Artists

Theresa Loong and Laura Nova created the Feed Me a Story project which has existed since the spring of 2011. We were artists in residence on Ellis Island, the LaGuardia Senior Center, and Governors Island.  We also performed and collected stories at the Brooklyn Museum, the Eldridge Street Museum, and The Museum of Chinese in Americas. We collected stories from our mobile production cart at Cook Out NYC, the Egg Roll and Egg Cream Festival and the Hester Street Fair as part of the Locating the Sacred Festival. We were selected as participants in two POV Hackathons where we created a plan for collecting, curating and distributing stories and recipes on the web.

Feed Me a Story has also garnered distinction from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Asian American Arts Alliance.  It was recognized by Feet in 2 Worlds, a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, as well as Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC), a collaboration among the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the Department for the Aging (DFTA) and the City's five local arts councils.

Click to view Project

Alexandra Opie received a BA from Southern Oregon University in 1997 and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2001. Her artwork has been shown in museum and experimental spaces in Boston, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York. She teaches video art and photography at Willamette University. In form, her artwork has always bridged multiple media, but her creative explorations often arise out of a central interest in the tension between the old and the new, the competing desires to look back at the past and face forward into the future. In photography, single channel video, and installation video, Opie's work revolves around related themes of nostalgia, history, and place in the context of contemporary life. It often pairs traditional artmaking approaches—landscape, still life, portraiture—with new technology or uses old technologies to re-frame contemporary settings.

Click to view Project

Arzu Ozkal is a Turkish-born media artist and designer. Her practice engages with different interpretations of the body and its relationship to the environment. She raises questions about dogmas, traditions, laws, and patriarchal value systems through videos, public interventions, performances and design work. Ozkal received her MFA from the Department of Visual Studies at University at Buffalo (SUNY) and BFA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University. Her work has been exhibited broadly in exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally. She serves as Assistant Professor at San Diego State University School of Art and Design.

Click to view Project

.-_-. is a trans-territorial and trans-cultural distributed peer identity. everybody is free to use this identity, attribute this identity to their works and appropriate the works of this identity. .-_-. are not attributed as “he” or “she” or “they”, but just as .-_-. , in any language. .-_-. is trans-lingual and also there is no single way to pronounce .-_-. in any language. .-_-. speak any language, but not any of them properly. .-_-. cannot be searched on the internet and can only be associated through the works, however .-_-. is not associated with any single individual. everybody can appropriate the identity and host the works of all .-_-. . all works of .-_-. are works of free culture.

İz Öztat (1981) lives and works in Istanbul. She completed her BA degree in visual arts with honors at Oberlin College, Ohio and her MA degree in visual arts and communication at Sabancı University, İstanbul. She is currently a candidate for PhD in Art Practice at Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul. She lectured at Kadir Has University between 2009 – 2011. In 2008, she co-founded Cura Bodrum residency in Muğla as an investigation into self-organization and non-institutional support mechanisms. Since 2011, she is the director of Cda-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production. Her selected exhibitions include 'Here Together Now', Matadero Madrid (2013), 'I am not dealing with triangle, square and circle', Maçka Art Gallery (Istanbul, 2012), 'Underconstruction', Apartment Project (Berlin, 2012), 'Second Exhibition', ARTER (Istanbul, 2010), 'When Ideas Become Crime', DEPO (Istanbul, 2010), 'Public Idea', 5533 (Istanbul, 2010).

Click to view Project

Lorelei Pepi is an internationally award-winning independent animation filmmaker. Her work has received international recognition and awards through international festivals, fellowships and grants. Her practice evolves from utilizing time-based strategies to unfold ideas and concepts, while thematic issues include sexual identity and political power.

She is currently working on her own revisionist history project that references the 1930's Hollywood animation short, and is teaching animation and a new path called Open Media, both in the Film-Animation-Video Dept at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.

Click to view Project

Lives & works in Portland, Oregon.

Julie Perini creates videos, films, installations, events, and multimedia projects. Her interests include other people, everyday life, humor, identity, social movements, collaboration, and all sorts of art that deals with time and documentation. Her work often explores the areas between fact and fiction, staged and improvised, political and personal. Her work has exhibited at a variety of national and international venues including Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, Cornell Cinema in Ithaca, NY, Artists Television Access in San Francisco, the Northwest Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, and Experiments in Cinema Film Festival in Albuquerque, NM. Her writing on art, media, politics, and culture has been published by AK Press, Afterimage, and Incite: The Journal of Experimental Media. She participates in several collaborative initiatives to promote independent media, community cultural production, and progressive social change. She holds an MFA from the University at Buffalo’s Department of Media Study and a BS from Cornell University. Perini is an Assistant Professor of Art at Portland State University.

Click to view Project

Adrian Piper is a first-generation Conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who taught philosophy at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, and UCSD, and presently runs the APRA Foundation Berlin. Piper's sixth traveling retrospective, Adrian Piper since 1965, closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona in 2004. Her collected writings about art and culture were published in the two-volume Out of Order, Out of Sight (MIT Press, 1996). The Second Edition of her two-volume study in Kantian metaethics, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, is available online. Her artwork has most recently won the 2012 College Art Association Artist Distinguished Body of Work Award for having "since the late 1960s … profoundly influenced the language and form of Conceptual Art."

Click to view Project

Since the late '90s I have been making abstract works out of everyday gestures and objects that resonate with me, transforming and monumentalizing things that are, for most people, commonplace. My intention is to provide the audience with a new experience of the everyday and a point of entry into abstract and conceptual art. Additionally, a strong component of my work has been the borrowing, referencing, and re-working of various artistic traditions as both a way to participate in these traditions as well as to question my relationship to them. Integral to this approach is my interest in contaminating high art with objects and elements from everyday life and in undermining divisions between high and low culture.

I am also a member of Shake-n-Make, a queer art collective that creates work that references the 1970s while elevating craft and subject matter beyond kitsch to speak to our current moment in history. I live in Hamilton, Ontario, teach in a Multimedia program at McMaster University, and am represented by MKG 127 in Toronto.

Click to view Project

My work operates between performance and forms of visual writing identified with assembling methodologies, conceptual interconnectedness and a fluxing observation between the social, the personal and everything else with a longing for the posibility of uncategorizing certainty. There is no "canvas" but vacuum. Inside the "frame" and lending my body to the pulse of language, I sometimes include the work of other artists on projects expanded into the relational and curatorial as a sort of documentary, or biographycal and experiencial essayistic practice. I work in Series. Familys of ideas that breed, branch, stem, rave, meet and reintegrate at times in varied ways, subjects of moving contexts and "chance".

Since 1986 I lived and worked in and between California and the Northwest of Argentina where I was born, currently anchoring in Buenos Aires where I founded and direct Peras de Olmo – Ars Continua (2011), an independent nonprofit contemporary art space. I have an MFA from UCSD. In Argentina I obtained a Licenciatura en Artes Plásticas from UNT/National University of Tucumán and a Professorship in Classical Dance, I worked as soloist dancer, independent choreographer and dance teacher (1971-1985). I was member of the collectives Grupo Crónica (Argentina 1984-1985), Border Arts Workshop / Taller de Arte Fronterizo and Las Comadres (San Diego-Tijuana 1990-93). I was also member of the Arts Advisory Committee at Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego California (1989-98). I have participated in numerous collective exhibits since 1983, and produced over 50 individual shows and major projects in museums, cultural centers and galleries of Argentina, Mexico, USA, Japan, Spain, Pakistan, Thailand, Brazil, Ecuador.

Click to view Project

Lia Rousset is based in Chicago, IL. She grew up on the beaches of southern California, received her BA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lia's professional vocations have progressed from Olympian and coach, performing highly technical and teamwork related skills; to craftswoman, building aesthetic and functional objects such as flutes and boats; to artist, creating place-andexperience- based environments.

Given her work with the inherent potential within people, material, and place, Lia sees art-making as a connective tool. Her work involves generating spaces where people come together as creative agents— and asks us to imagine. Whether in formal venues like the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago where she has shown collaborative works Tapping the Audience and re-pur-pose, or in informal venues like street corners and abandoned lots, Lia works to s l o w u s d o w n and to draw attention to the experience of the body and spirit through material and community.

Click to view Project

Paul Lloyd Sargent is a multidisciplinary artist triangulating his body between Buffalo, Brooklyn, and Wellesley Island, NY. He is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Media Study at the University at Buffalo where his practice-based research examines externalities of the supply and disposal chains, focused primarily on urban waterways connected by the St. Lawrence Seaway. He has presented his research at the Society for Social Studies of Science, ISEA, the 2011 Festival of Ideas for the New City in New York, and in the 2012 book Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life, edited by smudge studios and published by Punctum Books of Brooklyn. He has exhibited his work in an array of media at Exit Art, Smack Mellon, the Conflux festival, and Proteus Gowanus in New York City, Para/Site Art Space and the Microwave Media Festival in Hong Kong; Gallery M in Berlin; the Impakt Festival in Utrecht; the Invideo festival in Milan; the Hyde Park Art Center, Mess Hall, the Onion City Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Hallwalls, Squeaky Wheel, and Big Orbit in Buffalo, NY.

Click to view Project

Paul Schick is Artistic Director of Real Time Opera, based in Oberlin, OH. He has written libretti for numerous new works, including "A House In Bali" by Evan Ziporyn, "Feynman" by Jack Vees, and "Sunburst", "Amarama" and "Cactus Co." by Dan Plonsey; forthcoming projects include libretti for "Nova" by Lewis Nielson (a satire, Cleveland Public Theatre), and "Reverb: A Chronotope" by Vees (a serial piece for the web, reimagining an ancient Hawaiian epic in the California surf-rock era). He has served on the directing staffs of the Wiener Staatsoper, the Teatro alla Scala, the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the Salzburger Festspiele, and has directed for both stage and television. As a producer for RTO, he recently launched a series of pop-up operas in collaboration with Cleveland artist Don Harvey, short works designed and filmed for web presentation. The first, "Double Figure," is on a text by Paul Celan in Schick's translation and setting. Works by Randall Woolf, David Mahler and an ASL opera by Larry Polansky are in production.

Schick is a proponent of exploring the rich and many intersections between the arts, humanities and technology. He has taught Musicology at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and enters the 13/14 academic year as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of German Language and Literatures at Oberlin. His scores and other writings are published by Frog Peak Music (a composers' collective). Ongoing research interests address questions surrounding the body during instances of musical multimedia from Greek Antiquity to the present.

Click to view Project

BIO: Kalan Sherrard is a "you" poet from Devonshire, Vermont, where xe lives on a punk farm with twenty-three crazy dogs. Kalan is also an active modular limb of the gROUPSELF Kollective. [I have not included any Typos in this document.]

Click to view Project

Joao Simoes (*1971, Luanda) Studied art and architecture in Lisboa, Milano, Paris and Barcelona and since 2004 lives between Lisboa and New York. Since his first exhibition, in 1996 - at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - invited by David Medalla shows his work regularly. In 2012 represent, among other architects, Portugal at La Biennale di Venezia Arch. Upcoming shows include The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; Tinguely Museum, Basel and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Presently Simoes is devising a new free art school in Lisbon, Portugal and continues to design his long-term project - a house in Malibu for the fluxus artist Jeff Perkins.

Click to view Project

Melissa Smedley is an artist, writer and educator currently based in the Salinas/ Monterey region of central California. Whether designing threedimensional objects for a public setting, making performative contraptions, blogging, or teaching college, her goal is to engage in the performance of everyday life: to create and transmit excellent art, however it may manifest.

Melissa Smedley was raised in Denver, Colorado. She comes from a pioneer family who required her to climb mountains and swim around lakes and ride her bicycle over mountains. This thorough physical training fused with her intellectual development as an artist.

She received her undergraduate education at Brown University, worked for a hunger relief agency in Boston and then continued with her MFA at The University of California, San Diego. In between, there was a summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Click to view Project

Sam Smiley is a media artist and educator who works within the intersection of  video art, video music, and the sciences. Her work has shown at media festivals around the world: Deutscher Videokunstpries: The German Award for Video Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, The National Poetry Association's Cine(e) Poetry Festival, San Francisco, CA, Spain, and Locarno Film and Video Festival, Locarno, Switzerland, 6dofpuebla07  muestra de cine y video experimental y alternativo in Puebla, Mexico, and she has presented work at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, 4S, EASST and various social science and cultural studies conferences. She produces a video compilation and journal called INtransit about art and technoscience.

Click to view Project

Zach Steinman and Ben Tear are artists from New York City. They have been working together as the artist team Steinman & Tear since 2010.

Click to view Project

Kirsten Stoltmann lives and works in Ojai, California. She has exhibited work In Abstract America, New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K., Bitch is The New Black, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., Think Pink, Gaalak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL., Cut-Ups, Fotografiska Collage, Center for Photography, Stockholm SE., Out of Focus, Sala Pelaires, Mallorca, Spain. Currently, she is screening her new video in the group show Psychosexual, curated by Scott Hunter at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL. Her most recent solo shows, Rising From The Ashes of Your Mind, was at the Brennan and Griffin Gallery New York and I AM SO HAPPY at Emma Gray HQ in Los Angeles. She is also included in the book, Concrete Comedy: An Alternative History of Twentieth-Century Comedy by David Robbins for the video, "Self-Reflecting."

Click to view Project

Athena Tacha was born in Greece in 1936 and received an M.A. in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Athens; an M.A. in art history from Oberlin College, Ohio; and a Ph.D. in aesthetics from the Sorbonne University, Paris. She was Curator of Modern Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, OH, (1963-73), and then professor of sculpture 1973 – 2000. She moved to Washington, DC in 1999, and became affiliated with the University of Maryland.

Her numerous exhibitions include six one-artist shows in New York and a retrospective of over 100 works at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 1989. In Washington, she has had solo shows at the Marsha Mateyka Gallery, 2004, 2008 and 2013, and at the AU Museum (Katzen Art Center), 2006. In 2010, a large retrospective traveled in Greece, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; the Municipal Art Gallery, Larissa; and the National Academy of Fine Arts, Athens.

She is represented in many museums and has won over 50 competitions for public art, 40 of which have been executed to-date throughout the U.S., including a number this past decade, e.g., for the Muhammad Ali Plaza, Louisville, KY, for Strathmore Music Center, Bethesda, MD, and in front of Bloomingdale's at Wisconsin Place, Friendship Heights, Washington, DC /MD.

Click to view Project

Torke’s artwork functions as an exploration/interrogation of a specific process, site or framed event, with the underlining assumption that these sites are loaded with material, cultural, psychological residue worth investigating. She has always worked from an interdisciplinary perspective with the belief that art is a process of critical investigation, risk-taking and a discursive synthesis of ideas and materials.

She received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, a MFA from the University of California, San Diego and was a fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been exhibited in venues like AC Direct, New York, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, and de Balie, Amsterdam. She has taught at School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Oberlin College and is currently Associate Professor at UMass Boston.

Nanette Yannuzzi was born in El Paso, Texas, she received her MFA from The University of California, San Diego, during which time she was also a fellow at the Whitney Museum ISP. She received her BFA in Painting from The Cooper Union School of Art and Science. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Yannuzzi’s work is comprised of actions, deliberations, collaborations, and writings, that respond or are in dialog with the personal, socio-political machinations of the everyday. Yannuzzi has collaborated with many artists and writers who share similar concerns and interests in art, the environment, labor, and value. She is based in Oberlin, Ohio where she teaches the practice of Art at Oberlin College & Conservatory.

Click to view Project

Mark Tribe is an artist whose work explores the intersection of media technology and politics. His photographs, installations, videos, and performances are exhibited widely, including recent solo projects at Momenta Art in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, G-MK in Zagreb, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Tribe is the author of two books,The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. He teaches courses on radical media, the art of curating, open-source culture, digital art, and techniques of surveillance at Brown University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies. He also teaches in the Art Practice MFA program at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. He lives in New York City.

Click to view Project

N. Eden Ünlüata is an interdisciplinary artist, an interdisciplinary designer and an interdisciplinary educator. He holds a BID from Middle East Technical University (Turkey), a MFA degree in Graphic Design from Bilkent University (Turkey) and a MA from Department of Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.

His works investigate the formation of cultural identity and how a society draws conclusions from shared experiences. His intent is to understand the mechanics of cultural identity, highlight problems that evolve from its formation, and stimulate a debate on how to better manage these problems. When the identity of a culture and how it operates is explored in-depth, solutions may reveal themselves.

He currently works as adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago, Interactive arts and Media Department, teaching artist at Center Community Arts Partnership (CCAP,) and has exhibited in many places such as Chicago, IL, Istanbul (Turkey,) Paris (France,) Berlin (Germany,) and Oberlin, OH. He currently lives in Chicago, IL.

Click to view Project

Eliza Shaw Valk was born in northern Manhattan and spent half her childhood in a sprawling apartment complex inhabited by artists, actors, and an elderly couple who banged on the walls when she played records too loud. After staging many living room dramas and running relays across the courtyard, she moved to Kansas and adopted a tiny black puppy. While Eliza amused herself by sticking out her tongue and trying to stop it from pulsating, her dog didn't share this concern and never stopped twitching, sighing, or growing. Novels, birdwatching, ballet, and shouting over the din of her bff's Wrangler occupied her teenage years. A stint in Portland, Oregon, introduced Eliza to modern dance, bicycles, luminous lichen, Irigaray, Jarry, and bridges. She graduated from Oberlin in art, participating in a slew of solo and collaborative narrative events involving installations, theatre, sculpture, and costume.

Eliza holds master's degrees in landscape architecture and city planning from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founding co-editor of the Landscape Urbanism website that launched in September 2011 and won a 2012 honor award in communication from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her dance and performance training instilled the belief that participatory and revelatory experience can transform our relationships with the landscapes in which we live and with each other. Bridging the scales between macro and micro—landscape and ecology, socio-economic conditions, and the cultural legacies of a place; as well as the visceral details of experience, life, and art—continues to motivate and inform her creative and professional endeavors. Eliza is a freelance landscape designer in New Haven, Connecticut and continues to prowl the beaches, woods, and prairie looking for birds.

Click to view Project

Georgia Wall (b. 1986, New York, NY) lives and works in New York, creating video and performance work through a multi-disciplinary practice that considers the act of viewing, and the generative space created through distance and concealment. She received her BA from Oberlin College in 2008 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Wall has shown work nationally in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and abroad in Canada, Italy and Turkey.

Click to view Project

Born in 1962, in Tokyo, Japan, Rachel Perry Welty holds a BA from Connecticut College and a Diploma and Fifth Year Certificate from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Recently Welty has participated in group shows at Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), The Drawing Center (New York) and at the Institute of Contemporary Art, (Boston, Massachusetts). Her work will be featured in the upcoming "Encounters" at Beatriz Esguerra Gallery (Bogota, Columbia). Solo shows include "Lost in my Life" at Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York), "Same Difference" at Barbara Krakow Gallery (Boston) and her first solo museum show "Rachel Perry Welty 24/7" at DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum which then traveled to the Zimmerli Museum in 2012. Welty was honored with the Cathrine Boettcher Fellowship in her second residency at the MacDowell Colony in 2011 and is a two-time winner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for excellence in drawing and sculpture. Welty's work is held in numerous museum and private collections around the world, and has been reviewed in many national and online publications among them Art in America, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Art on Paper, Harvard Business Review and Sculpture Magazine. Her four-page pictorial essay was published in December 2011 Vogue magazine.

Click to view Project

Martha Wilson (b. 1947) is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae. She began making these videos and photo/text works in the early 1970s while in Halifax in Nova Scotia, and further developed her performative and video-based practice after moving in 1974 to New York City, embarking on a long career that would see her gain attention across the U.S. for her provocative appearances and works. In 1976 she also founded and continues to direct Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artists’ books, installation art, video, online and performance art, further challenging institutional norms, the roles artists play within society, and expectations about what constitutes acceptable art mediums.

Wilson, a native of Newtown, Pennsylvania, who has lived in New York since 1974, is esteemed for both her solo artistic production and her maverick efforts to champion creative forms that are “vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content.” Described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s,” Wilson remains what curator Peter Dykhuis calls a “creative presence as an arts administrator and cultural operative."

Written into and out of art history according to the theories and convictions of the time, Wilson first gained notoriety thanks to the attention of curator Lucy R. Lippard, who placed Wilson's early efforts within the context of conceptual art and the work of women artists. Commenting on Wilson's first projects, art historian Jane Wark wrote in 2001:

In her conceptually based performance, video and photo-text works, Wilson masqueraded as a man in drag, catalogued various body parts, manipulated her appearance with makeup and explored the effects of "camera presence" in self- representation. Although this work was made in isolation from any feminist community, it has been seen to contribute significantly to what would become feminism's most enduring preoccupations: the investigation of identity and embodied subjectivity.

Wilson's early work is now considered prescient. In addition to being regarded by many as prefiguring some of the ideas proposed in the 1980s by philosopher Judith Butler about gender performativity, many of her photo-text pieces point to territory later mined by Cindy Sherman, among many other contemporary artists.  

As a performance artist she founded and collaborated with DISBAND, the all- girl punk conceptual band of women artists who can’t play any instruments, and impersonated political figures such as Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Tipper Gore. In 2008 she had her first solo exhibition in New York at Mitchell Algus Gallery, “Martha Wilson: Photo/Text Works, 1971- 74.” In 2009, “Martha Wilson: Staging the Self,” an exhibition of Ms. Wilson’s early photo/text work and one project from each of Franklin Furnace’s first 30 years, began international travel under the auspices of ICI (Independent Curators International); and in 2011, ICI published the Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces. Martha Wilson joined P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, and mounted a solo exhibition, “I have become my own worst fear,” in September, 2011.

Click to view Project

Andrew Witkin, in addition to being an active artist, he serves as Gallery Director at the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, and splits his time between Boston, Massachusetts and Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Witkin's work has been featured in a number of museum exhibitions including the 2008 Foster Prize exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, of which he was the Prize recipient and What Matters at the Worcester Art Museum, but also as far afield as Beirut, Damascus, and Kyoto.  He just had a large solo exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and has an upcoming museum-wide project at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. Andrew Witkin is represented by the James Harris Gallery, Seattle.

Click to view Project

David Young is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Black Lab (2006) and Field of Light and Shadow (2010). He is also known as a translator (Rilke, Celan, Montale, Du Fu, Holub) and editor (FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics). His "Project for Freight Trains" is from his 1973 volume, Boxcars. "My wife worked at Allen Art Museum, with Athena Tacha, so I was very much aware of the ongoing discussions of conceptual art that were taking place then" he says. "Since I was writing poems about freight trains, developing a conceptual art project for them felt like an apt and natural response at the time. At readings I would call for a random series of numbers, e.g. off a dollar bill, so that we could generate a train-poem on the spot."

Click to view Project