Karin Batten
Karin Batten was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied painting and sculpture
at Central School and St. Martins in London and received her MFA from Hunter
College (CUNY). Batten has shown extensively in the United States and in
Europe, exhibiting her work in solo and group exhibitions at such venues
as the June Kelly Gallery, New York, where she has shown for the past ten
years; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Gallery a61,
Zürich. Her work has been included in such permanent collections as
Pfizer, Inc., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Hotel Millennium
in New York. Batten has received grants for public art from the New York
City Metropolitan Transit Authority and the New York State Council on the
Arts. Most recently she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant and an Artists’ Fellowship
in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has completed
residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, the Cummington School for
the Arts, MA, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar,
VA. She teaches painting at Norwich University, Vermont College in Montpelier,
VT.
Megan Craig
Megan Craig was born in New York State and grew up in Brussels, Belgium and
Goshen, Connecticut. She studied painting with Andrew Forge, John Hull,
Laura Newman and Richard Lytle at Yale University, where she graduated
with a BA. In Philosophy in 1997. Her work has been included in Cartouche,
a group show of emerging New York artists at CB313 Gallery, Illuminated
Interiors, at Rubilad in Williamsburg, and in Re-imagining New York at
The North Dakota Museum of Art. She has been awarded painting residencies
from The Vermont Studio Center, from LMCC to paint from the 91st floor
of the World Trade Center in their Studioscape program, and to paint in
DUMBO through the LMCC’s New Views program. She has also been an artist
in residence at C-Scape Duneshack A in Provincetown. Craig is the recipient
of a Dean’s Fellowship at the New School for Social Research where
she is a PhD. Candidate in Philosophy. She has taught courses in Aesthetics
and Contemporary Art at Parsons School of Design and was the organizer
of the Philosophy Conference, Thinking Through September 11th: New York
Philosophers Respond, held at the New School in April 2002. Other awards
include a Pollock-Krasner Grant, two Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship
Awards, the Grace LeGendre Fellowship for Advanced Graduate Study, and
a New School Teaching Fellowship.
Sjoerd Doting
Sjoerd Doting is originally from Holland and studied at the University of
Amsterdam and at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League
in New York. Doting had a solo show at the Forum Gallerie in Amsterdam,
and his portraits and cityscapes have been included in several exhibitions:
the 175th Annual Exhibition at the National Academy of Design, New
York; the 35th Juried Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
NY; the National Competition at the First Street Gallery, New York;
the Small Works Show at the Washington Square East Gallery, New
York University; and at the Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York. Doting
has received two Nessa Cohen Grants from the Art Students League and a
merit scholarship from the National Academy of Design.
Stan Friedman
Stan Friedman received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from Brooklyn
College and also studied at Yale University Graduate School of Art. His
work has been the subject of solo shows at the Walter Wickiser Gallery
in New York, the Contemporary Realist Gallery in San Francisco, CA, and
the First Street Gallery, NY, among others. Selected group exhibitions
include American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,
NY; the Spoletto Festival, Charleston, SC; and Forum Gallery, NY.
Friedman has received the following distinguished awards: a Mellon Foundation
Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ford Foundation
Faculty Grant, and a Maryland Institute College of Art.
Nancy Friese
Nancy Friese received her BS from the University of North Dakota and her
MFA from Yale University School of Art. The Pepper Gallery in Boston, MA
and Mimosa Press in Tulsa, OK represent her work. Friese has shown extensively
nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at such venues
as the Cornell University Gallery, Ithaca, NY; the Drawing Center, NY;
Barbican Center, London; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo. Her
work is included in numerous public and corporate collections. She has
completed residencies including the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH
and Musee de Pont-Aven in Brittany, France and has received three National
Endowment for the Arts Grants, a Blanche E. Colman Award, Giverny Grant
from Reader’s Digest/CAA. Friese is a full professor at the Rhode
Island School of Design, where she is also the Dean of Graduate Studies
Division. Her professional affiliations include ArtTable, the Board of
Directors of the College Art Association, and co-founder the Printmaking
Network of Southern New England.
Warren Neidich
Warren Neidich lives in New York and Los Angeles. His Camp O.J. installation
was recently shown at the Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, the
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, and the Pittsburgh Center for
Contemporary Art. It was reviewed over ten times, most notably in The
Los Angeles Times and the February issue of Art in America. Recent
exhibitions also include Bitstreams at the Whitney Museum of American
Art. In 2002 Neidich will have solo exhibitions at the Storefront for Art
and Architecture in New York City, MullerdeChiara Gallery in Berlin, Germany,
Edward Mitterand in Geneva, Switzerland, and The California Museum of Photography
in Riverside, California. His collected writings, entitled Essays in Neuro-aesthetic
Theory, will be published by DAP and the Ford Foundation in the spring
of 2003, with an introduction by Norman Bryson. Artbrain.org #2, the website
he co-founded, concerns art, culture, and the brain, and launched last June
at the Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland.
Nedra Newby
Nedra Newby received her BFA and MFA from Georgia State University and studied
printmaking at the Central School of Art and Design in London on a Fulbright
Grant. Newby’s work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions
at such spaces as the Olin Gallery, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington,
PA; the Bridge Gallery, White Plains, NY; the Polish American Museum, Port
Washington, NY; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; the Broome Street
Gallery, NY; and the Museum of the City of New York, NY. Her work is included
in the collections of PepsiCo, Inc., the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Knight
Publishing Co., and the New-York Historical Society, among others.
Sharon Paz
Sharon Paz was born in Israel and received a MFA from Hunter College. She
now lives and works in New York City. Paz was a recent resident at Skowhegan
School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine and has participated in The
Bronx Museum of Art’s Artist in the Marketplace program. She has exhibited
extensively both nationally and internationally at Espace Huit Novembre
Centre D’art in Paris, France; White Box Gallery and JCCNY, both in
New York City; Peer Gallery, Israel; 303 Studio in Quebec, Canada; and
took part in the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Her work has been screened
at Anthology Film Archives, Thomas Erben Gallery, and Art in General, all
in New York City; Contemporary Art and Design Museum in San Jose, Costa
Rica; and AB Gallery in Mexico City. Paz was nominated for the ZKM international
media award in Germany and has taken part in numerous film and video festivals
in Europe, Canada, and the United States, including The GMI Project
at Leicester Square in London, England.
In her work Paz examines the "fragments of life" and analyzes the
patterns of psychological and social behavior. The focus of her work is mainly
social; she raises questions about migrant relationships, family, identity,
memory, sexuality and desire. For the last three years she has created video
installations that are intended to create an alternative, in both space and
form, for experiencing time-based media.
Jenny Perlin
Jenny Perlin received a BA in Cultural Studies/Film from Brown University
and her MFA in Film from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A
recent participant in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and
the International Studio Program, both in New York, she is currently a
guest faculty member in filmmaking at Sarah Lawrence College. Perlin’s
films have been shown nationally and internationally, including screenings
at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Havana Biennial in Cuba, UCLA Hammer
Museum in Los Angeles, San Francisco Cinematheque, the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis, and the Kino Arsenal in Berlin. Exhibitions of her work
have been held at The Drawing Center, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens
Museum, and Apex Art, all in New York; Shedhalle in Zurich; and the Kunsthalle
Exnergasse in Vienna. She has been awarded grants from the Wexner Center
for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Watson Foundation
and Artslink fellowships for collaborative projects in Eastern Europe,
and took part in an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency at Civitella
Ranieri in Italy.
In her latest works Perlin reappropriates bits of cultural detritus into
16mm films. She assigns texts new significance by focusing the viewer’s
attention on her roughly animated black-and white-reproductions of receipts,
e-mails, self-help phrases and statistics. Her work seeks to extract meaning
from seemingly banal leftovers of culture and focuses on issues of misunderstanding,
falsification and documentary reconstruction.
Sebastian Romo
Sebastian Romo was born in Mexico City and studied photography and documentary
filmmaking before earning a BA in Visual Experimentation from the National
School of Visual Arts in Mexico. He is a recent participant in the International
Studio and Curatorial Program in New York and Art OMI 2002. Solo exhibitions
of his work have been held at Galería de Arte Contemporaneo and
Museo Carrillo Gil, both in the Mexico City; Audiello Fine Art in New York,
and Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Viana Filho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and
he has been included in group shows at Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros,
Museum of Modern Art, and Museo Tamayo, all in Mexico City; Galeria d’Art
Banyoles in Cataluna, Spain; Queens Museum of Art in New York; and on-line
at the 2000 Bienal de Venezia in Italy. Romo won the Public’s Award
at the 9th International Biennial of Photography in Mexico City.
Images of his work have been published in various magazines and books including ZMVM and ABC
DF (the latter will be shown at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center this
summer). His installations and sculptures were featured in the award-winning
film Bajo California, El Limite del Tiempo, an official selection
of the Sundance Film Festival in 1996.
Romo’s work finds its origins in Land Art and landscape interventions
from the ’70s. Recently Romo has begun investigating the relationship
between photographs and sculptures in works that address different notions
of time -- mechanical and chemical time, condensation, elasticity -- and
a diverse "species" of space, from private and interior to geographical
and historical.
Rhoda Ross
Rhoda Ross received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, her MFA
from Yale University School of Art. She has also studied at the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture as well as the Fashion Institute of Technology
and Carnegie-Mellon University. Solo exhibitions of her work have included
shows at the Frick Gallery in Maine, New York City Landmark’s Preservation
Commission’s 25th Silver Anniversary, Marymount Manhattan College,
Long Island University, the Municipal Art Society in New York and at Yale
University; and she has taken part in group exhibitions at the Wally Findlay
Galleries, the DFN Gallery in New York, The Crane Collection in Boston,
the NY Studio School and American University in Washington, D.C. Ross’s
art can be found in the collections of the White House, the Gracie Mansion
in New York, The Juilliard School, the Museum of the City of New York and
Itzhak Perlman. She has also been commissioned to do works of art for the
Chemical Bank, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and the Russian Tea Room, among
others.
Amie Siegel
Amie Siegel received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in New York City. Her first book
of poetry, The Waking Life, was published by North Atlantic Books
(1999, Berkeley, CA). Her films and videos have shown at museums and festivals
including the Whitney Museum of American Art and Anthology Film Archives,
both in New York; Kino Arsenal in Berlin; 2001 School of Sound in Glasgow;
Filmforum Los Angeles; Cinematheque Ontario; Pacific Film Archive and San
Francisco Cinematheque. Siegel has received several awards and fellowships
including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, an Individual Artist Media Award
from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a Princess Grace Film Foundation
Award for her 1999 film about voyeurism, The Sleepers. She will be a DAAD
Berliner Künstlerprogramm Artist-in-Residence in 2003. She is currently
finishing a feature-length film about psychoanalysis entitled Empathy.
Amie Siegel is a poet, video and film artist whose work is concerned with
the construction of public and private space, the physical and social architectures
that express boundaries between self and other. Her work explores how the
commercial practices of fiction and nonfiction media create cultural iconography
and identity and cleave the past from the present.
Wolfgang Staehle
Wolfgang Staehle was born in Stuttgart, Germany and attended the Freie Kunstschule.
He moved to New York in 1976 and attended the School of Visual Arts. Recent
solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Postmasters Gallery, New
York; Kunstverein Schwaebisch Hall, Germany; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and
the Massimo De Carlo Gallery,Milan. He has been included in recent group
exhibitions at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum,
the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wein, Austria; and Gagosian
Gallery, New York.
The founder and executive director of THE THING (http://bbs.thing.net),
a multidisciplinary online media project, Staehle is recognized as one of
the pioneers of the Internet art world. His own projects in video and new
media seek to continually explore the cultural notions of communication,
both conceptually and literally.
Valerie Tevere
Valerie Tevere received her BA in Political Science from the University of
California, San Diego, an MFA in Photography from the California Institute
of the Arts in Los Angeles, and completed the Whitney Independent Study
Program in New York. Tevere is an Assistant Professor of Communications
at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and lives and works in New York City.
She has exhibited and developed projects in Mexico City, the United States,
throughout Europe, and in Santiago, Chile. Solo exhibitions, collaborative,
and public works include projects at the Hoxton Distillery/Pandemonium
Festival, London, England; the Centre de Cultura Contemporânia, Barcelona,
Spain with No Alternative Girls; and Vacancy Gallery, The Bronx, New York
with Angel Nevarez. Tevere is a recipient of a Mellon Humanities fellowship
at the CUNY Graduate Center, was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Smart
Project Space in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is a frequent lecturer
and guest panelist.
In different forms -- video, performance, collaboration, activism, micro-radio
broadcasting -- Tevere’s practice has looked to the public sphere as
a condition and framework for inquiry and discourse. Her recent projects
permeate the urban environment as temporal public works and performances
that rely upon structured yet spontaneous encounters with city inhabitants.
Virgil Wong
Virgil Wong has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pont-Aven
School of Art in France, and the Institute of Human Anatomy at the University
of Rome Medical School. His work has been shown around the world, most
recently at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; the 2002 Sundance Film
Festival; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Yucatán, Mexico; the Museum
of Image and Sound, Sao Paolo, Brazil; and the PaperVeins Museum of Art,
New York City. Wong received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and
he was a recipient of the JGS Foundation’s Arts and Genetics award.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles
Times, The New York Daily News, U.S. News and World Report,
and Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine as well as other print publications
worldwide. He is currently a graduate faculty member in the MFA media studies
program at The New School University in New York, and he is head of web
design and development at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical
College of Cornell University.
Virgil Wong is best known for his Internet art that explores themes of human
reproduction and advanced biotechnology. Investigating questions arising
from contemporary medicine, Wong creates both physical and virtual work embedded
in the traditions of European art and anatomy.
