Van Cook
British-born artist Marguerite Van Cook graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic but has made her home in New York. Ms. Van Cook�s resume and experience span such mediums as art, books and print projects and film and music. Her current body of work is created from still images collected from her recent critically acclaimed film, “Funky Shui in New York.” She also maintains an urban garden on the Lower East Side which is a source of inspiration. Her Museum collections include the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Whitney Museum, NYC; Brooklyn Museum, NYC; Toledo Museum of Art and many more throughout the United States and Europe.
James Romberger is known for his�pastel depictions of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side of New York and its citizens. His many solo and collaborative exhibitions have appeared at such venues as the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Gracie Mansion,The Proposition, and the New Museum.�His work is in many prominent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum and�Brooklyn Museum in�NYC.
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��his visual art expresses a topical, satiric wit.”
–Art in America
Roger DeGennaro is a conceptual artist who has achieved notice for his juxtaposition of words and images in surprising and shocking ways. His works are largely digital compositions and 3-dimensional constructions that challenge the viewer’s expectations and perceptions.
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Samara Sussman appears as the featured artist in the current Soho Journal magazine: Read the article.
She has shown at galleries such as Vorpal and Open Ground, and has works
on permanent display at N.Y.U. She is represented internationally by Gallery
Indeco in Seoul, Korea.
C. Eule Dance will be performing sections of choreography at the Manhattan Borough President’s Office opening reception.
C. Eule Dance is a modern company under the direction of Caron Eule whose choreography draws from ballet, gymnastics, and dances of various nations. C. Eule Dance has been presented at theaters such as the Williamsburg Art NeXus, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, the 92nd Street Y, Dance Space, the University Settlement, and Dancers Responding to AIDs at St. Mark’s Church.
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Jody Culkin is an artist who has shown her sculptures, photographs and new media pieces at museums and galleries throughout this country, including P.S 1, the Clock Tower, the Neuberger Museum, the Bronx Museum, and internationally, including IV Salon y Coloquio International de Arte Digital in Havana, Cuba; Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome Italy; Amerika Haus in Cologne, Germany; Canterbury Arts Festival in Canterbury, England. She received an Artists Fellowship in Sculpture from the New York Foundation on the Arts, a sponsored project grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a Design Award from the New York City Department of Transportation, and a research fellowship from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. She is currently the Program Coordinator of Multimedia at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she is an Assistant Professor in the Music and Art Department.
“Lack picks images from the circus of signs that is media culture and tweaks them into haunted, contemporary icons -- suburban houses, sports cars, industrial silos, ocean liners, rowboats on the shore.”—artnet
Leatherdale
Boat Wallah Pearls � Banaras
“A contemporary perspective of timeless, traditional India as seen through portraiture. These exhibitions illustrate Leatherdale’s exploration and profound interest in the diversity of the Indian People. His camera lens cuts through India's caste system, shooting Maharaja to Harijan/ untouchable.
“Leatherdale lived, part time in Banaras, India for 6 years. Dwelling in one of the oldest cities in the world, he was fascinated by how unaffected India's people were by the passage of time. This work is not meant to be an overall study of contemporary India. It is a personal vision... Marcus’ India. ”—from his site.
Gibby Haynes�s paintings fuse a saturated color reminiscent of George Grosz and Ed Pashke with the chaotic raw id of his iconoclastic imagination. Haynes was the frontman for the legendary art-rock band The Butthole Surfers. He has a critically acclaimed album in shops with his new band Gibby Haynes and His Problem.
Crash
CRASH (John Matos), using the subways as his launching pad, established a link between the “underground” and “aboveground.” His belief that art is the common bridge for communication, is his primary motivation. And graffiti is the quickest and most honest form of communication. Crash paintings are in collections ranging from New Orleans Museum of Art, New Gronninger Museum, Holland, the Ludwig Museum, Kassel, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY to private collections worldwide.
Thom Corn is an artist, actor, and drummer whose work has been exhibited in New York City since 1981, when his one-person exhibition The Fear of Man was shown at the seminal South Bronx Gallery, Fashion Moda. In 1985, Thom organized the first Democracy at Work group exhibition, a responsive alternative to the dearth of cultural and gender inclusiveness in the New York gallery scene of the time, which featured the work of over 100 artists at 22 Wooster Gallery. Versions of Democracy at Work were subsequently mounted at the Longwood Arts Gallery in the Bronx (sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts) and at the Max Fish Gallery in the original Planet Ludlow. ... more.
“In the tradition of Edward Kienholz and Leon Golub’s politically charged work, my sculptural installations deal with the worldwide affects of the Drug War. As a Colombian-born artist, my installations are concerned with the social issues triggered by this epidemic. In working with the aesthetics of addiction, violence and carnage, my work has evolved to a more inclusive and accessible language, and presently engages more universal topics. My installations focus on the significance of tangible content, the essence of quality artistry, and the creative process of merging them.”
A turbulent menagerie of whimsy and debauchery would be a perfect description of both Giovanni Galella and his work. Born in 1975, Giovanni�s colorful background has seeped into his art. From Jacksonville Florida to New Jersey to Indiana, and now New York, he has explored all fields of expression and his appreciation for each form is what makes his work unique. He has worked as a body piercer, a tattoo artist, a tattoo flash designer, and a magician. He has written creatively for many literary magazines, owned a private company crafting exotic wood jewelry, played in bands, and now works for a design and pre-press agency.
Karan Mitchell The Ascension 2001 Acrylic on Canvas
“Although I am employed as a NYC Bus Operator, my life is filled with much more than bus routes and maps. I am a graduate of Traphagan School of Fashion. I've also attended NYU school of Continuing Education (Business Administration), Young Film-Makers, Bard College's Humanities (Art History, Philosophy, Literature and Thinking/Writing) and Urban Glass. My work (art) is a product of my surroundings, observations and imagination. I am very serious about my work, although, it may seem funny at times, there is an underlying message.”
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