Biographies
Toland Grinnell, a 1994 graduate of the School of Visual Arts, is an artist who continues the legacy of Pop Art by having his work comment on consumer desire and branding. Besides showing at the Mary Boone Gallery, which represents him, he has also had solo shows elsewhere including at Galleria Cardi & Co. in Milan, where he currently has an exhibition entitled "Domestic Arsenal." He has been in numerous group shows in Europe and the United States, including "New Hotels for Global Nomads" at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in 2002, and was included in the recent "Terminal 5" exhibition in Eero Saarinen's abandoned TWA building at John F. Kennedy International Airport. In 1999, People magazine included him in their issue devoted to "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World."
Elizabeth Cunnick is the owner and director of A/D, a gallery that since 1988 has invited artists to reinvent functional objects. Her gallery participates in all the phases of production such as the research, prototyping, fabricating -- culminating in exhibiting the finished furniture and decorative objects as well as historical precedents. The artists who have created design objects for A/D include Sol Le Witt, Kiki Smith, Richard Tuttle, and William Wegman. Prior to founding A/D, Elisabeth was the senior editor of the literary magazine, Conjunctions, and had worked in various galleries and at the Museum of Modern Art.
David Baskin is a sculptor and installation artist who casts clothing and furniture in materials such as plaster and rubber. His work, steeped in biography, explores the personal histories of friends and family. In 1996, he helped to co-found Smack Mellon, a visual arts nonprofit gallery and artist residency in DUMBO, Brooklyn. He has taught at the Cooper Union and works as a professional moldmaker, fabricator, and resin-caster, for such artists as Louise Bourgeois. In 1999 he had a solo exhibition at the Sculpture Center in New York and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including this year's "Open House: Working in Brooklyn," at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In 2000, I collaborated with him on an installation involving my childhood collection of dollhouse miniatures for the exhibition, "Welcome," at Wave Hill, in Riverdale, the Bronx. This summer he had a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York. He currently has an installation in "Closed Universes, Williamsburg Art Colony, New York" at Zagrebacki Velsajam in Zagreb, Croatia.
Vito Acconci first worked in performance, photography, film and video. He started out as a poet and fiction-writer and created performances and installations centered on his body, whether present or absent from the exhibition space. From the mid-seventies to the early eighties, he became increasingly interested in creating performative spaces for his viewers. In the mid-eighties he started working in architecture, landscape and industrial design. In 1988, he founded Acconci Studio, a theoretical-design and building workshop, that has completed a number of international projects including an artificial island in Graz, Austria. He has received numerous awards and honors; has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States; and has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and Yale University. He is currently included in the ninth Venice Architecture Biennale, a survey show, "Hannibal Acconci Studio" at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Nantes, France, that will travel to Barcelona (MACBA), and the Arti & Architettura 1900/2000 exhibition in Genoa, Italy.
Michele Oka Doner
Over the last four decades, the work of internationally acclaimed artist and designer Michele Oka Doner can be considered a seamless gesture aimed at infusing our experience with beauty and wonder. Perhaps best known for her numerous public art commissions, including projects at New York's Herald Square subway station and the Miami International Airport, the remarkable breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, furniture, jewelry, public art, and functional objects from fireplace tools to teething rings. This can be seen in Natural Seduction: Michele Oka Doner, published by Hudson-Hills press (2004). Oka Doner is represented by Marlborough Gallery, New York. Her new book, Workbook was published in December 2004, and distributed by Marlborough Graphics.
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