Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1966. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master glassblowers Ronald Wilkins, Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson, and Lino Tagliapietra. McElheny creates finely-crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of photographs, Josiah McElheny??s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Josiah McElheny lives and works in New York City.
Matthew Ritchie
Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England in 1964. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London and attended Boston University. His artistic mission attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchie??s encyclopedic project stems from his imagination, and is catalogued in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judaeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific principles. Matthew Ritchie lives and works in New York City.
Susan_Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York in 1945. She received a BFA from Cornell University. The first body of work for which she became known centered on lifesized images of horses. Glyph-like and iconic, these images are not so much abstracted as pared down to their most essential elements. Susan Rothenberg lives and works in New Mexico.
Jessica
Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle, Washington in 1959. She studied painting at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and received an MFA from Yale University. Stockholder is a pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations. Her site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Stockholder's complex installations incorporate the architecture in which they have been conceived, blanketing the floor, scaling walls and ceiling, and even spilling out of windows, through doors, and into the surrounding landscape. Jessica Stockholder lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948. Central to Sugimoto's work is the idea that photography is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing memory and time. This theme provides the defining principle of his ongoing series of photographs. Sugimoto sees with the eye of the sculptor, painter, architect, and philosopher. He uses his camera in a myriad of ways to create images that seem to convey his subjects' essence, whether architectural, sculptural, painterly, or of the natural world. Hiroshi Sugimoto lives and works in New York City and Tokyo.
Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle was born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1941. He received a BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Although most of Tuttle's prolific artistic output since he began his career in the 1960s has taken the form of three-dimensional objects, he commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice (defined by grand heroic gestures, monumental scale, and the 'macho' materials of steel, marble, and bronze) and instead creates small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble, even 'pathetic' materials such as paper, rope, string, cloth, wire, and plywood. Richard Tuttle lives and works in New Mexico and New York City
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson was born in the Bronx, New York in 1954. He received a BFA from SUNY/Purchase. Wilson creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting, and nontraditional pairings of objects. His installations lead viewers to recognize that changes in context create changes in meaning. While appropriating curatorial methods and strategies, Wilson maintains his subjective view of the museum environment. He questions?and forces the viewer to question?how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and the language of display, and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express. Fred Wilson lives and works in New York City.
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko was born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland. Since 1980 he has created large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural facades and monuments worldwide. By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. In 1996 he added sound and motion to the projections and began to collaborate with communities around chosen projections cites, giving voice to the concerns of heretofore marginalized and silent citizens. Krzysztof Wodiczko lives in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
