Ellen Berkenblit was born in 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey, and is an American painter. She received her B.F.A from The Cooper Union in 1980 and lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Anton Kern Gallery. Her paintings are made with a distinctive palette of vigorously mixed colors with assertive broad
Judith Belzer is painter who lives and works in Berkeley, California, where she moved from the East Coast in 2003. Her current work explores places where the natural and built landscapes meet. Belzer’s work is exhibited regularly around the country. She received a degree in English from Barnard College and studied at the New York
Judith Simonian is a painter living and working in New York City. With more than thirty solo exhibitions and site installations, and numerous group shows, her work has garnered critical attention in publications that include Flash Art, Art in America, ARTNews, Arts Magazine, Arts and Architecture, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. She is
New York City flutist, composer, recording artist, and clinician Jamie Baum has toured the U.S. and over twenty-eight countries, performing at major festivals and concert halls. She has performed with artists as renowned and diverse as George Russell, Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Mick Goodrick, and Tom Harrell, to Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch, Uri Caine, V.M
Composer/performer/sound artist Elliott Sharp has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetics to musical composition and interaction. He leads the projects SysOrk, Orchestra Carbon, Terraplane, and Tectonics. Compositional strategies range from highly detailed through-composed scores to conceptual, algorithmic, and graphic approaches. Improvisation is an important element in his own live performances and
Ivy Baldwin has been praised by Deborah Jowitt as a “hunter-gatherer sort of choreographer—foraging for provocative imagery to nourish her highly individual creative impulses.” She is known for her vivid imagination, and her mysterious dances deconstruct and combine disparate elements to build bizarrely entrancing new realities. Baldwin studied dance as a child before attending the
Artist David Sandlin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1956, and has lived in the United States since 1972. He has been painting, printmaking, and creating installations professionally since moving to New York City in 1980. He is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts. His paintings, prints, books, and installations have
"I boarded those third class trains to enlightenment, and befriended the fragile heroes of this book,” Francesco Clemente wrote of A Blue Hand. “Deborah Baker’s narrative is concise, rich, unsentimental and shows how, just like India, a spiritual journey is grotesque, sublime, comical, but never sad." Of The Convert, Michelle Goldberg wrote in Tablet, “[Baker
Born in Pennsylvania, Mark Ruwedel is an artist/photographer currently living in Long Beach, California. He received his M.F.A. from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught there from 1984 to 2001; he is currently a Professor at California State University in Long Beach. He was awarded major grants from the Canada Council for the
Rania Attieh is a 2012 U.S. Rockefeller Fellow in film. She and her partner Daniel Garcia were also named among the twenty-five faces of independent film by Filmmakers Magazine in 2011. Rania Attieh is from Tripoli, Lebanon. She has received her M.F.A. in Media Art Production as a writer/director of fiction from the City College
With work described as “sumptuously scored and full of soaring melodies” (New York Times), and “unspeakably gorgeous” (Gramophone), American composer Elena Ruehr is known for her lyrical and rhythmically vibrant music. Her music has an organic, breathing flow, derived from its origin in the movement of the body and the vitality of the natural world;
Peter Rock is the author of six novels, most recently The Shelter Cycle and My Abandonment, and a collection of stories, The Unsettling. His books have been translated into several languages, and his stories have appeared in magazines such as Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, Epoch, and Ploughshares; they have been anthologized widely. Rock was born
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; a hybrid-genre photo-text memoir that combines poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography entitled Intimate; and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye, which was a finalist
The daughter of a medical research scientist in the United States Air Force, Lynn Aldrich was born in Bryan, Texas, but grew up “everywhere” – ten different states — before moving to Los Angeles where she now lives and works. After receiving a B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Mary Reid Kelley combines painting, performance, and a distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in her polemical, graphically stylized videos. Performing as a First World War soldier, a grisette in revolutionary Paris, or the Minotaur, she resurrects characters that embody particular facets of ideas in time. Her historically specific tableaux enclose dilemmas of mortality, sex, and estrangement, navigated
Victoria Redel is the author of the novels The Border of Truth (2008) and Loverboy (2001), and of two collections of short fiction: Make Me Do Things (2014) and Where the Road Bottoms Out (1995). She is also the author of three award-winning collections of poetry: Woman Without Umbrella (2013), Swoon (2003), and Already the
Profile photograph by Nicholas Burnham. Three links to short promotional videos of some of David Parker’s work: The Bang Group Nut/Cracked ShowDown
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