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weekly featured art > 8.24.07

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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week:


Christa Donner	All	Christa Donner uses large-scale drawings and small-press zines to map alternate bodily systems based on sensation and imagination. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including major exhibitions at Kravets-Wehby Gallery (New York, NY), POST (Los Angeles, CA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Donner's art is interwoven with a wide variety of community-based projects, including contribution-based zines, public workshops, and panel discussions.

Oli Goldsmith	Time Limb	Oli Goldsmith is an internationally exhibiting artist who has made a name for himself as an award-winning video director and commercial designer. He lives in Toronto and works with New York's Notorious Pictures design firm.

Laini Nemett	Paintings 2004-2006	Laini Nemett is a nationally exhibiting artist and a Fullbright Scholar. Among other institutions, she has been educated at Brown University, Yale University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. With her Fullbright Grant, she studied the Romanesque frescoes and sculptures in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

Vitus Shell	Invisible	Vitus Shell is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. His work has been shown in solo and group shows around the United States. He is also currently the vice president of NIA, a support organization for young artists based in Memphis, Tenn.

Serena Perrone	Voyage Series	Serena Perrone was born in St. Louis, MO and grew up between St. Louis and Sicily. She received her MFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design, where she concentrated on large-scale woodcuts and silverpoints. She is now an artist living in Philadelphia, and exhibiting throughout the country.

Dayton Castleman	The End of the Tunnel (VIDEO)	Dayton Castleman was born in New Orleans. He received his BA in Art from Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi and is currently pursuing an MFA in sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dayton, his wife Karen and daughter Anna live in Oak Park, Illinois.

Sean Sullivan	Divergent Topologies	Sean Sullivan is an MFA Candidate at the University of California Irvine. He received his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. In addition to fine art, Sullivan has worked and lectured in the fields of architecture and commercial art.

Hugo Crosthwaite	Drawings on Paper	Hugo Crosthwaite was born in Tijuana, Mexico and grew up in the tourist-heavy beach town of Rosarito. The artist currently lives and works in Williamsburg, New York. Crosthwaite's work is currently traveling with TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art. This exhibition, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art - San Diego (MCASD), will travel from San Diego to the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, Atlanta's High Museum of Art, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina.

Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights:

Hugo Tillman

"Hugo Tillman's two-year 'Film Stills of the Mind' project has won him much acclaim in the world of art. The New York-based artist interviewed approximately 80 contemporary Chinese artists and made films based on the interviews. The project recalls Cindy Sherman's 'Untitled Film Stills'. But rather than appear in his own work, Tillman directs the artists themselves to act out scenarios and fantasies that he created after the interview process. . . "

Sas Christian

"Sas Christian’s paintings are intense. Inspired by anime and manga, Sas's 'big-eyed' super realistic style has won her great success in the pop-surrealism scene. Her oil paintings, which are often confused as digital art, have been highly sought after by art collectors and are admired by fans worldwide. . . "

Van Gogh Letters Deny Genius-Madness Link "A new collection of Vincent van Gogh's letters casts doubt on the popular notion that his mental illness was also the source of his artistic genius. A curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Leo Jansen, and two Dutch colleagues are working on a complete annotated edition of the artist's more than 800 extant letters. The new edition will also include around 2,000 illustrations, artwork by van Gogh himself and by other artists that he refers to in his letters." New York Sun 08/21/07

Eli Broad Predicts The Art Market "Many of the buyers of contemporary art have been hedge-fund managers and other investors who obviously are having a difficult time and have lost lots of money. The art market will soften, and an adjustment in values will take place, but it may not happen for six months to a year." Bloomberg 08/17/07

Lebanon Bans Performance Artist "Lebanese artist Rabih MrouÃ© will stage his new performance piece in Paris, Rome and the capitals of Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt. But he will not present it in Lebanon, for the audience with whom it might resonate most." The country's Interior Ministry has banned the piece. The New York Times 08/18/07

Spiring Supertall In Chicago Santiago Calatrava's "design for the twisting, 2,000-foot-tall Chicago Spire is rational inside and expressive outside, epitomizing the new aesthetic freedom made possible by the structural undergirding of the latest generation of supertall skyscrapers." Chicago Tribune 08/19/07

Richard Serra Takes LA "Until recently, when UCLA got its own torqued ellipse and the Orange County Performing Arts Center received its stunning, 66-foot-tall Connector, the L.A. area was weirdly bereft of Serras -- weird because of the artist's California roots. Maybe being raised in the Bay Area and schooled in part at UC Santa Barbara didn't make him quite Southern California enough. Maybe there's something about the work that seemed, in the past, antithetical to Los Angeles -- too heavy, too earnest, too serious, too sculptural. No more." LA Weekly 08/15/07

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