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Piety Choi |
Interior Castle 2008 |
Piety Choi holds an MFA from thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as B.A. in Education & Psychology, Seoul Women’s College, Seoul, Korea. Born originally in Seoul, Korea, Piety has been working and exhibiting in the US for many years. She is the holder of numerous academic honors as well. |
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Chad Kipfer |
Abstract |
Chad Kipfer was born in Telluride, Colorado. He holds a BA in Visual Arts w/emphasis in Drawing and Painting from University of San Francisco. Chad is a member artist of Big Umbrella Studios in San Francisco. In Chad's own words "my work now is defined by the lines that make it up. the brush strokes and process are left bare in my work, exposing the line and sometimes its intention. each line in turn telling a tale of a brush found or an idea abandoned and together making up the piece in front of you. acrylic and enamel paint give me the freedom and ideal time frame to build a piece line by line and so i do."
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Naoimi Muirhead |
Mixed Media |
Naomi Muirhead grew up in rural Illinois, just outside of Chicago. From there, she has lived in Seattle and San Francisco and since 2000 lives and works in Florence, Italy. She has degrees in both the fine arts and interior architecture and has exhibited and sold her work in the US and in Europe. In her own words "Making jewelry and objects from semi-precious metals, stones, and non-precious found materials has culminated from my interest in design and my need to make things with my hands. The aesthetics I use are the same throughout all of my work, most importantly the combination, coordination, composition, and collaboration between old and new. They are both architecture and collages on a miniature scale." |
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"Rimi Yang's increasingly sophisticated paintings imbue traditional Asian imagery with a contemporary spin. Intensely emotional, vibrant and often whimsical, Yang’s work shows a technical mastery that can only be achieved through an ardent dedication to the act of painting. For Rimi, this act is highly intuitive, and often a celebration of the uncertainties of life. In addition to her training at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Rimi has studied at Otis College of Art and Design, and spent a summer in Florence, Italy, studying at the Florence Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited on both coasts, most notably in New York and Los Angeles, and she has been featured numerous times in the Kyoto Journal." |
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"Donald Fodness utilizes seemingly benign and enticing imagery to draw his audience into a layered and unsettling world of complexities. His work is full of cliche, visual puns, and juvenile humor. For Donald this humor parallels the absurdity of contemporary life. His work deals with social imprinting, the loss of innocence, image abundance, and personal experience." |
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"Laurel Swab is a painter and sculptor originally from Louisville, Kentucky. Laurel graduated with honors and received a B.F.A. in 1991 from the Kansas City Art Institute where she studied sculpture and fiber arts. While attending K.C.A.I. she was exposed to a variety of media and still constantly seeks new processes and materials to further expand her visual vocabulary. Her work is expressive, poignant and thought provoking. It addresses issues of confrontation, cultural boundaries and personal evolution. Swab has earned the respect of regional gallery owners, collectors and museum curators and directors. Her work is in numerous private collections throughout the United States." |
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"Patrick Duegaw is a member of the artist cooperative known as Fisch Haus. The cooperative, which was founded over fourteen years ago, is a source of creative energy for Patrick and his fellow members. He has stated that his paintings are a palimpsestic narrative that he achieves with the application of thin paint over the top of previous drawings on sheetrock, cut from the walls of his studio. This prompts an interaction between his old and new thoughts, creating a layered study of connections between the past and the present. His paintings are visual journal entries; not only recording a few of the people and spaces that exist within the Fisch Haus, but the passage of time within each scene as well." |
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"Patricia Volk is a sculptor who admits that the human head has become an obsession in her work. She states, "In my treatment of the heads, I want to get away from realism, the over-wrought and the unnecessary (almost baroque) detail I see in a lot of work depicting the human figure or face – and concentrate on simplicity in form and inner emotion." Her heads, like faces in a crowd, are indistinguishable amongst all the others-- each with their own private tensions and sadness." |
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"Wafaa Bilal's art is of a political nature that speaks to the oppression of the human spirit, including that of women who are bound by the rules of culture and the horrors of war. Wafaa has won many awards for his art as well as a scholarship to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for post graduate study. He is now teaching at SAIC. A survivor of Saddam Hussein's regime, Wafaa travels to give lectures on the oppressive nature of the regime in the hope of informing people of the complexities of the situation as well as the atrocities committed and the importance of nonviolent means of ending conflict. He has been interviewed by the History Channel and spoke on the Iraqi conflict at the Democratic Convention in New York City." |
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"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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"Kalliope Amorphous is a performance artist utilizing photography. Kalliope focuses on the self portrait as a means of exploring identity, archetype, myth and gender. Her approach to photography is entirely intuitive and autodidactic, and changes shape almost everyday. Prior to working with the still image, Kalliope was a spoken word artist and performed extensively in New York City in various theatrical presentations and poetry slams. She later began to dabble in the still image as a catalyst for all of the moods and personalities she had previously expressed through theater. " |
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