BOMB Magazine: 2011 Gala & Silent Auction

2011 Gala & Silent Auction

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Thordis Adalsteinsdottir
Untitled, 2011
Pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Stux Gallery, New York, and Specta Gallery, Copenhagen
www.stuxgallery.com
www.specta.dk
Estimated retail value: $750

Michael Ballou
Tree (Dancing Girl) Working Model, 2009-2011
Wood, paint
22 x 1 x 1 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated retail value: $1,000

Valérie Belin
Untitled # 02030609, 2002
Gelatin silver print
19 2/3 x 23 2/3 inches
Edition 1 of 9
Courtesy of the artist
and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
www.sikkemajenkinsco.com
Estimated retail value: $8,000

Huma Bhabha
Untitled, 2010
Ink and pencil on paper
10 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York
Estimated retail value: $3,700
Framing by Minagawa Art Lines, Inc

Josh Blackwell
Plastic Basket (sealed), 2010
Plastic bag, yarn
17 ½ x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist
www.joshblackwell.com
Estimated retail value: $900

Sebastiaan Bremer
Miniature #135, Schoener Goetterfunken Study, ‘Where Thy Gentle Wing Abides’ and Miniature #133, Schoener Goetterfunken Study VI, ‘Run, Brothers, Run Your Race’, 2010
Acrylic and inks on C-print
2 1/5 x 2 1/5 inches, each
Courtesy of the artist
www.sebastiaanbremer.com
Estimated retail value: $3,000

Emilie Clark
Untitled, BBG-19 from My Garden Pets, 2010
Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper
16 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
www.emilieclark.com
Estimated retail value: $1,700

Verne Dawson
Untitled (Zodiac I), 2001
Pencil, collage and gouache on paper
18 x 23 1/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
www.gavinbrown.biz
Estimated retail value: $2,800
Framing by Minagawa Art Lines, Inc.

Steve DiBenedetto
Untitled, 2010
Colored pencil on paper
30 3/16 x 22 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and David Nolan Gallery, New York
www.davidnolangallery.com
Estimated retail value: $12,000

Carroll Dunham
Untitled, 2003
Wax crayon and pencil on paper
20 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York
Estimated retail value: $8,000

Rochelle Feinstein
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman. M. Wollstonecraft, 1796-1797, 2011
Mixed media on panel
16 x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist and On Stellar Rays, New York
www.rochellefeinsteinstudio.com
Estimated retail value: $6,000

Adam Fuss
From the series My Ghost, 2003
Photogravure
42 x 31 1/2 inches
Edition 17 of 21
Courtesy of the artist and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York
Estimated retail value: $15,000

Joe Fyfe
Untitled (Drawing), 2009
Watercolor and crayon on Ingres paper
25 x 19 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and James Graham & Sons, New York
www.joefyfe.com
Estimated retail value: $2,000

John Giorno
IT DOESN’T GET BETTER, 2010
Oil on canvas, permanent green light
8 x 8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
www.nicoleklagsbrun.com
Estimated retail value: $3,500

Michael Goldberg
Untitled, 1987
Oil, pastel and charcoal on paper with newsprint
25 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches
Courtesy of Lynn Umlauf
Estimated retail value: $15,000

Katharina Grosse
Untitled, 2007
Acrylic on wood
27 3/5 x 19 7/8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the artist and VG-Bildkunst, Bonn, 2011 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
www.katharinagrosse.com
Estimated retail value: $10,000

David Herbert
Animal House, 2010
Pencil and ink
16 1/2 x 14 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York
www.davidherbert.com
Estimated retail value: $850

George Herms
Sensate, 2008
Ink on Rives BFK Monoprint
33 x 25 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, and Smith Andersen Editions
www.inglettgallery.com
Estimated retail value: $3,000

Arturo Herrera
Siegfried, 2009
Collage, mixed media on paper
20 x 15 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
www.sikkemajenkinsco.com
Estimated retail value: $12,300
Framing by Minagawa Art Lines, Inc.

Jene Highstein
Blue and Yellow Double, 2006
Watercolor on rice paper
27 x 27 inches
Courtesy of the artist
www.jenehighstein.net
Estimated retail value: $8,400

Thomas Hirschhorn
Game Over, 2011
Paper, prints, plastic foil, adhesive tape, felt pen, ballpoint
45 x 35 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York
Estimated retail value: $21,200

Roni Horn
Ends of Rainbow, 1996/2010
Pigment print on paper
12 1/2 x 19 inches
Edition 38 of 48
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York
www.hauserwirth.com
Estimated retail value: $3,500
Reserve: $3000

Judith Hudson
Contact, 2011
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated retail value: $3,000

Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Untitled, 2004
Ink and collage on paper
14 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Laurel Gitlen, New York
www.laurelgitlen.com
Estimated retail value: $3,000

Richard Kalina
Amide Cycle II, 2011
Watercolor on paper
18 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
www.lennonweinberg.com
www.richardkalina.net
Estimated retail value: $3,000

Deborah Kass
Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner, 2007
Silkscreen on 4-ply museum board
20 x 20 inches
Edition 9 of 40
Courtesy of the artist
www.paulkasmingallery.com
Estimated retail value: $1,800

An-My Lê
US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam, 2009
Archival pigment print
17 x 25 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York
www.murrayguy.com
Estimated retail value: $2,500

Ati Maier
Across, 2009
Ink, woodstain on paper
7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Pierogi Gallery, New York
www.atimaier.com
Estimated retail value: $1,200

Robert Mangold
Split Ring Study, 2008
Colored pencil, pencil
14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated retail value: $9,500

Howie Michels
10th Ave Chelsea, 2003
Acrylic on a gessoed masonite wood panel
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated retail value: $1,200

Curtis Mitchell
Circle 5, 2010
Inkjet print point
24 x 24 inches
Edition 5 of 30
Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery, New York
www.martosgallery.com
www.curtismitchellart.com
Estimated retail value: $2,000

Shirin Neshat
Game of Desire, 2009
Color print with hand script on it
14 x 11 inches, each
Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York
Estimated retail value: $15,000

John O’Connor
Sixhundred and sixteen, 2009
Graphite, colored pencil, ink on paper
25 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Pierogi Gallery, New York
www.johnjoconnor.net
Estimated retail value: $2,800

Tom Otterness
BOMB, 2006
Bronze
5 x 3 ½ x 3 ½ inches
Edition 1 of 9
Courtesy of the artist
www.tomostudio.com
Estimated retail value: $7,500-$10,000
Reserve: $7,500

JJ PEET
PAST BATTLE- ABSTRACT VICTOR, 2010
Acrylic on panel
7 x 11 x 1 inches
Courtesy of the artist and On Stellar Rays, New York
www.onstellarrays.com/artists/jj-peet
Estimated retail value: $2,800

Adam Pendleton
System of Display, 0 (Without Trisha Brown, Leaning Duets, 1970), 2008-2009
Silkscreen on glass and mirror
9 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated retail value: $3,500

Judy Pfaff
#7 (firefly), 2008
Etching, relief, digital hand punching
10 1/2 x 15 inches
Edition of 40, AP 1 of 5
Courtesy of the artist
www.judypfaff.org
Estimated retail value: $2,200

Jorge Queiroz
Untitled, 2010
Gouache, charcoal and graphite on paper
8 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
www.sikkemajenkinsco.com
Estimated retail value: $4,500

Jimmy Raskin
If We Put them through ‘Poet…’ (collage 2), 2010
Acrylic, inkjet on acetate and paper collage
24 x 19 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
www.miguelabrewgallery.com/jimmyraskin.htm
Estimated retail value: $4,000

Clifford Ross
Harmonium 3 X 3 Diptych, 2010
Archival pigment print
33 1/2 x 56 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated retail value: $9,000

Mika Rottenberg
m20, 2011
Graphite, acrylic, color pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
www.nicoleklagsbrun.com
Estimated retail value: $4,000
Framing by Minagawa Art Lines, Inc.

Cordy Ryman
Spotted Pig, 2010
Acrylic, enamel, ink, mixed media and glue on wood
7 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches
Courtesy of the artist and DCKT Contemporary, Inc., New York
www.dcktcontemporary.com
Estimated retail value: $3,500
Reserve: $1,750

Elizabeth Streb
Ground Level, 1991
Marker and ink
8 x 22 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, New York
www.streb.org
Estimated retail value: $2,000

Fred Tomaselli
September 15, 2005 (Half Page), 2010
Screenprint over digital print on paper
15 x 17 1/2 inches
Edition 17 of 20
Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York
Estimated retail value: $900

Brian Ulrich
Levitz, 2008
Pigmented inkjet print
14 x 11 inches
AP
Courtesy of the artist
www.notifbutwhen.com
Estimated retail value: $900

Carrie Mae Weems
Slow Fade to Black (Eartha Mae Kitt), 2009-2010
Inkjet on paper
25 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches
Edition 3 of 5, 2 APs
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
www.jackshainman.com
Estimated retail value: $12,000

Lawrence Weiner
Blue Moon #9, 2001
Collage, paint markers, staples
19 5/8 x 25 3/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
www.mariangoodman.com
Estimated retail value: $18,000
Reserve: $15,000

James Welling
March Sunburst, 2009
Inkjet print and acrylic paint
12 5/8 x 15 3/8 inches
Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York
www.davidzwirner.com
Estimated retail value: $10,000

Stanley Whitney
Untitled 9-2010, 2010
Oil on linen
12 x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery, New York
www.teamgal.com
Estimated retail value: $6,000

Jack Whitten
Space Garden, 2006
Watercolor, dry pigment, acrylic,
powdered mylar on Rives Paper
9 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches
Courtesy of the artist and
Alexander Gray Associates, New York
www.alexandergray.com
Estimated retail value: $2,700
Framing by Minagawa Art Lines, Inc.

Joe Zucker
Star Lake, 1995
Acrylic, rhoplex on canvas
18 x 48 inches
Courtesy of Julie Augur
Estimated retail value: $15,000

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir Thordis Adalsteinsdottir lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York and her BFA from the Icelandic Academy of Arts. Adalsteinsdottir has exhibited her work internationally in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Reykjavik in Iceland. Adalsteinsdottir’s figurative paintings inhabit a zone somewhere between realist figuration, cartoons, anime, and pure fantasy. Her subjects, both human and animal, are often represented as unsettling distortions of their natural forms. She is represented by Stux Gallery, New York and Specta Gallery, Copenhagen. Adalsteinsdottir appeared with David Herbert in BOMB Specific, Winter 2011.

Michael Ballou Michael Ballou lives and works in Brooklyn. During the 90s, he was one of the founders of Four Walls, a forum for the exchange of art and ideas hosted in his garage studio. In addition to numerous exhibitions in New York, Ballou has shown his work in Los Angeles, Providence, Boston, Miami, San Antonio, St Louis, and Minneapolis and internationally in Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Paris, London, and Riga. His work ranges from sculpture and mixed media to film, video, and site-specific installation. Ballou’s recent projects—including a sculpture for Marilyn Minter and a light show at Pierogi Gallery’s The Boiler—play with themes of divination, spirits, prophecy, and mythical creatures. Ballou was in BOMB’s Fall 2010 issue, an Artists on Artists by William Corwin.

Valérie Belin Born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Valérie Belin currently lives and works in Paris. She received her MA in Philosophy of Art from Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris. Belin’s work is included in permanent collections including Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Belin’s large-scale black and white photographs of banal items are coldly beautiful, confrontational, and achieve an unsettling balance of being both abstract and representational. She first appeared in BOMB’s Spring 2003 issue.

Huma Bhabha Born in Pakistan, Huma Bhabha currently lives and works in New York. In her sculpture, she creates grotesque figures from basic construction media and found objects. Bhabha has been widely exhibited in North America and Europe and has participated in several group shows including Greater New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, USA Today at The Royal Academy in London, and the 2010 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In 2010, she was named one of “The Nifty 50” by the New York Times, a list that celebrates America’s up-and-coming talent. Bhabha is represented by Salon 94 and Peter Blum Gallery in New York. She created BOMB Specific for the Spring 2011 issue of BOMB.

Josh Blackwell New York-based artist Josh Blackwell received his MFA from the California Institute of Arts in 1999. He has exhibited his work in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, London, Paris, Milan, and Tokyo. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England; and Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo in New York, Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, and the Delfina Studio Trust in London. Blackwell reinvents the plastic bag, a symbol of consumption and waste, by embroidering it with other waste materials. He is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York. Blackwell interviewed artist Joe Fyfe in the Spring 2011 issue of BOMB.

Sebastiaan Bremer Sebastiaan Bremer is a New York-based Dutch artist. His work is included in several important collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He had his first solo show at Galerie Reisel, Holland in 1994. Starting out as a photographer, in 1998 Bremer attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where he began experimenting with murals and collage paintings. He finally began drawing directly on photographs, which is the style he employs most often in his work today. Bremer is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery and James Fuentes LLC in New York. He was featured in a Web Exclusive interview by Shoshana Dentz on BOMBsite in 2010.

Emilie Clark Emilie Clark lives and works in New York. Her works are included in collections including Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the New York Public Library; Cornell University, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2002 Clark received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant. She currently has a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden inspired by the 19th-century natural scientist Mary Treat, an expert on carnivorous plants and the relationships between insects and plants. This conceptually based installation includes paintings, works on paper, archival letters, and plant samples. Clark has published a number of collaborative works with the poet Lyn Hejinian and a folio project with her husband, poet Lytle Shaw. She is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York. BOMB’s Spring 2011 issue includes an Artists on Artists essay on Jorge Queiroz by Clark and a portfolio of her watercolors in First Proof.

Verne Dawson Born in Alabama, Verne Dawson lives and works in New York. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and the Art Students League of New York. Dawson exhibits his works worldwide and has participated in notable group shows: the 2010 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Cave Paintings, an exhibition in Berlin curated by Bob Nickas and Ajay Kurian which later traveled to New York; and The Third Mind at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, curated by Ugo Rondinone. Dawson investigates the continuities between ancient culture and contemporary life through myths, folktales, and traditions that have become detached from their origins and meanings. He is represented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York. Dawson’s interview in BOMB is forthcoming.

Steve DiBenedetto Steve DiBenedetto was born in New York, where he continues to live and work. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design. DiBenedetto has shown widely in the United States and Europe including Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. His works are included in numerous museum collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. DiBenedetto received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2002 as well as a Rosenthal Award and Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2003. He is best known for his thickly layered paintings and prismatic pencil drawings populated by organic and mechanic forms. He is represented by David Nolan Gallery. DiBenedetto has been featured several times in BOMB Magazine, most recently in a conversation with fellow painter David Humphrey in the Spring 2003 issue.

Carroll Dunham Carroll Dunham was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1949 and currently lives and works in New York and Connecticut. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including a mid-career retrospective at The New Museum, New York in 2002, and an ongoing exhibition of paintings and sculptures mounted in 2004 at Millesgården in Stockholm. Dunham has participated in several Whitney Biennials and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Tate Gallery, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; among others. In his 30 years of working as an artist, Dunham has eschewed the conventions of abstract and figurative painting to create a style marked by loose playful lines, vibrant color palette, and the inherent peculiarity of his characters. He is represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York. In the Winter 1990 issue of BOMB, Dunham was interviewed by Editor-in-Chief Betsy Sussler.

Rochelle Feinstein Rochelle Feinstein lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1975 and her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She was appointed to the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1994 as a professor of painting and printmaking. Her solo exhibitions include LAB Space/Art Production Fund, New York; Momenta Art, Brooklyn; and The Suburban, Chicago. Recent awards and grants include an Anonymous Was A Woman Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Her current solo show The Estate of Rochelle F. is on view at On Stellar Rays in New York. In BOMB Winter 2011, Feinstein was a feature interview by Justin Lieberman.

Adam Fuss Adam Fuss lives and works in New York. His work is held in prominent public and private collections including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; the Denver Art Museum; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Vienna Museum Moderner Kunst. In 2000, he received the Sixteenth Annual ICP Infinity Award for Art from the International Center for Photography in New York. In 2003, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston mounted the first survey exhibition of his career, which then traveled through Europe. Fuss describes an object in ghostly and otherworldly manifestations of light and shadow. He uses traditional and historical photographic techniques such as daguerreotypes, platinum prints, and photograms. Fuss is represented by Cheim & Read in New York. Fuss, a contributing editor, has conducted many interviews in BOMB.

Joe Fyfe Joe Fyfe currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the University of Arts in Philadelphia. Fyfe has had numerous group and solo exhibitions worldwide and is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Fulbright Award, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, the W. Wallace McDowell Award, and the Yaddo Residency in New York. Fyfe’s paintings are deceptively simple. Using acrylic paint on primed burlap and jute, he limits his palette to a few colors in each work. Wood/ Cloth/ Color, Fyfe’s fourth solo exhibition at James Graham & Sons, New York, currently on view, presents his new works, including paintings, sculpture and large format photographs. He is represented in New York by James Graham & Sons and Jay Grimm Gallery. Fyfe has been a contributing editor for BOMB Magazine since 2002 and is a featured interview by Justin Blackwell in Spring 2011.

John Giorno New York native John Giorno rose to fame as a poet and performance artist. He graduated from Columbia University. In 1962 Giorno met Andy Warhol and developed his style of poetry, performance, and recording. Influenced by his relationship with Warhol and, later in his career, by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Giorno’s work often appropriates and experiments with Pop Art techniques. He has used both written and recorded formats throughout his career in poetry. In 2010 Giorno had his first solo painting exhibition at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York, Black Paintings and Drawings, which chronicles the evolution of the poem painting. His first “Poem Prints” were included in the Dial-A-Poem installation of the 1970 exhibition Information at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Giorno is represented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. His interview by Marcus Boon is in BOMB’s Fall 2008 issue.

Michael Goldberg Michael Goldberg (1924-2007) was an abstract expressionist painter. He came into prominence in the late 1950s and early 60s. Goldberg’s work is held in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others. Goldberg taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York. A contributing editor to BOMB, Goldberg has interviewed Lee Breur of Mabou Mines and the musician John Zorn and was interviewed by Saul Ostrow for the Spring 2001 issue.

Katharina Grosse The Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse is known for the vibrant palette and exuberant gestures of her large-scale canvases and raucous installations which merge painting, sculpture, and architecture. Her latest installation is currently on view at MASS MoCA. Grosse is a Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. She has had recent solo and group exhibitions at The Surburban, Chicago; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Museu de Aret de São Paulo, Brasil. Grosse’s work is held in permanent collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; and Centro Galego Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In the United States she is represented by Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica. The current Spring 2011 issue features an interview with Grosse by Ati Maier.

David Herbert Born in Seattle, David Herbert now lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Herbert has exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Berlin, and Rotterdam. Herbert’s sculptures, video installations, paintings, and drawings combine images of pop culture and American history with an extraordinary aptitude for materials. He utilizes everyday materials, including Styrofoam, PVC pipes, and scotch tape. Herbert is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York. Herbert appeared with Adalsteinsdottir in BOMB Specific, Winter, 2011.

George Herms George Herms is one of the founders of the California Assemblage School of Sculpture and Found Art, a movement prominent in the 1950s and 60s. Assemblage art can be viewed as an act of recycling a “throwaway” object and giving it a new purpose by repositioning it into art. Herms’ work is included in prominent collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; La Jolla Museum of Art, California; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An influential figure of the Beat generation, Herms recently premiered a free-jazz opera titled The Artist’s Life at REDCAT in Los Angeles. He had a solo show last fall at Nyehaus, NYC where he is represented. Herms had a First Proof Cover Portfolio in Fall 2009.

Arturo Herrera Born in Venezuela, Arturo Herrera currently lives and works in Berlin. He received his BFA from the University of Tulsa and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Herrera is known for his explorations of abstraction through fragmentation, dislocation, and re-contextualization. Herrera has received a DAAD Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, among others. He has had solo exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) is currently on view at the Americas Society, New York. Herrera is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York. Herrera was interviewed by Josiah NcElheny in BOMB’s Fall 2005 issue.

Jene Highstein Born in Baltimore, Jene Highstein currently lives and works in New York. He received his BA from the University of Maryland and his MA from the Royal Academy in London. He has been a visiting artist at University of California, Los Angeles; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Yale University, and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New Museum, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; and the Panza di Biumo Collection, Varese, Italy. Among his many awards, Highstein has received four National Endowment for the Arts Grants and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Highstein was interviewed by the late photographer David Seidner for BOMB’s Summer 1993 issue.

Thomas Hirschhorn Born in Switzerland, Thomas Hirschhorn has lived and worked in Paris since the 1980s when he began working with the artist collective Grapus, a group of graphic designers who took up issues of politics and culture by displaying impromptu creations and posters on the street mostly using the language of advertisement. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunsthaus Zürich; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Secession, Vienna. In 2010, he participated in the group exhibition The Last Newspaper at The New Museum in New York. His sprawling works transform traditional white-cube spaces into absorbing environments tackling issues of global politics, and consumerism. He is represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York. Hirschhorn was a featured interview by Abraham Cruzvillegas in BOMB in Fall 2010.

Roni Horn Roni Horn lives and works in New York. She received her BFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Yale University. Some Thames, a permanent installation of Horn’s work mounted in 2000 at the University of Akureyri in Iceland, consists of 80 of her water photographs dispersed throughout the university’s public spaces. Her work has been intimately involved with the singular geography, geology, climate, and culture of Iceland. Horn has received several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1990. She has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. In 2009, the major retrospective Roni Horn aka Roni Horn was organized by the Tate Modern, London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Horn’s diverse body of work includes drawings in pigment and varnish, sculpture, an ongoing series of artist’s books, and several public artworks. She is represented by Hauser & Wirth. Horn’s interview by Mimi Thompson was in BOMB’s Summer 1989 issue.

Judith Hudson Judith Hudson lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the University of Colorado and her MFA from the California College of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Hudson has exhibited her work at institutions including Phillips de Pury Company, New York; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Marlborough Gallery, New York; The New Museum, New York; and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. She generally creates works on paper and sometimes canvas notable for their melding and interweaving of color and form. Hudson is represented by Dinter Fine Art, New York. Hudson was first featured in BOMB Magazine in the 1994 Winter issue and most recently conducted an interview with Mika Rottenberg for Fall 2010.

Jessica Jackson Hutchins Born in Chicago, Jessica Jackson Hutchins currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She received her BA in Art History from Oberlin College and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hutchins had her first solo exhibition outside the U.S in 2010 at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London. The show featured a variety of mixed media sculptures, ceramics, prints, and works on paper. Hutchins’ work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Portland Art Museum; the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where she was also included in the Museum’s 2010 Biennial. She is represented by Laurel Gilten Gallery in New York. Hutchins’ interview by Stuart Horodner was featured in the Summer 2010 issue of BOMB.

Richard Kalina Richard Kalina lives and works in New York. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Kalina’s work is held in numerous collections including the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and the United States Department of State, New York. Kalina is the recipient of a 1992 Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2001 Best Show Award from the International Association of Art Critics, and the 2008 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. He is represented by Lennon, Weinberg Inc. in New York, which held a 40-year survey exhibition of his work in summer 2010. Kalina is also a well-known art critic and writes for Art in America. His work was first featured in BOMB in the Winter 1992 issue.

Deborah Kass Deborah Kass lives and works in Brooklyn. She studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program in New York and received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and The New Museum, New York. In 1992, Kass began The Warhol Project. Using Warhol’s technical and stylistic language to represent iconic figures, Kass turned Warhol’s ambivalent relationship to popular culture on its head by choosing subjects that had an explicitly personal and political relationship to her own cultural interests. Deborah Kass, The Warhol Project traveled to institutions across the country beginning in 1999. She is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. Kass was interviewed by Irving Sandler as a WEB Exclusive in the fall of 2010.

An-My Lê An-My Lê lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Yale University School of Art. Lê’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Lê has received several awards, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has participated in major exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; International Center of Photography Triennial, New York; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. Lê is represented by Murray Guy Gallery in New York. She was interviewed by Michael Almereyda for BOMBsite as a BOMBLive/Art 21 project in WHEN in June 2010.

Ati Maier Ati Maier lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York before graduating with her MFA from Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria. Maier’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Berkeley Art Museum, California; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto and Trentino, Italy; Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; and the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany. Maier combines abstraction with landscape and figuration in highly chromatic compositions. Recently, Maier has developed her drawings and paintings further into the spatial realm using a 3D animation program. Her most recent 3D video animation is currently at the Fokus Bienial in Lódz, Poland. She is represented by Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn. Maier interviewed Katharina Grosse for BOMB’s Spring 2011 issue.

Robert Mangold Robert Mangold lives and works in New York. He received his BFA and MFA from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. His work is held in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Aspen Art Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1965, the Jewish Museum in New York held the first major exhibition of what was called Minimal Art and included Mangold’s work. In 1971, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York exhibited his first solo museum show. In 1967, Mangold received the National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship and since has been the recipient of many awards including the 1993 Skowhegan Medal for Painting and 1998 Alexej von Jawlensky-Preis der Stadt Wiesbaden Award from the Museum Wiesbaden in Germany. He is represented by Pace Gallery, New York. Mangold was interviewed by Shirley Kaneda in BOMB, Summer 2001.

Howie Michels Howie Michels is an illustrator and painter living and working in New York. He has illustrated books for notable authors including Charles Simic, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem, and, most recently, an edition of Koko, a classic novel of the Vietnam War by Peter Straub featuring 15 of his full-page exquisite wood engravings.

Curtis Mitchell Curtis Mitchell lives and works in New York. He received his MA from Goddard College in Vermont and his MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Mitchell has shown in New York, Atlanta, Paris, Turin, London, Seville, and Budapest, among others. Mitchell is known for his manipulated photographs, which are often stained and marked with footprints and other traces. The use of photography in his sculptural practice has naturally led to the inclusion of video. His recent exhibition Personas, an ongoing series of video installations at Martos Gallery in New York, consisted of looped video clips from canonical films like The Godfather, A Clockwork Orange, and Pulp Fiction. Mitchell is represented by Martos Gallery, New York. He created a BOMB Specific for Fall 2010.

Shirin Neshat Born in Iran, Shirin Neshat now lives and works in New York. She received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Neshat has exhibited her work worldwide with solo shows at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Leon, Spain; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Asia Society Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Tate Gallery, London. Her films have been screened at prestigious film festivals including Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and London Film Festival. Neshat has been the recipient of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, the Cultural Achievement Asia Society Award, and the Infinity Award for Visual Art from the International Center for Photography, New York. Her work often deals with the social, cultural and religious codes of Muslim societies. Neshat is represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York. She was interviewed by Arthur C. Danto in BOMB’s Fall 2000 issue.

John O’Connor John O’Connor received his MFA from Pratt Institute in New York. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New Museum, New York; Southern Methodist University, Texas; Asheville Museum of Art, North Carolina; Montgomery Museum of Art, Alabama; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey; City Museum of Orlando, Florida; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina. O’Connor is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, and fellowships from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Drawing, Prints, and Photographs Department; and the Vermont Studio Center. He is represented by Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn. O’Connor by Bruce Pearson, an Artists on Artists, appeared in BOMB’s Winter 2011 issue.

Tom Otterness Tom Otterness is a New York-based sculptor. His work is held in several prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Miami Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Otterness has upheld the age-old tradition of cast bronze figurative sculpture for over 20 years. In the process, he has played a major role in redefining the tradition. His sculptural ensembles grace parks, subway stations, courthouses, libraries, and museums around the country and are well known by the man on the street as well as the art connoisseur. Otterness is represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York. In 2006 Otterness designed Pink Bomb exclusively for BOMB on the occasion of the magazine’s 25th anniversary.

JJ PEET Born in Minneapolis, JJ PEET currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the University of Minnesota in 1999 and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2006. His work is included in notable collections such as The White House, Washington D.C.; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and the Minnesota Historical Society. PEET works in audio, video, live broadcast, sculpture and painting. His work frequently explores issues of political responsiveness. His exhibition at the 2009 Frieze Art Fair in London The TV Show was praised by critics as one of the highlights of the event. PEET is represented by On Stellar Rays, New York. PEET was first featured in BOMB Magazine in the Winter 2011 issue.

Adam Pendleton Adam Pendleton lives and works in New York. Pendleton has exhibited his work internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Berlin, Amsterdam, and London. In 2002, he completed the Artspace Independent Study Program in Pietrasanta, Italy. He participated in the 2009 show A Generational: Younger Than Jesus at The New Museum, New York and the group exhibition Greater New York at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York in 2010. Pendleton’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Studio Museum, Harlem; the University of Chicago; and the Gardner Art Museum, Boston. Pendleton, who often works with silkscreen, has been noted for his complicating use of text and imagery. He is represented by Galeria Pedro Cera in Lisbon, Portugal. Pendleton was a feature interview by Thom Donovan in BOMB’s Winter 2011 issue.

Judy Pfaff Judy Pfaff lives and works in Kingston and Tivoli, New York. She received her BFA from Washington State University in St. Louis, Missouri, and her MFA from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Her work is held in collections including the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Pfaff has received numerous awards, including a New York Dance and Performance Award, an Honorary Doctorate from Pratt Institute in New York, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Pfaff is best known for her exuberant sculptures and site-specific installations that combine landscape, architecture, and color. Pfaff is represented by Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art in New York. Pfaff was interviewed by Mimi Thompson in BOMB’s Fall 1999 issue.

Jorge Queiroz Born in Portugal, Jorge Queiroz now lives and works in Berlin. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and in 2004 he completed a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Queiroz has exhibited his work at the Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon; the Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, Germany; Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; and the First International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel. Queiroz’s mixed-media art explores a world of fantasy and imagination through the full gamut of drawing techniques. He uses pencil, charcoal, oil stick, gouache, and Japanese ink to create densely populated, multi-dimensional landscapes. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York. Spring 2011 is Queiroz’s first appearance in BOMB Magazine.

Jimmy Raskin Jimmy Raskin lives in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Raskin has exhibited his work in New York, Turin, Paris, Lisbon, London, Miami, and Los Angeles. Most recently, he participated in the group exhibition For the blind man in the dark room that is looking for the black cat who isn’t there, organized by Anthony Huberman at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. A slightly modified version of this exhibition traveled to the de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, and Culturgest, Lisbon. Since the early 1990s, Raskin has worked in the mediums of collage, diagram, sculpture, lecture-based performances, and video. Raskin has traveled internationally for readings and performances of his book The Prologue, The Poltergeist, & The Hollow Tree, published in 2005. He is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York. Raskin’s Artist on Artist essay on Saul Fletcher appears in BOMB’s Spring 2011 issue.

Clifford Ross Clifford Ross lives and works in New York. He received his BA from Yale University in 1974. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2009, a ten-year survey of his photographic work was exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art, and an exhibition of his Mountain and Hurricane series opened at the MADRE/Museo Archeologico in Naples, Italy. In 2002, in response to the lack of detail possible with existing cameras, Clifford invented and patented the “R1” camera, which can create some of the highest resolution large-scale landscapes available. He is represented by Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Ross was first featured in BOMB in Fall 2003.

Mika Rottenberg Born in Buenos Aires, Mika Rottenberg now lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York and her MFA from Columbia University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway. She has exhibited her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; La Maison Rouge, Paris; Le Case D’Arte, Milan; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Rottenberg is a multimedia artist known for her large-scale installations and video projects and her interest in labor, women as objects of desire and exploitation, and the female body as representative of larger societal issues. Rottenberg is represented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. Rottenberg was interviewed by Judy Hudson in BOMB’s Fall 2010 issue.

Cordy Ryman Cordy Ryman lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Ryman has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Brussels, Munich, Stockholm, and Athens. In 2006, he was awarded the Helen Foster Barnett Prize from the National Academy Museum, and in 1997 he received the Rhodes Family Award for Excellence from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Ryman’s current exhibition Windowboxing at Conner Contemporary in Washington, D.C. displays his latest series of playful works created with paint, wood, metal, Velcro, and scraps recycled from his studio floor. Ryman’s works fall in a hybridized zone between sculpture and painting and often interact with the spaces in which they are presented. He is represented by DCKT Contemporary in New York. An interview with Cordy Ryman by Stephen Westfall is in BOMB’s Summer 2010 issue.

Elizabeth Streb Elizabeth Streb lives and works in New York. She received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award in 1997. In 2008, Streb was appointed to the Mayor’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, a commission mandated by the City Charter to advise the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Once called the Evel Knievel of dance, Streb intertwines the disciplines of dance, athletics, boxing, rodeo, the circus, and Hollywood stunt-work in her choreography, which she calls “PopAction.” In 2003 Streb established S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn. S.L.A.M. is open to the community to watch rehearsals, take classes, and learn to fly. The central idea at S.L.A.M., besides its availability to the public, is to mix three extreme action forms: PopAction, KidAction and Circus Arts. Streb is interviewed by A.M. Homes in BOMB’s Summer 2010 issue.

Fred Tomaselli Fred Tomaselli lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA in painting and drawing from California State University. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal. He is the recipient of the 2009 Aspen Award for Art from the Aspen Art Museum, a 1998 John Mitchell Grant, and the 1993 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design from City Hall in New York. Tomaselli’s recent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum was a mid-career survey of his unique hybrid paintings and collages from 1990 to the present. He is represented by James Cohen Gallery, New York. Tomaselli was interviewed by David Shields for BOMB, Fall 2010.

Brian Ulrich Brian Ulrich was born in 1971 in Northport, New York. Ulrich earned his BFA in photography from the University of Akron in Ohio and his MFA in photography from Columbia College, Chicago. His photographs, which portray contemporary consumer culture, are held in major museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery, New York; and the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. In 2009 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Ulrich is represented by Julie Saul Gallery. He was featured in a WEB Exclusive on BOMBsite and the BOMBlog in October 2010.

Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weems lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and she continued her studies in the Graduate Program in Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She has received awards including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Skowhegan Medal for Photography, Rome Prize Fellowship, and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography. Weems works in photography, text, fabric, audio, digital image, installation and video. She investigates family relationships, gender roles, the histories of racism, sexism, class, and political systems. Weems is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Weems was interviewed by Dawoud Bey in BOMB, Summer 2009.

Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner lives and works in New York. He was a central figure in the emergence of Conceptual Art in the 1960s. His work takes the form of typographic texts. Since the early 1970s, Weiner’s primary medium has been wall installations, though he also works in video, film, books, audio tape, sculpture, performance art and graphic art. In 2008, Weiner had his first retrospective exhibition in the United States at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has exhibited his work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; the Musée d’Art contemporain, Bordeaux; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, among others. Weiner is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery. Weiner was interviewed by Marjorie Welish in BOMB’s Winter 1996 issue and a BOMBLive video conversation, Sharon Hayes + Lawrence Weiner, is currently online at BOMBsite.com.

James Welling Born in Hartford, Connecticut, James Welling currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in over sixty solo and group exhibitions, including shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; among others. He photographed the cover for Sonic Youth’s 1985 album Bad Moon Rising. Welling employs a wide variety of photographic tools and media. His abstract compositions are rendered as photograms, traditional gelatin silver prints, Polaroids, and digitally processed prints. He is represented by David Zwirner. Welling was first featured in BOMB Magazine’s Spring 1983 issue and was interviewed by Deven Golden in Spring 2004.

Stanley Whitney Stanley Whitney lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from Yale University. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including the Studio Museum, Harlem; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 2010, Whitney was granted the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award. Whitney is also the recipient of the 2006 Temple University Great Teacher Award, the 2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, and the 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. His most recent exhibition at Team Gallery in New York showcased his latest paintings in which the modules of painted color can be seen either as paintings within the paintings or as building blocks used in the construction of the picture’s façade. Whitney is represented by Team Gallery, New York. He was first featured in BOMB magazine in the fall of 2005.

Jack Whitten Jack Whitten lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from Cooper Union, New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of several New York museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitten’s works are often complex meditations on defining moments in American history such as his Martin Luther King series and his four-painting series illustrating the political assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2005 he completed his epic painting 9/11, his commemoration of the events of September 11th. Whitten’s paintings and memorial works have been celebrated in solo exhibitions at the PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. He is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York. Whitten was interviewed for BOMB by Kenneth Goldsmith in Summer 1994.

Joe Zucker Born in Chicago, Joe Zucker now lives and works in East Hampton, Long Island. He received his BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Zucker shows his work nationally and internationally at institutions including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The New Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands; and Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany. Zucker earned recognition in the 1970s for his paintings constructed of cotton balls. Recently, Zucker has used the grid as a framework for his compositions, manipulating its structure with color, words, and diagonal lines. His style is rooted in processes, some simple, others remarkably complex. He is represented by Mary Boone Gallery and David Nolan Gallery in New York. Zucker was interviewed by Chuck Close in BOMB’s Summer 2007 issue.

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