Artist’s Statement
Film, obsession and beauty
The focus of my work is in the chance union of forms, symbols, images and colors. It is through cosmetics, in the sense of making up the world in an almost shaman-like manner, that my work plays with a pre-established language of beauty pervasive in popular culture and attempts to establish a complicated link to a mythological world. My work is about obsession and beauty.

Bio/Resume
Born in Florida, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Francisco López has been based in New York since 2001. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1999. His work has been exhibited at the Boston ICA, Trieste Film Festival in Italy, Sala Mendoza in Caracas, and Transhudson Gallery and Momenta Gallery in New York. In 2004 he showed a video installation as part of the Young Architects Program at PS1 MOMA in New York and his video “Telepathic Numbness” was exhibited at the British Council Electric Earth Show in Caracas, Venezuela. He has lectured at the California Institute of the Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009.

Website
http://www.mogollon-ny.com/

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Cait Bliss, 2010

Eastern Parkway in Autumn, 2009

Garden Signage, 2009

Kingston Ave on a Saturday, 2009

Artist’s Website
http://www.jennylow.com/

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we, the people, are the languid conjoined lovers, 2009 photograph, archival pigment print on Luster

mother's eye, future and past grief, repeat. 2009 photograph, archival pigment print on Luster 24"x40"

plunging fingers in the film of night, 2009 photograph, archival pigment print on Luster 27"x40"

perennial gatekeeper of marble and concrete, 2008 pigment print on Somerset 23"x35"

Intoxicating sovereignty (jerusalem Fall afternoon) 2008 photograph, archival pigment print on Luster 40"x60"

Artist Statement
One of the oldest cities in the world, Jerusalem has always been infused with fracture and duplicity, which carry on to this day in the city’s fabric and leaders. As reverent home to three of the world’s major religions, Jerusalem embodies Foucault’s idea of a heterotopia — an impossible space where parallel contradictory layers exist.

Using reflective surfaces in my constructs, it is often unclear whether an image is the thing itself or its reflection. I avoid the traditional horizon, and the compositions can become purposefully disorienting. A photographic image can be thought of as a belief system in itself, and as such, I hope to create a structure infused with doubt.

Website
orit-ben-shitrit.com

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