AJ Fosik (Present)

AJ Fosik creates eclectic, wooden animal sculptures. They are displayed at the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Colorado. The sculptures are supposed to evoke deep thought. At the first sight, they feature images that look familiar, but with a further look, they take you out of your comfort zone and expand the definition of culture and assumption. More on the artist can be found on this website: http://www.davidbsmithgallery.com/artist/show/aj-fosik

Nick Van Woert (Present)

 Nick Van Woert, born in Reno, Nevada, now lives and works out of Brooklyn, NY as a sculptor. His work has been displayed internationally. Woert pours colored plaster on his sculptures. That is his most recent series. You can visit his personal website here: http://work.fourteensquarefeet.com/

Damián Ortega (present)

Damián Ortega creates sculptures, installations, videos and actions inspired by a wide range of everyday objects. Damián Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City; he currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Ortega has exhibited worldwide. In one of his most recent projects he created a suspended, disassembled VW gray Beetle. The result was both a diagram and a fragmented object that offered a new way of seeing the “people’s car” first developed in Nazi Germany but now produced en masse in his native Mexico (source: www.whitecube.com).

Diem Chau (Present)

Diem Chau, who was born in Saigon, Vietnam, is a contemporary sculpture artist. She received her BFA from the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Her work often includes storytelling and myths. She is inspired by these things because stories and myths can connect cultures through humanistic similarities (referenced from Chau's webstite). Chau has displayed her work in various galleries across the US. You may visit her personal website here: http://www.diemchau.com

Paolo Fumagalli (present)

Paolo Fumagalli, based in Florence, Italy, is a contemporary, conceptual piece sculptor. He tends to use contrasting materials together, such as hard things with soft things. His sculptures often look very animated because he adds eyes and tongues to many found objects. Fumagalli was born in Geneva, Switzerland, but his family moved to Florence soon after his birth. He holds  degrees in industrial design from both Istituto Europeo di Design Milan, Italy and the Chelsea School of Art and Design London, UK. You may visit his personal website here:  http://www.paolo-fumagalli.com

Agustina Woodgate (present)

Agustina Woodgate is an artist based out of Miami, Florida. Her work includes a variety of media including photography, installations, sculpture, video and performance. Currently, she is most known for making things out of something most people find off-putting: human hair. The way that Woodgate acquires the hair for her work is quite bizarre. She sets up a mobile salon in different cities and people show up to ask about what is happening. When she tells them that it is for her art, many volunteer and feel fine with her cutting off their hair-- even though she is not even close to being a hair stylist. A selection from her work is pictured below. You may visit her personal website here: www.agustinawoodgate.com

“I remember very clearly as a child four generations of hair; my great grandmother, my grandmother, my mother and me, all of us with our real brushes and our real hair. My work has a lot to do not especially with hair, but rather that hair became the material that I needed to communicate the concept of identity. In that respect, the concept rather than the material itself drives my work. Its not that I am a hair artist; it just so happens that when I tried to say something about my life the material that contained the most meaning or honesty, the material which said everything that objects could and more was hair.”
                                     -Agustina Woodgate

This castle is made entirely of blocks of human hair.

Ben Heine (present)

Ben Heine is a Belgian artist of many forms. He is an illustrator, painter, portraitist, caricaturist, and photographer. He lives and works out of Brussels, Belgium. His main subjects of study in college were graphic design and and sculpture. Heine also holds a degree in journalism. Heine has a very specific work style. One artistic thing that he is known for doing is covering up portions of photographs and inserting drawings of his own visions of what should be there instead. This series is titles Pencil vs. Camera. To see more, visit his website here: http://www.benheine.com/

Anish Kapoor (present)

Anish Kapoor, an Indian-born sculptor, holds degrees from the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Both of these schools are in Britain, where Kapoor resides. Today, his work is displayed internationally. One of Kapoor's most notable works is titled Cloud Gate. Cloud Gate had been nicknamed "The Bean." It is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL. Kapoor is a recipient of the Turner Prize, an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50.

Julia Chiang (present)

Julia Chiang, a Brooklyn-based artist, creates sculptures and installation artwork. She uses a wide variety of materials in her work. A recent work of hers has been displayed at the ohwow gallery in Miami, Florida. The work is an installation piece that is made entirely of ring pop candy. The candy looks like pixels and spells out words and sayings. The work has an interesting effect when it stays on the gallery walls over time. Eventually, the ring pops melt as they are displayed under gallery lights and they drip down colors, staining the walls.

Tim Walker (present)

Photographer Tim Walker of London, England has been working for Vogue for over a decade now. Walker holds a BA degree from the Exeter College of Art. Post graduation, he did freelance photography work in London, then moved to NYC to work as a full time assistant to photographic icon Richard Avedon, and then returned to the UK to concentrate on portrait and documentary work for newspapers. At the early age of 25 he got the opportunity to shoot his first fashion story for Vogue. The Victoria and Alber Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London feature Walker's photographs in their permanent collections. You may visit his personal website here: http://www.timwalkerphotography.com/

Sarah Rahbar (present)

Sarah Rahbar was born in Tehran, but had to flee from her birthplace due to war. Currently, she resides and works in New York. Rahbar received an education in design at The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, followed by a masters in fine art at Central Saint Martins Collage of Art and Design in London. Her work has been displayed in a large variety of areas. From Iran, to all over Europe, to all over the United States. Her flag series, pictured below, shows the two different cultures which she has experienced. You may visit Rahbar's personal website here: http://www.sararahbar.com/

George Fischer (present)

George Fischer is an American surrealist artist. He attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL and his work has been displayed across the US. Fischer mixes oil, acrylic, graphite and collages on wood panels. Fischer is a still life surrealist painter who paints ordinary objects of our everyday lives, but creates them in a way so that they belong in a different world-- a surreal world. You can visit his personal website here: http://www.geofischer.com/

Francesca Wadell (present)

Francesca Wadell is Scottish fashion illustrator who studied Fine Art Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art. Afterwards, she studied fashion design, which is when she discovered her love for fashion illustration. She uses classic ink combined with photoshop manipulation to create her images. She works for clients in the fashion and beauty industries, working for Vogue Turkey and Bloomingdales, online fashion magazines Cellardoor, The Coveted Mag and The Skinny. You can visit her website here: http://www.francescawaddell.com/

Yukari Terakado (present)

Yukari Terakado is a Japanese illustration artist. Unfortunately, there is very brief information about her online. However, this did not prevent me from posting about her because I am very drawn to the intricacies of her illustrations. Terakado works primarily with acrylics and colored pencils. She uses her lines to create beautiful images of women. Here is a link to her website: http://yukariterakado.jimdo.com

James Turrell (present)

James Turrell of Pasadena, California uses light as his main medium in art-making. He is an installation artist. Turrell explores the diversities of this intangible medium and works to define space with his light medium. Light causes surface, color, and space to interact, which puts the viewers of Turrell's work in a painterly world. Turrell received a BA degree from Pomona College in psychology in 1965; he received an MA degree in art from Claremont Graduate School, University of California, Irvine in 1966.