Lenore Thomas works with a variety of digital and traditional print processes as well as painting and drawing. Her current work is a melding of observed reality and the imaginary...
Released 3/9/11
Echo Eggebrecht received her BFA in 2000 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA at Hunter College in 2006.
Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at Sunday Gallery; ICA...
Released 2/2/11
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Jennifer Levonian creates cut-paper animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life. By bringing into focus the unnoticed events of daily life, the artist transforms them into bizarre and uncanny occurrences...
Released 1/19/11
The 2010 Midwestern Voices and Visions recipient Willy Chyr creates stop motion animations and sculptures using balloons and light. The Midwestern Voices and Visions award is possible through a partnership between the Alliance of Artists Communities and the Joyce Foundation and supports exceptional yet unfamiliar artists of color working in any visual, literary or performance discipline...
Released 1/5/11
Taylor Baldwin uses sculpture, installation, and drawing as a tool to stitch personal relationships with objects into a web of history and material...
Released 12/15/10
Georgia Goldberg installations reference time and space through mark making, light, and shadow. Her layered, multi dimensional installations are constructed with Plexiglas, wax, paper, fabric and board and incorporate drawing with ink, wire, and thread...
Released 12/1/10
Michael Caines is a New York / Toronto based artist working in drawing, painting, film and video. His work examines the fragility of the body, symbiotic relationship of humans and animals and a longing and ambivalence for the heroic male figure.
Released 11/17/10
New Jersey based Andrew Demirjian is a media artist whose practice is inspired by traditional painting genres like landscape and portraiture but reinterpreted through computer processing.
Released 10/13/10
Nathan Ritterpusch is a Brooklyn based painter. His oil paintings feature otherworldy atmospheres and characters seemingly caught in cinematic frames. He borrows imagery from film stills, vintage magazines and thrift stores.
Released 9/15/10
Ceramic artist Dong Won Shin lives in Seoul, Korea. Her ceramic installations are inspired by the domestic objects of traditional women's work. Shin seeks to create a narrative between fine objects, craftsmanship and raw space.
Released 9/1/10
Shaun Richard’s large paintings are influenced by his upbringing in the southeastern United States. The landscapes, history, idiosyncrasies and contradictions of this region helped to shape the interests, themes, and content of his work.
Released 8/18/10
Iowa City based artist Peter Schulte maintains a drawing practice that seeks to reflect ideas and experiences in the space where language often fails. In addition to drawing, he remains engaged in sculpture, time-based, social and site specific work, as well as curatorial activities.
Released 8/4/10
Hong Seon Jang's intricate installations are created from found objects and everyday products, such as matches and string. Jang's work and materials echo his interest in vulnerability and the cycles of destruction and creation. Eastern philosophies of circulatory life processes are influential to Jang's work.
Released 7/7/10
Amherst based artist Angela Zammarelli creates playful installations, videos and performances using textiles, objects and domestic imagery.
Released 6/16/10
Us, is a performance project that began on June 1, 2005. Matt Wycoff began with the intention of traveling from New York City to the Pacific Ocean and back to New York without using or handling money. This podcast is presented as part of the exhibition Hopey Changey Things.
Released 6/9/10
Jessie Henson uses materials associated with crafts and folk art to explore personal meanings of memory and loss. Her colorful stitches, materials and domestic objects are a playful exploration of fantasy and escape.
Released 5/26/10
Ben Kinsley is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. His projects have ranged from conducting an orchestra of screaming humans, directing a maritime-themed play for boaters on a lake in Maine, organizing a shadow play in the middle of the California High Desert, and choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View.
Released 5/5/10
In researching and appropriating cultural iconography, Tannaz Farsi utilizes non-linear narratives to create installations that focus on the gaze of the individual and its spatial location. Working with objects and image her installations choose the language of synesthetic intimacy, the absence of cinematic climax and the specificity of poetry to question the framework of identity in contemporary culture.
Released 3/17/10
Dallas based artist Margaret Meehan's concern with locating the sublime in the grotesque is as grounded in a traditional Victorian obsession with medical anomalies as it is with defying our more recent attempt to banish all nastiness and discomfort from our daily experience.
Released 2/17/10
Mayumi Amada creates installations out of a wide variety of materials, including, but not limited to discarded plastic bottles, bones, metal, live swimmers, mirrors and rope. She is interested in ancestry, the circular nature of life cycles, and the environment.
Released 1/20/10
Laurie Frick creates large and vibrantly colorful collages. She is interested in patterns, memory, and time. Frick is interested in the way past experiences influence the way the brain processes and interprets images and information.
Released 1/6/10
Born in South Korea, Min Kim Park focuses on exploring the issues revolving around gender, ethnicity and identity using multimedia performance, video, photography, and sound installation. The artist draws from her experience as a journalist in both South Korea and the United States.
Released 12/17/09
Adam Shecter lives in New York City. His animation, performances and installations are influenced by contemporary cultural media sources including cinema, Saturday morning cartoons, literature and music. Shecter has maintained his online test-site, theworldofadam.com, since 2002.
Released 12/2/09
Morgan Schwartz creates video installations, single-channel videos, urban actions and interactive media projects. He creates structures that encourage social interaction and respond directly to specific sites and cultural systems.
Released 8/26/09
With a playful twist on schoolgirl plaid outfits for her characters Sioux and Sue, artist Susan Lee-Chun creates a powerful narrative in her performance, video and installation work incorporating the two dueling figures. VERSUS is her latest piece involving the characters that touch on ideas of assimilation and identity politics. “Through subtle representations and actions in the work, Susan investigates the pervasive struggles of being classified as an 'other', and one's innate desire to fit in”.
Released 7/1/09
The transformations of the mundane to myth, the absurd into custom, and the coalescences of ephemeral are intrinsic to Kambui Olujimi's work regardless of medium or genre. Whether they are dream books, rock skipping contests, or wanted posters for clouds, Olujimi inhabits the spaces where myth is made fact and forgotten. Olujimi describes his work as the space "where our pennies are turned into wishes and where history is cured.
Released 6/3/09
