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Rachelle Bussières Nov 04, 2021

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Rachelle Bussières (Quebec City, Canada) received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Addressing the impact of light on our psyche, environment and social structure, Rachelle Bussières’ work is at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Some recent group shows include the World Trade Center (NYC), Rubber Factory (NYC), Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), Soil Gallery (Seattle, WA), the General French Consulate (San Francisco, CA), the Wing (San Francisco, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (Brooklyn, NY). She was an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, Banff Center, Sim, Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is present in various public, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Four Seasons Hotel, SFMOMA Library and Archives, Facebook (commission mural) in Sunnyvale, Instagram Inc. in San Francisco and Penumbra Foundation in New York City.

Ani Bharadwaj (Weird Inside) Oct 28, 2021

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Ani Bharadwaj (better known as weird inside) is a musician and animator born in 1998 in New York and has spent most of his life in Bridgewater, New Jersey. he grew up singing south indian classical (carnatic) music and discovered electronic music at the age of 12, and started trying to make his own at the age of 15. other than music, he also creates in many other forms of media, including animation, digital art, and film/video. he attended the california institute of the arts (calarts) in experimental animation for two semesters, before leaving to pursue a career in music and freelance media. His music has acieved tens of millions of plays on spotify and much more on other platfoems as well.

Matt Kleberg Oct 21, 2021

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Matt Kleberg (b.1985, Kingsville TX based in San Antonio, TX) received his BA from the University of Virginia in 2008 and his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015. He is represented by Pazda Butler Gallery, Barry Whistler Gallery, and Sorry We’re Closed. Recent exhibitions include Good Naked Gallery (NY); Johansson Projects (CA); Barry Whistler Gallery (TX); Pazda Butler Gallery (TX); Albada Jelgersma Gallery (Amsterdam), and Sorry We’re Closed (Brussels). His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Painting is Dead, Artsy, Vice, Maake Magazine, ArtDaily, New American Paintings, Blouin Artinfo, ArtMaze Magazine, Artillery Magazine, and Hyperallergic. His work is included in public and private collections, including the Williams College Museum of Art, the University of California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Old Jail Art Center, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the National Gallery of Art. Kleberg lives and works in San Antonio, TX.

REVOK Oct 13, 2021

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Entirely self-taught, Jason REVOK is known for pushing creative boundaries that began in the street. Although his story begins with graffiti, the artist has spent the last decade focussing on his studio practice and the evolution of process and concept. Refusing to be limited by his early recognition, REVOK allows only certain elements from graffiti culture to transition to his contemporary work – modest materials and industrial tools, ingenuity, his name – but his proclivity towards minimalism and post-painterly abstraction has become the driving force behind his practice. Examining the question of authorship from start to finish, REVOK has developed systematic yet imperfect tools to carry out his vision and has created a number of unmistakable bodies of work. His bold, balanced, geometry is heightened by the personal and imperfect sleight of the human hand. Born in Riverside, CA in 1977 Lives and works in Detroit, MI

Christine Tien Wang Oct 07, 2021

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Christine Tien Wang is an artist born in Washington D.C based out of California. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union and her MFA in painting from UCLA. Christine completed residencies at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, VCUQatar, Chashama North, and Skowhegan. Her recent solo exhibition Coronavirus Memes was on view at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne. Selected group exhibition venues include Frans Hals Museum, Rachel Uffner, Magenta Plains, and The Prince Street Gallery. Christine is in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Groeninghe Art Collection in Belgium. She is represented by Ever Gold [Projects] in San Francisco, Night Gallery in Los Angeles and Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne and Berlin. She is currently Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at California College of Art and lives and works in San Francisco.

Dennis Osadebe Sep 29, 2021

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Dennis Osadebe (born in 1991) is a Nigerian mixed-media artist wh o obtained a BSc in Business and Management from the Queen Mary University of London and a MSc from the University of Warwick, majoring in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dennis’ art has been featured in numerous contemporary art exhibitions since relocating back to Lagos in 2013, and has coined a new cultural movement he calls ‘neo-africa’, which aims to deconstruct the notion of “African art” and escape the expectations often projected onto contemporary artists emanating from the African continent. He has shown his work worldwide from Paris to South Africa to Korea and beyond. He has an upcoming show at GR gallery in New York City called “When Power Plays.”

James Ulmer Sep 23, 2021

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James Ulmer is an artist from outdside Philidelphia who lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the Univeristy of the Arts in Philly in 2005. He has shown in New York, LA, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm and many other places at venues like the Hole Gallery, Eeric Firestone, Marvin Gardens, The Pit, Carl Kostyal, and Salon 94. He has upcoming solo shows at the Hole and at Marvin Gardens, a book of his work coming out on Hassla Books and an upcoming residency at the Watermill Center. His work has been covered in the NY Times, Elephant, Booooooom, Juxtapoz and more.

Matt Hansel Sep 16, 2021

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Matt Hansel (b. 1977, West Virginia) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art. Hansel has had solo shows nationally and abroad at galleries including The Hole, New York (2019), Brand New Gallery, Milan (2018), PM/AM Gallery, London (2017), Wasserman Projects, Detroit (2015), and Yuka Contemporary, Tokyo (2010). Hansel received a grant from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011 and has been included in the White Columns Artist Registry since 2017. Hansel’s work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Blouin Artinfo, Vice, Time Out New York, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Max Pope Sep 08, 2021

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Max Pope, the young soulful singer born in Crystal Palace and raised in Brighton, creates music that stops you in your tracks. His songs, filled with colourful characters from his life and imagination, have always captured his unique perspective on the world and demonstrate a gift for storytelling that goes far beyond his years. Max studied at the BRIT school and has also spent time working as a gardener, work he cherishes for helping him feel connected to the world. Max’s distinctive sound is steeped in influences old and new, from the soul records his mother loved and the grittier punk and blues music his dad would play him as a child, to the recent psychedelic sounds of Nick Hakim and Unknown Mortal Orchestra ,as well as being infused with the south London jazz scene that surrounds him.

Lui Shtini Sep 02, 2021

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Lui Shtini (b. 1978 Kavaje, Albania) lives in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the Academy of Arts in Tirana, Albania from 1997 to 2000. He immigrated to the United States in the early 2000s and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Shtini has held solo exhibitions at Lambdalambdalambda, Prishtina, Kosovo (2018); Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL (2017, 2014); Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2016, 2013); Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA (2015); and van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY (2013, 2009). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA; James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY; Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden; Galerie Sultana, Paris, France; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA; t293, Rome, Italy; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA; Bureau, New York, NY; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY; Creon Gallery, New York, NY; Peter Fengesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY; and Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY. He was granted a NYFA painting fellowship in 2010 and was the 2014 artist resident at the Sharpe-Walentas studio program in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.

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