K8 Hardy was born in 1977 in Fort Worth, Texas, and began spelling her name K8 as a teenager while working on, and publishing various zines.   She holds a BA from Smith College, studied at the Whitney Independent Study Program, and holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College, she is currently represented by Reena Spauldings in New York.

Hardy is a founding member of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR, and has directed music videos for groups including Le Tigre, Lesbians on Ecstasy, and Men.

Wikipedia says, “Hardy works through performance art without allegiance to any particular medium. She mines pop culture for material and eschews craft based virtuosity in photography, sculpture, and video. Hardy believes in the power of flamboyant and bold gestures, and in conversations of play, which constitute her endeavors toward total expression.”

Interview with K8 Hardy: http://bombsite.com/issues/119/articles/6429

Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn. Her performances and videos intervene in semi-public spaces such as bank vestibules, movie theaters and newsrooms, and have involved collaborations with actors, dancers, surgeons, and motorcycle gang members. Her recent work appropriates the dominant performance techniques and psychological strategies used by the media and politicians to sway public opinion. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University (2003) and an MFA from Columbia University (2008).

She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2008) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2009). Most recently, her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2013) the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (2013); DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas (2013) and Mälmo Konsthall, Mälmo, Sweden (2012).

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Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, 2013, two-channel video installation

Interview with Liz Magic Laser:

http://dismagazine.com/discussion/56210/liz-magic-laser-absolute-event/

Richard Tuttle was born in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1941, the artist lives and works in Mount Desert, Maine; Abiquiu, New Mexico and New York City.

Tuttle’s work exists in the space between painting, sculpture, poetry, assemblage, and drawing. He draws beauty out of humble materials, reflecting the fragility of the world in his poetic works. Without a specific reference point, his investigations of line, volume, color, texture, shape, and form are imbued with a sense of spirituality and informed by a deep intellectual curiosity. Language, spatial relationship, and scale are also central concerns for the artist, who maintains an acute awareness for the viewer’s aesthetic experience.

Richard Tuttle’s work is held in nearly every collection worldwide, including in Europe at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; the National Gallery of Art, DC; Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

Richard Tuttle currently has a show up at Pace Gallery, February 7th- March 15th.

Interview with Richard Tuttle: http://bombsite.com/issues/41/articles/1580

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Sangram Majumdar was born in Kolkata, India and received an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.  He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  Since 2003 he has been teaching painting and drawing full time at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY.

Sangram Majumdar is a studio-based painter whose work is rooted in careful and daily observation of his surroundings.  Done from perception and over multiple sessions, his subject ranges from found and fabricated objects, to people who are both familiar and strange, and the studio itself. Some of the paintings hold on to their naturalistic origins, an echo of the original experience. In others, the once found object or seen moment is transformed in favor of a place that is neither/or and both here and there.

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Sangram Majumdar talking about his work.