Monthly Archives: February 2013

Daniel Bozhkov is an artist based in New York City. He employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields to activate the public space. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Daniel is a recipient of 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, Alpert Award Residency Prize, and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. His work has been presented in international exhibitions such as the 6^th Liverpool Biennial, in 2010, 6^thMercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2007, 9^th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey in 2005, the 1^st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia in 2005. Daniel Bozhkov is an Associate Professor of Art at Hunter College, CUNY, and has taught as a Lecturer at Columbia University and Yale University School of Art.

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Liverpool Biennial Artist Talk: Daniel Bozhkov (2010)

Andrew Kreps Gallery: Daniel Bozhkov

The Woolworths Choir of 1979, 2012

Watch a clip of the video here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/dec/04/elizabeth-price-woolworths-choir-video

Elizabeth Price (born 1966) lives and works in London

Price predominantly works in moving image. She uses high-definition digital video, with live action, motion graphics, 3D computer animation and sound. Her work is informed by histories of narrative cinema  and experimental film, but more precisely concerned with digital video, and in particular its contemporary heterogeneity as a medium used for navigation, advertising, knowledge organisation as well as cinematic special effects.

In 2012 Price was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize. She was awarded a major production grant by Film London for her work WEST HINDER (2012), which was exhibited in a solo exhibition at The Baltic, Gateshead, and subsequently led to her being nominated for the Turner Prize. Price recently exhibited ‘USER GROUP DISCO’ (2009) as part of the British Art Show and ‘THE TENT’ (2012) at Bloomberg Space, London. She completed the Helen Chadwick Fellowship in 2011, during which she developed ‘THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR OF 1979’, which was premiered at MOTINTERNATIONAL, and exhibited at Tate Britain.

USER GROUP DISCO, 2009

Watch a clip of the video here: http://vimeo.com/36307724

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MOT INTERNATIONAL

Tate Britain; short artist talk (scroll down for video)

Starts at 6:30pm

RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator of Performa, is an art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. Former Director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and Curator at The Kitchen in New York, she is also the author of Performance: Live Art Since 1960 (1998) and Laurie Anderson (2000), and is a frequent contributor to Artforum and other publications. In 2004, she founded Performa, a non-profit arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world, and launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05 (2005), followed by Performa 07 (2007), and Performa 09 (2009), and Performa 11 (2011). Since 1987, Goldberg has taught at New York University. She is the recipient of the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award (2010) and a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government (2006).

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Performa

Performa TV on Youtube

Repeat Performance: The Redoubtable RoseLee Goldberg’s Performa Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever, NY Observer (2011)

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from East Texas State University, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art in 2000.  Hancock attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997.  Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  He has received numerous awards including:  Joyce Alexander Wein Award, S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Prize, Penny McCall Foundation Award, Artadia Foundation Award, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.  Trenton Doyle Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus School of Art and Design, Columbus, OH; The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; as well as others.  Hancock has had four solo exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY as well as numerous other galleries in the United States, Singapore, Italy, and Scotland.

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New York Times, “An Artist’s New Direction and the Bathroom Tile” by Michael Hoinski, 2012

Additional articles and reviews on James Cohan Gallery website