CAITLIN HURD

CAITLIN HURD /// STATEMENT
Intrigued by the particulars of the American dream, my work questions the expectations of the culture in which I grew up. Using a painting vocabulary rooted in modernist, figurative tradition, I explore what it means to be conditioned towards the idealized nuclear family and traditional work-life,and what happens when one deviates. The bright color establishes a dreamlike quality, while I employ images of suburban and rural landscapes, domesticity, unmoored, floating bodies and sleepwalkers to symbolically weigh the promises of happiness and predictability against the more complicated realities.



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JOE KESROUANI

JOE KESROUANI
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1968, JOE KESROUANI studied architecture in Paris and learned painting and photography on his own.

He started taking pictures in the mid-1980s, at the age of fourteen. His dramatic, high-contrast black-and-white photographs are charged with confident sexuality, and the subjects of his portraits loom large on his prints with visceral, extroverted expressions that take patience, intimacy, and will to elicit.

He currently lives and works in Beirut where he divides his time between photography and painting.
Between 1993 and 2011, joe Kesrouani has had both solo and group exhibits in Beirut, Dubai, London and Paris.

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BARTOSZ KOLATA

BARTOSZ KOLATA /// Before and behind the scenes

As Bartosz once put it there is such a massive onslaught of cruel and violent scenes blurring the line between reality and unreality that our sensibility has been weakened. With this new body of work, Bartosz is taking us "behind the scenes" where acts of violence are taking or have taken place.


But as always with Bartosz’s work the story - the true menace behind the scene - can be found in the details, the hints he leaves for us on the canvas. We must stand and stare for while, unravel the story for ourselves, go behind the scenes. Unless we pay attention, we don’t really see their dark side.

Motorways feature prominently in this body of work. For Bartosz they are symbols of the world we live in. We all go about our business at an accelerated pace, heedless of the human tragedies happening on the sidelines, unaware of misdeeds carried out around the corner or across the street, by the canal, in someone's back garden, on the fringes of society or in the leafy suburban areas.

Another important aspect in this body of work is the use of dripping paint, a technique used by 20th century abstract expressionists. For Bartosz this is a metaphor of the transience of time as well as an expression of the indelible traces that human interaction and violence leave behind.

Death is however an inseparable part of life and the striking use of grey in some of the paintings reveal images from the past. Bartosz shows us the invisible stains of death and violence that linger like ghosts in scenes from everyday life. He reminds us that just because we didn’t see it, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Look at the young man in the foreground of what seems to be a peaceful university campus. His tragedy lingers as students sit by a lake under a cloudless sky. Or is his story unfolding as the students sit in the background? But why is society not watching?

With Bartosz's work we keep asking ourselves questions and trying to find possible answers. This is what Bartosz wants us to do, to continue the untold stories or reinterpret them with the clues he has given us. (Olivier Cornet, Artist’s agent, 18 March 2011)


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MICHAEL SHILEGEL

MICHAEL SHILEGEL
BORN 1987, living and working in Berlin, Germany.



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BART MICHIELS

BART MICHIELS
Born and raised in Belgium, BART MICHIELS moved to New York after graduating from St. Lucas College of Art in Brussels and receiving a BFA in Photography.

Soon after, he embarked on extensive travelling in the American South producing a trilogy of work : Southern Trilogy from wich Riverworks won The Project Competition First Prize in 1995.

While The Course of History was still an ongoing project, it was selected for the Art and Commerce Festival in 2004. Michiels was a finalist for The Santa Fe Prize for Photography in 2006 and for the HSBC Prix de la Photography in 2010.
His work is represented in Europe by 51 Fine Art, Antwerp and in New York by Foley gallery and is part of several museum and private collections.

He lives and works in New York and Antwerp.

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JOHN BROSIO

JOHN BROSIO
EDUCATION
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Instructors included Richard Bunkall, Ray Turner, and David Limrite
1992, 1993, 1995

University of California at Davis
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Instructors included David Hollowell, Wayne Thiebaud, and Robert Arneson
1991


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MELODIE PROVENZANO

MELODIE PROVENZANO is inspired by objects, the way they look, and the emotions that they suggest. Each balanced still-life world that this artist builds, and then renders, all resonate with something true inside of her. Little toy apples suggest a traditional still-life, a miniature plaster head suggests classical art history, and the toy microphone is an instrument to project meaning and expression louder for everyone to hear. Her meticulous drawings and paintings create mock dramas that build narrative momentum when the audience assigns meaning to their relationships. Provenzano is represented by Lions Wier Gallery and has exhibited in numerous national group shows and art fairs. Her talent has been commissioned by Chanel, DKNY, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and for various album covers. She was born in Hudson, NY and currently lives and works in New York.


MELODIE PROVENZANO
EDUCATION
1996 B.F.A. Parsons School of Design



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