being here

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catherine ross



Peter Fischli & David Weiss

The Way Things Go
1987


ADAM FRELIN

Water Rerouting Initiatives
video
5:00 minutes, 2001.

Adam Frelin's work in video, sculpture, and photography depict phenomenological scenarios in which natural and manmade entities intersect in ways that are simultaneously meditative and humorous, foreboding and life-affirming.

Adam Frelin (Grove City, Pennsylvania, 1973) has shown widely in the United States and abroad at such venues as Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Frelin has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Gateway Foundation, the Alpert Award in the Arts, the Gunk Foundation, and College Art Association, and completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL; and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Frelin divided his undergraduate education between Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA; Hunter College, New York, NY; and the Art Center of Lorenzo De’ Medici, Florence, Italy. In 2001 he received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego, CA. From 2001-2004 he held the position of Assistant Professor at Webster University, St. Louis, MO. In 2004 he was awarded a US/Japan Creative Artists Award for independent research in Japan, and in 2006 an invitation to attend the Helsinki International Artists-in-Residence Program in Helsinki, Finland. Frelin is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at SUNY University at Albany.

JULIE LEQUIN

The Speech Lesson
video
3 minutes, 2005.

Julie Lequin (Born in Laval, Quebec in 1979) is a French Canadian living in Los Angeles where she received her MFA from the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) in 2005.

Julie finds whimsical idiosyncratic differences between homeland Quebec and adopted America. Speech Lesson is inspired from a real life experience where Julie worked with a speech coach in Laurel Canyon. Julie was aiming to switch back and forth between her French-Canadian and American accents like a smart dog. Her American accent hasn't drastically improved after a few weeks, Julie had to drop the lesson because it was too expensive. Julie likes: Tina Fey, dancing home parties, Jägermeister, to talk to strangers, and cilantro on baguette.

Lequin has performed at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA and participated in several group exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden. Julie is currently trying to stay focused on a book project "The Ice Skating Tree Opera- director's cuts" that will be finished, hopefully, this summer and published with 2nd Cannons.

JUAN RECAMAN

the reading room (New York Public Library)
video
7 minutes, 2002.

Juan Recamán creates contemporary video portraits based on detailed observations and the mutual improvisation of strangers. Intrigued by people he meets in his everyday surroundings, Recaman uses the nature and mechanisms of portraiture for self-expression.

Juan Recamán (Bogotá, COLOMBIA, 1973) received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1997. He completed his MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2002. He was awarded the Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship and the Paula Rhodes Award from the School of Visual Arts, New York City. He has also received fellowships from Brooklyn Community Access Television in New York, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and was also an Associate Artist-in-Residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida in 2003 with British Artist, Gillian Wearing. Recent exhibitions include: The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, MUU gallery in Helsinki, The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York, the 48th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in Germany and The District Gallery in Bogotá, Colombia.

WILL ROGAN

getting through (spectral vortex)
video
3:48 minutes, 2006.

Will Rogan is an artist whose work uses the physical world as a sculptural medium to examine its potential for beauty, manipulation and function in art making. His work addresses “things that are quiet in nature, but can be described by a larger idea”.

Will Rogan (b. 1975) received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1998 and is a 2006 MFA candidate from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a recipient of the 2003 SECA Art Award (SFMOMA), a 2001 fellow of Gasworks, London, residency program, and in 2004 was awarded a research fellowship from The Program for Media Artists. His work has been exhibited at DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Florida, Gasworks Gallery in London, and in San Francisco at the Museum of Modern Art, Jack Hanley Gallery, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Lab and Southern Exposure. Rogan’s work is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Museum and the Oakland Museum. Will Rogan lives and works in Albany, CA.


KERRY TRIBE

Naive Melody
video
4 minutes, 2002.

Kerry Tribe's Kerry Tribe’s work in video, film, installation and other media explores relationships between subjectivity and representation, often by investigating the gray areas between the authentic and the scripted or the collective and the idiosyncratic. She regularly invites the collaboration of friends, strangers and actors.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1973, Kerry Tribe received her BA from Brown University in 1997, attended the Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program in 1998 and received her MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2002. She has exhibited her work internationally, participating in exhibitions and screenings in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Sydney and Istanbul. Her work was recently included in the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art and Down By Law, organized by The Wrong Gallery for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Tribe currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin.



SIEBREN VERSTEEG

CC
internet connected computer program, 2003
Through displacement, juxtaposition, and/or the hacking of the familiar, Siebren Versteeg's work creates contexts which encourage their viewers to actively engage their relationship to the ever-increasing flow of images, media and technology which surround them.

Siebren Versteeg (b. New Haven, CT) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago (2004) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2004). He is currently an artist-in-residence at Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited widely with recent exhibitions at International Bienniale of Contemporary Art in Prague, The 25000 Cultural Transmission Center in Beijing, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, Exit Art in New York, Chicago's Renaissance Society, and Beacon Project Space. Siebren Versteeg lives and works in New York.

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