| May 11-18,
2008
12:00 to 18:00 hrs. daily,
Opening: Saturday, May 10 at 16:00 hrs.
Westergasfabriek Amsterdam
About Kunstvlaai 7
Begun in 1997, the art fair De
Kunstvlaai was started by the Sandberg
Institute Amsterdam as an alternative to the De KunstRai
fair of established galleries. It has since grown substantially,
and is now a well-attended art fair with an attendance record
of about 12,000. As part of Otis College of Art and Design's
participation in this event, Sojung Kwon, a Los-Angeles based
artist and the first participant in the Otis-Sandberg Institute
Exchange Fellowship, is curating an exhibition featuring seven
Otis alumni and current MFA candidates, as well as producing
a catalog for the event. De Kunstvlaai is occupying the Westergasfabriek
at a time of other concurrent fairs and exhibitions in the
Netherlands.
Links:
Exhibition Catalog Page:
http://www.lulu.com/content/2342730
Dutch television broadcast:
http://www.dag.nl/1075179/NIEUWS/Artikelpagina-Nieuws/DAG-TV-KunstVlaai.htm
flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26334115@N07/
Artist-Participants:
Kathrin Burmester
http://www.kathrinburmester.com
Kathrin Burmester works in Film, Video and Photography.
Born in Germany, she now lives in Los Angeles. She has exhibited
work in the United States and abroad since 2000. She earned
her MFA at Otis College of Art and Design where she currently
teaches. Kathrin Burmester is engaged in an investigation
of the aesthetics of power structures – importantly
including the underlying structures and power of the used
medium itself. Mediation and its relationship to the construction
of subjectivity is an ongoing theme in her work.
Anthony Carfello
www.anthonycarfello.com
Anthony Carfello creates mysterious performances that can
be interpreted 10 billion different ways. He has been described
as, "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a tortilla,
sprinkled with queso fresco, and baked inside an enigma for
15 minutes at 375 degrees." He is rumored to be an MFA
candidate at Otis College of Art and Design.
Sojung Kwon
http://www.stickyelephant.com
http://www.rollingaball.com
Sojung Kwon is an artist from Seoul Korea, living and working
in Los Angeles area. After she moved to U.S., different public
receptions of her work between East and West, and her position
as an outsider in both cultures encourage her to explore the
cultural, rational and linguistic discrepancy between different
cultures. As a performance artist, multi-media artist, and
global citizen, she uses various symbolic props and playful
banality of everyday objects to investigate social developments,
structures, and what happens when people encounter inverted
social conventions: the normal becoming strange.
Eric Medine
http://www.ericmedine.com
Eric Medine is a Los Angeles artist and designer working
primarily in multimedia and video art. He received his BFA
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and
his MFA from Otis School of Art and Design in 2006. His work
has been included in 2005 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition at
the Angels Gate Art Center, Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica,
SuperSonic 2006 at the Barnsdall Art Park, as well as in solo
exhibitions at Niche Gallery in downtown Los Angeles and Walled
Cities gallery in San Pedro, CA. Most recently he was invited
to give a lecture and workshops on video game controller hacking
for video mixing applications at the Motion
Graphics festival in Chicago.
Chris Oatey
http://www.chrisoatey.com/
Chris Oatey uses drawing to deconstruct icons in a way that
forces us to reconsider our relationship to popular imagery.
Appropriated photographs become increasingly abstracted through
a process of disintegration of the image’s main elements.
His interest lies somewhere between reading the content of
the original image and deciphering the modes of abstraction
he has created. Oatey’s work has been included in exhibitions
at Track 16 Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Kent State
University, and See Line Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.
Matt Warren
Hello, I’m Matt Warren. I’m 6’
3”. I have green eyes and curly hair to my shoulders.
Because of the hot sun in LA I am tanned, but I can never
be mistaken for a Californian surfer boy because of my Guernsey
accent. That’s where I’m from. None of this means
anything, but that’s just me. But my work isn’t…
although it is.
Bree Yenalavitch
www.thebree.tv
Bree Yenalavitch is an artist working in the Los Angeles area,
receiving her BA from UC Santa Barbara in 2002 and MFA from
Otis College of Art and Design in 2006. She is the recipient
of several awards including the Peter Goulds Fellowship and
the William Dole Fellowship. Her current online project can
be viewed at www.thebree.tv, where she presents the laboratory
of Dr. Specialist – a great woman of science.
Map and Directions:
http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Pazzanistraat+41,
+1014+DB+Amsterdam&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=
4.498299,6.888428&ie=UTF8&t=p&z=15&iwloc=addr
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Westergasfabriek Amsterdam:
Pazzanistraat 41, 1014 DB Amsterdam:
T 020 586 07 10 F 020 681 30 62
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