After Lindsey Adams Adelman completed her BA in English from Kenyon College, she worked for the Smithsonian Institution where she discovered Industrial Design when meeting an exhibition fabricator carving French fries out of foam. Inspired by the thought of an activity like this passing for a real job, she went on to earn her BFA in I.D. from the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation, she worked for Resolute Lighting in Seattle before returning to her native New York to work for David Weeks Studio. In 2000, Weeks and Adelman founded Butter, a design studio focusing on affordable products for the home. In 2005, they said good-bye to Butter and Adelman set off to work on her own projects, including launching a successful line of hand-blown custom chandeliers as well as spending endless hours making intricate, meticulous drawings with human hair. The work has been included in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial and Design Miami and has received awards from the ICFF Editors, ID, Blueprint, and the Altoids Curiously Strong Designer Awards. It has been published in The New York Times, The World of Interiors, Met Home, Interior Design, Paper, Harper’s Bazaar, and American Craft, as well as in the books New Designers: Americas, Dish, and Brooklyn Design among others. Lindsey lives with her husband Ian and their son Finn in Brooklyn.

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Although born in Gothenburg, Sweden, Mia Berg was raised in East Hampton, New York - a place that constantly draws her back to create her photographs. Her most recent body of work is a series of self-portraits that explores the relationship of two people to one another and the space which surrounds them. Through a play with light, distance and gesture, she creates a cinematic world that examines ideas of intimacy and symbiosis in a timeless still image. Mia currently lives and works in New York City and East Hampton, Long Island.

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From New York City, Will Cotton does oil paintings and chalk drawings, many of them richly colored, large scale compositions of female nude figures that combine formal beauty with devices arousing childish, prurient desires. Some of his female nudes are “sickly sweet settings fashioned from candy and frosted cake, which conjures up childhood dreams of excess”. (Dambrot)

Other subjects are toy-like figures that remind some viewers of work by Jeff Koons.

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Ellis Gallagher is known primarily for chalk drawings made by outlining shadows in the streets of New York City. Gallagher was born in 1973 or 1974, and is a native New Yorker living in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. Before his chalk drawings he was a graffiti writer, working on the NYC subways. He was arrested for this in 1999 and given community service and probation. He stopped doing traditional graffiti tagging in 2001 after the death of Hector Ramirez (a friend and writing partner), who was hit by a train while painting in a Brooklyn subway tunnel. Gallagher started his chalk drawing in early 2005, the first drawing being an outline of a Fire Hydrant after days of being fixated with shadows.

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Stefano Giovannini is a self-taught photographer from Milan, Italy who relocated to New York City in the year 2000. He began taking photos as a teenager. Before pursuing his passion for photography, Stefano studied medicine for some years, but felt he would be happier elsewhere, doing something else. He has since worked for major and independent magazine publications in Europe and the U.S., including Nylon, Soma, Jane, Entertainment Weekly, as well as the Timeout NY guide, and many more, but he is probably better known in the U.S. (well, at least in New York) for his photographs of musicians, including Sonic Youth, Cat Power, DJ Olive, Luna, Beck, Blonde Redhead and many others. He is also increasingly well known for his web journals where his photographs of New York City are characterized by an impulsive, semi-anthropological approach.

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Margaret Inga creates work that revolves around an interest in manufacturing artificial terrains and aims to create places absolutely devoid of all traces other than those pertaining to the physical making of the models. By doing this, she creates deliberately entropic, semi-abstract scenes from which, seemingly, little can develop.

Born in 1978 and raised in North Carolina, Margaret now lives and works in New York City, and continues to explore the limitations of creating imaginary realms and accidental spaces while employing painting, narrative sculpture, installation, and photography.

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My pictures are not documents. They are constructed realities, artificial moments, and staged narratives based on imperceptible disturbances. The resulting photographs serve as evidence of places, objects, and creatures transformed beyond usual recognition. These are deliberately entropic, enigmatic scenes—they are inexplicable occurrences with inexplicable aftermaths—where what is left is only shiny abstraction and a silent, mute exuberance. These are hidden enclaves awash with vague luminosity and little else, where it’s neither night nor day, and the scene is neither real nor entirely imagined. These are forbidden spaces overtaken by strange accidents. Simultaneously alluding to a possible past and a potential future, these pictures capture scenes of transition where, underneath overwhelming shadows, everything is struggling. These are pictures of fabricated waste and decay, abused beauty, and renewal. These are scenes that have changed into unknown and alien territory, into sites where the decisive moment always lies elsewhere. These are imagined ontologies, filled with vestiges of idyllic reverie, hybrid creatures, an intermingling of uncertainty, and the frailty and filth of spaces that know no specific locations– only a world that has not yet been cleared away.

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Raised in Santa Barbara and based in New York City, Justin Jay specializes in advertising and portrait/lifestyle reportage of artists and musicians. Balancing a broad range of clients, Justin has had exceptional access to the private lives of many of today’s top personalities and athletes. His relaxed and narrative approach to photography has led him to be invitied to shoot personal projects, books and advertisements for diverse clients such as Nike, Ray Ban, Hurley International, Sean “P.Diddy” Combs, Outkast, Pam Anderson, and The Strokes.

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Originally conceived in San Francisco Nelson’s Electric Chaircut has been performed world
wide since 1989.

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Noah Lyon’s drawings are like graffiti-covered walls. Bright colors call you in to take a closer look; in the multitudes I’m drawn to “All Your Stuff”. A man, or is it a bird, in a wheelchair is chewing, like Moloch, on a naked figure, who is expelling gas in anticipation of death, while another guy without a head slinking away with a turd on his shoulders. Some poor wretch is flushed down the toilet, and a miserable bastard, trapped in an orange bag, is vomiting from his torture. The colors of U.S.A. are shining through like a dirty rainbow. The doomsday horn is blowing.

Figure is added to figure, scene added to scene, one image next to another, in a color scale that would do credit to any Concretist. With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Full to the brim. It is important to say everything, all at once. Then he can leave the words and thoughts to the beholder. Implicitly he is offering his world, what does yours look like? ”Look at All Your Stuff” is the name of the exhibition!

The pressure in Lyon’s imagery is kept high by the small format. Sometimes down to mini size. Then they are small picture buttons that are also put together into “button paintings”. The effect is stroboscopic; quick punch lines about his world.

Alongside the image fury Lyon shows more conventional paintings. Loaded with air, light and dreams of a sort of American mythology. The painting “Pyramid Me” is just a small picture of a man in a cowboy hat in front of a wall that has been sewn together; the seam resembles a pole with a small owl. Within, I hear Hank Williams’ tragic dreams and painfully beautiful music!

Lyon’s images collide in a way that would have put André Breton in ecstasy.

- Thomas Millroth, art critic - Sydsvenskan April 30, 2009

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Ryan McGinness is an American artist, living and working in New York City. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy Warhol Museum. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments.

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Vik Muniz was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1961, but has lived and worked in New York since the late 1980’s. He began his career as a sculptor, but gradually became more interested in photographic reproductions of his sculptures and eventually turned his attention exclusively to photography. Lives and works in New York City.

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Laurel Nakadate is a photographer and video artist. She was born in Austin, Texas and grew up in Ames, Iowa. Now, she lives in New York City. In 2008, she completed her first feature film, “Stay the Same Never Change”.

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Born 1968, Fort Dodge, Iowa
Education: B.A. Art History, University of Pennsylvania

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The world of animation has always fascinated me from when I was a kid and even now as an adult. There’s a strong sense of nostalgia, which is always inspiring, but at the same time, I want to break free from the “Saturday morning cartoon” feeling. I enjoy working with new elements and taking on new challenges while still honoring the unique and powerful skills of narration that only animation can portray. I also always dedicate all I do to my late Grandfather, who was an amazing painter. I hope that my animations can be seen as moving paintings, always with a great meaning and story behind it. Something to touch your heart and make you think. And you don’t have to be a child to enjoy animation either. They say there is a great difference between being childlike and childish, I like to think I can stay childlike and never have to grow up.

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Since 1997, Janaina Tschäpe has employed the female body as her muse, creating universes of polymorphous landscapes, embryonic forms and ambiguous characters. Tschäpe’s drawings, photographs, films and installations seek to give form to the trance of art making, portraying not a dream world, but the sensation of being in one.
Tschäpe was born on 1973 in Munich, Germany and was raised in Sao Paolo, Brazil. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg and her Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

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Artist Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public, with photography and video, since 1992. Since 1994 he has organized over 75 temporary site-specific installations in the United States and abroad. Tunick’s installations encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers; and his photographs are records of these events. The individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one’s views of nudity and privacy. The work aslo refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces.

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Born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1955. James Tyler resides in Nyack, New York along the west bank of the Hudson River just north of New York City with his two children, Ifetayo and Kayode. His studio is located in the nearby Garnerville Arts and Industrial Complex, now the home of the GAGA Arts Center. Tyler was selected as GAGA’s first executive director in January 2007, guiding the development of the annual GAGA Arts Festival, the Outside In; Outsider Art Expo, the GAGA Creekside Sculpture and Nature Park, and over 20,000 sq. feet of raw exhibition space.

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Natalie N. VanLandingham, Founder and Artistic Director Avant Garde Collaboration Company, is a dancer, artist, musician, and creative professional whose bohemian ideals have led her in a world-wide pursuit of collaborating with others like herself.

A recent graduate of Dance, Music Therapy, and Arts Administration from Florida State University, Natalie had always been working towards the time where she would be able to share her passion for creative arts with everyone.

Natalie has been seen onstage with Suzanne Farrell Co., Boston Ballet Co., Sarasota Ballet Co., and countless FSU Dance Master Concerts. She taught Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, and Hip-Hop and was the Scholarship Program Manager at South Georgia Performing Arts (Cairo, GA) and a guitar, oboe, and voice instructor at Chiles High School (Tallahasse, FL). She also worked as the Associate Program Director for BalletRox and the Urban Nutcracker (Jamaica Plain, MA).

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Chris Verene is from Galesburg, Illinois, a small town in the Midwest were he has been photographing the lives of three generations of his family since 1984. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and now lives and works in Brooklyn. He is a natural storyteller, focusing on the whole intimate truth of human narratives, and finding there some lessons about all humanity. Verene’s work is in numerous major museum collections, and has been published in many books, including his 2000 self-titled monograph by Twin Palms Press, and a new Phaidon photo history entitled “Theater of the Face, Portrait Photography Since 1900″ by Max Kozloff. Verene is also a musician, playing drums with Atlanta groups The Indigo Girls, The Rock*A*Teens, D.Q.E., and Bach on a Hook. He and his wife, Ani Cordero, have a nationally recognized Latin Rock band in Brooklyn called Cordero. The New York Times called him, “The Darling of The Whitney Museum [Biennial]” ARTFORUM praised Verene, “depicting people with a combination of respect and clarity.” His new photography book, “Family,” will accompany a show at Deitch Projects in New York City in 2009/2010. More on Verene at www.chrisverene.com

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Often regarded as an Experientialist, Walton’s work takes many forms- from drawings on paper, game/system based structures, video, web-based performances, public projects, theatrical orchestrations and more.

After a two-year affiliation with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, Walton has received many accolades from Museum funded projects (Reykjavik Art Museum of Iceland, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, SECCA, ICA Boston), public commissions (Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, Rhizome at the New Museum of NY, national and international exhibition venues (Island #6, Shanghia, China, Clubs Project Inc., Australia, Ljubljana Museum of Art) and collections (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Martin Z. Margulies Wharehouse).

Walton has also lectured extensively on his practice and related subjects. Recent lectures, panel discussions and visits include MIT, Art in General, The New School, Art Institute of Boston, Columbia, Portland State Univerisity and the University of Ulster, Belfast Ireland.

Walton holds a MFA in visual arts from the California College of the Arts. His drawings are represented by Kraushaar Gallery in NY and his conceptual work is represented by “cwp” (Christopher West Presents). Walton is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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