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In Our Masthead: Noah Fischer

by Art Fag City on June 16, 2008

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Noah Fischer, Pop Ark, 2008. Installation detail.

Noah Fischer Biography

Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based sculptor originally from the San Francisco Bay area. The artist primarily experiments with lo-tec lighting effects, which has lead to a unique body of photographs as well as sculptural light shows that remix narrative elements from TV, movies, theater, and the internet. After attending Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1999) and Columbia University (MFA 2004), Fischer received a Fulbright to the Netherlands where he began an ongoing collaboration with the theatre group andcompany&Co (now based in Berlin) as set designer and performer. Together they have produced three performances to date including the currently touring Time Republic which premiered at the Steirischer Herbst festival in Austria in September 2007. Noah Fischer’s first solo show, Rhetoric Machine, opened at the Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery in New York in November 2006, and his next exhibition, Monitor, will open at the Claire Oliver Gallery in October 2008.

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In Our Masthead: Josh Bernstein

by Art Fag City on May 27, 2008


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Josh Bernstein, Depressa Resurgit, 2008 [Detail]

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Josh Bernstein, Depressa Resurgit, 2008, 12″ x 72″, blockprints and photographs on maple (click on image to enlarge)

Josh Bernstein Biography

Josh Bernstein was born in Hanover, NH and grew up in Montreal and New Hampshire. In 2000 he received his BA from Amherst College with concentrations in Fine Arts and Physics. In 2008 he received his MFA from Mason Gross School of Art. He currently lives and works in New Jersey.

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In Our Masthead: Sarah McKenzie

by Art Fag City on May 13, 2008

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Sarah McKenzie, Site, 2007, 48 x 72 inches

Sarah McKenzie Biography

Sarah McKenzie received her BA from Yale and her MFA in Painting from the University of Michigan. She is based in Colorado, and is represented in Denver by Robischon Gallery. In 2006, she was the first place winner of the National Young Painters Competition, hosted by Miami University of Ohio. Past exhibitions include the Katonah Museum of Art, the University of Akron, the Bemis Center, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. McKenzie‘s work is currently on view in the exhibition “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” at the Walker Art Center, and in the exhibition “This Modern World” at the General Electric World Headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut

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In Our Masthead: Tema Stauffer

by Art Fag City on April 30, 2008

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Tema Stauffer, Ward Bond, “Wagon Train”, Hollywood, CA, April 2007

Artist Biography

Tema Stauffer is a photographer based in Brooklyn. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 and received a MFA in Photography from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. Her work has been shown in galleries and art institutions in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego, Philadelphia, New York City and Rouchechoart, France. Her solo exhibition “American Stills” was shown at Jen Bekman Gallery in 2004, where she has also participated in seven group shows. The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College selected fifteen images from this body of work for their Midwest Photographers Project. Tema has been featured twice on 20×200, (here and here), and she teaches at The School of the International Center of Photography.

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In Our Masthead: Kristi Kent

by Art Fag City on April 7, 2008

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Kristi Kent, Taj, 2003, paint, birch plywood, monofilament, 17 inches x 23 inches x 23 inches.

Kristi Kent Biography
Kristi Kent is an artist based in Brooklyn. In her a search for a B.A., she attended Florida State University, University of Arkansas, (at both Little Rock and BeeBe), University of Minnesota, SCI-ARC (Southern California Institute of Architecture) and Otis College of Art and Design. In 2005, she received her MFA from Yale School of Art and was awarded the Barry Schactman Prize for Painting. Her exhibitions include: Carl Berg Gallery, Korean Cultural Center (LA), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Kaus Australis and Art Affairs in the Netherlands. Most recently, her work was shown at Jail Gallery in Los Angeles.

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In Our Masthead: John Michael Boling

by Art Fag City on March 25, 2008

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John Michael Boling, Untitled, gif.

Artist Biography

John Michael Boling is an artist and internet user living in Athens, GA. He was born in 1983 in Rome, GA. He is the creator of http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/ and was a founding member of http://www.nastynets.com

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In Our Masthead: Tom Moody

by Art Fag City on February 12, 2008

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Tom Moody, OptiDisc, animated GIF.

Tom Moody Biography

Tom Moody is an artist and musician based in New York City. His low-tech art made with simple paint programs, photocopiers, and/or consumer printers has been exhibited at artMovingProjects in New York as well as galleries and museums in the US, UK, and Europe. He is interviewed in the film /8 BIT/, a documentary about “chip” art and music, and his blog (http://tommoody.us), commenced in February 2001, was recommended in the 2005 /Art in America/ article “Art in the Blogosphere.” A CD of his music collaborations with earcon (John Parker) was released last year under the title /Scratch Ambulance/. Most recently his work appeared in “Bitmap: As Good As New” at vertexList Gallery in New York.

Masthead image: Tom Moody, OptiDisc (Fragment), 2008, animated GI

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In Our Masthead: Rene Smith

by Paddy Johnson on January 28, 2008
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Rene Smith, Permanent Garden 48 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas. 2007

Rene Smith Biography

René Smith received her M.F.A. in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome and her B.A. in Painting from Bennington College in Vermont. She has exhibited her work in a variety of galleries and non-profit spaces, including recent exhibitions at Deiglan Gallery in Akureyri, Iceland, Brooklyn Arts Council, Project Diversity Queens at Koreavillage in Flushing, and The Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. She has attended residencies at the Gil-Society in Iceland and Vermont Studio Center, and her work was featured in the latest northeastern edition of New American Paintings. She lives and works in Long Island City, Queens.

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In Our Masthead: Danielle Mysliwiec

by Art Fag City on December 17, 2007

Danielle Mysliwiec, Interlock
Danielle Mysliwiec, Interlock

Danielle Mysliwiec Biography

Danielle Mysliwiec was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and now lives and works as a painter in Brooklyn, New York. She complete her undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University and moved to New York in 1998, where she then received her MFA degree from Hunter College. In addition to painting, Mysliwiec is a co-founder of Brainstormers, a feminist performance group. In her current series of oil paintings she constructs highly textured surfaces that create the illusion of woven structures and unraveling moments.

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In Our Masthead: Rebecca Loyche

by Art Fag City on November 19, 2007

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Rebecca Loyche, In the Attic, 2006, 24 x 18 inches, digital print

Rebecca Loyche grew up on horse farms in Upstate New York and moved to New York City in 1997. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art at Pratt Institute in Sculpture in 2001 and in 2006 she received her Masters of Fine Art in Combined Media at Hunter College. Recently accepted into the 2008 Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace program, Rebecca Loyche lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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