GEISAI #11

David Almeida
Born Lisbon, Portugal
Attended Barry University
2006/07 – Completed a residency at Art Center/South Florida.

Almeida will display his Natural Selection series, where artificial plants and flowers are photographed and presented in a manner akin to 19th century botanist prints.

Ananda Cavalli
Born California, USA
Graduated from Parsons School of Design with an MFA
Recent exhibitions include a solo show, Political Bon Bons at Velryba Gallery (Prague).

Cavalli will present a mixed-media installation. Four framed photographs will relate to a central sculpture in the form of a large bed topped with a pile of mustard seeds. The installation references to past traumas she has experienced and her spiritual relationship to Eastern medicine and philosophy.

Charles Clough
Born New York, USA
Studied at Pratt Institute, Ontario College of Art (Canada), SUNY Buffalo and New York University.

Clough will show what he refers to as his "epic," the Pepfog Clufff project that began in 1976. The project involves a multi-step process of painting, photography, and a final representation in a portfolio or book.

Quashelle Curtis-Christie
Born New York, USA
Graduated from Seton Hall University with an MA
2002 – Received artist-in-residence fellowship at Project Rowe House.

Curtis-Christie has planned an installation that features life-size figures reflecting on the lives of many African-American single mothers living in the Bronx.

Blane De St. Croix
Born Massachusetts, USA
Graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art with an MFA
Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture.

De St. Croix will present a series of scale models of landscapes of politically-sensitive borders between countries such as North and South Korea, or Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Eric Doeringer
Born Massachusetts, USA
Graduated from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with an MFA
Recent exhibitions include The Matthew Barney Show at Jack The Pelican Presents, and boca.

Doeringer will hang his "bootleg" versions of famous contemporary art works salon style and add handwritten signs to transform his booth into a discount contemporary art store.

Dolla
Born Louisiana, USA
Graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a degree in industrial design.

Dolla will exhibit three custom-built benches, each of which will be accompanied by a similarly themed artwork hanging above it.

Erica Eyres
Born Winnipeg, Canada
Graduated from Glasgow School of Art (UK) with an MFA
Recent solo exhibitions include "I Love You But I Hate You" at CCA (UK).

Eyres' booth will feature her two most recent videos accompanied by a series of drawings based on fashion advertising, where the models have been removed from the surrounding context and left to pose awkwardly.

Danielle Giudici Wallis
Born New York, USA
Graduated from Stanford University with an MFA
Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Raid Projects.

Giudici Wallis will display a series of crates where peepholes encourage viewers to reappraise the interior of the crate as its own distinct object.

Bruce Gundersen
Born Illinois, USA
Received an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Meta House (Cambodia), 2007.

Gundersen will exhibit a collection of multimedia works examining the relationships between the characters of the epic Ramayana, along with a video montage documenting folk dances, found footage and chants recorded in Asia.

Akira Ikezoe
Born Kochi, Japan
Graduated from Tama Art University (Japan)
2006 – Received Tomio Koyama Gallery Prize and Naruyama Gallery Prize at GEISAI #10 (Japan).

Ikezoe will present paintings and drawings of plants, trees and the human figure, many of which are inspired by classic works of Michelangelo.

Masamitsu Katsu
Born Osaka, Japan
Graduated from Musashino Art University (Japan)
2006 - Awarded a Bronze Prize, the Kashiwa Sato Prize and the DENTSU Prize at GEISAI #10 (Japan).

Katsu will exhibit a series of unadorned pencil drawings on paper.

David Leroi
Born Lyon, France
Graduated from International Art Pilote School (France)
Recent exhibitions include "Bang Bang" at Museum of Art & Industry (France), and MIAM (France).

Leroi plans to exhibit what he refers to as the "illegitimate children of global culture," a series of cartoon-esque portraits where character designs referencing iconic comic figures meet the aesthetic of cultish directors such as David Lynch and Takashi Miike.

Maria Adelaida Lopez
Born Medellin, Colombia
Graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with an MFA
Important awards include first prize in the VII Regional Artists Salon organized by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin (Colombia).

Lopez will display sculptures from her Housekeeping project, where she built small model houses and covered them with dirt and detritus taken from the vacuums of homes she cleaned while putting herself through art school.

Sumiko Nogi
Born Tokyo, Japan
2006 – Participated in GEISAI #10 (Japan)

Nogi will display her Oppai Muffler (Breast Scarves),"soft sculptures".

Kristin Posehn
Born California, USA
Received a PhD in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK)
2007 - Completed an exhibition and a residency at Netwerk/Center for Contemporary Art (Belgium).

Posehn's booth will consist of a replica of a highway column that has been covered in a "skin" of photographs that replicate every surface detail of an actual highway column. It will be accompanied by an edition of smaller, mass-produced "cereal box" replicas of the column that are printed on cardboard.

Lizabeth Eva Rossof
Born Texas, USA
MFA Candidate at San Francisco State University
Awards include the Thomas J Watson and the Jacob K Javits Fellowship Awards.

Rossof plans to exhibit works from her I Witness: Memory to Paper project where she directed law enforcement composite artists to draw a variety of public figures that she described from her recollection. The artists were not told whom they were drawing until several months after completion.

Diana Shpungin & Nicole Engelmann
Diana Shpungin: Born Riga, Latvia
Nicole Engelmann: Born Vancouber, Canada
Recent exhibitions include Optic Nerve VII, Museum of Contemporary Art, and Think Warm: Miami Draws for You, Tomio Koyama Gallery (Japan).

Shpungin will present her recent video works and associated drawings, along with videos from her ongoing eight-year long collaboration with fellow artist Nicole Engelmann.

Cordell Thurman
Born Illinois, USA
Recent Exhibition include Violence, Lasso Gallery at the Butcher Shop and Art Hunt, at Lloyd Dobler Gallery.

Thurman will present a recent video where he is tackled while running onto a baseball field, two recent two-dimensional mixed media works, and a framed photograph.

www.cordellthurman.com

TM Sisters
Born Florida, USA
Tasha Lopez De Victoria attended New World School of Arts
Monica Lopez De Victoria, attended Florida International University
Recent exhibitions include the 2007 Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia).
TM Sisters will invite visitors to GEISAI Miami to join a club they have created. Membership can be attained by visiting a kiosk in their booth.