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Lisa Holden

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Lisa Holden’s photoworks succeed in seamlessly combining two media that are frequently considered at opposite poles: the digital and the hand-painted. In her compositions, which sample imagery from early studio photography, classical painting and consumer culture, Holden has developed a painstaking technique of combining footage from digital still and video cameras with scanned-in, hand-tinted layers, making it impossible to distinguish any overlap. In her single figure and group compositions, the artist frequently takes her own image as the starting point. Integrating the digital artefacts randomly generated by the repeated layering process into the final composition, her portrait becomes obscured, iterating the artist’s ongoing interest in alternate personas and constructed reality. The finishing of Holden’s large scale pieces, which drip with lush abstract acrylic paints and varnishes, balances the rival interests of digital and analogue media, new and traditional imagery, realism and fantasy. In recent works (Reclining, Judith, and Three Sleepers) Holden flirts with feminine iconography prevalent in the 1900s. While the resulting pieces--close-up portraits and figures inserted into indeterminate landscapes and ‘interiors’--radiate a sense of luxuriant lassitude and opulence, they are subverted by an underlying sense of fragmentation and isolation. Even the most sylvan of compositions are brooding fantasies, their seductive dreamscapes masking a non-explicit narrative, the nature of which remains unclear. Lisa Holden is a British artist based in Amsterdam. She has exhibited in London, the United States and throughout Europe. Contemporary / Vintage Works has featured her work at Photo LA, AIPAD's New York Photography Show, Art Chicago and Paris Photo. She will also be showing at Art Rotterdam 2007 with Metis_NL Solo and group shows in 2006 included ‘La Sala Reservada’, Metis_NL Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), ‘Erwartung’, France Lejeune Fine Art, Knokke-Zout (B), ‘Making Love To My Ego’, Castlefield Gallery, (UK), and ‘Labyrinth’, Rijksmuseum Enschede, (NL). Holden has also presented work at other international art fairs including FIAC and Artissima. Her work will be featured in the upcoming issues of Eyemazing, Camera Art and NY Art magazine. Her full color catalogue is also available. Most of the images are available in 30 x 40 inch versions, larger sizes (smaller editions though) in Diasec mounts and/or as very large unique painted pieces mounted on aluminum with a UV laminate.

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Janise Yntema

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My paintings often develop slowly over time. I work with various materials, but primarily use oil and wax encaustic. My paintings have been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions in New York City, London, Amsterdam, Belgium and Germany. My recent work is concerned with light, silence and simplicity. I am exploring the spaces between structure and fluidity. My working methods have always developed out of many layers of application to embody a moment of time. In the past, I have worked with elements, both organic and industrial to expand the painter's palette. Inspired by the art of fresco, my techniques have utilized a building up the surface ground with materials such as marble dust, aluminum shavings, iron powder, rust or wood, and then eliminating the action by use of a belt sander to capture the intrinsic quality of time and erosion. In this new work, the layers have become more translucent. The psychological weight of the industrial debris has given way to the lightness and visual fragility of varnish and wax encaustic.

David Cooley

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Artist’s Statement David’s art captures motion and chaos as seen and sensed from the artist’s eye. Many images contain smooth, flowing lines and shifting shapes giving the illusion of motion in the image. Many images focus on the concept of chaos around us. These translate into textures and patterns that are visually intriguing while evoking an emotional response in the viewer. David also creates scenic images; from life, nature and imagination, that have similar artistic sensibilities as his abstract work. Intriguing, bold, dramatic, provocative, reflective… these adjectives best describe David’s art.

Bart OReilly

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Bart O'Reilly, a Baltimore Artist since 2003 was born in Dublin, Ireland (1975) He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2000 (BFA First Class Honors/Magna cum laude). In the years after college he was part of a collective of artists called Group Six which involved organizing and participating in a large number of group shows around the Republic of Ireland and one show in Northern Ireland. Venues include the Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (2003). Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (2003). Signal Art Centre, Bray, Ireland (2003). Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland (2002), Linenhall Art Centre, Castlebar, Ireland (2002), Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2001), RDS Award Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland (2000), Civic Offices, Dublin, Ireland (1999) and more recently the Kenny Gallery in Galway. Solo exhibitions to date include Passing Places at Montage Gallery in Federal Hill, Baltimore 2005 and Found Fragments at Creative Alliance at the Patterson Theater also in Baltimore. Today he is based at Load of Fun Studios in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District and has been written about in The City Paper, Urbanite Magazine, The Examiner and The Baltimore Sun . While the work is now made exclusively in Baltimore he maintains a significant presence on the Irish art scene, Selling works at De Veres Auction House, The Kenny Gallery and participating in the Rubicon Gallery’s FLIX Project. In other recent projects he worked as a curator for the Load of Fun Gallery, this included organizing an exhibition “7 Irish Artists” in the North Avenue space. He works as Art Manager for The Providence Art Instituite in Millersville Maryland and is currently creating a new body of work for a two man exhibition “Materializing the Story” with fellow Baltimore artist Daniel Stuelpnagel.

Christopher Ulivo

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Hans Groeger

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Rodrigo Cardoso

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Rodrigo Cardoso was born in Portugal and lived most of his life amongst tropical cultures. He's experienced the African spirit in Angola and South Africa. His most recent years have been amongst the colors and sounds of the Amazon. Rodrigo has always been fascinated by indigenous cultures and he shows it through his work!

Mary Catherine Starr

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Benjamin Phillips

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My name is Benjamin Phillips and I am a practicing artist with a background in bronze sculpture, printmaking and painting. My education consists of an Honors degree in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria and a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Religion from Acadia University. Following my graduation from art school in 1998, until 2003, I was committed entirely to the practice of painting, relying on a hybrid approach to sculptural collage and abstract expressionism. These works exist on stretched canvas, where I developed surfaces in response to color and coincidental error, and were heavily influenced by American and German painters such as Sam Gilliam, Jackson Pollock and Anselm Keifer. The weight and scale of the canvases grew as the work developed and I started to gather concern about the fugitive and extremely delicate character of the materials. I also found an increasing need for greater physicality in my process and in their relationship with the world around them. In my quest for alternative solutions I discovered an advanced sculpture and printmaking program at Capilano College in North Vancouver that introduced me to the methods of bronze casting and a variety of printing methods. The sculptures and images I subsequently created communicate notions of sexuality that I began to explore through observation and self-analysis, in conjunction with relations I was making with literature. One extremely influential book for me at this time was Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, an outrageous erotic criticism of Western art history since the ancient Egyptians. Her book inspired in me an inquiry into the nature of personas, which are generally understood as roles that one assumes or displays in public or society for different situations. C.G. Jung, another influencing author, approached personas as symbolic facades, or as protective shells that we assume and translate from others, as we do with allegorical characters from the visual, theatre and literary arts. On stumbling upon this simple analysis of instinctual human behavior, I made a direct relation to it with the physical properties of bronze sculpture that I was also learning about. Experience taught me that a successful bronze casting requires an essential uniform standard of thickness throughout the sculpture. By relating this metal "skin" or "shell" symbolically to identifying devices like costume and uniforms, worn to advertise social/political/sexual roles (...like personas), I have taken a mandatory requirement of cast bronze and incorporated it into the working dynamics of the piece. This provided me with a conceptual framework for my sculpture to pursue social issues such as masculinity and sexualized symbols of power in a figurative form, a form that I felt was taboo while studying in art school. These days figurative art feels empowering and timely with a wealth of opportunity for contemporary expression, given the stale state of post-modernism. Thereupon I began assembling a body of figurative art works that explored issues about male body image and sexuality through bronze sculpture and intaglio dry-point. "The sexuality in these works appears as both a weight and as the central point of gravity around which the human personality spins. The figures in these art works imply a view of embodiment and sexuality that is entirely unsentimental." (Pickard 2007)

Jason Christopher

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Jason Christopher is a commercial fashion photographer based in Los Angeles California. His work has been described as Classic, romantic and clean. These are three qualities that make up a perfect image and Jason nails it every time. Born in Southern California he picked up his first camera at age 14. It was a Canon AE-1. Bought with the money he saved from his paper route, Jason began photographing the beauty that surrounded him in his hometown of Westlake Village California. In high school he began to take interest in the beautiful Italian designers that he saw in fashion magazines such as Vogue, Italian Vogue, and W magazine. Being 100% Italian it was love at first sight. His work has been compared to the French painter Degas and the Italian master of artistry Leonardo Da Vinci for the way he uses clean, classic lines of the body resembling a piece of fine art. Combine these qualities with his edgy, sharp lighting and you have the recipe for photography that anyone can appreciate and identify with, oftentimes finding a part of them in each of his photographs. Armed with intensity, passion and a contagious laughter, he commands control of his set and earns the respect and trust that his models and team have come to love and enjoy with every shoot. His motto: "Be prepared, or prepare to fail."

Robert Duddy

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Born in Costa Rica. Lived in Paraguay, Virginia, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil and currently back in Virginia. Will soon be moving to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. First began dabbling in Photography two and half years ago. Believes life is meant to be truly lived, not simply sustained.

Adrienne Outlaw

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Adrienne Outlaw entered the international art market in 2005 when her work was commissioned for the U.S. Embassy’s permanent art collection in Abuja, Nigeria. In 2007 The Republic of Korea is exhibited her work in their 5th International Biennale. Additionally, Outlaw has been recognized with grants, fellowships and inclusion in several museum and public art collections throughout the United States. Her work has been reviewed in international critical art magazines and featured in several art catalogues and books. An accomplished speaker, Outlaw has guest taught and lectured at galleries, schools and museums across the country. Extending her art practice beyond the studio, Outlaw regularly involves hundreds of participants in her community-based works. She maintains an active studio assistantship and internship program, mentoring high school and college students, recent art graduates and others interested in the arts. She has served on the arts advisory boards of six arts organizations and has reported extensively on the arts for newspapers, magazines and radio. Outlaw holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MLAS from Vanderbilt University. Outlaw co-developed the NAA web site, http://www.nashville.areaarts.org/, which links artists to writers and curators. Her latest project is to develop affordable live/work space for artists in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives and works.

Walter King

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Walter King was born in Baltimore MD in 1952. His family moved to Oklahoma in 1959 where he grew up. He began making art when he was 10. He left Tulsa Oklahoma in 1976 to study at the Columbus College of Art and Design. He studied briefly at Wichita State University in 1981 and after 2 years working in advertising finished his MFA at Boston University in 1985 where he studied painting with James Weeks and Robert D'Arista. He has been teaching since 1985. His paintings have been exhibited in the U.S., Hungary, Germany, Japan, Croatia and has had solo shows in Buenos Aires and Cordoba,Argentina.

Pete Metzger

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Peteyfresh has been a filmmaker and photographer for over 15 years. His films have been seen in film festivals (like the Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation) and his photography has been in galleries (like the two man show at Gallery Ophelia in Los Angeles). He is currently working on a number of film and photo projects including music videos, a kids cartoon as well as a book of his photos.

rob van der nol

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Randy Ford

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BIOGRAPHY April 2, 1962 Born: Biloxi, Mississippi EDUCATION 1980-1984 Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1988 Bucks County Art Festival, New Hope, PA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1989 Philadelphia Art Show, Philadelphia, PA 1990 Philadelphia Art Show, Philadelphia, PA 1991 Cherry Hill Art Show, Cherry Hill, NJ 1992 Philadelphia Art Show, Philadelphia, PA 1993 Image Gallery, Princeton, NJ 1994 Midwest Concours D'Elegance, Cincinnati, OH AFAS Best of Show 1995 Philadelphia Ferrari Festival, Philadelphia, PA Limited Edition Print 2004 New York Art Expo, New York, NY 2004 Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY 2005 Annual New Talent Show, Richard Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Chicago Art Expo, Chicago, IL 2005 New York Art Expo, New York, NY 2005 Toronto International Art Festival, Toronto Canada 2006 Annual show "FLOWERS IN FEBRUARY", Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Annual show "PAINTING=POETRY - ut picture poesis", Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY 2006 International Guild of Realism, Annual Juried Exhibition 2006 "GALLERY AND INVITED ARTISTS" Representational Paintings and Sculpture Landscape, Still Life, Interior and Figure Paintings, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY 2006 New York Art Expo, New York, NY 2006 "Contemporary Realism 2006", M.A. DORAN Gallery, Tulsa OK 2007 "Contemporary Realism 2007", M.A. DORAN Gallery, Tulsa OK 2007 "Leading Masters of Contemporary Realism", Winstanley-Roarke Fine Arts, Cape Cod, MA Director's Choice Award SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS PNC Bank, Philadelphia, PA Adams Mark Hotel, Philadelphia, PA LJK Literary Management, LLC, New York, NY Revlon, New York, NY ExxonMobil Corp., Irving, TX International Business Machines, Armonk, NY Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Mr. and Mrs. Jose Espejo Pascual, Barcelona, Spain Mr. and Mrs. Laurence J. Kirshbaum, New York, NY

Chris & Margie McClelland

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Chris McClelland is famous for his unique, fine and intricate pencil drawings of African and Australian wildlife, which is quite a contrast to his previous career. He spent the last 30 years managing large Australian sheep and cattle stations, one, which ran 40,000 sheep. Through this work he developed a strong understanding of animal behaviour from observing Australian native animals on the station. His natural talent for drawing was recognized early, and he drew horses for a hobby. But he grew up with a fascination for Africa, inherited from his parents, and on his first trip there in 1994, with wife Margie, a respected photographer, he fell in love with the continent. He began writing reviews and drawing wildlife and lodges for The African Safari Magazine. Africa stimulated his sense of sight, smell and sound and he “found its heartbeat deafening.” No other place on earth has the variety and numbers of such visible wildlife, and McClelland has since made nine trips to Africa, witnessing the powerful and unstoppable force of nature. He believes he has managed to gather Africa’s spirit and soul to fuel his desire to draw and paint the people, places and wildlife of the country with all of its harshness, savagery and beauty. He has spent hours studying his subjects in their natural habitat, observing their movements, and noting the interactions between predator and prey. He uses sketches, photographs, video footage and his own well-honed powers of observation as reference to accurately portray the behaviour and anatomy of his animals. He draws them with such fine detail that each of his drawings can take up to 300 hours. Coming from the land and pioneering stock himself, he believes that the spirit of the Australian bush and the African bushveld is a part of him, and he finds it easy to become one with it. His living drawings are greatly sought after by discerning collectors.

mark shepherd

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Mark Shepherd is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in various national magazines including Adbusters, Mondo 2000, Playboy, and Talk. Mark's interest in design can be traced to his childhood in central Michigan where he began collecting and trading Topps "Wacky Packages" stickers, and drawing his own comics. From there he moved into more formal studies in and in 1985, after failing out of micro-economics, he graduated with BFA in graphic design from Northern Michigan University. In 1994 he received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati in ceramic sculpture. With a desire to combine his training in both design and art Mark made the move to Chicago, IL where he survived a five year stint within the hustling bustling world of advertising and design. before taking his knowledge and experience to the classroom. He taught as a professor of Art and Design at both Grand Valley State University in Michigan and the College of Creative Studies in Detroit. The LA chapter of the Society of Illustrators honored his work in in the 2001, 44th Annual Exhibition. From 1998-2000 he collaborated with the highly respected designer Martin Venezky on several projects including "Speak", a magazine which questioned and lifted established design standards. In 1998, his work was featured in the book "Cutting Edge Web Design: The Next Generation", and on the web portals "Digital Thread", and "Net Diver" where brutalgiftland.com won a "Design Forte Award". His playful "cold_elf" sound collage project was recently featured on NPR's Open Mic and will be used in an upcoming untitled independent film from B.C., Canada. Currently he is living and working in Aspen, CO, designing the art and music program as Division Director at Colorado Mountain College.

ALXSw

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my painting is autobiographical, but the metaphor is abstract and i feel no value in interpreting the symbols. i don’t want to influence what you feel when you view my work; preferring that your interpretation be authentic, personal. as a creative I work in a variety of arts: large format color field painting, digital and analog photography, an occasional multimedia project, and writing (technical, fiction, non-fiction). everything I ve ever held to has always been because of and for my art. it’s really that simple.

shan wells

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Shan Wells is a North American Sculptor and political illustrator. Born in Cortez, Colorado, he attended Art Center College of Design and the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand, where he studied under Andrew Drummond. He received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1999, and two successive Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowships for drawing and sculpture, respectively, one of two recipients of the awards to do so in the 35 year history of the program. Wells illustrates a weekly political cartoon for the Durango Telegraph, an independent weekly newpaper in Durango, Colorado. His illustrations have also appeared in Truthout.org, Westword, Las Vegas City Life, and the Los Angeles Reader.

Gary Paller

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Born in Los Angeles, lived in Europe for a few years, back in Los Angeles.

Eclaire

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I do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and if I'm lucky, I aquire art along the way. I travel a lot, and spend most of my year working in Antarctica.

teresa mills

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Randi Reiss-McCormack

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Marilyn Henrion

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Marilyn Henrion is a graduate of Cooper Union and a lifelong New Yorker. Her award-winning works have been included in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. The works have also been featured in numerous publications, including “Women Designers In The U.S.- 1900-2000", published in 2001 by Yale University Press. Among the grants she has received, was one awarded by The Artslink Partnership, devoted to fostering excellence in the arts between the U.S. and countries of the former Soviet Union. Henrion was honored by the Smithsonian Institution by being invited to submit her papers and sketchbooks for inclusion in the Archives of American Art. In 2005, she was awarded a Fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

kevin bourgeois

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Kevin Bourgeois 449 w. 51st Street, New York, NY 10019 321.662.0290 Kevinb1969@gmail.com

Joyce Polance

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Joyce Polance currently lives and works in Chicago. Her recent paintings are figurative, executed in both oil and encaustic. They are largely variations on portraiture which explore women’s personal transformations. Born in New York City in 1965, Polance holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She also attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Polance is a two-time grantee of the Community Arts Assistance Program from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as a recipient of a Cliff Dwellers’ Artist in Residence Award, a Judith Dawn Memorial Fund Grant and a George Sugarman Foundation Grant. Her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Reader. Additionally, she was featured as part of the Central States edition of “American Art Collector,” published in the fall of 2005. Polance’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections including Commonwealth Edison, Deloitte, The University Club of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Art. She has had solo exhibits in Chicago and the Midwest, and is represented by Gwenda Jay/ Addington Gallery in Chicago and Blue Gallery in Three Oaks, Michigan. Her paintings can be viewed at www.joycepolance.com.

igor sazevich

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Exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Kuntz Museum, Frankfurt, Germany - National Gallery, Washington DC - Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, California - Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California - Marin Art Festival, Civic Center, California - Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, California - Washington Gallery of Art, Washington - Bolinas Museum, California- Toby's Gallery, Point Reyes, California.

john richey

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John Richey creates works about fear and control. He received a BFA from The University of Arizona in 2001 and a MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2004, both in visual arts with an emphasis on combined media. His animations have been exhibited nationally and internationally and were mentioned in the "Best of 2004" issue of ARTFORUM International.

kathy halper

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Kathy creates visual tapestries combining rich color and textures with carefully rendered narratives of forgotten and vulnerable members of society. Using collage inspired layering, solid line and representational detail, she creates a strong psychological presence for these individuals, as they become metaphors for nostalgia and estrangement, kinship and intimacy, strength and uncertainty. Halper has exhibited widely throughout Chicago. Most recently being seen in the debut of The Artist Project, an exhibit featuring 50 independent artists running in conjunction with Art Chicago. Previously she has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Mornea, Saint Xavier University and the ARC Gallery, as well as participating in group exhibitions at Woman Made Gallery, Johnsonese Gallery, Open Door Gallery and Wag Arts. She has been chosen as Curator's Choice at Around the Coyote, won first place at The Art Center's "In View" exhibition and has been selected as one of the artists of the Illinois Artisans Program.

Winslow Myers

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Jennifer Remenchik

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I was born in Austin, TX in 1986. I have lived all around Texas including Houston and Tyler (in East TX), but have come back to Austin for undergraduate art school. I will be graduating in May of 2009.

Nancy Staub Laughlin

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Rebecca "Ruji" Chapnik

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Ruji is a famous artist with connections all over the world in large cities like Corodad, New Burrland, and even Gätthe. Several of her works are housed in the permanent collection of the [Museum of] £åç–§µßÿ. After founding the Toilet Resin movement (which now has millions of followers) in 2000, respected publications ranging from The Modern Classicist to The Journal of Harlequin Ichthyosis and Similar Skin Conditions have praised her work. When fans aren't haggling Ruji for autographs, she likes to write stories about stalkers.

Marlene-Luce Tremblay

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Alex Adam

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i make art woo hoo

Marc Clements

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Isabel Manalo

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Hollis Cooper

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Born in 1976 in Jackson, Mississippi, Hollis Cooper grew up in New Orleans and Houston before moving to New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and finally California. She received her undergraduate degree with high honors from Princeton University, a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. She received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Award nomination from the CGU Art Department in 2006, and in 2007 was selected for the Drawing Center's Viewing Program in NYC. Her work has been featured/reviewed in publications such as New American Paintings, Art Papers, Alarm Magazine, and Art World Digest, and has recently been included in shows such as Sum of Parts at dba256 in Pomona, and Modular: New Art from Los Angeles at White Flag Projects in St. Louis. When she is not in the studio, Hollis works as a Lecturer in the Art Department at California State University, San Bernardino.

Scott Mulholland

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Craig Kerrecoe

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Craig was born in Ashford, Kent in 1971, the eldest of two sons. The family lived in mid-Kent then Oxfordshire before finally settling in East Kent where Craig's father, a roof tiler, enjoyed some property development success. It was during this time, surrounded by dye-line prints, that Craig took a keen interest in architecture and the 'art' of architectural drawing. Craig left grammar school early (with no qualifications) and ended up in the construction industry with his father, via a stint with BT. It was his childhood interest in architectural drawing that eventually pushed Craig back to college in his mid-twenties to gain a BTEC National Diploma in Construction. He was, in fact, the first student at Canterbury College to gain an end of course grade of Distinction in an individual unit on that course. This, together with his industry experience, was sufficient enough to secure him a place on the Design (Construction & Management) Degree Course at Greenwich University. He also gained employment with a local practice as an Architectural Assistant. He later moved to another practice, quickly becoming an Associate and was given a Local Agenda 21 Award for designing a sustainable, luxury housing scheme in Broadstairs. With the retirement of the partners, Craig acquired the practice, in partnership with a long-term colleague, and employed a team of excellent Architects of varying grades. In 2004, they took an unexpected opportunity to leave the practice and the architectural industry along with it. He relocated to Cambridgeshire with his wife and their children at the same time and has been painting, writing and curating ever since. His first art exhibition was a two-month long solo of 'The Code' series at Needhams Restaurant & Art Gallery in Witchford, Cambridgeshire. He was the first artist to formally exhibit at the venue, successfully launching their Contemporary Art Programme for them in 2005. 'The Code' series continued to provide Craig with success when he became a finalist in the 6th South Holland Open Art Competition & Exhibition with his entry, 'Dance With Me'. This same painting received a commendation in the final round of judging in the S.A.A. Artist Of The Year 2006 Competition. A solo exhibition of his 'Same World, Different Day' series early on in 2006 at Blackfriars Arts Centre in Boston led to an invitation to curate a group exhibition for the venue later on in the year. The result was 'As Yet Untitled', an exhibition featuring a selection of new and emerging British Artists such as Gareth Buxton. He now curates regularly for the venue as part of Ovenden Contemporary, the company he originally founded to help new and emerging Artists gain exhibition experience. The company now represents over 30 new, emerging and established British Artists, devising and promoting contemporary art exhibitions across the east of England. Craig is a Contributing Editor for UK East for Creativ Europe Limited, a Europe-wide cultural internet magazine and contributes to other magazines such as Art & Soul, The Bullet and Art In London. Through his various representations Craig has exhibited widely across the East of England & London at galleries such as Blackfriars Arts Centre in Boston, Lincolnshire, Candid Arts Centre in Islington, Artshed in Ware, Hertfordshire, The Globe Gallery in Weybridge, Surrey & Three Cups Gallery in Ely, Cambridgeshire & have been invited to work with organizations such as Atelier EAST, The Art Library and The Definite Article. His most recent major exhibition was ‘A Series Of Lines’, a collaborative, multi-media, collaborative exhibition with the disabled Artist Esther Appleyard which featured in the Main Gallery and the Watercolour Gallery at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum during April and May 2008. This exhibition was a development of a previous, smaller-scale collaboration with Esther at Three Cups Gallery, Ely, in 2007. Using abstract painting, installation work and a short film called ‘Within The Weave’ they encouraged the viewer to consider their own genetic heritage and destiny.

Hiske Tas Bain

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Hiske was born in the Hague, Holland and studied in the Free Academy and The koninlijke Academy in the Hague, The Regent College in London, and studied and Painted in Paris. Hiske extensively travelled and studied Art throughout Europe, Asia, and the USA and Canada. In New York she became involved in the underground culture in the sixty's, where she lived and painted for five years, and then moved to Belgium, designing and creating silver jewellery to be sold in Art Galleries around Europe. After 5 years in 1971, Hiske moved to Australia with her husband and two daughters, and opened a Art-Gallery in Surfers paradise and then moved to Mullumbimby, NSW, and build a home studio in the mountains. Hiske studied Weaving in Sydney, Natural Healing, Homoeopathy, Massage, Colour therapy, Astrology, Is a Reiki Master, trained with Shaman Master Serge Kahili King in Hawaii and is a Alakaii, and studied with Aboriginal woman in Ernabella in the desert near Ayers rock, and also worked as a Natural therapist in NSW. Than Hiske became involved in combining Healing and Painting, “Healing Art and gives Workshops National and International in Reiki and Shamanistic Healing Art.

Shelley Laffal

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sher fick

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Sher Fick currently creates art at her studio in rural Tennessee. Having focused on her art career after being a stay-at-home mother and a late-in-life college student, she deals with the direct and underlying consequences of motherhood and visualizes her biological and biographical history. Utilizing encaustic and mixed media, FICK questions and analyzes society's ideals of mother/artists. Artist Statement: In recent years, I wanted to explore and question the roles of women and women artists. In the last decades artists have been allowed to move beyond the “gentle” arts of needlepoint and watercolor, allowing for a more aggressive and passionate expression. As an artist, I never identified myself as a feminist. My being female was just a part of my biology – driving my sexual encounters and relations and the cause of reproduction. All of these feminist identifiers caused ambiguity within me. Constriction, restraint, feelings of abuse, and invisibility were the products of my femininity. In no way was I called to wave the “feminist” banner. I didn’t want someone to give me credit for or look at my art only through the “pink” lenses of feminism. I feel art should stand on its own as to content and visual principles of design. Does the viewer really need to know that a female created a work? So for years I de-feminized my subject matter, colors, and construction. I was going for an androgynous art. Unfortunately, this separatist attitude developed into a denial of my complete person. I AM a woman. I AM a wife. I AM a mother. I loved playing with dolls as a child. I love to sew and crochet. As I began an archeological dig – culturally, psychologically, and personally in my recent “Excavations and Explorations” series, I re-discovered and acknowledged - for the first time - my feminine history and existence. My new works include the very ambiguity I feel over this issue – the abuse of the innocent child, societal attempts to break the feminine spirit and strength, celebrations of the resilience of children, the paradox and invisibility of motherhood and domestic practices, as well as the raw desire of sex and love. My use of domestic and childhood materials and constructions of fabric and vintage apparel reveal the paradox of the life of a woman artist. I have embraced my love of the color pink and the vintage teal that stands for home and comfort. By questioning what femininity means to myself, I hope to offer a record of one-woman artist’s journey into acceptance and the embrace of the feminine spirit I have denied for years. I have discovered in recent works a depolarization of my artist/feminine self.

maria palffy-bazergui

myartspace id:laika

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I was born in Prague,spend my youth in Austria and moved to Canda in 1961. I began my artistic career as a ceramist, making functional as well as sculptural work. Lately I have started painting.

Guenter Knop

myartspace id:Artguenter

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1954 Born in Germany 1974 Graduation at the Hermann-Boese Gymnasium for boys. 1975-78 Studied agriculture at the Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany . 1979-81 First assistant to photographer, Charlotte March,in Hamburg Fashion editorial, advertising, corporate. 1982 One year trip around the world USA, Japan,Taiwan,Hong Kong,China for China Travel, Germany . 1983-89 First assistant to Henry Wolf, Henry Wolf Productions. Television commercials, still lifes, catalogues, portraits and advertising since1989 Commercial photographer, Advertising, cosmetics and editorial

Raymond Yeung

myartspace id:xraytwonine

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Iman Shaggag

myartspace id:is2007

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Born to Sudanese parents in England 1970. Bachelor Degree in Fine Art, College of Fine & Applied Art, Sudan University for Science & Technology, Khartoum, 1996. Exhibited her work in Sudan and abroad, and participated in: January 2007, she participated in a group exhibition "Out of Bounds" at the Vital Voices of Africa Leadership summit for Women & Girls, Town, South Africa. The exhibition was curated by Mimi Wolford, Mbari Institute for Contemporary African Art; Anne B. Zill, Women’s Center for Ethics in Action OUT OF BOUNDS (Hors du Sentier Battu). "Colors of Africa", organized by Mbari Institute and The Arts Council of Metropolitan Memorial UMC, Washington DC, 2004; "Out of Bounds", organized by the Mbari Institute for Contemporary African Art, at the University of New England, Maine, US, 2004. She founded the online gallery Sudan Artists Gallery http://www.sudanartists.org in 1998.

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