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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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Cassidy Fry as an architect, cannot ignore the collective human desire to save the planet. As an artist, he identifies that art has the potential to reconcile apocalyptic guilt. To live green, society cannot deny that the practices of contemporary culture are destroying the earth. Cassidy embraces his shame of survival.
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Christy Gast‘s video, sculpture and performance projects explore intersections of history, politics and identity on the landscape and the body. Folklore, music an vernacular architecture inform the structure and narrative logic of her projects. Born in rural Ohio in 1976, Gast received a BA in Women’s Studies and a BFA in Sculpture from The Ohio State University in 1999 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2004. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at PS1 Contemporary Art Center (2005), Exit Art (2004) and Artists’ Space (2005) in New York; L.A.C.E. (2004) and High Desert Test Sites (2003-4) and Scripps College (2008) in California, Cabaret Voltaire (2005) in Zurich, Switzerland; and Locust Projects (2009) in Miami. She contributed to Performa Biennial of Fine Art Performance in 2005 and 2007, and recently completed a video edition with open-PLAYER. Gast lives and works in Miami, FL. Visit Christy at www.christygast.info
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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
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Annie Hollingsworth lives a hybrid creative life. After graduating from Brown University with a degree in Visual Art, she moved to New York where she became a devoted student of Haitian folklore, a dance form based on ritual movement and storytelling. At the same time, she was immersed in the contemporary art world, developing her own visual work and producing international exhibitions and large-scale public commissions for other artists. In 2007 she moved to Miami, where she now divides her time between contemporary art and traditional Afro-Caribbean dance. She also teaches therapeutic yoga, focused on healing injuries and imbalances of the body and mind. www.anniehollingsworth.com
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Thomas Hollingworth was always a strange child; not so much disliked as widely regarded to be indefinably flawed. From somewhat meager beginnings his application of the word – initiated by a frustrated sense of purpose and myriad resounding (yet currently mute) chants of support from various dubiously hallowed educators - thrust him unwittingly into some of the World’s most celebrated cities (and the hands of their inhabitants) where in a short time, with the preponderance of his thoughts vested in selfish ends, he began to exact with startling dexterity a career in writing. Now, marooned in South Florida, his labor as ever marked by a noticeable violation of good taste, this laggard, graduate of London and founder of ARTLURKER strives to sully his undeservedly pleasurable existence with art world dirt.
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Lori Kelly is librarian and a professor, which means her head is chock full of unconnected bits of literary flotsam. On rare occasions thinking about Art transforms those bits into jetsam and she has to spew it somewhere.
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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.nicklobo.com
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Maya Angelique Lujan was born in the seventies, and had past lives such as flapper girl, Spanish Renaissance Princess and Gypsy. She is half Mexican and half Jewish and grew up in Topanga Canyon California. There, she ran through the hills, encountered fairies and unicorns, walked with coyotes, and discovered mushrooms. She also spent countless hours with her chickens, geese and ponies, and often hid in a favorite field, in the middle of the night, gazing at the stars and the Milky Way. She did well in school especially the sciences but found that the school of life provided more interest, and as a teenager attended several raves such as “Does Your Mama Know?” She had a stint in San Francisco, lived in Venice, CA , then Echo Park. During this time she decided to get serious with her artistic career and attended Art Center followed by USC. In the interim, she had two daughters, Avida and Amiela. Maya has been all about art and babies for a long time now.
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Shana Beth Mason holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Florida State University and a Master of Arts (M.Litt) in the History of Art & Connoisseurship (Modern & Contemporary Art) from Christie’s Education London. She cultivated her passion for fine art residing in Europe, Oceania and the Middle East. Shana is actively engaged in the South Florida arts community, including the Miami Art Museum (MAM Young Collector’s Council), Locust Projects and ArtStudio Miami. She thinks Tazo iced green tea, sushi and the James Bond films are the bee’s knees.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Federico Nessi graduated with a B.F.A. from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, in 2005. He has since participated in a number of group shows including the 2006 Oregon Biennial at Portland Art Museum and enjoyed solo exhibitions in Miami with Bas-Fisher Invitational, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts and Spinello Gallery. Nessi now lives and works in Miami where he instigates and participates in various collaborative performance works with Miami-based collective, Psychic Youth, Inc. He is represented by Spinello Gallery. www.federiconessi.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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Mary Anna Pomonis is an artist and a writer living in Los Angeles. She has written for many publications such as Art US, THE and Whitehot. Additionally her curatorial projects and essays have been featured at commercial and college art galleries such as The Whittier College Greenleaf Gallery, Peter Miller Gallery and Circus Gallery. Pomonis is also well know as an exhibiting artist who has shown at galleries and institutions including, LACMA, Post, Circus, the Krannert Art Museum and I space.
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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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George Sánchez-Calderón lives and works in downtown Miami, Florida. He had his first one-man exhibit at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York City in 1996. Silvia Karman-Cubiña has described his work as being “context-driven public installations and architectural re-interpretations that confront the viewer due to their social and political content”. George Sánchez-Calderón received his Masters degree in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. For more information please visit: www.sanchezcalderon.com
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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.
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Bob Snead is an actor that had recurring roles on the TV shows Dear John and Troop Beverly Hills, but was made famous with his role as emergency operator for the LifeCall television commercials which include the catch phrase, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” Bob Snead is a character that gets his brains eaten in the movie Hannibal. Bob Snead is president of the El Paso Black Chamber of Commerce and makes paintings of Buffalo Soldiers. Bob Snead trains award winning horses in Pennsylvania. Bob Snead is an alcoholic and a retired air traffic controller for the Philadelphia International Airport. Bob Snead got his high school girlfriend pregnant, worked for FedEx, started Redux Contemporary Art Center, went to Yale to make paintings, drove a bus cross country for several years, was a butcher in an Alaskan meat shop, and now resides in the south east with a questionable lump on his left testicle.
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Annie Wharton is a painter who makes videos. She’s shown her work in group exhibitions at Museo del Arte in San Salvador, the Ringling Museum of Sarasota and MOCA in Washington, DC, and in Miami at the Lowe Museum, the Bass Museum, and MOCA, and has had solo museum shows at the Kirishima Open Air Museum in Japan and The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami. She graduated with a BFA in sculpture from the University of Miami in 1998. She is also a curator who co-owns The Company, an exhibition space in LA’s Chinatown that opened in the former reception office of a motel and its adjunct garage in November of 2008. Wharton writes art criticism for Flash Art and OC Weekly, and has an online music video and image blog called Pungent Glimmer. She is currently working on a publication and an exhibition about corporal video art, and lives with a sausage dog named Flor in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz.
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