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 condition the human being is at the same time both present and absent, man and object, in a circling of two extremes.
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Haegeen Kim
Haegeen Kim works with graphite or colored pencils on paper depicting both faces and figures. Ms Haegeen’s recent series focuses on portraits of young artists mostly, living in New York. She begins by photographing her subjects individually, wearing their normal street clothes and posing naturally. She then draws the images in a straightforward manner, adding animals to amplify the emotion of the subject.
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Stephanie Lempert
Stephanie Lempert questions and examines the different methods of communication and the various roles that communication plays in our society. By concentrating on the deconstruction of conversation and the analysis of the different methods depicting conversation, her work draws attention to the way in which various cultures interpret language. Ms. Lempert approaches her subject matter through object making, video and installation.
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Dulce Pinzon
Dulce Pinzon has found inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations. Ms. Pinzon’s latest project “The Real Story of the Superheroes” comes full circle to reintroduce the Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning superhero garb, thus raising questions of both our definition of heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels our ever consuming economy.
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