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The Artists
Daniel Bilodeau
Daniel Bilodeau ’ s contemporary figurative oil paintings explore the human sense of self. In these surprising works people rendered in detail navigate the limitations and freedoms associated with self inquiry.
Sarasota, Florida. BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Studied at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He most recently exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to benefit the Chelsea College MFA program and at Art Hamptons with Miami's 101/Exhibit.
Emily Bowser
Emily Bowser examines the subtle details in common, domestic environments that are typically overlooked. Her sculptures, installations and performance pieces incorporate pop related imagery through application of repetition, excess and multiplicity, such as a simple plaid pattern, to challenge viewers to revisit their perceptions of present society.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. BFA in Sculpture and BA in English from Pennsylvania State University. MFA (with Honors) in Sculpture and MA in Sculpture from University of Iowa. Most recently participated in Spectrum: Contemporary Color Abstraction at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Delaware.
Jackie Brown
Poised between the real and the imagined, Jackie Brown's recent work is installation-based and consists of hyper-organic forms that imply growth, movement and expansion. She aims for the work to be electrically charged, conveying a feverish sense of immediacy and vitality. Linear elements reach out into space and undulate between forms, while gelatinous parts ooze and drip from bulbous masses.
Princeton, New Jersey. MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. BA from Hamilton College. Studied abroad at University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Recently exhibited at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will be exhibiting at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Delaware in 2011.
Chelsea Coon
By depicting the lives of stars, Chelsea Coon describes both the creation and destruction of the dust particles which are believed to be the origin of life. She places various materials onto her paintings and leaving only the outline resin to address the constant search for understanding of our creation and the need to find purpose for our existence.
New Milford, Connecticut. Currently attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Awarded first place in the Ceramic Sculpture category from the Kent Art Association in 2008. Most recently exhibited in the Kent Art Association, Spring Show.
Lucy Engleman
Lucy Engelman ’ s work comes out of an interest in the stories not told, the secrets not passed down, and the narratives that do not dominate. Her large scale sculptures involve domestic materials as well as color and texture to metaphorically break apart the containers that suppress these stories, and to shed light on our limited collective memory.
Oberlin, Ohio. Currently seeking BA from Oberlin College. Studie at Hellenic International School of the Arts, in Paros, Greece. Most recently exhibited in Perfection is a Trifle Dull at Fisher Gallery.
Alida Frey
Alida Frey investigates themes of contradiction, between eroticism and innocence, ecstasy and melancholy, fantasy and reality, the individual and every woman. Through her depictions of the female figure, she seeks complete surrender to these moments of voyeurism, selfindulgence and decadence. The figure is the lady of the canyon, the captain of the ship, and the leader of the pack.
Brooklyn, New York. BFA in Painting from Boston University College of Fine Art, Liberal Arts Minor in Art History. Most recently exhibited in Lost in Sound at Station 171 in Brooklyn, New York.
Sophie Grant
Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Sophie Grant ’ s drawings, prints and paintings evoke the states between connection and isolation, pain and paralysis, loss and regrowth. Manipulating such materials as graphite, ink, acetone transfer and octopus arms, the controlled gestures that emerge stem from a desire to see and depict things distinct and suspended, both threatening and in peril.
New York, New York. BA from University of California, Santa Barbara, Honors Thesis in Studio Art, concentration in Painting and Drawing, Art History Minor. Accent Rome Center, EAP Art History Program in Rome, Italy. Most recently exhibited at Illustrious, Spark Contemporary Art Space, and Mireille Mosler Ltd., throughout New York.
Jennifer Gunlock
Jennifer Gunlock ’ s mixed media drawings demonstrate her fascination with tense relationship between human-constructed and naturally occurring forms. Each architectonic drawing develops by collaging and transferring disparate photographic elements followed by obscuring and re-rendering these images to fabricate an imaginary structure. The result is a hybridized tree, it ’ s body fused with bone, stone, and branch.
Studio City, California. MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University. BA in Fine Art from California State Polytechnic University. Most recently participated in ProVISIONal Art at Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Ana, California.
Jakub Makalowski
Jakub Makalowski ’ s interest in the human condition reveals itself with his whimsical extrapolation of pop culture and the figure. Materiality, pathos and the absurd are typical components of his sculpture, installation and stop-motion animation, whether the form is rendered in plaster, chocolate or resin.
State College, Pennsylvania. BFA from Pennsylvania State University, concentration in Sculpture. Awarded the Brian Beltzer Scholarship in 2008. Most recently participated in the Art Alliance Studio and Gallery's 2010 Juried Group Exhibition.
Susannah Mira
Susannah Mira's most recent work is based on altering and re-contextualizing common objects and environments. Taking the form of sculptural installation, she employs both available materials and humor to highlight different perspectives on themes like fabrication, resourcefulness, and development.
La Union, New Mexico. MA in Environmental Art from University of Art and Design in Helinski, Finland. Most recently exhibited in Return to Scale at Forum Art+Culture in El Paso, Texas.
Misako Oba
The encaustic mixed media work of Misako Oba presents a metaphor for human life as a journey. In these pieces she collages re-written calligraphy of 9th century Japanese poems while at the same time investing her own emotional content, which together express the universal themes of sorrow, loneliness and frustration as well as hope and love.
New York, New York. Master Program/Graduate Level Coursework in Journalism at Marshall University. Studied at Speos in Paris, France, International Center of Photography in New York. Most recently exhibited at Rogue Space Chelsea in New York.
Yuka Otani
Yuka Otani ’ s sculptures and installations incorporate transparent and fluid materials such as glass, water, melted sugar and light to invoke a shift in a viewer ’ s perception of physical and cognitive spaces. The vulnerable materials change their appearance over time, thereby simultaneously emphasizing both presence and absence.
New York, New York. MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. BFA from Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Recently exhibited at Pepper's Gallery in Toyko, Japan and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, in Houston, Texas.