| weekly featured art > 9.14.07 |
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 Xi Zhang |
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Xi Zhang was born in China, and has since moved on to study art at the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Colorado. He has achieved a great deal of success in his young career, including shows this year at the Red Dot Art Fair in New York City and one entitled "Never Land" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. |
 Ted Vasin |
Russian-born Ted Vasin has exhibited at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the de Young Art Center in San Francisco, as well as the Pacifica Center for the Arts. He participated in two residencies through programs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Vasin's work has appeared in numerous publications, including New American Paintings and WIRED magazine. This year he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. His work is represented by Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. | |
 Jessalyn Haggenjos |
Jessalyn Haggenjos was born Portland, Oregon and lives and works in San Francisco, where she recently received her MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA). Her viscous paintings and sculptures have been featured in several solo exhibits in the western US, including ones at The Fallout Gallery in Las Vegas and the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) in Seattle. | |
 Minkyung Lee |
Korean artist Minkyung Lee received her MFA in Printmedia from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She has also been granted a Summer Residency at the School of Visual Art in New York City. She has ehxibited steadily in Korea and the United States, and is looking forward to upcoming solo shows at Mooshin Museum and Photography Center BODA in Seoul, Korea. | |
 Bruce Noel Mortenson |
Bruce Noel Mortenson received his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. This year Bruce has received a Fellowship Grant Award from The Illinois Arts Council, placement in the Midwestern Competition and publication of New American Paintings, and a Community Arts Assistant Grant from The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Bruce currently has a solo exhibition open through October 14th at The Chicago Cultural Center. | |
 Sidnea D'Amico |
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Born in Brazil, where she studied photography and jewelry design, Sidnea D'Amico has since settled in the United States, where her work has been included in group exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SOMArts, Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica and recently at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose. |
 Kevin A. Rausch |
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Kevin A. Rausch is a painter and sculptor from Austria, where he has been recognized as an important emerging artist and has been granted a number of solo shows, most recently at Atelier-Flachgasse in Vienna and Galerie Berndt Kulterer in Wolfsberg. |
Brian Sherwin, our senior blog editor has been continuing his interview series with artists. Below are a couple of recent highlights: |
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What Happened To Turner Prize Winners Charlotte Higgins tracks down 22 years of winners and talks to them about their experiences. The Guardian (UK) 09/10/07 LA's Endangered Artists "To hear them tell it, downtown L.A. circa 1998 was like Montmartre, the epicenter of bohemian Paris, in 1898. And if downtown L.A. was Montmartre, the Canadian was Le Bateau-Lavoir, the squalid tenement that housed the likes of Pablo Picasso and Amadeo Modigliani in the late 1890s. Before the current attempts to turn it into a yuppie playground, downtown's Main Street was the kind of petri dish of hunger and humanity that artists crave and thrive on. Right in the middle of it all was the Canadian, where crack and abuelas became absinthe and courtesans, and the party never ended." LAWeekly 09/13/07 Cleveland Clinic Removes Painting After Complaints " A controversial painting removed from display last week at the Cleveland Clinic includes depictions of blacks that many employees viewed as racially stereotypical, Clinic officials said Monday. Numerous employees at the Cleveland Clinic complained last week about the painting, 'My Home Town,' by Cleveland artist Michelangelo Lovelace, who is black. Lovelace, in turn, said last week that he had been censored when the Clinic replaced the work with another of his paintings." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 09/12/07 In Museum's Galleries, A Bombardment Of 9/11 Images "It isn't memory that is the issue. It is commemoration. Memory, at least right now, is readily summoned. Commemoration is something else altogether. The new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, for example, is not a commemoration. 'Here Is New York: Remembering 9/11,' which opens today, is exclusively about memory...." The New York Times 09/11/07 |
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