Participant Biographies
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- Pau Atela
- Suzanne Bocanegra
- Robert Bosch
- Satyan Devadoss
- John Gibson
- Marthe Keller
- Clarinda Mac Low
- Mckendree Key
- John McCleary
- Brian O'Connell
- David Pushkin
- Aki Sasamoto
- Joe Smith
- Gordon Thorne
- Richard Tuttle
- Arturo Vidich
- B. Wurtz
Pau Atela
Pau Atela is Professor of Mathematics at Smith College. He was a Fulbright, received his PhD from Boston University in dynamical systems under Bob Devaney and did his post-doctorate work at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His scholarship focuses on chaos, computer visualization, Phyllotaxis and art and math. He grew up between Mexico and Spain is the director of the newly-created MathStudio.
Suzanne Bocanegra
Suzanne Bocanegra is an artist living and working in New York City. Educated at the University of Texas in Austin and the San Francisco Art Institute, she has taught at Middlebury College and at Cooper Union. A recipient of the Rome Prize, she has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Bocanegra's work is about collecting – how things get collected, sorted and categorized, and how the categorization affects how we think of them. Her work has been seen in exhibitions in the United States and abroad, in such venues as the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia.
Bocanegra's work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.
Robert Bosch
Robert (Bob) Bosch is Professor of Mathematics and the Robert and Eleanor Biggs Professor of Natural Science at Oberlin College. He specializes in optimization, the branch of mathematics concerned with optimal performance. Since 2001, Bosch has devoted increasing amounts of time and effort to devising and refining methods for using optimization to create pictures, portraits, and sculpture. He has had pieces commissioned by Colorado College, Western Washington University, Occidental College, and Spelman College, and the organizing committees of several academic conferences. He operates a website, www.dominoartwork.com, from which it is possible to download free plans for several of his domino mosaics.
Satyan Devadoss
Satyan Devadoss is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. He received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in topology and did his post-doctorate work at The Ohio State University in geometric group theory. His research and teaching interests range from ideas in origami, cartography, studio art, and the study of shapes. Recently, he received the Alder award, a national teaching award from the Mathematical Association of America.
John Gibson
John Gibson, born 1958 in Northampton Mass., received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980 and an MFA from Yale in 1982. For the last 20 years he has taught drawing and painting at Smith College in Northampton. During that same period he has shown regularly in New York, (Gerald Peters) Boston, (Miller Block) Santa Fe, (Gerald Peters) Chicago and Paris. This summer John is showing at the Caldwell Snyder gallery in San Francisco and in October will show again at the Peters gallery in N.Y.. Since the mid eighties John has made paintings of balls. These pictures vary in size, media and configuration but they are always of variously decorated balls. His work has been widely collected. Some museum collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Hood museum. For more information and images please see his website:
Marthe Keller
Marthe Keller has exhibited internationally since 1974. Her paintings are represented in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the British Museum, London, MOMA, NY and the Whitney Museum, NY among others. Her most recent exhibition, Corso Ricorso was a two gallery collaboration between the Miralli Gallery and The Studio Fontaine in Viterbo, Italy, June/July 2008. Her recent group shows include Echo, Implant, Imprint, Reverb at Frederieke Taylor, NY, and No Chromophobia at OK Harris, 383 West Broadway, NY, re-opening September 2-6, 2008. Keller is participating in an American Abstract Artists group show also opening September 2 at the Painting Center, 52 Greene St, NY. In 2009 she has two one-person shows scheduled in Italy and in Germany, at the St Stephen’s Cultural Center Foundation, in Rome and at G.B. Kunst, Trier. Marthe serves as Director of the BAU Institute Otranto Summer Arts Residency, www.bauinstitute.org and as editor of the American Abstract Artists Journal www.americanabstractartists.org. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of painting and drawing at Hunter College, CUNY, NY.
Clarinda Mac Low
Clarinda Mac Low was brought up in the avant-garde arts scene that flourished in NYC during the 1960s and ‘70s. She graduated from Wesleyan University with High Honors in Dance and degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Since 1988, Mac Low and her collaborators have been presented in New York City at Performance Space 122, the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, the Kitchen, and other performance spaces, and throughout New York City in unusual sites and city streets (including the Queens Botanical Garden), and elsewhere in the world, including a park in Siberia. Current projects: Salvage/Salvation, an ongoing collaborative installation and performance project that explores the philosophical, emotional and material implications of re-use, discard, decay and abundance; TRYST, performance interventions in everyday life, and Cyborg Nation, a solo technology and performance project about our intimacy with machines. Mac Low is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, received a BAXTEN Art and Artists in Progress Award for excellence and innovation in 2004, and is a 2007 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among other grants and residencies. She is a founding member of CULTURE PUSH. More about her and her work at http://culturepush.org/?q=node/146
McKendree Key
McKendree Key (b. 1978; Vermont) has had solo exhibitions at Galer�a Senda in Barcelona, and Caren Golden Fine Art in New York City. She has exhibited her work at Socrates Sculpture Park in the Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition (2003), the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (2006), The Sculpture Center (2006) and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City (2007). In 2007-2008, her work was included in group shows in Berlin, Beijing, Los Angeles and Toronto. McKendree is a 2004 NYFA fellow and has participated in residency programs at the CUE Art Foundation, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She teaches at Pratt University, near where she lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
John McCleary
John McCleary is Professor of Mathematics at Vassar College and the author of the User's Guide to Spectral Sequences, Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint, and A First Course in Topology: Continuity and Dimension. His research interests are algebraic topology, differential geometry, and the history of mathematics.
Brian O'Connell
Brian O'Connell is an artist who lives and works in New York. His sculpture, photography and drawing often rely on formal similarity as a means of combining aspects of research among various disciplines. He has been included in exhibitions internationally at de Appel, Amsterdam, K21 in Düsseldorf and The Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He has also produced a permanent installation at the Central Library of the University of Leuven, Belgium. His work has been shown at Laure Genillard in London and Adamski Gallery in Berlin and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York. He teaches sculpture at Pratt Institute in New York and is a contributing editor of Art and Research published online by the Glasgow School of Art (artandresearch.org.uk)
David Pushkin
David Pushkin is an artist who lives and works in New York City. His work addresses conceptual narrative as it relates to: space, place and time. He is currently collaborating with other artists in the creation of “Ghost Town”, a project that documents the land redevelopment at Coney Island. David has participated in national and international exhibitions and his work is featured in private and public collections. His awards include recognition from the National Arts Club and a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation. He was the co-director of the 2003 conference, "With a Pen of Light: The Films of Jean Cocteau" sponsored by Hofstra University and Rhode Island School of Design. He currently teaches Drawing and Color Theory at Hofstra University and has taught Drawing and Foundations at American and Columbia Universities.
Aki Sasamoto
Aki Sasamoto is a New York-based, Japanese artist, who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. She received an MFA degree in visual arts at Columbia University. She is one of the founding members of the new cross-genre arts organization, Culture Push, and has worked with lower lights collective, Eiko & Koma, Koosil-ja Hwang, Hari Krishnan, Clarinda Mac Low, Yvonne Meier, Dan St. Clair, Jeffrey Schiff, and Arturo Vidich. Her own works are shown both in dance and visual arts venues in New York, San Francisco, Germany, and Japan. They revolve around everyday gestures on nothing and everything.
Joe Smith
Artist, Joe Smith, lives in South Hadley Mass and teaches in the Art Dept of Mt Holyoke College since 1996. His work is included in many collections including The Edward Broida Trust, the Elaine Dannheisser Collection, and the Jean and Barbara Schwartz Collection. Primarily known as a sculptor, his work has been widely exhibited and reviewed in the NY Times, Art Forum, Art In America, The Chicago Tribune and Flash Art among other publications. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Gordon Thorne
Gordon Thorne was born in 1941 and ended a totally undistinguished academic career in 1966 with an MFA from the Yale School of Art & Architecture. He has worked since then in Vermont and Northampton Massachusetts on an evolving series of “studies” dealing with the meeting of heaven and earth. These studies fall into five categories: The Burning Woman, The Burning Suit/man, The Burning Boat, The Burning House, The Portfolios. These categories often overlap, and have spawned work in a wide range of materials.
I make and collect a wide range of stuff, some of it art. All the stuff, including the art, has a story embedded in it about survival. I think life is fundamentally, although not exclusively, about survival. Surviving white water in a canoe, requires paddling faster than the current. Surviving during this stage of civilization’s evolution, in the powerful currents flowing toward destruction, demands that we create more than we destroy. When a new image or a new sound emerges out of this struggle, the soul is always interested. The stuff I make and collect speaks to me at this level, and often in the simplest of phrases.
Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle was born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1941, and lives and works in New Mexico and New York. He received a BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Although most of Tuttle’s prolific artistic output since he began his career in the 1960s has taken the form of three-dimensional objects, he commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice (defined by grand heroic gestures, monumental scale, and the ‘macho’ materials of steel, marble, and bronze) and instead creates small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble, even ‘pathetic’ materials such as paper, rope, string, cloth, wire, twigs, cardboard, bubble wrap, nails, Styrofoam, and plywood. Tuttle also manipulates the space in which his objects exist, placing them unnaturally high or oddly low on a wall, forcing viewers to reconsider and renegotiate the white-cube gallery space in relation to their own bodies. Tuttle uses directed light and shadow to further define his objects and their space. Influences on his work include calligraphy (he has a strong interest in the intrinsic power of line), poetry, and language. A lover of books and printed matter, Tuttle has created artist’s books, collaborated on the design of exhibition catalogues, and is a consummate printmaker. Richard Tuttle received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; SFMoMA; ICA Philadelphia; Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; and the Museu Serralvesin, Porto, Portugal.
Arturo Vidich
Arturo Vidich is an inter-media artist from New York. His approach to experimental performance uses technology and movement to identify and reflect upon the way we process information through the senses. He is interested in treating the performer's body and sculptural materials as interchangeable objects, and the possibilities that emerge out of resistance and limitation. Arturo likes doing projects that demand learning new skills, and incorporate his studies in dog training and different cognitive abilities.
B. Wurtz
B. Wurtz was born in Pasadena, California in 1948 and educated at UC Berkeley and the California Institute of the Arts. His works and writings have been showcased throughout the world and he has had one-person exhibitions most recently at Richard Telles Fine Art in Los Angeles and Feature Inc., New York. His work often takes the form of constructions utilizing carefully selected found objects of the most ordinary kind.