New York based Ethan Murrow creates work in a variety of self informing media such as drawing, video, sculpture and performance. The artist recreates scenes where subjects engage in a variety of experimental scientific endeavors as they attempt to discover something about nature. These scenes are actually performed by the artist, videotaped and used as source material for future works, or sometimes as work themselves. This month Ethan Murrow is exhibiting with Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco, and is featured on the SF based website fecalface.com. In April of 2007, the artist will exhibit with Winston Wachter Fine Art in Seattle.

“Sleepwalkers” is the first U.S. large-scale public project by renowned video artist Doug Aitkin. Creative Time and The Museum of Modern Art have commissioned the artist to create a multi-screen video installation that will be projected on seven facades of the MoMA on 53rd and 54th Streets. This project will premiere on January 16, and will continue through February 12, each evening from 5pm to 10pm. The video follows several individuals through their daily pedestrian activities as they interact within a vast urban landscape. The work was filmed and produced in NYC, and has a diverse cast including Seu Jorge, Chan Marshal (Cat Power), and Donald Sutherland. The nightly viewings are free and publicly open.

Photographer, video and installation artist Sue de Beer creates work that references experiences related to high school and adolescents. de Beer’s work centers on haunting narratives that resonate with the tragic emotional state of a post-Columbine youth, often focusing on the engagement of first time activities such as sexual experience and drug use. The artist is a graduate of both Parsons School of Design (1995), and Columbia University (1998). In January 2004, the artist appeared in a four page spread in Artforum, and later that year she was featured in the Whitney Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Sandroni Rey Gallery, L.A. and Kunst Werke, Berlin. The artist’s video work has been selected for screenings with the MOMA Gramercy Theatre, NYC, and The American Academy in Berlin.

Dutch Artist Folkert De Jong creates life size plus figurative sculptures out of styro and polyurethane foams. These sculptures possess a deviant mentality offering the viewer both humor and horror. De Jong’s narrative objects and scenes reference social boundaries and investigate elements of humanity in a modern world. The artist attended the Academy for Visual Arts and a two year residency Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam. In 2003 De Jong was a finalist for the Prix de Rome, and exhibited at the Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (2005), as a result of his winning the KDR KunstRAI prize (2004). Recent exhibitions have included and Peres Projects and Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles (2005), and the artists first UK exhibition with Chisenhale Gallery (2005).

“Godspipes” is a new exhibition of sculptural works created over the last decade by L.A. based artist Peter Shelton. The exhibition opened earlier this year at L.A. Louver and contained one hundred and eighty-eight vessel type forms that reference both the human body and simple mechanical structures. Shelton is a graduate of UCLA (1979), and throughout his career the artist has continued to allude to the body in a non-overt way, willingly opposing his post-modern academic background that was often saturated in an anti-figurative attitude. In 2005 Shelton had a solo exhibition titled “waterworks” at Galleria Cardi, in Milan, and in 2003 he exhibited with John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco.

The seductive paintings and photographs of Marilyn Minter border both photorealism and abstraction. Her work pieces together commercial depictions of femininity which juxtapose glamour and nausea. The enamel on metal paintings and large format c-prints include references from many major movements both artistically and socially, like early Surrealist photography, post-Warhol pop, advertising and pornography. Minter currently has a solo show at Salon 94 in New York. Her exhibitions include a solo exhibition at SF MOMA in 2005 (which was reviewed by SF Station), a large scale billboard installation in NYC. She was also featured this year in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

Patricia Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation and digital prints. Her major artworks often reflect issues such as bioethics, biotechnologies and the environment and have gained a huge international recognition after her participation in the 2003 Venice Biennale. Her sculpture often examines hybrids in technology and life; creating cross bred animals, humans and machinery. In October 2003, ArtForum reviewed her most recent exhibition in Melbourne. Her work can be found at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, in Sydney Australia, Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C. and the Robert Miller Gallery in New York.