Author Website for Brainard and Delia Carey
Andrew Braddock was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Ohio. He currently lives in Brooklyn and makes performance and video work there. He serves of the board of directors for Antibody Corporation and is one of three proprietors of Salad Editions, an editioning and fabrication business.
Cheryl Wassenaar is a visual artist who investigates language as a system of meaning that is dependent upon arrangement and context. She works primarily with found commercial signage, repurposing the discarded wood into visual metaphors of failed communication that borrow from the language of modernist painting, contemporary advertising, and technology. Merging aspects of graphic design, painting, and sculpture, the work evokes visual stutters of sounds, ideas, and data. She also works collaboratively with poets and other artists to create site-specific installations that use signmaker’s vinyl, manipulated objects, video and sound to activate environments (see this for video walk-through of Cleavemark Dr. at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, a collaboration with artist/poet Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer, whose work can be found here.)
Wassenaar earned her BFA from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, appearing in over fifty group and solo exhibitions. Her corporate collections include Camden Real Estate headquarters in Houston; Fidelity Investments in Boston; and Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI. Wassenaar is currently represented by LongView Gallery in Washington D.C. She serves as associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
See more of Wassenaar’s work here.
Rosaire Appel is a digital artist/ photographer/ writer and analog draw-er. She explores (written) language as a visual entity. Word and image are like oil and water – agitation breaks boundaries. A post-information era requires strategies that evolve our methods of communication and expand our parameters of interpretation and understanding. Asemic writing is writing that has no semantic value, it cannot be translated verbally, it is not code, yet it is a visible language. Similarly, abstract comics are sequences of indeterminate images without traditional narrative value. She uses both of these, as well as asemic musical notation, to explore territories beyond established viewpoints.
Her investigations often culminate in visual books – one of a kind, limited editions and commercially printed – of which she’s published over 30 titles. Her drawings and prints have been in many local and international exhibits.
In the interview she mentioned the book, Book from the Ground : from point to point, by Xu Bing.
Her forthcoming book will be from Small Editions —several of her recent artists books, including Tapes, were in a recent exhibit there.
Coleen Fitzgibbon recently finished two documentaries, one on the nether-world installations of sculptor Johnathan Silver (Infidel in the Studio) and a canoe tour of superfund site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Greenpoint 2017). Fitzgibbon is in the 1980’s work of The Offices at the HirshHorn Museum’s current show Brand New and is currently working with Carolina Mandia on a tapestry for BravinLee Productions and has two new scripts in the works.
Fitzgibbon is an experimental filmmaker/artist based in NYC and Montana who exhibits work at film festivals, museums and galleries, including the HirshHorn, MOMA NY, Cuchifritos Gallery, New Museum, Salon94, MOCA/LA Film Forum, Austrian VIENNALE, TIFF, IFF Rotterdam, BERLINALE, Subliminal Projects Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry, Printed Matter, James Fuentes Gallery, Stephen Harvey Gallery, Dorian Grey Gallery, Knokke EXPRMNTL Festival, DeAppel, Palais des Beaux Arts (Bruxelles) and others.
Fitzgibbon studied at Boston U. Fine Arts, graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (under Owen Land, Stan Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann) and the Whitney Independent Study Program (under Yvonne Rainer and David Diao); in the early 1970’s worked for Jack Smith, Dennis Oppenheim and Gordon Matta-Clark. She co-founded the collaborative X+Y Offer with Robin Winters, The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince and Winters, Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab), Ocean Earth Inc (with Peter Fend, Paul Sharits and Jenny Holzer), created 5 Bleecker Store and was a producer for AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, John Lurie’s “Fishing with John” TV series, Mark Rappaport’s video narratives and worked for a cattle ranch in Montana.
Bridget Lowe is the author of At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinksy (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry, Parnassus, and elsewhere.