ERIKA RANEE

"koo, koo, koo, kaa, kaa, kaa," 2009
[acrylic, shellac and paper collage on canvas, 60"x 72"]

Erika Ranee is a painter and received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. She recently exhibited in Elsewhere, a group show curated by artist Shinique Smith at Atlanta's SALTWORKS Gallery. The recipient of the NYFA Fellowship for painting, Erika has also attended the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) seminar program at the Bronx Museum, as well as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She lives and works in New York.

GINGER BROOKS TAKAHASHI

Projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, 2001-06

Ginger Brooks Takahashi lives in Brooklyn, maintaining a social, project-based practice. She is co-founder of LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was a resident artist at Smack Mellon from 2008 to 2009. Her work has recently been shown in the following exhibitions: Shared Women at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007; Exile of the Imaginary at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2007; and Locally Localized Gravity at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2007. She has presented public projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2008; documenta 12, Kassel, 2007; Art Metropole, Toronto, 2007; and with Ridykeulous at The Kitchen, New York, 2007.

CAITLIN MASLEY

"The Entropy Plan (V.2) [Installation View]," 2009

Upon receiving her M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, Caitlin Masley moved to New York City and began to travel back and forth from Berlin. In 2007, Masley received a Pollock-Krasner grant and from 2008 to 2009 was the artist in residence at Künstlerwohnung Chretzeturm, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, and Action Art Actuel, Centre d'Artistes Autogere Residency, Quebec. Recent group shows include; Screening expo '67, curated by Hajnalka Somogyi; Storefront for Art & Architecture and Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York; spatial nonfictions, curated by Susan Thompson; ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, New York; and Visionary Drawings, a book curated by Max Goldfarb and Matt Bau. Her work has also been shown at Solo Gallery, Tel Aviv; Zaum Projects, Lisbon; d3space, Nwe York. One of her new installations appears in Projects '09 at the Islip Museum.

ELLA KRUGLYANSKAYA

"Untitled," 2009 [egg tempera on panel, 24” x 30”]

Ella Kruglyanskaya was born and grew up in Riga, Latvia, before emigrating to the U.S. with her family at age 17. She attended Cooper Union for her B.F.A. and the Yale School of Art for her M.F.A. Recent exhibitions include Something Swarming Something at Brooklyn Fire Proof, as well as a group exhibition at The Cabernet Initiative, also in Brooklyn. She lives and works in New York City.

MIKHAIL ILIATOV

A "Road to Shuri Jo," 2009 [6-channel audio installation]

Mikhail Iliatov is a multi-media artist who received his M.A. in typography from Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, The Netherlands. He has participated in Artscape Baltimore; Open Skies, in San Francisco; the International Flip Book Festival at Little Cakes Gallery; and The Book of Stamps, published by Cabinet Magazine and DAP. He is also a member of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology.

AISHA TANDIWE BELL

"run duppy na leggo," 2008 [still from color video]

Aisha Tandiwe Bell started as a painter and has transitioned to a multidisciplinary installation artist. Her work explores the space between entrapment and choice. Bell has exhibited at MOCADA, Rush Arts, The Rosa Parks Museum, the National Catholic Museum and the Afro-American Cultural Center. A NYFA 2005 fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work and a 2006 Skowhegan Fellow, Aisha received her B.F.A. and M.A. from Pratt and her M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2008.