Seth Curcio

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Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck had an early career as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo. Now his sculptures play heavily with scale, continuing to reference his experience with set design. He became instantly popular after being picked up by collector Charles Saatchi and included in the Sensation show in New[…..]

Roxy Paine

Roxy Paine’s inventions range from elaborate contraptions to deceptively simple forms. Often employing technical proficiency, trompe l’oeil, and ambiguity, Paine investigates the nature of reality and artificiality. The artist was born in 1966 in New York, where he currently lives and works. He attended the Pratt Institute and recently had solo shows at James Cohan Gallery, New York; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin; and Musee d’Art[…..]

Charlie White

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[…..]

Florian Sussmayr

German artist Florian Sussmayr began his artistic career by exclusively creating portraits. Sussmayr’s new work depicts emotions often excluded from civilized daily life, such as ecstatic excitement, intoxication, and the lack of sexual boundaries. The subjects are taken from puck and rock social scenes, and act as an investigation of the personal attributes of that society. The artist is represented by Gallerie Rudiger Schottle, and[…..]

Luis Gispert

Luis Gispert produces evocative photographs, multimedia installations, and sound sculptures that highlight an investigation of “high culture” notions through hip hop references. Gispert is a graduate of Chicago Art Institute in film (1996), and from the Yale School of Art in sculpture (2001). The following year Gispert exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, and in 2003 the artist had a solo exhibition with the Whitney Museum.[…..]

Mathew Greene

This April, Peres Projects in L.A. will present Mathew Greene in the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2003. Green creates large drawings and paintings that contain images of pornography, horticulture, horror films, and overall debauchery in an apocalyptic post 9/11 aesthetic. Greene has seen much success recently with a feature in Artforum (January 2004), and in Vitamin D, a new survey of[…..]

Liza Lou

Best known for her ambitious sculptural installations like Kitchen and Backyard, Liz Lou creates work with luminous patterned surfaces that appear to be a type of painting, but are actually full size rooms completely covered in glass beading. Liza Lou’s work embraces the American visionary tradition simultaneously operating as conceptual and craft. In 2002 Lou had an exhibition titled Testimony at Deitch Projects, New York,[…..]