Sandra Perry

Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn based artist whose drawing, installation, text-based work, and collaborations suggest and excavate buried narratives typically absent from official canons of history, literature, and art. Ganesh graduated from Brown University with a BA in Comparative Literature and ArtSemiotics, and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2002.

She has held residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York University, Headlands Center for the Arts, Smack Mellon Studios, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, among others. Her works have been widely exhibited across the United States including at the Queens Museum, Asia Society(New York), Berkeley Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (California), and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, with solo presentations at PS1/MOMA (New York), and The Andy Warhol museum (Pittsburgh). Ganesh is the recipient numerous awards and fellowships including the Art Matters Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation for Painting and Sculpture, and a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Creative Arts. 

You can see her solo exhibition Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Herstory Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum until July 12th.

http://artforum.com/words/id=49752

http://hyperallergic.com/170531/brooklyn-museum-mural-irks-self-appointedspokesman-for-all-hindus/

Studio Visits: Julia and Filip

PERFORMANCE IS A CRAFT and not a right, as some artists and related others would have audiences think. Artist/performer Aki Sasamoto, however, is a rare example of someone for whom performance is both craft and right, and her latest show… is yet more proof of her uncommon expertise over this slippery medium. — Jennifer Krasinski, Artforum

Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, dance and whatever other medium it takes to get her ideas across. In her installation/performance works, Sasamoto moves and talks inside the careful arrangements ofsculpturally-altered objects to activate the bizarre emotions behind daily life.  Her works appear in gallery spaces, theater spaces and in odd sites. These works have been shown at the Kitchen, Chocolate Factory Theater, Soloway, Whitney Biennial 2010 at Whitney Museum, Greater New York 2010 atMOMA-PS1, New York; Mori Museum, Take Ninagawa, YokohamaTriennale 2008, Japan; Gwangju Biennial 2012, South Korea; and numerous other international and domestic venues. She has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, choreographers, mathematicians and scholars. She is also a co-founder of the nonprofit interdisciplinary organization, Culture Push Inc.

Sasamoto received her BFA for Wesleyan University in 2004 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2007.  She is currently an assistant professor of sculpture at the Mason Gross School of the Art at Rutgers University.

Reviews

http://artforum.com/picks/id=49277
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/aki-sasamoto/\

Work

http://pica.org/event/aki-sasamoto-2/
http://cargocollective.com/akisasamoto

Studio Visit Lottery Winners:

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Checkout Nick van Woert’s website here!

Informed by his background in architecture and driven by a fascination with antiquity, Nick van Woert claims to “hijack” the art historical past to create his striking, wry sculptures. A strong sense of history—both natural and human—unites his prolific output. He cites Vitruvius, the early Roman architect who was inspired by nature, as a significant influence. Like an urban archaeologist, van Woert combs through the convenience stores, factories, and dumpsters in Brooklyn to source materials for his sculptures, which he then re-presents in elegant works like Home and Garden (2011). In this work, van Woert fills transparent rectangular containers with a colorful assortment of consumer and industrial products—including Kool-Aid, a Dunkin Donuts billboard, salt, and hair gel—and stacks the containers to form two perpendicular walls that look like exposed geological strata.

Nick van Woert (born 1979) is an American artist from Reno, Nevada. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He studied architecture (BArch) at the University of Oregon and Fine Arts (MFA) at Parsons the New School for Design in New York.

All-Star Cast: Up-And-Comer Nick Van Woert’s Sculptures Get Inside Your Head

Now Showing | Nick van Woert’s ‘No Man’s Land’

Faux-Finished to the Core: Q+A With Nick Van Woert

Jenny Cho and Ektor Garcia won the studio visit lottery, congrats y’all!

Tomas Vu-Daniel

Tomas Vu-Daniel received a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso and an M.F.A. from Yale University. His work has recently been exhibited in “Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York; “Boston High Tea: Master Print Series” at the Sunshine Museum in Songzhuang, China; and “Organische Abstraction” at the Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Black Ice in New York, Flatlands I and Flatlands II in Milan and Rome, and Opium Dreams at the Museum Haus Kasuya in Yokuska, Japan. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship award in 2001.

http://san-art.org/producer/tomas-vu-daniel/

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, his exhibition there consisted of a pirate radio (with instructions on how to make one for yourself). Tiravanija
was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/rirkrit-tiravanija/