is a New York City-based artist who uses a variety of media, including painting, photography and video. He received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. His work is based on appropriation, autobiographical references, and obsessive personality traits, which can be traced to a steady diet of television, video games, underground comics, and hardcore punk music.
Group exhibitions in New York include B Hotel at PS1 MoMA, Mama's Boy, curated by Jane Harris at White Columns, Sasquatch Society at Sixtyseven, Grendel, with Jack the Pelican Presents in Miami, and Volume(s), curated by Marc Clement and Kevin Muhlen, at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg. His videos have been shown at The Videoex Festival in Zurich, Stromereien Open Air Performance Tage, curated by Harm Lux, in Zurich, and Good Humor, organized by Tricia McLaughlin and Sharon Paz at Pullox in Berlin. Reviews and publications include The New York Times, Time Out New York, K48, Vogue Italia, zingmagazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and PAJ. He has curated exhibitions at Here Art in New York and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and written on art for Artnet, ARTINFO, and ArtReview.
He is the director of the fake gallery Triton Gallery, LLC.
Bureau V: Stella Lee, Peter Zuspan, Alex Pincus
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Bureau V specializes in the design and production of architecture that engages in beauty, culture, and economy. The studio's expertise lies in a range of work from cultural institutions to large commercial buildings to performance and new media installations. Founded in 2007 by Peter Zuspan, Stella Lee, and Alexander Pincus, Bureau V has developed a diverse portfolio of experimental work. Significant projects include a collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Imaginary Forces on the design of /Infoscape/, the new information landscape for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; a new facade for ESL Corporation's headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ; /Autopilot/, a theatrical production performed in Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall; and a masterplan and design of a 120 acre sustainable farm and eco-resort in La Balsa, Costa Rica. The members of Bureau V met on the campus of Columbia University where they received their Master of Architecture.
Francisca Caporali + Mary Jeys
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Francisca is a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn. She has a Master Degree from MECAD-ESDI in Barcelona, Spain, and she is a MFA candidate at Hunter College in Integrated Media Arts. She is an AAUW International Fellowship 2007/08 recipient.
Mary Jeys studied studio art at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been exhibited in New York; New Jersey; Austin, Texas; and Dublin, Ireland. She lives and works in Brooklyn and likes explosions very much.
Francisca Caporali and Mary Jeys have both worked exploring the aesthetics of destruction. They will collaborate to recreate, through video and visual montage, Hollywood scenes of New York City being destroyed. Upon finding and selecting destruction scenes, Francisca will re-shoot the areas where these scenes take place as they are today. Mary will then draw and paint a representation of each frame of video shot by Francisca and alter it in a way inspired by an original explosion or image of destruction from selected films set in downtown Manhattan. They will overlay a drawing/painting on a representation of the original footage from Manhattan as it is today. The project is meant to combine the reality of Manhattan with the fictionalized action setting of the city.
Stephanie Diamond
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Stephanie Diamond has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, Para-Site Gallery, Beacon, New York, and at Galeria Sin Titulo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Sculpture Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Katonah Museum of Art, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, The Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina, Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Art In General, and Artists Space. She received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, and her M.A. from New York University.
Stephanie works with the idea that photography is an art medium that is most comfortably spoken about, shared, and understood by non-artists. All of Stephanie's images are amassed in an archive of, loosely counted, 100,000 photographs. The archive includes every photograph that she has ever taken, or has been given to her, and is the focus and starting-off point for much of her current practice and projects today.
Ketta Ioannidou
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Ketta Ioannidou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. She lives and works in New York City. She received her BA (hons) from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, PS 122 Gallery, Sixtyseven, Foxy Production, and Here Art in New York, The Carriage House at The Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Diatopos in Nicosia, Cyprus. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale in 2003, the 24th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries in Egypt in 2007, and the 1999 Rome Biennale for Young Artists from European and Mediterranean Countries. She participated in the Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Aljira Emerge at Aljira in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded a residency at The Artists' Enclave at I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut. Ioannidou's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Flash Art. She will have a solo exhibition at Go North gallery in Beacon, New York in June 2008.
Yola Monakhov
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Yola Monakhov was born in Moscow, lives in New York, and is a photographer. She will have her first solo show this May at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in Tribeca. She works as a contributing photographer for The New Yorker magazine and has shown her photographs in groups shows in New York, Virginia, and Moscow. She has worked internationally as an assignment photographer in the former Soviet Union, Central Asia and the Middle East . She received her BA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and her MA and MFA from Columbia University, where she currently teaches photography.
Ari Tabei
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Ari was born and raised in Tokyo, receiving her undergraduate education at Sophia University (BA in International Legal Studies, '97). She attended the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Studio Art at Brandies University in 2001, participated in the Vermont Studio Center Residency Program in April 2004, and will received her MFA from the University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in May 2007.
Haeri Yoo
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
Haeri Yoo is a painter who was born in Korea in 1970. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute and lives and works in New York. Her work has been exhibited at Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx River Arts Center, Thomas Erben gallery, White box gallery, in New York, Germany, China. Her work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, NY Arts Magazine. Yoo is a recipient of AHL foundation award and participated in the residency at Henry Street Settlement, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. In her mixed- media drawing, site-specific installation Yoo explores human sexuality and the psychological: humor, overt and subtle in between beauty and violence.
As an artist in an age of exponential information growth, Christian Croft’s work harnesses public data flows, filtering their contents to reveal changes in how people communicate. His work translates information trails into new and often contrary spaces to highlight the sociological influence of new technologies. His production methods include web programming, DIY electronics, rapid prototyping machinery, and telephone system networking. In Fall 2007, he will conclude his master’s research at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and he presently works at the Advanced Media Studio at NYU.
His work has been shown at The Kitchen Summer Institute, Centre Pompidou, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Rhizome Artbase, EYEBEAM Upgrade!, SIGGRAPH 2007, and Conflux 2007. For LMCC Swing Space, he is working on an installation entitled “the ‘is our machines learning?’ machine.” Documentation of his projects is online at xncroft.com.
Jeff Gray
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Jeff Gray is an interface designer and artist exploring the boundaries between technology and human interaction. These range from augmented historical artifacts with extended memories, extra-sensory wearable technologies, and dynamic interfaces for musical expression, just to name a few. The overall goal remains establishing human-like qualities and relationships with the objects we interact with daily, in order to improve our interaction with the everyday world. Jeff has a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a bachelor's degree in studio art from the University of Idaho.
In addition, Jeff is a creative technologist and developer with Learning Worlds. He builds visualization tools and asset management software, as well as physical hardware prototypes. While seeking his master's degree, he developed software for visualizing “network ecosystems” in an aesthetic framework and various physical interfaces. Recently, he has been involved in building tools and installations for the Children's Museum of Manhattan, 3 Legged Dog, as well as the United Nations.
Erik Guzman
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Erik Guzman has been active as an artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 8 years. During this time, Guzman has been involved in organizing and/or participating in over 50 art events. Among many professional accomplishments are his Joan Mitchell nomination, selection as School of Visual Arts representative at the New York College Art Association show and Cue Foundation resident. He has exhibited locally in New York City, Smack Mellon, El Museo Del Barrio (S Files), Front Room Gallery, Soap Factory, Hillwood Museum, Dumbo Art Festival, The Kitchen, Exit Art, St. Marks Church Gallery. International exposure includes shows at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Goliath in Hamburg, Germany and Gallery Tezz, Tokyo, Japan. Erik is the Co-Director of Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, which has been in operation for seven years and is a non-profit visual arts space dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists often overlooked by commercial galleries and regarded as commercially non-viable. Erik received his BFA, with honors, and MFA, with a full scholarship, from the School of Visual Arts. Erik is currently Director of SVA’s sculpture department, where he oversees safety and is responsible for the technical education of over 250 students.
Lars Mathisen
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Danish-born Lars Mathisen holds a BA in History from Copenhagen University, Denmark. He lives and works in Copenhagen and New York.
Mathisen has primarily worked with developing the visual languages of film and video in contemporary art. Mathisen’s video installations employ language and theatrical stage settings along with shifts in the synchronization between sound and image to create a deliberate disorientation on the part of the viewer. This sliding of elements is a critical device in his works that cancels the distance between opposites, bringing utopia in touch with dystopia and "normality" in touch with perversion.
Mathisen’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, the Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland, the Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, the ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus, Denmark, the São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (Danish representative 2004), the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain, and the Nordic Biennale, Moss, Norway.
Tim Maxwell
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Tim Maxwell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and works in New York City. He graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a BFA in drawing and painting, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004 with an MFA in drawing and painting. Maxwell’s drawings are influenced by Celtic illuminated manuscripts, human ornamentation, idiosyncrasies of wisdom literature in the Bible, the self-help quality of punk and hardcore music, medieval depictions of the last judgment. And a reluctant pull towards metaphysics and Soren Kierkegaard’s endless musings of soul doubting.
He has had solo shows at Marvelli Lab, Derek Eller, and RARE gallery and has been included in group exhibitions at White Columns, Massimo Audiello, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen and Alona Kagan Gallery.
Julia Rommel
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Julia Rommel was born in Salisbury, Maryland, and resides in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and studied painting at the University of Richmond, and St. Andrews University, Scotland. She has participated in group shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, and Connor Contemporary Art in Washington D.C.
Edin Velez
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Through rich imagery and an acute sense of visual metaphor, Edin Velez, one of the pioneers of video art, has consistently expanded the paradigms of the genre. Velez was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the School of Fine Arts of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. In 1970, inspired by Marshall McLuhan's theories, he moved to New York City in order to explore the possibilities of television as a personal art form.
His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Documenta 8, Sao Paolo Biennial, The Tate Gallery, and the Louvre Museum, among others. His videos are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art: New York, Stedelijk Museum: Amsterdam, Nagoya Museum: Japan, and the Whitney Museum: NY. In 2000 he was an artist in residence at the World Trade Center where he created a site specific installation on the 91st Floor of Tower One. In 2004 Velez’s work was included in "Modern Means," a landmark survey show of 300 art works representing modern art from the late Nineteenth century to the present which was the flagship exhibition of the newly opened Mori Museum in Tokyo.
Alex Villar
120 Broadway, 29th Floor
July- October 2007
Born in Brazil and based in New York, Alex Villar holds an MFA from Hunter College ('98) and in 2000 was a Whitney ISP fellow. His work draws from interdisciplinary theoretical sources; it employs video, installation and photography. Individual and collaborative projects are part of a long-term investigation of potential spaces of dissent in the urban landscape; it has often taken the form of an exploration of negative spaces in architecture.
Selected exhibitions: New Museum, Mass MoCA, Drawing Center, Exit Art, Stux Gallery, Apexart and Dorsky Gallery in New York; Institute of International Visual Arts in London, Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo, Galleri Tommy Lund and Overgaden in Copenhagen, UKS in Oslo, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, the Goteborg Konstmuseum in Sweden, Galerie Joanna Kamm in Berlin, Signal in Malmo, Galeria Arsenal in Poland, Lichthaus in Bremen and Halle für Kunst in Luneburg. Published articles and reviews in ReMarx, Text zur Kunst, Tema Celeste and The New York Times.
Carlo Bernardini was born in Viterbo in 1966 and obtained his diploma at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1987. In 1997 he wrote the theoretical essay on "The division of visual unity", which was published by Stampa Alternativa. In 2000 and 2005 he received a grant "Overseas Grantee" from the Pollock - Krasner Foundation of New York, and in 2002 the prize Targetti Art Light Collection “White Sculpture”. He has created and installed permanent public sculptures in stainless steel and optic fibres in various Italian cities.
He currently teaches at the Fine Arts Academy of “Brera” in Milan. He lives and works both in Rome and Milan.
Carlo Bernardini is devoted to the dialectic relation between lines and monochrome, representing different moments of the figurative conception of space and light. The painstaking path of abstraction, far from being a sole intellectual strategy, is a gradual research of the line element in order to conquer its essence, as if to trace the invisible. His visual research is currently
developed by means of environmental
installations in optic fibres.
Architect/choreographer Eva Perez de Vega Steele and architect Ian Gordon form e+i architecture (ei-architecture.com), an interdisciplinary architecture practice also involved in interior design, product, set design and choreography. The work of e+i has been exhibited in New York (AIA Center for Architecture, Van Alen Institute, RIVAA art gallery), Milan design fair, Venice, Rome, Madrid, Stockholm and Seoul.
Eva Perez de Vega Steele holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Madrid School of Advanced Architecture (ETSAM) and has studied dance at the Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. In 2004 she founded EPdVS Studio (epdvs.com) to explore techniques of exchange between both fields and continues to do so with e+i. She currently teaches at Parsons The New School for Design and has taught at UPenn School of Landscape Architecture and Princeton School of Architecture.
Ian Gordon is a licensed architect in New York State with nine years of professional experience working in New York, North Carolina, and Madrid, Spain. He received his Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) and graduated with honors from Columbia University. He holds a Bachelors degree from NC State University and has a background in Fine Arts. In 2006 he initiated isgStudio, an office dedicated to design research and currently co-directs e+i architecture with Eva Perez de Vega.
Carlos Motta
200 Hudson, 4th Floor
July 2007
Carlos Motta is an artist (b. Bogotá, Colombia, 1978) whose work investigates the effects that historically significant political events have exercised on individual and collective subjectivity. At Swing Space (2007), Motta presented "The Good Life: Installation Sketch # 3," a sketch of his long-term video documentary project (in-progress) composed of interviews with people on the streets of 12 Latin American cities about their perceptions of current and historical US foreign policy in the region and of local forms of democratic governance. Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2006), received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, in 2003, and a BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in 2001. His work has been widely exhibited, including in the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Palazzo Papesse, Siena, Italy; Foam_Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia; SF; and Fries Museum, Groningen, Holland. Recent awards include the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), 2007; the Swing Space Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2007; the DaNY Arts Grant (with HOMEWORK), Danish Arts Council, 2007, and the Subvention Grant, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (CIFO), 2006.
Anja Hitzenberger
145 Nassau
June - July 2007
Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker and video artist whose work focuses on the body in motion. She has been commissioned to create video installations for dance, has photographed live on stage as part of a performance, and has been collaborating with movement artists on site-specific architecturally-aware pieces. She studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, and has exhibited her work in group and one-person shows in New York and throughout Europe, and published internationally in magazines, books and newspapers. Her short film, Barcelona in 48 Hours, co-directed with composer Edward Ratliff, has been screened in over 20 festivals across world. A multimedia performance version of the film was commissioned by and premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, and was also presented in Vienna at the ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival.
Troy Richards currently lives and works in Ohio, where he is the chair of Drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He received his MFA in 1997 from Cranbrook Art Academy. He has participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program and the Artists in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Duncan and Miller Gallery in Washington D.C., and a long-term installation at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. His work has been included in group exhibitions in New York City at P.S.1, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LFL Gallery and Gallery 67 among others. Last December he performed at Artists Space in New York City as part of Performa 05.
Noah Fischer
andcompany
&Co
38 Park Row
July 2007
Founded by Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord and Sascha Sulimma from Frankfurt, Germany, andcompany&Co. is an international artists’ network that concentrates on performance. The network is open to collaborators, who take on the suffix &Co when they join. New York based visual artist Noah Fischer &Co joined in 2005 while on a Fulbright in the Netherlands, bringing his electric installations onto the stage alongside Sascha, who mixes sound live onstage, and Alex and Nicola, who write and perform text. The common thread that runs through andco.’s work is a reflection on communism in the West. In 2005, Noah Fischer presented an evening of multimedia performances with andcompany&Co, Jutta Koether, and Jashca Hoffman. www.andco.de
Insert Name Here, established in 2005, is a transnational curatorial collaboration consisting of the artists Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Jenny Yurshansky. Our main concern is contemporary art, with the aim of creating a dialogue around this topic by connecting to local and international artists, curators, and art institutions in order to initiate collaborative projects. Together we locate the blurring of genres in contemporary art production and through this question the need for the absolute categorization of creative practice. The aim is to present art and host discussions that are open to all audiences in a wide variety of spaces. For further information about the UNCLASSIFIABLE project showcased at LMCC please visit www.unclassifiable.org
Melanie Baker
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Melanie
Baker holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Stonybrook
University. She has received fellowships from the Sacatar Foundation
(Bahia, Brazil), and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2003
she was awarded the NYFA Prize. She has had residencies at Art Omi
Int'l Arts Center, the Henry St. Settlement, Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council, Djerrasi, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and Yaddo.
Her work is concerned with images of power, particularly men who
hold sway over governments. She makes large scale drawings and paintings,
severely cropped and rendered in charcoal and sometimes newspaper
collage. The work she is currently engaged in is shifting toward
religious and historical figures, but with a continued emphasis on
men who hold power over others, Exhibitions include "Open House:
Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum, and exhibitions with
Roebling Hall, White Box, Momenta galleries, and theJersey City Museum.
Solo shows include "Hiding the Elephant" Satellite/Roebling
Hall, "As Faces do Poder" EBEC Galeria de Arte, Salvador,
Brazil, the Scene Gallery, NYC and the Tatar Gallery, Toronto.
Shin il Kim
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Shin
il Kim began studying art at Seoul National University with a major
in sculpture. He completed his MFA at the School of Visual Arts and
attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He presented
video work for the Gwangju Biennale 2004 in Korea and has had solo
exhibitions at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta. He took part in the
Portland Biennial at the Portland Museum of Art, Queens International
2004 at Queens Museum of Art, and AIM 24 at the Bronx Museum of Art.
One of his videos was presented in the 7th Altoids Curiously Strong
Collection tour. Shows in the US include New Museum of Contemporary
Art in New York. Recently he also has participated in “Young
Korean Artists” in National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
and Singapore Biennale 2006. Originally from Korea, Kim is interested
in Eastern Philosophies such as the idea of Buddhism and ‘the
golden mean.’
Roy Stanfield
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Born
in Beaumont, Texas in 1978, Roy spent his childhood skateboarding
the desolate downtown areas of Southeast Texas. In 1992 he helped
found the 409 Crew Skatepark in an abandoned building in downtown
Beaumont. He soon joined several irreverent punk acts: Beat Down,
Agravits and Kung Fu Grip. Roy graduated from the University of Texas
at Austin in December 2002. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New
York.
Jessica Feldman
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Jessica
Feldman is an intermedia artist with a background in sound, sculpture
and installation. She creates work that asks its audience to engage
in interactions with each other and with larger communities and political
questions. Recent pieces tend toward interactivity and often occur
in extremely public or extremely private spaces. Works have been
performed, installed and exhibited at art galleries, concert halls,
public parks, city streets, tiny closets and the internet. Recent
and upcoming venues include The Kitchen, Roulette, The Museum of
Contextual Amputations (ongoing online project), the Flux Factory,
The Stone, The Tank, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Chelsea Waterside
Park, Tenri Cultural Institute, the Fisher Center for the Arts at
Bard College, Columbia, Brandeis and Wesleyan Universities and various
outdoor locations.
Morgan Croney
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Morgan Croney received his AB in Studio Art and Economics from
Davidson College and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. His
work has been shown in group and solo shows from Miami and Michigan
to New York and Philadelphia. Croney creates mathematical structures
to explore “thought-space” – a space imagined as
boundless, empty, and, with no predefined ground, free of constraints.
Through precise measure, structures conceived in thought-space are
transposed to physical paintings and three-dimensional objects where
traces of his unique mathematical creative process remain visible.
Elizabeth Demaray
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Elizabeth
Demaray is an artist whose work erases boundaries and transcends
traditional practice. As a conceptually-based sculptor, she domesticates
the great outdoors by knitting sweaters for plants, upholstering
stones and manufacturing alternative forms of housing for hermit
crabs out of plastic. Demaray majored in Cognitive Psychology as
an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley and
received an MFA from UCB’s Department of Art Practice and to
study art making at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
She is the recipient of the NYMOMA / P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
2001 National Studio Award, the 2002 California Artist in Residence
Award at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2002 Emerging Artist
Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park, the 2003 Aldrich Emerging
Artist Award at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and the 2005
NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Miguel Gutierrez
50 West. St.
December 2006 - March 2007
Miguel Gutierrez is a dance and music artist based in Brooklyn. He directs Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People and makes solo work. His work concerns itself with the phenomenon of existence and the body’s ability to move between the ordinary and the extraordinary. His award winning work has received support from a variety of foundations, such as the NEA, Jerome Foundation, and Rockefeller MAP Fund, and has been presented locally and in international festivals, in venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York) and ImPulsTanz (Vienna). His new evening, Everyone, premieres in NY in March. Check www.miguelgutierrez.org for more info or to join his mailing list.
Jamal Jackson
50 West. St.
December 2006 - March 2007
Jamal Jackson, Artistic Director of Jamal Jackson Dance Co., was born in Brooklyn, New York and began his formal studies of movement with the Harlem based Batoto Yetu Dance Company. His pursuit of dance led him to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he received the Weston Award for his contribution to the Fusion Dance Company and New Works/World Traditions African Dance Company from 1996-2000. Jamal studied with Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Seydou Coulibaly, and Fred Benjamin and worked under Mba and Bisar in Mali, West Africa. Jamal choreographed for the New York Arts Festival and Inaya Day in 2002, marking the beginning of his African based, modern style of movement. In 2004, he founded the Jamal Jackson Dance Company, which debuted Images of the Union at University Settlement in New York and at Westport Hall in Connecticut. The company is currently in its second season with new original works United We Stand, which has been performed at the Hudson Guild Theater,Dance New Amsterdam, Mo Pitkins, and for Jennifer Muller/The Works series. Jamal is also a principal dancer with Ballet International Africans and has recently created work for the diversity in dance project at The Yard featuring Urban Bush Women and the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company.
Jeong Han Kim
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Jeong
Han Kim is a multimedia artist. His work is interested in exploring
ways of experiencing perceptions of the other. He received his BFA/MFA
in painting from Seoul National University, and he recently earned
his second MFA in film, video and new media from The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, with the support of a full scholarship
from Kwan-jeong Educational Foundation in Korea. His works have been
featured at Whitebox, NY; Potluck Videofest in Japan; New Media Arts
Festival at Thailand; and other selected group exhibitions in New
York, Chicago, Madison, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok and Seoul. He has
received grants from such foundations as the Rockefeller Fund, Starr
Foundation, Asian Cultural Council and AHL Foundation in New York
City.
Charles LaBelle
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Charles LaBelle’s work over the past fifteen years has been
devoted to investigating the intersection of place and subjectivity.
His practice embraces and often combines a variety of media, including
photography, video, drawing, sculpture as well as action-based and
site-specific works. Having received his bachelor of fine arts degree
at UCLA in 1988, LaBelle then studied filmmaking at UCLA film school
before pursuing a full-time career in art. Currently based in New
York, where he is an instructor in the graduate program in photography
at Parsons School of Design, his art has been exhibited widely in
the both the US and abroad.
Clarinda Mac Low
15 Nassau
December 2006 - January 2007
Since 1988 Clarinda Mac Low's company, cml performance, has been presented internationally in performance spaces, unusual sites and city streets. In 2004 she received the BAX Arts and Artists Forward Award. She has received awards from the Greenwall Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund; residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Mabou Mines/SUITE, and the DTW ARM Fellowship. She has presented at First of May Park, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Queens Botanical Garden, LMCC SiteLines, the Yankee Ferryboat, Chashama, PS 122, LaMama Annex, Danspace Project, and NY Movement Research.
Johanna S. Meyer
50 West St.
December 2006 - March 2007
Johanna S. Meyer is a choreographer and performer based in New York City. Her two full-length dance works include Every Hotel TV Plays On (2001) and Teaser (1999); she is currently developing an evening-length show called Bearshow. She has also created eleven short pieces, many in collaboration with Alexandra Hartmann. Meyer's dances have been presented at PS 122, The Ontological Theater, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Kitchen's Dance-In-Progress series and most recently at the University of Santa Barbara Summer Theater Lab. Comedic and intricate, her work sometimes employs video and often draws on historical material such as burlesque routines, medical textbooks, and vintage films.
Kirsten Nelson
32 Avenue of the Americas
October 2006 – January 2007
Originally from Minnesota, Kirsten Nelson received a B.A. from
St. Olaf College and an MFA in Sculpture from Purchase College, SUNY.
Kirsten’s work explores the gap between present experience
and remembered space. Her sculptures, built out of common home building
materials, exist between object and space. Each piece evokes a recognizable
site, yet it remains an invented fragment, or “false” rendition
of everyday architecture. Kirsten was selected in 2003 to participate
in AIM 23, a workshop residency and a group exhibition at the Bronx
Museum. In 2003-2004, she participated in the Henry Street Settlement,
Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program at the Abrons Arts Center.
She was selected for a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant
in 2005-06. Kirsten recently had her New York debut in September
06 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in Chelsea. Her work has been exhibited
throughout New York, Connecticut, and Minnesota.
Bobby Previte & Andrea Kleine
15 Nassau
April 2007
Brought up playing soul and rock music in the old bars,clubs, and bordellos of Niagara Falls, NY, Bobby Previte studied formally at the University of Buffalo, which boasted musicians John Cage, Lucas Foss, Morton Feldman, and Jan Williams. He then ran head on into Miles Davis, Edgard Varèse, Charles Mingus, Terry Reilly, Abstract Expressionism, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Balanchine and William Faulkner. That was that. He moved to New York City in 1979, with great fortune quickly met the leading lights of the “Downtown” scene, settled in, and never looked back. For twenty-five years he has remained a leader, widely hailed for his electrifying drumming and his stunning, unclassifiable compositions. He has played an astonishing range of genres and venues, from the Palace Burlesque House in Buffalo, NY to country music at Gloria’s Corral Club in the Kentucky backwoods (complete with, yes, a real corral surrounding the bandstand) to Carnegie Hall, and has presented his music at the major festivals around the world, from Europe to Russia, Japan to South America, and back.
Andrea Kleine's work as a playwright and director has been presented in New York City at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Performance Space 122, The Women’s Project Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, and across the US, and in Canada and Europe. She has received numerous commissions, grants and awards including two MacDowell Colony fellowships, and in 2004, the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship award in playwriting/screenwriting. She lives in New York and recently completed CALF, her first novel.
Shino Soma
50 West St.
December 2006 - April 2007
Born in Hokkaido, Japan, Shino Soma was educated and currently lives in the US. Her work reflects a dichotomy of perspectives formed through her cultural and familial experiences. Exploring a variety of
traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques, Soma has
recently focused on the notion of family, specifically in the post-war
Japanese household in which she grew up. Shino holds a BFA in
film from New York University and an MS in design from Pratt
Institute. She is also trained in Japanese calligraphy, bookmaking, papermaking and printmaking. She has just completed a residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, and her work has been presented at The Armory Show, The Front Room Gallery, IPCNY, The Drawing Center, Randolph Macon College, and the School of Visual Arts. Her work is also a part of the permanent collection of the New York Public Library.
Marian St. Laurent
50 West St.
December 2006 - April 2007
Marian St. Laurent is a multimedia artist, working professionally as a brand strategist across all media. Her interest in the social/psychic life of imagery in mass communications leads St. Laurent to an investigation of advertising and the role photographic technologies play in social and political power dynamics behind images that sell. Applying the techniques of a professional semiotician, St. Laurent focuses on the point at which people become objects (or products) in the images I make. Her current project, "Love & Enterprise," is about Amelia Hours (named after Lewis Carrol's model in A Photographer's Day Out) who leaves home to escape her eccentric and business obsessed family, beginning a chain of decisions based on misunderstandings about love and money.
Gautam Kansara
125 Maiden Lane, Tenth Floor
June 2006
Gautam Kansara was born in London in 1979 and is currently based in New York. Working with Video and Photography Gautam is interested in the hierarchical shifts and role reversals that occur within a family as its members age and personalities evolve, as well as the resulting confusion of caretaking roles. Through this work the viewer is exposed to his family, and to their complex and fluctuating dynamic, bearing witness to their emotional exchanges, discussions, and arguments, largely an amalgamation of their generational and cultural dispersion from Bombay, London, Cupertino, and New York. Gautam’s Videos and Photographs have been shown at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Platform Garanti in Istanbul, Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, The Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia, Dukwon Gallery in Seoul, Korea, and LMAK Projects in Manhattan among others. In 2006 Gautam was a Fellowship Artist at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and also participated in the 26th Artist in the Marketplace program through the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Most recently Gautam was awarded a solo exhibition from Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut as part of their GO! series that will be on view in 2008. Gautam is also a faculty member at Manhattan College’s Department of Fine Arts teaching Digital Photography and Video Art.
Amy Lincoln
125 Maiden Lane, Tenth Floor
May 2006
Amy Lincoln makes paintings and drawings of interior and exterior spaces. She lives and works in Brooklyn, using her daily surroundings as source material for psychologically loaded images of restaurant booths, backyards and bedrooms. Originally from the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, Lincoln moved to the east coast to attend graduate school at Brandeis University and the Tyler School of Art, where she earned an MFA in painting. Lincoln earned her BA at the University of California, Davis. In 2006 she received a Swing Space award from LMCC. She has shown in Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Davis, CA and Richmond, VA.
Emcee C.M. was born in Coventry, Connecticut, in 1979. He is an everyman nobody, a loving caricature of the world’s preoccupation with the questions of work and leisure. He got an MFA at the University of Connecticut in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. He recently organized a major collaborative and interactive public project “A Lot in Our Lives” commissioned by Artspace in New Haven for The Lot, which was reviewed in the New York Times. C.M. has presented numerous unofficial and collaborative projects in public spaces, including MOBILIZE, the moving movie theater, presented to Tribeca during his time at LMCC. He has shows coming up at the Bronx Museum (AIM 28) and Artists Space in New York. He lives in Brooklyn, shares a studio with fellow Swing Space Cadet Huong Ngo, and will be the resident artist at CUE Art Foundation in Chelsea for November and December of 2007.
Erik Sanko
32 Avenue of the Americas
May 2006
Erik Sanko (puppet maker/composer) is an artist working and living in New York City. He cut his teeth on the surly streets of downtown N.Y.C. as an avant-garde musician where at the precious age of 19 he joined the superstars of noise, The Lounge Lizards with whom he played for 16 years. His reputation landed him roles with such luminaries as John Cale, Jim Carroll, Gavin Friday and They Might Be Giants before eventually starting his own band, Skeleton Key. He continues to write and perform with Skeleton Key and tour with Yoko Ono and James Chance and the Contortions. All during this time, he had been secretly making marionettes.
His first foray into the theatrical marionette world produced The Fortune Teller, a play regarding the consequences of the seven deadly sins. More recently Erik was commissioned by The Kronos Quartet to compose music and create a marionette piece that the quartet would accompany. Together with his wife, the artist Jessica Grindstaff, Erik created “Dear Mme.,” which premiered at the 25th anniversary of B.A.M.’s Next Wave Festival in October 2007. Erik and The Fortune Teller were also featured as an answer on Jeopardy in the category of “Puppet-pourri”.
Chris Bors
125 Maiden Lane, Tenth Floor
January 2006
Chris Bors lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from School of Visual Arts and studied at Rhode Island School of Design. Group exhibitions in New York include “B Hotel” at PS1 MoMA, “Mama’s Boy,” curated by Jane Harris at White Columns, “Sasquatch Society” at Sixtyseven, and “Infinite Jest” at Ten in One Gallery, “Grendel,” with Jack the Pelican Presents in Miami, Florida, and “Scarab: The Heavy Metal Art Show,” curated by Robert Chaney at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina. His videos have been shown at the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands, The Videoex Festival in Zurich, “Stromereien Open Air Performance Tage,” curated by Harm Lux, in Zurich, and “Good Humor,” organized by Tricia McLaughlin and Sharon Paz, at Pullox in Berlin. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Newsday, and The Brooklyn Rail, as well as being featured in K48 Priznbreak, zingmagazine, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and Razor. He was a nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant and was selected for the Aljira Emerge program. His project at Swing Space was a series of paintings using logos from New York hardcore punk bands.
Joshua Abram Howard was born in Seattle, Washington, now resides in Sunnyside Queens. In 2003 he received a BFA in drawing from the Pratt Institute. The same year he was accepted into the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture residency. In 2005 he was awarded a Swing Space from the LMCC. His work has been exhibited in A Jamaica Queens Thing, 2007 at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Jamaica Queens; The Queens International 2006, Everything all at once at the Queens Museum of Art, Binge and Purge 2006, at Magnan Projects in New York,
and Project Diversity Queens 2007.
"Totems inspire me. They reuse a system of symbols to make something that is customized. I combine familiar objects to create a potent representation of myself and the society that I belong to. My drawings and sculptures are based on objects and images that I have had an ongoing relationship with, some since childhood. I compose my work digitally using the computer but I always draw/construct the final image/object by hand. It is very important to me that the physicality of the human hand is present in my artwork. It is a way to connect with disappearing human crafts."
Jeff Gray is an interface designer and artist exploring the boundaries between technology and human interaction. These range from augmented historical artifacts with extended memories, extra-sensory wearable technologies, and dynamic interfaces for musical expression, just to name a few. The overall goal remains establishing human-like qualities and relationships with the objects we interact with daily, in order to improve our interaction with the everyday world. Jeff has a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a bachelor's degree in studio art from the University of Idaho.
Erik Guzman has been active as an artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 8 years. During this time, Guzman has been involved in organizing and/or participating in over 50 art events. Among many professional accomplishments are his Joan Mitchell nomination, selection as School of Visual Arts representative at the New York College Art Association show and Cue Foundation resident. He has exhibited locally in New York City, Smack Mellon, El Museo Del Barrio (S Files), Front Room Gallery, Soap Factory, Hillwood Museum, Dumbo Art Festival, The Kitchen, Exit Art, St. Marks Church Gallery. International exposure includes shows at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Goliath in Hamburg, Germany and Gallery Tezz, Tokyo, Japan. Erik is the Co-Director of Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, which has been in operation for seven years and is a non-profit visual arts space dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists often overlooked by commercial galleries and regarded as commercially non-viable. Erik received his BFA, with honors, and MFA, with a full scholarship, from the School of Visual Arts. Erik is currently Director of SVA’s sculpture department, where he oversees safety and is responsible for the technical education of over 250 students. 
Danish-born Lars Mathisen holds a BA in History from Copenhagen University, Denmark. He lives and works in Copenhagen and New York.
Tim Maxwell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and works in New York City. He graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a BFA in drawing and painting, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004 with an MFA in drawing and painting. Maxwell’s drawings are influenced by Celtic illuminated manuscripts, human ornamentation, idiosyncrasies of wisdom literature in the Bible, the self-help quality of punk and hardcore music, medieval depictions of the last judgment. And a reluctant pull towards metaphysics and Soren Kierkegaard’s endless musings of soul doubting.
Julia Rommel was born in Salisbury, Maryland, and resides in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and studied painting at the University of Richmond, and St. Andrews University, Scotland. She has participated in group shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, and Connor Contemporary Art in Washington D.C.
Through rich imagery and an acute sense of visual metaphor, Edin Velez, one of the pioneers of video art, has consistently expanded the paradigms of the genre. Velez was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the School of Fine Arts of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. In 1970, inspired by Marshall McLuhan's theories, he moved to New York City in order to explore the possibilities of television as a personal art form. 
Born in Brazil and based in New York, Alex Villar holds an MFA from Hunter College ('98) and in 2000 was a Whitney ISP fellow. His work draws from interdisciplinary theoretical sources; it employs video, installation and photography. Individual and collaborative projects are part of a long-term investigation of potential spaces of dissent in the urban landscape; it has often taken the form of an exploration of negative spaces in architecture. 
Melanie
Baker holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Stonybrook
University. She has received fellowships from the Sacatar Foundation
(Bahia, Brazil), and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2003
she was awarded the NYFA Prize. She has had residencies at Art Omi
Int'l Arts Center, the Henry St. Settlement, Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council, Djerrasi, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and Yaddo.
Her work is concerned with images of power, particularly men who
hold sway over governments. She makes large scale drawings and paintings,
severely cropped and rendered in charcoal and sometimes newspaper
collage. The work she is currently engaged in is shifting toward
religious and historical figures, but with a continued emphasis on
men who hold power over others, Exhibitions include "Open House:
Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum, and exhibitions with
Roebling Hall, White Box, Momenta galleries, and theJersey City Museum.
Solo shows include "Hiding the Elephant" Satellite/Roebling
Hall, "As Faces do Poder" EBEC Galeria de Arte, Salvador,
Brazil, the Scene Gallery, NYC and the Tatar Gallery, Toronto.
Shin
il Kim began studying art at Seoul National University with a major
in sculpture. He completed his MFA at the School of Visual Arts and
attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He presented
video work for the Gwangju Biennale 2004 in Korea and has had solo
exhibitions at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta. He took part in the
Portland Biennial at the Portland Museum of Art, Queens International
2004 at Queens Museum of Art, and AIM 24 at the Bronx Museum of Art.
One of his videos was presented in the 7th Altoids Curiously Strong
Collection tour. Shows in the US include New Museum of Contemporary
Art in New York. Recently he also has participated in “Young
Korean Artists” in National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
and Singapore Biennale 2006. Originally from Korea, Kim is interested
in Eastern Philosophies such as the idea of Buddhism and ‘the
golden mean.’
Born
in Beaumont, Texas in 1978, Roy spent his childhood skateboarding
the desolate downtown areas of Southeast Texas. In 1992 he helped
found the 409 Crew Skatepark in an abandoned building in downtown
Beaumont. He soon joined several irreverent punk acts: Beat Down,
Agravits and Kung Fu Grip. Roy graduated from the University of Texas
at Austin in December 2002. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New
York.
Jessica
Feldman is an intermedia artist with a background in sound, sculpture
and installation. She creates work that asks its audience to engage
in interactions with each other and with larger communities and political
questions. Recent pieces tend toward interactivity and often occur
in extremely public or extremely private spaces. Works have been
performed, installed and exhibited at art galleries, concert halls,
public parks, city streets, tiny closets and the internet. Recent
and upcoming venues include The Kitchen, Roulette, The Museum of
Contextual Amputations (ongoing online project), the Flux Factory,
The Stone, The Tank, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Chelsea Waterside
Park, Tenri Cultural Institute, the Fisher Center for the Arts at
Bard College, Columbia, Brandeis and Wesleyan Universities and various
outdoor locations.
Elizabeth
Demaray is an artist whose work erases boundaries and transcends
traditional practice. As a conceptually-based sculptor, she domesticates
the great outdoors by knitting sweaters for plants, upholstering
stones and manufacturing alternative forms of housing for hermit
crabs out of plastic. Demaray majored in Cognitive Psychology as
an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley and
received an MFA from UCB’s Department of Art Practice and to
study art making at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
She is the recipient of the NYMOMA / P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
2001 National Studio Award, the 2002 California Artist in Residence
Award at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2002 Emerging Artist
Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park, the 2003 Aldrich Emerging
Artist Award at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and the 2005
NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Jamal Jackson, Artistic Director of Jamal Jackson Dance Co., was born in Brooklyn, New York and began his formal studies of movement with the Harlem based Batoto Yetu Dance Company. His pursuit of dance led him to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he received the Weston Award for his contribution to the Fusion Dance Company and New Works/World Traditions African Dance Company from 1996-2000. Jamal studied with Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Seydou Coulibaly, and Fred Benjamin and worked under Mba and Bisar in Mali, West Africa. Jamal choreographed for the New York Arts Festival and Inaya Day in 2002, marking the beginning of his African based, modern style of movement. In 2004, he founded the Jamal Jackson Dance Company, which debuted Images of the Union at University Settlement in New York and at Westport Hall in Connecticut. The company is currently in its second season with new original works United We Stand, which has been performed at the Hudson Guild Theater,Dance New Amsterdam, Mo Pitkins, and for Jennifer Muller/The Works series. Jamal is also a principal dancer with Ballet International Africans and has recently created work for the diversity in dance project at The Yard featuring Urban Bush Women and the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company.
Jeong
Han Kim is a multimedia artist. His work is interested in exploring
ways of experiencing perceptions of the other. He received his BFA/MFA
in painting from Seoul National University, and he recently earned
his second MFA in film, video and new media from The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, with the support of a full scholarship
from Kwan-jeong Educational Foundation in Korea. His works have been
featured at Whitebox, NY; Potluck Videofest in Japan; New Media Arts
Festival at Thailand; and other selected group exhibitions in New
York, Chicago, Madison, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok and Seoul. He has
received grants from such foundations as the Rockefeller Fund, Starr
Foundation, Asian Cultural Council and AHL Foundation in New York
City.
Originally from Minnesota, Kirsten Nelson received a B.A. from
St. Olaf College and an MFA in Sculpture from Purchase College, SUNY.
Kirsten’s work explores the gap between present experience
and remembered space. Her sculptures, built out of common home building
materials, exist between object and space. Each piece evokes a recognizable
site, yet it remains an invented fragment, or “false” rendition
of everyday architecture. Kirsten was selected in 2003 to participate
in AIM 23, a workshop residency and a group exhibition at the Bronx
Museum. In 2003-2004, she participated in the Henry Street Settlement,
Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program at the Abrons Arts Center.
She was selected for a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant
in 2005-06. Kirsten recently had her New York debut in September
06 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in Chelsea. Her work has been exhibited
throughout New York, Connecticut, and Minnesota.
Brought up playing soul and rock music in the old bars,clubs, and bordellos of Niagara Falls, NY, Bobby Previte studied formally at the University of Buffalo, which boasted musicians John Cage, Lucas Foss, Morton Feldman, and Jan Williams. He then ran head on into Miles Davis, Edgard Varèse, Charles Mingus, Terry Reilly, Abstract Expressionism, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Balanchine and William Faulkner. That was that. He moved to New York City in 1979, with great fortune quickly met the leading lights of the “Downtown” scene, settled in, and never looked back. For twenty-five years he has remained a leader, widely hailed for his electrifying drumming and his stunning, unclassifiable compositions. He has played an astonishing range of genres and venues, from the Palace Burlesque House in Buffalo, NY to country music at Gloria’s Corral Club in the Kentucky backwoods (complete with, yes, a real corral surrounding the bandstand) to Carnegie Hall, and has presented his music at the major festivals around the world, from Europe to Russia, Japan to South America, and back.
Andrea Kleine's work as a playwright and director has been presented in New York City at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, Performance Space 122, The Women’s Project Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, and across the US, and in Canada and Europe. She has received numerous commissions, grants and awards including two MacDowell Colony fellowships, and in 2004, the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship award in playwriting/screenwriting. She lives in New York and recently completed CALF, her first novel. 
Born in Hokkaido, Japan, Shino Soma was educated and currently lives in the US. Her work reflects a dichotomy of perspectives formed through her cultural and familial experiences. Exploring a variety of