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FEATURED ARTISTS:	Jonnie Andersen, Jenna Newton, Or Kadar, Rodrigo Hurtado, Tommy Aditama Putra, Jessica Wohl
INTERVIEWS:	Dahlia Elsayed, Kaku Ueda, Alison Brady, Oliver Fauser, Troy Gua
ART NEWS:	Sotheby's profits slip; Can economic theory explain Art History? Art begins to flourish in Kashmir. . .
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Below are a few artists we'd like to call your attention to this week.


Jonnie Andersen	The Little Chapel of Esoteric Cosmetology	Jonnie Andersen, born in Superior, Nebraska earned a BFA from the University of Nebraska in 1999 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2004. After interning for Martin Parr in London in fall of '04, she returned to Las Vegas to photograph as she had from 1999 to 2002. During these seven years spent in Vegas, she worked for the Bellagio, Paris Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, the Bunkhouse Saloon, and Glamour Shots, seeking a Vegas that only a local could photograph. Her projects include: 'Blank Space,' a photo series of the spaces inhabited by employees underneath the megaresorts, 'Vegascape,' urban and suburban landscapes, 'Postcards to Myself,' a series of postcards about what it means to inhabit the city, 'Model Home,' a series of images made in and around the homes designed to capture who we are as Americans and what we long for, and 'The Little Chapel of Esoteric Cosmetology,' a series of portraits of the ladies who work some of the most desperate streets in America.


Jenna Newton	Dualities	In Jenna's own words "I approach painting as a union of the internal workings of the artist and the action of the paint on canvas. I begin each painting with a very strict formula. I feel a great necessity to provide a distinct set of standards to my work, so my paintings are somewhat formulaic, and thus stable and ordered. Always evident is the striving for normalcy and solidity in my work, as I am keenly aware of the lack of and need for the creation of a foundation. This also lends a sense of constancy through all of my pieces, regardless of style or experimentation. As I become more conscious of the need and desire for a social and cultural order my work process becomes more structured."


Or Kadar	Sapak Koah	Or was born in Kibbutz Maoz Haim, Israel, in 1975. He currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland, where he is studying for a Post-Graduate degree at the Glasgow School of Art. In his own words "In my art, I am interested in addressing situations in which the human body and mind are faced with extreme conditions that undermine their very existence (be it severe illness, war or mere games); as well as in the instruments used under those circumstances (rucksack, baseball bat, torch). I have worked extensively with materials such as ice and caramel to create sculptures of organic, amorphous and perishable nature. These sculptures not only undermined the conventions of the durable artistic object but also symbolise the fragility and temporality of the human body."


Rodrigo Hurtado	Drawing	Rodrigo Hurtado was born in Madrid, 1983. He earned a bachelors in Fine Arts at UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), and studied under painters Tomás Baleztena and Aldo Bahamonde.


Tommy Aditama Putra	"Kick series #1" (2008)	Tommy was born on April 21th, 1983. He lived in Jakarta up until 2001, including times of elementary and high school. After that, went to college in Bandung. After a year in a private college -majoring Visual Communication Design (or Graphic Design), moved to an Art and Design Faculty at Bandung Institute of Technology -majoring Fine Art, spesifically in Printmaking until 2008. Tommy has participated in several exhibitions (academic or general) in Fine Art, Printmaking and Photography.


Jessica Wohl	Silver Crowns 2006	Jessica has recently attended The University of Georgia, The Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Georgia. She is a Masters of Fine Arts candidate 2010, Drawing and Painting. In 2001 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration and Art History from the The Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, Missouri). Jessica also studied in Florence, Italy in 2000.

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

Dahlia Elsayed

Dahlia Elsayed’s paintings combine text and imagery to create illustrated documents about her environment, resulting in journalistic paintings as records of internal and external geographies. Handwritten text on the painted paper plays an important role in creating narratives between the panels. The work draws on her surroundings, informed by autobiography and landscape to create contemporary cartographies of memory and emotional locations. Her paintings, prints and artist books have been shown at galleries and art institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including exhibitions at Clementine Gallery and the Jersey City Museum. Her work is in the public collections of the US Department of State, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, The Jersey City Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, Newark Public Library, New Jersey State Museum, and Morris Museum. A large number of her works were commissioned for the permanent collection of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York...

Kako Ueda

Kako Ueda creates incredibly intricate and beautiful artworks from cut paper. She is interested in organic beings-- insects, animals, and human bodies. Her work reveals how these natural beings are constantly influenced and modified by culture. Her next opening is at the George Adams Gallery in New York City mid-September...

Alison Brady

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Alison Brady is an emerging artist that lives and works in New York City. Brady is currently represented by Massimo Audiello Gallery, in New York. Alison holds an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts (NYC). She has stated that her work is a series of color photographs that work to stimulate unconscious emotions, desires, and sexual compulsions, all unified within a dynamic that vacillates between the real and the fantasized. She explore issues related to madness and alienation as they exist in contemporary culture, concentrating on expressions of neurosis, on feelings of anxiety, displacement, and loss of identity...

Oliver Fauser

Oliver Fauser was born in July 1965 in Lörrach (Baden) near the Black Forest. Between 1987 and 1997 he lived in New York, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, Milan and Hamburg, and toured Europe with various New Yorker Musical-Productions and German plays. After an intermezzo in the film industry in Cologne, he decided to return to the Black Forest one year later. He explores textue by utilizing various material, such as sand, plastic, gravel, filler, wood, leaves, emulsion paint, oil paint, acrylics etc...

Troy Gua

Troy Gua states that his art is fueled by an innate introspection, and influenced by pop-culture and a working-class upbringing. He is an artist that is intent on self-expression and self-discovery. Troy is impassioned by the bold simplicity of fundamental shapes, sharp lines, solid colors, purity and precision, and he strives to create work that reflects that. His work is intended as a visual, meditative antidote to our society’s sometimes excessive, over-stimulated and chaotic tendencies...

Sotheby's profits Fall 11 Percent-- "Chief Executive William Ruprecht said profit would have increased were it not for the new auction schedule. He said wealthy people with more than $100 million -- who are insulated from economic woes -- remain their best customers." Bloomberg 08/05/08

Can Economic Theory Rewrite Art History? -- "Can the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years? Economist David Galenson's "statistical approach has led to what he says is a radically new interpretation of 20th-century art, one he is certain art historians will hate." The New York Times 08/04/08

"Art begins to flourish in Kashmir -- "after nearly two decades of devastating conflict, of violence made more horrific by the achingly lovely natural surroundings, times are better now in Kashmir. Kashmiri painters, sculptors, filmmakers, poets and playwrights have again started plowing ground that had lain fallow for so long." Los Angeles Times 08/13/08

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