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Stacey Bourke

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BER LAZARUS

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Ber Lazarus is a visual artist living in Montreal's Mile End district. His scultptures and installations have been shown in Canada, the United States and Europe. He uses a variety of forms, media and scales to bring a unique sensibility and originality to his art practice. His ongoing series of work, « EX-LIBRIS », explores the boundary between text and visual vocabulary through a series of installations housed inside found books. He holds a Fine Arts degree from Concordia University, Montreal and is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Quebec.

pamela tu

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Pedro Matos

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Susannah Bettag

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BIOGRAPHY I was born in Oxford, England, and graduated in 1991 from Camberwell College of Arts, London with a BA (honors) in illustration. Moving then to San Francisco I started a business in graphic design, illustration and later web design work, but art as was never far from my thoughts and in 1994 I joined the Awarehouse, an art and design community group in SOMA, as a founding member. After participating in Open Studios in 1999, the appeal of pursuing an artist's career exclusively began occupying my mind. I quit the successful but less inspiring corporate design world, and waded into the deep end of all painting all the time. I joined the Blue Studio artists' group in 2001, had twins in 2003, became a resident artist at Red Ink Studios in 2004, joined Compound21 in 2006, and became an "Artist-In-Permanence" at Frey Norris Gallery (http://www.freynorris.com) in San Francisco in 2006. To date my work has been predominantly in painting, though I have recently begun working in sculpture, installation work, and am beginning projects in video and digital animation.

Rob Lightbody

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Long hard road. I like to make things. I don't care if you like it or not.

Naomee Guest

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Naomee was lucky… She was born in New York and considered herself a true New Yorker… She still lives there, as a matter of fact. Her dad was a sign painter and she remembers watching him perfect letters on paper with a ruler in one hand and a brush in the other…. always using primary colors. As a youngster, she won an award from the United Nations for participating in an elementary school art contest for the cover of a song book. She knew then she would always paint.…. She was accepted to The School of Music and Art in 1952 and then attended the Art Students League in New York in the late fifties and early sixties, but when she realized anatomy classes needed to be part of her curriculum, she decided it was time to move on. Over the years, she experimented with all of the mediums. She was a student at The School of Visual Arts in New York, dabbling in graphic design. A piece she completed called “Once Upon a September Day” was accepted into the LaGuadia Atrium, Long Island City show – MNEMONIC: A 9/11 Memorial Exhibition. Naomee has always been attracted to graphics as an art form and during the past six years has found her comfort zone doing abstract geometric pieces. She has a second home in St. Petersburg, Florida where she spends part of her days absorbed in her art. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in New York as well as galleries in Coral Gables and Tampa, Florida

Norman Free

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Studied Photographic Arts and Sciences from Idaho State University. Specialized in geometrical optics and highspeed photography. Has performed corporate and industrial photography for the last 17 years for companys such as Rockwell International, EG&G Prinston, Lockheed Martin, Bectel Corporate, and even British Nuclear Fuels. I now spend most my time creating digital images and photomanipulations, specializing in Fantasy images.

KEUN YOUNG PARK

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Born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Keun Young Park is a fine artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

William Watson

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I grew up in DeWitt, Michigan. I graduated from DeWitt High School in 1992. I graduated from Lansing Community College in 1994, Summa Cum Laude. I won three awards in three annual student art shows: 3rd place in Fine Art/Drawing - 1993 (Lansing Community College) 1st place in Fine Art/Drawing - 1994 (Lansing Community College) Watercolor Prize - 1996 (University of Michigan) I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1996 with a BFA in Graphic Design (I was also awarded an academic scholarship from U-M in 1994). I found college coursework to be very conventional and rather boring, actually. I really enjoyed my humanities, philosophy, and art history classes however. I had a few professors who were really inspiring, but I mainly self-taught myself as an artist, because I learned very little from most instructors at college. I found it difficult after college to exhibit art work in art galleries, so I worked in the graphic design profession, particularly at the automotive advertising agencies O'Briens Agency in Lansing, MI and BBDO-Detroit in Troy, MI. I also worked as a packaging graphic designer at Eastman Outdoors in Flushing, MI. I'm currently working as a full-time graphic designer at Lansing Community College. I idolize Pop Artist Andy Warhol for his creative genius. I adopted a philosophy that 'Life is Art'.

Mark Pack

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Mark Pack received his BFA in Painting from Northern Illinois University in 2001 and his MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, graduating with honors. Since then Mark has been in numerous juried exhibitions, including a group show at the University of Mary Washington juried by Dr. Jonathon Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Mark Currently lives in Indianapolis, IN

Anthony Gambucci

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Pindar Van Arman

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jess marie walker

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Since graduating from the University of Montevallo with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1994 Jess Marie Walker has continued to work as an interdisciplinary artist allowing the content of her work to filter between mediums, each referring to the next. Along with her studio work she has done curatorial work for visual exhibitions and performance programming, instructed special project art classes, and coordinated contemporary art festivals, competitions, and workshops. She is currently producing new bodies of work in drawing, printmaking, bookwork, ceramics and multi media installation/performance for 2010/2011 exhibitions.

Catherine Minnery

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irKt

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"irKt" Individual Relative Contradiction Theory The name is consist by all the first letter of my theory. Focusing myself by contradiction from this relative world.And so why, I put my first letter of my name "K" Born California, living and working at several country, As Tokyo (Japan), Nancy Paris (France), New York (USA).From 2004, works and resides in Long Island City, NY. Most of my artwork is created by silkscreen with acrylic paint on canvas, as well as T-shirts with original prints. Focusing my thoughts and describing the creation, which I can deeply feel and absorb from each city. Moreover, I realize that there can be as many values as there are people. To create art in a cosmopolitan setting and the society of consumption follows my theme. At first, this theory is a theme of my artwork. Therefore, I would like to explain what the phrase means. The first word of my theory, "Individual", consists of each individual's values, originality, and characteristics with which one can define oneself and also is equal to ourselves. Then, "relative" is about two opposite characteristics which define existence such as light and dark, make and break, create and consume, eat and excrete, etc. An important thing is that both elements are equal. This thought stems from the ancient Chinese belief of "Yin and Yang". At last, the word "contradiction". Between the relative elements, I thought that there is always a third element that exists. For example, there are many shades between light and dark and objects can be both light and dark. By making a shadow they also simultaneously prove the existence of light, for instance. Following this idea, if I applied "contradiction" to the human mind, I thought people always have a relative thing in their mind before making survival based decisions. This comes from each person's sense of value. Individual decisions do not represent the entire wisdom behind them. The contradictions within us are what establish us as individuals. Therefore, I thought "individual" and "contradiction" are equal with "relative" completing and serving to link the whole. The purpose of my artwork is to focus on finding and describing the contradiction and express these as shapes and figures on the canvas. Even though creation and sales promotion have opposite qualities, both of them are necessary to live in the society as an artist. I strongly believe this opportunity allows me to gain exposure as I continue to create and I am eager to show my work to more people. Sincerely, irKt as Koosuke

Sarah Knee

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Steven Lawson

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I've been a artist all my life it seems. and im mostly into pencil. not the fansy art pencils. i mean the schools pencils. ive never pursued any other form of hear, such as ink, oil, or such. i may one day tho. =]

Gabriel Pons

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Gabriel Pons was born in Northeast Pennsylvania in 1974. His father, a structural engineer, emigrated from the Philippines to marry his mother, an American school teacher he met at a Valentine's Day party in 1967 during her tour as a Peace Corps volunteer. Gabriel's childhood was spent listening to his father'™s extensive record collection, playing with Legos, watching science fiction movies, and collecting comic books. In 1987, Gabriel's older brother introduced him to skateboarding, which consumed his teenage years and exposed him to a whole new punk aesthetic in music and art. While attending architecture school, Gabriel expanded upon the typical mediums of architectural drafting and modeling and initiated painting and collage as another means of rendering space. The architecture studio also provided him the environment to explore other media such as photography and video. In 1995, Gabriel participated in the Virginia Tech studies abroad program, traveling throughout Europe over the course of four months documenting art and architecture. In 1999, Gabriel followed his future wife’s trajectory and moved to New York City. During their years living in Brooklyn, they worked in architecture firms while simultaneously pursuing their respective art forms. As a way of returning to the roots of his inspiration and merging both recreation and artistic endeavors, Gabriel has been designing skateboard graphics under the MONO (pronounced moe-no) label since 2002. In the summer of 2005, Gabriel and his wife Scarlett relocated to Fredericksburg, Virginia to live closer to their family and start one of their own. Their son, Diego, was born on December 10th 2005. Gabriel and Scarlett share an artist studio at LibertyTown Arts Workshop in downtown Fredericksburg. Their studio, aptly named PONSHOP, exhibits Gabriel'™s paintings on canvas, paper, and skateboards as well features Scarlett's ceramics. The PONSHOP mission is to promote fun and creativity through the exhibition and education of art and design.

joni lohr

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Moshe Tortomasi

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Mehri Dadgar

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EARLY DEVELOPMENT My discovery of art: When I was 6 years old my brother, Ahmad, who left us and this world , introduced me to the wonder of creation when, unbeknownst to him, I watched as he worked with colored pencils on a picture for one of his school projects. Just by being who he was and seeing him confidently applying the reds and greens and yellows to this blank page, did he totally captivate me with the creative process. In a sudden flash of certainty, I became totally involved in the world of art...(I had never even seen an art piece before then)...and this passion was to stay with me for the rest of my life. This creative "selection" was to carry over even in my dress. When my mother might bring home a dress each for my sister and me, my sister happily accepted it "as is." But I would always want to change it: make it shorter, tighter or in some way more stylish. I was a rebel in my mom's eyes. This obsession for beauty and fashion passed when I was around 15 years of age, and I began searching for meaning in my life. I became "politicized" at 18. It was during the Shah's regime and many young Iranian people, idealistic and looking for a better world, became involved in groups seeking social change. When the Iranian Revolution, which sought to end the Shah's repressive regime, finally succeeded, there was real jubilation and optimism for the future. But this was short-lived. As the true nature of the theocracy surfaced, a pall of fear was cast over the entire country. Anyone whose ideas differed from theirs had to flee or risk arrest and possible death. Repression of ideas and censorship were the order of the day. PRISON At that time, having graduated from high school with a teaching credential, I was in my fifth year as a teacher of elementary school children. I took my class on a field trip to a play written by an author whose work had been banned during the era of the Shah. His play, an innocent children's story, encouraged independent thought and concern for others. (Like so many "enemies" of the government, the author had died "mysteriously"; he was found floating in a river.) Despite having secured the permission of all the children's parents for them to attend the play, school officials aligned with the government were not pleased that I had done this. A few days later, I learned I was being demoted from my teaching post to that of an office secretary, and being transferred to another school. A month later, I was arrested for passing out newsletter/pamphlets critical of the regime to people passing in the streets. For this act, I was sentenced to 5 years in a women's prison. The years I spent inside as a political prisoner encompassed both the worst and best experiences of my life. For all the cruelty, torture, and isolation of the place, there were moments of pure beauty and humanity from my fellow inmates that I will never forget. The experience gave me a deeper view of myself, of humanity, human rights, life and death. RELEASE After my release from prison, I was not allowed to teach in any official capacity despite my credential and 5 years of teaching experience. I decided to privately tutor students while taking art classes myself from four famous Iranian artists. This I did for 4 years while trying to register for the university entrance examination, a bureaucratic nightmare effort made almost impossible due to having lost my high school diploma and teaching credential document while in prison. Finally, I was able to secure proper duplicate documents that enabled me to take the entrance test. Among many thousands of applicants taking the exam, I received the 75th highest score. I then took a required second round of testing. When my name did not appear among the accepted applicants published in the newspaper, I suspected the government had interceded with their "ideological filter", denying me entrance. Following up, I found that this indeed had been the case. So I wrote a 2-page letter to the Minister of Education wherein I discussed this matter very openly. I argued that if they denied a person with political "tendencies" such as myself the right I had earned to enter the University, they would be giving me little choice but to leave the country. Miraculously, I received a congratulatory acceptance letter in the mail. The next year, I became a student at Art University in Tehran. Only 3 years later, I found out that in that second round of testing, designed specifically to test all applicants seeking to secure one of the 500 designated places in the country's art schools, I had placed 1st. ART IN IRAN AND IN AMERICA

sarah hathaway

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Andrea Radai

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1964 Born in Budapest 1992 Lives and works in Amsterdam

ari salomon

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See more from these and other series on my site: http://www.helloari.com/gallery/ I was born in Israel in 1971 and raised in San Diego. In high school, I started shooting with the Nikkormat my dad bought when I was born. I produced a series of black and white pictorial abstractions and some travel logs. Later, at the University of California Santa Cruz, I experimented with alternative processes, color and other, more conceptually focused forms of art. I continued my interest in images of people in the built environment and experimented with a series of abstract motion studies. In recent years, I found that working digitally worked for me and began exploring panoramic photography. I am currently developing a series about my Great Aunt and her apartment in Paris. In addition to exhibiting my art, I am a sign maker and a web designer working for a wide variety of clients including museums and art galleries. I live in San Francisco and point my camera at a certain 15 month-old very often these days.

Liz Waters

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Just do it for fun... small little hobby of mine..

SAL HERNANDEZ

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Bruno Descaves

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Ruth Brady

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darie schotte

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Darie Schotte is a Belgian artist who is specialised in ceramical, figurative sculpture. As artmaster she attended courses first in sculpture then in ceramics. She is familiar with different textile-and batik applications, nevertheless ceramics and painting have always had her major attention. Many worldwide travelling, frequent contacts with various cultures and religions, the interest for philosophy and astrology, the fascination for the human being, nature, and the everlasting guiding love in and for life linked with her own experiences are constant sources of inspiration for her creative work. "The possibilities offered by ceramic art are so numerous, that many people are appealed by this artform. My work is parallel with the different periods I experienced in my life. During the creative process, while an object gets a defined shape, I mentally already create the next one." The work of Darie Schotte is permanently on exhibition in southwest France in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, near the town of Bazas. You can visit the atelier and art gallery by appointment.

Ala' Ninnoway Moway-Nolan

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As a child, I often wished there was a way that I could capture what I saw in the world.I thought my eyes were magic.There could be no other explanation for the wonders I saw. I spent hours marveling at the colors I saw in everything.The textures,the light and its rhythms, the treasures hidden everywhere. I was always hunting for more. My earliest memories of feeling this way was at a time when art was not something I was aware of consciously. Like most small children I did not fully grasp the concept of expression or even think to. Children just "are". Those memories and experiences remain vivid in my mind and are a constant inspiration for me. Today I still hunt for treasures as I did growing up on the shores of the Hudson river. Long summer days were spent sculpting in the clay that is abundant there.A belly full of blackberries with the sun on my back,squatting in the sand hunting for treasures with my favorite aunt. Bits and pieces of lives, all with a story to tell,washed ashore and shaped by the river. "Waiting for you to find and yours to tell" you said. I still tell them today,with my sculptures,paintings,writing and photos. My lovely Aunt Irma, a third generation artist,published writer and photographer. "The Signpainter's Daughter" It is to you I owe my love of art.The gift you nurtured in me, giving it a voice, a way to make it tangible. Through the lens of a camera, with my hands that create, you showed me how to capture the beauty in life I once sought to understand. I love and miss you Aunt Irma. The Signpainter's Grandaughter... Ninnoway

Santiago Adeoye

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Santiago Adeoye is an Afro-Spanish artist, who lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

Fiona Jappy

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I create paintings that investigate concepts of place, identity, and belonging. After studying at Edinburgh College of Art I moved to America to complete my MFA at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Upon graduating I relocated back to Scotland. With returning to my childhood home after an absence of ten years, the research for my work now examines the connection I have to the landscape of the North East of Scotland and the important role that memory has in the definition of place.

Cassandra Dworchak

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I paint for the journey, snap photos to avoid the loss and draw out of compulsion.

Mickey Smith

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Mickey Smith (b. 1972, Duluth, MN, USA) received a B.A. in Photography from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1994. Images from her Volume series have exhibited in New York, China and Russia. Smith has received the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photography as well as grants from Forecast Public Art Affairs and CEC ArtsLink. She is represented by Invisible-Exports in New York.

John Dyess

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I am a painter,illustrator,photographer and teacher creating art and illustration for over forty years.Clients include many major corporations and companies throughout the United States. I have taught illustration and drawing at Washigton University,Meramec Community College and Jefferson College.My style has been primarilly realistic,using oil paint,pencil,watercolor or pen and ink. In contrast,some of my most recent work features more conceptual images,though dirived from realism and combines photography and digital techniques.

Pau Morales

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Pau Morales was born in Girona, Spain in 1977. He has always loved painting but it was when he was taught by the painter Quim Caromines in the ‘La Mercé’ Cultural Centre in 1989 that he began to think seriously about painting. While studying at the centre he won two important awards sponsored by the Catalonian council and he decided to study art in University. Morales completed his degree in 1999 and began working as an art teacher in secondary school. He also rented a small studio and began working on his first jazz-themed exhibitions. The numerous jazz festivals around the country provided him with the opportunity to exhibit in Girona, Figuerese, Terrassa and Barcelona. In 2003, after spending 4 years dividing his time between painting and teaching, he decided it was time to dedicate himself full-time to his artistic career. He won a scholarship from the Fita Foundation which enabled him to rent a bigger studio and expand his network base. He has been exhibiting successfully ever since. PRIZES 1991 - First prize in the “X Infant and youthful Plastic Arts show in homage to Antoni Clavé” 1993 - First prize in the “XII Infant and youthful Plastic Arts show in homage to Guinovart” 1999 - Second prize in the Youth Painting Contest organized by the bar “El Cercle” of Girona 2003 - Grant by Fita Foundation for young artists of Girona 2005 - Third prize in the “II international competition of Plastic Arts Alicia Alonso”, in the “Annta Gallery”, Madrid OTHER (ordered jobs in paintings and drawing): 1993 - Bill of “Fira de Brocanters de Girona” - Stage designing for the theatre group “Proscènium”, Girona 1998/99 - Mural paintings in shoop rooms: Hairdresser “2e2”, Girona Animal shop “Estimal's”, Girona Internet offices “Olé”, Barcelona 2000 – Illustration of the book “Marc’s diary” of Lluís Prats, publishing Albada of Terrassa (Barcelona) 2001 – Bill of “X Jazz Cycle of Torroella de Montgrí” (Girona) 2002 – Mural painting in a sweets shop "Filigrana" of Sant Feliu (Girona) 2003 – Bill of the “XI Jazz Festival of Figueres “ (Girona) 2004 – Wall mural on the exterior wall of Fita Foundation (Girona) 2005 – Illustration of the book “Why are they so happy?” of Pau Morales - Collaboration with “Més Media Cultural”, in the “Girona Time of Flowers” with the sculpture “Water of Roses” 2006 – Cartel designing for the “Black Music Festival” of Salt (Girona) - Painting Perfomance in live in the “XI Pomigliano Jazz Festival”, Napols (Italy) - Mural in the architect offices “on-alab”, Barcelona

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Carolyn Oberst

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Biography I came to New York originally to pursue clothing design. Not long after I came I formed my own company that specialized in women’s dresses and separates. When I started having trouble finding exciting fabrics I discovered a technique of fabric painting that allowed me to make my own. This led to collections of one of a kind hand painted garments. I soon found that I enjoyed painting the fabric more than designing the clothes and I began stretching the fabric and creating paintings. I gave up my design business and started taking drawing classes at the Art Students League. Encouraged by my teachers there I began painting and drawing in earnest. In painting, I was always interested in the still life genre. I also found myself drawn to collage and so for many years I’ve done these two kinds of work. I wanted, however, to find a way to bring these two aspects of my work together, combining them somehow. After creating a series of still life paintings using vintage dolls and toys as images the idea came to me to take the preparatory drawings that I had made for these paintings, cut them up and collage the pieces to create a new, what I called, “fractured” image. The new, collaged image then became the basis for another painting. After a few of these paintings on canvas I began taking these “fractured” images and making them into three-dimensional pieces using different thicknesses of wood.

Alena Earath

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Ruddy Adames

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An artist since the age of 9, I‘ve apprentice under a painter who also happened to be my babysitter. Through him I got my first formal training in the arts of oil, charcoal, ink, sculpture and his fascination with custom suits which would eventually later affect me into clothing design. I have studied fashion design, furniture design and industrial engineering while securing degrees in two of them.

Anne LaFond

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Born in 1961 in Washington, DC, Anne LaFond grew up in New York City and earned her B.A. in Russian Literature from Tufts University in 1984. In the early 1990s, she studied painting at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where she also taught art to high school students. Since her return to New York in 1997, she has worked as a graphic designer and a painter. She maintains a studio in Long Island City, Queens, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the New York Academy of Art.

Carol Morrison

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Carol Morrison has been printmaking since high school, when she received scholarships to study at the Brooklyn Musueum's Art School. More recently, her work includes intaglios, collographs, monoprints and monotypes. She has exhibited at the 1110 Gallery, Classon Arts, 195 Christie Street, the SONYA Art Stroll and at the Ansonia Window Show (May/June 2009 New York). She has been a featured artist on myartspace.com and has an exhibit at the Brooklyn Central Library currently running (September 2009-November 2009). Her silkscreen monoprints are part of the permanent collection of the Dunn Development new housing facility at 1825 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Ms. Morrision has worked with master printers Marina Ancora, Sheila Goloborotko and the late Sheila Marbain. She was art director for BrooKenya!, a multimedia project in the USA and Kenya using film and Internet art. She worked for 12 years as a layout artist and magazine art director. She studied with artists Yale Epstein, Robert Kaupelis and Bruce Waldman and holds a Bachelor of Science in Art Education from New York University. Ms. Morrison was formerly the director of domestic violence policy and planning in the Office of Clinical Policy at Children’s Services for the City of New York. She holds a Masters of Social Work from Yeshiva University (Masters Thesis: Learning to Draw in the Art of Social Work.) She is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where she currently resides. She is currently an adjunct professor at Yeshiva University and provides training and staff development to non-profits throughout New York.

emily eakes

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Anna Todaro

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LAUREN KOCH

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Lauren Koch is an emerging American artist who constructs images in traditional black and white and color photography, digital photography, and digital video. In staged settings, her subjects interact with nature, often in bizarre ways. Her provocative self-portraits have been compared to that of Cindy Sherman; however, her work is unique in its focus on capturing raw human emotion. The majority of her work depicts ephemeral moments in which individuals expose their humility. Ms. Koch’s video art reached a mass audience through the television program Project Dominion TV, which she produced, directed, and edited. The show was broadcast to over three million households as part of the primetime programming bloc on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a public access station, during the 2004-2005 season

Marygrace Bianco Perkins

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Deeply rooted in the arts at a very young age and having remained actively involved all her life, Marygrace is an accomplished fine artist who is passionate about sculpture. Having worked in many mediums over the years, from clay to wire and paper, she finds her personality is best suited for the challenge of giving new life to discarded metal. After studying and completing her Fine Art and Commercial Design degree from SUNY in Poughkeepsie, NY, Marygrace found her way into the world of graphic design, art direction and finally upper management. Nearly 30 years later, her passion for fine arts was reignited in the way of metal sculpture and she has never looked back. Marygrace's discovery of metal sculpture was brought forth by the home she currently lives in. As she puts it "The walls were screaming for sculpture!" . Little did she know her life was about to change after signing up for her first metal class. "The minute I applied the torch and felt that first "grab" of welding two pieces of metal together I knew I finally found my passion." She is very grateful to have found it in this lifetime. The designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, David Smith and Alexander Calder motivate her love for pattern, line and form. Her influence as a graphic designer is evident in her sculptures with shapes that connect, repeat and compliment. She especially loves modern furniture and home design that yield unique, one-of-a-kind works of art. One of her favorite challenges before she turns on her MIG welder is finding the right balance aesthetically and structurally. Her biggest thrill is allowing the metal to show her where it wants to go. "For me the creative process is allowing the connection of spirit to flow through your mind and hands therefore becoming the conduit for incredible results."

Andy Clarkson

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JoAnna Winik

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J.T Winik is a Canadian figurative painter who divides her time between Holland, Spain and Canada. She first began to spend extensive periods in Europe in 1996 to participate in an artists residence in southern Spain and has since worked, as well, at the guest studio of the Retort Artist's Foundation in Amsterdam. She also has a studio in her home in Canada. Frequently incorporating the female form, and with a focus on female sexuality, recurring themes examine the ambiguous space between opposite emotional or physical states. The concepts of beauty and ugliness, power and fragility, guilt and innocence, passion and passivity, etc. provide wide ranges in which to explore connections between these poles. Most recently, Winik's work takes a closer view of the figure, settling on the face itself, absent of context. A face reveals but it also hides and any face in any moment is a unique and intricate weaving of the lines which connect opposite states. A facial expression is never one thing or another, but a melding of differences.

Floyd Elmore

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Not raised by wolves. Not shaken by parents. Raised in New York but not in the city. I was and still am a bit of a hellion. I survived off the land on my own at the age of six returning home only once for a pan to cook fish in. I said a first sentence instead of a first word even if the content was objectable to some. My brother is my best friend and has been since he came into my life at the age of 2. I hate yogurt and have as long as I can remember. I enjoyed kinder garden. I disliked middle school and I hated high school but loved the social outing it provided me with daily. I sent myself to work at the age of ten putting the New York Times together, as it was delivered in sections, for the small convenience store down the road from my house. I loved that job and it has remained my favorite job that I have ever held; I have held many. I saved my money when I was young like someone was going to tear it out of my hands. I learned about spending money later in life. Finding a happy balance with the two is an ongoing battle. Music has always been a very large component of my existence. My father is an accomplished musician and my brother and I both have dabbled in music in a few varied forms ourselves. Realizing that I was probably better off listening to music rather than making it, I set out early to discover as much as I could about the wonderful arrangements of sound that are in the world. I need music to paint, clean my house, drive, ring my phone for me and basically fill my abstract environment at almost all times with abstract beauty. When I paint music has such a large control over my style and attitude that I at times wonder what I would do without it and if I could continue to paint at all. I graduated high school starving for change. I needed out of the town I grew up in not because I hated it but because I knew that the world was large and I was not going to see all of it but I could at least see some of it and it was not going to happen staying home. I hopped in shotgun with a dear friend driving west in our own little manifest destiny. After a prolonged adventure I arrived in the San Francisco bay area and after saying my good-byes I realized that for the first time I had the duffel bag in my hand and a pack on my back and the world in front of me and I was a petrified and excited like never before. I stayed with friends and started school and got a degree in electronics and an apartment and a roommate then a house and roommates. I started working on my invention and thought I would make myself rich and show the world. Ignorance is bliss. Learning was an even greater source of enjoyment though. I thank my mother for that among more than humanly possible to list. I got a career and I had a blast and I went back for more school and I had a blast. My girlfriend of many years was living with me then and life was good. Time passed as it always does and I parted ways with the girl and the roomies and houses and decided to make a change. I didn’t know what I was doing when I wanted to move. In hindsight I suppose that I was estranged with life as I have been occasionally during times in the past. Those periods of estrangement have always fueled creative leaps for me so I attempt to never resist there coming and running with blind abandonment. I moved to Tahoe in search of the thing I always felt was missing. I was searching for something that I knew I wanted but could not put my finger on all those years. I wanted to paint full time and when I realized that painting was my missing link, my golden lamb of happiness I leapt upon it like a ravenous pack of wolves upon a carcass. I painted in my new environment like a man possessed. I missed nights of sleep. I missed work. I missed many of the things I had thought were important but found out were not even close. I had found my love or half of my love. I search now only for the woman to complete my life. Dali had his Gala and I too shall have mine, in time. Sadly, for all the good in one’s life many times bad seems to follow because sometimes the good overshadows the bad until it’s too late. I never addressed my mortality until I was painting and my space heater caught my studio on fire. I lost everything. I lost about sixty pieces of art, the prototype of my invention I had spent years building, mountains of hope and boxes of dreams meticulously crafted in the portrait of my existence over the years. I lost more than a part of my soul forever in that fire. I ended up finding the part of me that had never allowed me to address or acknowledge what was in the background sabotaging my success. That part of me is dead now. I slayed the blackness within myself, that took away my dreams, my chance at love for too long. I sit now, sober in my new apartment, relocated to San Diego, still painting, still finding myself, still looking for the next adventure. I still wonder why some things in life are the way they are. I still wonder why I have more hair on one side of my body than the other. I still can’t reread this bio and be happy with it but I can wake up knowing that life is like art and art is like life; never perfect, always changing, many times crappy with true abstract beauty sprinkled in where it matters most.

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