Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner live and work in Long Island City, NY and the desert of west Texas on the Terlingua Ranch. They make videos, installations and sometimes objects that graft our memories of the past and our prospects for the future from from fragments of pop culture and …
Martin Basher Martin Basher is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes photo-realist paintings, large-scale abstract canvases, and assemblage sculptures. Basher’s work is concerned with the conflicting, contradictory ways hope, desire, ideology and belief are manifest in contemporary consumer culture, specifically considering the pervasive drive of commerce to exploit a vast range of social, religious, tourist and …
Christopher Clary “At an early age homos learn how to project what others want, so being isn’t so much a natural state but a conscious act. ” Christopher Clary exposes such moments of intimacy, sadness, humor, lust, even boredom for the camera in his portraiture turned striptease. Whereas the printed image is covered up and …
Jen Mazza In Jen Mazza’s small figurative oil paintings there is a dialogue between the plastic qualities inherent to painting and the instantaneous capture of the photograph. When reconstructing the photographic image, Mazza emphasizes the ‘skin’ of the painting: the surface is puckered, pulled -even torn through to reveal the imprimatura; thus magnifying the initial gesture and the emotion …
Megan Cump My photographs fuse performative elements with traditional landscape imagery, in order to explore the metaphoric potential of the environment. My project, Feral, was shot while on solitary kayaking and hiking trips, using a medium format camera and basic camping supplies. In many works, traces of my body are visible as I merge with, …
Jane Benson Jane Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about material and identity transformation and the atavistic tension between natural and artificial forms of beauty. Benson appropriates design of culturally significant objects in order to question their original conditions and purpose. Image: courtesy of the artist Julie Anne Mann Julie Anne …
Paolo Bertocchi Paolo Bertocchi is an installation and performance artist whose work relates directly with the performer’s body, sometimes encompassing it or being manipulated by it. Mr. Bertocchi’s installations draw the audience in to question both the endurance of the performer/artist and outside cultural institutions. The performer’s gestures are slow, calculated and precise. In this …
Ernest Concepcion Ernest Concepcion’s ongoing series “The Line Wars”. convey his commitment to perpetually create anything imaginable engaged in conflict. The images are based on the entertainments of childhood and adolescence: video games, action figures, strategy board games- always two forces opposing one another. Each panel encapsulates a single battle. When viewed together, they take …
Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua are artists whose work crosses disciplines, and actively engages the community. Often blurring the lines between work, play, manhood and boyhood, their process is elastic, crossing genres, mixing materials, and collaborating with others. During the residency, Mr. Bercowetz and Mr. Bua will work on a …
Jeffrey Gibson “My paintings use acrylic inks, oil paint, and pigmented silicone to describe a conceptual space that I call The Infinite Anomaly. The most recent paintings suggest an untamed landscape and the animated forms that inhabit this environment. The gestural and dimensional marks seem to crawl, sit, and slither across the surface. They merge …
