Carol Es
Carol Es is a self taught artist whose work
bears dark, yet childlike humor that interweaves throughout her paintings,
drawings, installations, and books making these narratives dearly accessible..
She is a two-time recipient of the ARC Grant from the Durfee
Foundation and was recently awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Fellowship.
Her works are featured in numerous private and public
collections, including the Getty Museum, Brooklyn Museum, UCLA Special Collections,
the Jaffe Collection, and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Gul Cagin
Gul Cagin
is a Los Angeles-based installation, mixed
media and performance artist whose work examines representation in relation to
“sameness” and “difference” and tries to explore exclusionary effects of
representation in relation to bodies and places. Her projects focus
on how established values, codes that internalized by a part of society as
‘normal’ becomes subject to contestation, negotiation and alteration by other part
of a society.Cagin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from
University of Southern California (1999) and Master of Fine Arts degree from
Claremont Graduate University (2001). Her works have exhibited in venues such
as Istanbul Sanat Limani, Museum of New Mexico, Highways Performance Space
(LA), Raid Projects (LA), Centre Civic-Barcelona, Occidental College (LA), San
Diego Art Institute, Crazy Space (Santa Monica), LACMA, The Armory Center for
The Arts (Pasadena) and private residencies.
Marcie Kaufman
Marcie Kaufman earned her MFA in Painting and Photography
at Claremont
Graduate University and BA in Art History at USC.
Her work responds
to the landscape and creates connections with the human
body. Her
mixed-media artwork
was
recently featured in New American
Paintings, a highly competitive juried exhibition-in-print, and has been included in
numerous exhibitions in Los
Angeles including Couturier
Gallery, Gallery 825, American Jewish
University, and Zimmer Children's Museum.
Arzu Arda Kosar
Arzu Arda Kosar graduated from the University of Southern California with an MFA and earned
a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work that focuses on topics related
to inter-group relationships and balkanization has been featured numerous
exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and Istanbul. She
has published on architecture and sociology at Doxa
magazine. As part of the Gul & Arzu collective, Kosar conducted a two-year social engagement project for the Istanbul
2010 Cultural Capital events. In 1999-2000 she organized the International
Survey of Alternative Artscene: a series of art exhibitions, workshops and
lectures in New Zealand, Thailand, Turkey, New York and
California in the USA. Currently, she is a resident artist at the 18th Street
Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA.
Blair Townsend
Blair Townsend has degrees in economicis, art and design from Princeton, CalArts and Otis College of Art and Design. She creates custom interiors and makes custom design furniture that
reflects on the memories, thoughts and possessions of the individual that
inspired them. The rug she created by flattening a heap of plastic toys that has been accumulated over the years under a 9 ton steamroller was inspired by her son and his discarded toys.
Insel Inal
Insel Inal was born in 1969,
Canberra, Australia, lives in İstanbul and works as an assistant professor in
the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kocaeli University where he heads the Ceramics Department. İnal organized
the “Performance Days” among other interdiciplinary panels and
events and chaired the “Association of Interdisciplinary Young Artists”. He founded the Keramos Art Gallery and
organized exhibitions and actvities which questioned the relations between the
arts and other disciplines. İnal's ceramic work is featured on many architectural structures and collections. His performances, videos, installations, sculptures and other work have been exhibited internationally.
Saliha Kasap
Saliha
Kasap received holds a degree in Arts Administration from Yıldız Technical
University in Istanbul and has completed graduate work in Photograhy at Mimar
Sinan University. Her photo
collages that resemble insects derive from her observations on Istanbul cityscape
and the omnipresent construction sites, giant cranes and incomplete skyscrapers
that dominate the skyline.
Ozan Oganer
Ozan Oganer received his BFA in Sculpture from Dokuz Eylul
Universitesi Fine Art Department in Izmir, Turkey. His sculptures explore
topics as wide as Aztec & Mayan culture and personal memories.
Following a six month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris at the
invitation of SIMIT' and under the sponsorship of Istanbul Foundation for
Culture and Arts (IKSV), Oganer was featured in a two person show entitled
“Secret Garden” with Bahar Oganer at AlanIstanbul Tunel in Istanbul and is
having his second solo show at Ilayda Art Gallery in Istanbul in May 2011. His
work collected by private and public institutions such as Istanbul Modern
Museum of Art.
Elif Oner
Elif Oner was born in 1980 in Istanbul. She studied painting and multimedia arts Marmara University in Istanbul, where she's currently an MFA candidate for 2011. Her work has been shown at Mars Gallery, Siemens Art, Borusan Music House, Manzara Perspektif Art Gallery, Harfiyat, Moda Project Room in Istanbul and in exhibitions and video festivals in France, Germany, Bulgaria and South Korea. She is currently an artist in residence at the Borusan Arts Center in Istanbul, Turkey.
Alper Sen
Alper Sen
was born
in 1977 in Ankara. He graduated from Political Science Dept. of METU and studied in Radio, TV and Cinema
Dept. graduate program of Ankara University. Since 2000, he joined different video collectives as a director or artist in Turkey and
Europe like VideA, Cinema for Peace, Film Collective, Kozavisual, NisaMasa, Karahaber.
In 2007, he completed his video-documentary "Scavengers from Hakkari to
Ankara", which screened in various film festivals and video exhibitions in
Turkey and abroad. In 2009, he directed two documentaries on football in
Germany and France for NTVSPOR. In 2010 he worked as an editor of Antoni
Muntadas' video "On Translation: Açık Radyo". Currently he is working
as coordinator of "artıkişler" a visual art platform established by
independent visual artists.
