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Virgil Marti Spring 2008
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Virgil Marti is an artist known for his installations that explore cultural dialogues between art and decoration, aesthetics and taste, with a wry sensibility and sophisticated design sense. He is a native of St Louis, Missouri, and received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University; he also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  He has received many national honors, including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (1995); a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship (1997); and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997). Marti's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Hishhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; White Columns, New York; Thread Waxing Space, New York; and Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.  In 2004, Marti was included in Whitney Biennial and Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

New York Times review
James Rosenthal review


James Hyde Fall 2007
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James Hyde lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  Over the course of his extensive career, Hyde has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally.  Solo exhibitions include Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Bourges, France; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; San Diego Museum of Art, California; Brent Sikkema, New York; Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France: and Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France, to name just a few.  Hyde’s work is held in several museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; and the Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland.  Hyde was the 2000-2001 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and the 2000 Lansdowne Lecturer at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  He is currently represented by Sikkema Jenkins gallery in New York and Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann in Zurich, Switzerland.


ARTnews article
New Yorker review
James Hyde’s ArtSite

Bruce Pearson Spring 2007
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Bruce Pearson attended the San Francisco Art Institute and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  He is represented in New York by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and has been showing there in solo exhibitions since 1999.  His work has been included in numerous exhibitions in venues around the country and world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1998; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Miami Art Museum in Miami, Florida; and the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium.  Bruce Pearson has was also invited to teach at the Skowhegan Residency for Advanced Visual Arts after he had attended the program himself in 2001.

Art in America review

ARTnews review


Sebastiaan Bremer Fall 2006
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Sebastiaan Bremer is a Dutch artist living and working in New York the last 10 years.  He has recently had solo shows at Roebling Hall, New York City (2006), Radobank Collectie-Gemeente Museum, The Hague 2005 and Air de Paris, Paris (2004). Forthcoming group shows include The Past in the Present (curated by Frank van der Stok) at the Fotomuseum Rotterdam (2007) and The Photograph as Canvas, (curated by Stephan Maine) at The Aldrich Gallery, NY (2007). Bremer has recently been included in The Invisible Museum, (curated by Devon Dikeou) at the Denver Museum (2006), Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London (2004) and the Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, Queens, NY, curated by Bob Nickas (2004).


Art in America review
New York Times review


Joanne Greenbaum Spring 2006
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Joanne Greenbaum is a New York artist that is represented in New York by D’Amelio Terras gallery and in London by greengrassi, She was included in the Saatchi Gallery’s Triumph of Painting: Abstract America, the Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, Queens, NY, curated by Bob Nickas (2004), and has shown at numerous other institutions around the world.  Upcoming one person exhibitions include the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas in 2007, Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany and Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland in 2008.

New York Times review
Artist Interview


Diana Cooper Fall 2005
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Diana Cooper received her BA from Harvard College in 1986 and her MFA from Hunter College in 1997, she lives and works in New York City.  Diana Cooper's works have been shown extensively in Europe and the US. In  2003-04 she was a recipient of the Rome Prize as well as an artist-in-resident at the Center for Drawing at the Wimbledon School of Art. She has recently had solo shows at the Center for Drawing in London and at the Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles. She has participated in group shows  at the Museum St. Gallen in Switzerland, the Drawing Room in London and the Brooklyn Museum. In addition, she has shown at Hales Gallery in London, Galerie Anne de Villepoix in Paris and Galerie Staub in Zurich. In the United States Cooper has exhibited at  P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Center in New York, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, New York, Rice University Art Gallery in Houston and numerous other institutions. She will also be having a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007.

New York Times review
ArtForum review
www.dianacooper.net


Virgil Marti Spring 2005
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Virgil Marti is an artist known for his installations that explore cultural dialogues between art and decoration, aesthetics and taste, with a wry sensibility and sophisticated design sense. He is a native of St Louis, Missouri, and received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University; he also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  He has received many national honors, including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (1995); a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship (1997); and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997). Marti's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Hishhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; White Columns, New York; Thread Waxing Space, New York; and Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.  In 2004, Marti was included in Whitney Biennial and Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

New York Times review
James Rosenthal review