DIKE BLAIR
was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1952. He studied at the University of Colorado, the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and at Skowhegan (’74) before receiving his M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977. He is also a writer and a professor at RISD. In 2009, he was the subject of a ten-year survey at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Public collections include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum, New York. Blair’s work has been widely honored—he has recently been awarded the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. More ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN
is a painter who works across varied media, while fundamentally drawing upon conventions embedded in painting practices. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally, has written about art and artists, and lectures at universities, project spaces, and foundations throughout the United States and abroad. Her works are represented in numerous public and private collections. Recent awards and grants include an Anonymous Was a Woman grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. Feinstein has been the Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale University School of Art since 1995. More KATE GILMORE
is an installation, video, and performance-based artist. Selected exhibitions include the 2010 Whitney Biennial, as well as exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The J. Paul Getty Museum; Istanbul Museum of Art; and PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center. Gilmore has been the recipient of several international awards and honors, such as the Rome Prize, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award for Artistic Excellence. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum. More VIRGIL MARTI
creates hybrid objects and environments informed by a wide range of art-historical and pop-cultural references. His work was included in The Jewel Thief at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, the La Biennale de Montréal , and the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Recent collaborative projects and solo shows include Set Pieces at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and Directions: Virgil Marti/Pae White at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC. Marti has received fellowships from the Pew Foundation and Art Matters, as well as the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. More CAULEEN SMITH
was a participant at Skowhegan in 2007 and received her BA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from UCLA School of Theater-Television-Film. Smith has produced multi-channel film and video installations that incorporate sculptural objects and text and explore her roots and interest in structuralist filmmaking and afro-futurist narrative strategies. Smith’s feature film, Drylongso, earned a 2001 Movado Someone to Watch Award from the Independent Spirit Awards. With Creative Capital’s sponsorship, Smith produced Remote Viewing, a series of digital videos that re-enact historical instances in which traumatic human gestures of negation resemble earth sculpture or land arts. More HUMA BHABHA
uses found materials and constructed forms to rework the familiarity of everyday objects into creepy inventions. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Bhabha is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A.) and Columbia University (M.F.A.). Her work was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial; After Nature at the New Museum, NY; and in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. In 2012, Bhabha will have her first solo show at PS 1. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, NY; and the Saatchi Gallery. More PETER CAMPUS
is known for his pioneering interactive and single channel video work of the early 1970s, as well as an extensive body of photographic and digital video works to the present day. He studied experimental psychology at Ohio State University, and after military service, he studied film editing. Campus achieved rapid acclaim for a series of seminal video works that explored issues of identity/reality and subversion of the relationship between the viewer and the work. Campus’ work is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim; the Tate; and most recently at Cristin Tierney, New York. More OMER FAST
works with film, video, and television footage to examine how individuals and histories interact with each other in narrative. Born in Jerusalem, he received his B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in 1995 and an M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2000. His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum; The Berlin Biennale; the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; GB Agency, Paris; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Basel. Fast is the recipient of many awards including the 2009 Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst, the Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney. More LOUISE FISHMAN
has been painting since 1956. Fishman studied at several Philadelphia art schools, quitting each one after a year or so. In 1963, Fishman went to graduate school in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, and completed her degree in 1965. She has been painting for 50 years, with no regrets and no doubts about the viability of this activity. Fishman’s work has been shown at museums and galleries internationally and she has received numerous awards and grants including the Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. More ARLENE SHECHET
is a sculptor currently using clay and glaze as her materials of investigation. Working with forms that float, lean, and barely balance, the clay leaves a physical guide to her process, and non-traditional glazes—in a slightly uncomfortable and elusive range of colors and textures—add complexity and dissonance. As the work is fired, the heat of the kiln melts glaze into clay, permitting color to become form, thus combining the languages of painting and sculpture. Shechet has been widely honored, receiving awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. More DEBORAH HAY
was born in 1941 in Brooklyn and now lives in Austin, Texas. Hay was one the founders of the Judson Dance Theatre in New York and is acknowledged by critics and historians as one of the most relevant and influential choreographers of experimental dance today. In addition to being a dancer and choreographer, Hay is also a writer. In October 2009 the Theater Academy in Helsinki, Finland, conferred on Hay an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Dance. In 2010 she became a USA Friends Fellow in Dance, and in 2011 she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in NYC. More |
