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Andrew Laumann

born 1987

Lives and works in Baltimore, MD

www.andrewlaumann.com
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Kottie Paloma, born 1974, Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Bio:

Kottie Paloma American born in 1974 in Los Angeles, Ca. and was raised in Huntington Beach, California. In 1996 he moved to San Francisco. Kottie’s work addresses the humor in everyday interactions and events. Inspired by contemporary urban life, his pieces approach “social and personal politics” with biting wit. He’s able to transform seemingly mundane experiences into entertaining and absurd occurrences. Kottie Paloma’s work has been displayed in exhibitions throughout the United States, South Korea, and Europe. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Adam Frelin

Adam Frelin, born 1973, Grove City, PA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Troy, NY

Bio:

Adam Frelin (Grove City, Pennsylvania, 1973) has shown widely at such venues as Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Frelin has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts; the Alpert Award in the Arts; the Sleipnir Foundation; and College Art Association, and completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL; and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Frelin divided his undergraduate education between Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA; Hunter College, New York, NY; and the Art Center of Lorenzo De’ Medici, Florence, Italy. In 2001 he received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego, CA. From 2001-2004 he held the position of Assistant Professor at Webster University, St. Louis, MO. In 2004 he was awarded a US/Japan Creative Artists Award for independent research in Japan, and in 2006 an invitation to attend the Helsinki International Artists Program in Helsinki, Finland. In the last few years Frelin completed White Line (Tokyo), a commissioned outdoor project for the International House of Japan in Tokyo; a commissioned video project funded by the Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, shot in Kiev, Ukraine; and his first book of photography, Trees Hit By Cars. Recently he has held solo exhibitions at Samson Projects in Boston and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE along with shooting a collaborative film about the blind in India in the summer of 2009. Frelin lives in Brooklyn, NY and upstate New York where he is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at SUNY University at Albany.

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Bea Fremderman & Jack Donoghue

Bea Fremderman, born Moldova, Kishinov

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

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Peter Sutherland

Peter Sutherland, born 1976

Lives and works in New York