Elyce Abrams
Painter Elyce Abrams was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and currently lives in Philadelphia. She received her MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a BA from Tufts University in Medford, MA, and a BFA with a concentration in painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. She has had two solo shows at Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia, and participated in group exhibitions at the Main Line Art Center, Abington Art Center, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Minima Gallery, Painted Bride Art Center and Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts.

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Zaina Alwan
Video and mural artist Zaina Alwan was born and raised in El Segundo, California, and received her Bachelors Degree in Philosophy from Loyola Marymount University. Her Masters Degree is from Emperors College of Traditional Oriental Medicine. She is a nationally and state licensed acupuncturist and herbalist.

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Douglas Armour
Douglas Armour whose music has been featured on television series “Veronica Mars” is a songwriter from Los Angeles. His recordings have included Flushed and Flamelike Themselves, Prince of Wands, and Something Sweet. He has signed with the Social Registry Label.

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Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel is a "Digital artist" digital artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. His work is concerned with the relationship between technology and culture. Cory's best known projects probably are his Nintendo game cartridge hacks and his subversive reworking of obsolete computer systems of the 70's and 80's. He is also an electronic musician working with 8-bit music formats on early Atari and Commodore International computers. Cory's work was featured in the 2004Whitney Biennial, and has also been exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum and MoMA.

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Alex Bag
In Alex Bag’s ironic performance tapes, the artist adopts a series of personae to create droll, conceptual parodies. With her signature deadpan delivery and deliberately low-tech style, Bag uses the vernacular of pop culture in irreverently humorous monologues.

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Tom Babul
Tom Bubul lives and works in Philadelphia. He has published over 24 zines in the past two years, produces video work, and has toured extensively with his noise band Ospreys, an exploratory music project operated by him and Michael W. Hall.

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Patterson Beckwith
Patterson Beckwith holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, NY and a MFA from University of California. His editorial photography has appeared in Artforum, Details, Index, Jane and Vice. His photos are featured in Art at the Millennium (Taschen, 2000) and have been shown widely throughout North America and Europe, including exhibitions at Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria, Pat Hearn Gallery, NY and Armand Hammer Museum, LA. He is represented by American Fine Arts, Co., NY and Daniel Hug Gallery, LA, and is on the faculty at Otis College of Art and Design and Cooper Union.

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Paul Bernstock and Thelma Speirs
Paul Bernstock & Thelma Speirs established Bernstock Speirs in 1982 creating fashion-forward hats for men and women. The hats are playful, sporty and wearable with a special emphasis on detail and quality. Stockists include Colette in Paris, Penelope in Italy, Fred Segal in USA, Journal Standard, Adam et Rope and Isetan in Japan, and Jezebel, Paul & Joe, and Bluebird in the United Kingdom. Their shop is located in London.

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Suzanne Boatenreiter
Suzanne Boatenreiter was born in Germany (1983) and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Suzanne holds a B.S. degree in studio art, philosophy and art history from Skidmore College. In her work she is constantly investigating the boundaries and tensions of a number of dualities that surround Buddhist ideas of dukkha (suffering) and nirvana, mainly - hedonism's dichotomies of pleasure and pain.

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David Bond
David Bond is a Philadelphia native and life long artist/musician who spent formative years (the 80's) in Seattle, WA where he had several one man shows of his folksy, witty mixed media paintings and collages. He has worked as an appraiser for Freeman's Auctions in Philadelphia and is creative director/co-founder of American Mortals, a unique and progressive hair salon/design shop here in Philadelphia. He is married to Kimberly Bond and has two sons Levi and Axel. He currently lives in Hatfield, PA.

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Tom Borgese
Tom Borgese was raised in Reading, Pennsylvania. Tom holds a BFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Phladelphia. He currently lives in New York City and works for The Martha Stewart Corporation.

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Chad Brown
Happiest among friends, Philadelphia's "Lonesome Cowboy" began his forays into Country Music Babylon at Drexel University's 91.7 WKDU as an undergraduate late-night deejay. Since then, he has been involved in the journeyman life of a music man in many contexts. Now based in Los Angeles, Chad travels extensively throughout Southeast Asia in musicological pursuits involving the archiving and investigation of native sounds, creates original music with the outlaw country band CB Brand and furnishes and consults music for a variety of art and film projects. In conjunction with Kattywampus, Chad is currently helming a project on Malaysian musical heritage. He'd love to run into you over truck stop coffee so get on the road!

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Sarah Cain
Sarah Cain is a painter who lives and works in San Francisco. She received her BFA from The Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from University of California at Berkeley, and has received awards from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, SF MOMA SECA and the John Anson Kittredge Fellowship. Sara’s solo exhibitions have been presented at several venues in San Francisco, including Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Queens Nails Annex and The Tree Outside. Her work has been included in group shows at Aspen Art Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Busan Biennale in Busan, Korea.

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Joshua Callaghan
Los Angeles-based sculptor, filmmaker and installation artist Joshua Callaghan received his MFA from the University of California, and his BA from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His numerous showings throughout the world, have included those at LA Louver Gallery, Playa Vista Community Park, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, UC Riverside Sweeney Gallery, Art Queen Gallery, Rome, Italy’s Magazzino d’Arte Modern South la Brea Gallery, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, and Rio de Janeiro’s Centro Cultural Telemar.

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F. Lennox Campello
F. Lennox Campello is a Media, PA and Washington, DC based artist, curator, critic and arts blogger. Campello studied art at the University of Washington in Seattle and his works have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in many museums and galleries in the US, Europe and Latin America. He is often heard on NPR discussing art issues as well as in the syndicated TV show "ArtsMedia News."

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Anthony Campuzano
Anthony Campuzano is a Philadelphia artist who uses pastel, ink and paint to create colorful works of art on paper. He attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, where he received his BFA, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Yale University Summer School of Art in Norfolk, CT. He has had solo shows at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, White Columns, NYC, at The Players Club of Swarthmore, and has been featured in group Shows at Bellwether Gallery, NYC, Carpenter Center at Harvard University and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago

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Annie Costello Brown
Driven as much by her passion for painting as her love for design, jewelry designer Annie Costello Brown explores the delicate balance between classic and tough, mixing leather and metal together in each piece.

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Michael Costiff
London-based Michael Costiff is a designer, photographer and film maker who brings together the rare, the unusual, the unexpected and the amusing from the farthest reaches of the globe to create his WORLD ARCHIVE line, a superb collection of vintage designer and ethnic clothing and accessories.

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Alex Da Corte
Alex Da Corte is a Philadelphia-based artist who has studied film, fine art, and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. Each of the disciplines he has studied manifests itself in his varied artworks. Much of Alex’s current work started with wheat-pasting pictures of people carrying enormous ketchup bottles around the city. This work was tied to an investigation of the everyday diner as a heaven-like environment. His new work utilizes a mixed-media approach, dealing with imagery of colostomy bags, Clark Gable, birthdays, snakes, and dead horses. Recently he has lectured and shown at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and had a solo show in 2006 at Space 1026 in Philadelphia.

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Billy Blaise Dufala and Steven Dufala
The artist team of Billy Blaise Dufala and Steven Dufala addresses issues ranging from homelessness to genetic engineering in their sculptures and events. Steven states, “We hope to provide a commentary on the strangeness of culture using the iconography of technology and violence.” In their recent installation at Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, the Dufala brothers used examples of lawn ornamentation such as holiday decoration and topiary to offer a critique on how the ugly is made beautiful, and the beautiful hides the ugly or becomes ugly itself through excess. Both artists received their certificates from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Tara De Long
Tara De Long is a rapper and musician who represents rap’s new generation of independent hip-hop defined by faster beats and rebellious lyrics. Tara moved to New York City from Illinois where teamed up with DJ Snax (Paul Bonomo) and together they formed New York City’s original lo-fi hip-hop group Bedroom Productions. The duo was known for their legendary infectious live sets that pushed the boundaries of music performance and politics. Tara organized an influential weekly party and musical showcase named Rotten Teeth which pulled together an international array of like minded acts such as Alec Empire, Khan and the pseudo-German girl group Geschwindigkeit; introducing these acts to NYC helped shape the city’s late 90’s downtown music scene. Rotten Teeth evolved and Tara took the event to a larger audience creating and curating the PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art Warm-Up series – a popular summer weekend series held in the museum’s large outdoor court yard. After many CDs recorded throughout the world, Tara has an international fan base which has lead to many European tours headlining in Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Zurich and Barcelona. Sheurrently resides in NYC where she is working on her album “Natural Causes.

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Shari Elf and Randy Polumbo
Shari Elf and Randy Polumbo are the founders of ART QUEEN in Joshua Tree, CA, a gallery and performance venue steeped in American roadside traditions that strives to bring genuine, pure, and powerful work to its community. Both mixed-media artists and performers themselves, Shari and Randy believe in a fun and inclusive atmosphere, celebrating thoughtful, inspiring, and accessible work, whether self taught, professionally trained, or serendipitously discovered genius.

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Mark X Farina
Mark X Farina is an artist based in Venice, CA, who works in a variety of mediums. He describes his work as “Painting, drawing, and sculpture done in raw expressionism, utilizing elements of goo, punk, and pop art.

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Gang Gang Dance
Gang Gang Dance is an experimental music group based in Brooklyn, New York City, signed to the independent label the Social Registry. The group has become well-known within the New York indie-rock scene for its distinctive sound that has been referred to as "neo-primitivist" or "neo-tribal." They have played shows with such bands as Architecture in Helsinki.

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Denis Gaydier
Sculpture and collage artist Denis Gaydier was born in France in 1953 and studied fine arts at Clermont Ferrand in Lyon, France. In 2006 his works were exhibited at "Biennale des lions," the Fondation Bullukian in Lyon and the Fondazione Accorsi in Turino, Italy. In 2007, "New Mail Art," included 300 of his collages and postages, and he also exhibited at the La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Gallery l'Antilope, and Gallery Nouvelle Échelle d'Or in Lyon. He will have exhibitions of his sculptures in Lyon and Quebec City, Canada, this year. Denis’ books include "Méli mélo dans mon mastaba" and "50 Visages de la JOCONDE."

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Ellie Greenwood
Ellie Greenwood is retired from a long and happy career in the arts.  She now lives in the Mojave desert in a gay rural ghetto.  Her piece Blue Heart is made of building materials from her "biltmore" cabin onto which she herself is building more.  She holds two MFA degrees from Syracuse University as well as an MA and a Ph D from the University of Californiaions of his sculptures in Lyon and Quebec City, Canada, this year. Denis’ books include "Méli mélo dans mon mastaba" and "50 Visages de la JOCONDE."

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Gia Grosso
Gia Grosso was raised in Havertown, Pa, and holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in New York City creating costumes and sets, and art directs for commercials, dance and television productions.

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Karl Hahn
Media, Pennsylvania-native Karl Hahn seemed destined for film from the outset. After years of shooting backyard swim contests and bar mitzvahs, Karl talked his way into film school and eventually graduated from The School of Visual Arts in New York. Karl started his career in film production in New York, paying his dues as a production assistant, but was able to begin camera assisting after completing courses at The Maine Photographic Workshop. He worked his way up to cinematographer shooting as a 2nd Unit DP on commercials. Aside from his skills in live action and fine art photography, Karl’s background also includes 3D animation, motion control, and a stint at Broadcast Arts. Working with high profile commercial companies, Karl continues to hone his craft as an award-winning director of photography. He has collaborated with directors Muffy Meier, Jessica Yu, Dewey Nicks, Greg Kohs, David McNamara, and Matt Badger and has shot commercials for Mastercard, Oil of Olay, Firestone, and Hasbro among many others. He makes frequent trips from his home base in Los Angeles, documenting his travels with photos which showcase his unique and intuitive view of the world.

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Steven Hall and Cathee Wilkins
Filmmakers Steven Hall and Cathee Wilkins of New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals fame are probably best known for their “Blow-Up Doll Films.” It's hard to know what to make of these seven videos of copulating inflatable dolls: they have the obsessiveness of fetish porn, but that's undercut by childish humor and the high-pitched hysteria of the voices dubbed by video makers Hall and Wilkins.

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Ian Hokin
A recent graduate of the Art Institute and a Wisconsin-native, Ian Hokin's paintings were recently on view at the Green Gallery in Wisconsin. Here's how the Gallery described his work: "His extreme interest in horror films has brought a world of unease to his beautifully rendered brush strokes, drips, and color usage. He has a unique ability to make awkward subject matter playful, pretty, fun, and sincere but his true inspiration comes from visions he receives while deep in the void of a sensory depravation tank in a quiet corner of bustling Chicago. Hokin's work will startle, and intrigue any visiter of this, his first ever, solo show."

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Pearl C. Hsiung
Pearl C. Hsiung is a Taiwan born artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Hsiung's works present an amalgamation of diverse visual registers that propose psycho-sexual, metaphor laden, transforming landscapes. Hsiung draws from vintage sci-fi cover illustrations, medieval alchemy drawings and pop culture graphics, as well as personal references and esoteric narratives to present territories where subjects and meanings exist in states of flux, mutation and transmogrifications. Recent exhibitions include solo shows, Eroto Erupto Infinito at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2007) and To the Big Life, Max Wigram Gallery, London (2006) and group exhibitions California Biennial 2006, Newport Beach, Busan Biennale 2006, South Korea, Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica (2005), Expander, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2004).

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Bettina Hubby
Bettina Hubby was born in New York City, raised in Savannah, GA, and attended the College of Charleston for her BFA. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1994, focusing on sculpture, drawing and photography, and also worked as an artist and arts administrator until moving to Los Angeles. She is currently based in L.A. where she has been working in and around the fashion and art worlds since 1999.

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Jackadandy
Painter Chris "Jackadandy" Carraher came of age in the 1960s in the working-class suburbs of East Los Angeles and is largely self-educated in art; her works consist of abstract, lyrical and petite pastels painted on sanded paper. This fascinating genderqueer lesbian’s body of work is as much about politics as most protest art without overtly saying anything. Her recent exhibition love full of life - shown at Art Queen Gallery in Joshua Tree,CA, near her Mojave Desert home, was a series of paintings about non-hetero romantic love.

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TIm Jackson
Tim Jackson holds a BFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he continues to paint and work for artist Liz Larner.

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Giovanni Jance
Photographer Giovanni Janice received his BFA from the Art Center College of Design, his MFA from University of California, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Giovanni’s solo show in 2007 at the David Patton Gallery in L. A. was tiled “The timeless serenity of a statue standing adjacent...Portraits of Wendy Moore.” His work has appeared in several group shows with Andrea Zittel at Whitney at Altria in New York and Frieze Art Fair in London, as well as in other shows at Abstract, F-Space Gallery in L.A., and Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery in Munich.

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Steven Ward James
Steven Ward James is a photographer, musician and video artist, whose work brings together a variety of elements, including electronic and acoustic improvisations. He received his BFA in printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and prior to that focused on photography at The Manchester Craftsman's Guild in Pittsburgh. In Philadelphia, his work has been included in shows at the Silicon Gallery, Havana Lofts and Ink-Like House Gallery, and he performed a solo musical piece, One Night in Paris, in UArts’ Hamilton Hall.

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Michael Lazarus
Michael Lazarus's paintings and drawings systematically challenge convention and form. Using oil, enamel, and collage on irregularly shaped wood panels, Lazarus creates dynamic compositions through the play of recurring visual motifs and formal devices. After graduating in 1992 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating with an MFA in 1994. Lazarus has had solo shows at Feature Inc, NYC, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, and at ANP in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Paul Lee
From cut-up portraits to frayed towel seams framing nothing, themes of misplaced and displaced desire are constant in Paul Lee’s work. His sculptures collapse the prioritization of basic forms with a conceptual investigation of natural elements, physical effects, and primal human interplay with both. The artist works with a slowly growing lexicon of materials – some referring to neo-dada and pop forbears (light bulbs, sea-sponges, soda cans, magnifying glasses), others more banal (towels, pillows, sacks, socks) – to create work for the wall, the floor and sometimes both at once. LEE earned a BFA from the Winchester School or Art in England. His recent exhibitions include a solo show, "Resevoir" at Massimo Audiell in New York and the School House Gallery in Provincetown, MA, and "Harbour" at Peres Projects in Berlin.

Isaac Lin
Isaac Lin’s paintings deal with personal cartoon-like imagery that includes poses of monsters and abstract gibberish. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and MFA from California College of the Arts. He is a resident artist of Space 1026, a world renowned artist studio/gallery in Philadelphia.

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Missy Made ( aka. Missy Singley)
Missy Singley is a Philadelphia native who now resides in rural Delaware County. Missy is one of my sisters and has been a huge influential role in my artistic aspirations. From a very early age i can remember her painting, drawing and an accomplished recognized ceramist.

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Ann Magnuson
Ann Magnuson is an actress, singer, writer and part-time performance artist who has performed at REDCAT, The Whitney Museum, MoMA, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, BAM, P.S. 1, P.S. 122 and Joe's Pub and in theaters and cabarets all across the country, as well as in the U.K., Europe, Japan and even The Arctic Circle. Ann was part of the seminal art and music scene in NYC during the 1980s (when she managed the neo-Dada cabaret space Club 57 and directed the infamous New Wave Vaudeville Show) and is prominently featured in the traveling NYU art exhibit Downtown. As an actress, her credits include movies, such as The Hunger, Desperately Seeking Susan and Panic Room, and numerous TV appearances, including “Frasier” and “CSI:Miami.”

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Virgil Marti
Working in a vocabulary more rooted in interior design than fine art, Philadelphia artist Virgil Marti creates installations with fabric and wallpaper that poignantly, painfully induce nostalgic response. He received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from Washington University and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has been included in several group and solo exhibitions locally and regionally, including a Challenge Exhibition at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, the Biennial '91 at the Delaware Art Museum, Thread Waxing Space in New York, Vox Populi, Momenta Art Alternatives, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Beaver College Art Gallery. Mr. Marti's work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop.

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Kelly Marie Martin and David M. Jones
Known to fans as Kelly and David, these interdisciplinary artists fuse music-theater, performance art and "baroque blues" with scenic design that is artfully artificial and wistfully hand-made. Kelly and David are an acoustic/electric guitar duo who weave folk forms into original compositions with soaring vocal harmonies and lyrics that intrigue and beguile. They first started making sounds in the summer of 1995 while living in New York City. Stints in bands in San Francisco had brought them into earshot of one another's style and they forged a collaboration that has evolved over the last decade in the forms of live bands, sound installations, film scores, and in the recent release of a full length album of original songs.

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Gabriel Martinez
Photographer Gabriel Martinez received his B.F.A. from The University of Florida, Gainsville, and his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. His work has been presented by the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Foundation for Today's Art-Nexus, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, all in Philadelphia; and Franklin Furnace and White Columns, both in New York. He has been an Artist-in-Residence and received a Project Grant from both the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, and a Friends of the Gallery Award from Beaver College Art Gallery (now Arcadia University).

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Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley is an artist photographer from New York City whose works are somewhat similar to certain confessional photographers like Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, and Wolfgang Tillmans. His subjects include mostly color images of friends and lovers, as well as youth more on the ‘fringes’ of society (e.g., skateboarders, graffiti writers, etc.) As of 2006, his works have been seen in many galleries and museums. At 24 he was the youngest artist to have a solo show in New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also had solo shows at New York’s PS1 and in Spain at the MUSAC in Leon. In 2007 he was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity award by the International Center for Photography. He is represented by Team Gallery in New York.

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Daniel McDonald
Founded by designer and artist Daniel McDonald, Mended Veil has beenproducing conceptually driven, absurdist and satirical, narrative jewelry since 1995. After studying sculpture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, McDonald was a member of the experimental collaborative group, Art Club 2000 (1992-2000). Having produced accessories in cooperation with 1990's avant-garde New York designers: Bernadette Corporation, Seth Shapiro's American Manufacturing and Susan Cianciolo's Run Collection, Mended Veil joined The News showroom in 2000. Since then, The line has since offered 13 collections, which use humor and absurdism to irreverently reflect a variety of themes culled from Gothic literature, science fiction, stage magic, politics, witchcraft and the natural sciences. Through an exploration of the symbolic language of major religious and secular mythologies, Mended Veil attempts to question the impulse for adornment and its function as a personal communicative device. An expansive inventory of consumer drek and semiprecious materials, evocative found objects and commercially available beads from around the world are processed and combined with handmade components to produce these iconoclastic accessories.

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Jason Meadows
Born in Indianapolis and currently living in Los Angeles, mixed-media sculptor Jason Meadows received his MFA from the University of California and BFA from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. His recent exhibitions include Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2006, (group); The View from here: Acquisitions Since 2000, Tate Modern, London, 2006 (group); Sculptures D’Appartement, Musee Departemental d’art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France 2005, (group); Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for the Arts, San Francisco, 2005 (group); among others. He is represented by the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City.

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Megawords
Dan Murphy and DJ Nag Champa will bring you the soundtrack to their magazine, Megawords, an experimental non-commercial magazine founded in 2005 by Anthony Smyrski and Dan. The magazine's mission is the exploration of the modern urban environment and the establishment of an open and active dialogue between the magazine and the community at large. These ends were initially pursued through the mediums of print and photography. However in the recent months the scope of the project has expanded to include video, sound, and text, as well as the second tier of the project: Megawords Radio. The weekly online radio show has featured various musicians and DJ's from around the country, and has grown to become a vital part of the Megawords repertoire. Thom Merrick nstitute for the Arts, San Francisco, 2005 (group); among others. He is represented by the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City.

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Thom Merrick
Thom Merrick is known for creating formally challenging works in different media with a keen awareness of art history. Making a name for himself early in his career, he created works, paintings, sculpture and installations, by reacting to the immediate environment with industrial materials and simplified forms, or whatever material was at-hand. Thom Merrick’s art is uncanny– he creates spare and non-repetitive works that are abbreviated, each part reveals a complex code of a contemporary art practice that is self-critical adjudicating what is and is not. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute, and emerged in the mid 1980’s, represented by, Colin de Land and Pat Hearn in New York City. He exhibited throughout Europe, represented by the prominent minimalist art dealer and collector Rolf Ricke, in Cologne, and by the conceptual, Galerie Susanna Kulli, in St. Gallen, among others.

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Takeshi Murata
Takeshi Murata is a celebrated new media technician who produces abstract digital works that refigure the experience of animation. Creating Rorschach-like fields of seething color, form and motion, he pushes the boundaries of digitally manipulated psychedelia. With a powerfully sensual force that is expressed in videos, loops, installations, and electronic music, his hypnotic works appear at once seductively organic and totally digital. Takeshi was born in Chicago, IL, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Film/Video/Animation. He has exhibited at Peres Projects in LA; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Deitch Projects, and Eyebeam in NYC; FACT Centre in Liverpool, UK; the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati; and New York Underground Film Festival. He lives and works in upstate New York

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Professor Murder
Professor Murder is a dance punk quartet from New York City that mixes synthesizers and percussion-based compositions in a method that has drawn comparison to post-punk and new-wave bands of the early 1980's and late 70's. They released their critically hailed debut EP, Professor Murder Rides the Subway on Kanine Records in July of 2006. Members of the band are Jesse Cohen (keyboards), Andy Craven (drums), Michael Bell-Smith (vocals, percussion, bass, keys), and Tony Plunkett (bass, melodica).

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Sandeep Mukherjee
Born in India and based in Los Angeles, Sandeep Mukherjee has exhibited at UCLA's Hammer Museum, Pomona College's Museum of Art, MOCA/LA, Sister in Los Angeles and BravinLee Programs, NY. Known for his mesmerizing, nuanced, ethereal, minimalist figurative works, Mukherjee fuses Indian techniques with his own sensibilities of fleeting spatial relationships punctuated by various materials and juxtaposed textures. His recent abstract work continues to explore the idea of the hybrid object - part painting, part drawing, part sculpture and part environment; grafts that create hybrid varieties. His many group exhibitions have included "DRAW•ING (dro'ing) n.," at BravinLee, "Symmetry" at the MAK Center at the Schindler House and Conversations," and Butler at Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

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Sandeep Mukherjee
Born in India and based in Los Angeles, Sandeep Mukherjee has exhibited at UCLA's Hammer Museum, Pomona College's Museum of Art, MOCA/LA, Sister in Los Angeles and BravinLee Programs, NY. Known for his mesmerizing, nuanced, ethereal, minimalist figurative works, Mukherjee fuses Indian techniques with his own sensibilities of fleeting spatial relationships punctuated by various materials and juxtaposed textures. His recent abstract work continues to explore the idea of the hybrid object - part painting, part drawing, part sculpture and part environment; grafts that create hybrid varieties. His many group exhibitions have included "DRAW•ING (dro'ing) n.," at BravinLee, "Symmetry" at the MAK Center at the Schindler House and Conversations," and Butler at Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

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Eileen Neff
Eileen Neff's photos function as mnemonic devices for paintings or other experiences. They recall the images of Cezanne, or perhaps some natural phenomena with deadpan clarity and uninflected bluntness, thus achieving a straightforward sort of poetry. She holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, a BFA from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia College of Art) and a BA from Temple University. She has exhibited her photographic work in solo and group exhibitions nationally. Ms. Neff has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artists Space in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, among other venues. She has participated in artists residencies at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France.

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Stuart Netsky
Eileen Neff's photos function as mnemonic devices for paintings or other experiences. They recall the images of Cezanne, or perhaps some natural phenomena with deadpan clarity and uninflected bluntness, thus achieving a straightforward sort of poetry. She holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, a BFA from The University of the Arts (Philadelphia College of Art) and a BA from Temple University. She has exhibited her photographic work in solo and group exhibitions nationally. Ms. Neff has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artists Space in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, among other venues. She has participated in artists residencies at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France.

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Michele O’Marah
The videos and photography of California-based artist Michele O’Marah shrewdly draw on pop culture references and Hollywood genre conventions. At once reverent and critically deconstructive, O’Marah’s works reflect on the pleasures of popular film with an exuberant sense of style and a healthy dose of do-it-yourself gumption. At a time when sequels and remakes seem to be getting everyone down, O’Marah shows us how to revel in the pleasures of remaking and re-watching. Her work is represented by Sister Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Oliver Payne and Nick Relph
Oliver Payne and Nick Relph's videos are the expression of an urban sensibility that combines social radicalism, the pursuit of pleasure and beauty, and a fondness for cultural paradoxes. In just a few years, the London-based duo has developed an engaged view of contemporary culture that combines raw, immediate excitement with a complex social and political awareness. Payne and Relph are straightforward about their antagonism for corporate intervention into youth culture, an attitude that comes through in the dialogue and pace of their gritty films.

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Kembra Pfhaler
Performance artist Kembra Pfahler grew up in Southern California and was exposed at an early age to the West coast punk movement. She founded an art movement self-titled "availabism" which was based on the idea of working with the most readily available materials. Combining craft with performance, her image and props were heavily influenced by early horror films, as well as a "surf-goth" style adopted from her roots in California beach culture. Pfahler began making films, music, performances, and images in both nightclubs and alternative art venues. In 2000 her work was the subject of a documentary by Richard Metzger's series "Dis.Information" which premiered on the BBC.

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Jack Pierson
Jack Pierson was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1960. He is a photographer who studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Mr. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings, and artists’ books. His “Self-Portrait” series was recently shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well known celebrities and models.

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Mary Pinto
Mary Pinto is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at numerous venues including Artists´ Space, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery and the Rider Project in New York, as well as L'Angelot Contemporary Cultural Association and Spectrum Gallery in Spain. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before earning her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 1999. Mary also studied with several artists through the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain, where she lived for several years.

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PRISM Quartet
Intriguing programs of great beauty and breadth have distinguished the PRISM Quartet as one of America's foremost chamber ensembles. PRISM presents the saxophone as a serious concert instrument while embracing its rich history in jazz and popular music. Chosen by Musical America as "Outstanding Young Artists" and winners of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, PRISM has performed on Entertainment Tonight, National Public Radio, and in Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 1995, PRISM toured Latin America under the auspices of the United States Information Agency. Most recently, PRISM has been presented to critical acclaim as soloists with orchestras nationwide, including the Cleveland, Dallas, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, performing William Bolcom's Concerto Grosso, commissioned by the Quartet in 2000.

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Jay Schuette
As a young boy, Jay Schuette would often ride his bike into the rural cornfields of Indiana. One day, he discovered an abandoned, run-down farmhouse which still contained some belongings of its former inhabitants. He says it was creepy and silent out there and it always stuck in his mind. In 1993, Jay began to paint the haunting, elongated figures he imagined from that Indiana farmhouse. On the surface, Jay is painting imaginary people, but underneath, his paintings reflect tiny vignettes from his sometimes frightening yet often humorous personal experiences. Schuette has achieved artistic success in a short period of time. His work is included in many prestigious collections including the Mennello Museum of American Folk Art in Orlando, Florida. He has had two one-person exhibitions in New York City.

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Lisa Sitko
Lisa Sitko was raised in Detroit, MI, and is currently working towards her BFA at University of California, Los Angeles. Her involvement in the visual arts has included working at galleries and for artists, such as Jack Pierson and Regen Projects. Lisa currently lives and works in L.A. and Wonder Valley, CA.

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Mike Slack
Michael Slack is an artist, character designer, and occasional animator. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications including Time, Nickelodeon, Ranger Rick, Computer Gaming World, and The New York Times. He has designed characters for Aardman Animation and Passion Pictures in the UK. His animations have been screened internationally and have appeared on Noggin TV, Noggin Online, and on Animation Express. Michael's work has been recognized by Applied Arts, Pictoplasma, Computer Arts, and SBS Digital Design. He is currently working on an upcoming children’s book for Harcourt.

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Paul Slocum
Paul Slocum is a computer/videogame artist and musician living in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Texas. In 2008, his work will be included in a group exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and in a solo show at Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas. Recently, his work was sene at VertexList in New York City, Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and Okay Mountain in Austin.

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Jack Sloss
Video artist Jack Sloss received his BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been shown around the world, including screenings at the Video Alliance in Toronto, Chicago Cultural Center, Stadt Gallery in Switzerland, the Cinematographers Film Festival in Macedonia, and solo shows at the Dogmatic Gallery and Suitable Gallery, both in Chicago, and the Video/Performance KargArt in Istanbul. His work is represented by the Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.

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Michael Bell-Smith
Michael Bell-Smith mixes original and appropriated digital imagery to create idea-driven and highly crafted video. He collects digital images - from the earliest videogames to contemporary Internet files - to create video that investigates its own means of production. Currently living and working in Philadelphia, he holds a BA in Semiotics from Brown University in Providence, RI. Selected exhibitions during the last three years include Kim Light/Lightbox in Los Angeles, PKM Gallery in Beijing, The New Museum in New York, Hirshhorn Museum in DC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MoMA in New York, and The Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne in Switzerland.

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Shelley Spector
Shelley Spector's "do it yourself" temperament informs her activities as an artist, curator, editor and teacher. Her work evokes a joyous sense of play while exploring identity, memory, perception, and contemporary culture. Spector's sculptures and prints are part of many private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, HBO in New York and the Human Rights Campaign in Washington.

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Matthew Spiegelman
Photographer Matthew Spiegelman lives and works in New York and Los Angeles and is represented by Sister in L.A. He received his BA in Photography from Bard College. Matthew has had solo exhibitions at Sister and Marc Foxx in L. A., and has been included in group shows at Gallery 10G, Andrew Kreps Gallery and the th A+C's Exhibition of Emerging Photographers in New York; A+C's Exhibition of Emerging Photographers in Tokyo, Milan, Madrid and Stockholm; and Looking at Los Angeles, Anna Helwing Gallery and Side Street Projects in L.A.

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Jeni Spota
Born in New York, painter Jeni Spota currently lives and works in Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase. The Los Angeles Times selected her recent show at Sisters Gallery in Los Angeles as a “Critic’s Choice,” describing it as follows: “Jeni Spota paints like a cake decorator, spreading, swirling and daubing gobs of viscous oils with spatulas and applicators to create undulating fields of creamy color and supersaturated deliciousness. You find yourself with your nose very close to the luxurious surfaces of her nine small paintings at *sister before you notice that their writhing piles of paint describe horrors of biblical proportions.

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Zoe Strauss
Zoe Strauss is a photographer of the social landscape. She produces ambitious, large-scale public projects, notably her annual May 1st exhibition under I-95, in which hundreds of photographs of the surrounding community are marshaled to activate a two-block area. She just completed the fourth year of this ongoing ten-year project, which is free and open to the public. Strauss has had her work included in exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Arcadia University Art Gallery, the Whitney Biennial, and the Indianapolis Installation Festival. She has served as a Leeway Foundation Advisory Committee member, and a teaching artist at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. Her work is included in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Melanie Strickland
Melanie Strickland lives and works in the Desert Heights area of the beautiful Mojave Desert. Melanie has collaborated with Carlos Santa on stage animations for his Super Natural world tour. She has also worked with the Neville Brothers of New Orleans and helped create a film telling the story of Tibetan women refugees living in exile with Susan Sarandon and His Holiness the Dali Lama.

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Kim Stringfellow
Kim Stringfellow's work investigates environmental and historical topics related to land use through hybrid documentary forms incorporating a variety of media, including photography, film/video, audio, installation and Web-based interactive multimedia. Project commissions include Salmoncity.net (Seattle Arts Commission) and Safe As Mother's Milk: The Hanford Project (Cornish College of the Arts, Arts + Activism series). Her book project titled, Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 was published with the Center for American Places in 2005.

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Thaddeus Strode
Los Angeles-based painter Thaddeus Strode received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He has had solo shows throughout the world at California Institute of the Arts, Air de Paris in Nizza, Galerie Neugerriemschneider in Berlin, and Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Kopenhagen. His upcoming exhibition at the Kemper Art Museum, Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings, will include two dozen large-scale, mixed-media paintings – wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books. His work is represented by The Happy Lion in Los Angele

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Hiroshi Sunairi
Born in Hiroshima, Hiroshi Sunairi came to the United States at the age of 18 to study in Utah, Washington and New York. At S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Hiroshi evolved from the study of painting to performance art, video art, installation art and photography. His solo exhibitions have been presented at L.A. Galerie in Frankfurt, Germany, Galerie Wang in Oslo, Norway, and at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City.

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Tim Tate
Tim Tate is a Washington, DC native, and has been working with glass as a sculptural medium for the past 25 years. Co-founder of the Washington Glass School, Tim’s work is in the permanent collections of a number of museums, including the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and the Mint Museum. He was named Outstanding Emerging Artist for Washington, DC in 2003 and was one of OUT Magazine’s 100 People of the Year in 2004. Tim was the subject of recent articles in American Style and Sculpture magazines, as well as the Washington Post and Times newspaper reviews.

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Jeremy Tinder
Jeremy Tinder’s paintings are a combination of cartooning, confessional writing, schematic drawing, color experimentation, and image acquisition. He lives in Chicago, where received his MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jeremy has taught comic-making and life drawing classes to punky kids at a Quaker boarding school in Iowa, where he was often awoken in the middle of the night by the sounds of turkeys climbing on his roof. His Top Shelf debut was the popular graphic novel, Cry Yourself To Sleep, and his latest release, Black Ghost Apple Factory, is a great collection of touching and humorous comics. Jeremy currently lives in Chicago, where he teaches at SAIC, Marwen Foundation, and the Evanston Art Center.   

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Jennifer Tzar
Backwoods Minnesota born photographer Jennifer Tzar has been working professionally for eight years. Her offbeat and arresting images are in the realm of magical realism and reflect project defiance and individuality. Jennifer's rebellious, modern day, fairy tale-style has landed her jobs with fashion and documentary clients, including Levis, Lancome, i-D Magazine, Vogue, Homme International, Men's Vogue, Interview, Flaunt, Life Magazine and Rolling Stone. Once a singer in the new wave band Peck Slip and now an established and intriguing photographer, Jennifer is well accomplished and eventually plans to make films as well.

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May Weatherford
Mary Weatherford lives and works in Los Angeles where she is represented by Sister Gallery. Her engaging paintings have appeared in solo exhibitions there as well as at Shane Campbell in Illinois, Debs & Co. in New York, and Margulies Taplin Gallery in Florida. Group exhibitions have included shows at Orange County Museum of Art and Faure & Light Gallery, both in California, and Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York.

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Mikal Winn
Mikal Winn designs and creates jewelry with an organic quality and natural beauty, incorporating precious stones and gems with his own silver solder technique. Each piece is hand-crafted and one of a kind. Mikal Winn Designs have been featured in galleries and boutiques from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, Spain and Greece.Born and raised on a dairy farm in rural Ohio, Mikal Winn now designs and creates jewelry at his home studio in the Wonder Valley area of Twentynine Palms, CA, in the Mojave Desert next to Joshua Tree National Park.

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Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 1990s she founded A-Z Administrative Services, which sells prototypes and designs that help individuals organize their domestic spaces. She has had recent solo exhibitions and installations at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Gallery Side 2 in Tokyo, Boise Art Museum in Idaho, Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, and the International Print Center in New York.

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