ANOKA FARUQEE
is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her paintings are created slowly and deliberately, one handmade pixel at a time, but the monotony of repetition yields the possibility of complexity and even spontaneity. Modular color and shape mimic the fragmentation of experience inherent in our human attempts to understand phenomena. The work embodies digital and natural processes. She has exhibited her work widely and currently teaches painting and critical theory at California Institute of the Arts, where she is Co-Director of the Art Program. Faruqee attended Skowhegan in 1995. More MARTIN KERSELS
is a Los Angeles-based artist working on the fringes of sculpture, performance, and photography. His work ranges from the collaborative performances of the 80s and 90s with the group SHRIMPS to large-scale sculptures, to intimate musical instruments. Leslie Dick has written that "Kersels' work is articulated around his own 'being in the world'—so big, so flawed, so vulnerable, so ridiculous, so strong. (His) work is profoundly anti-authoritarian, proposing the artist as bricoleur, as autodidact, pursuing idiosyncratic, individual research to find out what he needs for his specific purpose." Kersels is currently co-Director of the Program in Art at California Institute of the Arts. More CARRIE MOYER
is a Brooklyn-based painter and writer. She is known for paintings that merge the gestures of mid-century abstraction with the political iconography of 20th-century radical graphics. She is also one half of Dyke Action Machine! a public art project she founded with photographer Sue Schaffner in 1991. Her paintings and public interventions have been widely exhibited and reviewed nationally and internationally. Moyer is a regular contributor to art journals including Art in America, and Modern Painters. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design where she is the coordinator of the Graduate Painting Program. Moyer attended Skowhegan in 1995. More PAUL PFEIFFER
makes videos, photos, and sculptures that address the many problematic aspects of present and future worlds dominated by astonishing revolutions in visual representation. His transformation of images and objects from televised sporting and media events, fashion photography, and Hollywood movies prompts us to reconsider conventional attitudes about issues of the body, race, identity, faith, and architectural space in contemporary society. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has received numerous awards and fellowships, most recently the Alpert Award for Visual Arts (2009). Pfeiffer is on Skowhegan’s Board of Governors. More ARTHUR SIMMS
creates work that is rich with associations to his hybrid autobiography, art history, music, politics, and world culture. His human-scale sculptures investigate concepts of origin and transformation and narrate stories of personal identity, family, spiritual and physical journeys, erotic tensions, and nostalgia for home. His work has been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, P.S.1 MoMA, and the Queens Museum among others. Honors he has received include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Tiffany Award. Simms’ work was featured at the 2001 Venice Biennial representing his homeland of Jamaica. More SANFORD BIGGERS
uses the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to explore cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics. An accomplished musician, Biggers often incorporates performative elements into his sculptures and installations, resulting in multilayered works that act as anecdotal vignettes, at once full of wit and clear formal intent. His installations, videos, and performances have appeared in venues throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Biggers currently teaches in the Virginia Commonwealth University Sculpture and Expanded Media Program and is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. He attended Skowhegan 1999. More DARA BIRNBAUM
makes provocative video works that are among the most influential contributions to contemporary discourse on art and television. Birnbaum applies low-and high-end video technology to deconstruct and subvert the power of mass media images and gestures. The critique implicit in her work defines and deconstructs mythologies of culture, history, and memory in popular media. Her work is shown in galleries and museums worldwide, but also within expanded networks of distribution including television, radio, film festivals, clubs, and within dynamic public spaces. More DINH Q. LÊ
was born in Ha-Tien, Vietnam, in 1968 and studied art in the U.S. His video, sculpture, and signature photo-weavings explore memory and mythology, especially in relation to the way in which the American-Vietnam war and the Khmer Rouge regime have been represented in media, government propaganda, historical records, and by individuals. Through metaphor and manipulated documentary footage, Lê interweaves imagery of sacred iconography, recent natural disasters, twentieth- and twenty-first century warfare, ubiquitous brand labels, and present-day living conditions in Vietnam. His work has been shown internationally. Lê also co-founded Vietnam Art Foundation and San Art, a nonprofit gallery in Ho Chi Minh City where he currently lives. More CATHERINE OPIE
has produced a complex body of photographic work, creating series of images that explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of queer subcultures to her expansive urban landscapes, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined, all the while maintaining a strict formal rigor. Last year the Guggenheim Museum, New York, mounted a major mid-career survey of her work entitled Catherine Opie: American Photographer. Opie lives and works in Los Angeles. More DANA SCHUTZ
is a New York-based painter whose work depicts activities that precede an event, making visible the pictorial moment, frozen and deferred, before an image comes into being and form becomes manifest. Schutz treats the picture as a material, a malleable situation where the rearrangement of objects is implied. Bodies are props and seem to have come from a previous context. As Schutz shows us around the sunny and anxious territory of her most recent fiction, the paintings unmake themselves in front of us. Her work has been shown internationally. Schutz attended Skowhegan in 1999. More TEDDY CRUZ
is an architect whose groundbreaking work integrates research, theory, and design production to create architecture, interiors, furniture, installations, public art, and landscape interventions in a context that embraces the complexities of cultural exchange and the potential for design to transform urban policy. He is widely recognized for his collaboration with nonprofit community-based organizations to create affordable housing solutions and support the development of a rich civic life, and has received many awards for projects on both sides of the border. He is currently an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego. More |
