Brendan CarrollBrendan Carroll was born in Kendall Park, New Jersey, in 1974. He received his BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, in 1996. He has exhibited his work at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; Leubsdorf Art Gallery (Hunter College), New York, NY; and The Center for the Book Arts, New York, NY. His work has been featured in several periodicals, including The New York Times, Village Voice, Time Out New York, Conveyer, When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, and No Milk Today. He has participated in AIM 28 (Artist in the Marketplace) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. He received Geraldine Dodge Grant for NJ Artists to attend the Vermont Studio Center in 2001.
In Brendan Carroll’s personal work, as well as in his collaborative work, Jersey City, New Jersey, is both subject and object; its streets are his studio, laboratory, and theater. His materials are accessible and utilitarian: the Polaroid Point & Shoot 600 camera and the Remington Sperry-Rand typewriter. He has produced five collections of Polaroid photographs, the most recent being Black Coffee, No Sugar, a collection of 200 Polaroid photographs of Jersey City begun in 2003. He types anecdotes in the lower white margin of each Polaroid. The anecdotes are derived from his personal memory, other people's memories, from actual events, or from his imagination. He co-founded Agitators Collective, a collaborative art project, in 2006. Agitators Collective creates site-related installations in urban locales that have fallen into neglect or dereliction in Jersey City. They produce colorful art in dead public spaces to make people—particularly those who have not had the opportunity or the luxury to set foot in an art gallery or museum—think about their space differently.
Margarida Correia
Margarida Correia was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and regularly exhibits her work in both New York and Portugal. Her recent solo shows include Things, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY and Gallery 111, Lisbon, Porto, Portugal; and Saudade, Gallery Monumental, Lisbon, Portugal and Real Art Ways, Harford, CT. She has also exhibited at Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY; Print Center Philadelphia, PA, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. She has also participated in the exhibition Photography Now as artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY in 2005. Correia is the recipient of the Aaron Siskind Scholarship and grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso American Foundation, and the Portuguese Center for Photography. She held an A.I.R. Fellowship in 2007 and participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She recently presented a public Art project with Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Correia lives and works in New York.
Takashi Horisaki
Takashi Horisaki was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1974. Horisaki’s practice is a sculptural exploration of surfaces and the histories contained within their layers. Working with materials ranging from liquid latex and paint to plastic, wood, paper, and rudimentary electronics, he designs performative systems and object-making processes that become metaphors for the effects of time on our bodies and our environments.
From 2000-2003, Horisaki resided in New Orleans, LA, where he earned his BFA from Loyola University. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO and a BA from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Horisaki's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at locations including the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Flux Factory Inc, Queens, NY; The LAB Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY; the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; SCOPELondon, London, UK; Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and the International Sculpture Center Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. He is the recipient of awards including the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Socrates Sculpture Park Open Space program grant. Most recently he has been commissioned to create works for the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; Smack Mellon, New York, NY; and Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana.
Takashi Horisaki recently completed LMCC Workspace residency and is a 2008 Fellowship recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City. He participated in Prospect.1, New Orleans, LA in 2008. This summer, he will perform Birth Rite II with his wife Nina at the Incheon Women Artists' Biennial, Incheon, South Korea. Horisaki currently lives and works in New York.
For more information, please visit: http://www.takashihorisaki.com/
Gisela InsuasteGisela Insuaste received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Anthropology & Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She has participated in various exhibitions and projects in venues nationwide including Aljira-the Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Queens Musem of Art, Queens, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Krannert Art Museum-UIUC, Champaign, IL; and Gallery 400-UIC; Bucket Rider Gallery, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL. She is a recipient of several grants and awards, including a Richard Driehaus/Artadia Emerging Artist Award, Illinois Arts Council artist grants, MacDowell Colony Artist Fellowships, and was recently nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Sculptors and Painters. Upcoming exhibitions include Satellite Gallery at the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, Cuchifritos Gallery and ABC No Rio in New York, NY.
Darren Jones
Darren Jones was born in 1974 in Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1992 he moved to Edinburgh where he studied at Stevenson College. He completed his undergraduate degree at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art in London in 1997. During this period he also studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. After setting up his studio in the East End of London he became one of the founding members of the artists collective ‘Shopfloor’ with whom he exhibited regularly. His first solo show, entitled Iconoclasm, took place in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2004 and subsequently he exhibited throughout the UK. In 2006, he relocated to New York City to complete his MFA at Hunter College. He has been awarded the Scottish International Education Trust Grant for Artists annually since 2007. He is the founder and curator for the St. George’s Church artist residency program in Queens and is curator for the nonprofit Phenomena Project. His work has been shown recently at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland; Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA and the Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY. He lives and works in New York City.
Sarah Julig
Born in Fairbanks Alaska, Sarah Julig grew up surrounded by tundra and mosquitoes. She studied art at the University of Alaska, the University of Lapland in Finland, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute in New York. Her work as been shown in galleries and publications in the USA and abroad, including: ABC No Rio, New York, NY; Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY; Reppetti, Queens, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY; Pielisen Museum, Lieksa, Finland, and Gwangju Museum, Gwangju, Korea, and the ICA, Philadelphia, PA. She was a 2006 resident in the LMCC Swingspace program, and in 2008 received a Finlandia Foundation grant to finance her research in Koli, Finland. Currently she is busy making art work, detoxing the planet, biking, and practicing her yoga poses.
Secret School and the K.I.D.S.Secret School explores the importance of the hidden and invisible in the social identity of a community through a series of time-based events and collaborations. Ranging from the political to the personal, epic to the quotidian, unknown to unknowable, how do secrets function in the transfer and preservation of power? At a time in which oversaturation of readily available information already exceeds our capacity for adequate synthesis, how can the poetics of secrets cut through the logic of facts? When does the form of a secret supersede its content, and under what circumstances must information remain a secret?
Secret School spans an indefinite number of sessions and range of spaces and extends from the aesthetic practice of building systems of social exchange. Past collaborations include a conversation about statelessness, creation of a model economy based on the gold standard, video screening, food for art exchange, workshops, and crafternoons.
Contact: s3cr37.5ch00l@gmail.com
http://secretschool.wordpress.com
The K.I.D.S. is a group of people committed to developing (or redeveloping) our childhood selves. This is meant not in the sense of being immature or irresponsible (although that has its definite place), but in the sense of approaching life and all its problems with wonder, boundless energy, and excitement. We recently ran a week-long series of activities and actions in public spaces around New York including a pep rally for commuters, a high-five demonstration circle and dress up party, making pb&j sandwiches blindfolded, text message theater, and a balloon parade. The K.I.D.S. likes to hang out at Secret School.
Contact: thekidsforever@gmail.com
http://kidsociety.wordpress.com
Bryan Zanisnik Bryan Zanisnik was born in Union, New Jersey and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a B.A. from Drew University and in 2009 received his M.F.A. from Hunter College. Recent exhibitions include Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; The Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary; The Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL; The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY. In 2008 he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and in 2007 he was a resident at the Art Omi International Artists Residency.
Check out http://hangingout.abcnorio.org/bryanzanisnikhollowmanlevitate for images from Bryan's July 17th performance at ABC No Rio: Hollow Man Levitate
