DAVID ALTMEJD

David Altmejd (né 1975) vit et travaille à New York. Il a récemment exposé à la Biennale du Whitney 2004, New York; la Biennale d'Istambul, Turquie; la galerie Anton Kern et la galerie LFL, New York.

The critic Brian Sholis writes in the March-April issue of Flash Art: "New York artist David Altmejd's grotesque sculptures, usually comprised of heads or other fragments of monster bodies, directly engage the repressed underside of our imagination and incongruously mix the things we dare not consciously consider with a certain sense of cheap glamour. His recent works, accumulations of small, sparkling found elements surrounding an incomplete werewolf body, spring from an intuitive process that serves as metaphor for peering into this realm of the unspoken...his bringing together of opposite worlds—the horrific and the glamorous—suggests that the distance between them may reside in our perceptions alone."

MATTHEW BRANNON

Matthew Brannon (né 1971) vit et travaille a New York. Il a présenté une exposition personnelle intitulée "Exhausted Blood & Imitation Salt" à la galerie John Connelly Presents. Il a récemment exposé à la galerie Kevin Bruck, Miami; PS1, New York; Museum Morsbroich, Levekusen, Allemagne; MAK, Vienne, Autriche. Cet automne il aura une exposition avec Sarah Morris à la galerie Javier Lopez à Madrid.

AMY GLOBUS

Amy Globus (née 1976) vit et travaille à New York. Elle a récemment pris part à l'exposition "Futur Noir" à la galerie Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York. Elle participera à la Biennale de Liverpool, UK; et une exposition de groupe au San Jose Museum of Art, Californie. Elle est diplomée de l'Université Columbia.

The critic Roberta Smith, writing in the New York Times, states: "...weightlessness and transparency...are freshest and most overt in Electric Sheep, a video projection from 2001-2 by a young artist named Amy Globus. It shows two octopuses shot from different angles as they ooze their way around several tanks and through narrow glass tubes. Full of sweet longing...the words and music meld perfectly with the pink, accommodating flesh and silken flutterings of the octopuses. The combination forms a haunting expression of desire: abstract, pansexual and filled with the enchanting power of love."

MATT GREENE

Matt Greene (né 1972) vit et travaille à Los Angeles. Il aura une exposition personnelle à la galerie Peres Projects, Los Angeles, en Octobre 2004. Il a récemment exposé dans "Scream" à la galerie Anton Kern, New York. Il a été sélectionné par Artforum comme l'un des douze artists à suivre en 2004.

He was chosen by Artforum magazine as one of their twelve artists to watch in 2004, where Dennis Cooper writes: "His busy, carefully executed pictures portray a world in which nature has run amok, corrupting normative social behavior and effectively reducing humans to sex-crazed, warring playmates. Each drawing and painting organizes one chaotic scene into a distinct, eye-popping pattern, at once impressively precise, unwieldy in its design, and ruptured by the visceral effect of its sensational subject matter."

HANNA LIDEN

Hanna Liden (née 1976) vit et travaille à New York. Elle a récemment présenté un exposition personnelle de ses photographies à la galerie Rivington Arms, New York.

The critic Holland Cotter, writing in the New York Times, states: "Each picture is a panoramic shot of a desolate landscape—a mist-filled swamp, a snow-shrouded forest, a bleakly unpicturesque lake—populated by a few demonic-looking figures engaged in what could be esoteric rites.... Ms. Liden's witches and devils are contemporary figures.... They might even represent a new countercultural ideal, absurdist but scary. In her strange, beautiful photographs, Ms. Liden makes their world, fictional though it may be, feel very real."

CHLOE PIENE

Chloe Piene (née 1972) vit et travaille à New York. Elle a récemment exposé à la Biennale du Whitney 2004, New York, et a présenté des expositions personnelles à la Basel Kunstalle, Bâle, Suisse et la galerie Klemens Gasser + Tanja Grunert, New York.

The critic Nancy Princenthal writes in Art in America: "Treating the beast that lurks in the human heart with casual familiarity, Chloe Piene's half a dozen charcoal drawings and two video installations showed sexual pleasure to be mortifying, decadent and recklessly silly, in equal measure and indiscriminately. In both [videos], too (and in the drawings as well), the ferocious intimacy of Eros and Thanatos—or, the simpler proximity of danger and fun—are treated with amiable interest and a keen eye for where pockets of real emotion can be found within all the callow grandstanding."

BANKS VIOLETTE

Banks Violette (né 1974) vit et travaille à New York. Il a récemment exposé à la Biennale du Whitney 2004, New York. Il a exposé avec Matt Greene à la galerie Peres Projects, Los Angeles, et aura une exposition personnelle à la galerie TEAM, New York, cet automne et partipera à la Biennale de Liverpool, UK.

Shamim Momin, co-curator of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, writes in that exhibition's catalogue: "Banks Violette probes the fluid border in the American cultural psyche where fictional worlds—the private, personal fantasies engendered by adolescent subcultures and obsessive music fandom—pierce the fabric of reality. Intrigued by the idea of amoral (opposed to immoral) action and commitment, Violette poses questions about the seductive appeal of nihilism that entirely lack an assumption of righteousness. The aestheticized imagery and luscious materialism of his sculptural installations and drawings play on the alluring artifices of dark desire."

MICHAEL WETZEL

Michael Wetzel (né 1966) vit et travaille à New York. Il aura une exposition personnelle à la galerie John Connelly Presents, New York, et a récemment exposé à la galerie Anton Kern, New York; la galerie Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York et Deitch Projects, New York.

The critic Meghan Dailey has written: "In Wetzel's paintings the gothic seeps willfully into the pastoral....Always, there is the sense that a trespasser or stalker stands lurking at the edge of the property. But [he] leaves everything purposefully vague, like a hair-raising establishing shot in a movie, manipulating you into delicious anticipation of the coming terror."