Gallery: Artists Bios and Links
Gallery: Artists Bios and Links |
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Artist: Aron Wahl |
Aron Wahl is a self-taught, Brooklyn-based artist, holding a B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from Columbia University. While Wahl’s style tends to focus more on line, his illustrations are best described as having a consciousness for contemporary pop culture following a mythical and violent trajectory. Recently, he has begun experimenting with animation. | |
| Artist: Andrew Hunt Contact: 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577, Box 2995 914-251-7570 adhunt@gmail.com |
Andrew Hunt acquired a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2002 and is currently in his first year of the MFA program at SUNY- Purchase College. Andrew's work has been exhibited frequently since his first solo exhibition, Virtuoso, in Halifax, Canada. Andrew Hunt's artwork draws upon the notion of the "Flåneur" as the frivolous, futile observer. In his most recent paintings, Andrew directly addresses his own privileged and stereotyped status as a white male artist to examine the white male status quo within our socially and politically sensitive climate. |
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| Artist: Peripheral Media Project Contact: 49 Bogart St. #1G Brooklyn, NY 11206 718-290-5245 raybcross@hotmail.com |
Formed by Ray Cross and Garrison Buxton in 2004, is a group of artists, designers, printers, street artists and activists. We are committed to promoting awareness and social transformation through the creation of art and clothing, both within and outside the gallery and fashion systems. PMP has installed work at Diesel Gallery, Zakka, and Art Prostitute, given visiting artist lectures and workshops at Kansas University, Oklahoma University, and the University of North Texas and created collaborative works for many events in NYC and the Burning Man Festival. |
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| Artist: Jason Orrell Contact: 806 Greene Ave. #4 Brooklyn, NY 11221 917-804-2938 jason_orrell@yahoo.com |
I moved from Houston, Texas in 2001 to attend Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where I continue to live and work. I approach my work as an autobiographical research project, an investigation into the forces and structures that condition my life story. Through drawing, I explore analogies between motion and the process of memory. | |
| Artist: Valerie Magarian Contact: 678 A Hart St. Brooklyn, NY 11221 831-588-4362 valmagarian@hotmail.com www.valeriemagarian.com |
Valerie Magarian is a Brooklyn-based artist raised in California, Guatemala, and Utah. The physical environments of these four places have influenced much of her work, with desert, ocean, forest, textiles and urban architecture mixing together to create stories and landscapes. Valerie imagines her work as moving pictures, and works simultaneously in animation, painting and drawing. | |
| Artist: Jeremy Willis Contact: 917-750-6811 jerror1@yahoo.com www.jeremywillis.com |
Jeremy Willis is from New Orleans, La. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1999. Since then he has lived in Providence, RI and New York City. He is currently attending the MFA program at Hunter College and is married to artist Joelle Jensen. He has exhibited in Rhode Island, New York, and New Orleans. | |
| Artist: Pascual Sisto Contact: 3543 1/2 Beethoven St. Los Angeles, CA 90066 310-902-5240 psisto@earthlink.net www.pascualsisto.com |
Raised in Barcelona, Spain, Pascual Sisto graduated with a BFA in film from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He signed with Satellite Films for directorial representation until its closure in 2001 and has worked as a freelance visual FX artist and animator since. His film work has been shown widely, including the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) in Buenos Aires, TVE (Spanish Television) and the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include the Reencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Festival (Paris, France), Viper Festival (Basel, Switzerland), AKA Gallery (Rome, Italy), Ego Park Gallery (Oakland, USA), Gallery 825 (Los Angeles, USA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Bansdall Park (Los Angeles, USA). | |
| Artist: Bill Abdale Contact: 75 Westgate Rd. Kenmore, NY 14217 716-912-0649 bill.abdale@gmail.com |
Bill Abdale's work is an ongoing investigation into the deceptive messages and illusory power of "readily available" images provided by popular media - including, but not limited to, glossy cars, sexualized foods, perfect bodies, vapid text, and Hollywood violence. Rather than editorializing his subjects, he uses varied print media to metabolize his source imagery; scrambled traces of the original messages reemerge from a killing field of radio static. While referencing subliminal messaging and media-fueled desire, Abdale leaves his work open for the viewer to enter, and the vibrating, dissonant images welcome varied experiences. He has a BFA in Printmaking from Purchase College, State University of New York. |
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| Artist: Yasmin Etemadi Contact: 293 Troutman St., 3R Brooklyn, NY 11237 718-381-6061 bacheh@hotmail.com |
I am a 32 year old Iranian-American artist, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. I was born in Tehran, Iran but have been living in the US since I was 12 years old. I moved to New York from Seattle to pursue my MFA degree from Pratt Institute, where I graduated from in May 2005. During my 2 years at Pratt I developed a new body of work, titled "Stranger". This body of work is a reflection of the state of fear and anxiety I have been living with since September 11th, 2001. The events of that day have caused my Iranian identity to eclipse my American one and I have found myself a stranger in my own home. This sense of displacement, coupled with recent political changes, has made me question the stability of my future living in America and has forced me to re-evaluate my identity after 20 years of assimilation to the American culture. | |
| Artist: Tod Seelie Contact: 238 Boerum St. #3 Brooklyn, NY 11206 646-270-1978 tod@ofquiet.com www.ofquiet.com |
Tod Seelie has photographed in fifteen countries on five different continents. His work has appeared in publications such as Jane, Vice, i-D, Adbusters, Nerve.com, Time Out NY, New York Magazine, and Hamburger Eyes among others. Tod has exhibited work in New York, Berlin, San Francisco, Cleveland and Miami as well appearing on book covers and album art. | |
| Artist: Manuel Geerinck Contact: 210 W. 89th St. #4W NY, NY 10026 212-769-0503 manuelgeerinck@verizon.net |
Manuel Geerinck is a Belgium-born artist, living and working in New York. In creating photographic images, he develops a personal environment of shapes directly inspired by his drawings. This technique allows him to work with less constraint with the intention to catch the imagination of the viewer. | |
Artist: Arno Tijnagel |
Arno Tijnagel is a Dutch photographer, living and working in Amsterdam. His most recent series of work explores and documents abandoned architectural structures, aiming to capture the atmosphere and memories that were once present. Tijnagel graduated from the FotoAcademie in 2004. | |
| Artist: Erez Sabag Contact: info@erezsabag.com www.erezsabag.com |
Erez Sabag is an Isreali-born artist, who has spent the last twelve years living in New York and developing both his commercial and personal work. Erez has devoted much of the past three years to his most recent project entitled, “My Favorite T-Shirt” which intimately explores –through both video and photography—the lives of particular group of New York artists. | |
| Artist: Riiko Sakkinen Contact: riikosakkinen@yahoo.es |
Riiko Sakkinen is a Finnish artist, working with installations, drawing, and videos. While clearly drawing on elements of “pop” art, being multi-lingual as well as multi-national allows Sakkinen’s pop references to break more furtive ground, proving that all cultures have a certain affinity for McDonald’s. He currently resides in Spain. | |
| Artist: Mike Yaniro Contact: Stillliving20@hotmail.com |
Mike Yaniro is a Brooklyn-based artist who has shown previously in New York and Chicago. He received his B.F.A. in painting in 2004 from Purchase College. His influences include: Francis Bacon, the Futurists, Hans Bellmer, Gunter Bruce, and Paul McCarthy. | |
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