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Ernest Hemingway had approximately 15 letters in his name, but it takes a full 17 to spell Victor Barrenechea. That’s two whole extra letters. You also need 17 letters to spell out F. Scott Fitzgerald, though the prominence of his middle name probably gives him a distinct advantage in this little contest. If Barrenechea lived in the time of Fitzgerald he would probably die in his early 40’s of either cholera or tuberculosis. Fitzgerald himself died of a heart attack when he was in his 40’s. On the way to Fitzgerald’s funeral, author Nathanael West was killed in a car accident at age 37. Writer Dorothy Parker lived to be 73, but like Fitzgerald also died of a heart attack. She did, however, manage to survive several suicide attempts. Barrenechea has never had a successful suicide attempt either. In her day, Parker wrote for The New Republic, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. Meanwhile, Barrenechea has contributed to such publications as The New Times, Miami Living Magazine, and the Biscayne Times.
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Eric Doeringer is a New York based conceptual artist. He graduated with Honors from Brown University in 1994 then with his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1999. He has exhibited prolifically since 1998 in a number of group and solo exhibitions and has participated in many high profile international fairs such as The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze Art Fair, ArtLA, GEISAI Miami, NOVA Art Fair, and Scope - Hamptons, Miami and London . For more information please visit: www.ericdoeringer.com
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Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2000. After completion of a two year Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 2003, she returned to Germany where she organized international T.a.T. (pure action) Performance Art Workshops (www.kunstwirkstoff.de ), City site-specific 12-hour Performance Art Workshops called ‘Werktag’, and developed the international ‘exhibition as event’ “transit station” (www.transitstation.de ) which has toured London, Berlin, Edinburgh and plans to visit Copenhagen in 2009 in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy. For more information please visit: www.dagmarglausnitzer.de
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Richard Haden attended the University of Kentucky and is an apprenticed wood sculptor. Richard has lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York city, San Francisco, North West Washington State, Vancouver BC and currently lives and works in Miami. Along side an art career he has maintained an interest in political activism and political awareness…for example helping to build alternative housing in New York city and houses for Ranchers in Nicaragua. He has also contributed to Aids / Cancer relief while in San Francisco through early development of self supporting buyers clubs. A firm believer in autodidactic life styles, Richard, who stresses the importance of maintaining strong regimens of reading and writing, is represented by the Allan Stone Gallery, New York and Lincart, San Francisco. He will be included in Art Basel 2008 and AQUA Art, Miami, 2008. Visit Richard @ www.richardhaden.com
Ruba Katrib is the Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami . She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and in 2002, co-founded ThreeWalls, a non-profit artist residency and exhibition space in Chicago. She has worked at The Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and The Renaissance Society at the University in Chicago, and curated a number of exhibitions with international emerging and mid-career artists in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Mexico City. In addition, she has been a visiting critic at the Bethanien Residency Program, Berlin, IASPIS, Stockholm, and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, NY.
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Nicolas Lobo was born in Los Angeles and raised in Miami; as such he is headed for both a bright future and a dead end. He attended Cooper Union in New York City for art and continues to do it. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, ARTIS in the Netherlands, Guild & Greyshkull in New York City and Gallery Today in Brussels, Belgium. His current work involves creating authentic artifacts, taking over other peoples jobs and trying to materialize what isn’t there. See Nicolas’ work at www.nickdlobo.com
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Sally O’Reilly is a writer and critic, contributing regularly to many art publications, including Art Monthly, Frieze, Art Review, Spike and Time Out, and has written essays on emerging and established artists for international organizations such as Tate Modern, London, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, and BALTIC, Gateshead. She is also co-editor of the thematic, interdisciplinary broadsheet Implicasphere and Dean of Brown Mountain College of the Performing Arts , an itinerant platform for the production of performative events. She was also co-producer of the performance programme for Whitstable Biennale 2006, curator of Beacon Art Project 2007.
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Tommy Ralph Pace is an artist investigating the complex relationships between culture, capital, and power. Born in Miami in 1986, the social contexts within the sunny and somewhat culturally ambivalent enclaves of South Florida have intrinsically informed his practice as an artist who sees dynamic social interaction being at the core of the role of “artist” in this epoch of hyper-capitalism. He has shown his work in Brooklyn, NY was recently included in “Optic Nerve: X” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami . He graduated with a BFA in Drawing from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 2008.
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Jon Peck studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute, and graduated in 2002 with a BFA. In 2004 he was invited to become an artist-in-residence at the Art Center of South Florida in Miami Beach. In 2007 he received the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual Art, and was included in the exhibition ‘New Art: South Florida 2007′ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. Recently his work was featured in the infamous book ‘Miami Contemporary Artists’ , and next year will appear alongside artists such as David Hockney and Elizabeth Peyton in the next addition of the series “The Male Nude in Contemporary Art and Photography,” published by Rizzoli. Jon is currently artist in residence at Cooper Union, NY.
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David Rohn grew up in the suburbs of New York, the city in which he lived throughout the ’70’s and ’80’s. After studying Architecture, Art and Urbanism at NYU, Pratt Institute, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris he moved to Miami where in 1995 he began to exhibit paintings, videos, installations, and performances. Currently associated with Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art , Miami, his work has reached museums and collections both public and private. David Rohn has contributed art reviews to Art Press (Paris), The Sun Post (Miami), Art Papers (Atlanta), and TWN (Miami-now defunct), and online publications TuMiami , MAEX , and Whitehot Magazine . For more information please visit: www.davidrohn.net
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Aimée Sinclair is a freelance writer who lives and works between Miami and New York. She graduated from Columbia University in 1999 with BA in sociology. While at Columbia, she wrote her thesis under the tutelage of influential sociologist Herbert Gans - Her thesis project consisted of a sociological study of the informal support systems that evolved amongst communities of African-American and Latino artists in NYC. Presently, she is a contributor to Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art , M - The New York Art World , and Miami’s Gallery Diet Newsletter. Her latest book project is a photographic satire of people having sex in cars.
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