Artspeak

• Jason Dodge

  Jason Dodge’s (1969, Newton, US) installations, sculptures and photographs are the result of situations that he creates in connection with everyday life and his personal experience. The objects that he displays often function as traces of earlier actions, in the exhibition space or elsewhere, and instill a paradoxical feeling of presence and absence. Dodge has most recently been presented in solo exhibitions at CAC Vilnius (Lithuania); Lüttgenmeijer (Berlin, Germany); Veneklasen/Werner (Berlin, Germany); Yvon Lambert (Paris, France); Kunstverein Düsseldorf, (Germany); Massimo De Carlo (Milan, Italy); and The David Roberts Art Foundation (London, UK). Dodge lives and works in Berlin and New York.

• Eric Fredericksen

• Hadley + Maxwell

  Hadley+Maxwell have been working together since 1997. Recent presentations of their work include the solo exhibitions Improperties, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, and who can resist a Human? who doesn’t finger lies?, YYZ, Toronto, and the group exhibitions It’s the End of the World as We Know It, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse and The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam.

• Allison Hrabluik

  Allison Hrabluik lives and works in Vancouver. Her videos, sculptures, drawings, performances, and texts take a lyrical and humourous approach to narrative exploration. Often experimenting with voice of narrative construction: the fable-like quality of third-person perspective, the messy subjectivity of first-person narration, the humour and irony of allegory, magic-realist absurdity, and the wit in ‘rational’ argument. Allison’s work has been presented nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Gent, Belgium; Western Bridge, Seattle, WA; The Vancouver Art Gallery; Mercer Union, Toronto; Video Pool, Winnipeg; The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario; The SAAG, Lethbridge, Alberta; Market Gallery, Glasgow, The Western Front, and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

• Gareth James

• Aaron Flint Jamison

  Aaron Flint Jamison (b. Billings, MT, 1979) has exhibited at Culturgest (Porto), castillo/corrales (Paris), Pied a Terre (San Francisco), Open Satellite (Seattle), Midway Contemporary (Minneapolis), Marfa Book Company (Marfa, TX), Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Center d’edition contemporaine (Geneva), among others. Jamison lives and works in Portland, OR, where he is the founder of the art center Yale Union. Jamison co-founded the artist-run center Department of Safety (2002-2010) in Anacortes, WA, and is the founder and editor of Veneer Magazine. Jamison is represented by Air de Paris.

• Sam Lewitt

  Sam Lewitt (1981, Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. His conceptually based practice draws on a range of source material, including found objects and materials and techniques intrinsic to photography and print mediums. His work investigates the historical and literary materiality of the image as well as ideas surrounding representation and value. Lewitt is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and his work has been exhibited widely in international solo and group exhibitions. He is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.

• Heather and Ivan Morison

  Heather Morison (1973, Desborough, UK) and Ivan Morison (Istanbul, Turkey in 1974) work collaboratively and make art as an active engagement with materials, histories, sites and processes. Their practice incorporates activities as diverse as gardening, kite flying, skywriting and science fiction. The Morisons have made site-specific projects internationally including the establishment of an arboretum in a remote village in Wales. Their work has been exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including Tate Britain, the Barbican and the 52nd Venice Biennale. Heather and Ivan Morison are based in Brighton, UK and Arthog, North West Wales and are represented in Canada by Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.

• Avigail Moss

  Avigail Moss (1983, Los Angeles, CA) is a writer and artist based in Brussels. Her practice explores the relationship between the visual and the semantic. Recent projects include texts and co-organized symposia on contemporary painting and feminism. Moss holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MFA in painting from Yale University. From 2009-10 she was a researcher in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, where she investigated the role of epistolary writing in art and literature.

• Pamela Rosenkranz

  Pamela Rosenkranz (1979, Sils-Maria, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. Starting from the empirical observation of minute details and isolated gestures and movements, Rosenkranz multiplies her viewpoints, negates the very notion of centrality by creating unstable and open realities, through a constant tension between presence and absence. Selected solo exhibitions of her work include Centre d’ Art Contemporain Geneve; Karma International (Zurich); Art Statements, Art Basel; Micky Schubert (Berlin); Kunstmuseum Thun; Taro Nasu Gallery (Tokyo); and Store (London). Recent group shows include “Fax,” Drawing Center (New York); “Reduction and Suspense,” Kunstverein Bregenz; “Event Horizon,” Raster (Warsaw); “Blank Complexity,” Karma International at Parisa Kind (Frankfurt); and Manifesta7, Trentino Alto Adige/Sudtirol.

• Dexter Sinister

  Co-operated by Stuart Bailey & David Reinfurt, Dexter Sinister constitutes a triangle of activities: (a) a publishing imprint, (b) a workshop & bookstore, and (c) a pseudonym making site/time-specific work, typically in art venues. Dexter Sinister was originally set up to model a ‘Just-In-Time’ economy of print production, counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. Reinfurt graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993, Yale University in 1999, and formed the design studio O-R-G in 2000. Bailey graduated from the University of Reading in 1994, the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000, and co-founded the journal Dot Dot Dot the same year.

• Matt Sheridan Smith

  Matt Sheridan Smith (1980, Red Bank, New Jersey) received his BA from The New School for Social Research in New York in 2002. Smith’s conceptually based works, often consisting of readymades, use language or incorporate makeshift structures that are imbued with a sense of loss and point to the trajectory of an art object beyond the exhibition and its value as inventory or within an archive. Recent exhibitions include kaufmann repetto (Milan), Contemporary Art Museum (St Louis), Altman Siegel (San Francisco), as well as a public commission for the Public Art Fund in Downtown Brooklyn.  In 2010, Smith was artist-in-residence for the annual Paris Residency organized by LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and the mayor’s office of Paris. He currently lives and works in New York.

• Oscar Tuazon

  Oscar Tuazon (1975, Seattle, Washington) works as a writer, publisher and curator. His artistic practice can be described as contemporary sculptural bricolage, using natural and industrial materials and often intervening in the architectural space of the gallery. Tuazon’s work has recently been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Eva Presenhuber (Zurich); Standard (Oslo); Power Station (Dallas); Rat Hole Gallery (Japan); the Institute of Contemporary Art (London); Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland); and the Parc St. Leger (France). Tuazon lives and works in Paris and Tacoma.