These New York-based artists who are tied by bonds of age, friendship, alma mater, attitude towards art making and artistic sensibility.
Elaine Stocki (b. 1979, Winnipeg, MB) has an interest in what one could term the happening of content; or, as she states: "The ideas I get most excited about are always really intuitive and entirely unacademic, because they have the potential to explode into something much more complex in the visual."
Whitney Claflin (b. 1983, Providence, RI), like Stocki, engages in a dialectical discussion between medium and content. In her displays, she intersperses small-scale abstract paintings with digitally printed posters. While the paintings have a physically collaged surface, the posters are composed of layered photographs of abstractions Claflin finds in the world around her.
Ian Campbell (b. 1982, Long Island, NY) is working on a series of vintage, found Polaroids - mounted onto salvaged book covers - on which he uses pastels to erase all figures, a viewer's immediate point of identification. Similarly, in his music (which he performs with the band Behavior), his monochrome paintings, poetry or plays, Campbell is interested in existent, widely available material or modes of production.
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