Robert Clark is an internationally exhibited artist based in the Northern England city of Sheffield. His recent multiple-piece, multi-media installation The Nether Edge Story has been exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and the USA: New York (CAVE). Robert Clark is a widely published writer on the visual arts and music and lectures in Universities throughout the UK and Europe.

Daisuke Nishimure is an artist in residence at the Cave gallery, where he presents paintings, drawings and music. Nishimura graduated from a doctoral course in Neuroscience at Tokyo University. He has worked as a junior lecturer on information science at Teikyo University, done web design and programming for several Japanese Corporations and is the Japanese text editor of Tokion magazine in New York.

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1974, and moved to New York City in 1988. Studied figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York, and then attended Brown University in Providence, RI, from where she graduated in 1995 with a BA in Visual Arts and Italian Studies.

From 1995 to 1999, she returned to the Art Students League where she assisted Charles Hinman’s mixed media class for two years, and won a Merit Scholarship, which allowed her to study full time with Bruce Dorfman. Under Hinman and Dorfman’s guidance she moved away from painting, and experimented with various materials such as paper, wood, plaster and plastic. Her work became gradually more tactile and abstract. The work of artists such as Eva Hasse and Antoine Tapies offered constant inspiration.

She then attended Hunter College, where she continued to experiment with different materials and created installations out of her three-dimensional objects. Towards the end of her study, she started painting on canvas again with a newfound fascination for the innate qualities of paint and a fresh perspective informed by her exploration of three-dimensional materials. Fragments of her objects and installations made their way back into her canvases. She graduated in 200 with an MFA in Painting.

Depero continues to paint on canvas and to create objects made from found materials. A fascination wih the materials themselves has been a driving force in her work. She constructs paintings using layers of color, which are applied based on a series of formal and intuitive choices. She often works and reworks a piece unil each shape falls into place. Similarly, in her three-dimensional work, she final result. Nature and personal memories are a recurrent theme in her work.

Depero lives, works and maintains studios in New York City and in Kingston, NY. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. She is part of a group of international artists called Across the Bridge, and a member of the Kingston Arts Society.

Artist Statement

There are two different ways to approach the creation of art photographs. One approach begins with having some kind of image visualized in the mind. The artist then turns that visualized image into reality. When completing this process, I search for the object that will fit into my visualized image and consider the ways I can manipulate the lighting, so that the finished full frame will be precisely what I want. This is the process I work from when I know before shooting the pictures what and how I want to show.

The other approach is to shoot at random whatever catches my eye. I often have no preconceived idea of how I want to show these images. Occasionally, I am not even sure if I will print those images and am unsure of why I am actively photographing those images. This process is similar to picking up a book at random to begin to read. I haven’t been told about the book; I don’t know the storyline; I haven’t read the author. Maybe I start reading it just because the book cover was beautiful. If I come across a character in the story who intrigues me, I’ll think about that character. And perhaps, I’ll try to some of them. I may think like them, look at the world as the way they do. Over time, some will become my own, and others will simply be forgotten.

I began photographing animal corpses on the highway in the summer of 2000, while traveling through the western states with a friend. If I lived in the countryside, I could have shot all these images in one week–Highways are full of corpses. I still can’t recall what first compelled me to photograph them. At first, I naturally ignored them. I had no desire to look at them. But one day, as if they would no longer be ignored, these corpses caught my eyes with strong power. After this, I became unable to ignore their presence. I stopped my car and started photographing them. This morbid curiosity began to take its toll. I found that if I shot just three of these images in one day, I felt as though I was a terrible person. After this I had to stop shooting for few days. Even now, I still do not understand what I could possibly want with those pictures. Although I have created them, they yield no definitive answer.

-Seiji Nakane

Visual artist who has exhibited in California, New York, and Eastern Europe. Exhibitions at international art festivals include multiple mixed media installations for Periferic, Iasi, Romania and the Carbon Art 2004 Memory Project in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Recent exhibitions include Pratt Institute, When Brooklyn Artists Speak, Art Listens. and Brooklyn College Gallery, Painters, Musicians, Sculptors. Her work is featured in several publications including, Downtown Brooklyn, the literary journal for Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Thirteenth Moon, SUNY, Albany, NY, Beasts in Their Wisdom by Eugene Garber and the forthcoming collaborative hypermedia work, Eroica

Dorothy Cowfield sings a more jazz-inspired blend of hillbilly. Her debut album, I’m a Cowgirl, is a less alternative take on country music than what is currently popular. Instead of going the rockabilly or pop route, Dorothy has chosen to stay closer to the roots. In a genre she likes to call “cowgirl jazz,” the songs are heavy on vocals and the music provides a hauntingly sweet backdrop.