Andrea
Connor
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My
work shows the moment of resolution immidiately following a catastrope.
The fragility of the materials suggests the risk that the catastrophe
could happen again, thus highlighting the urgency of the task at
hand.
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Are
there any special requirements for the hanging or installation of
your work? If so, please describe.
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Brett Groves
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Brett
Groves graduated from Pratt Institute in 2004 with a BFA in Printmaking.
Originally from central New York, he currently lives and works in
Brooklyn at Axelle Fine Art, a silkscreen studio and gallery company,
as well as Parsons school of design. His work deals with fictional
organic structures and their physical/psychological interactions
with each other and the synthetic environment he has created for
them.
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Beatrix Piesh
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Chris Herbeck
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Damara
Kaminecki
DamaraK@aol.com
www.damarakthedestroyer.com
- Born
and raised in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago,
IL, Damara Kaminecki began her art career painting cows at Gallery
37 for Chicago's Outdoor Cows on Parade Exhibition. Moving to Brooklyn
to attend Pratt Institute, she concentrated in figure drawing. While
in school, she was able to do internships at The International Print
Center and Dieu Donne Papermill, both non-profit spaces, exposing
her to the world of works on paper.
- After
graduating in 2004 with a BFA in Drawing, she went on to work as
an artist assistant for Grimanesa Amoros, Lesley Dill, and Jane
Hammond. After spending a year in NYC, she became involved in the
bookbinding community, mainly the non-profit artist collective Brooklyn.
Damara does collaboration work helping artists, photographers, and
writers develop, design, bind, and edition their ideas and work.
She also does freelance illustration using the medium of drawing
and relief prints for album artwork, t-shirt designs, and magazine
illustrations in addition to her own work.
- Shows:
March 2006: Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL. ˜
November 2005: SPW Arts Benefit, Brooklyn, NY. November
2004: Critical Mass Art Show, Chicago, IL
St. Ignatius Alumni Art Show Chicago, IL
- Collections:
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MA
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Smith College Library, Northampton, MA
- Awards:
2006 Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago.
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Dennis Hreowsik
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Dana
Croteau
- I
designed and installed this three-day installation for the fabric
company I previously worked for. The theme of our booth was a Winder
Wonderland, which we created with 3- free standing fabric trees,
white carpet and Christmas lights streamed underneath thin fabric
lining.
- I
like to invite people into my installations, to let them feel a
sense of peace and comfort that goes along with a soft environment.
Using white carpeting on the floor, let all the focus center on
the colorful trees. I think the colorful, inviting quality of the
work is what radiated a sense of peace.
- I
would like to create a new work for this show, and will draw inspiration
from my recent move to California and the sense of peace I feel
in my new environment.
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Deqa Abshir
- Deqa Abshir graduated
from Hunter College with a double major in Studio Arts and Women's
studies in January 2006.
Being from Somalia she grew up in a highly politically charged environment
and as early on as elementary school she started visually cataloging
her political commentary. While in High school in Kenya she took
an interest in Education, seeing it as 'the strongest tool one can
have to fully engage in Society'. This interest was magnified when
she visited Somalia in 2000 and worked at GECPD.
Subsequent to moving to New York she started working with non-profit
educational organizations such as The Peter Westbrook Foundation
and The Boy's and Girl's Harbor where she was integrated arts and
education. Working on the sensing peace project has allowed her
to encompass her passion for art, education and peace.
- "As I being this
journey to educate, motivate, integrate and inspire. I look ahead
of me at the footprints I have to follow, knowing that I too will
leave footprints for others to follow." - Deqa Abshir
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Donna
Roettger
www.myfavoriteplanet.com
keidon@att.net
- This
is a painting of my two sons who are totally engaged in creating
one shadow from two. Their ability to fully focus on a common goal,
being present to the task at hand, allows for true unity and community
in its purest sense. I believe peace occurs in the space where individual
egos are abandoned, and the connection of human beings is all that's
left.
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Frank De-Leon Jones |
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Jason Berek North
- Brooklyn
Artist, Recent Grad of Pratt Institute, received BFA in Photography.
Solo Exhibitions: 2005 Photographs Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Group Exhibitions: 2005 Annual Pratt Show Hammerstein Ballroom,
NY NY
2005 Schaffler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 "Intelligent Denial" Brooklyn Art Collective, Brooklyn
NY
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Jennifer Rogers |
Jermaine Johnson
- Graduated
from: Pittsburgh Technical Institute, Pittsburgh PA 1994
- Awards
and Honors: 3rd Place in the Western Pennsylvania Art show, 1993
- Exhibition
History:
GLAAD - New York, New York (Nov.2004 & Nov. 2005)
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA (May 2001)
Rosebud, Pittsburgh PA (April 2001)
Turmoil Room, Pittsburgh PA (June 1999)
East Liberty Arts Festival-Pittsburgh PA (July 1998 & July 2000)
Forland Art Studio-Pittsburgh PA (June 1998)
Turmoil Room- Pittsburgh PA (March 1998)
- Career,
Occupation:
Brooklyn Rocks T-shirts Design (Brooklyn New York)
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Jill Dubreuil
jdubreuil81@hotmail.com
- What
does peace look like? To Jill it comes as a vision for the future,
it is a hybrid of man and all forms of life un-human. It is a semi-biotic
relationship that occurs in a space of physical, and fabricated
differences. Peace is also the lack of identity. "If I do not
know me, I do not know you, and I do not know our differences."
- This
inspiration became reality after a conversation she had with a fellow
artist friend. She had recently completed her first art benefit
for Student Partnership Worldwide, in support of a volunteer traveling
to Uganda to develop sustainable farms. It was after this benefit
on November 20, 2005 that the merge of her passions in art, environmental
affairs, and community were made present. The conversation she shared
with her friend was about the elephant representing peace. She focused
on the elephant as a theme within her artwork for years, and was
now re-discovering the animal's relationship to man, and peace.
She re-created her world, acknowledging that the quintessential
community believes, speaks of, and exhibits peace for themselves
and each other. It was a conversation that transformed her artwork
and her life..
- Jill
graduated from Pratt Institute in May of 2004 with a BFA in sculpture.
Her work conceptualized the suffering of war, governmental negligence,
and sexual abuse against women. She was educated in a variety of
art mediums, which supported her assistantships post college with
the sculptors Tony Matelli, Lesley Dill, and Lisa Hoke. Jill has
worked as a freelance artist for the last nine years, volunteered
with various environmental non-profits, and recently with Habitat
for Humanity in New Orleans. At graduation from Pratt Institute,
she was awarded the Emeritus in both sculpture and jewelry, and
was nominated for the National Student Sculpture Exhibition, through
International Sculpture Center. Jill has worked with Deqa Abshir
to organize the Student Partnership Worldwide Art Benefit,
two fundraisers, Heaven, and Poker for Peace, and the arts benefit,
Sensing Peace. She has actively exhibited her personal work
since graduation, with the Oracle Theater Co., the benefits previously
noted, the Pratt Alumni Show, and at the Hammerstein Ballroom. She
will be traveling with Deqa Abshir to Africa in October to continue
the conversation about peace.
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John
Joyce
jjoyce@pratt.edu
- Having
been raised in an industrial Midwest town the common scenic background
was that of once highly productive steel mills. Born decades after
these factories were shut down all I saw were these abandoned decaying
buildings that once helped build our country. Now stripped of their
function they stand there useless, like massive mechanical sculptures.
It was these familiar sights growing up that have had a lasting effect
on the way I visualize my work.
- I often
draw from simple unseen or overlooked functions, acts, emotions, or
processes as a content base from which I reiterate and personalize.
I attempt to combine organic forms with hardedge mechanical components.
While they are mechanical in function I try to give them aspects of
human qualities or traits, which the viewer can connect with. "Injunction
for War" is a sculpture that appears to be a transportable militant
machine. The piston like forms generate references to both a uniform
line of soldiers and that of medieval battering rams. The scale of
these elements impose a feeling of intimidation while the operator
post, consisting of a crank handle and megaphone, give the viewer
a sense of control. Although the functional purpose of the sculptures
seems unclear at times, the impracticality and mysteriousness contribute
to the surrealistic quality of the work.
- History
is one of my largest influences. Chronologically it's interesting
to see how cultural evolution determines the path for societies to
come. It is only in the modern age that the technological breakthroughs
in process and materials have enabled our society to modify ideas
in which their origins date back thousands of years. What I find fascinating
is how through different eras, being a decade or hundreds of years
ago, objects evolve yet the principles remain the same. The essence
of my work deals with absorbing past influences like the art and processes
of ancient Egypt, Medieval times, and the early 2oth century. I believe
there are connections between the beliefs and ways of these eras and
that of contemporary time. Overall it is this idea of anachronism
that I attempt to capture. My intention is to create a vocabulary
of work based on the combination of past artistic and functional duality.
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Jodie Lyn- Kee- Chow
- Jodie
Lyn-Kee-Chow was born in Manchester, Jamaica in 1975. She has obtained
a BFA degree in Painting from New World School of the Arts ,Miami,FL.
and is a recent MFA graduate in Combined Media from Hunter College,
New York. With a practice that spans sculpture, performance, drawing
and video Lyn-Kee-Chow's work incorporates scenarios of nature, domesticity
and the body which when combined may seem humorous, pastoral and yet
oddly familiar.
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John Bartolo
- John
Bartolo grew up in New York on Long Island's north shore. He gathers
his inspiration from his hobbies and travels that he photographs.
During his college years he was an apprentice in a paper restoration
studio which he worked in for several years afterward. That's where
his interest in paper restoration evolved into his love of printmaking.
He currently works in a printmaking studio in Brooklyn, New York.
His current work combines photography and printmaking on different
mediums. John's images consist of prints on wood panels as well as
works on paper on which he adds texture to suggest the same life as
the wood panels.
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Jonathon Linaberry |
Karin Coyne
- The
painting is a joyful, calm image of children who have the benefit
and privilege of enjoying a carefree childhood. The image makes mention
of the continuum of life from childhood to adulthood; it depicts people
living in a world where there is not fear or the reality of violence,
of lives ended too early. This painting shows nothing of the struggle
of so many people in the world today; it portrays a snapshot of life
in the most utopian sense. The style in which it is designed is reminiscent
of the drawing approaches of small children; I have utilized similar
symbol sets and color choices in this piece as children often do in
their own artwork. This work communicates peace through the playful,
carefree images of children safely at play together in the protective
presence of a mother figure. The imagery serves as a reminder of a
less complicated time in life. The repeated, simplified, similar silhouettes
of children jumping rope is a remark on how much alike we all are
as people, no matter how different the day-to-day of our lives or
our cultures may be; our humanity is a tie that binds us.
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Kate Clark |
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Kathleen Maher
kathleen_eliza@yahoo.com
- Title: “Home”
Date: 2006
- Medium: fabric, dye,
thread
- How does this artwork
communicate your idea of peace?
I am basing this piece on a photograph I took of my parent’s
yard. I am from upstate New York and I grew up in the middle of nowhere
in a tiny, secluded mountain town. Whenever I go there, especially
in the summertime when the grass, trees, flowers and overall scenery
is absolutely breathtaking, I feel the most at peace. Living in the
city and going back to the country makes me appreciate the overwhelming
sense of home and of past I feel when I am there. I want to convey
the importance of nature and of home and the peace I feel when I return
to the place I come from.
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Kathryn Palmateer
- The
project title, 100,000, is named for the lives that have been lost
sine the war in Iraq began. It has become an attempt to delineate
the widespread nature of the war and the lives it is affecting all
over the world. Traditions in photography have long been attempts
to remember or memorialize those who have passed - through holding
images of loved ones in a sitting with a photographer for example.
I draw on those traditions and remember those who have died, those
who still struggle and those whose lives will be forever changed by
the decision of one nation to bomb another.
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subjects in the photographs are Iraqi Canadians whose families still
live in Iraq, they are US war resisters building the anti-war movement
in Canada, they are students involved in on-campus activities for
peace, they are Muslims targeted for their faith. Each subject's words
stand alongside their images - their words and vision contribute to
the overall impact of the piece, as much as does my creative voice.
- This
work is about remembering. It is about the struggle for peace.
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Kiki Everett
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Michael Krynski
413 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn NY 11222 ph. 917-902-4507 krynski.m@gmail.com
Born 1972, Warsaw, Poland.
Currently living and working in New York City
Education
1997 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY MFA (Fine Arts)
1994 State University of New York, New Paltz, NY BFA (Sculpture)
1992 Institute Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence, Italy BFA Program, Art
Criticism and Painting
1990 Warsaw Art Academy, Warsaw, Poland BFA Sculpture Program
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Rivington Art Gallery INC, NYC
Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 'Comfort From Inherent Lies'
2003 Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Installation
2002 Goethe Institute Hanoi, Viet Nam (collaboration with Shige Moriya,
installation)
Hanoi Contemporary Art Center, Viet Nam (Artist in Residence, Ford Foundation
Grant)
Mastel + Mastel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Installation
2001 Mastel + Mastel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Installation
Silvestre Galleries, Surf City, NJ
2000 Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Installation
1999 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY Installation
and Performance
Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Installation and Performance
Sotheby's, Chicago, IL Installation and Performance
Cast Iron Gallery, New York, NY Installation
Group Exhibitions
2004 Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY 'Chasing Rainbows'
Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland, Sponsored by US State Department
2003 The Artist Network, New York, NY 'lebensraum / homeland insecurity'
Axel Raben, New York, NY Curator: Kathy Goodell
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
M3 Projects, Brooklyn, NY, 'Goulash'
2002 ArtLink@Sotheby"s, Tel Aviv, Israel
Oskar Friedl Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ceres, New York, NY 'Fifth National Juried Exhibition', Second Place,
Juror: Charlotta Kotik
Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
2000 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
Festival
Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY 'E Europe' International Group
Exhibition
Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
Fringe Festival, Fringe Al Fresco, New York, NY Public sculpture and
performances
The White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Sotheby's Tel Aviv, Israel ArtLink Emerging Artists Auction
Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY Curator: Tom Slaughter
1997 College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY Faculty Art Exhibition
Soho Arts Festival, New York Curator: Simon Watson
Jurors: Fereshteh Daftari, Martin Eisenberg, Charlotta Kotik
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY 'The Emergency Art Fund'
SVA Soho Art Gallery, NY Selections MFA Special Projects Curator: Gregory
Amenoff
1996 Westside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 'The New Romantics'
CSV Cultural Center, New York, NY 'Blueprint'
Islip Museum, NY 'Around A Chair'
1995 Yale, New Haven, CT 'Refiguring the Figure', Honorable Mention,
Juror: Helen Cooper
1994 College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY Senior Exhibit
1993 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence, Italy Faculty Select
Bibliography
New York Arts Magazine
New Yorkers Catalog
Artlink@Sotheby's International Young Art (2002) 'October Report' Selected
Finalists 1998-2002
The New York Times (21 Aug. 1998) Marks, Peter 'Wild, Woolly, Maybe
Wondrous.'
School of Visual Arts Alumni Catalog (1998) 'Visual Opinion.'
Sotheby's Catalogue (1997) 'ArtLink Project.'
The New York Times (5 Jan. 1997) 'Playing in the Neighborhood.' |
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Patrick Cadenhead
wavywater@yahoo.com
- Born in July 1975. Works
and resides in Brooklyn
- Sculpture and Installation:
- 2005 Destroy All Architecture/
Sputnik, Brooklyn, NY
- Sculpture
2005 DUMBO 9th Annual Arts Under the Bridge Festival/ DAC, Brooklyn,
NY/ Installation
2005 Best of the Year Retrospective/ Shaffler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY/
Installation
2005 Senior Thesis Show/ Shaffler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY/ Installation
2004 Obsequination, Inc./ Pratt Studios, Brooklyn, NY/ Installation
2003 Box/ One Arm Red, Brooklyn, NY/ Sculpture, Solo Show
2002 From Behind the Mask/ San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA/ Sculpture
2001 Masks and Other Works/ Boulder Voice Works, Boulder, CO/ Sculpture,
Solo Show
2000 Masks/ Dot's Diner, Boulder, CO/ Sculpture, Solo Show
2000 Masks/ Penny Lane, Boulder, CO/ Sculpture, Solo Show
2000 Day Of The Dead/ Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO/ Sculpture
1999 Xmas/ Colorado University, Boulder, CO/ Site Specific Installation
1999 Kick Me/ Colorado University, Boulder, CO/ Site Specific Installation
- Performance and Video:
2005 Godzilla Project/ Berkley Carroll Middle School, Brooklyn, NY/
Interactive Performance and Video, 2 day project, 10 min. edited
2004 Hollywood Opening/ CB's 313 Gallery/ New York, NY/ Interactive
Performance and Video, 10 min.
2004 Godzilla Project/ the Tank, New York, NY/ Interactive Performance
and Video, 10 min.
2004 Obsequination, Inc./ One Arm Red, Brooklyn, NY/ Performance, 5
min.
2004 Godzilla Project/ One Arm Red, Brooklyn, NY/ Interactive Performance
and Video, 10 min.
2004 Obsequination, Inc./ Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY/ Performance,
7 min.
2004 Special Secret Show/ CB's 313 Gallery, New York, NY/ Interactive
Performance, 10 min.
2004 Godzilla Project/ Collective Unconscious, New York, NY/ Interactive
Performance and Video, 10 min.
2001 SLAM artist co-operative/ Denver Celebrates Colorado Artists, CO/
Performance, 30 min.
2001 SLAM artist co-operative/ Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO/ Performance,
2 hr.
2000 SLAM artist co-operative/ Fox Theater, Boulder, CO/ Performance,
2 hr.
2000 SLAM artist co-operative/ The Root, Boulder, CO/ Performance, 2
hr.
1999 Rhinoceros, Hip Pocket Theater, Fort Worth, TX/ Performance (theater),
2 hr.
1996 Bread and Puppet Circus, VT/ Puppetry, 15 min.
1995 Cyclops Wheelbarrow/ Austin, TX/ Video (editor), public access
show
- Set Design:
2005 Big, Bad Hour of Fun, CRS, New York, NY
2005 Have You Seen My Soul, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Wheel of Seizures, One Arm Red, Brooklyn, NY
- Awards:
2005 Best in Show, Shaffler Galley, Pratt Institute
2003- 2005 Dean's List Merit Scholarship, Pratt Institute
- Education:
2005 BFA, Sculpture Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Continuing Education Colorado University
- Bibliography:
The Red Journal of Poetry and Art, "From Behind the Mask",
photo, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2002, page 6
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Tom Billings
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Travis Dubreuil
www.travelingtravis.com
- Travis
Dubreuil was born on August 11, 1979 and was raised in the light of
De Luz, California. He spent his childhood and adolescence in the
middle of nowhere walking and exploring the light, which allowed for
excessive amounts of creative thought. Travis left the middle of nowhere
at 18 and moved to the coast. Traveling soon became a strong passion
and led him to Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America. After spending
four years in Seattle, Brooklyn is now home and he spends his days
photographing faces,
spaces and places. Travis has degrees in digital imaging and graphic
design as well as commercial photography. His work has been shown
on both the West and East coasts and most recently at the Ex Gallery
in Brooklyn and on www.travelingtravis.com
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