Hanneke Beaumont was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1947. Now living and working in Belgium, Beaumont creates life size figurative scuptures that deal with the human psyche with figures and are lying prone, sitting in, or standing up in desolated postures. Beaumont started her artistic studies in 1977 at the Academie de Braine l’Alleud, then at La Cambre & in Anderlecht. Her work is exhibited widely in Europe with Galerie Frans Jacobs, and Galleria Sacchetti, and with the Neuhoff Gallery in NYC.

California based painter Jeff Soto is having an exhibition next month title “Cold Ice Age” with the Black Market Gallery in Los Angles. Themes present in this new show consist of Soto’s staple imagery of robots, toys, monsters and dreamy surrealism, but this exhibition is rooted in new ideas of world war and global energy crisis. Soto has been featured in several art and contemporary culture magazines such as Juxtapoz, Beautiful Decay, and Giant Robot. He also had a solo show earlier this year with the Jack Levine Gallery in NYC.

Best known for her works involving meticulous cutting and layering of hundreds of pieces of white paper, Noriko Ambe creates sculptural landscapes that evoke a subtle feeling of loss and detachment. Pierogi presented the first New York, one-person exhibition of Ambe’s work, mapping the mysterious land between physical and emotional geography. Ambe’s second solo exhibition in New York was with the Josee Bienvenu Gallery, named “Flat Globe.” Her most recent exhibition was with Forces of Nature, with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC a unique exhibition between seven institutions in North and South Carolina and ten contemporary Japanese artists. Ambe studied in Japan and received her degree from Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

Josh Keyes is an Oakland based painter drawing attention to the complex interaction and overlay of urban development and the natural environment, exploring the idea of nature as an expendable object. Keyes is a graduate of the Yale School of Art and has been featured in New American Paintings and most recently on San Francisco based FecalFace.com. In 2007 Keyes will have a new solo show with the George Billis Gallery in LA.

Marc Horowitz is a San Francisco based conceptual artist who works in a variety of mediums from photography to absurd video and performance. Horowitz is the co-creator of Sliv & Dulet Enterprises, a conceptual company staffed with thirty artists posing as business people to developing problems for people’s solutions. National Dinner Tour is a recent project that has been featured on dozens of radio stations, newspapers, and national and international television programs because the artist is on tour to simply dine with strangers. Marc Horowitz photography is represented with Yooprojects in San Fran, and on November 20th the artist will hold a lecture at Portland State University.

Compound is a new installation using a low-tech arrangement of lights, lenses and ordinary objects, by Brooklyn based artist Liza McConnell. The installation is part of a two person exhibition on view this month at SmackMellon in NYC. These sculptures disregard digital technology and new media in favor of principles similar to that of a camera obscura and are projected in real-time via small apertures and simple lenses. Liza McConnell is a graduate of Ohio State in sculpture and has been an artist-in-residence at several organizations including the Drawing Center in NYC, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburg.

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.