Ben Colebrook The friction between a sense of optimism and a deeply felt skepticism provides the heat that drives my work, which can be described as low-tech solutions to the relentless escalation of consumer desire. In this case I have reproduced the most essential everyday objects in my life, which can also be seen as symbols of identity, capital, access and hope. Currently I am producing a long-term project titled “The Weekly Dead”, a project where the Iraq War meets Shopping.
bcolebrook@yahoo.com
www.whitedotstudio.com

Nathan Haenlein was born in Michigan and now lives and works in Northern California. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Haenlein’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and most recently he has had solo shows in Marfa, TX, Washington D.C., and Cleveland, OH (November 2006). His work is in the public collection of the Center for Visual Arts, Toledo, OH; Kalkograsski Ateijie Butkovic, Rijeka, Croatia; the Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; the National Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus; the Tama Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; as well as many others. Haenlein’s current body of work explores ideas around consumption and new acts of drawing. Additionally he questions the concepts of patients, the digital age, and repetition.

Valerie Hegarty lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has received numerous grants including a full scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her MFA, A Graduate Fellowship grant, an Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council and a Community Arts Assistance Program grant. In New York, she has recieved a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. In the past year, Valerie has show at the Nada Art Fair Miami, The Armory, White Columns, PS1 in the Greater New York Show, and Guild & Greyshkul. She is represented by Guild & Greyshkul Gallery in Soho and currently has her second solo exhibition on view. Valerie is also currently participating in the group show "Denial is a River" at Sculpture Center in Long Island City.

Jeremy Hoevenaar lives in Brooklyn and shifts books at an undisclosed and conveniently located Barnes and Noble in Manhattan. He was born in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1977. He holds no degrees. He tries to consider this an asset. He could have been an alchemist. He could have been a blacksmith. Or an airline pilot. He is an untrained musician. He has no siblings. He used to like making pronouncements but has given that up. He tries hard to take things seriously. He has a weakness for heavy metal. He believes that everything is a monument to something.

Timothy Hutchings lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. He is represented by I-20 gallery, NY and has shown at various venues including Real Art Ways (hartford, CT), Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI), Art Basel Miami Beach, and the 1st Mocow Biennial.

Matt King received his MFA from Bard College, after graduating from Cooper Union and the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work has been shown at Guild & Greyshkul, Lurhing Augustine, and Stefan Stux in New York and was included in Sculpture: Precarious Realism at the Vienna Kunsthalle in 2003. His recent project, primarily sculpture and drawing, is a series of psychological portraits that use traditional plaster life-casts in conjunction with re-situated everyday objects and materials. It continues his ongoing examination of the collision between momentary lived experiences and the imagined narrative of existence. He lives in Hobart, New York and teaches at Cooper Union.
mking7@hotmail.com

Branden Koch received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA in painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has also studied abroad at the Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland. Branden currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His first solo exhibition Discorporate is currently at High Energy Constructs, LA.
www.highenergyconstructs

Liz-N-Val The art team Liz-n-Val are known for their unique ways of art distribution and public art inter-Actions. They have invented Abstractrealism, the art of constructed reality. They run the MuseuM of Art After Art, alternately known by other thematic names such as: MuseuM of Advanced Art, MuseuM of Truth-N- Beauty, MuseuM of Something-N-Nothing, Museum of Anything, MuseuM of Everything and recently, ArtSites. They have worked together for over 25 years and have shown their work internationally, in a variety of venues from the streets of New York, Paris and Berlin to galleries and Museums.
www.liz-n-val.net

Caitlin Masley is a New York based artist. In 2005-2006 she will be exhibiting a series of new reconstruction/combination architectual installations, portable paper buildings and wall drawing projects in New York, Geneva, Toronto, Amsterdam, Trondheim, Zagreb and Auckland. In addition to these exhibitions, Masley has recenly completed artist projects Cabinet Magazine and Artworld Digest, plus reviews in Gloss Magazine amoung others. www.caitlinmasley.com

Laura Marsh Born in the small town of Montrose, Pennsylvania (bordering the Southeast corner of New York State) in 1982, Laura Marsh began to question her roles as a woman, citizen, and contemporary artist. She found herself generally interested in social politics and gender issues, but in a subliminal and intuitive way. The subject of her work is rooted in locating American desire through implicating a consumer object and unveiling something awkward about its nature. The result of this process is often very stylized, low-tech, and sometimes illustrative work, which is more concerned with surface and pattern than conventional space or technique. The subject of her work takes form and continues to vary in tandem with her reactions to residing in urban environments. Marsh received her BFA at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2006, attended Maine College of Art in 2004, and Yale Norfolk Summer School for the Arts and Music in 2003.

Carlos Motta is a New York based Colombian artist whose inter-disciplinary art practice explores the the construction of personal and social subjectivities in relation to language, vision, representation, memory and history. His projects attempt to resist and critically analyse hegemonic domination, and in particulat the effects of economic and political transnational intervention. A graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Motta holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from The School of Visual Arts, all in New York. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums world wide.
www.carlosmotta.com

Keiko Narahashi uses things, mostly pieces from old work and objects that serendipitously materialize, to craft memorials to an imagined past as a hedge against a possible future. She can speak Japanese, her first language, only in dreams, or she imagines that she can – dreams are unreliable. This disjunction between past and present creates a sense of shame and longing, an anxiety of displacement that seems to lay bare the incommensurable gap between the tidal wave of history and a single life. Born in Tokyo, raised in North Carolina, she now lives and works in New York. Her exhibitions include The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (2005-2006) and received a painting fellowship grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2006.
keikonarahashi.com
keikonar@yahoo.com

Yamini Nayar is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work been shown in New York, Detroit and Delhi, including the Queens Museum of Art, Onishi Gallery, Bose Pacia Modern, Rush Arts and the Studio Museum. Yamini holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.<br><br> Yamini is interested in photographs and objects as ways to both remember and forget. Her recent works, color photographs of assemblages and constructed dioramas, explore ideas of fractured context, absence and trace within the image. </p>

Patrick O’Hare lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He photographs cross-sections of our modern landscape, the stations of our lives and the silence between them. He searches for signs, portents and absurdities in a wasted but strangely beautiful world that occasionally offers slivers of redemption. He has had solo exhibitions at The Camera Club of New York and OK Harris Gallery. Group exhibitions include: Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Firehouse Gallery and PS 1, Queens, NY. His work has been published in such journals as Harper’s Magazine, Camera Austria, The Village Voice and Photo Metro. He attended Syracuse University and studied film history at SUNY Binghamton. This summer he was awarded an artist residency at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where he photographed the landscape of the Chesapeake Bay area.

Jason Paradis is from Canada and now lives and works in the New York area. In his work, there is a sense of contemplation or of reverie that speculates on a fundamental mystery–this being the result of a lot of camping under an expansive sky in the northern Canadian wilderness. There, questions emerged regarding the existence of something much larger than the immediate world. He is very interested in a moment where the past, present, and future collide. His work has been displayed is several exhibitions in and around New York City as well as across the United States and Canada. Among these are New York area galleries such as White Columns, Jessica Murray Projects, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Marcus Ritter, OMNI Gallery, and Gallery @ 82. Other venues include the Islip Art Museum and the art gallery at Virginia Tech. He received a BFA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, an MFA from Stony Brook University, and attended the selective Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program hosted by the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Carrie Paterson is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She has published criticism, fiction, art reviews and catalog essays in a variety of art and culture publications and currently teaches in Graduate Studies at Cal State Fullerton's Art Department. Her sculpture, new media and performance works have been seen in museums, universities, non-profit galleries and online spaces. She is an avid cyclist and advocate of alternative transportation.

Sharon Paz was born in Israel. She received a MFA from Hunter College. Her work is part of the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In 2005 Paz received a grant from the ³Haptstadkultorfounds 2005² in Berlin. Paz has taken part in the Irish museum of Modern Art residency program, in New Views: DUMBO, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, and was a resident at Skowhegan in Maine. She had a solo show in the Herzlyia Museum in Israel. She has exhibited in White Box Gallery, Artist Space and Sixtyseven, in NYC. Her work has been screened at Thomas Erben Gallery, Art in General, and Anthology Film Archives all in NYC; Paz work has taken part in numerous film and video festivals in Europe, Canada, Israel, and the United States. Paz work investigates ideas about human psychological perception of home, land, nation and culture. She explores her personal history in relation to the political and historical currents.
www.sharonpaz.com

Megan Pflug’s recent large-scale works on paper are inspired by fashion, poster art, minimalism, and avant-garde utopian art making traditions. She combines graphic textile inspired patterns with digitally manipulated images to explore the common ground that exists between figuration and abstraction. By utilizing materials such as Xerox ink transfers and drawing form a wide variety of “high” and “low” source materials her “collages” attempt to elevate craft, and reference the history of painting. Megan Lives and works in New York City. She has an MFA from Columbia University and BA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Megan has exhibited in New York, Chicago, and Washington DC.

Ben Polsky had solo exhibitions at Luxe Gallery, New York, in 2005 and 2003. He has exhibited at Galleri S E, Norway (Singular, 2006) at The Drawing Center, New York, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn (Fifteen Paces, 2005) and Gallery16 in San Francisco. Polsky’s work has recently been featured in the books: Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, (Gilbert, Alan – Wesleyan University Press, 2006) and Drawings on Geology, (Onnen, Serge – J&L Books, 2005) as well as The Newark Review of The New Jersey Institute of Technology. Polsky received The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2001) and two consecutive Fellowship Awards from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (2000 and 2006). Polsky attended The School of Visual Arts in New York and the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently lives and works in Newark, NJ.
www.benholli.com /benpolsky.htm

Kristin Schaffenberger is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. She is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and earned an MA in 20th Century Literature and its Contexts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her academic work focuses on 20th Century American poetry, visual art, and theories of the avant-garde.

Michael Schall was born in New Jersery, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He recieved his MFA from Pratt Institute and shows his work at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn. His work has also been exhibited in group shows in New York, Seattle, Germany and The Netherlands. His graphite drawings deal primarily with the futility of our efforts to manipulate the surface of the earth.
www.michaelschall.com

Maya Schindler was born in Jerusalem, Israel and lives and works in LA. She is a 2005 graduate of he CORE program, and holds an MFA from Yale University, School Of Art, and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. She is represented by Anna Helwing Gallery, LA and has shown at various galleries in LA, Houston, TX, Jerusalem Israel and parts of Europe.
www.annahelwinggallery.com /artists

Holli Schorno’s recent solo show at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York was reviewed in Art in America (June/July 06). She has also exhibited in Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Italy. Schorno received a 2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a New Jersey Council on the Arts Grant (2002). She also earned a Fellowship with the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (2003). Her collage works were featured in The New Collage (catalog) and Collage: Signs and Surfaces (catalog) at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Structures of Knowledge at Raid Projects, Compelled at the Hunterdon Museum, Destroyer/Creator at the John Weber Gallery, Scripta Manent at Esso Gallery, and Lontano Da Dove? at Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino. Holli Schorno currently lives and works in Newark, New Jersey.
www.benholli.com

Bernhard Schreiner was born near Vienna / Austria; he currently lives in Frankfurt and Berlin. >From 1991 – 1998 he studied at the art academy / Staedelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, where he later became an assistant lecturer for Film/Video. Till 1999 he was primarily producing documentary-based, experimental S8mm and 16mm film works and curating film programs in Germany, Austria and Italy. In 2001 he has received a yearlong travel grant from Hessische Kulturstiftung. Stopovers in Italy, Portugal, Gibraltar … In 2004 he set up the label “feld-records” ( http://feld-records.com/ ). To date he deals mainly with photography, sound in general, composition, and video; often in a way that incorporates found materials.

Tucker Schwarz received a BFA from the University of Georgia in 1994 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.&nbsp; She shows regularly at numerous galleries through out the Bay Area and has most recently had a solo exhibition at Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.&nbsp; She has also shown outside of the Bay Area in Philadelphia at Nexus Gallery and in New York City at White Columns, Sara Meltzer Gallery, and Priska Juschka Fine Art.&nbsp; She was a resident at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in the spring of 2004.

André Spears is the author of Xo: A tale for the new Atlantis (Pangaea Press, 1983) and Letters from Mu (Part I) (Voix Editions, France, 2000), both of which can be read online at www.pangaeapress.com. Fragments from Mu (A Sequel), from which "Horn of Plenty" is excerpted, is due forpublication in 2007; other excerpts have appeared in First Intensity, FoArm, Arson and Pierogi Press (forthcoming). His doctoral work in Comparative Literature focused on the interrelation between literature and archaeology in the 19th & 20th centuries, and the shifting value(s) assigned to vestiges of the archaic.

Derek Stroup earned a BA from Williams College and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. His work is in numerous public and private collections including The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, ArtCollTrust, Biograph, and the Artist's Books Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Exhibition venues include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Cirrus Gallery, Quint Contemporary Art, PS 122, Roy Boyd Gallery and others. He is the author of three books: Field Guide (2002) Rope Swing Manifesto (2004) and Candy (2006). His books are distributed by Printed Matter, Inc. in New York. The online version of the Rope Swing Manifesto can be seen at www.ropeswingmanifesto.com. Other projects can be seen at www.derekstroup.com. He lives in New York City.

Ruben Verdu has devoted himself to fictionalize and ridicule some of the most boring aspects of our contemporary living experience. His views reach the public through peepingMonster, an entrepreneurial platform that showcases some of his works. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After receiving his MFA from CalArts, he moved to New York to attend the Whitney Museum ISP. He now lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
www.peepingmonster.com

Lisa Vinebaum lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She holds a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal) and an MA in Visual Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Her interdisciplinary art practice uses video, performance and photography, to explore gender, cultural identity, subjectivity and the Other. Her work has been included in exhibitions and festivals across Europe, North America, Asia, and on the Internet, most recently at Freewaves Festival of New Media Arts at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Scanners New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, Germany), and the XXIième Manifestation Internationale d’arts vidéo et nouveaux médias (Clermont-Ferrand, France). She is completing a practice-based PhD in Visual Art at Goldsmiths, where she is researching the ideological performance of images produced and disseminated in the context of the war on terror and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jessica Westbrook is an artist and Professor of Photography, Design, and Web Media at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her photography and new media installation work explores the visual cues which describe, define, and reinforce her domestic orbit. Her images tend towards iconic and her presentation is modular. Westbrook received an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She is the co-founder of the design studio tw/co and a founding member of an artist collective SEED.

Sreshta Rit Premnath lives and works in NYC. He received his MFA from Bard College and his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art. His work has been shown in various galleries including Bose Pacia, NY; Islip Art Museum, LI; Gallery SKE, and Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
He is the founder and editor of Shifter Magazine, as well as the founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations.
rit.premnath@gmail.com
www.circumscript.net

Gönner Heiliger Von Lügen lives in Sudan, East Africa. She is a writer and curator and since 2006, Associate Editor of Shifter Magazine. Her most recent essay "Murders, Disappearances" was published by Yeszhu Presse for the Sudan Bienniel, 2006.

Pieter DeHeijde lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He is known for his discreet text and image based interventions into Wikipedia and other public domain information sources. He is engaged in trying to understand the ways in which the notion of truth is performed, articulated and transformed in the public sphere. He is currently working on a book "The Rebirth of Myth in Contemporary Politics," to be published by Idelwilde Press in 2007.
pieter.deheijde@gmail.com