Monthly Archives: September 2013

Frank Heath was born in 1982, in St. Joseph, MO.  Heath has a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (’04) and a MFA from Yale (’06).  At the core of his art is a practice of taking quiet, private acts—some verging on the absurd, others the melancholic—into public situations.  He has lectured at The Cooper Union, Reed College, and Syracuse University.  His solo show, Post Holes, (2012 at Simone Subal Gallery) was centered around his formally complex video Graffiti Report Form, which was submitted to the NYC department of Parks and Recreation.  He had a solo presentation at Frieze Frame, New York, NY in 2013.

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 from Post Holes, Simone Subal Gallery, New York City, 2012

Sanford Biggers was born in Los Angeles in 1970. Influenced by a two-year stay in Nagoya, Japan, and by a multitude of cross-cultural references, Biggers’ installations incorporate the study of ethnological objects, popular culture and icons, and Dadaist strategies. His work cross-pollinates different disciplines and philosophies, bringing them together in the course of his explorations and studies. Biggers also includes performative elements into his work, creating layers of reading that act as anecdotal vignettes. Sanford Biggers has exhibited internationally since 2000; he has participated in many important exhibitions including Freestyle and Black Belt at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Performa 07, and Illuminations at the Tate Modern in London (2007).

Official Bio

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QC #11

textiles and fabric treated oil stick and spray paint on archival paper

48″ x 42″, 2013

Quilt #27

Fabric Treated Acrylic, Spray Paint, Cotton On Repurposed Quilt

48″ x 91″, 2013

Float

mixed media

29″h x 16.5″w x 18″d, 2013

Constellation II

Steel, Plexiglass, LED’s, Zoopoxy, cotton quilt, original printed cotton tile

dimensions variable, 2009

The Bridge is Over (biddybyebye)

mixed media

24″ x 41″, 2006

Bomb Magazine Interview

Okayplayer Interview

Instagram

Ashley Bickerton was born in the West Indies in 1959. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1982, and continued his education in the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program in New York, where he continued to live and work until 1993. Since then, Bickerton has taken up full-time residence on the island of Bali where he continues to work. Bickerton has exhibited worldwide, and his works are included in many museum and public art collections. Solo exhibitions include ‘Recent Wurg’, White Cube (2009), Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2006). He has participated in many major group exhibitions including Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas at the Nouveau Musée de Monaco, Monaco, France (2011), Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Modern, London (2009), ‘The Incomplete’, Chelsea Art Museum, ‘Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection’, Deste Foundation in Athens, Greece (2007) and the East Village USA retrospective, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2004). Bickerton was a seminal figure in the East Village scene in New York and one of the original members of the group of artists that came to be known as “Neo-Geo.”

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White Head I

acrylic, digital print and plastic laminate on wood

93″ x 80″ x 7″, 2012

ANWWLB 2

acrylic and digital print and insect pins on paper

46.75″ x 50.75″ x 5″, 2011

 The Five Sages

acrylic, pencil, and photography

48″ x 96″, 1998

Links:

Contemporary Art Daily

artnet interview

In Frame TV 

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Jon Kessler was born in Yonkers, New York in 1957.  In 1980 he graduated S.U.N.Y. Purchase and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Studio Program.  Jon’s first exhibition was at Artist’s Space in 1983.  That same year he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, again in 1985, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996.  Since that time he has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe and Asia.  His works are in many public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and MOCA.  His most recent show, “The Web”, was at the Swiss Institute in New York this past spring.  Jon is a Professor of the Visual Arts at Columbia University where he has taught since 1994.

“The Blue Period”

“The Palace at 4 AM”

“The Web”

Links:

Vice

Gizmodo

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William Pope.L (born 1955 in New Jersey) is an acclaimed and prolific interdisciplinary artist, and is the recipient of many prestigious grants and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the USA Fellowship in Visual Arts. He has shown his work at The Project in New York and Los Angeles, and was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.  Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries and has created multi-disciplinary work since the 1970’s. He is perhaps best known for his provocative performances, such as ATM Piece, and his decades-long series of crawls across New York City, commemorated in eRacism, a retrospective which showed at several prominent museums and galleries. The Black Factory, his most recent project, toured the East Coast and the Midwest. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.

William Pope.L’s Black Factory at Philadelphia’s Bartram’s Gardens

Links:

Bad At Sports

Bomb Magazine

Interview Magazine

Tompkins Square Park Crawl:

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