Kent Anderson Butler is a Los Angeles based artist working in a variety of mediums including video installation, performance and photography. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country including work in Florence Italy, and Post Gallery in Los Angeles. His video work is also in the video art library at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist’s Statement

What’s the difference between Thomas Wolski and God?

God doesn’t tell anyone he’s an artist.

These are self portraits of Thomas Wolski. I have become Thomas Wolski as identities are being stolen today in this world. I see Mr. Wolski; I paint Mr. Wolski; I have become Thomas Wolski. As soon as I get bored, I might become Thomas Krynski or Thomas Dickson.

–Thomas Billings

Afruz Amighi was born in Teheran, Iran in 1974 and immigrated to the United States in 1979. Her family arrived in the midst of the hostage crisis when many Iranians were pretending to be Italian, French or Pakistani. Discouraged from applying to art school, she studied political science at Barnard College and immersed herself in the history of the Middle East.

A few years after graduating, Amighi gravitated back towards the arts and taught herself how to make mosaics. She enrolled in the summer painting program at the School of Visual Arts and went on to study sculpture with Lorrie Goulet at the Art Students League for two years. Currently, she resides in Astoria and has a studio in the Crane Street Building in Long Island City. The exhibition “Sleep” is Amighi’s first solo show.

Mar Aige was born in Tarragona, Spain in 1974. In 1997 she concluded studies in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. In 2000 she finished a Masters in Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She has held 6 solo exhibitions across different cities in Spain. She has also participated in over 30 shows across Europe. In addition, Mar has received art grants in Spain and France. Currently she resides in New York City where she pursues a career as a painter and in Art Education.

FUMIHIRO MATSUZAKI was born in 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan.  In 1995, MATSUZAKI moved to New York City and currently resides in Brooklyn.  After attending the Art Student’s League,  MATSUZAKI worked for Matthew Barney for  the “Cremaster 2” and “Cremaster 5” projects as an assistant.  Currently, MATSUZAKI works out of his Brooklyn studio in Brooklyn and exhibits mainly in NYC and Japan.  

Exhibited in Solo and group exhibitions at museums, galleries, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad including the Irish Film Institute. DIVA Festival, 2002 Blur Conference at Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Huntington Museum of Art, Rhode Island Foundation, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, and New York University. His artwork has been reviewed by such publications as The New York Times, trace Online Writing Centre, and Block Magazine. He has lectured about his artwork at such institutions as the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival and Pre/amble; Festival of Art and Psychogeography. Derr has been a recipient of a number of grants, fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council and stipend from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Using a variety of artistic vernacular in his work, Derr employs photographs, video, new media, and performance. It can be said that he often times puts himself literally in the center of a barrage of questions about life and making art. Derr is an assistant professor in the Ohio State University’s Department of Art photography program.

Artist Statement ; I question the role of my masculinity by empowering the feminine aspects of my personality. The duality between my wife as the thrower and me as the sitter demonstrates my psychological battle questioning social roles of gender and sexuality, which have become blurred in contemporary society.

Claiming ancestral heritage and taking responsibility for ones history has become a heated debate. By claiming my Dutch heritage, I engage the subjectivity of the images in The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus created by Peter Paul Rubens. The image projected on my body portrays a contextual marker. My questioning and rejection assault my ancestry as well as masculinity.

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.