Curators: Shoshana Brand & xtine
Participating Artists: (in alphabetical order)
Kim Abeles, USA • Lisa Adams, USA • Shoshana Brand, USA/ISRAEL • Jackie Cytrynbaum, CANADA • Roman de Salvo, USA • Deb Diehl, USA • Lucy HG, USA • Sandra Hoogeboom, HOLLAND • Yu Ji, CHINA • Cecile Kassner, ISRAEL • Andrew Keck, ENGLAND • KR Levin, USA • Jon Measures, USA • Gina Rymarcsuk, USA • Adam Schwartz, USA • Mary Kay Wilson, USA • Deng Ye Min, CHINA • xtine, USA
Kim Abeles, USA
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Kim Abeles is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues. The Smog Collector series brought her work to national and international attention in the art world, and mainstream sources such as Newsweek, National Public Radio, and CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Abeles' mid-career survey, Encyclopedia Persona A-Z, toured the United States and South America, and was awarded the Best Regional Museum Show category for 1993-94 by the International Association of Art Critics. She continues to exhibit internationally, including recent projects in Vietnam, Thailand, Czech Republic, England, China, and forthcoming in Cuba.
She represented the U.S. in both the Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam and the Cultural Centre of Berchem in Antwerp. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, United States Information Agency, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is archived in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Publication Design Collection of the Smithsonian.
Abeles work was awarded grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation and Peter Norton Foundation and fellowships from J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, Pollack-Krasner Foundation, and the California Arts Council.
Lisa Adams, USA
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Lisa Adams is a painter and public artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Adams graduated with a B.A. in Painting from Sripps College in Claremont, California and received her M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University.
She is the recipient of a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship and a Durfee ARC Grant. Her work is in the collections of Eli Broad, The Frederick Weisman Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art. She has taught art in throughout the Los Angeles area and abroad, including the University of Southern California, the Claremont Graduate University and Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles.
In addition to her practice as an artist, Ms. Adams works as an independent curator, who in 2000, co-founded Crazy Space, an alternative exhibition space, in Santa Monica. She is also the author of “FM*,” (Peeps Island Press, 1999) a How To book about painting, based on her teachings at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture between 1997-1999.
Ms. Adams has been an artist-in-residence in Slovenia, Finland, Japan, Holland and Costa Rica. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was also commissioned by BMW of North America to paint an ArtCar. She has been included in “A Day in the Life of the American Woman, “ Bullfinch Press, 2005, and is currently working on a public art commission for the new Fire Station No. 64 in Watts.
Shoshana Brand, USA/ISRAEL
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Shoshana Brand is a visual and media artist. She constantly locates herself in a creative zone, producing sculpture, site-specific installation, public art and video art. She grew up in Israel, and from 1989 she has been a resident of Los Angeles. Brand has been attending academic institutions most of her life, both in Israel and in the U.S, studying Fine Arts, Cinema, and Education. In 2003 she graduated with a MFA degree in Sculpture from Claremont Graduate University, California, and in the last four years she has been invited to create video installations and public art projects in China, Alaska, Canada and the Czech Republic; and throughout the U.S including Los Angeles, San Diego, New York and Nebraska City. Shoshana has taught art to children and adults in many forums and has served as a curator for several art shows. In 2006 she established a non- profit organization for the Arts, called Contemporary MAP. Her most recent project is a 45-minute Documentary about the Antelope Valley and its residents, to be screened and become a DVD in April 2008.
Jackie Cytrynbaum, CANADA
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Jackie Cytrynbaum lives and works as a fine art photographer in Montreal, Canada. She received her education at Canadian and American art institutions and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in North America, Italy and Britain. Some favorite things to photograph, for example, are underground rail systems and dying flowers. The darkroom, whether digital or traditional, is a very important part of the process as it enables her to take an image from its conception to its completion. She wants to communicate to you what she feels - an emotion, a sense of sound, a sense of joy, of sadness, of fear, etc.
Deb Diehl, USA
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Deb Diehl is a media artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Her video, photography and sculptural media installations, which focus on topics related to threat, invitation and denied access, have been in exhibitions in various parts of the United States and Europe. Diehl is also a co-founder of Street-Level Youth Media, a media arts organization in Chicago.
Lucy HG, USA
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Lucy HG is an internationally exhibiting media artist engaged in many interdisciplinary endeavors. Her art fits in between realms, in a place where physical science mingles with social history and microbiology with geopolitics. Research in the sciences and social sciences enhances her artistic practice, as do collaborative endeavors.
Lucy HG received her MFA in Multimedia from Claremont Graduate University in 2001, after which she directed the Multimedia Studies program at Los Angeles Mission College and co-founded the Institute of Arts and Multimedia. She has exhibited widely, including in Asia, Australia, Europe, Central and South America, and throughout the United States. Works from her Imaginary Science series exhibited in Bogotá in celebration of the World Year of Physics in 2005. This summer she will collaborate with the Danish dance company E.K.K.O. and artist Angela Chong at the Cultural Exchange Station in the Czech Republic, and in the fall she will present Avatar x, a telematic performance feast in collaboration with a team of Australian media artists, at (re)Actor, the first international conference on digital live art in London.
Sandra Hoogeboom, HOLLAND
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My work is all about being out of place. In the series about the mailboxes I was inspired by memories. Instead of moving the camera, like I normally do, this time the subject was moving. To me that's symbolical of how we always want to hang on to our memories, but never fully can.
Sandra Hoogeboom is an artist that lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Yu Ji, CHINA & Deng Ye Min, CHINA
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Deng Ye Ming
Born in 1983 Shanghai China
graduated from Shanghai Fine Art College Digital Art Department
2004 A Little Bit of Heaven, Biz Art
2005 The Show between China and Japan, Shanghai Fine Art College
2006 Digital Life, Shanghai Fine Art College
2006 Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, Shanghai Oriental
Pearl International Media Center
Yu Ji
Born in 1985 Shanghai China
Study in Shanghai Fine Art College Scuplture Department
2004 A Little Bit of Heaven, Biz Art
2004 The First Time, Shanghai Fine Art College
2004 Work in Studio Rouge
2005 Shadow + Wooden Horse, Shanghai Fine Art College
2004-05 Work for American Artist Chirstina Shmigiel
2006 Six Day Dreaming. Shanghai Fine Art College
To contact both artists: jamyain@yahoo.com.cn
Cecile Kassner, ISRAEL
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Born in New York in 1959
Moved with her family to Israel in 1961.
Today lives with her family and three children in Tel Aviv. Began her artistic endeavor as an animator and creator of storyboards in the commercial and artistic arena. Subsequently has been teaching Animation in Tel Aviv University, at the department of Cinema and TV. The expanded use of other materials eventually exposed her to the medium of painting. Cecile finds inspiration for her paintings from the many people who have crossed the paths of her life, and in so many ways have exposed her to moving and powerful experiences. Cecile: “In my work I try to convey a message, a thought, or a feeling that will allow the viewer to participate in these experiences.”
For inquiries regarding artwork: Tzila.kassner@gmail.com
Andrew Keck, ENGLAND
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Andrew Keck grew up in Chester in England and studied at Northwich School of Art & Design and then Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall in the Eighties. After having lived all over England he currently resides in London. He has recently begun producing photomontage works much influenced by the DaDaists, Maholy Nagy and Duchamp. All pieces are produced by hand out of mountains of images, all individually cut out with scissors, laid out and then photographed.
KR Levin, USA
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KR Levin is originally from New York and studied film and photography at Hampshire College in Amherst, Ma. with Jerome Liebling. In the last few years he has returned to photography, focusing on using time exposures with multiple imagery to add an eerie quality to his work in a highly dramatic, dark style. Ken currently lives in the Los Angeles area with his artist wife and 15 year old son. He works in the film industry as an art director and property master.
Jon Measures, USA
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Jon Measures was born and grew up in England. After two years at Mid- Cheshire College of Art and Design he went on to Falmouth School of Art where he gained a BA in Fine Art. For the past 19 years Jon has worked as a Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Artist and Educator. Jon now lives and works in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids.
Gina Rymarcsuk, USA
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Gina Rymarcsuk works in photography and digital media. Her research is deeply rooted in the study of optics, the body of the camera, the physics of light and often immersed in the formulaic and procedural study of the photographic process. Her work ranges extensively from the nature of visual illusion to the structure of linguistics and references feats of architecture and avian structure. She obsessively assembles and systemically arranges data through a process, which employs digital media and analog technologies in order to achieve a level of clarity that wouldn’t be possible by way of an exclusively analogue approach.
Adam Schwartz, USA
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Adam Schwartz was born in New Haven, CT. He received a Bachelors in Photography from New York University and a Masters in Art from Cal Arts. His work is a combination of sculpture, video and drawings dealing with the defining of an American masculine identity through the prisms of popular culture, nostalgia, aggression, and boredom. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Adjunct Professor at CalState-Fullerton, and Full-time Faculty at the Art Institute of California-Orange County.
Mary Kay Wilson, USA
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A native Californian, Mary Kay Wilson, graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a BA in painting. Since graduating she has worked extensively in watercolors. Her work has been in many shows including: Watercolor USA, Watercolor West Annual Juried Exhibition, Ojai Art Center Annual Watercolor Competition, Palos Verdes Art Center Juried All Media Exhibition, Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, and The Watercolor Art Society of Houston. She is a signature member of Watercolor West. In 2002 she participated in the public art project, Community of Angels, painting a life-sized fiberglass angel. Wilson was also a member of the mural team in Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future. Her paintings have been published in The Artist’s Source Book: 80 Watercolor Painting References. Awards include Best in Show from the "Water Works" exhibit at the Burbank Creative Art Center and First Place Award from the "National Orange Show Art Exhibition."
xtine, USA
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xtine’s projects have been collected by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago John M. Flaxman Library, Rhizome.org’s ArtBase, and Miranda July's Joanie 4 Jackie video chain letter. xtine is an Assistant Professor of media design at California State University, Fullerton.