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Ben Schachter
Venice Eruv,
2007.
Paint, Graphite, and thread on paper; 20" x 30"
Education:
M.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute, NY; B.A., Wesleyan University,
CT.
Selected Exhibitions:
Jewish Museum, NY; Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity, PA; Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood,
OH; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA; Center on Contemporary
Art, Seattle, WA; Attleboro Museum, MA; University of Maryland,
MD
“
Eruvim
are symbolic Jewish enclosures, extending private space into
the public sphere. As a contemporary artist, I see these structures as
drawing in space. In other words, the wires and borders created with
urban stuff are lines that run through the environment, suggesting the
Paula Scher
Israel,
2007. [
Image on back cover.]
Acrylic on canvas; 92" x 65"
Courtesy of Maya Stendhal Gallery
Education:
M.F.A, Corcoran College of Art and Design,
Washington, DC; B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Selected Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, NY; Biblio-
thèque Nationale de France, Paris; Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Scher’s work is not meant to be reliable as a map, but to con-
vey a sense of place that is mediated and mangled by the artist’s
imagination and by the overload of media-generated informa-
tion that feeds it.
Ann Sperry
Lamentations: Continental Drift,
2007.
Milled steel, stainless steel, glass; 19 1/2" diameter
Education:
Sarah Lawrence College, NY.
Selected Collections:
Storm
King Art Center, NY; Neuberger Museum, CT; Tel Aviv Museum, Is-
rael; Skirball Museum, Cincinnati and Los Angeles; Getty Collection,
CA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Bibliothèque Nationale,
Paris; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Working in recycled industrial metal, Sperry’s abstract sculptural vocabu-
lary frequently includes spheres and concave shapes. This work suggests
floating land masses, the seas and continents contained within a shallow
hemisphere. A glass vial of tears is commentary on the fragile state of the
planet.
Peter Sis
The Whale,
2004.
Etching, aquatint with hand coloring;
11"
x 38 1/2"
Courtesy of Mary Ryan Gallery
Education:
Royal College of Art, London;
Academy of Applied Arts, Prague.
Selected
Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago; Embassy
of Czech Republic, Washington DC; New York
Public Library, NY
Sis explores the micro and macro through maps and mazes,
creating intricate worlds that exist somewhere between reality
and fantasy.