Past Visiting and International Artists 2006

Australia
	Starlie Geikie Starlie Geikie deconstructs the boundaries between art forms, exploring the similarities and differences between what is "formalism" and "craft art". VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Stephen Haley 3D Computer Artist Stephen Haley’s artistic practice is multidisciplinary, covering painting, photography and new media. He investigates conceptions of space and how we live – architecturally, socially and emotionally – and examines how we construct and experience meaning through language and technology. As philosophical and social critiques, Haley’s high-end 3D computer modelled metropolises, suburban scenes and landscapes comment on newly emerging societal structures for living. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Cindy Lee Video Artist Cindy Lee is a media artist from Melbourne, Australia, and her work consists of both live video footage and video installation. While in her residency at 18th Street, she interviewed Americans, and used family footage as well as domestic footage from her own life to create juxtaposition between the cinematic narratives of film with the personal narratives we make. In her videos she often looks at and analyzes the way people perform in their lives. Her work also places her family footage, which would normally not appeal to the ordinary viewer, and places it into an interesting context that then becomes intriguing to the viewer. Lee is also a VJ (video-jockey) and enjoys using more abstract 2-D and 3-D forms in her work. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Neal Smith Having grown up in Newcastle, New South Wales, sculpture artist, Neal Smith, draws from his childhood to address the passage of time through the cycle of trends within his artwork. He creates low-relief sculptures and wall works that are based on his experiences of popular culture. In 2006, Smith received a grant from the Australia Council of Art for a studio residency program at 18th Street. Here he created a large sculpture, which for obvious reasons draws from his childhood, as he created a life-sized action figurine made from cardboard. His sculptural creation was showed at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Grant Stevens Grant Stevens is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Generally his videos and installations use text, image and sound to explore the languages of popular culture. He has exhibited widely since 1999 including the "Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "Prime 2005: New Art from Queensland" at the Queensland Art Gallery, and "2004: Australian Culture Now" at the National Gallery of Victoria. Stevens is currently completing his PhD at the Queensland University of Technology and is represented by Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Croatia
	Zelimir Kosevic Curator Zelimir Kosevic is a freelance curator and expert in national and international contemporary art and photography. In 1964, he graduated in Art History and Ethnology from University of Zagreb. He has been Curator at the Museum of Applied Art, Zagreb, Director of Student’s Centre Art Gallery Zagreb and, for many years, Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. Kosevic has been Professor of Museology at The Dept. of Art History, University of Zagreb, Editor of 20th Century Art in the Lexicographic Institute, Zagreb, and a member of ICOM/CIMAM, IKT, AICA, and the European Society for History of Photography. Currently, he is program adviser of Foto Galerija Lang in Samobor. He has nine books on contemporary art and more than 500 published articles, monographs, essays, and exhibition catalogues published in Croatia and abroad.

	Mare Milin Photo Artist "My artistic work has always been based on photographies of people, situations with them, selfpotraits. Sometimes, my professional tasks (mostly magazine jobs), turned out to be unexpectedly artistic. Therefore, unusable in the publishing business, but very helpful in my development as an artist. I like to take photo walks during which I take photographies of the moments, atmospheres, people on the way… What excites me about photography is breaking the rules, using it as my artistic «weapon». I love playing with usharpness, film grain, contrasts, over and under exposure ... there are so many rules to break." VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Germany
	Zara Kriegstein Sculptural / Media Artist Zara Kriegstein was born in West Berlin, Germany in 1952. She received her Masters degree in painting from the Academy of Art in West Berlin where she studied from 1972 to 1978. Upon graduating, Kriegstein spent one year traveling through Italy, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Malaysia, and Mexico to study the art and culture of these ancient civilizations. It was during her travels that Kriegstein determined to dedicate her work to the social and political issues throughout the history of mankind. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Japan
	Keiko Inoh Sculptural / Media Artist Keiko Inoh has exhibited her installation, sculptural and mixed media works in museums and galleries throughout Japan and Korea, including the Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art, Itabashi Art Museum, and the Seibu Department Store. Inoh attended Tama Art University in Tokyo, where she currently resides. For this exhibition, she will create a shadow picture installation exploring the visceral nature of iconic imagery. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Taiwan
	Chou Meng-Yeh Mixed Media Artist Meng-Yeh Chou’s playful Bonsai series, created during her residency at 18th Street (2006), took part in the group show, “Depicting Action: An International Festival of Time-Based Art.” From colorful ceramic pots sprout curious white, wiry forms that cross-reference the art of Britto and Harring with the work of Lynn Chadwick. Chou uses eye-catching colors and patterns with edge. Another installation piece covers walls and floor with muscle fiber-patterned wallpaper: a matrix of closely set thin red lines suspend simplified human forms that resemble stars. She also contributed mixed-media sculpture and video to the group show, “Frolic: Humor and Mischief in New Taiwanese Art,” held at Taipei Gallery in New York (2007). The same year, Chou added text to a performance art piece entitled “Don’t Go Too Far,” in which a man lays sprawled in the street, surrounded by sandbags and foreboding messages written in chalk on the pavement, shown in Taiwan. Meng-Yeh Chou offers fast-action video of melting blocks of colored ice. Her work has been described as “trippy, freaky sort of aesthetic that is energized and direct. VIEW MORE IMAGES \| WATCH VIDEO INTERVIEW >>

	Su Shu-Mei Sculptural Artist With considerable skill, ceramics artist Shu-Mei Shin creates sculptures that make you take a second look. She took part in the group exhibition “Book of Lies” (2006) at 18th Street, contributing such whimsies as a “sardine can” with a web address printed on it. Other works incorporate the use of ceramic strands: in one piece, she has gathered vertical strands to resemble angel’s wings; in another, she has twisted them into clumps along the wall, arranged to look like flowers blooming in rows. Two works that stand out are the furniture ensemble of bed and chair made from electrical cord, and blown-up surgical “gloves” wave in greeting or farewell in the piece “Hello & Bye Bye.” VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Thailand
	Vassan Sitthiket Mixed Media Artist VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

U.S.A.
	Shawn Hall Painter Shawn Hall received her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she was a Patricia Harris Fellow. She was awarded a studio residency at School 33 in Baltimore. Exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Center, Barrister’s and Jonathan Ferrara in New Orleans, Wolfson Gallery at Miami Dade, N.A.M.E. and Christopher Stokes in Chicago. Her work has been reviewed in Art Papers, New Art Examiner, and Dialogue. She is a frequent collaborator, most recently as a set designer of the Obie award winning “Nita and Zita”. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Darryl Montana Costume Artist Darryl Montana, son and successor of Big Chief Allison Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas "Hunters" Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, is heir to a rich and visually stunning tradition that originated in New Orleans in the 19th century. Numerous tribes emerge from the Crescent City's black neighborhoods to display their remarkable handmade finery and engage in percussion-driven chants during Mardi Gras. These events display not only their singing and dancing talents, but also their exquisite hand-beaded and feathered suits influenced by Aztec design elements and African beading traditions. The suits originated as a way for African Americans to stage subtle protests against white repression and violence. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Dona Simons Painter Dona studied classical realism at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the oldest art school in the country. Her work combines technical skill, imagination and a passion for Louisiana culture. In her series of paintings called Louisiana Music Below Sea Level, art, music, water and culture come together to create a unique world called south Louisiana. WATCH VIDEO INTERVIEW >>