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Below are a few artists we wanted to call your attention to this week:


Leslie Fry	Boca Ciega Park	Leslie Fry's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including Exit Art and Artists Space in New York City, Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany; Centre des Arts Visuels in Montreal; Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris; Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida.

Pascual Sisto		Raised in Barcelona, Spain, Pascual Sisto graduated with a BFA in film from Art Center College of Design and a MFA from UCLA in California. His film and video work has been shown widely, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) in Buenos Aires, TVE (Spanish Television) and the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include the LA Freewaves at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, USA), Bitforms Gallery (New York, USA) and Telic Gallery (Los Angeles, USA).

Alette Simmons-Jimenez	Paintings	Simmons-Jimenez is a painter, sculptor and video installation artist. She currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. Born in Madison Wisconsin, she received a BFA from Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; later relocating to the Dominican Republic, to live and work for 18 years. Her works have been exhibited internationally in shows held in the Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France; the Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; the National Association of Women Artists Gallery, New York , NY; and much more. She is the founder and director of Artformz Alternative, an artist run space in the Miami Design District.

John Monteith	Recent Paintings/Drawings	Born in 1973 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada John Monteith began his formal education studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design graduating in 1997 with a diploma in drawing and painting. He has spent time studying and living in California, London, and Japan. He has had numerous one-person shows, most recently at XEXE Gallery in Toronto, Canada. Presently he's attending Parsons the New School for Design in New York completing his MFA.

Roshan Houshmand	Event Painting	Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian-American artist who was born in 1961 in the Philippines. She was raised in the Philippines and Iran, and received her education in the Arts in the US and Italy. Her MA and MFA are from Rosary College of Illinois Graduate Program in Florence, Italy, (1983, 84) and her BA is from Bennington College in Vermont. She has been exhibiting her work for over two decades in New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Barcelona, Brussels and Copenhagen, among other locations.

Steven Miller	Summer	Steven Miller lives and maintains a studio both in New York City and in Connecticut. He has exhibited on the national and international level including New York, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, Berlin and Cologne. His work is in numerous private and public collections including the Bayly Art Museum, the Savannah College of Art & Design Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Walden International, Hong Kong. His work has also been featured on “Sex and the City”, and makes nightly appearances on the hit t.v. sitcom “Fraiser”.

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What becomes of us and our art? A very interesting open debate between two myartspace members has moved to the public between John Gargano (profile) and Sten Are Sandbeck (profile). The debate is covered in depth on the myartspace blog. The debate centers around the real definition of art and whether we as a culture have gone wrong in our definition of art in the last 30-40 years. Good reading and certainly feel free to weigh in your opinion.

How Critics Help To Make A Community "We should have people working full time covering all of the theaters they can seven nights a week. There are tons of art galleries that most people have never heard of. Musical groups are everywhere. We need the critics. Their opinions are one thing, but the fact that they can go into these small places, consider these artists and watch these performances says that the arts are a serious part of this community." Minneapolis Star Tribune 06/18/07

Artists Worry: Chelsea Hotel No Longer A Refuge? "For six decades the Bard family has managed the Hotel Chelsea, overseeing a bohemian enclave that has been a long-term home for writers, artists and musicians including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Tennessee Williams, Dylan Thomas, Andy Warhol, and Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. The Bard era came to an end yesterday" with the hotel board installing new management, and "the Bards were busy filling boxes in the lobby with help from residents who expressed concern about what the management change portends for one of New York's more quirky cultural institutions." The New York Times 06/19/07

The Science (And Art) Of Steampunk "The ideas behind the steampunk sci-fi subgenre have been around since Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but it was given its moniker in the late '80s as a speculative-fiction genre, alongside cyberpunk, ribofunk and splatterpunk. While the others peer 15 minutes into the future, steampunk envisions a future that has collapsed onto a re-imagined Victorian past." Wired 06/18/07

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