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Rachael Nee |
Encounters |
In her own words "My latest works in the series 'Carbon Based Forms' use the element of carbon itself in two of it's forms; soot and graphite. Ninety-five percent of everything that exists in the universe is said to be carbon and it is often called the backbone of life. I saw a parallel between the long series of processes a carbon atom goes through and the long sequence of folds taken by origami. With both carbon and origami, complexity of form comes from the simplicity of a small building block, an atom or a fold, repeated and evolving to create a vast number of different objects. These drawings have used the crease folds as a starting point." |
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Noa Charuvi |
Recent(2007) |
In her own words "Painting is an act of failure, failure to perceive, failure to describe, failure to see, failure to translate the inside to the outside, failure to transfer the three dimensional world into flat surface, failure to say something new, failure to remember, failure to hold, failure to embrace, failure to live forever.
Painting comes from desire, it comes from curiosity of the world around you, it comes from the urge to touch, and to leave a mark." Noa holds an MFA and BFA in Fine Art. |
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Kate Peters |
Home |
Kate Peters was born in Coventry, England in 1980. She studied Photography at Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall. After completing her degree she moved to London where for the past few years she has been assisting photographer Nadav Kander whilst working on her own projects and commissions. She won the Creative Futures Award for her work in 2005 and the Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward Award in 2007 . Her work has been included in group shows in galleries across Europe and the USA. |
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Bonnie Lane |
A Single Gesture |
Lane moved straight from high school into studying Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts where she is currently completing her degree. Over her 3 years of tertiary education she has played an active role in many group exhibitions, fundraisers, solo exhibitions and college projects. In 2006 she was involved in the organisation and also exhibited in PARKED, a student run group exhibition in Collingwood Underground Arts Park, the show successfully collected the Fringe Festival Award for Visual Arts (2006). In 2007 she participated in the 46th Do It exhibition
at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Though this project she initiated contact with YBA artist Tracey Emin and has since continued a personal relationship with the artist via email. |
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Shadi Yousefian |
Double Identity |
Shadi was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the United States at sixteen. She received both my Bachelor’s (2003) and Master’s (2006) of Fine Art in photography from San Francisco State University. In her words "In the beginning, I worked in a kind of “abstract expressionistic” style, taking close-up shots of marks and scratches on surfaces such as walls, trash bins, and telephone booths in public places, capturing the expressions that other people had left on these surfaces. At that time, I was mostly interested in composition and visual aspects of art. After a while, however, I felt a need to express my feelings through my art. Eventually, my desire to communicate a message through art resulted in my later self-portrait series, which became the main focus of my work for a long time and influenced my perspective and the way I related to the world." |
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"Laura Pabst from the Nohra Haime Gallery introduced me to the art of Margeaux Walter. Margeaux recently graduated from The Tisch School of Arts in NYC with a BFA in Photography. She uses photography and photographic lenticulars "to explore the evolution of human interactions, technological innovations, and the relationship between them." The Nohra Haime Gallery brought Margeaux's work to Bridge Miami in December, and she was quite the rage, catching the eye of press, and selling all the pieces that were on display..." |
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"Kirsten Rae Simonsen creates work that is a "fairy-tale gone wrong." Through digital processes, photography, collage, and drawing, she explores the power of children's fairy-tales, the fear of animals, and the human struggle with the natural world. Fred Camper of the Chicago Reader writes: "Simonsen's main subject...(is)...the loss of human identity in the face of a powerful natural world." Simonsen is originally from Chicago and her work has been exhibited in Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Seattle, New York, and London. She currently teaches digital arts and drawing at Florida State University...." |
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"Kara Petraglia was born in Yonkers, NY and raised in Hollywood, FL. Kara has traveled all over the United States. She now resides in the city of her birth. Her paintings provide the space where unspoken stories are given form; the space where she turns her materials into a historical record. As she works and reworks the surfaces of her canvases, she records her struggles with formlessness, fragmentation and the groundlessness that results from being shaped by inherited traumas." |
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"Andrea Blum was born in New York City and received her education at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts and the Art Institute of Chicago. Andrea has built permanent projects in California, Ohio, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, and Boston, as well as France, the Netherlands, and England. She has done many commission installations including installations for A.T.& T. and the Marina Bank in Chicago. Andrea is a Professor of Art / Combined Media at Hunter College CUNY. She has held academic positions at several others schools, including-- Cooper Union School of Art, Princeton University, and the Rhode Island School of Design..." |
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