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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week. |
 Susan Maddox |
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Born in Honoloulu Hawaii, and now living in Brooklyn, Susan Maddox was a finalist in the recent myartspace.com NY, NY 2007 Competition. Since receiving her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has been involved in various group shows in New York and elsewhere including Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC; the Puna Contemporary Art Center, Hawaii; and Musee de Monoian in Pittsburg, PA. |
 Don Ritter |
 Installation Stills |
Don Ritter is a Canadian artist and writer living in Berlin, Germany. His interactive video-sound installations and performances have been exhibited at festivals and museums throughout Europe, North America and Asia, including SITE Santa Fe(New Mexico), Images du Futur(Montreal), Metronom(Barcelona), Ars Electronica(Linz), Sonambiente Sound Festival(Berlin), New Music America(New York City), and ArtFuture 2000(Taipei). Read an interview with him here. |
 Fabienne Gautier |
 Night Walk |
Fabienne Gautier is an artists who lives in Paris. She works mainly in film, video and photography. Her work has been shown internationally in galleries and festivals including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC; The Kitchen, NYC; Locarno, Rotterdam; Media City Canada; Paris Berlin Meetings, the New York Underground Festivals and many others. Her short Night Walk was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2006 Delta International Film and Video Festival. |
 Sergei Petrov |
 Spandas |
"In 1981 Sergei Petrov became a Soviet dissident, first coming to international attention in 1982 when he spent 50 days on a hunger strike trying to win permission to emigrate. . . His photo journalistic work, critical of the old Soviet regime, appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times. His image "The Lady on Red Square," became the symbol of a stagnant Soviet regime and was featured on NBC's Today show and in many magazines and newspapers. . ." |
 Diana Nicholas |
 Dissolving Machines |
An architect and artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, D.S. Nicholas maintains an interdisciplinary practice involving both built architectural works and exhibited fine arts projects and works. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, she received her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts. Currently she is a professor at the Tyler School Department of Architecture at Temple University. |
 Rachel Meuler |
 Hoi Polloi |
Rachel Meuler's work has encompassed sculpture and installation, costume-oriented performance art, and a recent focus on painting and works on paper. She recently received a fellowship from Skidmore College and was an artist in residence at the Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement. Her work is included in several slide registries, including The Drawing Center, and has been featured in the "Tips & Picks" section of NY Arts Magazine online edition. |
 Andrew Carnie |
 I Am Throught The Day |
Multidisciplinary artist Andrew Carnie's resume is long and varied. His work is represented in collections in England, Germany, and America. Increasingly he talks about his collaborations with scientists and recently he was a key note speaker at the SLSA conference in Amsterdam, and completed a web radio show for PS 1 in New York. |
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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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Museums Learn To Mimic Hollywood "In the era of movies with elaborate special effects and video games with graphics that cause players to marvel at the feeling of being inside the game, its no wonder museums are scrambling to keep up. For many, the answer to a more sophisticated audience and one with, perhaps, a shorter attention span is interactivity and immersion. Science and childrens museums have long trafficked in hands-on, sensory experiences. Now, with improved technology, the experiential exhibit is reaching new heights and turning up in a variety of venues." The Christian Science Monitor 10/19/07 Queen-Sized Bed, Bath, Cable TV, And A Van Gogh An innkeeper in France is attempting to raise $30m or more to purchase a Van Gogh landscape at auction. If he is successful, the painting would hang in the attic room where the painter died two days after shooting himself in 1890. "The plan is dismissed as a mad fantasy by some curators and art dealers," but the innkeeper seems to be skilled at attracting backers. The New York Times 10/18/07 The Art of Sex A London exhibition showcasing erotic art through the ages is rekindling old debates on art and pornography. "The exhibition throws light on how different cultures at different times have viewed sex. What it reveals above all is how styles of art have changed over the centuries, while human beings and their desires have essentially stayed the same." BBC 10/16/07 A Portent For The Art Market? "A buyers' revolt against escalating Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol values, and rising demand for Chinese and lower-priced Western art at London's five-day auctions may be a guide to New York's November sales." Bloomberg 10/17/07 Assessing This Year's Frieze London's Frieze has only been around for five years, but it has rapidly become the UK's largest and most influential art fair. "Some 151 galleries from 28 countries were chosen to take part this year, drawn from 450 applicants; each has a booth displaying its best pieces -- or at least pieces it hoped would sell or provoke... To the extent there is a buzz at Frieze this year, it has centered on the booth run by Gavin Brown's Enterprise, a New York gallery, which has been turned into a flea market organized by the artist Rob Pruitt." The New York Times 10/13/07 Audience Participation Comes To The Art Gallery "Since Rudolf Stingel's sleek midcareer survey opened at the Whitney Museum of American art in June, hundreds of visitors have been allowed to depart radically from traditional museum protocol (hands off) and have a go at the walls in the exhibition's first gallery, using anything they happen to have with them: pens, money, credit cards, cellphones... Over the intervening months New York's art-viewing public rose to the occasion: The room's lower half is now equally dense with a kind of populist, manic, talking-in-tongues wallpaper." The New York Times 10/13/07 Art That Refuses To Live In Fear Picasso's Guernica is on display in Spain, where the painting's anti-war message stands in stark contrast to the terrorist attacks endured regularly by Spaniards. Guernicaitself has been the target of violence over the years, to the extent that it used to be displayed only under heavy glass. These days, it hangs unprotected, and Michael Kimmelman says that public trust is what makes art, and the museums that house it, so uniquely human. The New York Times 10/13/07 Professor Pleads Guilty In Kurtz Art Case A genetics researcher at the University of Pittsburgh has pleaded guilty for obtaining biological materials for a friend's art exhibit. Robert Ferrell "was indicted in June 2004, along with Steven A. Kurtz, a former Carnegie Mellon University art professor and founding member of the Critical Art Ensemble, which uses art to examine the impact of science and technology on consumer culture." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/11/07 |
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