Margaret Keller works in related series using installation, drawing, digital media, painting, mixed media, 3D printing, and screen prints to examine the relationships between nature, contemporary culture and technology, along with their effects on our lives.
Current series look at surveillance, natural disasters, gender, and our experience of nature and the landscape in this digital/virtual age. She also focuses on the curatorial and critical aspects of contemporary art, with many published reviews, including in Delicious Line, Art in America, All the Art and temporaryartreview.
Her exhibits include galleries, museums and collections in Berlin, Chicago, Atlanta, California, Ohio, Colorado, Missouri, Maryland, Wisconsin, Arkansas, New York, Beijing and others. Her art has been shown at over 50 galleries and museums, such as Quadratfuß/NX2-Annex Art Berlin, The Arkansas Art Center Museum in Little Rock, the RAC gallery in St. Louis, The Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, The Center for Contemporary Art, and Gallery 210 in St. Louis. In 2018, she was commissioned to create the public artwork Riverbend, a 105-foot-long aluminum representation of the navigable Missouri River, at the Gateway Arch National Park. In 2019, her one person exhibit The Space Between is at The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum, Illinois.
From 1993-2018, Keller taught full-time as Professor of Art in drawing, painting, design and art history at St. Louis Community College-Meramec; she was also a Visiting Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and in Florence, Italy. She has also worked as a Historic Preservation Consultant, a Fiscal Analyst for the Missouri State Legislature, a cake decorator, and in a box factory.
The book mentioned in the interview was Augustus by John Williams.
Daniel Wiener, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012, grew up in Los Angeles but has lived in NYC for thirty-eight years. A professional artist since 1977, Daniel’s first show was at the Stephen Wirtz gallery in San Francisco, held shortly after his graduation from University of California at Berkeley. In 1982 Daniel was awarded a fellowship for an unusually long stay at Yaddo, which inspired his exodus to the East Coast. Daniel’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in both group and one-person shows, notably at Bravin/Post Lee Gallery in New York and Acme Gallery in LA. Though he is known primarily for his intense and viscerally-arresting sculptures, Daniel also works in watercolors, pen and ink drawings, and animations. Recently, he has been included in numerous shows, including Studio 10 in Bushwick, and the BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn. Daniel is presently affiliated with Lesley Heller Workspace, where he will have a one-person exhibition in the September of 2019. He is currently working on a series of pressed apoxie-sculpt paintings based on a technique he developed at Dieu Donne. Daniel lives and works in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Richard Miller, cultural gadfly, poet, publisher and soon to be designer sculptor, escaped from England and settled in NYC. He was part of the late ‘70s NYC downtown art world. It was a charged environment that expanded the parameters of art making. He was also a founding member of Colaborative Projects. The quirky-themed shows were not curated and took place in venues outside of galleries and museums. He participated in many Colab shows including the Times Square Show for he created the infamous sculpture “Man Killed by Air Conditioning”.. He and his wife, Terise Slotkin, produced Spanner NYC, a magazine of art. The then unknown artists were encouraged to use the print medium as a creative resource.
