Waking the Dead," a new body of work by Canadian-born, New York-based artist Jillian McDonald. The exhibition will include a special performance on Halloween night. Within the show, the artist has produced several videos and a series of photographs which feature images that are derivative from a variety of horror films. In the work above, "Horror Makeup (2006), McDonald films herself transforming into a zombie as viewers gaze upon the transformation on an otherwise 'normal' subway ride. In reference to placing herself in the work, Mcdonald states "My presence in the work is not autobiographical. I think it's clear that my image serves as a deliberate subject who enacts shared fantasies or fears." McDonald received funding the exhibition in part by a grant from Pace University, and created the work through residencies in New York at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program, The School of Visual Arts, and The Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. The artist received her MFA from Hunter College in NYC, and has complete exhibitions worldwide including works with Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, and upcoming exhibitions with 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA, and Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery in Vancouver. | |||
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 Opening next week at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester, U.K., is "ipso facto," the digital prints of artist Ray Caesar. The show will correspond with the artist's first printed publication of collected works titled "Art Volume One." Caesar now lives and works in Toronto, though he was born in the U.K. Before becoming a visual artist, he worked as an architect and then as a special-effects artist for TV and film. All of the artist's works are produced digitally from conception to print and often contain figurative and characteristically surreal elements. Caesar has exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions "Hidden Doors and Secret Rooms" with Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City and with The Londsdale Gallery in Toronto. The artist has also been featured in the publications Glamour Italia (March 2005) and Juxtapoz Magazine (July/Aug. 2004). | |||
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 The dreamlike, psychological investigation that is characteristic of artist Jeremy Blake's work has developed since his short film "Reading Ossie Clark" in 2003. Blake is well known for his DVDs, C-prints, paintings and drawings, all of which present visual narratives that are broken by psychedelic and hallucinogenic imagery. In 2002, the artist was invited by director Paul Thomas Anderson to create a digital series of abstracted sequences for the film Punch-Drunk Love, featuring Adam Sandler. Blake will be featured in the new issue T of art and design magazine Beautiful Decay, which is available now. Regretfully, before that issue's release, the art world lost Jeremy Blake and his romantic partner, filmmaker, critic and video game artist Theresa Duncan in a tragic series of events. Blake, a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, was selected three times in a row for the Whitney Biennial ('00, '02, '04). His "Winchester" video series was presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Other works have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC and the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain. | |||
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 The recent silk-screened wallpaper works of artist Shannon Wright depict a healthy human urinary tract. The series was inspired by a comment made by one of the artist's friends: "You should really make art about your hypochondria. You've got a gold mine there." The artist has been exploring systems, diagrams and the phenomena that they attempt to represent through a range of media during the past 15 years, using sculpture, video and vector-based drawing. Consistent throughout all of Wright's projects is a biting dry humor that helps to offset the scientific tendencies in the work that is inspired in part by the 18th century Utopian architect Etienne-Louis Boullee, the Scientific Management movement and the "Cabinets of Curiosities" museum display. Wright received her M.F.A. in the time arts department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her B.F.A. in sculpture from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. The artist has exhibited nationally with shows this year at the ADA Gallery in Richmond and Scope New York and is currently an assistant professor in the spatial arts program at San Jose State University. | |||
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 Artist Jill Greenberg inspired much controversy for her body of work "End Times," featuring stylized, hyper-real portraits of toddlers. The artist created a variety of joylessly contorted facial expressions by offering the children candy and suddenly taking it away from them. The pieces were constructed to reflect Greenberg's frustration with the Bush administration and Christian fundamentalism in the United States (wikipedia.org). Greenberg was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in Detroit, Mich., before moving to New York City and, later, to Los Angeles. The artist has made memorable images of hundreds of the world's most recognizable celebrities and has created a series of work titled "Animal Tales" and a book titled "Monkey Portraits." Greenberg graduated in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in photography. She's represented by Paul Kopeikin Gallery and has been featured in Harper's and The New Yorker. Greenberg also has a podcast on America Photo. | |||
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 Sean Landers' work is known for its risky experimentation that allows the artist to expose his process of creation. Although the work avoids consistency in a particular medium or style, Landers' work acts as a self-portrait that relies on influences of contemporary culture that's often revealed through text. His most recent exhibition with the Andrea Rosen Gallery consists of only text-based paintings that build up texture across the picture plane, creating a delicate, beautiful surface with biting personal content. Often, the images have an easy-to-follow dialogue, but many of them also become abstracted in image and concept. Landers received his degree from Philadelphia College of Art in 1984 and his MFA from Yale University in 1986. In the past few years, he has had shows with Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo, greengrassi in London and Sister in Los Angeles. In addition, Landers has been involved in the fourth Berlin Biennial and other group shows with P.S.1 in New York and the Serpentine Gallery in London. | |||
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 Chinese painter and photographer Wang Qingsong was born in Heilongjiang Province, China, and now lives in Beijing. His photographs are large, elaborate, tableaux in style and tend to make witty references to the impact of globalization and modernization in China. In addition, they make references to elements of art history. Qingsong describes his work as "Kitschy, but powerful... Contradictory, but critical" (Art Info). By being both humorous and condemnatory, Qingsong is able to highlight the cultural and artistic misunderstanding of a society in hurried transition. Qingsong attended Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in China, and he had his first solo show at Albion in London. Recent shows have been at ART Strelka in Moscow, Galerie Patrick Veret in France and the International Center of Photography in New York City. He's also been featured in the magazines Blind Spot and Next Level, as well as The New York Times. | |||
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 New media artist Cory Arcangel creates digital-based works that investigate the relationship between technology, art and contemporary culture. Arcangel predominantly creates work through computer programming that uses traditional applications of game coding. The artist originally obtained a degree in music technology but began subversive manipulation of vintage video game systems, such as Nintendo, by hacking the game and revamping obsolete computer systems from previous decades. The artist will subtly change the graphics of games, such as in the piece "Super Mario Clouds," where Arcangel erased everything in the game except the clouds that are programmed to slowly glide across the sky. The artist's imagery is nostalgically appropriated, simultaneously challenging the future of digital manipulation and elements of a cultural past. Arcangel has exhibited work in the 2004 Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art as well as at LISTE, The Young Art Fair, in Basel, Switzerland. Also in 2004, the artist exhibited in The Armory Show with Team Gallery, followed by a solo exhibit at the Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2005. The artist has been featured in exhibits in the Guggenheim Museum and the MoMA in New York City and gave a lecture at Columbia University about his practice within technology and arts. | |||
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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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 "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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 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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 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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 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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 The photography of Chicago-based artist Sabrina Raaf often depicts a certain absurdity of science. Images of machines that make art for the artist and automated systems and contraptions that are assembled from industrial materials, together with architectural elements, create installations that embody both the familiarity and stark distance of science fiction. Many works are based on a "what if" scenario, which allows the artist to playfully investigate what would happen if humans evolved and obtained the capabilities of functioning in new ways. The artist received a double MFA from Cornell University (1997) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999). Currently, Raaf is exhibiting "Meet the New You" at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. Last year, the artist exhibited "Grower + ?" at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, was featured in "This is Gallery" with the Lawrimore Project in Seattle and had a solo exhibition at the Mejan Labs in Stockholm, Sweden. | |||
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 San Francisco new media artist Deborah Oropallo continues to surprise the art world by reinventing her work with consistent quality. Oropallo allows her images to evolve with the change in technology, and her mediums range from oil on canvas, to digital photos and permanent pigment prints. Most of her work focuses on mundane objects, but Oropallo transforms them into elegant images through formal concerns like scale and color. In recent years, Oropallo has focused on digital imagery to create large-scale, vibrant images, but the artist always allows her style and approach to change dramatically from one body of work to another. In 2007, Oropallo will show with San Jose Art Museum, Scott White Contemporary Art in San Diego and De Young Museum in San Francisco. She has won many awards, including the Eureka Fellowship Award from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and received her M.F.A. from University of California, Berkeley. Her work is currently carried by the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco and the Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho. | |||
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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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 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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 Over the past decade digital media artist Vibeke Jensen has continued to investigate elements of urban spaces usually by creating an intervention between the art and the individuals who occupy a particular space. Before working in digital media, the artist studied and graduated from University of Trondheim, Norway with a Master of Architecture (1987) and Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (1992). With a key understanding of space, and the ability to work in a team, Jensen has been able to execute several large collaborative projects throughout the world. Recent museum exhibitions include works at Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway, and Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Austria. The artist has funded public projects through the support of Norwegian Visual Artist's Fond and the Arts Council Norway. Jensen has also participated in Artist Residency programs at the Bronx Museum, and Nordic Artists' Centre in Dale, Norway. | |||
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 Digital artist and painter Yoon Lee creates work that is a metaphor for the exponential growth of technology and information. The scale of these works are often 8 feet tall and 12 feet long and seem to reference the visual dynamism found in the modernist work of artist Jackson Pollock. The digital element employed allows the artist to achieve highly slick surfaces and a mechanical line quality which aids formally to her concept of technological growth. This is echoed by the shear visual magnitude which is forced onto the viewer by the scale and movement inherent in each piece. Lee received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2005), and she was a featured artist in New American Paintings (2006). This year the artist had a solo exhibition with the Luggage Store Gallery in SF, and participated with Pulse Miami through DCKT Contemporary. Next year the artist will be featured in a group exhibition titled "Euphorion: Art from San Francisco" at Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig, Germany. Lee has also participated in residency programs at 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, and at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Saulsalito, CA. | |||
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 The figures that occupy Carol K. Brown's paintings appear in isolation, removed from the surrounding environment. These individuals are shown in an ordinary moment and multiplied throughout the pictorial space. Brown begins these works by photographing the subjects and using them as source material. The images are digitally manipulated and then recreated in paint. Often the works are then rescanned and presented in their final state as a digital print. Last month the artist exhibited with the Nohra Haime Gallery NYC, and she has had past exhibits with the Ambrosino Gallery in Miami. In 2004 Brown had an exhibition review in Art in America. | |||
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 Charlie White is a photographer who constructs images with complex sets and fabricated characters. White is part of the "post-photography" school of hyper constructed photos, where the viewer must ask if the scene is accurate or intentionally falsified. White graduated from the School of the Visual Art in NYC and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. He began his career creating photography steeped in special effects and images of pornography. The artist created a body of photos titled "Understanding Joshua" as a metaphor and poster boy for all men who've ever suffered rejection and low self-esteem. Joshua is a visual metaphor for male vulnerability. NPR and PBS featured the series, and in 2006 the artist presented a series titled "Everything is American" in Wohnmaschine, Berlin, f a Projects, London, and at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. | |||
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