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November 5 – December 14, 2007
Marco Antonini, Curator
Marco Antonini was born in Pescara, Italy. He earned his MA in Art Administration at the University of Bologna. He moved to New York in 2003 and started to nurture a career in freelance writing and curating on the side of several different day jobs. In 2007 his project NACRE co-authored with the italian artist Luca Bertini was the recipient of the Project for Emerging Curators award of the ISE Foundation in NY. Recent and upcoming curated projects include a screening/lecture on Japanese video and animation trends for the Japan Society and a group show for the Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, both in New York.
He is a Gallery Educator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and a recipient of a Connors Fellowship in Art History and Museum Studies at the City College of New York/ CUNY. His articles, essays and interviews appear regularly on the pages of Contemporary and BMM. In the recent past, he has contributed to many international publications, including Flash Art, Arte & Critica, AroundPhotography, D and NYArts.
Manuel Acevedo
Manuel Acevedo’s exhibitions in national and international institutions include Exit Art, The Drawing Center, Bard College, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, Studio Museum in Harlem, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Westfaelischer Kunstverein in Munster, Germany with solo exhibitions at Jersey City Museum and the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. He is a recipient of the 2006 Spaces World Artists Program, and other awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Longwood Arts Project: Digital Matrix Commission, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship.
Matthew Bakkom, Artist
Matthew Bakkom was born in 1968 in Minneapolis, where he is currently based. He creates projects and participates in exhibitions in the United States and elsewhere. His work is currently featured in Residents at Le Space Elektra in Paris and he has recently taken part in Locally, Localized Gravity at the Philadelphia ICA and Open Ended at the Walker Art Center. He completed Irish Museum of Modern Art's Artist Work Program in 2004. In 2006 he produced the New York City Museum of Complaint. After completing the Whitney ISP in 1999 he took part in LMCC's World Views program located in the World Trade Center in 2000-2001, the LMCC Paris Residency in 2003-4.
Charles Goldman, Artist
Charles Goldman was born in San Francisco, CA in 1966 and lives and works in Brooklyn. He received a BA in both Painting and American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a MFA in Studio Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His multifaceted practice, which spans sculpture, photography, installation, performance, drawing, sound and painting, is concerned with the cyclical nature of life and the standardized units used in its measurement. Recently, he completed public projects for the Art Caucasus-International Contemporary Art Biennale in Tbilisi, Georgia; the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Toronto Sculpture Garden. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, Artists Space, The Philip Feldman Gallery, The Drawing Center, and SculptureCenter. Charles Goldman participated in LMCC’s New Views located in The World Financial Center in 2002-2003. www.charlesgoldmanwork.com.
Christopher K. Ho, Artist
Christopher K. Ho divides his time between New York City and Providence, where he teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. He exhibits his site-oriented, collaborative work frequently, recently at the Queens Museum, Sara Meltzer Gallery, the Jamaica Center for the Arts, the Municipal Art Society, Smack Mellon Studios, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Asian American Art Center. His solo exhibition for Winkleman Gallery, Happy Birthday, opens in January 2008. He received his BFA and BS from Cornell University and his M.Phil from Columbia University.
Tom Kotik, Artist
Tom Kotik received a BS cum laude in Studio Art from New York University. He received a MFA from Hunter College. He has exhibited work at SculptureCenter, Parker's Box, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library, Smack Mellon, and Socrates Sculpture Park, in New York; Prague Castle, National Gallery, and Klenova Sculpture Symposium, in the Czech Republic. Kotik was a resident artist at Art OMI in Ghent, New York. He received the Graf Travel Grant from Hunter College. Kotik also plays regular shows with his band, The Mighty High. Tom Kotik participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in The Equitable Building in 2004.
Catarina Leitão, Artist
Catarina Leitão, Portuguese and born in Germany in 1970, lives and works in New York and received an MFA from Hunter College in 2000 and a BFA University of Lisbon, Portugal in 1993. Leitão works in drawing and sculpture. Exhibitions in New York include Numberthirtyfive, Greater New York P.S.1/Moma, Sara Meltzer, WaveHill, Michael Steinberg, Socrates Sculpture Park, Andrea Rosen. In Portugal she shows with Pedro Cera Gallery and had solo museum shows at the Berardo Collection and Gulbenkian Foundation. Awards and residencies include Center for Book Arts, The Triangle Arts Residency, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Catarina Leitão participated in the LMCC Workspace program located in the Woolworth Building in 2003. www.catarinaleitao.net
Patrick Meagher, Artist
Patrick Meagher was born in 1973 in Manhattan, and lives and works in New York. Architecture, technology and economics at the turn of the millennium are the central interests in his artwork. His three concurrent suites Postscript to Modernism, The Desktop Revolution, and New Era Consciousness, collage and hybridize utopian commercial aesthetics in a range of media. Currently the new series reveals cultural traces in Styrofoam packaging, maps ‘global’ vocabularies of ecommerce buttons, and distills local and municipal logos into 21st century symbols of psychological states. Meagher went to Carnegie Mellon and Künstakademie Dusseldorf for sculpture, and Harvard University for design. Patrick Meagher participated in LMCC’s World Views program located in The World Trade Center in 2000-2001.
Jihyun Park, Artist
Jihyun Park, born in South Korea in 1970, and now lives and works in New York City, received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea; Art in General, New York, NY; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; and the Duck Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Park’s work has been shown in recent group shows at the Queens Museum of Art and Gallery Korea, both in NYC; and Asian art initiative, Philadelphia, PA. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Aljira Emerge Fellowship from the Professional Development Fellowship Program for Emerging Artists and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jihyun Park participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in the Equitable Building in 2004.
Making Noise
November 28, 2007 – January 2, 2008
Curators
Andrew Cappetta, born in 1978 in Yonkers, NY, currently resides in Brooklyn and is an art historian, educator and curator. He focuses on contemporary film, video, and sound. He has a BA in History of Art from Cornell University and is currently pursuing his doctorate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He also teaches at Hunter College and Queensborough Community College.
Jeff Pash, born in 1977 in Los Angeles, CA, currently resides in Brooklyn and is an artist and curator. He works in sound and video focusing on contemporary issues of war and violence. He has a BFA in Film Studies from Cornell University and is currently pursuing an MFA at Purchase College where he also teaches. His work was recently honored at the annual College Arts Association Regional MFA Exhibition with the Recognition Award.
Pash and Cappetta have been co-curating sound and video events in the New York area for the last five years, at venues such as Tonic, Brooklyn Fireproof, and Flux Factory. In 2003 they were awarded an Experimental Television Center Presentation Grant for their Soundscrape series.
Kabir Carter, Artist
Kabir Carter, born in Los Angeles and currently living and working in New York, received a BA from Bard College. His compositions, performances, and sound installations have been presented at Art Interactive, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Diapason, Dorsch Gallery, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Jersey City Museum, PS122 Gallery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Socrates Sculpture Park, and in public presentations throughout New York City. Carter has received awards from the American Music Center, Experimental Television Center, Media Alliance, and Rhizome. Kabir Carter participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in The Equitable Building in 2004.
Kate Gilmore, Artist
Kate Gilmore, born in Washington D.C., currently living and working in New York received a BA from Bates College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. Her work has been exhibited at the Mary Boone Gallery, Pierogi, P.S.1’s Greater New York 2005, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Haifa Museum of Art, and the CAC, Cincinnati. She has been awarded a NYFA Fellowship, a Franklin Furnace Fund Grant, and an Independent Project Grant from Artists Space. Gilmore is one of the 2007-2008 recipients of the American Academy in Rome's Rome Prize. Kate Gilmore participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in The Equitable Building in 2003-2004.
Tom Kotik, Artist
Tom Kotik received a BS cum laude in Studio Art from New York University. He received a MFA from Hunter College. He has exhibited work at SculptureCenter, Parker's Box, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library, Smack Mellon, and Socrates Sculpture Park, in New York; Prague Castle, National Gallery, and Klenova Sculpture Symposium, in the Czech Republic. Kotik was a resident artist at Art OMI in Ghent, New York. He received the Graf Travel Grant from Hunter College. Kotik also plays regular shows with his band, The Mighty High. Tom Kotik participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in The Equitable Building in 2004.
neuroTransmitter, Artist
neuroTransmitter was co-founded by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere in 2001 as a project whose work fuses conceptual practices with transmission, sound production, and mobile broadcast design. They have created visual works, performed, and broadcasted live on local bandwidths and in public spaces and galleries internationally, including The Anna Akhmatova Museum, Smack Mellon Studios, Govett Brewster Museum, The New Museum, and Apex Art among others. From 2003-2004, they were artist-in-residence at Eyebeam, NYC, and in 2006 in-residence with Corso Aperto of Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy. The have received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Franklin Furnace Fund. neurotransmitter participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in The Woolworth Building in 2003-2004.
Nadine Robinson, Artist
Nadine Robinson, born in London and now living and working in New York City, received a BA in Fine Arts from the State University at Stony Brook and an MA in Studio Arts from New York University. She has exhibited her sculptural installations at The Museum of Modern Art; the ICA, Philadelphia; the Studio Museum in Harlem; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; and The New Museum. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Studio Museum in Harlem and Smack-Mellon, Brooklyn. In 2004, she received the William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts Prize. Nadine Robinson participated in LMCC’s World Views program located in the World Trade Center in 1999.
Douglas Ross, Artist
Douglas Ross lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited his videos and installations at institutions including SculptureCenter; The Walker Art Center; The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; and MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami. He has received fellowships from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Socrates Sculpture Park and the Asian Cultural Council. He has taught at the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, the Rhode Island School of Design and Cornell University. Douglas Ross participated in LMCC’s World Views program located in the World Trade Center in 1999.
Stephen Vitiello, Artist
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and sound artist living in Richmond, VA and working in both Richmond and New York City. He has exhibited his sound installations at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; The Kitchen; the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; The Andy Warhol Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has presented performances at The Corcoran Gallery, The Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. He has been awarded grants and fellowships by Creative Captial and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is currently Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University and Archivist for The Kitchen. Stephen Vitiello participated in LMCC’s World Views program located in the World Trade Center in 1999.
Imaginary Arsenals
December 8, 2007 – January 19, 2008
Kimberly Lamm, Curator
Kimberly Lamm was born in Portland, Oregon and now lives and works in Brooklyn. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Washington and is an Assistant Professor of English at Pratt Institute, where she also teaches in the Program in Critical and Visual Studies. A former Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Lamm has published essays on the poetry of Juliana Spahr, the art of Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, and Mona Hatoum as well as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée. She recently curated Perspicuous: Work on Space and Image, an interdisciplinary exhibition of student work at Pratt Institute.
Jane Benson
Born in Thornbury, England, Jane Benson lives and works in Brooklyn. In a variety of materials, Benson’s sculpture and installations explore the transformations of material and identity. Benson has exhibited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center (Greater New York); the ICA, Philadelphia; Sculpture Center, LIC, Queens; and the Queens Museum of Art. Recent solo shows include “Underbush,” Roebling Hall Gallery, and “The Chronicles Of Narcissism” at Black and White Gallery, Chelsea. She has upcoming shows at the North Carolina Museum of Art and Schmidt Center University Gallery, Miami. Benson is the recipient of the Pollack Krasner Grant and the Fulbright Scholarship.
Stephen Collier, Artist
Stephen Collier was born on Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi, MS in 1971. He received his BA from the University of New Orleans. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx River Art Center, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Lincoln Center in New York City, and numerous galleries in the United States. He recently completed a residency with the Santa Fe Art Institute and in 2006 was awarded a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Collier lives and works in New Orleans and New York. He works in a range of media, which include photography, painting, sculpture, sound, and video. Stephen Collier participated in LMCC's Gulf Coast Residency in 2006. He participated in LMCC's Gulf Coast Artist Residency Program in 2005-2006.
Diane Meyer, Artist
Diane Meyer has had solo exhibitions at the AIR Gallery in New York and the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City. Her work has also been exhibited in group shows at Lennox Contemporary, Toronto; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning; Jessica Murray Projects Spaces Gallery, Cleveland; the Bronx Musuem; Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Georgia; and Rotunda Gallery. Meyer has had residencies with Lower Manhattan Cultural, Smack Mellon, and the CUE Art Foundation. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and an artist in residence at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Diane Meyer participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in The Woolworth Building in 2003.
Graham Parker, Artist
Graham Parker was born in Belfast and now lives and works in Brooklyn. A graduate of the Whitney Museum of Art’s Independant Study Program, as well as its Architectural and Urbanism Program, Parker has curated exhibitions for the Center for Book Arts in New York, and has had solo shows at Breaking Ground in Dublin and the C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore. Parker’s most recent work is influenced by moments of failure or stress in electronic communications and the historic failures they echo. This work on failure is part of Parker's ongoing investigation into the confidence trick in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century America and the philosophy of human/computer interaction. Graham Parker participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in the Equitable Building in 2005.
Kanishka Raja, Artist
Kanishka Raja was born in Calcutta, India in 1969, and has lived in the United States since he was 18. He received his MFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. He has received considerable attention for his carefully built images of dizzying interior landscapes, which blend a hard edge illustrational style with Op art patterning, Indian miniaturist detail, and American pop references. Raja often refers to them as "collisions of the foreign and the familiar." Kanishka Raja participated in LMCC’s Workspace program located in the Equitable Building in 2005.
Nathan See
Nathan See was born in New York City in 1974. He attended Music and Art High School as well as the Ecole D'humanite in Switzerland. Nathan received his BFA in 1998 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed graduate studies at Hunter College in New York in 2000. His work has been shown nationally in Chicago, California and New York. He has been the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Assistance grant, The New York Foundation for the Arts Assistance Grant, and The Rauschenberg Foundations Artists Grant. As well as participating in the Worldviews Residency program Nathan has been awarded a residency at the Henry Street Settlement in NYC for 2003-04 and The artist alliance Residency in 2004.
Dan Tague
Dan Tague lives and works in New Orleans. He began working in a variety on mediums ranging from found object sculpture to video installation while in graduate school. Since graduating with an MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2000, he has shown in numerous exhibitions including South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem, Dumbo Art Center in Brooklyn, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, and Leedy-Volkous Arts Center in Kansas City. He has been awarded residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, La Napoule Art Foundation, KALA Art Institute, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Human Resources
January 2 – February 1, 2008
Manuel Acevedo
Manuel Acevedo’s exhibitions in national and international institutions include Exit Art, The Drawing Center, Bard College, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, Studio Museum in Harlem, Real Art Ways in Connecticut, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Westfaelischer Kunstverein in Munster, Germany with solo exhibitions at Jersey City Museum and the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. He is a recipient of the 2006 Spaces World Artists Program, and other awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Longwood Arts Project: Digital Matrix Commission, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship.
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