Juan Merchan

Juan Merchan is an actor, director and theatrical lighting designer. He developed his work as a designer, mainly at La Mama Theater in New York for 18 years. He was co-founder and co-curator of the New York International Butoh Festival. He did lighting design for several companies, such as the Zendora Dance Company, Great Jones Repertory, Pioneers Go East Collective, Sonia Olla Flamenco Company, Brooklyn United Ensemble, the Filipino Kinding Sindaw Company, among others. He also designed the lighting and set design for several productions of the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble in New York. He recently worked in New York on … Continued

Seiji Nakane

Artist Statement There are two different ways to approach the creation of art photographs. One approach begins with having some kind of image visualized in the mind. The artist then turns that visualized image into reality. When completing this process, I search for the object that will fit into my visualized image and consider the ways I can manipulate the lighting, so that the finished full frame will be precisely what I want. This is the process I work from when I know before shooting the pictures what and how I want to show. The other approach is to shoot … Continued

Rodney Dickson

Born in Northern Ireland in 1956, he was a resident of Liverpool, England before he moved to New York City in 1997. His work has been seen throughout Europe and the Unoted States. He is represented by M.Y. Art Prospects, a gallery on 135 West 29th Street, Manhattan.

E. Lynn Hassan

Visual artist who has exhibited in California, New York, and Eastern Europe. Exhibitions at international art festivals include multiple mixed media installations for Periferic, Iasi, Romania and the Carbon Art 2004 Memory Project in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Recent exhibitions include Pratt Institute, When Brooklyn Artists Speak, Art Listens. and Brooklyn College Gallery, Painters, Musicians, Sculptors. Her work is featured in several publications including, Downtown Brooklyn, the literary journal for Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Thirteenth Moon, SUNY, Albany, NY, Beasts in Their Wisdom by Eugene Garber and the forthcoming collaborative hypermedia work, Eroica

Dorothy Cowfield

Dorothy Cowfield sings a more jazz-inspired blend of hillbilly. Her debut album, I’m a Cowgirl, is a less alternative take on country music than what is currently popular. Instead of going the rockabilly or pop route, Dorothy has chosen to stay closer to the roots. In a genre she likes to call “cowgirl jazz,” the songs are heavy on vocals and the music provides a hauntingly sweet backdrop.

Kenta Nagai

Kenta Nagai is a fretless guitar player and composer based in New York City. His technique extends and enhances the expressive range of guitar. From 1999 until 2002 he was a composer in residence at The Cave Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Kenta Furusho

Kenta was born in Kumamoto Japan and his work is included in the permanent research archive at the Asian American Arts Center in New York city.

Evren Celimli

Born in New York City in 1971. He grew up in Boston and attended the New England Conservatory extension division where he began studying music theory at age 11. His first serious piece, composed as a sophomore in high school, was accepted into Boston University’s High School Composers Workshop. As a senior in high school he received First Prize in the Harvard Musical Association’s achievement awards. After high school Mr. Celimli continued his studies at Brandeis University where he studied with Eric Chasalow and Allen Anderson. The Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis) performed his String Quartet and he … Continued

Heimo Lattner

Born in 22. 7. 1968 in Eisenstadt, 1995 Go to New York, 2001 Go to Berlin, 1991-1995 Study at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Wien, 2000-2001 Studied at Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York

Miyuki Tsugami

Born in Osaka in 1973. MA of Kyoto University of Art and Design. Artist Statement ; The main theme of her work is “scenery” but she does not mean drawing the real scenery. Instead, she tries to re-establish time and space within a given scenery in a most defined way. By looking at her drawing, one will be able to experience the emotion that the drawing projects. Also, she uses many materials for her works and this is because she applies specific material for specific work. She is one of the most hopeful young artists in Japan.

Andrea Cote

Andrea Cote is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and dancer living in New York. She has presented solo and collaborative installations and performances in Seattle, Miami, and New York, including Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center and Jack the Pelican Presents (New York,) the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as The Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle). She received her MFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase in 2003 and performs with PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment.) In her work she questions the boundaries that have traditionally divided artistic disciplines, taking on multiple roles by using her own body … Continued

Hiromi Iuchi

Born in Shikoku Island in Japan, 1981, Hiromi started drawing and painting when she was 4. The subject of Hiromi’s paintings is always an imaginary girl  with a textile-like pattern on her face. However, the main subject matter is the extreme emotion hidden behind the face. 

Nao Sakamoto

Nao Sakamoto, studied film theory at the Collage of Staten Island of CU.N.Y and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC. He was the chief sound organizer at the K.O.A.P. gallery, NY in 1995. ”My sound works create space, sense and consciousness, effecting a kinesthetic response in the hearer, “CENESTHESIA”, and have structure based on architectural thought, the sound acting as lanquage”. ———- I studied film theory at the CUNY College of Staten Island and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, in New York. I was the chief sound organizer at the KOAP Gallery, New York … Continued

Naoki Iwakawa sitting in font of a canvas

Naoki Iwakawa

Naoki Iwakawa was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Growing up, he became interested the New York art world after reading about it in magazines. He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts, where he also taught briefly as an assistant professor of Graphic Design. At the age of 24 he moved to New York City, where he began showing art at OK Harris and Noho Gallery in Manhattan. In 1996, he co-founded the CAVE, an experimental art space that fostered an eclectic group of musicians, artists, and performers. At the CAVE, he further developed his interest in live performance … Continued

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