The Hole is an experimental gallery space in nyc, featuring all kinds of experiental work, all genres considered. They have a rotating mural wall which has emphasised and celebrated street art in NYC.
Owners of the Gallery - Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman
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Peggy Noland
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She is a fashion designer on the verge: her outrageous spandex concoctions put her on the map a few years ago outfitting bands CCS and Tilly and the wall, her outfits for Kansas City band SSION and soon The Gossip are two more awesome music collaborations, and she once sent me some apple print Scratch-and-Sniff leggings in the mail that really smelled! She has a shop in Kansas City that she does a completely different and fantastic fashion/sculpture installation every few moths and she currently has a trashy pop-up shop in our Cody Critcheloe – SSION exhibition at The Hole.
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Mat Brinkman
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Mat will be filling the gallery with black ink works on paper and blasting some rooms with colored light. Plus an advance previewing of selected work by various artists from a yet to be released Necro~Demonic Dungeon~Crawl~Warfare Boardgame. What will this be like? We don’t know. But pinch us because we just can’t believe we are finally getting to see some new art from this secret mega legend artist in our home city.
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East Coast #2 - 3rd Ward, New York City, NY
Not only does this gallery seem to be open to all genres/disciplines.. their community integration element seems to be at the forefront of their operating plan. The host a large number of classes that people can sign up for, from jewelry making to painting and sculpting, make-up design to web design. Not only that, but they have a large number of free events for the community. At the timeof this writing they were gearing up for "The Art of Elysium, a national non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the arts to children battling serious medical conditions." I'm drawn to that about them.
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Names of the owner of the Gallery - Jason Goodman – Executive Director/Co-Founder, Jeremy Lovitt – Co-Founder
Rachel Seed
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Rachel Seed was born in London, England and raised in Chicago. Born into a family of image-makers, Rachel worked internationally in photographic and editorial jobs for several years before deciding to pursue her own photography full time.
Currently, in addition to pursuing a M.F.A in photography, Rachel continues to work as a freelance photographer.
She specializes in fine art, editorial, portrait and events photography.
Statement
The Motherless Project
Since 2006, I have traveled around the U.S., Europe and Costa Rica to photographed and interview women and girls whose mothers died when they were young.
This project explores issues women and girls face when they lose their mothers while young. So far, 30 women and girls, aged 7-65, have participated and I continue to travel and meet with women everywhere I go.
Please contact me if you know someone who might like to participate.
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Dan Moynihan
Bio
1994 - Trade Certificate Carpentry & Joinery, Wollongong Tafe
2004 - Bachelor Of Creative Arts, Wollongong University
2009 - Member of DAMP collaborative art group
Statement
As a lover of puns, in fact, all manner of junk shop gag and cheap humour, Moynihan jokes with himself and the rest of us wherever he possibly can. In his latest show Expert, he shows us his prowess as a prankster with striking and catchy versions of reality. Full of self-effacing humour, his candour wins our hearts but simultaneously promotes caution, or at least the awareness that there’s more than just a little trickery going on. Although gleefully dropping clues to lead us towards certain conclusions, the artist revels in the “beforeness” of the punch line. He focuses on the moment of suspense and pure hope, wishing like hell that the joke will be funny, that the party guests will laugh. It is a space of highly charged anticipation.
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West Coast #1 - Lawrimore Project
The Lawrimore Project is an upstart PNW gallery, struggling to bring a youth and spark to the Seattle area. Scott divides his space in to two parts, a front exhibition space in which he doesn't expect anything to sell, and then a series of side and back rooms to display the pieces he hopes to sell from. That beginning assumption frees the artists to be as "out there" as they'd like in the front room. As it's a larger open space, it's usually installed into. Just off the edge of the artwalk area, the Lawrimore Project is a fun, young and hip gallery, that's in a bad location.
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Name of the owner of the Gallery - Scott Lawrimore
Lead Pencil Studio
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5-Year Bachelor Of Architecture –Master’s Equiv. Annie Han University Of Oregon
5-Year Bachelor Of Architecture –Master’s Equiv. Daniel Mihalyo University Of Oregon
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A New voice in the emerging field created from the interdisciplinary overlap of architecture and site specific art. Our creative output is informed by our dedication to independent research in structural typologies and the visual arts. The spaces, objects and buildings resulting from this studio process establish new territories that surprise and alter perceptions.
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SuttonBeresCuller
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John Sutton, Ben Beres, Zac Culler
Bachelor of Fine Art, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Statement
SuttonBeresCuller are a trio of artists (John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler) who have worked collaboratively since 2000. They create ways to engage viewers beyond the confines of gallery or museum walls through mobile sculpture, street actions and temporary site-specific installations. Constantly trying to bring an art experience to an expanded (and often unsuspecting) audience, theirs is a form of “public art” that is generous in nature, participatory for the willing and refreshingly free of dogma for the uninitiated. Deeper engagement reveals rigorous conceptual frameworks, healthy political agendas, an informed knowledge of art historical precedence, and insightful social analyses within their work. SuttonBeresCuller have an impresario’s knack for deploying their work bolstered by flawless execution and craftsmanship.
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West Coast #2 - Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Platform Gallery seems to be a middle point between very young, hip galleries and the more established galleries in the Pacific Northwest. The owner/curator keeps things fresh well, and has a strong link with the area schools, often selecting artists for solo shows before they finish school. This type of exposure, in this type of context, is wonderful for the artist and gallery. It's know for being vibrant and respectable.
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Name of the owner of the Gallery - Stephen Lyons
Adriana Page Russell
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Ariana graduated from the University of Washington with a MFA in Photography in 2005 and has had a solo exhibition with Magnan Projects, New York, NY. She has also exhibited at Some Space Gallery, SOIL Gallery, and 4Culture Gallery in Seattle. Her most recent solo show was at Magnan Projects and her next Platform exhibition will be in May of 2010.
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Ariana Page Russell's skin is very sensitive and she blush easily. She has dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows her to painlessly draw patterns and words on her skin, which she then photographs. The reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush. Recently she has turned some of the images she makes of patterns made from skin into temporary tattoos, adorning her skin in a different way than drawing on it directly. Scanning the cut photographs of her skin adapted from clothing and wallpaper, she turns them into temporary tattoos, affixing them to her body. These tattoos become an intimate fashion, as their own sort of clothing, and an additional translucent layer for the fashion of skin.
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Marc Dombrosky
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Marc's work has been included in several exhibitions, most noteably in "Skirting the Line," a group show of conceptual drawing organized by the Richard E. Peeler Art Gallery at DePauw University in Indiana and "Release and Capture" at the Kirkland Arts Center in Washington. In 2008 he had his first solo museum exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. He has been in a group show at Platform and presented work in the Project Space of the gallery. Marc's first solo exhibition at Platform opens January 7, 2010.
Statement
Every handmade mark on any scrap of paper Marc Dombrosky finds (whether names, phone numbers, drawings of eagles' heads, directions to someone's home, a prescription, a plea for the purchase of used flooring, or a phrenology diagram) is salvaged and embroidered over with thread that most closely approximates the mark underneath it, in both line weight and color. Each successive found scrap expands (and complicates) the project. What may be a quiet walk from the bus stop to the convenience store is abruptly charged by a chance encounter with an emphatically scrawled rough draft for a first novel, wet and pockmarked from the asphalt.
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i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lots of sculputre, and sculputral elements. Lots of light play, whether projecting solid colors on the wall, or working reflections. Most of the works seem to have a subtle humor to it- if Wurm got together with Turrell and made an art baby.
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Name of the owner of the Gallery - Borkur Arnarson - Director/Owner, Edda Jonsdottir - Founder
Finnbogi Pétursson
Bio
Lives and works in Iceland
Education:
1979 - 1983 The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Iceland
1983 - 1985 Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Holland
Statement
Using “pure” sound as his primary medium, Finnbogi Pétursson (b. 1959) literally shapes his work out of thin air from its natural physical properties. Elemental in form as well as content, Finnbogi’s starkly beautiful and powerful pieces capture acoustic phenomena in water, wind, metal, and fire.
Katrín Sigurdardóttir
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just CV is listed
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Central to Katrín Sigurdardóttir´s (b. 1967) work is the experience of place;both her own, filtered through memory and imagination, and the viewers. In pieces like scaled-down landscapes folding into their own packing crates, she explores the interplay between the viewer´s perceptions of a location and his physical encounter with a model representation of it.
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International #2 - Yokoi Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Almost entirely 2D work - the gallery has a very very small permanent office. They seek out space to show their artists, and that's one thing that attracts me to them- the work seems to be really mobile, shows all over tokyo and Japan, as well as being comfotable with moving work internationally. Their digital work is extremely immature in my opinion, and i'd be frustrated to be in a group show with that slice of their roster.
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Name of the owner of the Gallery - not listed
Junko Ohara
Bio
Born in 1979
BFA photography
Worked as assistant for Michael Faye
Being a free-lance photorapher
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ISSO
Bio
1972 Born in Tokyo
1999 B.F.A in Design course, Tokyo Zokei University, Working at studio
2003 Working as free-lance
2007 Participate in dynamic(mainly fashion and beauty)
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