John Reed's book The Whole
John Reed received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 1994. He is author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte Press 2000/2001), SNOWBALL¹S CHANCE (Roof Books 2002/2003), and THE WHOLE (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster, 2005. His fiction and non-fiction have been
published in journals, newspapers and magazines nationwide. He has extensive editorial experience, and is currently the Books Editor at the Brooklyn Rail. He has also written, created and developed projects for television and film, and is a writer and creator of on-air projects at MTV
and other Viacom affiliates. A video he authored and co-created won a VMA at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.
Lee Bricetti's book DAY MARK
Lee Briccetti was born in Italy and raised in the United States. She has been the long-time Executive Director of Poets House, a 45,000-volume poetry archive and meeting place for poets and poetry readers in New York City. Under her leadership, Poets House developed the Poets House Showcase, an annual exhibit of new poetry books, as well as the Poetry in The Branches, a national outreach program that assists public libraries in providing poetry services. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Poetry and has been a Poetry Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book of poems, Day Mark, has just been released from Four Way Books.
Sky Reacher, sculpture by Elaine Grove
Grove's work comes out of the tradition of constructivist, using welded steel sculpture as exemplified by Gonzales, Picasso, David Smith and Anthony Caro, artists who have influenced the development of her artistic language.
"My concerns lie with "drawing in space" and infusing an animating spirit or animus into the pieces I produce," she said. "I incorporate "found objects" into my work, but my intention is for the viewer to lose the sense of original purpose of the object, and focus rather on its form and relation to the overall sculpture at hand." 1943 Born, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1965 Earned B.A./B.F.A., University of Dallas
photo still from video installation by Meredith Drum
Meredith Drum creates experimental, narrative and documentary videos. Her videos have been and will be part of the ‘04, ’05 and ‘06 Monkey Town Invitationals www.monkeytownhq.com. They will also be presented this December at Participant Inc www.participantinc.org. Her current production, a narrative about climate-change, stars Juliana Francis (of Richard Foreman’s Ontological Theater). She has worked as a cameraperson and editor on a documentary about poet Kenneth Koch and on several four-channel installations for Montgomery Knott, of Monkey Town, including working as a cinematographer for Mr. Knott on location in Morocco in 2004. In addition to working in video, Meredith is also a writer. Her poems and short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including Pierogi Press www.pierogi2000.com and in the edition of Ploughshares Magazine edited by her mentor Paul Muldoon www.pshares.org. Her plays have been performed at Tonic and Galapagos Art Space in NYC and at Les Falaises in Paris. In 2003, Meredith earned an MA in Literature from Middlebury College and Oxford University, UK, where she received academic and creative writing awards.
Red Sister by CJ Collins
C J Collins’ work relies on subjective meaning and affirmation which must survive strategies of process which is designed to remove the ego of the artist at the subjective level by a simple repetitive dictate of formal processes which may be at odds with the vibrant energetic, seemingly random assortment of playful biomorphic patterns. The intensity is sustained by the dense additions of layers upon layers of meaningful linear shapes until the initial orderly composition merges into a new disorder/order which speaks unto its own self-discovered visual commentary (metamorphoses) about the concrete meanings, most often entirely independent from the multiple parts which make up the whole.
Oui by John Griefen
John Griefen has had thirty-five one person exhibitions and had work included in the collections of many museums, including the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Boston Museum of Art
Suspended, sculpture by Jonathan Peyser
Brooklyn based artist Jonathan Peyser has had recent one-man exhibition at Dugall Underground Gallery, and has been in various group shows, including Wish You Were Here, a downtown exhibition with Sol Lewitt, Larry Rivers and Kiki Smith, in honor of the 9/11 tragedy. In the last year, the sculptor’s work appeared in gallery exhibitions in TriBeCa at Steven Amedee Gallery, and at Gallery 51 in Montclair, NJ.
Photogram by Anita Chernewski
Chernewski's work has been exhibited both here and abroad, and her photographs are in the permanent collections at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Brooklyn Museum, and in numerous private and corporate collections.
Artist Gregory Coates with one of his works
His abstract mixed media paintings utilize urban cast offs such as tape, rope and electrical wrapping. Over the past decade the work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibits in New York (Threadwaxing Space, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Atmosphere Gallery, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Christiane Nienbager Contemporary Art, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Cinque Gallery and others), London (Gas Works Gallery), Berlin (Kunsthuse Tacheles), Munich (Kunsthandel Leidel) and has been included in major corporate and public collections in the US and abroad.
Untitled by Kikuo Saito
Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan. He moved to New York City in 1966, where he currently lives and works. He studied at the Art Student's League from 1966-1969. His work has been featured in over 30 one-person shows in the United States, Canada and Europe. He was featured at the ROSC Exhibition in Dublin, Ireland in 1980. In 1996, he was a resident artist at Duke University, where his performance piece Toy Garden was presented. He has designed stage sets for Tom Eyen, Tom O'Horgan and Robert Wilson. His work is in the permanent collection of the Aldrich Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Edmonton Art Gallery and the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida.
Twister by Stpehanie Hightower
Originally from Oklahoma, Stephanie Hightower was awarded a full scholarship to the University of Dallas where she received her B.F.A. After completing her studies in Texas, she moved to New York to attend Pratt Institute from where she received her M.F.A. in Painting with a Minor in Art Criticism.
For the past fifteen years, Hightower has exhibited paintings and drawings nationally, in venues such as Emory University, Center for Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Strathmore Hall Arts Center in Maryland, University of Texas at El Paso, and the McIntosh Gallery in Atlanta.
