For Real

Meg Alexander
Indoor Dam, 2008, ink, gesso on sticks, approx. 36" x 36" x 14"

Meg Alexander is interested in the relationship between experience, perception and memory. How do we process events and discoveries and create new experiences? What changes as we move from our initial perceptions of an event to our memory of it, and finally to the making of an object or image meant to encapsulate or parallel the experience?

Alexander is a Boston-based artist, a graduate of the Rhode Island
School of Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Her work is in many private collections and has been exhibited
at Allston Skirt Gallery, OH+T Gallery, Howard Yezerski Gallery
and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

www.megalexander.com

www.ohtgallery.com

Milo Brennan
Lunchtime Decision (Straights), 2008, card, glue, 9" x 6" x 1.5"

Milo Brennan's work is an ongoing investigation into the boundary between visual legibility and illegibility. His use of found objects results in simple abstraction and reduction of established printed forms of communication such as cut comic strips and altered advertisements and packaging.

Brennan has exhibited his work at Rogue Studios, Manchester, Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, and, most recently, at The Royal Standard, Liverpool. He lives and works in Bristol, UK.

www.milobrennan.co.uk

Stuart Edmundson
Untitled #47, 2007, paper bags, pins, 8' x 8'

Stuart Edmundson's work explores the possibility of abstract painting
existing as an expanded or interdisciplinary practice.

Edmundson has exhibited in the UK and internationally at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Manchester Art Gallery, H Block Gallery, Brisbane and Modul, Dresden. He will be showing new work at Badhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland, in May 2009. Edmundon has an MA Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University and will commence a practice-based PhD at Chelsea College of Art in October 2009. He is represented by International 3 in Manchester. Edmundson
lives and works in Manchester, UK.

www.international3.com

Hannah James
Cloud, 2008, oil paint on wood, 80 x 90 x 25 cm

Both image and object and the relationship between the two are intrinsic to James' practice. Her work plays with an oscillation between the two and three dimensional, repeatedly undermining and challenging one another. Despite the work's corporeality, there is a consistent return to a sense of surface, resulting in a dichotomy of perspective between the flat and dimensional.

Hannah James is a recent graduate of University of West of England. In 2008, she collaborated with Rhys Coren to create an artist-run space, Rhys and Hannah Present. James has shown her work throughout the UK and will be presenting a solo show at Chert in Berlin, Germany in 2009. She lives and works in Bristol, UK.

www.chert-berlin.com

rhysandhannahpresent.blogspot.com

David X. Levine
you are true blue, colored pencil on paper, 19" x 24"

David X. Levine has shown his work in galleries throughout the
United States including Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York, Bodybuilder and Sportsman in Chicago, OSP/Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston. Levine is represented by Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, where he will have an exhibition of large scale drawings in October 2009.
Levine lives and works in New York City.

www.davidxlevine.com

www.stevenzevitasgallery.com

Nancy Murphy Spicer
Hinged Drawing (Passageway Piece), 2009, wood, rope, paint, wire, dim. vari.

Engagement with the present moment, specific places and related
communities drives Murphy Spicer's work which often takes the form of physical drawing. She approaches ordinary materials and actions in a direct manner, watching for the moment when things spill over from block of wood
simple task or strand of rope into another realm that could be viewed as art.

Murphy Spicer has shown her work at Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Art Complex Museum Duxbury, Mills Gallery/Boston Center for the Arts, Atlanta College of Art Gallery and the Tufts University Art Gallery. Her drawings and videos are part of Pierogi Flatfile and The Drawing Center Viewing Program in New York. Murphy Spicer's work is in many private collections and she is represented by Carroll and Sons in Boston, Massachusetts. She currently lives and works in the southwest of England.

www.murphyspicer.com

www.carrollandsons.net

Alistair Owen

Alistair Owen is interested in the dynamics of space.
Through an articulation of the physical or hypothetical, his works
explore the relationship between object and location.

Owen will complete his BA degree at University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff in June 2009. He has exhibited his work at Chapter in Cardiff and
was recently awarded the Safle Graduate Award 2009.
Owen lives and works in Cardiff, Wales.

www.alistairowen.com

www.safle.org.uk

Adie Russell
Little Green, 2007, postcard, enamel ink, 5.5" x 3.5"

In these postcard works, Adie Russell is interested in recontextualizing a found image in both space and time. Her intention is to point at a past reality – evidence of what was once an image/place considered meaningful enough to memorialize as a postcard – and subject it to a "now" intervention occurring in an enduring present.

Russell has exhibited her work at FPAC Gallery in Boston, ZieherSmith in New York City, Islip Art Museum on Long Island, New York, and most recently at The Chelsea Art Museum in New York. Russell grew up in the US and the UK and currently lives and works in upstate New York.

www.adierussell.com

Ilene Sunshine

Ilene Sunshine's work, from intimate drawing to large-scale installation, blurs the boundary between nature and culture. In her New Vein series, pressed leaves and plastic bags merge in animated compositions sewn onto paper.In other projects, tree limbs become lines that engage architectural space.

Sunshine's recent site-specific projects include a 24' wall drawing currently on view at Wave Hill's Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York and installations at the New York Public Library, New York City. Sunshine will have a solo exhibition at the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York
in November 2009. She lives and works in New York City.

www.ilenesunshine.com/

Rachel Thorlby
After Ingres II, 2006, black and white photocopies, clay, 24 x 11 x 6 cm

Rachel Thorlby's work explores the relationship between image and form. In her sculptures, she works with portrait and landscape genres, making reference to historical moments in the history of painting in her sculptures.

The cutting out and removal of the subject from its original environment becomes an act of reinvention thereby creating something alien out of the familiarity of an existing image of a forgotten entity. These past encounters between artist and sitter are revised by the use of impoverished materials. Thorlby is interested in the disparity between these insufficient forms and surfaces and the faded magnificence of the images' past.

Rachel Thorlby graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007. She has won a number of awards including the Celeste Student Prize 2007 and was selected for the ArtSway Open07 and Future50 at PSL in Leeds. She is represented by Madder139 in London where she had a solo show in 2008. Thorlby lives and works in London.

www.madder139.com

www.axisweb.org/artist/rachelthorlby