 The artist/composer duo Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher create complex electro-mechanical sculptures that often incorporate video, robotics and motorized dioramas. Once the piece is activated by a viewer, elements come to life and begin to glow and pulsate while images project on the screen and Fisher's audio composition begins to play. The sculptures reveal a sense of discovery as the viewer negotiates reality with the mysterious device. For a recent exhibition with QED in Los Angeles, Shore and Fisher created a live video installation titled "Livefeed," which featured an analog drum mechanism and several wall-mounted light-box sculptures. Shore received a BFA in painting from the University of North Texas, while Fisher completed a D.M. in Music Composition at Northwestern University. They have both shown extensively, exhibiting with Angstrom Gallery in Dallas, Gallery UTA in Arlington and Mixture Contemporary Arts in Houston. | |||
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 Brooklyn-based artist Peter Simensky's medium is money. By combining images from currency belonging to 50 failing world economies, he creates colorful collages that remain true to the scale of other notes. In 2005, Simensky partnered with the Swiss Institute to give his money/art buying power at the Armory Show in New York City where other galleries allowed pieces to be bought with what he calls "Neutral Capital." He himself uses his currency to buy work from an array of artists. He displays those pieces that he's bought in portable galleries that fold up into shipping crates. So far, his collection includes work from Yuh-Shioh Wong and Peter Coffin, among others. By assigning value to his mint, Simensky has found a way to participate in and critique the current art market. His solo exhibition "Cerca: Peter Simensky" will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego through September. The artist received his MFA from CUNY Hunter College in NYC. | |||
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 Conceptual artist and designer Andrea Zittel will be speaking on cultural imperatives and market forces in a public discussion between artists/designers Bruce Tomb, Mike Kuniavsky and Donald Fortesue held at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif., this afternoon at 4 p.m. Zittel was the 2007 Headlands Artist in Residence, producing new work that further explores her interest in the intersection of sculpture, design, architecture and technology. The artist is known to address all levels of habitation in contemporary society, consistently evaluating the most effective and sustaining methods of creation and use. Zittel is influenced by modernist design, reducing all elements of her creations to necessity. As a result, the artist continuously changes her own home to suit her changing interests and needs. She founded A-Z Administrative Services, a one-woman organization that develops a variety of products such as clothing, furniture and even food, which has been called "an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs." Zittel received her BFA from the San Diego State University (1988) and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1990). The artist has shown her works internationally with exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. Her current traveling mid-career retrospective, "Andrea Zittel: Critical Space," has been featured in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and several other major museums in North America. | |||
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 Pakistani-born artist Asma Ahmed Shikoh grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, in a society constrained by tradition that was later subjected to rapid changes because of the impact of globalization. The artist uses mixed media to combine popular icons, cityscapes and social issues. When American fast food had just arrived in Pakistan, McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken became icons in the imagery of her artwork, taxing the otherwise helpless ideals of nationalism in Pakistan. She now lives in New York City where her work includes Arabic metro maps, iPods, Dora the Explorer characters and yellow police tape. To highlight the role of individual practices in the shaping of a unique national identity, her solo show "Liberated" at Ceres Gallery in Chelsea included personal contributions of more than 100 Muslim women across America who contributed by mailing one of their hijabs (the head scarf adorned by Muslim women). Shikoh attended Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi and has shown at Queens Museum of Art in Queens and Exit Art in New York City. | |||
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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 Reentry: New York City is a part of new public art project on view at the new media center Eyebeam in NYC. Artist in Residence Bill Dolson creates synthetic meteor shower studies that merges iconic night cityscapes with HD computer simulations in a series of C-prints for a daring new public art project. Dodson has been working with NASA and others to make this project a reality, and in 2005 formed Heavan and Earth, a nonprofit design to help fund large scale public art projects. You can view a simulation of Reentry here. | |||
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